cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Northampton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːˈθæmptən/
Etymology: From Old English Norþhāmtūn. The earliest reference to Northampton in writing occurred in 914 under the name Ham tune. The Domesday Book (1086) records the town as Northantone: the prefix “North” was added later to distinguish it from other towns called “Hampton”, most prominently Southampton.
Senses: glosses: A large town, the county town of Northamptonshire, now in West Northamptonshire district, England.
glosses: A former borough in Northamptonshire, abolished on 1 April 2021 and merged into the district of West Northamptonshire.
glosses: A civil parish with a town council in West Northamptonshire district, county of Northamptonshire, first elected in 2021, believed to be the largest town with a town council in England.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Fulton County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A parish and community in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town, the seat of the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia, named after John Hampton.
glosses: A local government area north of Geraldton, Western Australia; in full, the Shire of Northampton.
Derived terms: Northampton County
Northamptonian
Related terms: Southampton
Felix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːlɪks/
rhymes: -iːlɪks
Etymology: From Latin Fēlīx (literally “happy, lucky”).
Senses: examples: text: And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:24:
text: Had a funny first name, like Oscar or maybe - no! I remember now. It was Felix. Felix Tanner.
ref: 2005 Marc Cerasini, etc, Operation Hell Gate, HarperEntertainment, page 134
text: “I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.
ref: 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A generic name given to a cat.
glosses: A place name:
A municipality in Almería province, Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A place name:
A community and railway point in Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A township in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, named after Felix Grundy.
glosses: A place name:
A township in Grundy County, Iowa, United States, also named after Felix Grundy.
Related terms: sense: female given names
word: Felicia
sense: female given names
word: Felicity
touchpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃˌpæd/
Forms: form: touchpads
Etymology: From touch + pad.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
Synonyms: trackpad
Hypernyms: pad
Related terms: computer
GUI
mouse
trackball
mousepad
religieuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religieuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French religieuse.
Senses: examples: text: "You must not, my dear sister, give way to curiosity. Do you not recollect it is against the rules for a religieuse to do so?"
ref: 1835, Rebecca Reed, Six Months in a Convent:
glosses: A nun.
glosses: A type of eclair made of two choux pastry cases, the smaller fixed atop of the other.
equipages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipage
equipages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equipage
entend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: entends
form: entending
form: entended
form: entended
Etymology: Old French entendre, from Latin intendere. See intend.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intend.
glosses: To attend to; to apply oneself to.
Dominique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dominiques
Etymology: From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.
Senses: glosses: An American breed of chicken with a rose comb and a heavy plumage of irregularly striped black-and-white feathers.
Synonyms: dominecker
dominicker
Dominique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Dominique. Doublet of Dominic.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A male given name from French.
Derived terms: Petite Dominique
jaconet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækənɪt/
Forms: form: jaconets
form: jaconnet
form: jackonet
Etymology: From Hindi जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) / Urdu جگنّاتھ (jagannāth), former name of Puri in India, where the material came from. Compare juggernaut.
Senses: examples: text: It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: It really was beautifully executed, more like a forgery than a copy, for the copyist had laid it down on a jaconet backing and had even added a cachet de vente, a couple of collectors’ marks and a museum reference number.
ref: 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin, published 2001, page 321:
glosses: A type of cotton cloth, especially as dyed and waterproofed.
wikipedia: Puri
whate'er
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: "[…] because I think ye will be rushing off to the nearest bed with whate'er woman is ogling ye at that moment."
ref: 2009, Hannah Howell, Highland Champion, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: Contraction of whatever.
whate'er
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: 1858, Catherine Winkworth, Whate'er my god ordains is right, translation of Samuel Rodigast's Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (1675)
glosses: Contraction of whatever.
Dupont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Duponts
form: DuPont
Etymology: Borrowed from French Dupont.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adams County, Colorado, named after the DuPont company.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, named after the Du Pont family.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, named, for want of a name, after a box of Dupont shotgun shells.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Samuel Francis Du Pont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, named after the Dupont Explosives company.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A rural community within Seymour, Sevier County, Tennessee, said to be derived from dew point.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Dupont Circle
refuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refusers
Etymology: From refuse + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who refuses.
lovest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lov'st
Etymology: love + -est
Senses: examples: text: He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 21:16:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of love
Soudan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: About February last year two figures were circling round the office of the Pall Mall Gazette, the one writing articles, the other being interviewed; they were those of the two ex-Governors of the Soudan, Sir Samuel Baker and General Gordon, then just returned from Brussels.
ref: 1885 March 24, Ernest Belfort Bax, “Gordon and the Soudan”, in The Commonweal, volume 1, number 2, page 9:
glosses: Archaic form of Sudan: A country in North Africa and East Africa.
glosses: A census-designated place in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.
swamp cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamp coolers
Etymology: See swamp + cooler.
Senses: examples: text: Kind of like sitting five feet away from a swamp cooler on a hot day: you feel something approximating a breeze and maybe it’s even cool, but mostly you just end up frustrated and sticky.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 170:
synonyms: word: air cooler
word: desert cooler
word: evaporative cooler
glosses: Synonym of evaporative cooler.
polarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlæɹɪti/
ipa: [pəˈlɛɹɪɾi]
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: polarities
Senses: examples: text: The debate revealed the sharp polarity of opinion.
glosses: The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
glosses: Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
examples: text: positive and negative polarity
text: The experiment tested the polarity of the electrical current.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
qualifier: projective geometry
glosses: A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
examples: text: political polarity
topics: government
politics
glosses: Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
qualifier: gender
glosses: The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of magnetic polarity.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of trilinear polarity.
Derived terms: antipolarity
apolarity
autopolarity
circumpolarity
dipolarity
electrical polarity
electropolarity
heteropolarity
magnetic polarity
micropolarity
monopolarity
multipolarity
polariton
polarity epoch
polarity item
polarity therapy
positive polarity item
tetrapolarity
trilinear polarity
millwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mill + work.
Senses: synonyms: lumber
glosses: Any wooden object manufactured at a lumbermill (sawmill).
hypernyms: lumber
glosses: Doors, windows, and wood trim with decorative cross-section involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.
Related terms: cabinetwork
woodwork
millworks
mirabilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mīrābilia. Doublet of marvel.
Senses: glosses: Wonderful or extraordinary things; marvels.
mirabilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirabilises
Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin mīrābilis. Doublet of mirable.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the plant genus Mirabilis; a four-o'clock.
Related terms: annus mirabilis
anorexia mirabilis
aqua mirabilis
rete mirabile
misthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misthoughts
Etymology: From mis- + thought.
Senses: glosses: error, mistake
Related terms: misthink
mitogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mitogenic
form: most mitogenic
Etymology: From mitogen + -ic or mito- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a mitogen.
examples: text: Cell-mediated immunity is impaired after burn injury, including documented delays in allograft rejection, impairment in mitogenic and anogenic responsiveness of lymphocytes, burn-size-related suppression of graftversus-host activity, suppression of delayed cutaneous sensitivity tests, and diminution of peripheral lymphocytes and thoracic duct lymphocyte concentration.
ref: 1999, Seymour L. Schwartz, “Burns” (chapter 7), in Principles of Surgery, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, page 234:
glosses: Causing mitosis.
Derived terms: antimitogenic
comitogenic
hepatomitogenic
hypermitogenic
mitogenically
mitogenicity
promitogenic
submitogenic
supramitogenic
mixed marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed marriages
Senses: glosses: Marriage between people of different socially-distinguished groups, such as different races, cultures or religions.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A king and a queen of different suits as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em (see marriage (poker slang)).
Mkuu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a dialect of the Rombo language of Tanzania.
Rombo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Kirombo
glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania, spoken by the Chaga people.
Related terms: Rombo syndrome
slays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slay
gurneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gurney
drafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of draft
drafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A johnboat is a shallow drafted boat favored by fishermen.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: of a certain depth required to float (said of a vessel); used comparatively with shallow, deep, etc.
glosses: conscripted
Derived terms: nondrafted
undrafted
Related terms: draughted
drawn
filleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fillet
filleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filleted
form: most filleted
Senses: examples: text: I was filleted to be honest. It had taken its toll on me ... I'd probably had enough myself by that time in terms of being manager.
ref: quoted in 2017, Edward Couzens-Lake, Norwich City The Nineties He'd had enough, later admitting to Rick Waghorn in his excellent book 12 Canary Greats
glosses: Gutted; very disappointed or let down.
Derived terms: unfilleted
grouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -aʊtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grouch
gunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gun
gunned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Senses: examples: text: She was armored and gunned and ready for action.
glosses: Equipped or bedecked with guns.
Related terms: gunned down
bedecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɛkd/
Forms: form: more bedecked
form: most bedecked
Senses: examples: text: The general's uniform was so bedecked with medals that he began leaning to one side.
text: A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
glosses: Covered; encrusted; arrayed.
Derived terms: unbedecked
bedecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɛkd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedeck
bedecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedeck
bedecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedeckings
Senses: examples: text: He has titles enough to greatness, without borrowing plumes from the gratuitous bedeckings of prurient writers.
ref: 1856, Charles Edwards Lester, Edwin Williams, The Napoleon Dynasty: Or, the History of the Bonaparte Family:
glosses: An ornament.
bedecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedeck
dactylosymphysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪləsɪmˈfaɪsɪs/
Etymology: From dactylo- + symphysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the joining of two fingers or toes with a web, often as a hereditary disorder (normal in some birds)
Synonyms: syndactyly
endowed chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endowed chairs
Senses: glosses: An endowed faculty position which is supported by the annual payout from a privately funded endowment. The endowment may cover the faculty salary, research and travel stipends or other associated costs and continues in perpetuity.
signalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signaling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of signal
signalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signallings
form: signaling
Senses: glosses: The use of signals in communications, especially the sending of signals in telecommunications.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The signals and associated equipment required for their operation.
Derived terms: cab signalling
hedgehog signalling pathway
in-band signalling
signalling event
signalling pathway
virtue signalling
johnboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: johnboats
form: jon boat
Senses: examples: text: Eddie liked to take his johnboat into the shallow, reedy, sandbars that the out-of-town fishermen, with their big, expensive, fiberglass bassboats, couldn't reach.
glosses: a flat-bottomed boat with a very shallow draft, whose bow and stern are both squared off
Derived terms: johnboater
johnboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of johnboat
clambers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clamber
clambering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clamber
clambering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamberings
Senses: examples: text: It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.
ref: 1923, Charles Fort, New Lands:
glosses: The act of one who clambers.
clambering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clambering
form: most clambering
Senses: examples: text: Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth, that was covered with flowers.
ref: 1821, Washington Irving, A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the Three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterdam; Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Published, page 50:
text: The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines
And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines
In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring,
O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.
ref: 1829, Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes, page 92:
glosses: Climbing
clambered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clamber
pontoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pontoon
sniffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɪfi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: sniffier
form: sniffiest
Etymology: From sniff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: some regard Hanks with a sniffy attitude, seeing his middlebrow Hollywood fare as unfashionable (yes) and reactionary (no).
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Disdainful; haughty.
examples: text: a sniffy cold that turned into a sore throat
synonyms: sniffly
glosses: Characterised by sniffing.
misthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈθɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: misthinks
form: misthinking
form: misthought
form: misthought
Etymology: From mis- + think.
Senses: examples: text: Adam misthought of her.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought
For things that others do, and when we fall
We answer others’ merits in our name,
Are therefore to be pitied.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: To think wrongly or badly (of).
glosses: To have sinful thoughts.
link whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: link whores
Senses: glosses: Someone who goes to great lengths to get other people to link to his/her website or blog.
Related terms: link whoring
screw the pooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screws the pooch
form: screwing the pooch
form: screwed the pooch
form: screwed the pooch
Etymology: 1950s, from earlier fuck the dog (“fritter, waste time”) (1935) (compare fuck around), later sense of “make an embarrassing mistake” (compare screw up, fuck up). Popularized by use by Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff (1979), and film adaptation The Right Stuff (1983).
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The term was first documented in the early "Mercury" days of the US space program. It came there from a Yale graduate named John Rawlings who helped design the astronauts' space suits. The phrase is actually derived from an earlier, more vulgar and direct term which was slang for doing something very much the wrong way, as in "you are fucking the dog!" At Yale a friend of Rawlings', the radio DJ Jack May (a.k.a. "Candied Yam Jackson") amended this term to "screwing the pooch" which was simultaneously less vulgar and more pleasing to the ear.
The term, however, did not enter the popular lexicon until Tom Wolfe used it in his book about the space program, The Right Stuff, where it was used to describe a supposed mistake by astronaut Gus Grissom.
The phrase's origins come from an old joke. There are various versions, but a drunk man ends up shooting the wife and screwing the pooch (instead of the other way around).
Senses: glosses: to make a large mistake, to fail in dramatic and ignominious fashion.
wikipedia: Tom Wolfe
Synonyms: crash and burn
fuck up
drop the ball
shit the bed
fuck the dog
blackjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackjack
blackjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blackjack
paving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pave
paving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: pavings
Senses: glosses: The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.
glosses: Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
Derived terms: crazy paving
paving slab
paving stone
paving tile
tactile paving
paving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪvɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.
unloved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloved
form: most unloved
Etymology: From un- + loved.
Senses: examples: text: Then, too, there was the mute appeal of this wee waif alone and unloved in the midst of the horrors of the savage jungle.
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 12, in The Beasts of Tarzan:
text: Kidderminster: Work can start on a new glass-fronted station building (double the size), following the demolition of the dilapidated 1968 structure. Always unloved, it was cheaply assembled by BR to replace a mock Tudor building that survived for nearly 100 years before being infested with dry rot.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Regional News”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: Not loved.
unloved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlove
narcs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narc
narcs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of narc
narcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of narc
narced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: see narc
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of narc
narced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more narced
form: most narced
Etymology: from nitrogen narcosis
Senses: examples: text: On his first dive, Ralph got really narced, and thought he was turning into a sea turtle.
text: While doing a test in a chamber to assess the pressure at which one will get narced seems like a great idea, it is not necessarily an indicator of who will get narced at what depth.
ref: 1996, Karen Burge, “(was: will you get narced?) maybe...maybe not”, in rec.scuba (Usenet):
text: There has been only one time that I felt narced and strangley it was in 127 of water.
ref: 1998, Ray Jones, “Narcosis”, in bit.listserv.scuba-l (Usenet):
text: 2003:, uglymoney, Narcosis at 110? in rec.scuba
All went well. However I am absolutely convinced that I was narced.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Exhibiting impaired judgment while scuba diving due to nitrogen narcosis.
insiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insider
ambulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bjʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈæm.bjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈæm.bjəˌleɪt/
rhymes: -æmbjʊleɪt
Forms: form: ambulates
form: ambulating
form: ambulated
form: ambulated
Etymology: From Latin ambulatus, past participle of ambulō (“I walk, go about”). Doublet of amble.
Senses: examples: text: Peter slowly ambulated to the bathroom, favoring his strained knee.
text: I'm working in social services, but I'm also suffering from a lot of chronic pain and limitation. I can't really sit at my desk because I need to ambulate a lot.
ref: 1990 February 4, Margy Dowzer, Mary Frances Platt, Aviva Shmuckler, “Disability And Accessibility Cost Money!”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 13:
glosses: To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
Synonyms: walk
Derived terms: ambulative
preambulate
reambulate
Related terms: ambi-
amble
ambulance
ambulant
ambulation
ambulator
ambulatory
circumambulate
deambulate
funambulate
somnambulate
ambulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ambulate
ambulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ambulate
ambulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ambulate
relocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːləʊˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˌɹiːləˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈloʊ̯keɪ̯t/
ipa: /ˌɹiloʊ̯ˈkeɪ̯t/
Forms: form: relocates
form: relocating
form: relocated
form: relocated
Etymology: From re- + locate.
Senses: examples: text: We had to relocate the magazine rack because we bruised our shins on it too frequently when it was near the door.
text: HS2 will pass in a deep cutting, right through a busy road junction which has to be relocated.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 45:
synonyms: remove
glosses: to move (something) from one place to another.
examples: text: Alfred relocated to Colorado Springs to take advantage of the boom in the defense industry.
text: On 'prosperity re-distribution', it ignores the prospect that businesses may relocate to be near HS2 stations. So never mind the observable phenomenon of major businesses relocating to Birmingham, with a veritable rash of private sector investment.
ref: 2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in RAIL, page 50:
text: Approximately 100 Louisville-based KFC corporate employees will relocate to Texas over the next six months.
ref: 2025 February 19, Jordan Valinsky, “KFC is leaving Kentucky”, in CNN Business:
glosses: to change one's domicile or place of business.
examples: text: I relocated the bird I spotted last week.
glosses: to lose something and find it again.
relocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relocate
relocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relocate
relocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relocate
by and by
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: by-and-by
form: by and bye
form: byemby
form: byembye
Etymology: From Middle English by and by (“side by side, close together, alongside, on and on, continually, again and again, repeatedly”), equivalent to by + and + by.
Senses: examples: text: O, how this spring of love resembleth
 The uncertain glory of an April day
 Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
 And by and by a cloud takes all away!
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona:
text: Two anons and a by and by is an hour and a half.
ref: 1636, William Camden with John Philipot, Remaines concerning Britaine, their languages, names, surnames, 5th edition:
text: a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley "On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato"
"You are laughing at me, Socrates," said Agathon, "but you and I will decide this controversy about wisdom by and by, taking Bacchus for our judge. At present turn to your supper."
glosses: After a short time.
examples: text: Sit down, have a rest, and by and by you'll be feeling better.
text: She said herself
 She would forgive him, by and by, not now —
 For her own sake then, if not for mine — not now —- But by and by.
ref: 1882, Alfred Tennyson, The Promise of May:
text: Will the circle be unbroken
 by and by, by and by?
 Is a better home awaiting
 in the sky, in the sky?
ref: 1907, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”, Ada R. Habershon (lyrics), Charles H. Gabriel (music):
glosses: After an indefinite period.
examples: text: When […] persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 13:21:
glosses: Immediately; at once.
Synonyms: sense: after a short time
word: shortly
word: soon
sense: after an indefinite period
word: in due course
word: sooner or later
word: eventually
sense: immediately
word: now
word: stat
word: immediately
by and by
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: by-and-by
form: by and bye
form: byemby
form: byembye
Etymology: From Middle English by and by (“side by side, close together, alongside, on and on, continually, again and again, repeatedly”), equivalent to by + and + by.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry ma'am, but your cat's gone on to the sweet by and by.
text: In the sweet by and by
 We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
ref: c. 1868, Joseph Webster, “The Sweet By-and-By”:
glosses: Heaven; the hereafter. Usually preceded with "the sweet."
Synonyms: other side
spirit world
sweet hereafter: see also Thesaurus:afterlife
singly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.ɡli/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡli
Etymology: From Middle English senglely. Equivalent to single + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Singly, they are every one a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us, which is commonly called an object.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter I, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:
text: The cross, reared now above all other objects, and standing singly out against the sky, was greeted with a burst of delight; […
ref: 1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter X, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface. This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of the pine family, out-topping the others—some singly, some in clumps […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “13: How My Shore Adventure Began”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.
ref: 1906, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in Before Adam:
glosses: In a single or unaccompanied manner; without a companion.
examples: text: to make men singly and personally good
text: Ursula saw that now Bella Watson's chance meetings with him had to be strategically and singly planned by Bella, whose wifely attentions to the bereaved man were markedly meaning.
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 211:
glosses: Individually; particularly; severally.
examples: text: to attack another singly
glosses: Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed.
glosses: Honestly; sincerely; simply.
glosses: Singularly; peculiarly.
Synonyms: sense: without a companion
word: alone
word: solo
word: solitarily
sense: individually
word: discretely
word: individually
sense: without partners
word: unassisted
word: by oneself
sense: honestly
word: truly
word: truthfully
word: honestly
sense: peculiarly
word: oddly
word: strangely
Derived terms: misfortunes never come singly
singly even
shepherd's purse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alluding to the shape of its seed vessel. Compare mediaeval Latin bursa pastoris, French bourse-à-berger, German Hirtentasche.
Senses: examples: text: To him that hath a flux, of Sheepheards purse he gives
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 218:
text: Stewed nettles; savoury messes of chickweed sprinkled with nutmeg; he cooks the foliage of shepherd's purse as if it were cabbage.
ref: 1979, Angela Carter, “The Erl-King”, in The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, page 98:
synonyms: shepherd's pouch
glosses: An edible weed, Capsella bursa-pastoris, family Brassicaceae, native to Europe but now found world-wide.
nekkid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛkɪd/
Forms: form: more nekkid
form: most nekkid
Senses: examples: text: Instead, what people notice is when you write a perfectly stupid column about ironing nekkid—like this one: I have my reasons for ironing nekkid.
ref: 1992, Bob Morris, Iron Nekkid and You'll Always Get Burned, Sentinel Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of naked, representing Southern US English.
powdery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊdəɹi/
Forms: form: more powdery
form: most powdery
Etymology: From powder + -y.
Senses: examples: text: powdery drink
text: We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 157:
synonyms: pulveral
glosses: Of or pertaining to powder.
glosses: Having a lot of powder.
Derived terms: powdery liveforever
powdery mildew
powdery scab
unpowdery
Related terms: powderiness
powderily
granular
wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of wrench
wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrench
wrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrench
wrenching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪŋ
Forms: form: wrenchings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is wrenched.
wrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛnt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛntʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrench
kept woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kept women
Etymology: From kept + woman.
Senses: examples: text: He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ."
"I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.
ref: 1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid:
text: "I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"
ref: 1919, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 5, in All Roads Lead to Calvary:
text: Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.
ref: 1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time:
synonyms: sugar baby
coordinate_terms: kept man
glosses: A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
goat shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goatshit
Etymology: A calque of Yiddish קאָזעבאָפּקעס (kozebupkes, “goat droppings”).
Senses: examples: text: The job paid goat shit.
glosses: Something of no value; nothing.
coordinate_terms: bullshit
cowshit
horseshit
pigshit
sheepshit
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see goat, shit: excrement of goats.
phrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phrase
phrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: phrasings
Senses: examples: text: But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner -- or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it -- would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is.
ref: 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 46, in Life on the Mississippi, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
synonyms: word: wording
word: phrasing
word: talk
word: terminology
word: wording
glosses: The way a statement is put together, particularly in matters of style and word choice.
examples: text: I found myself truly moved by a stage event for the first time in years. I found myself humming tunes that one might not rightfully call tunes. Days later, I still remember these musical phrasings in little swatches of sound.
ref: 1977 August 13, Jim Marko, “Swados' Rare and Moving Nightclub Cantata”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 11:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The way the musical phrases are put together in a composition or in its interpretation, with changes in tempo, volume, or emphasizing one or more instruments over others.
Derived terms: cross-phrasing
prog rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its opening track, Mastermind, offers one possible answer to a theoretical question about what prog rock might have sounded like in the highly unlikely event that it had co-opted Giorgio Moroder’s brand of electronic disco: […]
ref: 2016 July 7, Alexis Petridis, “Roísín Murphy: Take Her Up to Monto review – still too strange for the bigtime”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Clipping of progressive rock.
Indoeuropean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Indo-European.
justifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more justifiable
form: most justifiable
Etymology: From Middle French justifiable. By surface analysis, justify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: defensible, excusable
text: It was at all times clear that, from the point of view of the idea it conveys to us, every motion must be considered only as a relative motion. Returning to the illustration we have frequently used of the embankment and the railway carriage, we can express the fact of the motion here taking place in the following two forms, both of which are equally justifiable:
(a) The carriage is in motion relative to the embankment,
(b) The embankment is in motion relative to the carriage.
In (a) the embankment, in (b) the carriage, serves as the body of reference in our statement of the motion taking place. —
ref: 1917, Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Part II.:
antonyms: unjustifiable
glosses: That can be justified.
examples: text: justifiable homicide
topics: law
glosses: Describing an illegal and intentional act that is nevertheless not blameworthy, for example because its positive consequences outweighed the bad. Distinguished from excusable, describing an involuntary illegal act.
Derived terms: justifiability
justifiable homicide
justifiableness
justifiably
unjustifiable
credulity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈd͡ʒuːlɪti/
ipa: /kɹɪˈdjuːlɪti/
ipa: /kɹɪˈduːlɪti/
ipa: /kɹɪˈdjuːlɪti/
Forms: form: credulities
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English credulite (“faith, belief”), borrowed from Middle French credulité (French crédulité), from Latin crēdulitās. Corresponding to credulous + -ity (compare credulosity).
Senses: examples: text: These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
synonyms: credulosity
credulousness
gullibility
naivety
antonyms: skepticism
doubt
wariness
suspicion
glosses: A willingness to believe in someone or something in the absence of reasonable proof; credulousness.
examples: text: Do you think Mr. Allworthy hath more contempt for money than other men because he professes more? Such credulity would better become one of us weak women, than that wise sex which heaven hath formed for politicians. Indeed, brother, you would make a fine plenipo to negotiate with the French.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI:
text: As Challenger spoke of his pterodactyl I glanced at Professor Summerlee, and for the first time I seemed to see some signs of a dawning credulity and repentance. There was no sneer upon his thin lips, but, on the contrary, a gray, drawn look of excitement and amazement. Challenger saw it, too, and reveled in the first taste of victory.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 9, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
synonyms: belief
faith
credence
antonyms: incredulity
glosses: Faith, credence; acceptance or maintenance of a belief.
Derived terms: incredulity
miscredulity
omnicredulity
overcredulity
infantryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantrymen
Etymology: From infantry + man.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: foot soldier
infanteer
infantier
footman
glosses: a soldier employed in an infantry role
qualifier: by restriction
glosses: a male soldier of the infantry
Hyponyms: sense: ungendered soldier
word: infantrywoman
Derived terms: infantrywoman
infantrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantryman
vingt-et-un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vænteɪˈʌn/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”).
Senses: glosses: The card game pontoon.
Red Crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Crescent
Senses: glosses: A branch of the Red Cross that operates in Muslim countries.
glosses: The symbol of this branch.
ursolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursolic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a pentacyclic triterpenoid carboxylic acid found in many plants; an isomer of oleanolic acid
oleanolic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of oleanonic acid.
synonyms: word: oleanonic acid
Related terms: oleanolate
pentacyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having five rings, especially five fused rings as in many triterpenoids.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a flower: composed of five whorls or organs.
Derived terms: heteropentacyclic
brillo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪləʊ
Forms: form: more brillo
form: most brillo
Etymology: Shortening of brilliant + -o.
Senses: glosses: brilliant; excellent
Related terms: brillo pad
close call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊs ˈkɔːl/
Forms: form: close calls
Senses: examples: text: He had a close call when a truck ran a red light and almost hit him.
text: there will be Tom Cruise, as spy extraordinaire Ethan Hunt, running as fast as he can, jumping off cliffs and ultimately saving the day after surviving many close calls.
ref: 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
glosses: A situation in which an injury or other undesirable outcome is narrowly avoided.
Synonyms: close shave
close thing
narrow escape
narrow squeak
near shave
near thing
crapaud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crapauds
Etymology: Borrowed from French crapaud (“toad”). Doublet of crappo.
Senses: glosses: A toad.
glosses: A French person.
Derived terms: Johnny Crapaud
Related terms: crapaudine