cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
share dilutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of share dilution
Cauchy sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cauchy sequence
watchstanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchstander
inexactitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inexactitude
Rembrandts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rembrandt
Monets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Monet
portioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portioner
pollen grains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollen grain
carabiniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carabinier
cyclases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclase
keratinocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratinocyte
placodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of placode
halocyclizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halocyclization
mercuriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercuriation
haptens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hapten
phosphoramidites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoramidite
wolverenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wolverene
thrift shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrift shop
freewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freewheel
freewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of freewheel
phonesthemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonestheme
phonaesthemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonaestheme
homing pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homing pigeon
rock pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock pigeon
oriental turtle doves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriental turtle dove
stock pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock pigeon
common woodpigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common woodpigeon
bronzewing pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzewing pigeon
feral pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feral pigeon
domestic pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of domestic pigeon
unit fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit fraction
flavins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavin
footboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footboy
jaculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaculation
narghiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narghile
combinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combinate
icosihenagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icosihenagon
taglines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagline
freak accidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freak accident
tactical air commanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactical air commander
tactical air control centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactical air control center
narwhales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narwhale
murreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murrey
timewaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timewave
repoussoirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repoussoir
direct action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct actions
Senses: examples: text: Or there are those who believe that in general the wisest way for people to get what they want is by the indirect method of voting into power some one who will make what they want legal; yet who all the same will occasionally under exceptional conditions advise a strike; and a strike, as I have said, is direct action.
ref: 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Direct Action:
text: It should be easy enough to see why anarchists have always been drawn to direct action.
ref: 2009, David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A form of political activism in which participants act directly, ignoring established political procedures. It may take the form of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, demonstrations, vandalism or graffiti.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Small-scale raids, ambushes, sabotage, etc. carried out by the military.
Related terms: direct actionist
direct activist
ballsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːlsæk/
Forms: form: ballsacks
Etymology: From ball + sack.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ball sack.
comicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comicalities
Etymology: From comical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being comical.
examples: text: In this, his forte, he has been less put forward than could have been desired; but when he did appear, his comicalities were infinite, and never failed to convulse the audience with laughter.
ref: 1822, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, page 249:
glosses: Something comical.
étoiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of étoile
syntony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syntonies
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek συντονία (suntonía).
Senses: examples: text: In practice, perfectly accurate syntony is not necessary, but some variation in a wave length may be permitted and good results at the receiver will still be attained.
ref: 1908, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 23:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.
examples: text: Betti has dealt with the XXIX Canto of Paradiso in a commentary marked by an extreme richness of spiritual syntonies.
ref: 1969, Carlo Luigi Golino, editor, Italian Quarterly, volume 13, page 27:
text: 1992, Michele Bezoari, Antonio Ferro, From a play between "parts" to transformations in the couple: psychoanalysis in a bipersonal field, Luciana Nissim Momigliano, Andreina Robutti, Shared Experience: The Psychoanalytic Dialogue, page 54,
Rather, it seems to us that the analyst's priority should be to foster the progressive interaction of these areas into the couple's communicative work, so as to arrive, through successive transformations of what we have called functional aggregates, at a shared vision and an experience of emotional syntony relative to what occurs in the field.
text: Official demographers hasten to point out that high mortality rates were already a feature of the Brezhnev period, while low fertility rates are after all a sign of social advance, in syntony with Western Europe.
ref: 2007 January 25, London Review of Books, page 12:
glosses: A syntonic state.
Jolene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Joleen
form: Jo
form: Joe
Etymology: A blend of the element Jo... in common anglicized forms of various Hebrew names and the ending ...lene shared by the German names Helene and Magdalene. Cognate with Charlene, Darlene, and Marlene, which were constructed in similar manner from the names Charles, darling, and Maria.
Senses: examples: text: Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can...
ref: 1973, Dolly Parton, Jolene:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
business girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business girls
Senses: glosses: A young woman employed in business or office work.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:business girl.
glosses: A female prostitute.
Synonyms: prostitute
lakeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lake + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The walled city, containing the shops and most of the public buildings, was dominated by Castle Rock, a huge rock rising sheer from the plain, crowned with ancient battlements and fortifications, and bearing on its lakeward face famous cuneiform inscriptions.
ref: 1916, Grace Higley Knapp, chapter 1, in The Mission at Van: In Turkey in War Time, Privately printed, page 11:
text: McKay stood on the lakeward skirts of the little coppice.
ref: 1926 August, Abraham Merritt, “The Woman of the Wood”, in Weird Tales:
glosses: Located, facing or moving toward a lake.
lakeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lake + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Lakeward, partly hidden by a fringe of trees, was a green little meadow through which a creek ran, and in it were two tents.
ref: 1925, James Oliver Curwood, chapter 16, in The Ancient Highway:
text: The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun.
ref: 2013 August 9, “Chile: on the trail of the elusive puma”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: Toward a lake.
deathward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθwə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From death + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward death
deathward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθwə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From death + -ward.
Senses: glosses: which leads toward death
valleyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From valley + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a valley
valleyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From valley + -ward.
Senses: glosses: facing or leading toward a valley
eighth note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighth notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note having one-eighth the duration of a whole note; a quaver.
tableward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From table + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward a table
chairward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chair + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: in the day of long skirts, a woman leaped chairward at the cry of “mouse!”
ref: 1939, Scribner's Magazine:
text: Guy expels a hard, tight-lipped sigh and lets gravity pull him chairward
ref: 1989, Jack Stephens, Triangulation: A Novel:
text: she was in mid-sit, her bottom irretrievably moving chairward
ref: 2002, Elaine Dandh, Memsahib:
glosses: Toward a chair.
footslog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footslogs
Etymology: From foot + slog.
Senses: examples: text: ... which had resulted in a number of the older and weaker felons being weeded out in view of the prospective rigours of a lengthy footslog to Siberia.
ref: 1998, Richard John Evans, Tales from the German Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century:
text: My lovely ramble through the bright woods, as I had been fooling myself, gave itself over to the sober truth: became a slippery footslog through the gloom, ...
ref: 2001, Molly Gloss, Wild Life:
glosses: An instance of footslogging.
footslog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: footslogs
form: footslogging
form: footslogged
form: footslogged
Etymology: From foot + slog.
Senses: examples: text: Romans, cursing in full armour, had to fight and footslog two thousand miles overland to Britain.
ref: 1967, John David Stewart, Gibraltar: The Keystone:
text: The bush is too thick. We will have to footslog up the side.
ref: 1996, Wilbur A. Smith, The Seventh Scroll:
text: Dick went by train to Voi and then proceeded to footslog across the Serengeti Plains to Taveta.
ref: 1998, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen:
glosses: to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge
direct activist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct activists
Senses: synonyms: direct actionist
glosses: A person who participates in direct action.
direct activist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to direct action.
schoolward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From school + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward school.
schoolward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From school + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward school.
underhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underhanded
form: most underhanded
form: under-handed
Etymology: From under- + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Bonino required each of us to shoot our free throws underhanded.
ref: 2009, Patrick M. Sheridan, How Come Nothing Ever Kills Granddad?, →ISBN:
text: The 3fz one-hand-only shooting mechanism allows players to shoot the basketball up-handed by pronating palm (down) and uplifting the arm, as well as underhanded by supinating palm (up) and low-hand Unishots.
ref: 2011, Xiaoxing Chen, Three-Finger Zen: A Basketball Revolution, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: In an underhanded manner.
Synonyms: sense: in an underhanded manner
word: underhandedly
underhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: under-handed
Etymology: From under- + handed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underhand
underhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the underhanded
form: under-handed
Etymology: From under- + handed.
Senses: examples: text: We have fallen to the underhanded and label it a greater means.
ref: 2002, Anthony D. Darden, The Mind of Mafia Work, →ISBN, page 91:
text: The kind of kho'los that comes from unfair dealings, culturally unacceptable practices that bring rewards to the underhanded can, on Odysseus's (and Agamemnon's) terms, be set aside.
ref: 2005, Thomas R. Walsh, Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems, →ISBN:
text: But this is not what is decisive, as it also applies to the distrustful, the underhanded, and the “deranged."
ref: 2010, Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Devious people, collectively.
unsorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsorted
form: most unsorted
Etymology: From un- + sorted.
Senses: examples: text: Had the council warrants been in order, no question but considerable discoveries might have been made of the iniquity of this time; but those being unsorted, and in no small confusion, I was obliged to keep myself by what the managers have thought fit to put into the registers; and it is surprising to find some things there, which we shall afterwards meet with.
ref: 1721, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland,: From the Restauration to the Revolution::
glosses: Not in any particular order or sequence.
examples: When he knocked the tray of type sorts onto the floor, he simply scooped everything back into the compartments, all unsorted.
glosses: Mixed, jumbled, not separated by property into categories.
examples: text: The purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition.
ref: ca 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 1:
glosses: Ill-chosen, inconvenient, unsuitable
Related terms: assorted
streetward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From street + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the street.
streetward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From street + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Their little streetward sitting room.
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Facing the street.
unsupported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsupported
form: most unsupported
Etymology: From Middle English unsupported, equivalent to un- + supported.
Senses: examples: text: The bombed bridge was left unsupported and soon collapsed.
text: This makes it the thinnest unsupported gold ever created and it could be used in electronics and medical devices going forward.
ref: 2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN:
glosses: Without physical support.
examples: text: This obsolete software is unsupported. Please upgrade to the latest version.
glosses: For which support or help is not available.
examples: text: The sentence was unsupported by an inline citation or general bibliographic reference source notes.
text: The newspaper wrote that Jorn Barger, who started his Robot Wisdom weblog in 1997, is "regarded by many" as the "first blogger". But who are these "many"? If a blogger had written that phrase, it would have come with a link to the source. The Wall Street Journal's unsupported claim, though hedged with admissions of other contenders to the "first blogger" title, only reinforced the feeling, endemic among bloggers, that the mainstream media, derisively acronymised as MSM, just can't get anything right.
ref: 2007 August 28, Scott Rosenberg, The Guardian:
text: Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
ref: 2023 November 28, Jill Filipovic, “Opinion: Elon Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and insulting”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: baseless
word: idle
word: footless
word: groundless
word: unfounded
word: ungrounded
word: unjustified
word: unproved
word: unproven
word: unsubstantiated
word: unsupported
glosses: Without confirmation from a credible source, without verifying support
glosses: Not supported by or borne out of evidence or facts.
Synonyms: nonsupported
culturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more culturally
form: most culturally
Etymology: From cultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cultural way.
examples: text: culturally acceptable
text: two dramatically culturally different countries
text: culturally knowledgeable
text: culturally significant
text: The advertising slogans, once linguistically and culturally translated, lose none of the corporatespeak inanity that they convey in English.
ref: 2007 October 7, “Letters”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
glosses: Related to culture.
Derived terms: chronoculturally
cross-culturally
culturally appropriate
culturally appropriative
shelfward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From shelf + -ward.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Toward a (geological) shelf.
demonstrably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɒnstrəbliː/
ipa: /diˈmɑnstrəbli/
Forms: form: more demonstrably
form: most demonstrably
form: demonstratably
Etymology: From demonstrable + -ly. First attested in the early 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: The country has become demonstrably less safe under his leadership.
text: Hence it followeth demonstrably, if our refusall to receiue Maister Blackwell to our Arch-priest, did, or could any way possibly make vs schismaticks, that the only and principall cause of such our refusall, was, and of all necessitie must needes haue bin, for that the Pope (note our words) or the Cardinall by his commission, had (instituting the subordination) appointed him for our Superior […]
ref: 1602, A just defence of the slandered priestes wherein the reasons of their bearing off […] , London: R. Field, page 290:
text: Which (besides, that it would justifie the Socinian, in telling the World, That they have been a long Time troubled with a needless sort of Men called Preachers or Ministers) is most demonstrably false, there being some Thousands in the World, that can Discourse well in Company, and many Lawyers that can Plead very well at a Bar;
ref: 1700, An answer to Dr. Scot's cases against dissenters concerning forms of prayer and the fallacy of the story of Commin, plainly discovered., London: A. Baldwin, page 37:
glosses: In such a manner that is capable of being demonstrated, shown, or proved (without doubt).
Related terms: demonstratively
carding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of card
carding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardings
Senses: glosses: A piece of wool rolled by a carding machine.
glosses: The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police practice where an officer stops, questions, and documents information from a person to gather intelligence, when no crime or suspicion of crime has been committed.
Related terms: carding machine
self-centered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-centered
form: most self-centered
form: self-centred
Etymology: From self- + centered.
Senses: glosses: Egotistically obsessed with oneself.
examples: text: [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
glosses: Concerned or relating to the self, and not necessarily the greater good of one's group, community, tribe, etc.; individualistic.
Related terms: self-absorbed
selectness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selectnesses
Etymology: From select + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being select.
Synonyms: chosenness
Rusio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rusio, itself from Corsican Rusiu.
Senses: glosses: A village in Haute-Corse department, Corsica, France.
sempstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmpstɹɪs/
Forms: form: sempstresses
Etymology: From sempster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:
text: I am sure he might pick and choose amongst the best dowried dowagers in England; and, instead of making any thing of himself, he has actually been all the way to Granard Park to look at his wife's picture, and make his bow to all the people who knew him, as "Manuello, the emigrant Italian," hunting up his sempstress and washerwoman, to make their old age comfortable, and talking religion with paralytic vicars and learned curates.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 301–302:
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses, night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 950:
glosses: A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.
friendly amendment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendly amendments
Senses: glosses: An unopposed amendment to a motion, accepted by the person making the original motion.
sempstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sempstress
liver spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liver spots
Senses: glosses: A dark brown blemish on the skin, usually caused by exposure to the sun.
Synonyms: age spot
subtenancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtenancies
Etymology: From sub- + tenancy.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: sublease
word: underlease
word: undertenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
Clarence House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The building was originally commissioned by the Duke of Clarence.
Senses: glosses: A royal home in London.
examples: text: Clarence House has issued a joint statement with the Ministry of Defence, confirming that Prince Harry will be deployed to Iraq later this year.
glosses: The office of the residents of Clarence House.
kayaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kayakers
Etymology: From kayak + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A kayaker who was thrown from his boat and was being swept towards Teddington Weir was saved from a possible "fatal injury" by a brave rescue lifeboat team.
ref: 2017 March 10, Richmond & Twickenham Times:
text: Kayaking out in pre-dawn darkness to catch the sunrise behind Turnip Rock is a special treat for experienced kayakers.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: One who kayaks.
treeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tree + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a tree or trees.
starward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From star + -ward.
Senses: coordinate_terms: earthward
heavenward
moonward
sunward
glosses: Toward the stars.
Related terms: reach for the stars
starward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From star + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Its white steeple is then truly a starward-pointing finger;
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 104:
text: They were still indoors in the old-fashioned way, but the view. . . . They were on the starward side of the arc.
ref: 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
synonyms: starbound
glosses: Leading or pointing toward the stars.
downrightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From downright + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner
moonward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From moon + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Limbo” in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume I, “Sibylline Leaves,” p. 272,
An old man with a steady look sublime,
That stops his earthly task to watch the skies;
But he is blind—a statue hath such eyes;—
Yet having moonward turn’d his face by chance,
Gazes the orb with moon-like countenance,
text: Down the hill toward Malory he sauntered, looking sometimes moonward, sometimes on the dark woods, and feeling as five weeks since he could not have believed himself capable of feeling, and so he arrived at the very gate of Malory.
ref: 1867, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 18, in The Tenants of Malory, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 204:
text: The moon rode high in the blue eternity; it was a very triumph of glorious night; the river ran babble-murmuring in deep soft syllables; the fountain kept rushing moonward, and blossoming momently to a great silvery flower, whose petals were for ever falling like snow, but with a continuous musical clash, into the bed of its exhaustion beneath […]
ref: 1882, George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris”, in The Gifts of the Child Christ, and Other Tales, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pages 152–3:
text: An opal spume obscures the bay
Where the distracted breakers crowd;
The very dunes are whirled away,
Spun moonward in a flamelike cloud.
ref: 1942, Robert Nichols, “Epic Wind”, in Such Was My Singing, London: Collins, page 99:
glosses: Toward the moon.
Coordinate terms: earthward
starward
sunward
moonward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From moon + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: And having puzzled out what I considered the thing to do, I opened all my moonward windows, and squatted down—the effort lifted me for a time some foot or so into the air and I hung there in the oddest way—and waited for the crescent to get bigger and bigger until I felt I was near enough for safety.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 19”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 219:
text: Far away on the moon-ward horizon a luminous silver mist veiled the distant view.
ref: 1919, Paul Bewsher, chapter 3, in “Green Balls:” The Adventures of a Night-Bomber, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, page 65:
glosses: Which faces or points to or leads to the moon.
clockward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From clock + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a clock.
clockward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clock + -ward.
Senses: examples: a clockward glance
glosses: Toward a clock.
cityward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From city + -ward.
Senses: examples: cityward migration
cityward migrants
coordinate_terms: townward
glosses: Toward a city or cities.
cityward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From city + -ward.
Senses: synonyms: citywards
glosses: Toward a city or cities.
Argentino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Argentinos
form: Argentinoes
Senses: glosses: An Argentinian.
kasra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kasras
form: kasrah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَسْرَة (kasra, “a breaking”), instance noun of the verb كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”).
Senses: glosses: In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small diagonal line placed below a letter ( ـِ ) and designating a short i /i/. If the Arabic letter ي (yāʔ) immediately follows, it indicates a long ī /iː/.
glosses: In Iranian Persian ـِ represents the vowel /e/. If the letter ـی immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ej/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ej/ did not occur.
Related terms: alt: fatḥa
word: fatha
alt: ḍamma
word: damma
alt: sukūn
word: sukun
alt: šadda
word: shadda
alt: taškīl
word: tashkil
food stylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food stylists
form: foodstylist
Senses: glosses: A person who arranges food to make it appear attractive.
Related terms: food styling
food stylists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of food stylist
stylists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylist
across the pond
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkɹɒs ðə ˈpɒnd/
ipa: /əˌkɹɔs ðə ˈpɑnd/
ipa: /əˈkɹɑs ðə ˈpɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology: From across + the + pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”).
Senses: examples: text: My friend across the pond sometimes finds my accent hard to understand.
text: We flew across the pond to visit my parents in Vancouver.
synonyms: transatlantic
transatlantically
transpondian
coordinate_terms: across the ditch
glosses: On or to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Related terms: herring pond
other side
mollified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mollify
orchidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchidectomy
grotesques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grotesque
grotesques
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grotesque
outcomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outcome
multistage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + stage.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one step or phase.
examples: text: The multistage rocket dropped off its first stage successfully rather than carrying the extra weight higher.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of multiple detachable parts.
raw_tags: of a rocket
vigenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin vīgēnus (“twenty each”), variant of vīcēnus, + -ary. Cognate with English vicenary and vicenarious.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vicenary, of, pertaining to, or based on the number twenty.
synonyms: word: vicenary
word: of
word: pertaining to
word: or based on the number twenty
intangibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intangible
intimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intimate
intimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intimate
over and over
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The children loved the slide, and they went on it over and over until it got dark outside.
glosses: Repeatedly; again and again; many times.
Synonyms: again and again
time and again
time after time
repeatedly
patellar reflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patellar reflexes
Senses: synonyms: kneejerk reflex
glosses: The reflex which causes a bent knee to kick when the tendon below the patella (kneecap) is tapped.
Related terms: knee-jerk
knee-jerk reaction
patellar reflexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patellar reflex
presupposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiː.sʌ.pəˈzɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: presuppositions
Etymology: From Middle French présupposition, from Latin praesuppositio, from the past participle stem of praesuppōnere (“to presuppose”).
Senses: examples: text: He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.
ref: 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow, published 2011, page 40:
glosses: An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
glosses: The act of presupposing.
examples: text: For instance: a verb might convey someone's evaluation of it as a presupposition. To say ‘they deprived him of a visit to his parents’ presupposes that he wanted to visit (vs. ‘spare him a visit...’).
ref: 1971, Paul Kiparsky, Carol Kiparsky, “Fact”, in Danny Steinberg, Leon Jakobovits, editors, Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 351:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.
Synonyms: sense: assumption
word: assumption
sense: assumption
word: conjecture
knee-jerks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee-jerk
glamorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glamorously
form: most glamorously
Etymology: From glamorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a glamorous manner.
glamorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs/
Forms: form: more glamorous
form: most glamorous
Etymology: From glamor + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.
ref: 2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having glamour; stylish.
glosses: Being associated with one or more glamours.
Derived terms: glamazon
glamorously
glamorousness
glamp
glamper
glamping
glampsite
nonglamorous
superglamorous
ultraglamorous
unglamorous
alpha privatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha privative
wind down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪnd ˈdaʊn/
Forms: form: winds down
form: winding down
form: wound down
form: wound down
Senses: examples: text: Wind down the car window if you want to talk to me.
synonyms: roll down
lower
antonyms: wind up
roll up
raise
glosses: To lower by winding, as with a crank or windlass.
raw_tags: of an object that can be raised or lowered
examples: text: You'd better wind down that wind-up toy before you take it apart, or pieces might go flying.
synonyms: unwind
deactivate
antonyms: wind
wind up
activate
glosses: To unwind.
raw_tags: of a device with a mainspring
examples: text: A program as complex as the Space Shuttle program takes some time to wind down.
text: As a result, Bowman admitted, Sellafield’s scientists are having to invent, mid-marathon, the process of winding the site down – and they’re finding that they still don’t know enough about it.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: unwind
shut down
antonyms: activate
fire up
power up
start up
boot up
glosses: To shut down slowly (by degrees or in phases).
examples: text: The festival seems to be winding down now.
synonyms: taper off
glosses: To slow, as if coming to an end; to become calmer or less busy.
examples: text: After a long day at work, she winds down by kickboxing.
synonyms: calm down
unwind
chill out
let off steam
antonyms: power up
glosses: To relax; to get rid of stress; to destress.
Derived terms: winddown
amenorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/
Forms: form: amenorrheic
form: amenorrhœic
Etymology: From a- + menorrhoea + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the suppression of menstruation other than during pregnancy
amenorrhoeic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˌmɛnəˈɹiːɪk/
Forms: form: amenorrhoeics
form: amenorrheic
form: amenorrhœic
Etymology: From a- + menorrhoea + -ic.
Senses: glosses: One who does not menstruate.
Precambrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /priːˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /priˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /priˈkeɪm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /priˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Pre-Cambrian
Etymology: From pre- + Cambrian.
Senses: examples: text: When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the time and geology dated before the Phanerozoic
Precambrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /priːˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/
ipa: /priˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /priˈkeɪm.bɹi.ən/
ipa: /priˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Pre-Cambrian
Etymology: From pre- + Cambrian.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Precambrian supereon; spanning from the formation of the Earth around 4.6 billion years ago to the emergence of hard-shelled creatures 541 million years ago.
Synonyms: sense: geological supereon
word: Cryptozoic
Hyponyms: sense: geological supereon
word: Hadean
sense: geological supereon
word: Archaean
sense: geological supereon
word: Proterozoic - eons
Coordinate terms: sense: geological supereon
word: Phanerozoic
light pollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: photopollution
glosses: An excess of artificial light, especially near urban areas, reducing visibility of stars, etc. in the night sky.
Related terms: light-polluted
overillumination
light trespass
skyglow
call the ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls the ball
form: calling the ball
form: called the ball
form: called the ball
Senses: examples: text: - Maverick, call the ball.
ref: 1986, Top Gun (film)
roman: - Roger. Maverick has the ball.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
naval
navy
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: When landing on a US aircraft carrier: to sight the lights from the multi-colored optical landing system that shows a pilot to be on the correct approach path or how to correct the approach path.
amenorrhoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌmɛnəˈɹiːə/
ipa: /ˌeɪmɛnəˈɹiːə/
Forms: form: amenorrhoeae
form: amenorrhoeas
form: amenorrhea
form: amenorrhœa
Etymology: Via New Latin from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μήν (mḗn, “month”) + -ροια (-roia, “flowing”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Absence of menstrual discharge.
Synonyms: nonmenstruation
Derived terms: amenorrhoeal
amenorrhoeic
tother
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: toder
form: t'other
Etymology: From Middle English þe toþer, from the incorrect division of thet other (“the/that other”). Compare Scots tither; English tone. More at that, other.
Senses: examples: text: Well, Guv'nor, he stood up by-and-by, and taking the bundles of rags, the big uns in one hand, tother ones in tother, he toddled out of the room; […]
ref: 1876, The Shamrock, volume 14:
text: ‘Me an th’ Lad ull help you[…] for all he’s not just like the tothers,’ here she nodded
ref: 1882, Caroline Hallet, “Out of the World”, in The Monthly Packet, page 522:
glosses: Other. Most often used after the.
tother
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: toder
form: t'other
Etymology: From Middle English þe toþer, from the incorrect division of thet other (“the/that other”). Compare Scots tither; English tone. More at that, other.
Senses: examples: text: the tone way or the tother
text: That fella go in. By’m-by t'other fella come out.
ref: 1898, John F. Hobbs, “Australian Aboriginal Sports and Wood-craft”, in Outing, page 447:
glosses: The other (of two).
examples: text: […]an’ they left one ’n the sarvant gals as well for comp’ny like for the housekeeper, but the tother sarvant gals they took wid ’em.
ref: 1916, Noah Lock, “The Robber and the Housekeeper”, in Journal of Gypsy Lore, page 202:
glosses: Other, all others.
tother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tothers
form: toder
form: t'other
Etymology: From Middle English þe toþer, from the incorrect division of thet other (“the/that other”). Compare Scots tither; English tone. More at that, other.
Senses: glosses: An other; another one.
Related terms: tone
tudder
Midlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Midlands
Senses: examples: text: McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A loosely-defined culturally distinct area of England, corresponding to the central horizontal band of England, now administratively realized as regions of East and West Midlands.
glosses: Central regions in other countries.
glosses: Central regions in other countries.
A province in central Zimbabwe. Capital: Gweru.
Synonyms: English Midlands
Derived terms: East Midlands
Midland
Northern Midlands
Southern Midlands
West Midlands
Cilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive of Priscilla
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
burnoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝˈnus/
ipa: /bɜːˈnuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: burnooses
form: bernouse
form: bornous
form: bournous
form: burnous
form: burnouse
Etymology: From French burnous, from Arabic بُرْنُس (burnus).
Senses: examples: text: “I caught only a glimpse of an Arab in a dark-blue burnoose and white turban,” replied Tarzan.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: A thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa.
Derived terms: burnoosed
GBE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GBEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of knight grand cross of the order of the British Empire (a British order of chivalry).
harnessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harness
thickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thick: most thick
thickest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thick: most thick
dogmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogma
comedies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comedy
mumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mumble
inconveniences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inconvenience
inconveniences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inconvenience
Venetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Venetian
inspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inspect
inspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspectings
Senses: examples: text: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194:
glosses: An act of inspection.
softest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of soft: most soft
landlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landlord
denser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dense: more dense
inhaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inhale
plodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plod
excommunicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excommunicate
wafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waft
Gauls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gaul
crosslots
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɒslɒts/
Etymology: From cross + lots.
Senses: glosses: Via a shortcut.
XYZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛks.waɪˈzɛd/
ipa: /ˌɛks.waɪˈzi/
Forms: form: XYZs
Senses: glosses: The color space of the tristimulus values X, Y, and Z.
glosses: A generic placeholder representing a specific name or thing.
topics: cartography
computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Describing a URL scheme for providing map tiles, where X and Y refer to coordinates, while Z refers to zoom level.
Related terms: for XYZ reasons
XYZ
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛks.waɪˈzɛd/
ipa: /ˌɛks.waɪˈzi/
Senses: synonyms: star in the east
glosses: Initialism of examine your zipper: a discreet warning that one’s trouser fly is undone.
Related terms: I see London, I see France