cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: dippings
Senses: examples: text: […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “Henrie the second”, in The first and second volumes of Chronicles, page 82:
text: By an infinite number of materials, I mean colours and shades of all kinds and degrees; some notion of which variety may be formed by supposing a piece of white silk by several dippings gradually dyed to a black; and carrying it in like manner through the prime tints of yellow, red, and blue; and then again, by making the like progress through all the mixtures that are to be made of these three original colours.
ref: 1753, William Hogarth, chapter 13, in The Analysis of Beauty, London: for the author, page 110:
text: Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him. Cyrus soon solved the problem. He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, London: Heinemann, Part One, Chapter 3, I, p. 11:
glosses: An act or process of immersing.
glosses: The act of inclining downward.
glosses: The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
glosses: The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
glosses: The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
examples: text: That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35:
topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
Related terms: dippingly
dipping needle
dipping sauce
dipping stick
dipping tank
double-dipping
hot dipping
skinny-dipping
skinny dipping
dypping
committing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commit
committing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: committings
Senses: examples: text: This and more I would haue done, but what is past cannot bee recalled, and it is too late to put old omittings to new committings.
ref: 1624, John Taylor, The Scourge of Basenesse:
text: Any pedagogue knows that a criticism too often repeated destroys its own purpose. These ever more numerous sallies of our social critics into the old world, these punctual committings to print of all the painful things they learn there […]
ref: 1930, The Commonweal, volume 12, page 120:
glosses: The act by which something is committed.
presuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of presume
presuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more presuming
form: most presuming
Senses: glosses: confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.
Derived terms: presumingly
presumingness
scrubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scrub + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrub
scrubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrubbings
Etymology: From scrub + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to scrub
glosses: An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.
glosses: The removal of impurities from gas.
Derived terms: data scrubbing
scrubbing brush
Related terms: scrub
scrubbed
slowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slow
slowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowings
Senses: examples: text: The Wycombe slowing begins at West Wycombe; to the High Wycombe curve itself most exaggerated respect was shown, with a minimum of 30 m.p.h.
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87:
text: We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: While the first part to Manchester is level after the initial climb out of Liverpool, the section over the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds is very difficult, with steep gradients as well as many slowings over junctions and curves.
ref: 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 58:
glosses: A deceleration; a slowing down.
transforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transform
transforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transformings
Senses: examples: text: Thereby you give nature time to work her magic transformings; turning all solids to meat, and wine into blood.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter 72, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: Hence come the monsterings and transformings of souls after death, and it is in this Scheol and place of transformation, where souls are after death, that this Spirit is present and at work throughout the whole of nature.
ref: 2016, A. J. Penny, Studies in Jacob Bohme, page 96:
glosses: transformation
roaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roam
roaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊmɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Forms: form: roamings
Senses: examples: text: That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.
ref: 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in New York Times:
glosses: An instance of wandering.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: operating system
glosses: Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.
roasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English rostynge; equivalent to roast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.
ref: 1922, “The Bride's Cookery Primer”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66:
glosses: present participle and gerund of roast
roasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Forms: form: more roasting
form: most roasting
Etymology: From Middle English rostynge; equivalent to roast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.
glosses: Very hot.
roasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊstɪŋ
Forms: form: roastings
Etymology: From Middle English rostynge; equivalent to roast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings[…]
ref: 1885, Henry Marion Howe, Copper smelting, page 15:
text: There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act by which something is roasted.
examples: text: My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.
glosses: A strong rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).
Derived terms: spit-roasting
releasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of release
releasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: releasings
Senses: examples: text: It would be quite unnecessary to traverse year by year the records of importations of eggs and releasings of fry.
ref: 1938, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, page 1307:
glosses: The act by which something is released.
throbbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throb
throbbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I have a throbbing headache.
glosses: Beating or pounding strongly.
throbbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throbbings
Senses: examples: text: Krause’s “niche hypothesis” may seem more plausible after you’ve listened to his recordings of dense tropical jungles, polyphonous soundscapes packed with whistles and whinnies, whoops, hoots and howls, deep bass throbbings and shrieking buzzes.
ref: 2007 February 18, Jeff Hull, “The Noises of Nature”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which throbs.
executing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of execute
glazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glaze
glazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: glazings
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
examples: text: Before new glazier's putty can be applied, the various bits of old glazing must be scraped off.
glosses: The material used in such act or process; glaze.
glosses: The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
topics: architecture
glosses: All the windows of a building.
glosses: The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
Derived terms: double glazing
double-glazing
glazing agent
glazing bar
mingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mingle
mingling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minglings
Senses: glosses: A mixture; a blending.
provoking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provoke
provoking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more provoking
form: most provoking
Senses: examples: text: Would you stop interrupting me, dear? It's a most provoking habit.
glosses: annoying; irritating
Derived terms: thought-provoking
provoking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provokings
Senses: examples: text: The habit of mind so engendered is wholly demoralizing, particularly since the national political consciousness is so dependent on their provokings.
ref: 1974, Clifford Adelman, No Loaves, No Parables; Liberal Politics and the American Language:
glosses: provocation
multitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitude
examples: text: Last October she turned up at the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights pushing the wheelchair of a friend in the people with AIDS contingent and speaking to the queer multitudes at the post-March rally.
ref: 1988 August 20, Christopher Wittke, “Good as Goldberg”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7:
glosses: The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses.
betrothal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtɹəʊ.ðəl/
ipa: /bɪˈtɹoʊ.ðəl/
ipa: /bɪˈtɹəʉ.ðəl/
ipa: /bɪˈtɹɐʉ.ðəl/
rhymes: -əʊðəl
Forms: form: betrothals
Etymology: From betroth + -al.
Senses: examples: text: marriage betrothal
text: formal betrothal
text: announce a betrothal
text: Their betrothal was announced in the local newspaper.
text: The play ends with a wedding after a long betrothal.
glosses: The act of betrothing.
glosses: The fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between two people.
Synonyms: betrothment
affiance
Derived terms: prebetrothal
alarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alarm
alarms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alarm
fathoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fathom
fathoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fathom
plots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plot
plots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plot
initials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of initial
initials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəlz/
Senses: examples: text: Write your initials at the top of the page.
glosses: An abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram
initials
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of initial
predecessors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prædecessors
Senses: glosses: plural of predecessor
benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of bench
benches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɛntʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bench
illustrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illustration
folded optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An optical system in which prisms and/or mirrors are used to reduce the overall physical length of the system.
featureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ.ləs/
Forms: form: more featureless
form: most featureless
Etymology: From feature + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a featureless brick wall
text: This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
text: The branch is three and a half miles long over virtually level, featureless countryside.
ref: 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 278:
glosses: Without distinguishing features.
Derived terms: featurelessly
featurelessness
defenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛnsləs/
Forms: form: more defenceless
form: most defenceless
form: defenseless
Etymology: From defence + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Blind, deaf, and paralysed, the old man was defenceless; and the robbers easily stole all of his money.
text: The hawk, foul murderer of defenceless birds, has sighted the chicken on the bare patch.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 95:
text: Railway engines have been attacked with gunfire by raiding aircraft on both sides of the Channel and the impression has grown up that they are defenceless monsters to be pestered with impunity. The first engine to disprove this vainglorious theory was, we are glad to note, a British one. [The locomotive boiler exploded, causing the aircraft to crash.]
ref: 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:
glosses: Without defence; undefended.
Derived terms: defencelessly
defencelessness
groundless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊndləs/
Forms: form: more groundless
form: most groundless
Etymology: From Middle English groundles, from Old English grundlēas, from Proto-Germanic *grundulausaz, equivalent to ground + -less. Cognate with Dutch grondeloos, German Low German grundlos, German grundlos, Danish grundløs, Swedish grundlös.
Senses: examples: text: [B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
ref: 1840, Lewis Rose, chapter III, in An Humble Attempt to Put an End to the Present Divisions in the Church of Scotland, and to Promote Her Usefulness. […] , Glasgow: George Gallie, →OCLC, page 51:
text: At that stage any fears among home fans of a possession monopoly by Laudrup's side were proving groundless, with Cardiff having their fair share of the ball and territory.
ref: 2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online:
synonyms: word: baseless
word: unfounded
word: unsupported
word: baseless
word: idle
word: footless
word: groundless
word: unfounded
word: ungrounded
word: unjustified
word: unproved
word: unproven
word: unsubstantiated
word: unsupported
glosses: Without any grounds to support it; baseless.
Derived terms: groundlessly
groundlessness
ceaseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsləs/
Etymology: From cease + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an end.
examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: Without stop or pause, incessant.
Derived terms: ceaselessly
ceaselessness
shapeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shapeless
form: most shapeless
Etymology: From shape + -less.
Senses: examples: text: If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
ref: 1976, Records in Review, page 407:
glosses: Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
Synonyms: amorphous
formless
sightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sight + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: Without sight; blind; unseeing.
examples: text: In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.
ref: 1812, John Joseph Henry, An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775, William Greer, page 201:
text: The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.
ref: 1908, The Summary, volume 36, page 72:
glosses: Synonym of invisible.
synonyms: word: invisible
Derived terms: sightlessly
sightlessness
soundless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊn(d)ləs/
Forms: form: more soundless
form: most soundless
Etymology: From sound + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a soundless tableau
text: Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
Antony. Not stingless too.
Brutus. O yes, and soundless too;
For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
And very wisely threat before you sting.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The Psalmist observes, That the Heavens declare the glory of God: And indeed, they celebrate his Praises, though with a soundless Voice, yet with so loud a one […] to our intellectual Ears, that he scruples not to affirm, that There is no Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard […]
ref: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulness of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Richard Davis, Essay 2, page 49:
text: The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.
ref: 1797, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 7, in The Italian, volume 2, London: T. Cadell Junior & W. Davies, page 225:
text: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country […]
ref: 1839 September, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 5, page 145:
text: The names of men blow soundless by,
My fellows’ and my own.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, London: Grant Richards, published 1898, XXXVIII, p. 55:
text: All day a woman across the room from me has been rolling up her pages scroll-like and smoothing them out as soundless tears cascade down her face.
ref: 1984 August 18, Pam Mitchell, “We Must Not Silence Our Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 8:
synonyms: noiseless
silent
glosses: Without sound.
examples: text: the soundless deep
text: Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “(please specify the sonnet number)”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: 1614, Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third, London: L. Lisle, “The Legend of Richard the Third,”
Nor Wits, nor Chronicles could ere containe,
The Hell-deepe Reaches, of my soundlesse Braine.
text: This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
ref: 1881, Walt Whitman, “Out from Behind This Mask (To Confront a Portrait)”, in Leaves of Grass, London: David Bogue, page 296:
synonyms: bottomless
depthless
fathomless
unfathomable
unsoundable
glosses: Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
Derived terms: soundlessly
soundlessness
Related terms: sound
noiseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more noiseless
form: most noiseless
Etymology: From noise + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The movements of the cat were noiseless as it approached the mousehole.
text: For by the hearth the children sit
⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death,
⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath,
Or like to noiseless phantoms flit:
But open converse is there none, […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33:
synonyms: noise-free
glosses: Producing no noise; without noise.
examples: text: The core idea of the Nostega paradign is basically camouflaging messages by embedding them in a form of noiseless data by employing either altered authenticated data or legitimate untraceable data, as shown in Section 1.3.
ref: 2016, Abdelrahman Desoky, Noiseless Steganography, page 4:
glosses: Containing no noise.
Derived terms: noiselessly
noiselessness
joyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joyless
form: most joyless
Etymology: From joy + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Without Joy, my life is joyless!
text: The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 225:
text: “It comes from chasing the fun,” says Regan. “A lot of the working-class cinema I grew up watching was so joyless. Endless trauma.”
ref: 2023 August 24, Cath Clarke, “‘A lot of working-class cinema is so joyless’: Charlotte Regan on her candy-coloured debut Scrapper”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Without joy; unhappy, sad.
Synonyms: sad
cheerless
Derived terms: joylessly
joylessness
expressionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expressionless
form: most expressionless
Etymology: From expression + -less.
Senses: synonyms: inexpressive
glosses: without expression
Derived terms: expressionlessly
expressionlessness
omitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of omit
omitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omittings
Senses: examples: text: Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
ref: 1811, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, volume 9, page 871:
glosses: An act of omission.
humbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of humble
humbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humblings
Senses: glosses: An event which causes humbleness; a set-down.
humbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humbling
form: most humbling
Senses: glosses: Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority.
Derived terms: humblingly
tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: trackings
Senses: examples: text: In volume, the erudite studies of his language, the trackings of his numerous references to persons, places, and things around him, and the reconstruction of the details of his little-known life have occupied the most attention […]
ref: 1963, Abraham C. Keller, The Telling of Tales in Rabelais: Aspects of His Narrative Art:
glosses: The act or process by which something is tracked.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
topics: education
synonyms: streaming
glosses: The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The synchronization of two or more signals.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of conductive paths on the surface of an insulating material due to electrical discharges.
Derived terms: antitracking
anti-tracking
bug-tracking
double-tracking
eyetracking
four-tracking
issue-tracking
issue tracking system
pixel tracking
radio tracking
single-tracking
tile tracking
time tracking
tracking poll
tracking resistance
tracking shot
tracking stock
videotracking
Related terms: kerning
tracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of track
suffocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suffocate
suffocating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: suffocatings
Senses: examples: text: Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.
ref: 1895 October 3, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “How to Tell a Story”, in How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1898, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Synonym of suffocation.
synonyms: word: suffocation
suffocating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌfəkeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more suffocating
form: most suffocating
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to conceive a state of society in which a sufficient number of disinterested and civilized and imaginative people would, even if given the chance, voluntarily undertake what would be to them the suffocating boredom of government.
ref: 1427, Hesketh Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, Penguin Books in Association with Methuen, page 165:
text: On the sudden outburst of a great fire, the passages are commonly filled with suffocating smoke, and often with flame, which render the hydrants in the internal passages inaccessible, and generally cut off communication with superior reservoirs, and of this there have been frequent large instances.
ref: 1877, Great Britain Parliament, Journal of the Society of Arts, Volume 25, The Society., page 442:
text: "From the Thursday before to that Time he was dying of an hard Cough and a suffocating Asthma with a Fever; but he felt no great Pain; he had the sweet Composure and easy Departure, for which he had entreated so often and fervently the sovereign Disposer of all Things.
ref: 1885, Clifford Kenyon Shipton, John Langdon Sibley, Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Massachusetts Historical Society, page 40:
text: But during this siege it is certain that Greek fire was used with dreadful effect upon the Turks, driving them back with its fierce flame and suffocating smoke as they attempted to cross the ditch and scale the walls, destroying their platforms and ladders, and consuming even the bodies of the dead.
ref: 1895, John Foxe, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Charles Foster Publishing Company, pages 222-223:
text: For since there were many in a deep and narrow space, the sun and the suffocating heat were still distressing them at first, and the contrasting cold autumnal nights that ensued weakened their condition by the change, and since they had to do everything in the same space because of close confines, and furthermore the corpses were piled together on one another, dead from wounds and because of the change and so forth, there were unbearable smells, and at the same time they were afflicted with hunger and thirst (for eight months they gave each a cup of water and two cups of food a day), and of all the other miseries men thrust into such a place were likely to suffer there was not one that they did not encounter. For up to seventy days, the whole group lived like this; then, except for the Athenians and whatever Sikeliots or Italiots had joined them, they sold them all. The total number captured, while difficult to give out accurately, was nevertheless not fewer than seven thousand.
ref: 1998, Steven Lattimore, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: Thucydides, Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated, →ISBN, pages 406-407:
glosses: That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.
restraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restrain
restraining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restrainings
Senses: examples: text: She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]
ref: 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
glosses: The act by which someone or something is restrained.
Related terms: restraining order
oxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That oxidizes.
Derived terms: inoxidizing
nonoxidizing
oxidizing agent
oxidizing flame
photooxidizing
oxidizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oxidize
pricking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prick
pricking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: prickings
Senses: examples: text: The prickings of thorns
glosses: The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
examples: text: the prickings of conscience
glosses: A sensation that pricks,or causes sharp emotional pain.
examples: text: THE pricking a horse has proved to be as useless an operation as it is simple, seldom or never having the desired effect; consequently the practice should be abolished
ref: 1841, Richard Mason, The Gentleman's New Pocket Farrier:
glosses: The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
examples: text: No better material can be used than seggar or underclay prickings
ref: 1906, George Mitcheson Bailes, Modern Mining Practice:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A nicking.
glosses: The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
glosses: Dressing oneself for show; prinking.
Derived terms: pricking at the belt
pricking-up
substituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of substitute
rescuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rescue
rescuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescuings
Senses: examples: text: Betty — so stout, and with that rheumatism in her leg — did she ever think of herself? Or Aunt Rosamund, with her perpetual rescuings of lost dogs, lame horses, and penniless musicians?
ref: 1917, John Galsworthy, Beyond:
glosses: The act of effecting a rescue.
replacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replace
chicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of chick
chicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chick
staining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stain
groping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grope
groping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gropings
Senses: examples: text: Sexual harassment may include rape or attempted rape; it may include gropings, touching up and suggestive remarks.
ref: 1983, Elizabeth Wilson, What is to be done about violence against women? (part 3, page 177)
text: But we now look at the Met's westerly gropings. These began from the new, south-westerly pointing annexe at Paddington - Paddington (Praed Street). From there the Met marched on Bayswater (now Queensway), Notting Hill Gate, High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road before effecting its rendezvous with the District at South Kensington in December 1868.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: An act of groping; a grope.
seduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seduce
hitchhiking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hitchhike
hitchhiking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitchhikings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who hitchhikes.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of evolution caused by genetic drift.
Derived terms: pseudohitchhiking
housed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊzd/
rhymes: -aʊzd
Senses: glosses: Enclosed, provided or covered with a house.
housed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊzd/
rhymes: -aʊzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of house
Derived terms: cohoused
council-housed
mis-housed
mishoused
nonhoused
underhoused
unhoused
vehicularly housed
clicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: clickings
Senses: examples: text: Thus one pair of dolphins talking can sound like two pairs of dolphins talking, one pair exchanging clickings, the other pair exchanging whistles.
ref: 2001, Bobby Matherne, The Spizznet File: An Adventure in Interspecies Communication:
glosses: The sound or action of a click.
clicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of click
Derived terms: autoclicking
double-clicking
injuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of injure
inspires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inspire
programmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: programed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of program
glosses: simple past and past participle of programme
programmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: programed
Senses: glosses: having a minister or pastor who conducts religious services.
Related terms: programmed cell death
programmed function key
programmed obsolescence
programmed random occurrence
isolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of isolate
isolating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isolating
form: most isolating
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphemes
raw_tags: of languages
registers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of register
registers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of register
preserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preserve
preserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Best Eye Preserves, steel frames, large coloured eyes, various tints.
ref: 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
glosses: Spectacles to protect the eyes from strong light, etc.
preserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preserve
levelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leveled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of level
Derived terms: multilevelled
scheming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scheme + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scheme
scheming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scheming
form: most scheming
Etymology: From scheme + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
Synonyms: designing
scheming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schemings
Etymology: From scheme + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
joins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of join
joins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔɪnz/
rhymes: -ɔɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of join
matured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matured
form: most matured
Derived terms: immatured
nonmatured
overmatured
unmatured
matured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mature
reverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revert
reverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tɪd/
Forms: form: more reverted
form: most reverted
Senses: glosses: That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
glosses: Bent back, reversed.
examples: text: With many a pause and oft reverted eye / I climb the Coomb's ascent [...].
ref: 1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb:
glosses: Directed backwards.
intimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intimate
furnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of furnish
furnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furnishings
Senses: examples: text: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
glosses: Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
examples: text: As plush and huggable as a child's stuffed toy with curly whiskers, ears full of curly ear furnishings
ref: 2001, J. Anne Helgren, Rex Cats: Everything about Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Behavior, and Housing, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: A portion of longer hair within the coat of a dog, rabbit, etc.
raw_tags: of an animal
Derived terms: housefurnishing
prejudiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prejudice
prejudiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prejudiced
form: most prejudiced
Senses: synonyms: bigoted
biased
discriminatory
glosses: Having prejudices.
fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Senses: glosses: plural of fan
fans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fan
flanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flank
flanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flank
lasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lästs
ipa: /lɑːsts/
enpr: lăsts
ipa: /læsts/
ipa: /lasts/
ipa: /ɫasts/
rhymes: -ɑːsts
rhymes: -æsts
Senses: glosses: plural of last
lasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lästs
ipa: /lɑːsts/
enpr: lăsts
ipa: /læsts/
ipa: /lasts/
ipa: /ɫasts/
rhymes: -ɑːsts
rhymes: -æsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of last
raises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raise
raises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raise
invading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invade
awarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of award
spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of space
spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: spacings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb space.
examples: text: The spacing of the desks in the exam hall was intended to prevent candidates from copying each other's work.
glosses: A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
examples: text: Put some more spacing between those two words to make them more readable.
text: If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
ref: 2011 August 2, Keith Brindley, Starting Electronics, page 18:
glosses: The space between two objects or people.
examples: text: He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.
ref: 1949 February 24, Alfred Coppel, “Runaway”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 2 (Spring):
text: Shepard: You don't seem too broken up about your partner's death.
Pitne For: Dakni Kur knew the risks when he took to spacing. Right now, my worry is me.
Pitne For: It's unhealthy to be a volus in the Nos Astra spaceport right now. Especially a volus named Pitne For!
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Normandy Crash Site (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Nos Astra spaceport, Illium:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.
Hyponyms: automatic spacing
channel spacing
echo spacing
French spacing
interframe spacing
letterspacing
measured spacing
optical spacing
segment long spacing
train spacing
word spacing
Derived terms: bed spacing
letterspacing
third spacing
Related terms: level spacing distribution
self-spacing tile
spacing effect
spacing mark
spacing mix
zero spacing flux
spacing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: That inserts space between two objects.
Derived terms: double-spacing
letter-spacing
line-spacing
non-spacing
nonspacing
self-spacing
single-spacing
third-spacing
triple-spacing
Related terms: long-spacing sonic log
grants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grant
grants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænts/
rhymes: -ænts
Senses: glosses: plural of grant
patterned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Royal Navy kept patterned birches and patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships
glosses: Conformed to a pattern, a model to be followed.
glosses: Supplied with a pattern
Derived terms: patternedness
prepatterned
patterned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pattern
Derived terms: co-patterned
copatterned
crinkle-patterned
depatterned
micropatterned
mispatterned
multipatterned
nanopatterned
nonpatterned
photopatterned
repatterned
unpatterned
angered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anger
angered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angered
form: most angered
Senses: glosses: Having been made angry.
Derived terms: unangered
reinforced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From reinforce + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinforce
reinforced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinforced
form: most reinforced
Etymology: From reinforce + -ed.
Senses: antonyms: unreinforced
glosses: Having been or containing reinforcement.
Derived terms: unreinforced
reinforced concrete
reinforced lipid
Related terms: rebar
contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹækts/
ipa: /ˈkɑːn.tɹækts/
Senses: glosses: plural of contract
contracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹækts/
rhymes: -ækts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contract
hiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /haɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hire
hiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /haɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: hirings
Senses: examples: text: hirings and firings
text: Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.
ref: 2016 July 19, Matthew d’Ancona, “Theresa May’s Shock Therapy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act by which an employee is hired.
glosses: A fair or market where servants were engaged.
Derived terms: hiring hall
prehiring
quiet hiring