cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪniːn/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in Heimia salicifolia.
ventral tegmental area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ventral tegmental areas
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The ventral tegmentum.
Synonyms: VTA
tegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From tegmentum + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The projections to the frontal lobe that are damaged in schizophrenia originate in the ventral tegmental area.
glosses: Of or pertaining to tegmentum, or the ventral portion of the mesencephalon.
Derived terms: mammillotegmental
mammilotegmental
pallidotegmental
reticulotegmental
transtegmental
ventral tegmental area
sword arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword arms
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The arm in which one's sword is normally held.
Synonyms: weapon arm
Related terms: sword hand
semisupination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-supination
Etymology: From semi- + supination.
Senses: glosses: The position of the forearm wherein the thumb is pointing upwards.
Related terms: semisupinated
compound attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound attacks
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An attack consisting of more than one feint.
eisteddfods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: eisteddfodau
glosses: plural of eisteddfod
censor morum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin censor morum, a censor (critic) of morals.
Senses: examples: 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVII.
The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other.
glosses: A censor of morals.
censors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of censor
censors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of censor
dichlorine hexoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark red fuming liquid whose solid form has the structure [ClO₂]⁺[ClO₄]⁻; it is made by the action of ozone on chlorine dioxide and is diamagnetic and a strong oxidizing agent.
primary offenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary offense
sori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: plural of sorus
sori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: . Latin [Term?]?
Senses: examples: text: […] copper which had contracted an efflorescence from age; the Sori was sulphate of copper combined with zinc or other impurities; and the Misy was a combination of sulphate of copper with sulphate of iron, the predominance of the[…]
ref: 1851, Monthly Journal of Medical Science, page 254:
text: There is another difference in that chalcitis contains three kinds of mineral, copper, misy and sori, each of which we shall describe in its place. The approved variety of chalcitis is honey-coloured, and streaked with fine veins and is friable and not stony. It is also thought to be more useful when fresh[…]
ref: 1966 June 1, Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, BRILL, →ISBN, page 78:
text: […] copper deposits and mentions the various oxidation products including chalcitis (disintegrated and oxidized pyrite/chalcopyrite), misy (copiapite: see glossary), sori (copper sulphate + iron sulphate), melanteria (iron sulphate[…]
ref: 2024 May 1, Robert W. Boyle, A History of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, from Prehistory to the End of the Classical Period, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Copper sulphate, especially combined with other impurities, particularly in the context of the Roman Empire.
sidewall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidewalls
Etymology: From side + wall.
Senses: examples: text: If the puncture had been in the tread I could have had the tire patched, but it was in the sidewall and they can't fix that: they have to replace the whole tire.
glosses: The side of a tire.
glosses: The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall.
examples: text: The kill shot may also be used against balls weakly played off the sidewall
ref: 1978, Charles Garfinkel, Racquetball the easy way, page 87:
text: Mark flipped the ball to Jon for service. His high serve drifted perfectly down the left-hand court, and Mark's weakly hit return fell short off the sidewall.
ref: 2003, David Waters, February the Sixth, page 53:
text: Further, the grazing blow caused the ball to pick up a furiously wicked spin, making it a madly twirling object. The ball skimmed off the sidewall near the corner and into the lower-right corner of the front wall.
ref: 2009, Allan D. Moore, Doms Need Love Too!: Adventures of the Day Old Muffins, page 116:
glosses: The wall forming the side of a structure; a side wall.
The wall forming the side of a racquetball court.
sidewalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidewall
silkscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlkˌskɹin/
Forms: form: silkscreens
Etymology: From silk + screen.
Senses: glosses: A sheet of material (originally silk but now synthetic) with areas that are porous to ink and others that are non-porous to allow printing of images, such as on T-shirts.
silkscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlkˌskɹin/
Forms: form: silkscreens
form: silkscreening
form: silkscreened
form: silkscreened
Etymology: From silk + screen.
Senses: examples: text: The wall text accompanying Warhol’s small canvas with 12 electric-blue crucifixes silkscreened on a black background suggests that the repetition of crosses mirrors his Campbell’s soup cans, with the religious icon serving as “a commodity to be bought and sold.”
ref: 2007 February 6, Martha Schwendener, “Believers and Doubters, Inspired by the Word”, in New York Times:
text: A year ago, if anyone had told Toronto designer Kingi Carpenter she would soon be silkscreening a U. S. president onto dresses, hoodies and scarves, she would have laughed in their face.
ref: 2009 January 13, Andrea Gordon, “Buying into Obama”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 24 May 2010:
glosses: To use a silkscreen to apply an image.
Related terms: serigraph
silkscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silkscreen
silkscreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of silkscreen
sightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sightlier
form: sightliest
Etymology: From Middle English sightlye, equivalent to sight + -ly. Cognate with German sichtlich (“visible”).
Senses: examples: text: Many brave, sightly horses.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: Harry's sightly—yes, he's as sightly as the tallest pine of the mountains, and the Sarpent has named him accordingly; however, some fancy good looks, and some fancy good conduct, only.
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:
text: 'Your face -ain't sightly,' said Ole Pa.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Kata, A Patch of Blue:
glosses: Attractive, pleasing to the eye; affording gratification to the sense of sight; aesthetically pleasing.
examples: text: […] yet the defendant wrongfully and unjustly intending to injure the plaintiff, and deprive him of his right to a free, safe, and unobstructed passage into and upon the said streets to and from his said lot, and to deprive him and his lot of the benefit and advantage of the sightly and elevated position of the lot and improvements […]
ref: 1887, L.J. Critchfield, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Ohio: Volume 9:
text: 30 acres land, situated high and sightly, commanding an unobstructed view of the surrounding country, […]
ref: 1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Henry Hodgman Saylor, Country Life in America - Volume 13, page 361:
text: Q. Would you consider land having an unobstructed view of one mile as having a sightly view, that is what you mean by sightly? A. Yes, it might be sightly.
ref: 1912, Supreme Court Appellate Division 2nd Dept Vol. 1547, page 697:
text: You will not have to wait for your ship to come in to buy one of these high and sightly lots commanding an unobstructed view of miles of the most beautiful coast line in California.
ref: 1923, Los Angeles School Journal - Volume 7, Issues 1-20, page 5:
text: This is one of the most sightly locations in Boston for an imposing religious group having an unobstructed view from practically all directions.
ref: 1999, David Kaufman, Shul with a Pool, page 270:
glosses: Offering a good view.
examples: text: In 1916 the people voted to have a High school and to build a new building which is now, 1917, completed and is a beautiful modern one-story brick building, known as Lincoln High school, located in the northeastern part of the village on a sightly spot known as Lincoln Hill.
ref: 1917, Eben Doublas Pierce, History of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin:
text: There is also a soldiers' monument on a sightly situation on Grand Avenue.
ref: 1922, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopaedia - Volume 15, page 702:
text: He lived in the William Church, Jr., house which still occupies a sightly spot on West Hill.
ref: 1924, Edward Church Smith, Philiip Mack Smith, Theodore Clarke Smith, A History of the Town of Middlefield, Massachusetts:
glosses: Open to sight; conspicuous.
sit-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sit-ins
Etymology: A deverbal from sit in. By surface analysis, sit + -in (protest).
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of students marched in the streets and staged a sit-in at T’ien-an-men Square, chanting “Long live democracy! Long live freedom! Down with corruption!”
ref: 2000, Immanuel C. Y. Hsü, “The Violent Crackdown at T’ien-an-men Square”, in The Rise of Modern China, 6th edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 928:
text: Local sources said a sit-in protest by hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims took place on Friday to defend the huge new mosque, which was built last year in the northern region of Ningxia.
ref: 2018 August 10, “Chinese Hui Muslims protest mosque demolition in Weizhou”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2018, Asia:
coordinate_terms: be-in
die-in
love-in
read-in
glosses: A peaceful form of protest in which people occupy an area and refuse to leave.
Synonyms: word: sit-down
word: dharna
Related terms: sit-inner
sit-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A deverbal from sit in. By surface analysis, sit + -in (protest).
Senses: examples: text: a sit-in kayak
text: a sit-in bath
glosses: Designed to be sat in.
sit-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-in
soap suds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soapsuds
Etymology: From soap + suds.
Senses: glosses: Lather, suds, foam produced by soap in water.
sobbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sobbingly
form: most sobbingly
Etymology: From sobbing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sobbing manner.
soberness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobernesses
Etymology: From Middle English sobernes, sobrenesse; equivalent to sober + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sober.
Synonyms: sobriety
drunkenness#Antonyms
sobering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was a sobering thought that I had almost killed myself. That was something I wouldn't soon do on purpose again.
text: For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Causing more sober thought or concern.
sobering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sober
self-controlled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-controlled
form: most self-controlled
Etymology: From self- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: Possessing self-control; having mastery of one's own desires.
self-controlled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + controlled.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-control
soddenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soddenly
form: most soddenly
Etymology: From sodden + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mature women desired to give, provided, of course, you gave yourself first; frankly, honourably, sincerely, soddenly.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 148:
glosses: In a sodden (soaking wet) manner.
softbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soft + bound.
Senses: glosses: With a cover of flexible paper rather than a rigid cardboard cover.
raw_tags: of a book
Synonyms: paperback
softback
softbacked
hardcovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hard + covered.
Senses: glosses: Of a book, having a rigid cover.
softener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒfənər/
ipa: /ˈsɔfənər/
ipa: /ˈsɑfənər/
Forms: form: softeners
Etymology: From Middle English softener, equivalent to soften + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, softens.
A water softener.
glosses: One who, or that which, softens.
Fabric softener.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One who, or that which, softens.
A substance added to make something softer.
Derived terms: stool softener
softeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softener
solemnness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solemn + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being solemn.
somberly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more somberly
form: most somberly
form: sombrely
Etymology: From somber + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a somber manner.
somberness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sombernesses
Etymology: From somber + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being somber.
sonorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sonorously
form: most sonorously
Etymology: From sonorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now old Falkenmeyer's fiddle feelingly quavered a few notes, then sonorously heralded the preliminary bass of the first set. Daddy Stein, standing in the middle of the room, clapped his hands for attention.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 241:
text: Cox’s thing is defending flimsy cases, and as he strode round the platform declaiming sonorously, like Rumpole on a particularly outrageous brief, it was easy to see why they pay him so well.
ref: 2018, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in Guardian:
glosses: In a sonorous way.
solicitousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solicitous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being solicitous.
kemosabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kemo sabe
form: kemosabe
form: ke-mo sah-bee
Etymology: Coined for the 1938 Lone Ranger television serial, apparently from a corruption of Spanish quien lo sabe "(he) who knows".
Senses: glosses: An appellation given to a wise friend.
soother
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sooth + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sooth: more sooth, truer.
soother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuðɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈsuːdɚ]
Forms: form: soothers
Etymology: From soothe + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, soothes.
examples: text: Customs earlier received a referral from a related organisation that suspected unsafe soother holders were being supplied on the market.
ref: 2024 April 9, Hong Kong Government Press Release, “Archived copy”, in Hong Kong Customs alerts public on two unsafe soother holders, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2025:
synonyms: word: binky
word: bink
word: bo-bo
word: comforter
word: dodie
word: dummy
word: nookie
word: paci
word: piece
word: pippy
word: soother
glosses: A pacifier; a plastic device that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
soother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuðɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: [ˈsuːdɚ]
Forms: form: soothers
form: soothering
form: soothered
form: soothered
Etymology: From soothe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was quickly appeased.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To soothe.
soothest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: sooth + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sooth: most sooth
soothest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: soothe + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of soothe
unsuspected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + suspected.
Senses: examples: text: The police uncovered his unsuspected drug dealing whilst investigating another matter.
text: At that time it was thought that the critical section, in which an irruption of water from the river was to be feared, lay under the Shoots, but this proved not to be the case. Indeed, relatively little trouble was experienced from the Severn. The very serious flooding, which twice submerged part of the works, came from an underground river, (now known as the Great Spring), the presence of which was unsuspected.
ref: 1948 September and October, “Weekend Works in the Severn Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 299:
glosses: Not suspected; not having raised suspicion.
blankly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæŋk.li/
Forms: form: more blankly
form: most blankly
Etymology: From blank + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large, pale blue, and blankly staring.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 111:
text: Whitely (that is, purely, blankly, and voidly), the moon cleanses the world of human industry — almost.
ref: 2008, Clayton Eshleman, The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader, page 417:
glosses: in a blank manner, especially showing no emotion or expression.
solicitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more solicitously
form: most solicitously
Etymology: From solicitous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Have another cup of coffee, mademoiselle?” said Poirot solicitously. “It will revive you. It is unparalleled for the mal de tête.” He jumped up and took her cup.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 58:
glosses: In a solicitous manner.
carryall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carryalls
Etymology: Compare carriole, cariole.
Senses: glosses: A large bag; a holdall
glosses: A light, covered carriage drawn by a single horse
glosses: Any of several types of automobile, usually a station wagon or van built on a truck chassis.
carryover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carryovers
Etymology: Deverbal from carry over.
Senses: examples: text: The “Black Shoe” title is a carryover from the days of coal-burning ships […]
ref: 1992, Vic Campbell, Junction: Mild Adventure for the Armchair Ruralists:
glosses: Something whose duration has been extended or that has been transferred to another time.
examples: text: First, as a general rule, carryover stocks are, held in countries that have lower carrying costs, which are probably exporting countries because they enjoy lower prices.
ref: 1980, Daniel T. Morrow, The Economics of the International Stockholding of Wheat:
glosses: An amount, especially a sum of money, transferred to a new column in a ledger, or applied to a later time.
glosses: The damaging condition where water droplets are carried out of a steam boiler along with the dry steam.
Derived terms: hearing carryover
give ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives ear
form: giving ear
form: gave ear
form: given ear
Senses: examples: text: Give ear to his motions: Master Slender, I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Leaves and rain and the days of the year,
(Water-willow and wellaway,)
All these fall, and my soul gives ear
ref: 1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6:
synonyms: lend an ear
glosses: To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event.
cartage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartages
Etymology: From cart + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: wagonage
text: Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted
ref: 1848, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle:
text: In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
synonyms: carting#Noun
hypernyms: shipping#Noun
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transport#Noun
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movement#Noun
glosses: The transport of goods by cart.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage
text: I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 21:
glosses: Any vehicular transportation of goods.
examples: Near-synonym: wagonage
1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law
Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.
hypernyms: charge#Noun
fee#Noun
cost#Noun
price#Noun
glosses: A charge made for such transport.
carthorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carthorses
form: cart horse
form: cart-horse
Etymology: From cart + horse.
Senses: examples: text: The blacksmith's forge shone bright on the opposite side of the way, and the proprietor had the hind-leg of a carthorse in his leather-coated lap.
ref: 1840, Horace Smith, editor, Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the Late James Smith:
text: He is not a man of independent fortune, for he works like a carthorse.
ref: 1852, Charles Dickens, Household Words:
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected,
A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: For all this, however, poor Tom smarted in the flesh; for though Thwackum had been inhibited to exercise his arm on the foregoing account, yet, as the proverb says, It is easy to find a stick, &c. So was it easy to find a rod; and, indeed, the not being able to find one was the only thing which could have kept Thwackum any long time from chastising poor Jones.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
glosses: If a person is determined to punish or blame someone, they will find a way or a reason to do so.
Related terms: look for a dog to kick
smart-money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of smart money.
cartload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːt.ləʊd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹt.loʊd/
Forms: form: cartloads
Etymology: From Middle English cartlode, cartelode, equivalent to cart + load.
Senses: examples: text: Two days of skirmishing outside the town were followed by a bold sortie headed by a dervish; and, as the result of this affair, a cartload of heads was sent as trophies to Constantinople.
ref: 1854 Francis Rawdon Chesney - The Russo-Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829
text: The youngster put some cartloads of food into his bag and set out again.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 101:
synonyms: cartful
coordinate_terms: carload
drayload
less than truckload
trailerload
truckload
wagonload
glosses: The amount that a cart can carry.
examples: text: . . . although a little apt to get buried under a cartload of written pleadings, . . .
ref: 1850, Edward Everett, The Mount Vernon Papers:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: Any large amount.
glosses: A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
Hyponyms: sense: specific measure
word: load
Derived terms: as clever as a cartload of monkeys
higgler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡlə/
Forms: form: higglers
Etymology: From higgle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was, besides, the best sacrifice the higgler could make, as he had supplied him with no game since; and by this means the witness had an opportunity of screening his better customers:
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter X, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
text: [E]very poulterer in the neighbourhood had repeatedly refused her custom […] so that her only means of procuring poultry was of the higglers: their fowls, she found out, were either so ill fed, or of such an enormous age, that there was no gravy to follow the knife […].
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 64:
text: 'I don't quite like my children going away from home,' said the higgler.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 84:
glosses: An itinerant trader, especially one dealing in dairy produce and poultry.
glosses: A person who haggles or negotiates for lower prices.
glosses: A seller of any kind of small produce or wares; a huckster.
Synonyms: sense: trader in dairy and poultry
word: wrangler
sense: person who haggles
word: haggler
sense: person who haggles
word: wrangler
higglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of higgler
theo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theoretical.
Senses: examples: text: In a perfect world, a player would know the theo of the machine he's feeding. He would also know the percentage of the theo that the casino is giving back in comps.
ref: 2003, Jean Scott, Angela Sparks, More Frugal Gambling, page 337:
glosses: The amount of a gambler's theoretical losses based on typical play.
lucid dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucid dreams
Senses: examples: text: More frequently, however, it has been suggested that lucid dreaming has a potential for enhancing physical well-being. For example, Kellogg (1991) describes how he himself noted rapid healing of an infected tonsil immediately after he awoke from a lucid dream about his throat being healed.
ref: 2003, Ashley Christina Mull, Lucid Dreaming in a Sample of College Students:
glosses: A dream during which one is conscious that one is dreaming, and may be able to manipulate events.
lucid dream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lucid dreams
form: lucid dreaming
form: lucid dreamed
form: lucid dreamed
form: lucid dreamt
form: lucid dreamt
Senses: synonyms: dream true
glosses: To experience a lucid dream.
Derived terms: lucid dreamer
beyond measure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very large; great; huge.
beyond measure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: To a great extent or degree; very.
squeezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squeeze
nomadicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nomadic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being nomadic.
standard of living
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standards of living
Senses: synonyms: living standard
glosses: The level of income, comforts and services available to an individual, community or society.
Related terms: quality of life
yearned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yearn
annulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: cancelled or void
Derived terms: unannulled
annulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annul
healthcare claims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of healthcare claim
showtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: showtimes
form: show time
Etymology: From show + time.
Senses: examples: text: Ushers announced movie showtimes from the moment the A picture started because the wraparound material was simply not the main attraction.
ref: 1999, Thomas Schatz, Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s, page 397:
glosses: The time at which an entertainment event is set to begin.
examples: text: "It's showtime," said Staff Sergeant Wallace Mains, a section leader in the 81mm mortar platoon, as he picked up his gear […]
ref: 2003, Soldier of Fortune, volume 28, page 125:
glosses: The time for action.
showtime
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: showtime!
form: show time
Etymology: From show + time.
Senses: glosses: A declaration that something is about to happen, particularly that the person speaking is about to act.
showtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showtime
vampirism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampirisms
form: vampyrism
Etymology: From vampire + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of being a vampire.
glosses: Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
examples: text: Treason, delusion, vampyrism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 108:
glosses: Extortion.
controversies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹəˌvɜːsiz/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɒvəsiz/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɹəˌvɝ.siz/
Senses: glosses: plural of controversy
vouchsafed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vouchsafe
loquatious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of loquacious.
dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doll
dolls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of doll
metatag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metatags
Senses: examples: 1996, Kent D. Stuckey, Internet and Online Law, Law Journal Press, →ISBN, page 7-116.2,
Although the trademark is not visible to Internet users, the use of the trademark in the metatag will cause a search engine to register a match if a user searches for that trademark.
2001, Adrian Hunter, Chelsea Shepard, Once Bitten, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, pages 14–15,
Debbie pretended not to hear her soon-to-be-ex best friend as her internal search engine spat up metatag matches to keywords like "single," "cute," and to her thrilling surprise, "kinky."
2006, Bob Nicholson, Effective Websites for Artists and Art Groups, WYGK Publishing, →ISBN, page 45,
Including four to six key search terms in your keywords metatag won't hurt and may help your search placement, but don't load up the keywords metatag with dozens of terms.
glosses: Alternative spelling of meta tag.
meta tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meta tags
form: metatag
Senses: glosses: Text inserted into the source code of a web page to provide metadata, such as keywords for a search engine.
lifedraining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lifedraining
form: most lifedraining
Etymology: From life + draining.
Senses: examples: text: those lifedraining slow cures and bedridden agues
ref: 1903, Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights:
glosses: Which drains life, energy, strength, etc.
OVS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Object Verb Subject.
defection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛkʃən/
Forms: form: defections
Etymology: From Latin dēfectiō (stem dēfectiōn-).
Senses: examples: text: military defection
text: political defection
text: mass defection
text: The general’s sudden defection shocked the government.
text: The party suffered another defection to the opposition.
glosses: An act or incidence of defecting.
Derived terms: defectionism
defectionist
nondefection
postdefection
predefection
redefection
Related terms: defect
defective
defector
deficiency
deficient
deficit
homogeneous function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: homogeneous polynomial
examples: (x³+xy²+x²ʸ+y³)/(z³)
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the ratio of two homogeneous polynomials, such that the sum of the exponents in a term of the numerator is equal to the sum of the exponents in a term of the denominator.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a function f(x) which has the property that for any c, f(cx)=cf(x).
rounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: more rounding
form: most rounding
Etymology: By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes— […] all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
Derived terms: rounding error
rounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: roundings
Etymology: By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act by which a numerical value is rounded.
glosses: The numerical value obtained by this process.
glosses: The act of making anything round, as the lips in pronouncing some vowels.
examples: text: In the early Egyptian works, the relief was low, the surface flat, and but little if any attempt was made to show the roundings of the human figure, or to exhibit the inflexion of the human form.
ref: 1860, Journal of the Society of Arts, volume 8, page 292:
glosses: A rounded surface; a curve.
glosses: In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
Derived terms: bankers' rounding
broken rounding
convergent rounding
double rounding
Dutch rounding
floating-point rounding
Gaussian rounding
odd-even rounding
scaled rounding
statistician's rounding
stochastic rounding
unbiased rounding
Related terms: inrounding
outrounding
rounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, round + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of round
fates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of fate
fates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fate
homogeneous polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous polynomials
Senses: examples: x³+x²ʸ+xy²+y³
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a polynomial such that the sum of the exponents of the variables is the same for every term.
Hyponyms: quantic
perceives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perceive
disappointments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disappointment
homogenous polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenous polynomials
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of homogeneous polynomial.
donned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of don
epithets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epithet
evaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evade
flapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flap
flapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a flap.
Derived terms: flapped outfall
unflapped
professes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of profess
trudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trudge
homogenous function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenous functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of homogeneous function.
crevices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crevice
overland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over + land.
Senses: examples: text: So, sir. I desire of you
A conduct overland to Milford Haven.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: By or across land.
raw_tags: of travel
overland
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From over + land.
Senses: examples: text: To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.
ref: 1589, Jerome Horsey, manuscript reproduced in Edward Augustus Bond (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, T. Richards (1856), page 317
text: The packet that was coming to us overland, and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.
ref: 1786, Earl Cornwallis, letter to Viscount Brome, reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247
text: Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.
ref: 1919, Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia […] , Garden City Press, page 3:
text: It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.
ref: 2008, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan, Stanford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Over, across, or by land.
overland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlands
Etymology: From over + land.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
overland
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlands
form: overlanding
form: overlanded
form: overlanded
Etymology: From over + land.
Senses: examples: text: Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory.
ref: 2000, Ian Parsonson, The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia, Csiro, →ISBN, page 102:
synonyms: drove
glosses: To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
glosses: To travel across land.
examples: text: I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had.
ref: 2017 [2010], Pat Garrod, Bearback: The World Overland, paperback edition, Troubador, →ISBN:
glosses: To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle.
Derived terms: overlander
overworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overworlds
Etymology: From over- + world. Compare underworld.
Senses: examples: text: This is a steaming underworld:
Where are the writhings? Where the cries?
We came down from our overworld
To see them writhe, to hear their cries.
ref: 1951, Naomi Replansky, “The Sightseers” in Ring Song (published 1952)
glosses: The celestial world.
antonyms: underworld
glosses: The community of law-abiding citizens.
topics: video-games
glosses: An overarching map or region connecting various disparate towns, dungeons, or stages, usually represented on it by icons.
examples: text: The overworld theme for the original Super Mario Bros. remains one of the most recognizable video game tunes to date.
ref: 2017, Alyssa Aska, Introduction to the Study of Video Game Music, page 88:
topics: video-games
antonyms: underworld
glosses: The portion of a game that is set above ground, as opposed to underground caves etc.
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: The entirety of the world where the player can walk around, as opposed to separate game sections for battles, puzzles, etc.
Derived terms: overworld map
Related terms: hub world
wilderness
singleplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəlˌpleɪ.əɹ/
Forms: form: single-player
Etymology: From single + player.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: played by a lone (1) player
Related terms: multiplayer
single-player
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of singleplayer.
doorgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorgames
Etymology: From door + game. See door (“software mechanism for BBS interaction”).
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A computer game hosted by a bulletin board system.
door game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door games
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doorgame.
dialup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of dial-up.
dialup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialups
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of dial-up.
Derived terms: nondialup
wardrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wardrives
form: wardriving
form: wardrove
form: wardriven
Etymology: From war + drive, modelled on war-dialing.
Senses: glosses: To participate in wardriving.
wardrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardrives
Etymology: From war + drive, modelled on war-dialing.
Senses: glosses: A drive for the purpose of wardriving.
glosses: A get-together of people who wardrive.
ton mile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ton miles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ton-mile.
backflip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.flɪp/
Forms: form: backflips
Etymology: From back- + flip.
Senses: examples: text: The gymnast performed a backflip on a trampoline.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
examples: text: PM predicts water recycling backflips.
ref: Courier Mail, 29 Jan 2007
glosses: A total reversal in policy or opinion; a volte-face, a U-turn.
Derived terms: 360 backflip
Related terms: frontflip
backflip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbæk.flɪp/
Forms: form: backflips
form: backflipping
form: backflipped
form: backflipped
Etymology: From back- + flip.
Senses: glosses: To perform a backflip (rotation of body).
glosses: To completely reverse a policy or opinion; perform a U-turn.
Derived terms: backflipper
measurement ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measurement tons
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume for cargo freight usually reckoned at 40 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.
displacement ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displacement tons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A unit approximately equal to the volume of a long ton weight of seawater, used in reckoning the displacement of ships, and equal to 35 U.S. or Imperial cubic feet.