cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
asexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asexually
form: most asexually
Etymology: From asexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Amoebas reproduce asexually.
text: One of the pioneers was a French plant scientist named Georges Morel who figured out how to produce asexually thousands of identical orchids from one plant through cloning instead of breeding from seed.
ref: 2019 April 10, Adrian Higgins, “This florist started caring for ailing orchids on the side. He’s now babysitting 13,000.”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: In an asexual manner; without having sex.
narrow-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narrow-minded
form: most narrow-minded
form: narrowminded
form: narrow minded
Etymology: From narrow + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Even Mr. Wilson's speech, excellent as it was, could only condemn the Government's narrow-minded approach for the reasons we have outlined, [...].
ref: 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
glosses: Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas.
examples: text: What GCN has done for prisoners is an act of love, all the more precious because it's done despite the many voices of the narrow-minded who refuse to admit that our humanity remains, even past the prison gates.
ref: 1987 December 27, Vernon Maulsby, “Our Humanity Remains”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 4:
glosses: Intolerant, bigoted or prejudiced.
Synonyms: bigoted
closed-minded
close-minded
hidebound
illiberal
insular
intolerant
myopic
parochial
prejudiced
provincial
short-sighted
strait-laced
thin-minded
Derived terms: narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
narrow-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more narrow-mindedly
form: most narrow-mindedly
Etymology: From narrow-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Funny,' I said, 'that she should be quite so narrow-mindedly English when you think that she spent five years in India.'
ref: 2011, Nancy Mitford, The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford, →ISBN:
glosses: In a narrow-minded manner.
narrow-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrow-mindednesses
Etymology: From narrow-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being narrow-minded.
relegation zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relegation zones
Senses: examples: text: The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day.
ref: 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The bottom part of e.g. a sports table, listing how well teams have played over a period of time. All teams that end up in the relegation zone are relegated.
relegated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relegate
narrowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrownesses
Etymology: From Middle English narwenesse; equivalent to narrow + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: “You will understand me when I say that it was a deadly life for a girl brought up as I had been. The narrowness, the deadly monotony of it, almost drove me mad.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 141:
glosses: The state of being narrow.
glosses: A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent.
strip off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strips off
form: stripping off
form: stripped off
form: stripped off
Senses: examples: text: 1713, Alexander Pope translation of Homer Odyssey read at Project Gutenberg
Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave / With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: We cut down pine trees and then had to strip off all the bark.
ref: 2006, James Mills Hill, I Have Been Blessed!: Hard Work and Happiness:
text: In addition, if you strip off the overtime, you can't tell that you have problems, as was shown at the beginning of this chapter.
ref: 2006, James P. Lewis, Project Planning, Scheduling & Control, A Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in on Time and on Budget, fourth edition:
text: Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip.
ref: 2006, William Scarborough, Baked Alaskan:
glosses: To remove anything by stripping, e.g. items of clothing or paint from the side of a ship.
examples: text: Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.
ref: 1847, John Sanderson, The American in Paris:
text: A night when you strip off and sit down to gasp and pant for a breath of air; such a night is never experienced in Kansas.
ref: 1871, Clinton Carter Hutchinson, Resources of Kansas: Fifteen Years Experience:
text: I cannot remember whose idea it was that we should strip off to our underclothing and go into the coolness of the stream.
ref: 2006, Ernest Millington, Was That Really Me?:
text: The other recruits started to undress where they stood but Ledanseur was too embarrassed to strip off in front of his new comrades. He went into the shower block and undressed there.
ref: 2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire:
glosses: To remove all of one's clothes (or sometimes to remove all except underclothes, or figuratively).
examples: text: The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm.
ref: 1864, Robert Jennings, Sheep, Swine, and Poultry:
text: On an old plant, this tends to strip off in long, tough, stringy lumps, a bit like short lengths of raffia.
ref: 2005, Chris Baines, How To Make A Wildlife Garden:
glosses: To be removed by stripping.
narrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of narrow
narrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrows
Senses: glosses: A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
ear candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Likely analogous to eye candy.
Senses: examples: text: Mumba's music is ear candy: it crunches, it bubbles, it melts in the mouth.
ref: 2000 November 27, Christopher John Farley, “Irish Spring”, in Time, →ISSN:
text: I wanted it to just be something fun to listen to, like ear candy. I think that's what we got.
ref: 2013, Mathew Klickstein, quoting Rachel Sweet, Slimed!, Penguin, →ISBN, page 129:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: muzak
glosses: Light popular music that has an instant appeal but no lasting impact or significance.
Related terms: earworm
nasality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪˈzælɪtiː/
Forms: form: nasalities
Etymology: From nasal + -ity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: twang
synonyms: nasalness
glosses: The state or quality of being nasal.
Derived terms: denasality
hypernasality
hyponasality
Related terms: nasalance
nasalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasalizations
form: nasalisation
Etymology: From nasalize + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: the articulation of a vowel or continuant consonant in such a way that air flows through the nose at the same time as it flows through the mouth
glosses: a particular instance of such change
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: eclipsis
Derived terms: denasalization
prenasalization
nasalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nasalizes
form: nasalizing
form: nasalized
form: nasalized
form: nasalise
Etymology: From nasal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To speak through the nose.
glosses: To make a nasal sound when speaking.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To lower the soft palate so that air flows through the nose during the articulation of a speech sound.
Derived terms: denasalize
nasalization
nasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪzəli/
Forms: form: more nasally
form: most nasally
Etymology: From nasal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: speak nasally
glosses: In a nasal manner or tone.
examples: text: Among the Arabs, who are highly sensitive to aromas as sexual stimulants, perfume is applied for this purpose to the mouth, the armpits, nasally, and the pudenda muliebria.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:
glosses: By, through or using the nose.
Derived terms: infranasally
intranasally
oculonasally
oronasally
orthonasally
retronasally
superonasally
supranasally
nasally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪzəli/
Forms: form: more nasally
form: most nasally
Etymology: From nasal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The loud, nasally voice from behind the door attracted my attention.
text: My only option was to tell the off-site building manager, a nasally guy named Russell Sepulveda.
ref: 2008, Stacey Grenrock Woods, I, California: A Memoir:
glosses: That sounds nasal.
nascence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.səns/
Forms: form: nascences
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin nāscentia + -ence, from nāscentem (“arising young, immature”), present participle of nāscī (“to be born”) (Old Latin gnāscī; see genus). Doublet of nascency.
Senses: examples: text: He had discerned that I was with child. He was a physician first. When he came around offering to see me through my baby's nascence, Mother so thoroughly scolded him for his audacity that he was again left speechless. "I will see to the birth ..."
ref: 2004, Linda Dorrell, The Trees of Eden: A Novel, Fleming H Revell Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Birth.
examples: text: Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution.
ref: 2014, Terry Rey, Bourdieu on Religion: Imposing Faith and Legitimacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: Coming into being; inception, beginning.
Synonyms: nascentness
Derived terms: connascence
nastily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nastily
form: most nastily
Etymology: From nasty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: laced with humor that lampoons and ridicules, but never nastily so
ref: 1979 August 4, Lisa Nussbaum, “Lesbianism 101”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: In a nasty manner.
nationalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nationalistically
form: most nationalistically
Etymology: From nationalistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nationalistic manner.
nationhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nationhoods
Etymology: From nation + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a nation.
glosses: The fact of achieving national independence or autonomy.
nattily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nattily
form: most nattily
Etymology: From natty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He arrived at the party, nattily dressed and eager to socialize.
text: Perhaps the attitude of the city was best personified by a nattily-dressed gentleman who wormed his way into the hearing room at around 8:00 p.m. He did not ask what was going on, nor whom to address his extemporaneous remarks. "I just wanted to come in and be recorded against this," he said, and then left.
ref: 1977 February 12, David Brill, “Conservative Chelsea in an Uproar Over New Bar”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 3:
text: It was a tantalizing promise, delivered with Donald Trump’s trademark panache: As dealmaker in chief, he would quickly end world conflicts that had defied his predecessors and their nattily dressed legions of career diplomats.
ref: 2025 April 24, Ned Temko, “Trump’s ‘quick fix’ approach to diplomacy slow to yield results”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: In a natty manner.
nattiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From natty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being natty.
naturalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturalizations
form: naturalisation
Etymology: From Middle French naturalisation.
Senses: glosses: The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.
glosses: The admission or adoption of foreign words or customs into general use.
glosses: The introduction and establishment of an animal or plant into a place where it is not indigenous.
Derived terms: renaturalization
naturalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of naturalize
naughtily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naughtily
form: most naughtily
Etymology: From naughty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a naughty manner.
nauseatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nauseatingly
form: most nauseatingly
Etymology: From nauseating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nauseating manner; sickeningly.
nauseously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nauseously
form: most nauseously
Etymology: From nauseous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, the films of Cassavetes were always more praised than seen and some of the fulsome tributes to him when he died in 1989 were nauseously hypocritical.
ref: 2000 July 5, “The naked truth”, in The Guardian:
text: Perhaps it’s more accurate to say I’m nauseously optimistic, because, to be candid, I go into the next five weeks feeling a bit sick to my stomach.
ref: 2024 October 1, Robert Reich, “Donald Trump is gaining on Kamala Harris in the polls. I have some theories why”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a nauseous manner.
nautically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nautically
form: most nautically
Etymology: From nautic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a nautical manner
naughtiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naughtinesses
Etymology: From naughty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being naughty
glosses: a naughty act
nauseousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nauseous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being nauseous; nausea
navigability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: navigabilities
form: navigatability
Senses: glosses: The state of being navigable.
Synonyms: navigableness
Derived terms: unnavigability
·
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: glosses: the 'namer dot' that optionally precedes proper names to mark them as such.
leal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: lealer
form: lealest
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English leel, lel, borrowed from Anglo-Norman leal and Old French leial, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of loyal and legal.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Toots, like the leal and trusty soul he was, stopped the cabriolet in a twinkling, and told Susan Nipper of his commission, at which she cried more than before.
ref: 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son:
text: We thank you for the pure white fire of his goodness, for the red sword of justice in his hand, for the love he bears his leal people.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 706:
glosses: Loyal, honest.
examples: text: The lealest lover time can show, / Doomed for a lady-love to languish, / Among these solitudes doth go, / A prey to every kind of anguish.
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “In which are Continued the Refinements wherewith Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 30:
glosses: True, genuine.
Derived terms: Land of the Leal
leally
lealness
unleal
snod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snods
Etymology: See snood.
Senses: glosses: A headband or snood.
Related terms: snod up
primary source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary sources
Senses: qualifier: scholarly studies
glosses: An original work, especially one by a notable author whose work is now the subject of commentaries (secondary sources).
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A historical object, especially a written document, that was created at or near the time of the events studied.
Synonyms: primary work
Related terms: secondary source
tertiary source
misinterpretation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misinterpretations
form: misseinterpretacion
Etymology: From mis- + interpretation or misinterpret + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Charmed as was De Brooke at the outward effects of his Rosilia's sensibility, yet at the same time pained at the situation of his child, conscious that she attracted all eyes upon her, and fearful also of the misinterpretation of affectation or weakness given to it by her ladyship, he looked at his sister, who, comprehending his wishes, lent her kind interference, and conducted Rosilia from the apartment.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 78–79:
glosses: An instance of misinterpreting.
misinterpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misinterpret
misinterpret
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪs.ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/
ipa: /ˌmɪs.ɪnˈtɝ.pɹɪt/
Forms: form: misinterprets
form: misinterpreting
form: misinterpreted
form: misinterpreted
Etymology: From mis- + interpret.
Senses: examples: text: For Ralph, any encouragement is too much. When Lisa gives Ralph a valentine bearing that locomotive pun that so affected The Simpsons’ showrunner, Ralph misinterprets the gesture as a genuine display of romantic interest rather than a gesture of pity from a thoughtful young geek to a friendless goober.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To make an incorrect interpretation; to misunderstand.
Derived terms: misinterpretable
misinterpretation
misinterpreter
Related terms: misunderstand
pree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: [pɹiː]
Forms: form: prees
form: preeing
form: preed
form: preed
Etymology: From Jamaican Creole pree.
Senses: examples: text: We do our own ting, I don't even pree dem
ref: 2017 March 24, Fredo, “London City” (track 3), in Get Rich Or Get Recalled:
text: Niggas be preeing
I call the duppy, that nigga gon leave em
ref: 2021 March 5, Tay Floss, “Leave Em”:
text: And the fans, they watch me on phones / So everybody’s preeing, that’s how the ting goes
ref: 2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon ft. Manga Saint Hilare:
text: Lately, I don't want the fame, but I pree'd it,
I'm famous
ref: 2022 June 16, Stay Flee Get Lizzy Feat Clavish, “Lately”, 2:03:
qualifier: Caribbean and their expatriates
glosses: to heed, to take notice of or pay attention to
ettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛtl/
rhymes: -ɛtl
Forms: form: ettles
form: ettling
form: ettled
form: ettled
Etymology: From Middle English etlien, atlien, from Old Norse ætla (“to think, mean, suppose, intend, purpose”), from Proto-Germanic *ahtalōną (“to strive, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *ok- (“to think, intend, purpose”). Cognate with regional Swedish ättla (“to count, reckon”). Some Middle English forms perhaps remodelled after Old English eaht.
Senses: glosses: To propose, intend.
examples: text: The Siloam nosed and ettled into the grey sprawl of waves and sent up arcs of swift stinging spray.
ref: 1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 39:
glosses: To direct one's course, to head.
glosses: To direct (something) to or at someone or something; to aim at.
glosses: To strive, to try.
Derived terms: ettling
ettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛtl/
rhymes: -ɛtl
Forms: form: ettles
Etymology: From Middle English etlien, atlien, from Old Norse ætla (“to think, mean, suppose, intend, purpose”), from Proto-Germanic *ahtalōną (“to strive, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *ok- (“to think, intend, purpose”). Cognate with regional Swedish ättla (“to count, reckon”). Some Middle English forms perhaps remodelled after Old English eaht.
Senses: glosses: Intention; intent; aim.
Synonyms: mint
ettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛtl/
rhymes: -ɛtl
Forms: form: ettles
form: ettling
form: ettled
form: ettled
Etymology: A variation of addle (“to earn”).
Senses: glosses: To earn.
Related terms: ettlings
splits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split
splits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the splits
Senses: topics: cheerleading
dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A maneuver in which the legs are extended straight out and perpendicular to the body, either to the sides or in front and behind.
Derived terms: in splits
splits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of split
secondary source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary sources
Senses: qualifier: scholarly studies
glosses: A written commentary which discusses previously produced original work of another author, especially a notable author.
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A study of past events or a past author written from the perspective of a later period of time; a document that draws on one or more historical primary sources and interprets or analyses them, including documents such as newspapers whose accuracy is open to question.
Synonyms: secondary work
Related terms: primary source
tertiary source
secondary research
boarding pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɹdɪŋ ˌpæs/
Forms: form: boarding passes
Senses: synonyms: boarding card
glosses: A document or card, similar to a ticket, needed in order to board an airplane or other mode of transport.
flight attendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight attendants
Senses: examples: text: I ask everybody… A waitress, flight attendant… …someone I’m shitting next to on the plane… “You know what my biggest hobby is?” Puking.
ref: 2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP] State of the Union, spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):
synonyms: steward
cabin attendant
glosses: A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.
Hypernyms: cabin crew
Hyponyms: word: steward
word: air host
word: koffie-moffie
word: stewardess
word: air hostess
word: sky girl
word: hostie
word: cart tart
word: trolley dolly
sense: female or effeminate male
word: trolley dolly
straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straw
drinking straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drinking straw
prompts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prompt
prompts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prompt
prompting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prompt
prompting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promptings
Senses: examples: text: True, sometimes separating the promptings of the Spirit from the pressures of our own thoughts and desires can be a delicate task.
ref: 2011, Kevin Hinckley, Promptings Or Me?: Recognizing the Spirit's Voice, page 58:
glosses: The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.
glosses: The action of inputting prompts to an artificial intelligence system.
substitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substitute
substitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of substitute
attaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈtæt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attach
attaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌætæˈʃeɪz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attachés.
outguess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outguesses
form: outguessing
form: outguessed
form: outguessed
Etymology: From out- + guess.
Senses: examples: text: He outguessed, outscored, and outguarded the Tiger, though the latter in a guard position showed that he was a real basketball man.
ref: 1921, The Colorado School of Mines Magazine - Volumes 11-13, page 22:
text: Switching on “Jeopardy,” she simultaneously, talks to her baby, pages through the paper, and outguesses the TV contestants.
ref: 1972 December 5, “A Day in the Life of a Welfare Mother”, in The New York Times:
text: It has been the dream of socialist governments to outguess markets by investing in winning industries that would provide the wherewithal to support their social welfare programs.
ref: 1982 March 14, Aaron Wildavsky, “AGAINST REAGANOMICS”, in The New York Times:
text: Money managers who play down currencies tend to argue that outguessing foreign exchange markets in the short term is perilous, and that, over the long haul, shifts in currency values tend to offset one another.
ref: 1986 May 25, William G. McBride, “INVESTING; CHASING RETURNS IN DIFFERENT CURRENCIES”, in The New York Times:
text: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
"Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold."
glosses: To beat through accurate anticipation of someone's plans and actions.
Synonyms: outfox
outsmart
outwit
out-guess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: out-guesses
form: out-guessing
form: out-guessed
form: out-guessed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of outguess.
angrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of angry: more angry
go through with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes through with
form: going through with
form: went through with
form: gone through with
Senses: examples: text: If you decide to go through with the surgery, remember to leave time to recover.
glosses: To carry out (something planned or promised); to proceed with or continue with.
coded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊdɪd/
homophone: coated (flapping)
rhymes: -əʊdɪd
Forms: form: more coded
form: most coded
Senses: glosses: Encoded; written in code or cipher.
examples: text: The character comes across as being female-coded.
text: This character is coded as autistic.
text: This is partly because male-coded jobs typically offer more pay, prestige, and independence than female-coded jobs, so the financial incentives for women are greater. Many men, however, avoid female-coded fields even when they know the pay and opportunities for advancement would be superior to their other options […]
ref: 2015, Lori Kenschaft, Roger Clark, Desiree Ciambrone, Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
text: He is aware of a number of programs with more "capable" characters like Sheldon, from The Big Bang Theory, who are autistic coded without being explicitly named as such. James notes that, despite being more visible, the autistic traits of these characters tend to be used for comic relief, while autistic people in everyday situations are never seen.
ref: 2020 May 21, Noah Adams, Bridget Liang, Trans and Autistic: Stories from Life at the Intersection, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Portrayed in a way that suggests or resembles having a specific trait or inspiration, without being officially explicitly stated as having that trait.
examples: text: That is so me-coded fr.
translation: That is so like me, for real.
english: That is so like me, for real.
text: Bro has been acting kind of NPC-coded lately.
text: [Dianna Cowern, eating a vegetable 'pudding':] "It's very baby food coded." / [Kyle Kitzmiller:] "Yes." / [Dianna:] "Because it is deeply pureed."
ref: 2024 July 6, Physics Girl, 5:54:57, in Physics Girl LIVE with long Covid:
text: In the last two years, Dr. Phil (surname: McGraw) had ended his flagship talk show and created his own news and entertainment network, trafficking daily in conservative-coded subjects — “Dr. Phil: The Hidden Gem in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’” “Dr. Phil Investigates: Are Schools Secretly Transitioning Your Child?” — in an unswerving crusade against “the woke left.”
ref: 2025 August 10, Matt Flegenheimer, “Dr. Phil’s Road From Oprah to ICE Raids”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Like; resembling or having the characteristics of.
Derived terms: word: autocoded
word: binary-coded decimal
word: binary-coded
word: hard-coded
word: codedness
word: miscoded
word: noncoded
word: precoded
word: pseudocoded
word: queercoded
word: colour-coded
word: (US) color-coded
word: uncoded
coded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊdɪd/
homophone: coated (flapping)
rhymes: -əʊdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of code
crafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craft
crafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of craft
craftiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftinesses
Etymology: From crafty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Skill in deception, slyness.
crafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crafted
form: most crafted
Senses: examples: text: The well-crafted table lasted for many years of use and abuse.
glosses: manufactured
Derived terms: craftedness
handcrafted
precrafted
uncrafted
crafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of craft
crafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of craft
crafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is crafted.
Derived terms: jewelcrafting
leathercrafting
prompt crafting
displeasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpliːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: more displeasing
form: most displeasing
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of Old French desplaisant, from the verb desplere (“to displease”).
Senses: glosses: Unattractive, dislikable, objectionable.
Derived terms: displeasingly
displeasingness
displeasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈpliːzɪŋ/
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of Old French desplaisant, from the verb desplere (“to displease”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of displease
consistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of consistent.
pejoratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pejoratively
form: most pejoratively
Etymology: From pejorative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Despite their number and their assimilationist proclivities, Filipino Punjabis are sometimes pejoratively called 'five-six Indians'.
ref: 2006, Brij V. Lal, Peter Reeves, Rajesh Rai, The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora:
glosses: In a pejorative manner. Insultingly, disparagingly; so as to belittle another or harm their reputation.
fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of four
fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of fours.
coordinate_terms: ones
twos
threes
fives
glosses: The cells located on the third floor.
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: fives
glosses: Shares at a rate of four percent.
Related terms: all fours
on all fours
Haversian canals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haversian canal
rarer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɹəɹ/
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, even in the palmiest days of the old Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway Company, passengers were few and far between at Troutbeck, and since the advent of the motor bus road services they are rarer than ever, and never likely to increase.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
glosses: comparative form of rare: more rare
rarest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɹəst/
Senses: examples: text: Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: superlative form of rare: most rare
calas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɑː/
Etymology: Possibly borrowed from Nupe kara (“fried cake”).
Senses: glosses: Dumplings made with a deep-fried batter of rice, yeast, sugar, eggs, and flour, part of Creole cuisine.
calaban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calabans
Senses: glosses: A trap for birds or animals, consisting of a box propped up with bait underneath.
cales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cale
calcule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăl′kyo͞ol
ipa: /ˈkal.kjuːl/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjuːl/
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjul/
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjʉːl/
ipa: /ˈkɛk.kjʉːl/
ipa: /ˈkal.kjʉl/
rhymes: -ælkjuːl
Forms: form: calcules
Etymology: Borrowed from French calcul, derived from Latin calculus (“reckoning”). Doublet of calculus.
Senses: examples: text: the generall calcule which was made in the last perambulation exceeded eight millions
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: A reckoning; computation.
calcule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăl′kyo͞ol
ipa: /ˈkal.kjuːl/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjuːl/
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjul/
ipa: /ˈkæl.kjʉːl/
ipa: /ˈkɛk.kjʉːl/
ipa: /ˈkal.kjʉl/
rhymes: -ælkjuːl
Forms: form: calcules
form: calculing
form: calculed
form: calculed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English calcule /calculen /calclen, derived from Old French calculer (compare French calculer, Spanish calcular, Portuguese calcular, Italian calculàre), derived from Latin calculāre (“reckon, calculate”). Doublet of calculate.
Senses: examples: text: So whā this Calcas knewe by calculing ¶ And eke by the anſwere of this god Apollo ¶ That grekes ſhulde ſuch a people bryng ¶ Thorowe which that Troye muſt be tordo ¶ He caſt anon out of the towne to go
ref: c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye … [Troilus and Criseyde] (in Middle English), [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book I, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxvii, recto, column 2, lines 71–75:
english: So when this Calkas knew by calkulynge, ¶ And ek by answer of this Apollo, ¶ That Grekes sholden swiche a peple brynge, ¶ Thorugh which that Troye moste ben fordo, ¶ He caste anon out of the town to go.
translation: So when this Calkas knew by calkulynge, ¶ And ek by answer of this Apollo, ¶ That Grekes sholden swiche a peple brynge, ¶ Thorugh which that Troye moste ben fordo, ¶ He caste anon out of the town to go.
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topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To calculate, reckon.
calcules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcule
calcules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calcule
calibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calibre
callas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calla
calmen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calmens
form: calmening
form: calmened
form: calmened
Etymology: From calm + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The decrease is mainly due to the calmening sea.
ref: 1984, Digest, page 730:
text: When Sunday appears in its 15th All-Star Game in a row, James said that he had realized in recent years his role includes being a quick advocate and voice for those who feel like; be calmened.
ref: 2019, NBA News, LeBron James approves Colin Kaepernick for solving a collision collision with the NFL:
glosses: To make or become calm or calmer.
hornwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornworts
Etymology: From horn + wort (“plant”), from the fact that the spores are produced in slender horn-shaped structures.
Senses: glosses: A bryophyte, of phylum Anthocerotophyta, with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.
synonyms: coontail
glosses: An aquatic flowering plant in the genus Ceratophyllum
glosses: Vernal grasses (Anthoxanthum spp.).
Derived terms: prickly hornwort
cambia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambium
Related terms: cambiums
canso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cansos
form: canzo
Senses: glosses: A love song sung by a troubadour
capeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capea
capea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capeas
Etymology: From Spanish capea.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: An event in which small bulls or heifers are released into the arena and members of the audience can interact with them.
capitula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitulum
capitules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitule
captan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Control can be achieved by dusting or slurry-treating the seed wheat with one of a number of fungicides that are available. Those recommended are all non-mercurials and include formulations based on captan, benquinox, and methyl arsenic sulphide.
ref: 1961, New Zealand Wheat Review, numbers 8-15, page 38:
glosses: A particular phthalimide fungicide.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Ethyl mercaptan.
captures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of capture
captures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capture
carden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kärʹdən
ipa: /ˈkɑːdn̩/
enpr: kärʹdən
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdən/
Forms: form: cardens
Etymology: Blend of car + garden.
Senses: glosses: A garden grown inside of a car, usually in the dashboard.
carden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kärʹdən
ipa: /ˈkɑːdn̩/
enpr: kärʹdən
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdən/
Forms: form: cardens
form: cardening
form: cardened
form: cardened
Etymology: Blend of car + garden.
Senses: glosses: to grow plants in a car.
caree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carees
Senses: antonyms: carer
caregiver
glosses: One who is cared for; one who receives care.
Related terms: word: client
english: often contextually synonymous
translation: often contextually synonymous
word: patient
casas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casa
casaba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsɑː.bə/
rhymes: -ɑːbə
Forms: form: casabas
Etymology: From Turkish Kasaba, a town in Turkey, now Turgutlu.
Senses: glosses: A cultivar of the muskmelon (Cucumis melo), with bright yellow, wrinkled skin.
examples: text: Oh, well. She's got... great... casabas .[…]Well, you know. Melons.[…]Hoo-has? Honkers? Hooters? Headlights? Uh... tatas? Teeters? Tweeters? Tom-toms? Tetons?[…]I'm trying to say it. Uh, meatballs. Mangoes. Cream pies. Cupcakes? Uh... bangers? Bouncers? Bulumbas?[…]Bazongas? Breasts! I said it.
ref: 1993, Quantum Leap, season 5, episode 14, spoken by Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell):
glosses: The adult female breast.
Synonyms: sense: breast
word: breasts
casabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of casaba
castra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of castrum
cates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare acates, and see cater.
Senses: examples: text: I had rather live / With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, / Than feed on cates and have him talk to me / In any summer house in Christendom.
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 155–158:
text: Hath any rival glutton got the start, / And beat him in his own luxurious art; / Bought cates for which Apicius could not pay, / Or drest old dainties in a newer way?
ref: 1764, Charles Churchill, The Times:
text: I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:
glosses: Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
cavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cava
cavan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavans
Etymology: From Spanish caván, from Tagalog kaban as "Manila cavan", via Cebuano as the "provincial cavan".
Senses: glosses: A unit of dry capacity approximately equivalent to 2.3 US bushels.
glosses: A unit of dry capacity equivalent to one and a half times or twice the Manila cavan.
glosses: A sackful equivalent to 50 kilograms.
ceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdɪd/
rhymes: -iːdɪd
homophone: seeded
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cede
cenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cene
cense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
homophone: sense
Forms: form: censes
form: censing
form: censed
form: censed
Etymology: Backformation from incense
Senses: examples: text: The Salii sing and 'cense his altars round.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Alternatively he would make a pretty good deacon: tall, well built, with quite a good voice, assiduously censing every nook and cranny, endowed with a certain histrionic talent, and perhaps also a genuine devotion to the service of God.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 205:
glosses: To perfume with incense.
cense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
homophone: sense
Forms: form: censes
Etymology: Old French cense, French cens, Latin census.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n the year 1636, King Charles ſending to the Lord Mayor [of London], to make a ſcrutiny, vvhat number of Roman Catholiques and ſtrangers, there vvere in the City, he took occaſion thereby, to make a Cenſe of all the people; and there vvere of Men, VVomen, and Children, above ſeven hundred thouſand that lived vvithin the Barres of his juriſdiction alone; […]
ref: 1657, Jam. Howel [i.e., James Howell], “A Parallel, by Way of Corollary, betwixt London, and Other Great Cities of the World”, in Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and Chief Emporium of Great Britain: […], London: […] J[ohn] Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring, and John Place, […], →OCLC, page 403:
glosses: A census.
examples: text: as moneys a sum in name of a cense so returned
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, A Certificate to His Majesty […] Touching the Penal Laws:
glosses: A public rate or tax.
examples: text: if you write to a man, whose estate and cense as senses, you are familiar with, you may the bolder (to let a taske to his braine) venter on a knot
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: condition; rank
censes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cense
censures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of censure
centrad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centro- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the center.
centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɚz/
note: pin–pen merger, nt-flapping
ipa: [ˈsɪɾ̃ɚz]
homophone: sinners (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
Senses: glosses: plural of centre
centres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɚz/
note: pin–pen merger, nt-flapping
ipa: [ˈsɪɾ̃ɚz]
homophone: sinners (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of centre
ceses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cese
chapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapos
Senses: glosses: chapati (food)
chapé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A division of the field, used in French heraldry, created by drawing two lines from the centre of the upper edge of the shield towards the outer bottom edges (creating a triangle), with the tincture being applied to the two upper portions which the triangle divides.