cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cloistered
form: most cloistered
Senses: examples: text: Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
text: In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
ref: 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:
glosses: Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
examples: text: […]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.
ref: 2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
glosses: Naive, lacking in worldliness.
examples: text: both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: Furnished with cloisters.
cloistered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cloister
refs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for refreshments.
Senses: topics: law-enforcement
police
glosses: A scheduled meal break during a shift.
refs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ref
refs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ref
peerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peerless
form: most peerless
Etymology: From Middle English pereles, perles; equivalent to peer + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 134:
text: Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXXV’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
text: After wearying oneself with the acres of stuffy, sappy, expressionless babies that populate the canvases of the Old Masters in Italy, it is refreshing to stand before this peerless child and feel that thrill which tells you you are at last in the presence of the real thing.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), “”, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 579:
text: Telegram! Malachi Mulligan, The Ship, lower Abbey street. O, you peerless mummer! O, you priestified Kinchite!
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: “Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47:
text: Foden has also grown into this World Cup, having scored against Wales and creating two goals here. England's midfield and attack is taking shape with perfect timing for what will be the sternest of tests against France and the peerless Mbappe.
ref: 2022 December 4, Phil McNulty, “England 3-0 Senegal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.
Derived terms: peerlessly
peerlessness
primrose peerless
unparalleled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparalleled
form: most unparalleled
form: unparallelled
Etymology: From un- + paralleled.
Senses: examples: text: The candidate experienced unparalleled support in the last election.
text: Experience had taught me, that woman's falsehood was no unparalleled marvel; but it had coupled with this conviction, that nothing in after life can atone for the bitterness of our first rude awakening.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: “Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
text: Such equipment has had to bear the unparalleled stress of wartime operation without the maintenance and renewal it would have received under the far easier conditions of peacetime working.
ref: 1946 March and April, “Railway Maintenance and Safety”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:
glosses: Having no parallel; without equal; lacking anything similar or worthy of comparison.
TAFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: TAFEs
Senses: examples: text: TAFE Colleges are organized in Australia on a State or Territory basis, and considerable variation is to be found in the way that TAFE Colleges are linked to the other educational sectors.
ref: 2003, Y. Y. Jessie Wong, R. Gerber, K. A. Toh, “Chapter XXI: A Comparative Study of Distributed Web-Based Education (WBE) in Singapore and Australia”, in Anil Aggarwal, editor, Web-Based Education: Learning from Experience, page 358:
text: Going to TAFE is a good option if you want to gain more technical skills or if you don′t get a placement at the university you wanted. TAFE is a great place to build up a portfolio of work in preparation for applying for university, especially in the case of some universities where a portfolio presented at interview determines whether an applicant is accepted.
ref: 2007, Michelle Hespe, Industrial Design, Career FAQs, page 129:
text: Financial security, coupled with a desire for an exciting or satisfying career is a partial explanation of why some inner east students had such positive attitudes to TAFE.
ref: 2010, Madaleine Mattarozzi Laming, “9: Stories of Difference: Metroploitan and Rural Students′ Attitudes to University”, in Joseph Zajda, editor, Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, Springer, page 147:
glosses: Initialism of technical and further education.
glosses: A college offering courses in technical and vocational education.
Derived terms: super TAFE
starchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: starchier
form: more starchy
form: starchiest
form: most starchy
Etymology: From starch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to starch.
glosses: Containing starch.
examples: text: Beds were made, the dinner-table set, and then we got into our very starchiest and most uncomfortable clothes for church.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Sunday”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Having the quality of fabric starch as applied to fabric; stiff, hard; starched.
glosses: Having a starched personality; stiffly formal.
Derived terms: non-starchy
starchily
starchiness
Related terms: cornstarchy
Immanuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmænjuəl/
ipa: /ɪˈmænjəl/
homophone: Emmanuel
Forms: form: Immanuels
form: Emmanuel
Etymology: From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).
Senses: examples: text: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 7:14:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.
topics: Christianity
biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A figure whose birth is prophesied in the Book of Isaiah in the Bible.
This figure, regarded by Christians as the Messiah or Christ.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel.
parentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parentages
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French parentage.
Senses: examples: text: I am a Lord, for so my deedes ſhall prooue,
And yet a ſhepheard by my Parentage: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: English gentlemen, after all, do not discriminate against each other on the grounds of parentage, only of breeding.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
examples: text: My fortunes parentage — good parentage — To equal mine! — was it not thus? What say you?
ref: 1608, Shakespeare, Pericles, act 5, scene 1:
glosses: The social quality of one's class in society.
glosses: Origin; derivation.
Derived terms: mixed parentage
Related terms: parentship
parentdom
MPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Metropolitan Police Service.
examples: text: The CPD also manages China’s massive army of censors and works closely with the Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
ref: 2022 May 5, Helen Raleigh, “Biden's disinformation board is authoritarian and reminds me of my life in China”, in Fox News:
glosses: Initialism of Ministry of Public Security.
MPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MPSs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of methylacetylene propadiene, stabilized stabilized methylacetylene-propadiene mixture.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of master production schedule.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of myofascial pain syndrome.
coordinate_terms: MPB
glosses: Initialism of muscle protein synthesis.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of main propulsion system (of the Space Shuttle).
examples: text: They spent a year in mourning. But the Dants began to wonder whether there was something they could do. Surely, there were other families out there dealing with MPS I.
ref: 2017 May 13, Ashley Strickland, “Warned he would die by age 10, he just graduated college”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mucopolysaccharidosis.
Related terms: sense: stabilized methylacetylene propadiene
word: MAP
sense: stabilized methylacetylene propadiene
word: MAPP
cossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˈkɒzi/
other: /kŏzi/
rhymes: -ɒzi
Forms: form: cossies
form: cozzie
Etymology: From costume + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “Let's not bother with cossies Jack. Let′s pretend it′s years ago.”
She remembered the times they had swum at Eleni beach totally naked, the moon and stars lighting the little waves as they rolled slowly to shore.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Slater, Sky, page 121:
text: I struck off boldly, but soon found myself unaccountably labouring. The reason became abundantly clear when I stood up, clad only in two three-foot-long shoulder straps, with two stone of waterlogged cossie round my ankles.
ref: 2009, Brenda Sensicle-Creese, Sensicle, But Not Always, page 3:
text: She would just change now very quickly and then run down to Lingerie and—no, she thought, I won′t; I′ll go to the cossies first, because I don′t want anyone to see me carrying that parcel from Lingerie (which used a different patterned wrapping paper, printed with a lace and ribbom design) because they might guess what′s in it, or they might ask. So I′ll just go to the cossies first.
ref: 2009, Madeleine St. John, The Women in Black, page 72:
glosses: A swimming costume.
Synonyms: word: bathers
hermetic seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermetic seals
Etymology: See hermetic.
Senses: glosses: An airtight seal.
outrigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌɹɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈaʊtˌɹɪɡɚ/
Forms: form: outriggers
form: out-rigger
Etymology: Modification of earlier outligger after rig (“to fit out”); equivalent to out- + ligger.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of various projecting beams or spars that provide support for a sailing ship's mast.
examples: text: The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.
ref: 2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A long thin timber, pontoon, or other float attached parallel to a canoe or boat by projecting struts as a means of preventing tipping or capsizing.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: An outrigger canoe or boat.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An iron bracket or brace for an oarlock projecting from the side of a rowing boat.
examples: text: From the cowcatcher hung the outrigger of the tricycle, leaping about as though in the grip of death itself, beating against the iron that had shattered it, striking the road, sending the gravel flying.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 200:
text: These piles supported long lengths of hard timber (approximately 2-ft. square section) which provided a firm anchorage for the outriggers supporting the cranes.
ref: 1946 March and April, C. R. L. Coles, “Re-Railing the Locomotive at Bourne End”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
text: The cranes are supplied with outriggers and jacks for use when lifting heavy loads or when working at extended radii.
ref: 1960 July, “Talking of Trains: New breakdown cranes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 392:
glosses: An extension mechanism, often retractable when not in use, on a boat, vehicle, or structure which helps to stabilize it to keep it from tipping over.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A type of ski pole, with skis attached at the bottom, instead of the spike/pick found on a normal pole. It is used in downhill skiing variants of para-skiing, especially those that use a sit-ski, such as the monoski.
Derived terms: outriggered
outriggerless
Related terms: inrigger
outrigged
minstrelsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minstrelsies
Etymology: From Middle English minstralcie, from 13th century Anglo-Norman menestralsie, menestralcie, from Old French menestrel (“minstrel”), itself from Medieval Latin ministralis (“servant, jester, singer”), from Late Latin ministerialis (“imperial household officer, one having an official duty”), from the adjective ministerialis (“ministerial, servants”), from Latin ministerium (“service”).
Senses: examples: text: Orfeo makes his way into this palace, and so charms the king with his minstrelsy, that he gives him back his wife.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 86:
text: They, of course, would change, but not again could she; henceforth no music for her in the Bush birds' minstrelsy, no pleasure in rivalry with buttercups for the butterflies' kiss.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186:
glosses: The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
glosses: A group of minstrels.
glosses: Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
glosses: A collection of minstrel ballads.
Related terms: minstrelry
misconstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misconstructions
Etymology: From mis- + construction.
Senses: examples: text: Our attention has been called to the possibility of misconstruction in our reply given under the above heading in the December issue concerning track circuit through busy stations normally entered at low speeds.
ref: 1941 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Track Circuit”, in Railway Magazine, page 142:
glosses: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
examples: text: a misconstruction of the law
glosses: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
An ungrammatical phrase; a misformed word.
glosses: Mistaken or faulty construction; an instance of it.
The act of misbuilding; an instance of it.
Related terms: eggcorn
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Latin plus valet in manibus avis unica quam dupla silvis (“a single bird in the hands is worth more than two in the forest”), possibly deriving from sources as old as the ancient Middle East, with the 6th century BCE Proverbs of Ahiqar including "a sparrow in thy hand is better than a thousand sparrows flying".
Senses: examples: text: It is more sykyr a bryd in youre fyste
Than to have thre in the sky above
ref: 15th c., John Capgrave, Life of St Katherine, Bodleian MS Rawlinson poet. 118, Bk. II
roman: And more profitabyl to youre behove.
text: May. No, but the Sides are going to be changed ; and Sir Harry is to be ſome very great Man ; and as ſoon as he is, I am to be made an Embaſſador of.
Mrs. May. Made an Aſs of! Will you never learn of me, that a Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Buſh ?
ref: 1737, Henry Fielding, Pasquin, Act II, Scene I, p. 27
text: [An] acquaintance ... proposed to pay a ... proportion of the cost of the cellar provided he should have as his own everything of value that might be found [excavating]. A bird in the hand, thought Bardolph, is worth two in the bush, so he ... accepted the proposal.
ref: 1864, William W. Story, “The Campagna”, in Roba Di Roma, volume II, page 8:
glosses: A sure thing is preferable to the mere chance at something more.
wikipedia: Proverbs of Ahiqar
Synonyms: better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
take the cash and let the credit go
Related terms: half a loaf is better than none
something is better than nothing
beggars can't be choosers
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
a contented mind is a perpetual feast
the grass is always greener on the other side
hydrochronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hydroponic + chronic
Senses: glosses: A very potent type of hydroponically-grown marijuana.
widowerhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widowerhoods
Etymology: From widower + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: The poor General was in despair! To fall in love at fifty-five, and with such vehemence, is indeed a misfortune! And add to that his widowerhood, his children, his ruined property, his debts, and the woman with whom he had fallen in love! Though Mlle.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/III):
glosses: The state or period of being a widower.
Related terms: widow
widowed
widower
widowhood
blu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blus
form: blu.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of blue.
blu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blu.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of blue.
boccia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɒtʃə
Etymology: From Italian boccia (“ball”). Doublet of butt (“wooden cask”).
Senses: glosses: A sport, similar to bocce, designed to be played by people with impaired motor skills.
Related terms: bocce
wheelchair curling
scaling ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scaling ladders
Senses: examples: text: Those who survived were forced to carry the Mongols' long scaling ladders up to the very walls of the fortress, while others were made to erect their siege engines under heavy fire.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 13:
glosses: A ladder for the purpose of scaling the walls of a besieged fortification.
specialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specialist
pecco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peccos
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pekoe.
bombé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒmbeɪ/
ipa: /bɒmˈbeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French bombé.
Senses: examples: text: The bombé writing-desk had brass inlay and a marble top, a Bartlett print of Lord Byron's Childe Harold hung above the pristine twin beds.
ref: 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 283:
glosses: Featuring a protruding convex bulge.
raw_tags: of furniture
bonzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonzos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bonze (“Buddhist monk or priest in East Asia”).
snags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of snag
snags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snag
snagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snag
snagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaggings
Senses: examples: text: Collisions were not often the cause of major disasters for, as in the case of snaggings, the sinking of the boat did not lead to many casualties unless it took place in deep water.
ref: 2012, Louis C. Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, page 277:
glosses: An instance of something becoming snagged.
Derived terms: snagging list
snagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snag
snagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snagged
form: most snagged
Senses: glosses: Full of snags; snaggy.
documented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of document
dominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒm.əˌneɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.məˌneɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈdɑ.məˌneɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /ˈdɔm.əˌnæɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [ˈdɔm.əˌnæɪ.ɾɪd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dominate
elided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of elide
fielded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: unfielded
fielded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of field
filmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlmd/
rhymes: -ɪlmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of film
filmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlmd/
rhymes: -ɪlmd
Senses: examples: text: A gleam burst through his filmed eyes.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 15, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: Covered with a film.
examples: text: No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough. How is one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green,—the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass,—the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, 100 burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
ref: 1860, John Ruskin, “chapter X, “Leaves Motionless””, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, , § 24:
text: White roses and daedal creepers, that Miss Carnot had first adorned the walls with, spread now luxuriantly over the lichen-filmed tiles of the roof, and in slender graceful sprays timidly invaded the ghostly cobweb-draped apartments.
ref: 1888, H. G. Wells, The Chronic Argonauts:
text: Do you mean to tell me there should be no fissure?
No glittering, compact drops of dawn?
Do you mean it is wrong, the gold-filmed skin, integument, shown ruptured?
ref: 1923, D. H. Lawrence, “Pomegranate”, in Birds, Beasts and Flowers:
glosses: Covered with a film of (a specified type or substance).
Derived terms: biofilmed
nonfilmed
unfilmed
flanked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flanked
form: most flanked
Senses: glosses: Having a particulary kind of flank.
Derived terms: chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk
red-flanked bluetail
unflanked
flanked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flank
floundered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flounder
frequented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frequent
copan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of koban (“Japanese coin”).
functioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of function
urlar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urlars
Etymology: Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic ùrlar (“floor”).
Senses: examples: text: The opening theme of a piobaireachd is called the Urlar, or ‘ground’ – the territory on which the whole composition stands.
ref: 2012, Hannah Rosefield, “Piping Up”, in Literary Review, section 401:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The base theme of a piece of classical bagpipe music.
juxta-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒʌkstə/
Etymology: Representing Latin iuxta (“alongside”).
Senses: qualifier: no longer productive or restricted in use
glosses: Near, alongside, next to.
Derived terms: Cadoxton-juxta-Neath
tubaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubaists
Etymology: From tuba + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: tubist
glosses: someone who plays the tuba
cites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪts/
homophone: sites
homophone: sights
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of cite
cites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪts/
homophone: sites
homophone: sights
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cite
ligatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡət͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ligature
pad thai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæd ˈtaɪ/
ipa: /ˌpad ˈtʌɪ/
ipa: /ˌpæd ˈtaɪ/
ipa: /ˌpɑːd ˈtaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: pad Thai
form: phad thai
form: phad Thai
form: phat thai
form: phat Thai
Etymology: From Thai ผัดไทย (pàt-tai, “Thai stir-fry”).
Senses: glosses: A Thai dish of stir-fried noodles with egg, tamarind, peanuts and other ingredients.
strips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of strip
strips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strip
dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: plural of dump
dumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌmps/
rhymes: -ʌmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dump
workable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more workable
form: most workable
Etymology: From work + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They came up with a workable solution, until they could think of something better.
text: Penrhyn Quarry vertical-boilered 0-4-0 locomotive "George Henry," built by De Winton & Company in 1877. It is the last survivor of its class, and is still in workable condition.
ref: 1945 July and August, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 208, photo caption:
text: The point was also made that the size and diversity of GWR's network and the number of services that are not capable of having reservations (Thames Valley, many branch lines, and so on) has meant a mandatory reservation system is not a workable system for them.
ref: 2021 January 27, Barry Doe, “Reservations on XC and GWR services”, in RAIL, number 923, page 58:
glosses: Capable of functioning.
glosses: Able to be worked or fashioned
borgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔː(ɹ)ɡəʊ/
Forms: form: borgos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian borgo. Doublet of borough.
Senses: examples: text: The borgo’s five acres and five dilapidated structures were part of an estate once owned by the Borghese family, and overlooked a valley of hills and vineyards.
ref: 2007 January 11, Maureen Orth, “Shopping for a Villa, He Wound Up With a Village”, in New York Times:
glosses: A small Italian village.
Britisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtɪʃə/
Forms: form: Britishers
Etymology: From British + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Why now, I expect," said the American, "you would not shoot me in cold blood, although you are a Britisher, I guess."
ref: 1833, Frederick Chamier, The Life of a Sailor, J. & J. Harper, page 215:
text: […] and as he spoke, there was just a soupçon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.
ref: 1906, Baroness Orczy, chapter VI, in I Will Repay, London: Greening & Co, page 88:
text: French newspapers carried today a notice that all Britishers between the ages of 15 and 65 have been interned in special camps. Women and sick men have not been interned.
ref: 1940 August 16, “France Interns Britishers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 2:
text: Even in the heart of London, Britishers boast you're never far from the countryside—only a few stories up!
ref: 1959 August 6, “Nixon's Triumphal Return” (2:40 from the start), in Universal Newsreels (32), episode 63, spoken by narrator (Ed Herlihy):
text: From what we've heard, some of the gayest, hottest and most unusual bedroom scenes have resulted from a stewardess accepting the stiff and proper advance of a Britisher.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 248:
text: A lot of people have made the very valid point that it is a bit rich for a Britisher to criticise Indian food as being bland!
ref: 2020 October 9, Sudha G Tilak, quoting Edward Anderson, “Row over 'insult' to Indian dish Kamala Harris likes”, in BBC News:
glosses: A Briton.
glosses: The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.
Britisher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtɪʃə/
Etymology: From British + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 'Thought you'd like to hear some Britisher music. What you'd like. Some Beatles or some Rolling Stones maybe? They're Britisher, OK?'
ref: 2015, Claude Pemberton, Your Friday, My Sunday:
glosses: British
Britisher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪtɪʃə/
Etymology: From British + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She took a deep breath and stuck out her chin and said in a voice that was even a little higher and Britisher than she usually uses, “We girls have often cried, ‘Shut the Door!’ But now the Door is jolly well shut for keeps.”
ref: 1957, Fritz Leiber, The Big Time:
glosses: comparative form of British: more British
Related terms: Englander
Englisher
Scotlander
Irelander
herdsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdsman feminine: herdswoman
form: herdsmen
Etymology: From herd + -s- + -man.
Senses: synonyms: herder
herd#Etymology_2
glosses: A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep; especially, the foreman among a group of such farmworkers, usually with more knowledge and experience.
bove
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌv/
Forms: form: 'bove
Etymology: Probably an aphetic form of above. Alternatively, this word may continue Middle English bove, boven, from Old English bufan, from Proto-West Germanic *biobanā, from *bi (“by”) + *ufanā (“from above”). Compare West Frisian boppe, Dutch boven and Low German baven, boven.
Senses: examples: text: Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade,
 T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store,
 Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Above.
Umwelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʊmvɛlt/
Forms: form: Umwelts
form: Umwelten
form: umwelt
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Umwelt (“environment”).
Senses: examples: text: It seems that these S-E-A-Values are all about what ethnologists call the Umwelt — the area of alarm around members of the brute creation, such as human beings.
ref: 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, “After You with the Pistol”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Still, a pigeon's worldview -- its Umwelt, ...
ref: 1990 October 7, S. J. Bodio, A. Shilstone, “Pigeon Racing: Homing in on an 'invisible' sport”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 21, number 7, pages 80, 10p:
text: ... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
ref: 2006, Chris Arthur, “Empty Room”, in Southwest Review, volume 91, number 3, pages p295-312, 18p:
glosses: One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
Related terms: umbworld
horsebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseboxes
Etymology: From horse + box.
Senses: glosses: A motor vehicle for transporting horses.
glosses: A container for transporting horses in, whether by road, rail, or sea.
examples: text: On October 31 [...] Laira "Grange" No. 6871 passed through Wolverhampton with a Holyhead-Didcot horsebox special.
ref: 1960 January, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 58:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A van-type railway vehicle specially built for the carriage of horses.
embers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ember
embers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us / To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
ref: 1994, Polly Samson, David Gilmour, “High Hopes”, in The Division Bell, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
Derived terms: stir the embers
stormtrooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɔːmtɹuːpə/
Forms: form: stormtroopers
form: storm trooper
form: storm-trooper
Etymology: A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”), equivalent to storm + trooper.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper.
ref: 1995, Ian Drury, German Stormtrooper 1914-18, Osprey Publishing, page 4:
text: As you'll recall, the idea of the stormtrooper arose from the effort to break out of the trench warfare of World War I.
ref: 1996, Mark McNeilly, Sun Tzu and the Art of Business, Oxford, page 134:
text: When he came upon such a scene he went up to a stormtrooper to protest.
ref: 2001, J.S. Medaware, David Pyke, Hitler's Gift, Arcade Publishing, page 72:
glosses: A soldier trained in special infiltration tactics.
glosses: A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.
Derived terms: Imperial Stormtrooper
Nathu La
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "The opening of the border pass at Nathu La after 44 years marks the beginning of a new era in Sino-Indian relations," Phuntsok said. "I hope the border people of these two great nations will benefit from this."
ref: 2006 July 6, Champa Phuntsok, quotee, “India and China reopen historic pass - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2023, Asia Pacific:
text: Nathu La connects India to Hindu and Buddhist sites in the region and was the site of a fierce border clash between Chinese and Indian troops in 1967.
ref: 2017 June 26, Ben Blanchard, David Stanway, Tommy Wilkes, “China accuses Indian border guards of crossing into its territory”, in Paul Tait, Michael Perry, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2017:
text: India’s Border Roads Organization said the tourists were hit by the avalanche near the Nathu La mountain pass in Sikkim state. A video released by the Indian army showed rescuers digging through the snow to find an undetermined number of missing people swept away by the avalanche down a mountain slope.
Nathu La mountain pass is along the border with China and is a major tourist destination.
ref: 2023 April 4, “Avalanche sweeps away tourists in northeast India; 7 killed”, in AP News, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2023:
glosses: A mountain pass on the border between Yadong, Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region, China and Sikkim, India.
Siberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]
ipa: [saɪˈbɪɹiən]
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: From Siberia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Siberia.
Derived terms: Siberian accentor
Siberian cedar
Siberian chipmunk
Siberian crab
Siberian crab apple
Siberian crane
Siberian dwarf hamster
Siberian elm
Siberian Express
Siberian Federal District
Siberian flag
Siberian flying squirrel
Siberian ginseng
Siberian grouse
Siberian hamster
Siberian High
Siberian Husky
Siberian ibex
Siberian iris
Siberian jay
Siberian larch
Siberian peashrub
Siberian pea-tree
Siberian pine
Siberian plague
Siberian rubythroat
Siberian spruce
Siberian stonechat
Siberian Tatar
Siberian thrush
Siberian tiger
Siberian unicorn
Siberian weasel
Siberian Yupik
Siberian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]
ipa: [saɪˈbɪɹiən]
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Siberians
Etymology: From Siberia + -an.
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person from Siberia.
synonyms: Russian longhair
glosses: A long-haired domestic cat breed.
entrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntɹənt/
ipa: /ˈentɹənt/
Forms: form: entrants
Etymology: From French entrant, present participle of entrer.
Senses: examples: text: Any attempt by an entrant to influence the result or subvert the contest will lead to immediate disqualification.
glosses: A participant who enters something, such as a contest.
glosses: A newcomer.
Derived terms: nonentrant
reentrant
pallette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælɪt/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
ipa: /ˈpælət/
rhymes: -ælɪt
homophone: palate
homophone: palette
homophone: pallet
Forms: form: pallettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palette (“a rounded armor plate over the armpit”).
glosses: Misspelling of palette (“a set of colors”).
sech
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of such.
nus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nu
NUS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Union of Students.
glosses: Initialism of National University of Singapore.
Carnac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French, from Breton Karnag.
Senses: glosses: A seaside resort town and commune of Morbihan department, in South Brittany, France.
Wilfred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlfɹɪd/
Etymology: The name of two early Anglo-Saxon saints Wilfriþ, from Old English wil (“will”) + friþ (“peace”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English, popular in the U.K. in the early twentieth century.
Wilfred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlfɹɪd/
Etymology: An allusion to the newspaper cartoon strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: Pip
Squeak
glosses: The Victory Medal.
toasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Would you like a toasted sandwich?
hypernyms: cooked
glosses: Cooked by toasting.
examples: text: We got absolutely toasted on the beach today.
glosses: Very hot.
examples: text: Night after night we cheerfully drank, squinting there in the dark like bulb-eyed lemurs, and once or twice even got toasted, waking up the next day on a dark, cold morning with the numbed, palsied tongue of dead vodka.
ref: 2011, Alexander Theroux, Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery, page 66:
glosses: Drunk or stoned.
Synonyms: sense: cooked by toasting
word: grilled
sense: very hot
word: hot
sense: drunk or stoned
word: drunk
word: stoned
Derived terms: toasted cheese
toasted ravioli
toasted special
toasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toast
Nam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æm
Forms: form: 'Nam
form: 'nam
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Vietnam.
glosses: The Vietnam War.
Derived terms: Nammer
appartement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French appartement.
Senses: examples: text: I am a French student of litterature who would like to visit London during the month of August. Maybe you would like to visit Paris in this period. I propose you to exchange my appartement with yours. I live in the near suburb of Paris (5 minutes from the center by the tube). My appartement is modest, but with all acommodities: to live, to sleep, to cook, to wash, to read, to dream,...
ref: 1996 June 11, Ammadj Sedik, “exchange of flat Paris-London (échange d'appartement)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: The strange woman went right up to my appartement (I live in the highest) and stood right in front of my door. And she was just standing there, staring. Of course, I didn't notice that, so my girlfriend rang me using the intercom and said that a strange women was standing at my door.
ref: 1998 September 20, DJB, “Man at my bed”, in alt.folklore.ghost-stories (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: I leave my appartement in Paris, durin chrismas, and i would like to rent it for 1 week.
Situated near the "Père Lachaise cemetary" and near bus and metro.
3 rooms, it means 2 bedrooms.
Well furnished
With a quite big garden.
Nice residence, very green.
Do not hesitate to let me a proposition.
Thanks
ref: 1999 November 3, bou...@nomade.fr, “For Rent Appartement for Chrismas in Paris”, in japan.travel.abroad (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
text: Now you all can enjoy your time in cairo , without incurring very expensive hotel charge . I offer you to spend your lovely time in cairo as my guest , it`s charge is 10 $ for single room 15 $ for double room . I live in nasr city , my appartement is 120 m ..
ref: 2000 June 29, egy...@internetegypt.com, “appartement in Cairo”, in alt.culture.egyptian (Usenet), retrieved 01 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of apartment.
finality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪˈnælɪti/
ipa: /faɪˈnæləti/
ipa: /fɪ-/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: finalities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French finalité. equivalent to final + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The finality of my father's death suddenly hit me: there would be no more bedtime stories, no more games of catch in the back yard.
text: By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
glosses: The state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
Derived terms: counter-finality
counterfinality
equifinality
in finality
multifinality
finalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finality
sodium acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium acetates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of acetic acid.
Derived terms: sodium acetate trihydrate
Dallas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
Etymology: # The Texas city was named after George M. Dallas, vice president to Polk; family name is evolved from dalhous (13th c.), meaning "dweller at the house in the dale," from dale + house.
# The Scottish place-name is from Pictish, equivalent to Welsh dôl (“meadow, haugh”) + gwas (“abode”).
Senses: examples: text: The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
ref: 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A large city, the county seat of Dallas County, in northeastern Texas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Ouray County, Colorado.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Paulding County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A former city, now part of Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Gaston County, North Carolina.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Polk County, Oregon.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A borough and township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Gregory County, South Dakota, named after Dallas, Texas.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Barron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Dallas Township.
glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of the city of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A small village in northwestern Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ1252).
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say.
ref: 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name.
Derived terms: word: Dallas City
word: Dallas County
english: native from Dallas
translation: native from Dallas
word: Dallasite
word: East Dallas
word: Melcher-Dallas