cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corrival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: corrivals
form: corival
Etymology: From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.
Senses: examples: text: So he that doth redeem her thence might wear
 Without corrival all her dignities:
 But out upon this half-facd fellowship!
ref: 1598, Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
text: Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as Corriuals, or after, as in this Place”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 1, pages 465–466:
glosses: A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival.
examples: text: The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,
The noble Westmoreland, and warlike Blunt;
And many more corrivals and dear men
Of estimation and command in arms.
ref: 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1:
glosses: A companion.
Derived terms: corrivality
corrivalry
corrivalship
corrival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: corival
Etymology: From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.
Senses: examples: text: Not thinking, perhaps, that this would be, to erect a Power equal, and corrival with that of God Almighty […]
ref: 1701, Bishop William Fleetwood, An Essay Upon Miracles:
glosses: Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.
corrival
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: corrivals
form: corrivaling
form: corrivalling
form: corrivaled
form: corrivaled
form: corrivalled
form: corrivalled
form: corival
Etymology: From Middle French corrival, from Latin corrīvālis.
Senses: glosses: To compete with; to rival
aliped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alipeds
Etymology: From Latin ala (“wing”) and pes (“foot”) (ali- + -ped).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A wing-footed animal; a chiropter or a bat.
aliped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ala (“wing”) and pes (“foot”) (ali- + -ped).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Wing-footed; having a membrane connecting the digits.
security blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security blankets
Etymology: From Linus van Pelt's security blanket in Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.
Senses: glosses: A blanket that one uses to have a secure feeling or reduced anxiety, usually in the early years of life.
examples: text: That rabbit's foot is his security blanket.
glosses: Any object one uses to have a sense of security or reduced anxiety.
arty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ti/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: artier
form: artiest
form: artsie
form: artsy
Etymology: From art + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But the film is depressingly thin on the women; often it seems more interested in arranging them in arty tableaux than investigating the way that isolation has shaped their personalities and how they see the world.
ref: 2021 July 21, Cath Clarke, “Luz: The Flower of Evil review – arty Colombian horror shot through a trippy filter”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Inclined towards the arts.
examples: text: “Half of these Cate Blanchett movies – they’re all just like these arty things. I’m not saying they’re bad movies, but I don’t think most of them have a shelf life,” he said.
ref: 2015 August 31, Quentin Tarantino, quotee, “Quentin Tarantino says Cate Blanchett's 'arty' films don't have 'shelf life'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Pretending to artistic worth; high-flown.
Derived terms: artily
artiness
arty-crafty
arty-farty
arty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ti/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: arties
Etymology: Clipping of artillery, perhaps incorporating the suffix -y forming diminutive nouns.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Artillery.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An artillery crew member.
shillings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of shilling
pouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pôrʹĭng
ipa: /ˈpɔːɹɪŋ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: pōrʹĭng
ipa: /ˈpo(ə)ɹɪŋ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
homophone: poring
homophone: pawing (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, intrusive R)
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pour
pouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pôrʹĭng
ipa: /ˈpɔːɹɪŋ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: pōrʹĭng
ipa: /ˈpo(ə)ɹɪŋ/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
homophone: poring
homophone: pawing (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, intrusive R)
Forms: form: pourings
Senses: examples: text: Liberal pourings of rum and Cokes helped lubricate the festivities.
ref: 2008 March 2, Tanzina Vega, “A Taste of Colombia Rolls Through New York’s Streets”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act by which something is poured.
Derived terms: inpouring
outpouring
pouringly
pours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: pores
pause
paws stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pour
pours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pores
pause
paws stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: plural of pour
terrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪd/
Forms: form: more terrified
form: most terrified
Senses: examples: text: Remi is terrified of spiders.
glosses: Extremely frightened.
Derived terms: unterrifiedly
terrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of terrify
floated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfləʊtɪd/
ipa: /ˈfloʊtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of float
crops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krŏps
ipa: /kɹɒps/
enpr: krŏps
ipa: /kɹɑps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Senses: glosses: plural of crop
crops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: krŏps
ipa: /kɹɒps/
enpr: krŏps
ipa: /kɹɑps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crop
cropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crop
cropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: croppings
Senses: examples: text: The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.
glosses: The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The growing of crops.
examples: text: Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
ref: 1905, Waldemar Lindgren, The Copper Deposits of the Clifton-Morenci District, Arizona, page 207:
text: The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.
ref: 1912, John Mason Boutwell, Lester Hood Woolsey, Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah, page 121:
topics: business
mining
glosses: An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.
Derived terms: autocropping
double cropping
monocropping
multicropping
polycropping
sharecropping
strip cropping
trap cropping
upcropping
cropped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒpt/
rhymes: -ɒpt
Etymology: From crop.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crop
cropped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒpt/
rhymes: -ɒpt
Forms: form: more cropped
form: most cropped
Etymology: From crop.
Senses: examples: text: Her new look includes cropped hair and less makeup.
glosses: Cut short; cut very short.
examples: text: He supplied only a few cropped photos. I couldn't even tell where the photos were taken because they were so cropped.
glosses: Trimmed so as to exclude the periphery.
raw_tags: of an image
examples: text: Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.
glosses: Having had crop plants grown on it.
raw_tags: of land
Derived terms: close-cropped
monocropped
uncropped
wamble-cropped
Related terms: word: cropping
word: crop top
word: multicropping
terrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terrify
doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑktɚz/
ipa: /ˈdɒktəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of doctor
doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑktɚz/
ipa: /ˈdɒktəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doctor
hurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɹiɪŋ/
note: with the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhɝiɪŋ/
note: without the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹiɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hurry
hurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɹiɪŋ/
note: with the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhɝiɪŋ/
note: without the "Hurry-furry" merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹiɪŋ/
Forms: form: hurryings
Senses: examples: text: Consider the hurryings of Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate; now he stands before Pilate where he was accused of sedition, seduction and usurpation.
ref: 1832, Isaac Ambrose, Looking Unto Jesus:
glosses: The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.
Derived terms: hurryingly
unhurrying
hurries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hurry
hurries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurry
trans-Neptunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: transneptunian
Etymology: From trans- + Neptunian.
Senses: examples: text: Planet X is a legendary trans-Neptunian world.
glosses: Lying beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune (especially with regard to planetary bodies).
doctoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doctor
doctoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctorings
Senses: examples: text: "I knew enough of doctoring to see that in another hour he would be beyond the reach of earthly help - perhaps in another five minutes."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Olga de Coude was a very beautiful woman, and Tarzan of the Apes a very lonely young man, with a heart in him that was in need of the doctoring that only a woman may provide.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 39:
text: For example, some doctors have a reputation for being particularly adept at working on unconscious people. If the symptoms have lingered for a long time and doctorings have not been successful, the family may postpone further treatment […]
ref: 1950, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, number 15, page 39:
text: Now a critical mass of scientific information exists that creates clear paths to further improvements in the management of HIV disease. This information, combined with good doctoring, effective drugs, and organized communities, is the foundation of the current optimism.
ref: 1996 September, Michael Immel, “The Changing Story of a Virus”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: Treatment by a doctor; the practice of treating the sick; practising medicine.
Derived terms: double doctoring
spin doctoring
teledoctoring
long-windedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From long-winded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The use of more words than are necessary for clarity or precision; verbosity, prolixity.
Synonyms: longiloquence
Related terms: ambages
belabour
circumlocution
long-winded
loquacity
pleniloquence
verbose
neighbours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbors
Senses: glosses: plural of neighbour
neighbours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neighbors
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neighbour
neighboured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighborred
form: neighbored
form: neborat
Etymology: From Middle English neȝeburrede, equivalent to neighbour + -red. Cognate with Scots nechbourret.
Senses: examples: text: … thinking even that by that or patience to have enduced him to beare us true amytie and to use good neighbored towards us and or subjects, for the which respect we were not only contented to heare such iniuries as to or sell had been by hym doon, …
ref: 1556, Marye the Quene
glosses: The state or condition of being a neighbour; neighbourhood; neighbourship.
neighboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From neighbour.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neighbour
happy Thanksgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: God bless America, and happy Thanksgiving.
ref: 2022 November 22, Thomas L[oren] Friedman, “Five Readings for Your Thanksgiving Table”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2022:
glosses: The greeting said near the holiday Thanksgiving.
monks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of monk
monks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monk
downloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /daʊnˈləʊdɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of download
downloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnloʊdɪŋ/
ipa: /daʊnˈləʊdɪŋ/
Forms: form: downloadings
Senses: examples: text: In late 1994, about two million copies had been downloaded, and the rate of new downloadings from the Internet was about 50,000 copies per month.
ref: 2018, Donna J. Haraway, Thyrza Goodeve, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium:
glosses: The process by which something is downloaded.
lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmps/
rhymes: -æmps
Senses: glosses: plural of lamp
lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmps/
rhymes: -æmps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lamp
anklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anklets
Etymology: From ankle + -et, based on bracelet.
Senses: glosses: A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
examples: text: Stretch socks are made in infant sizes, girls' and ladies' anklets […]
ref: 1959, Chain Store Age for Supermarket-Grocery Executives, page 237:
glosses: An ankle sock.
Coordinate terms: armlet
kneelet
leglet
necklet
wristlet
Derived terms: ankleted
lads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lædz/
rhymes: -ædz
Senses: glosses: plural of lad
examples: text: Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment.
ref: 1998, Tom Stoppard., The Real Inspector Hound:
text: I loved saying lads . . . like I was a comrade . . . like I was one of them ... me and the lads . . . alright lads, eh ... Italy, no problem .
ref: 2000, Marie Jones., Stones In His Pockets:
glosses: A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
Poindexter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstə/
Etymology: From Jersey Norman Poingdestre (literally “right fist”). The sense “bookish or socially unskilled person” is from the character of the same name in the cartoon Felix the Cat. Its first use appears c. 1981 in the publication University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Slang. Its first use, rather, appears in the Dick Sargent "Saturday Evening Post" cover painting entitled "Picking Poindexter" dated October 1959, one year after Felix the Cat began on television.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Jersey Norman.
Poindexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnˌdɛkstə/
Forms: form: Poindexters
form: poindexter
Etymology: From Jersey Norman Poingdestre (literally “right fist”). The sense “bookish or socially unskilled person” is from the character of the same name in the cartoon Felix the Cat. Its first use appears c. 1981 in the publication University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Slang. Its first use, rather, appears in the Dick Sargent "Saturday Evening Post" cover painting entitled "Picking Poindexter" dated October 1959, one year after Felix the Cat began on television.
Senses: examples: text: Brain: A quantum-interface bomb? Are you insane in the membrane? / Philip Fry: You got it, Poindexter!
ref: 2003 April 6, David X. Cohen, “The Why of Fry”, in Futurama, season 5, episode 8, Fox Broadcasting Company:
text: On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.
ref: 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:
synonyms: geek
nerd
glosses: A bookish or socially unskilled person.
Derived terms: poindexterish
prostrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/
Etymology: From Middle English prostrat(e) (“prostrate”, also used as the past participle of prostraten), borrowed from Latin prōstrātus, perfect passive participle of prōsternō (“to prostrate”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: examples: text: Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
ref: 1945, Sir Winston Churchill, VE Day speech from House of Commons
synonyms: prone
antonyms: supine
glosses: Lying flat, face-down.
glosses: Emotionally devastated.
examples: text: He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
glosses: Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
glosses: Prostrated.
Derived terms: prostrate amaranth
prostrate pigweed
prostrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒstɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑstɹeɪt/
Forms: form: prostrates
form: prostrating
form: prostrated
form: prostrated
Etymology: From Middle English prostraten (“(reflexive) to prostrate; (with doun) to fall down in a state of humility or submission”), from prostrat(e) (“prostrate, prostrated”, also used as the past participle of prostraten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin prōstrātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: To lie flat or face-down.
examples: text: Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 228:
text: But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.
ref: 2014 July 10, Stephen Glover, “Sorry, but Gandhi statue in Westminster is a cheap stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history greasing up to India”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: To throw oneself down in submission.
examples: text: How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 175:
glosses: To cause to lie down, to flatten.
examples: text: Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: To overcome or overpower.
Related terms: prostration
kowtow
close-knit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊs ˈnɪt/
ipa: /kloʊs ˈnɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: closer-knit
form: more close-knit
form: closest-knit
form: most close-knit
Etymology: From close (“in an intimate or immediate manner”, adverb) + knit (“joined closely and firmly together”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: a close-knit community
text: I come from a close-knit family; we never keep secrets from one another.
text: He looked rather to a close-knit company of brethren and sisters, knit so close that he could call it a family or a brotherhood, eager that God's kingdom should come.
ref: 1860, Edward Everett Hale, The Elements of Christian Doctrine:
text: I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
text: The close-knit ethnic enclave also provides a stable environment where the dialect is commonly used. Therefore, if an ethnic community is close-knit the ethnic mother tongue is more likely to be retained under consensual pressure of its members to maintain linguistic separateness.
ref: 1993, Ana Roca, John M. Lipski, Spanish in the United States:
synonyms: word: tight
word: tight-knit
word: thick as thieves
word: coherent
word: cohesive
word: consociated
word: corporate
word: tenacious
word: unified
word: united
antonyms: word: loose-knit
word: coherent
word: conjunct
word: indistinct
word: joined
word: unified
glosses: Of a group: closely connected or linked, as by a common bond, culture, or identity.
piezoelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˌiːzəʊ.ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪti/
ipa: /piˌeɪzəʊ.ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪti/
ipa: /ˌpiːzəʊ.ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪti/
Etymology: From piezo- + electricity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A voltage generated by certain crystals in response to an applied mechanical stress.
Related terms: piezoelectric
panty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ænti
Forms: form: panties
form: pantie
Etymology: Recorded since 1845 in the plural, meaning “drawers for men”, a derogatory diminutive of pants (the shortening of pantaloons); meaning “underpants for women or children” first recorded 1908.
Senses: glosses: Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
examples: text: 1952 October 13, Advertisement, Life, page 13,
For, unlike old-fashioned diapers, PLAYTEX Dryper confines all wetness to the panty area; brings your baby a whole new world of comfort plus cleaner, finer protection.
text: 2003, Glamour, Volume 101, Issues 4-6, page number unknown,
“One time I was going to run and change before a concert because I realized I had panty lines showing,” says Britta Phillips, […] .
text: That puts their panty well over 1000% higher priced than the Hanes panty and roughly 300% higher priced than the Victoria′s Secret panty. All three are cotton bikini panties. Not much difference in the actual panty but a huge discrepancy in prices.
ref: 2011, Dan S. Kennedy, Jason Marrs, No B.S. Price Strategy, page 54:
glosses: An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
examples: text: There is a special play called “Passing the Star” that allows the jammer to remove her helmet panty and hand it over to the pivot.
ref: 2010, Alex Cohen, Jennifer Barbee, Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby, unnumbered page:
text: We′re practicing this strategy right now. Francesca is the Jammer, and she′s supposed to pass me the helmet panty. Bruisey-Q is assisting her, helping her get through the pack by knocking the formidable ass of ThunderSmack out of the way.
ref: 2010, Pamela Ribon, Going in Circles, page 200:
text: "If you get jammed in, hand me the panty. You can't throw it at me."
ref: 2018, Elicia Hyder, Lights Out Lucy: Roller Derby 101:
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: A helmet cover.
Derived terms: pantied
pantie girdle
panty girdle
pantie hose
pantihose
pantyhose
panty hose
panty-hose
Pantifa
pantiliner
pantyliner
panty liner
panty-belt
panty dropper
pantyless
panty line
panty man
panty raid
panty remover
panty shield
pantywaist
pink panty dropper
barometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɹəˈmɛtɹɪk/
Etymology: From baro- + -metric.
Senses: examples: text: A low barometric pressure is characteristic of hurricanes.
text: Barb Stuckey, the company's chief innovation and marketing officer, who describes herself as a hypertaster and whose tongue can detect changes in barometric pressure, greeted me in the hall carrying an armful of milk cartons.
ref: 2024 November 19, Tomas Weber, “Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2024:
glosses: Of or pertaining to atmospheric pressure.
glosses: Made or done with a barometer.
Derived terms: barometrically
barometric pressure
geobarometric
geothermobarometric
isobarometric
nonbarometric
Related terms: barometer
anti-personnel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antipersonnel
Etymology: From anti- + personnel.
Senses: examples: text: An anti-personnel mine will kill a soldier but is ineffective against a tank.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.
Synonyms: word: AP
Related terms: armor-piercing
armour-piercing
anti-tank
antitank
area-denial
forged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd͡ʒd/
ipa: /fɔːɹdʒd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd
Senses: examples: text: Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
text: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
ref: 2013 January 24, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
glosses: Fake (as documents); falsified.
examples: text: The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
glosses: Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
Derived terms: nonforged
unforged
Related terms: drop-forged
forged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːd͡ʒd/
ipa: /fɔːɹdʒd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd
Senses: examples: text: He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.
glosses: past participle of forge. To force forward against opposition.
languid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd/
ipa: /ˈlæŋɡwəd/
Forms: form: languids
Etymology: A variant of languet.
Senses: examples: text: A new method of voicing flue pipes has recently been introduced by which a greater volume of tone is obtained without increasing the wind pressure. This is accomplished by making use of TWO languids in metal pipes with a space between the upper and lower languids. As may be required, a small hole is bored in either of the languids, or in the back of the pipe in the space between the two languids.
ref: 1913, William Horatio Clarke, “Double Languids”, in Standard Organ Building, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, the Gorham Press, →OCLC, page 150:
synonyms: word: language
word: languet
extra: (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”)
glosses: Synonym of languet (“a flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ”).
sodium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium chlorides
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: table salt, salt
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: mul:NaCl
muriate of soda
glosses: Common table salt, a compound composed of equal number of sodium and chlorine atoms. Chemical formula NaCl.
NaCl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the chemical formula; see Na, Cl.
Senses: glosses: Sodium chloride; table salt.
sea salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea salts
Senses: examples: text: I always keep a tin of sea salt in the pantry.
glosses: Salt prepared by evaporating seawater.
examples: text: This is a saltwater fish. It needs ambient sea salt to survive.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sea, salt: salt in the sea.
Derived terms: sea-salty
bytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
homophone: bights
homophone: bites
Senses: glosses: plural of byte
rarebit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarebits
Etymology: By ellipsis of Welsh rarebit, corruption of Welsh rabbit.
Senses: glosses: Welsh rarebit
Derived terms: buck rarebit
Related terms: Welsh rarebit
Welsh rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Welsh rabbits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Welsh rarebit.
delict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪkt/
ipa: /ˈdiːlɪkt/
Forms: form: delicts
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin delictum (“fault”), from neuter of delictus, past participle of delinquo (“to be lacking; to fail; to transgress”), from dē- + linquō (“to leave, quit, forsake, depart from”).
Senses: qualifier: civil law; Scots law; civil law; Scots law
glosses: A wrongful act, analogous to a tort in common law.
topics: law
glosses: The branch of law dealing in delicts.
Derived terms: delictual
quasi-delict
Related terms: in flagrant delict
corpus delicti
downloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of download
downloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of download
downloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of download
bewildered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈwɪldɚd/
ipa: /bəˈwɪldəd/
Forms: form: more bewildered
form: most bewildered
Senses: examples: text: He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
text: The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
text: This shows their superiority over opium – cold, selfish, unsociable, mad, bewildered, soul-destroying opium.
ref: 1825 January - December, Obadiah Lapstone, “Views of Life”, in The Newcastle Magazine, volume 4, page 452:
text: The prime object in his view is the gratification of his relish for strong drink, united with that bewildered elevation of spirits, which he feels in the hour of intoxication.
ref: 1836, Timothy Dwight, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons - Volume 3, page 3:
text: Having got away the knives and lances of the men, who were bewildered and enraged with drink, she came stealthily into the cabin, feeling her way in the darkness, and hid them in the cracks and crevices of the logs.
ref: 1836, Lewis Cass, Speeches, Etc, page 49:
text: There is perhaps a likeness in the whiteness of the moonlight to the shining clearness of snow ; at all events Janet thought very much, though in a bewildered, drink be-clouded way, of the night when Wee Amos was injured, and that early Sabbath morning when Maggie had fetched her to him through the snow.
ref: 1875, St. Mungo's curse; or, The crippled singer of the Saltmarket, page 79:
text: It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.
ref: 2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
Synonyms: confounded
Derived terms: bewilderedly
bewilderedness
unbewildered
bewildered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈwɪldɚd/
ipa: /bəˈwɪldəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bewilder
hears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /hɪɹz/
ipa: /hjɜzː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
homophone: here's
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hear
bewilders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewilder
bewildering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈwɪldɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more bewildering
form: most bewildering
Etymology: From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
text: —At once bewildering mists around him close, / And cold and hunger are the least of woes; / The Demon of the Snow, with angry roar / Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.
ref: 1791–1792 (published 1793), William Wordsworth, “Descriptive Sketches, Taken during a Pedestrian Tour among the Alps”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 33, column 1:
text: The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 98–99:
synonyms: word: dizzying
word: head-scratching
word: mind-boggling
word: puzzlesome
word: baffling
word: bemusing
word: befuddling
word: bewildering
word: cattywampus
word: clear as mud
word: confounding
word: confusing
word: confuzzling
word: complicated
word: disordered
word: flabbergasting
word: incomprehensible
word: inexplicable
word: insensible
word: jumbled
word: mystifying
word: nonplussing
word: perplexing
word: puzzling
word: unintelligible
word: uninterpretable
word: vague
antonyms: unbewildering
glosses: Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
Derived terms: bewilderingly
bewilderingness
unbewildering
Related terms: bewilder
bewilderment
bewildering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈwɪldɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: bewilderings
Etymology: From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: Can this be the Bird, to man so good, / Our consecrated Robin! / That, after their bewildering, / Did cover with leaves the little children, / So painfully in the wood?
ref: 1806, William Wordsworth, “The Redbreast and the Butterfly”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1807, →OCLC, page 17:
text: Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book VI. Isabel, and the First Part of the Story of Isabel.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section V, page 168:
glosses: gerund of bewilder: bewilderment.
bewildering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɪldəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈwɪldɹɪŋ/
Etymology: From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bewilder
skies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: examples: text: "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form; the heavens; the firmament; the atmosphere.
glosses: plural of skie.
skies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sky
skies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
ipa: /skiːz/
ipa: /skaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ski
tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌŋz/
rhymes: -ʌŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue
tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌŋz/
rhymes: -ʌŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tongue
sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːts/
ipa: /ʃits/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: plural of sheet
sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːts/
ipa: /ʃits/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: examples: text: When I looked out, all I could see were sheets of rain.
glosses: Of rain or other precipitation, a great amount.
Related terms: in sheets
sheets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːts/
ipa: /ʃits/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sheet
spoiler effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoiler effects
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
coordinate_terms: Nader effect
qualifier: voting theory
glosses: A situation where a losing alternative affects the results of some competition, such as a sporting event or election.
Related terms: Duverger's law
manifested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manifested
form: most manifested
Derived terms: manifestedness
unmanifested
manifested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manifest
preached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /priːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preach
hearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearing
Nader effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ralph Nader, whose candidacy for President of the United States in the year 2000 was contended to have "spoiled" the election for Al Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in Florida and many other states to allow George W. Bush to win.
Senses: topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: spoiler effect
glosses: The effect that a candidate for the corresponding political office (especially the office of President of the United States) can have on a close political election, when their candidacy results in the election being won by a candidate dissimilar to them, rather than one similar to them.
manifesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manifest
bidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɪɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bid
bidding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɪɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: biddings
Senses: examples: text: I still have lots of paperwork to do at the boss's bidding.
text: Do their biddings, and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
ref: 1868, Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury, page 172:
synonyms: behest
glosses: That which one is bidden to do; a command.
examples: text: Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.
ref: 1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present, page 322:
glosses: The act of placing a bid.
Derived terms: bidding box
bidding price
do someone's bidding
e-bidding
misbidding
nonbidding
unbidding
stretching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: stretchings
Etymology: From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
ref: 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:
glosses: The act by which something is stretched.
glosses: A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
Derived terms: key stretching
stretching course
stretching frame
stretching-iron
stretching the long bow
time stretching
stretching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more stretching
form: most stretching
Etymology: From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Requiring a high level of effort or performance.
stretching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English strecchinge, strecchynge, from Old English streċċende, from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjandī, present participle of *strakkjan (“to stretch”), equivalent to stretch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stretch
snatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Forms: form: more snatched
form: most snatched
Senses: examples: text: So she lifted her head and continued the trek. “See, that's more like it,” Norman said. “Walk like you own this motherfuckin' town. You are looking snatched in that dress.” Norman pretended as though he had yanked something up out of thin air.
ref: 2017, Shereé Whitfield, Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta, →ISBN, page 46:
text: “Everyone says that you should wait, because your body doesn’t fully come in until you’re like 30, and I’m 20 years old, and why am I going to wait until I’m 30 to be snatched?” Catera Northup, an exotic dancer from Rhode Island, said.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Good-looking.
examples: text: Lucinda impressed her class when she revealed how snatched she was under her baggy sweatshirt.
glosses: Having a narrow waist.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.
ref: 2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 131:
text: “You know I'm endorsing a new line?” “I can tell with your extra snatched waist.” I gave her the stink eye. “Don't hate, bitch.” We both started cracking up.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Mia Black, His Dirty Secret 2: Charmaine's Story, Mahogany Publications:
glosses: Narrow.
raw_tags: of a person's waist
glosses: Having an attractive, sculpted appearance of face and/or body.
Derived terms: snatched waist
snatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snatch
bids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪdz/
rhymes: -ɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of bid
bids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪdz/
rhymes: -ɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bid
stretches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of stretch
stretches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stretch
sweeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, sweep + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sweep
sweeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Forms: form: sweepings
Etymology: By surface analysis, sweep + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.
glosses: An instance of sweeping.
examples: text: Sweeping took all morning.
text: The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.
glosses: The activity of sweeping.
Derived terms: at a sweeping reduction
sweeping day
sweeping flood
sweeping-machine
sweeping rain
sweepings