cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ælɪti
ipa: /mɛnˈtæləti/
ipa: /mənˈtæləti/
ipa: /-ɪti/
Forms: form: mentalities
Etymology: From mental + -ity. Doublet of mentalité.
Senses: examples: text: Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.
text: […]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.
ref: 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
glosses: A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
examples: text: 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129.
[…] the new mentality [of Romantic poetry]...is a mentality of self-authorization.
text: Our mentality — whether bicameral or conscious — is thus more a function of social context, language, and forms of communication than a hard-wired neurologically-based system.
ref: 2016, Scott Greer, A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psyche:Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness, Kuijsten, page 239:
glosses: The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
Derived terms: crab mentality
drawbridge mentality
elbow mentality
herd mentality
mob mentality
pack mentality
plantation mentality
siege mentality
trench mentality
victim mentality
winning mentality
mindset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪn(d)ˌsɛt/
Forms: form: mindsets
form: mind set
form: mind-set
Etymology: From mind + set.
Senses: examples: text: Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset.
text: You've got to use your weekend / Go nuts if you can / 'Cause you're back out until Monday, back out until Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday / It's the English mindset
ref: 2009, “The English Mindset”, performed by Hulaboy:
text: These behaviors and mindsets contrast with mindful eating, which means using all your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy the food choices you make without judgment, said Lilian Cheung, a lecturer and director of health promotion and communication in the nutrition department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, via email. […] Once you have been mindfully eating for a while, the mindset can apply to other areas of your life.
ref: 2021 October 14, Kristen Rogers, “Mindful eating could change your food habits and overall life. Here’s how to start”, in CNN:
text: Some 46% of those polled agreed that the office environment puts them in a better mindset for work, with this figure rising to 55% of 18-34-year-olds.
ref: 2021 October 20, “Study captures positive benefits of commuting”, in RAIL, number 942, page 16:
glosses: A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
Synonyms: mentality
Derived terms: being poor is a mindset
fixed mindset
grindset
growth mindset
poor is a mindset
poverty is a mindset
Related terms: state of mind
off-color
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-color
form: most off-color
form: off-colour
Senses: examples: text: Careful control of mixing at the central point reduces the possibility of off-color paint in some booths, and uniform pressure at the spray guns is easily maintained.
ref: 1936, Chemical Industries, volume 38, page 400:
text: Because of his reputable work with off-color and contaminated materials, I have asked Dr. Otto Speck of Colorama Consultants to give us some direction.
ref: 2000, John Kenkel, Chemistry: An Industry-Based Laboratory Manual, page 74:
text: After some amount of time elapses, the transition phase from color A to color B will yield off-color product until the color change for color B is fully established in the system.
ref: 2001, SPE/ANTEC 2001 Proceedings, page 3391:
glosses: Of the wrong color.
examples: text: He told an off-color joke.
text: [T]he equating of the female genitalia with a wound caused by an axe is a very off-colour metaphor.
ref: 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page xii:
text: He seems to have crawled off the earth after his Texas itinerary, in company with the alleged ex-nun whom he was carting around the country to pander to the prurient appetites of off-color dames by relating naughty tales of desiring nuns and accommodating priests.
ref: 2010, Charles Carver, Brann and the Iconoclast, page 54:
text: Overly risqué jokes and foul language are invitations to being charged with sexual abuse. I must admit to enjoying humor a great deal, and I am guilty of sharing all kinds of stories, some of which are slightly off-color, but far from lewd.
ref: 2012, Gary L. Fanning, Things I Didn't Learn in Medical School:
glosses: Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant.
examples: text: Since Zappa treats subject matter, dialogue, and song as musical material, Permanent Damage has a casual off-color quality. Permanent Damage and An Evening with Wild Man Fischer were works of oddball sociology as much as they were rock and roll records.
ref: 2007, Kevin Courrier, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica:
text: Even the roadside sights seemed a little off-color and was just beginning to lose some of its summer luster.
ref: 2014, Anne W. Mhorelund, Broken Branch: The Patchie Creek Story, page 691:
text: There was something funny about his eyes . . . something off-color and old . . . but he pulled the shades back down before I could get a good look.
ref: 2015, Kristi Charish, Owl and the Japanese Circus, page 162:
glosses: Different from usual.
examples: text: I feel a bit off-color today.
text: Nihal Sheshan, one of our officers, tells me our chief has been a little off-color of late. Kind of disoriented sometimes.
ref: 2009, Kalpana M. Naghnoor, Abstruse, page 111:
text: One evening she was feeling off-color with a virus and was settled comfortably in the sitting-room.
ref: 2010, Murray Stein, Jungian Psychoanalysis: Working in the Spirit of Carl Jung, page 311:
synonyms: under the weather
glosses: Feeling mildly unwell.
head-in-the-sand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Attributive form of head in the sand.
Senses: examples: text: The head-in-the-sand approach to economic problems frequently bankrupts companies.
glosses: Exhibiting disregard for, or denial of, a problem or threat.
Synonyms: ostrichlike
Related terms: head in the sand
jump through hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps through hoops
form: jumping through hoops
form: jumped through hoops
form: jumped through hoops
form: go through hoops
form: leap through hoops
Etymology: Reminiscent of a circus animal performing tricks by jumping through hoops.
Senses: examples: text: They really made the salesman jump through hoops before buying anything.
text: If learning is deemed valuable and important to the student, then the educator doesn't need a scripted curriculum or a fad initiative that has students and the educator jumping through hoops.
ref: 2010, Brad Johnson, Tammy Maxson McElroy, The Edutainer: Connecting the Art and Science of Teaching, page 141:
text: If a government says to citizens, “We will punish you for abstaining, unless you jump through the following legal hoops,” it is still coercing citizens.
ref: 2014, Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill, Compulsory Voting: For and Against, page 19:
text: Caregivers also described having to “jump through hoops” to accomplish what they needed.
ref: 2020, Kevin J. Mahoney, Ellen K. Mahoney, Michelle Putnam, Self-Direction in Long Term Services and Supports:
glosses: To put forth great effort to meet requirements, usually arbitrary, set by someone.
Synonyms: bend over backwards
ex cathedra
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ex cathedrā (“from the (teacher's) chair”).
Senses: examples: text: The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks
ref: 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
glosses: With authority based on one's rank or office.
Related terms: appeal to authority
ex officio
go figure
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡoʊ ˈfɪɡ(j)ɚ/
Forms: form: go fig
Etymology: Calque of Yiddish גיי װייס (gey veys).
Senses: examples: text: The car wouldn't start yesterday no matter what I did, but today it works just fine. Go figure.
glosses: Expresses perplexity, puzzlement, or surprise (as if telling somebody to try to make sense of the situation).
Related terms: huh
no kidding
what do you know
who knows
how about that
what are the odds
tripos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪpɒs/
Forms: form: triposes
Etymology: Alteration of tripus, as though with a Greek ending. For the examination: the word is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honours, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper.
The etymon of tripus is the Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous, “triple-footed”), (from τρι- (tri-, “three”) and πούς (poús, “foot”)).
Senses: examples: text: Thales sent the golden tripos, which the fishermen found and the oracle commanded to be “given to the wisest”, to Bias, Bias to Solon, etc.
ref: , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.73
text: Scarce had I said, He shook the holy Ground: / The Lawrels, and the lofty Hills around: / And from the Tripos rush'd a bellowing sound.
ref: 1697 [19 BCE], John Dryden, The Third Book of the Æneis, translation of Aeneid by Virgil, lines 122–124; republished in The Works of John Dryden, volume 5, University of California Press, 1988, →ISBN, page 421:
glosses: A three-legged structure; a tripod.
examples: text: I'm seriously thinking of chucking my tripos and taking up the History Special.
ref: 1891, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, page 9:
text: It's time you thought. The Tripos is the beginning of life, not the end. In less than two years you will have got your B.A. What are you going to do with it?
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, I [Uniform ed., p. 20]
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: The list of successful candidates in such an examination.
axles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksəlz/
homophone: axels
Senses: glosses: plural of axle
tweenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweenies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'tweenie, tweeny or 'tweeny.
glosses: A child who is not quite old enough to be a teenager; a tweenager.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A shot that is hit between the legs; a tweener.
glosses: A 650-watt fresnel motion picture lighting instrument first manufactured by the Mole-Richardson Company.
Synonyms: preteen
toted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tote
demobilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demobilisations
Etymology: From de- + mobilisation.
Senses: examples: text: Army railwaymen from an H.Q. in Switzerland controlled demobilisation traffic all over Europe, including the famous MEDLOC train service.
ref: 1948 September and October, “The Bicester Military Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demobilization.
get the better of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the better of
form: getting the better of
form: got the better of
form: got the better of
form: gotten the better of
form: get the best of
Senses: examples: text: Adam said, "My temper got the better of me, and I said things as wasn't true."
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 28, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: Though this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still Stephen's feelings got the better of him in a sense though he knew that Corley's brandnew rigmarole on a par with the others was hardly deserving of much credence.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Many people returned to work a bit anxious, they acknowledged, but grimly determined not to let terrorists get the better of them.
ref: 2005 July 8, Eric Pfanner, “With Characteristic Fortitude, Britons Carry On”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Sep 2008:
text: Thomas Tuchel got the better of his Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola for the third time since succeeding sacked Frank Lampard in January to bring European club football's biggest prize back to Stamford Bridge for the first time since 2012.
ref: 2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: defeat
overpower
better
glosses: To overwhelm or overcome.
examples: text: I won't let you get the best of me
How'd my heart become my enemy?
I won't let you get the best of me
How'd my heart become my enemy?
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Dave Bassett, Brian West, “Beating Me Up”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
glosses: To trick or con.
examples: text: He got the better of him early in the match, but ended up losing.
text: So long as the intellectual gets the better of the general argument, the most valid objections of the specific issue will be brushed aside.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 426:
text: With Jones and Botterman hoovering up penalties at the breakdown, Ward and Maud Muir putting the brakes on France's rolling maul and Cokyane waving off her opposite number after getting the better of a scrum, England were winning plenty of battles.
ref: 2025 September 20, Mike Henson, “Kildunne stars as England see off France to make final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To gain an advantage over or regarding.
Related terms: sense: gain an advantage
word: have the better of
dimwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dimwitted
form: most dimwitted
Senses: examples: text: My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak.
ref: 2010 December 19, Terry Gardner, “The Gift of Foreign-language Learning”, in The Chicago Tribune, retrieved 17 Apr 2013:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dim-witted.
Derived terms: dimwittedly
dimwittedness
crosshatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosshatches
form: cross-hatch
Etymology: From cross- + hatch.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of crossing lines.
crosshatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosshatches
form: crosshatching
form: crosshatched
form: crosshatched
form: cross-hatch
Etymology: From cross- + hatch.
Senses: glosses: To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.
dilatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dilatorily
form: most dilatorily
Etymology: From dilatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dilatory manner.
under the pump
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Unclear. As an idiom, identified only in Australian and New Zealand English.
* Originally a sailing term for when the ship is taking in water and the ship is literally being bailed out to stay afloat. In the days of yore, the crew had to work 24 hours a day pumping out the ship until the ship reaches safe harbour for repairs.
* Also possibly as a punishment.
* Also suggested has been an origin in the construction industry:
Workers can be quite literally under the pump if a concrete pour is occurring and the steel reinforcing and form-work is still being finished. The concrete pump would be reaching out above the workers, who would be completing their duties at a frantic pace. Once the concrete has been delivered, the ‘pour′ must occur as soon as possible, or it may begin to set. Hence, being under the pump describes the situation of working at feverish pace to meet a specific deadline.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1970s, Doug Walters, quoted in 2008, Ashley Mallett, One of a Kind: The Doug Walters Story, 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 219,
I think all the Australian batsmen who came back from South Africa felt a bit under the pump. We simply had to perform or not stay in the side.
text: Nick was under the pump. He was underdone, and the selectors wanted to replace him with James Stewart.
ref: 2003, Harry Gordon, The Time of Our Lives: Inside the Sydney Olympics, page 13:
glosses: Under pressure to perform, e.g. at work or in a sports contest.
examples: text: The laws of the state relative to the intermarriage of the whites with the coloured population, are also referred to. A case of this kind took place at New York when I was there; and as soon as the ceremony was over, the husband, I believe it was, but either the husband or the wife, was seized by the mob and put under the pump for half an hour.
ref: 1839, “Captain Marryat”, in A Diary in America, with Remarks on its Institutions, page 159:
text: 1863, “Mrs. Lovechild”, The Truant, in The Christmas Tree and Other Stories for the Young, page 48,
Now the punishment for playing truant was to have the truant′s head put under the pump, and pumped upon.
text: 1867, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, Volume 1, Part 1: 9 July - 9 August 1867, page 106,
The unfortunate individual was of course immediately taken, put under the pump, and soundly pumped upon. This was the sort of conduct adopted by the honorable member for the gold fields and his friends.
text: […]claim that when he was at Oxford ‘Socialists were put under the pump’.
ref: 1995, Graham Chainey, A Literary History of Cambridge, page 201:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see under, pump.
Synonyms: sense: under pressure
word: under the gun
under the gun
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was under the gun to finish the project quickly.
text: I'm under the gun again / I know I was a 45-percenter then / I know I was a lot of things
ref: 2013, The National, “I Need My Girl”, in Trouble Will Find Me:
synonyms: word: under the cosh
word: under the pump
glosses: Under great pressure to perform.
examples: text: James will be under the gun for the first hand of the final table.
topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: UTG
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the situation of first player to act on the first round of betting.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Too close to be subject to artillery fire.
Related terms: under fire
quinella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: quinellas
form: quiniela
Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela (“sporting bet or pool”); US from 1942.
Senses: examples: text: 1954, Michigan Department of State Compilation Commission, 1954 Michigan Administrative Code, page 38,
All tickets on the quinella will be calculated in an entirely separate pool.
text: A few tracks offer exactas and quinallas on the same races.
ref: 1989, Charles S. Romanelli, How to Make Money in One Day at the Track, page 166:
text: The track quinella paid $38.00 for a $2 wager, the track exacta paid $70.60 for a $2 wager.
ref: 2004, Jim Kilby, Jim Fox, Anthony F. Lucas, Casino Operations Management, page 355:
topics: gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing.
Coordinate terms: exacta
quinella
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: quinellas
form: quinellaing
form: quinellaed
form: quinellaed
form: quiniela
Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela (“sporting bet or pool”); US from 1942.
Senses: examples: text: Smith provided the winner of twenty-one Mares Produce Stakes and quinellaed the event nine times.
ref: 2003, John O′Hara, Big River Racing: A History of the Clarence River Jockey Club 1861-2001, page 35:
text: Gai quinellaed the Doncaster in 1997 with Secret Savings and All Our Mob.
ref: 2008, John Ellicott, Waterhouse and Smith: The Rise to Power of Two Racing, page 273:
text: Not only did he win his first Cup with the 30/1 chance Tawriffic, but in the finest Cummings′ tradition he quinellaed the race with Super Impose.
ref: 2009, Eric O'Keefe, The Cup, page 72:
glosses: To have two team members, horses, etc., finish first and second in the same event.
altname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altnames
Etymology: From alt- + name.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: library cataloguing
glosses: An alternative name.
clearness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: clearnesses
Etymology: From Middle English clernesse; equivalent to clear + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne sayd he Fair swete fader Ihesu Cryst yf euer I dyd thyng that pleasyd the lord / for thy pyte ne haue me not in despyte for my synnes done afore tyme / and that thou shewe me some thynge of that I seke / And with that he sawe the chamber dore open and there came oute a grete clerenes / that the hows was as bryghte as all torches of the world had ben there
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XV, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
glosses: Brightness, brilliancy.
examples: text: The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.
ref: 1966 September 6, “The Lowest Depths”, in Time:
glosses: Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
examples: The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.
glosses: The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
examples: The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.
glosses: The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
Derived terms: clearness committee
pony tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pony tails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ponytail.
pliantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pliantly
form: most pliantly
Etymology: From pliant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was tall and pliantly slender, without angularity anywhere.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon:
glosses: In a pliant manner.
East-Flanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of East Flanders.
belfry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛlfɹi/
enpr: bĕlʹfrē
rhymes: -ɛlfɹi
Forms: form: belfries
Etymology: From Middle English belfrey, bellfray, belfray, from Old French belfroi, berfroi, berfrey (changed to have an ⟨l⟩ by association with bell), from Middle High German bërcvrit or bërvrit (“defensive tower”) (modern German Bergfried), possibly via Late Latin berefredus, from Proto-Germanic *bergafriþuz. Doublet of bergfried.
Senses: examples: text: “You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:33 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):
topics: architecture
glosses: A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.
examples: text: From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
glosses: A shed.
glosses: A movable tower used in sieges.
glosses: An alarm-tower; a watchtower possibly containing an alarm-bell.
Derived terms: belfried
have bats in one's belfry
have bats in the belfry
komi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊmi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese こみ (komi).
Senses: qualifier: go
glosses: Bonus points given to the white player to compensate for the fact that black plays first.
Derived terms: reverse komi
moving walkway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving walkways
Senses: examples: text: The slope [at Bank station, Waterloo & City] was always resented, especially on Monday morning, and it was supplemented by the installation of the Underground's first Trav-o-lator - or moving walkway - in 1960.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 110–111:
text: Interim London Transport Commissioner Andy Lord and Transport for London Chief Capital Officer Stuart Harvey opened two new 100-metre moving walkways and three new escalators connectting the Northern and Central lines at Bank station on October 28.
ref: 2022 November 16, “Network News: Bank's moving walkways open”, in RAIL, number 970, page 12:
glosses: A slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
Synonyms: word: travelator
word: moving sidewalk
word: speedwalk
word: moving pavement
word: walkalator
Related terms: escalator
craftily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more craftily
form: most craftily
Etymology: From Middle English craftyly, craftily, craftiliche, from Old English cræftiġlīċe (“craftily, skillfully”), equivalent to crafty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e [Thomas Arundell] by his euill counſaile and prodigious ſuggeſtions, craftilye circumuented the king, inducyng him to graunt his letters of pardon to a great traytour the Erle of Arondell his brother [Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel].
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Seconde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 390:
text: But the most bizarre twist of events was yet to come. That afternoon, Labour tabled a craftily worded motion. It would have guaranteed parliamentary time for a bill to ban fracking.
ref: 2023 September 1, Aubrey Allegretti, “‘She’s totally lost it’: Inside story of the unravelling of Liz Truss’s premiership”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: In a crafty manner; slyly.
above-named
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbʌvˌneɪmd/
Forms: form: abovenamed
Senses: examples: text: The Jewish fires were the heaviest blows we had had; for though the Waddingley Cotton-mills had been burnt in 1822, at a loss to the Company of 80,000£, and though the Patent Erostratus Match Manufactory had exploded in the same year at a charge of 14,000£, there were those who said that the loss had not been near so heavy as was supposed -- nay, that the Company had burnt the above-named establishments as advertisements for themselves.
ref: 1841, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond:
synonyms: above-mentioned
aforementioned
aforenamed
glosses: Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
anankastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænənˈkæstɪk/
Forms: form: more anankastic
form: most anankastic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναγκαστικός (anankastikós), from ἀναγκάζω (anankázō, “to force, to compel”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Imperative, as in the anankastic conditional.
examples: 1991: ‘You’re a classic anal-retentive,’ he says, ‘tirelessly absorbed by minutiae, anankastic in the extreme – it’s lucky you have me to deal with the broad sweep of things, to do the abstract thinking.’ — Will Self, ‘Mono-Cellular’, The Quantity Theory of Insanity
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Characterised by compulsion; obsessive-compulsive.
anankastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænənˈkæstɪk/
Forms: form: anankastics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναγκαστικός (anankastikós), from ἀναγκάζω (anankázō, “to force, to compel”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An anankastic phrase or utterance.
examples: text: Like many anankastics, he suffers from a disturbance in the capacity to act, which is revealed especially as an impediment to beginning something new and completing something.
ref: 2012, Matthew R. Broome, The Maudsley Reader in Phenomenological Psychiatry, page 235:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: anancastic
glosses: An obsessive-compulsive individual.
carles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carle
above-stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs.
above-stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more above-stairs
form: most above-stairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs.
above-stairs
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more above-stairs
form: most above-stairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of above stairs
holus-bolus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly of Ancient Greek origin, from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) and βόλος (bólos, “a throw with a casting net”), or βῶλος (bôlos, “lump”). May have been Latinized (i.e., -us ending as in masculine singular in Latin, as opposed to -os ending for masculine singular in Greek).
Senses: examples: text: to accept a story holus-bolus.
text: I’ll take it on my shoulders, holus bolus, blame and shame, my boy; but stay here, I cannot let you. Jump! One jump, and you’re out, and we’ll run for it like antelopes.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: All together; entirely; without modification.
sticky-backed plastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: British television show Blue Peter invented the term due to its policy against using commercial terms on-air. The commercial term for the product was Fablon.
Senses: examples: text: For today's make, you'll need a good sheet of blue sticky-backed plastic, a pen and a washing-up bottle.
glosses: large sheet of thin, soft, coloured plastic that is sticky on one side
wikipedia: Blue Peter
Synonyms: word: contact paper
kleenex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkli.nɛks/
ipa: /ˈklin.ɛks/
Forms: form: kleenexes
form: kleenices
form: Kleenex
Etymology: From the name of brand of tissues trademarked by Cellucotton Products Company (now Kimberly-Clark) in 1924–25. Alteration of clean + -ex.
Senses: examples: text: Could you hand me a kleenex? My nose is running.
glosses: A disposable tissue.
Synonyms: facial tissue
tissue
Derived terms: Kleenex testing
cartoon character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartoon characters
Senses: examples: text: Many early cartoon characters were animals.
glosses: A fictional character in a cartoon.
loo roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loo rolls
Senses: examples: text: We need to buy some more loo rolls; we've run out.
glosses: toilet roll
Synonyms: sense: toilet roll
word: bog roll
sense: toilet roll
word: toilet paper
sense: toilet roll
word: toilet roll
sense: toilet roll
word: bathroom tissue
sense: toilet roll
word: toilet tissue
sense: toilet roll
word: loo paper
Derived terms: loo roll cosy
commoner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.ə.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.mə.nɚ/
Etymology: From common + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Sunday [train] services were far commoner than in later years.
ref: 1952 January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1852”, in Railway Magazine, page 16:
glosses: comparative form of common: more common
bog roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog rolls
Etymology: From bog + roll.
Senses: examples: text: "Aliens used up our bog roll?"
"Just because they're aliens, it doesn't mean they don't have to visit the smallest room. Only, they probably do something weird and alienesque; like it comes out of the top of their heads, or something."
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf:
glosses: Toilet paper.
examples: text: This week on The Amazing Prize Giveaway Show, the grand prize is 10,000 bog rolls!
glosses: A roll of toilet paper.
Synonyms: word: loo roll
word: toilet paper
word: bathroom tissue
word: toilet tissue
Minsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪnsk/
rhymes: -ɪnsk
Forms: form: Miensk
Etymology: From Russian Минск (Minsk) or Belarusian Мінск (Minsk).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Belarus.
Derived terms: Minskite
Kleenex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kleenexes
form: Kleenices
Senses: examples: text: She wipes some drivel from his chin with a Kleenex, which she throws away in the bin, then sits and clasps his hand in hers.
ref: 2012, Roland Curram, “Life Changes”, in The Problem with Happiness, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, part 1, page 82:
glosses: Alternative form of kleenex.
Guatemala City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Guatemala.
Port Moresby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpoː(ɹ)t ˈmoː(ɹ)zbiː/
ipa: /ˌpɔɹt ˈmɔɹzbi/
Etymology: Named after British admiral Fairfax Moresby by his son and the city's explorer Captain John Moresby.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Papua New Guinea.
wikipedia: John Moresby
Honiara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊnɪˈɑːɹə/
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Solomon Islands.
Ho Chi Minh City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊ tʃiː ˌmɪn ˈsɪti/
Forms: form: HCMC
form: Hồ Chí Minh City
Etymology: Calque of Vietnamese Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh. Named after Vietnamese communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh.
Senses: synonyms: word: Saigon
word: Prey Nokor
glosses: The largest city of Vietnam.
Saigon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪɡɒn/
rhymes: -aɪɡɒn
Forms: form: Sài Gòn
form: Sai Gon
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Sài Gòn.
Senses: examples: text: They met at a bar in Saigon, dated, fell in love, and, a year later, married right there in the city’s central courthouse.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 46:
glosses: The former name of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam; the former capital of South Vietnam.
glosses: A ward of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Derived terms: Little Saigon
Saigon cinnamon
Related terms: Sai Kung
Taipeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tīʹpāʹ
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Nanjing court dialect Mandarin 臺北／台北 (Táiběi).
Senses: examples: text: OPIUM SMOKING LICENSES are issued in connection with the Government Laboratory at Taipeh, where the imported opium is refined and put, in three different qualities, into 1-lb. tins for distribution and sale to licence-holders.
ref: 1898 March 26, “Extracts from Consular Reports”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, volume LX, number 1448, page 321:
text: From his lofty holiday resort on the Sun and Moon Lake in inland Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week scurried back to his forest-cloaked GHQ on Mount Tsao, overlooking Taipeh, the island's capital.
ref: 1950 January 16, “Formosa: Climax of the China Tragedy”, in Newsweek, volume XXXV, number 3, page 30:
text: In August 1950 the Council rejected its Russian president’s proposal that a Peking representative should be invited under Article 32. This would have implied recognition of communist China as a state; and the Council, by a slim majority, was committed to the view that China was still legally represented by the government that had fled to Taipeh in 1949.
ref: 1971, Andrew Boyd, Fifteen Men on a Powder Keg: a History of the U.N. Security Council, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:
text: The Republic of China had to withdraw from the UN as early as 1971; most of the world's countries maintain diplomatic relations with Peking only. Taipeh has thus become a political outcast.
ref: 1984, Xing-hu Kuo, translated by Barrows Mussey, Free China Asian Economic Miracle, Germany: Seewald Publisher, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:
text: The 452m/ l,484ft-high Petronas Towers stand in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and the »king of skyscrapers« is the 509m/ 1,670ft Taipeh 101 in Taipeh, the capital city of Taiwan.
ref: 2012, Achim Bourmer, New York, Baedeker, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 231:
glosses: Dated spelling of Taipei.
wikipedia: Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)
Bandar Seri Begawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːndəɹ sɪˌɹiː bɪˈɡaʊ.ən/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay Bandar Seri Begawan. Literally: "Port/City of the Revered Ruler".
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Brunei.
nao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: now
Forms: form: naos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish nao.
Senses: examples: text: I got vivid descriptions of the sea battle at Chaul from the Mamluk sailors and the Ottoman gunners so that I could clearly visualise the Mamluk galleys and the Ottoman guns battling the Portuguese naos at the entrance of the Kundalika river.
ref: 2007, Eusebio L. Rodrigues, Love and Samsāra:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
nao
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: now
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of now.
nao
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: now
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of now.
Ulaanbaatar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌuːlɑːn ˈbɑːtə(ɹ)/
enpr: o͞oʹlän bäʹtär
Forms: form: Ulan Bator
Etymology: A transliteration of Mongolian Улаанбаатар (Ulaanbaatar), a compound of улаан (ulaan, “red”, adjective) and баатар (baatar, “hero”, cognate to bogatyr). The name was adopted in 1924; before that, the city was known by a number of more prosaic names, including Их Хүрээ (Ix Xüree, “Great Camp”), Даа Хүрээ (Daa Xüree, “Great Camp”) (whence, via Chinese, its English names Kulun and Kuren), and Өргөө (Örgöö, “Residence”) (whence Urga).
Senses: examples: text: Mongolia's capital city of Ulaanbaatar has its share of tourist attractions - Genghis Khan Square, the National Museum, the State Opera and Ballet Theatre. But Ger Community Mapping Center guide Tuguldur Chuluunbaatar wants to highlight a different part of the city; a part that's often ignored.
ref: 2017 January 25, Anne Bailey, “Mapping air pollution to conquer it in Mongolia's capital”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2017, Environment:
text: Mongolia will supply critical metals to France needed for its energy transition, President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday during the first ever visit to Ulaanbaatar by a serving French president.
ref: 2023 May 21, Michel Rose, “Mongolia to supply critical metals to France, Macron says”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 22 May 2023, Commodities:
text: In one of the rooms of the center, which will also serve as a temporary shelter for immigrants who arrive in the city without any point of reference, Francis recalled that when the first missionaries arrived in Ulaanbaatar in the 1990s, they immediately felt a call to charity.
ref: 2023 September 4, “Pope visits charity center in Mongolia, says Church not driven by proselytization”, in EFE, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023:
related: word: Ulan Bator
synonyms: Urga
glosses: The capital city of Mongolia.
Related terms: bahadur
bogatyr
Ulanhot
Ulan-Ude
Ulan Bator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːlɑːn ˈbɑːtɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: o͞oʹlän bäʹtōr
enpr: o͞oʹlän bäʹtôrʹ
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Улан-Ба́тор (Ulan-Bátor), from Mongolian ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ (Ulaɣanbaɣatur).
Senses: examples: text: Extensive deposits of copper and molybdenum ore, situated some 200 miles northwest of Ulan Bator between the Selenga and Orkhon Rivers, will eventually be extracted by open‐pit methods and processed at the still unfinished town of Erdenet.
ref: 1975 January 6, Christopher S. Wren, “MONGOLIA SPURS BIG MINE PROJECT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024, page 5:
text: Ulan Bator is the world’s coldest capital, and even in early September, snow is not unusual. But we arrived on a crystal-clear day with bright sunshine.
ref: 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Women's Rights Are Human Rights”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 308:
glosses: Alternative form of Ulaanbaatar.
net income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net incomes
Senses: glosses: Gross profit minus operating expenses and taxes.
glosses: Income after tax.
Related terms: gross income
Dacca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdækə/
rhymes: -ækə
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Dhaka.
Dhaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːkə/
ipa: /ˈdæːkə/
rhymes: -ækə
rhymes: -ɑːkə
Forms: form: Dacca
form: Dakka
form: Decca
Etymology: From Bengali ঢাকা (ḍhaka).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Bangladesh.
glosses: A district of Bangladesh, where the capital is located in.
glosses: A division of Bangladesh, where the district and the capital are located in.
Islamabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/
ipa: /ɪsˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/
ipa: /ɪzˈlæməˌbæd/
Etymology: From Urdu اسلام آباد (islām ābād). Equivalent to Islam + -abad.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.
glosses: The former name of Chittagong, a city in present-day Bangladesh.
tallat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallats
form: tallet
form: tallot
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin tabulātumbor.
Old Welsh *tablaut
Middle Welsh taflawd
Welsh taflodbor.
English tallat
Borrowed from Welsh taflod, from Middle Welsh taflawd, from Old Welsh *tablaut, borrowed from Latin tabulātum.
Senses: glosses: An attic or loft, notably over a shippen.
tallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tallat.
tallot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tallat.
Thimphu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪmˈpuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Thimbu
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha ཐིམ་ཕུ (thim phu).
Senses: examples: text: Bhutan, the tiny 'Land of the Thunder Dragon' in South Asia, is a polar contrast to what one might associate with any of its closest neighbors, China, India, Nepal, or Bangladesh. For instance, Thimphu, its most populous city, is the only capital city in the world without a single traffic light. The city’s busiest intersection is still managed by a traffic policeman directing vehicles using flamboyant hand movements accentuated by his white gloves – apparently all the traffic intervention the 114,000 residents need.
ref: 2024 September 16, “A fledgling democracy, Bhutan aims for gender equality and public engagement in governing”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2024, Asia:
glosses: The capital city of Bhutan.
Bishkek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪʃˈkɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Etymology: Borrowed from Kyrgyz Бишкек (Bişkek).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Kyrgyzstan.
wikipedia: Ala-Too Square
Synonyms: Pishpek (1862–1926)
Frunze (1926–1991)
Derived terms: word: Bishkeker
Dushanbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tajik Душанбе (Dušanbe).
Senses: synonyms: Stalinabad
glosses: The capital city of Tajikistan.
hoovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoovered
form: most hoovered
Senses: glosses: Having been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner; vacuum-cleaned.
examples: text: 'What!' he roared, 'Listen man I'm hoovered,' and as he looked away he snapped, 'You have had too much to drink, Silent Face - all the people in here look the same to me. Here give me that bottle.'
ref: 2020, John A. Walker, The Film Festival:
glosses: Drunk.
hoovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hoover
Synonyms: vacuum-cleaned
vacuumed
Ashgabat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aşgabat
form: Ashkabad
form: Ashkhabad
form: Ashqabat
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkmen Aşgabat, from Classical Persian عِشْقآبَاد (išq-ābād, literally “city of love”), compound of عِشْق (išq, “love”) + آبَاد (ābād, “city”).
Alternatively, some historians believe that the city was originally named after Ashk/Arshk, the founder of the Arsacid Dynasty, and hold that the term عِشْق (išq) was a reinterpretation influenced by folk etymology.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Turkmenistan.
Baku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækuː/
ipa: /bɑːˈkuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Classical Persian بَاکُو (bākū). For further etymology, see Baku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: examples: text: COPs have been held in petrostates before. But fossil fuel interests appeared truly unleashed in Baku — potentially emboldened by the imminent arrival of Donald Trump in the White House, a man who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
ref: 2024 November 25, Laura Paddison, “The UN climate summit ended in bitterness and accusations of betrayal. Now fears are growing for its future”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
wikipedia: Baku
Derived terms: Bakuvian
Yerevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvæːn/
ipa: /ˌjeɹəˈvɑːn/
ipa: /jɛɾɛˈvɑn/
Forms: form: Erevan
form: Erewan
form: Erivan
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Երեւան (Erewan).
Senses: examples: text: Before long Abbas Mirza suffered a succession of defeats, which culminated in the capture of Erivan, today capital of Armenia.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99:
text: Crammed to the gills with history, it nestles in the shadow of Mount Ararat and has a medieval centre but it's Yerevan's religious heritage that is its main claim to fame.
ref: 2009 September 26, Geoff Garvey, The Guardian:
glosses: The capital and largest city of Armenia.
Derived terms: Radio Yerevan
Yerevanian
Amman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ɑːˈmɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From Arabic عَمَّان (ʕammān).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Jordan.
glosses: A governorate of Jordan around the capital.
Synonyms: word: Philadelphia
Related terms: Ammani
Amman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ɑːˈmɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Senses: glosses: A river in Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot borough county borough, Wales, which joins the River Loughor at Pantyffynnon.
Derived terms: Ammanford
Brynamman
Cwmamman
Amman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɑːn/
ipa: /ɑːˈmɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: Transliteration of Tamil அம்மன் (ammaṉ).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mariamman (“rain goddess”).
synonyms: word: Mariamman
extra: rain goddess
Addis Abeba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.