cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Constantinople
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.stæn.tɪˈnəʊ.pəl/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.stæn.tɪˈnoʊ.pəl/
rhymes: -əʊpəl
Forms: form: Constantinopolis
form: Konstantinoupolis
Etymology: From Middle English Constantinople, ultimately from Late Latin Constantinopolis, from Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great).
Senses: glosses: The former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that.
Synonyms: Istanbul
Byzantium
Related terms: Constantinopolitan
croup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: croups
form: croupe
Etymology: From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.
Senses: examples: text: So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
text: The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.
ref: 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:
coordinate_terms: crupper
rump
buttock
glosses: The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Derived terms: croupal
crouplike
croup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: croups
form: crouping
form: crouped
form: crouped
Etymology: From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.
Senses: glosses: To croak, make a hoarse noise.
croup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Etymology: From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
Derived terms: croupal
croupous
croupy
false croup
mosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒʃ/
ipa: /mɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: moshes
form: moshing
form: moshed
form: moshed
Etymology: Possibly an alteration or deformation of mash.
Senses: examples: text: From 9 in the morning (when It Dies Today played the lot) until 9 at night (when Ozzy Osbourne led Black Sabbath on the main stage), hardy fans cheered and moshed and staggered through a stifling but often exciting day.
ref: 2005 July 28, Kelefa Sanneh, “Heat, Good Cheer, Jagged Music and Even Some Melody”, in New York Times:
glosses: To dance by intentionally jumping into and colliding with other, similarly behaving dancers, and performing other wild, aggressive, or spastic movements.
glosses: To intentionally jump into and collide with (another dancer) at a concert.
Synonyms: slam
slam-dance
thrash
Derived terms: datamosh
moshable
mosh circle
mosher
mosh pit
mosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒʃ/
ipa: /mɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: moshes
Etymology: Possibly an alteration or deformation of mash.
Senses: examples: text: We had a great mosh at the gig.
glosses: The moshing style of dancing.
Related terms: slam dance
slam dancing
lipogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipograms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λειπογγράμμα (leipongrámma), from λείπω (leípō, “leaving out”) + γράμμα (grámma, “letter”), 18th c.
Senses: examples: text: "Transubstantiationalists" is a particularly long single-word lipogram, not using the letter "e".
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.
Related terms: antilipo
lipogrammatic
liponym
pangram
lipidogram
mononucleosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑnoʊnukliˈoʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: mononucleoses
Etymology: From mono- + nucleus + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: infectious mononucleosis
glandular fever
Pfeiffer's disease
Pfeiffer's glandular fever
kissing disease
mono
glosses: A viral infection marked by extreme fatigue, high fever, and swollen lymph nodes.
Derived terms: mononucleosislike
antilipo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilipos
Etymology: From anti- (“not”) + lipo (“lipogram”), literally “an un-lipogram”. A neologism coined by Will Heston.
Senses: glosses: A text in which all words share a common character; the inverse of a lipogram.
Related terms: lipogram
virgin territory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgin territories
Senses: synonyms: greenfield
virgin field
glosses: Land that has never been explored or developed.
examples: text: The company had engineered plenty of products, but manufacturing them was virgin territory.
glosses: Ideas or concepts or activities that have not yet been tried, explored or developed.
Related terms: terra incognita
virgin field
hoosegow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːsɡaʊ/
Forms: form: hoosegows
form: hoosgow
form: hoosecow
form: hooscow
Etymology: From informal spoken Spanish juzgao, variant of standard Spanish juzgado (“court, courthouse”). Alteration of pronunciation and spelling by law of Hobson-Jobson.
Senses: examples: text: There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 424:
text: Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology department, divided the participants at random into ‘prisoners’ and ‘guards,’ and even got the Palo Alto police to arrest the prisoners and haul them to the campus hoosegow.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 674:
glosses: A jail.
homogenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenizations
form: homogenisation
Etymology: From homogenize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Cream does not separate from milk that has undergone a homogenization process.
glosses: The act of making something homogenous, or the same throughout; or the tendency of something to become homogenous.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Intensive mixing of mutually insoluble substances or groups of substances to obtain a soluble suspension or emulsion.
Derived terms: globohomo
rehomogenization
Related terms: homogenize
homogenized
more often than not
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more often than naught
form: more often than nought
Etymology: Origin obscure. Semantically equivalent to, and often understood as, an ellipsis of more often than not so. Possibly sometimes understood as more often than zero (see nought and naught), especially in reference to scales or gauges where mark zero represents the midpoint of measurement or frequency.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: commonly, frequently; usually; see also Thesaurus:usually
text: More often than not, tomato seeds will sprout even if they are a couple of years old.
text: Regular passengers become familiar with their train and attempts to change its make-up or any other aspect of its working are more often than not frowned upon, even though the change is probably for the better.
ref: 1962 September, Warren Smith, “The problems of coaching stock rostering and operation”, in Modern Railways, page 193:
text: he would gather his courage and set out between the columned arches to ask one of the unaccompanied women to partner him. More often than not, their answer was no.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: most of the time
coordinate_terms: as often as not
glosses: Usually; more than half the time; more likely to be the case than not to be the case.
likely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪkli/
rhymes: -aɪkli
Forms: form: likelies
Etymology: From Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċ (“suitable”) and Old Norse líkligr (“likely”) (probably independent formations), equivalent to like + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Something or somebody considered likely.
likely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪkli/
rhymes: -aɪkli
Forms: form: more likely
form: likelier
form: most likely
form: likeliest
Etymology: From Middle English likely, likly, lykly, likliche, from Old English ġelīclīċe (“equally”) and Old Norse líkliga, glíkliga (“likely”), both from Proto-Germanic *līkalīka, equivalent to like + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Likely he’ll win the election in this economy.
text: He’ll likely win the election in this economy.
text: He likely will win the election in this economy.
text: Most likely he’ll win the election in this economy.
text: He’ll most likely win the election in this economy.
text: He most likely will win the election in this economy.
text: Dismounting on the sidewalk, their helmets still on, they fall into a lengthy conversation. Their dialogue is known only to them. But there is something the men themselves likely don’t know: About a mile away, from a windowless room, two other men are watching them.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
synonyms: see synonyms at probably
glosses: Probably.
glosses: Similarly.
blow-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from blow up.
Senses: examples: text: The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.
glosses: Inflatable; able to be blown up.
Derived terms: blow-up doll
blow-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-ups
form: blowup
Etymology: Deverbal from blow up.
Senses: examples: text: I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
text: But BBD said that “several” wholesalers it spoke with said they are “waiting out the storm” — expecting the backlash to fade a few weeks following the initial controversy, as many similar blow-ups have in the past.
ref: 2023 April 26, Jordan Valinsky, “Bud Light sales are falling, but distributors say they’re sticking by the brand”, in CNN:
text: How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between progress and safety.
ref: 2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: An explosion (physical or emotional).
examples: text: Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.
glosses: An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
cut the mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌt ðə ˈmʌstəd/
ipa: /kʌt ðə ˈmʌstəɹd/
rhymes: -ʌstəd
Forms: form: cuts the mustard
form: cutting the mustard
form: cut the mustard
form: cut the mustard
Etymology: From cut (“to exhibit (a quality)”) + the + mustard (“(originally US slang) something adding spice or zest to a situation; something setting the standard”).
Senses: examples: text: Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn’t cut the mustard.
text: By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. So I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard. I found a restaurant tent just opened up by an outfit that had drifted in on the tail of the boom.
ref: 1907, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Cupid à la Carte”, in Heart of the West, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co., →OCLC, page 163:
text: [I]f a man gets a loan and over a period of years he has demonstrated that he cannot cut the mustard, how is he going to demonstrate it in a period of 12 months?
ref: 1940 March 21, Fred Cummings, committee member, “Statement of Albert S. Goss [Former Land Bank Commissioner, Farm Credit Administration, Washington, D.C.]—Resumed”, in Farm Credit Legislation: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session on H.R. 8748 […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 194:
synonyms: be up to par
be up to scratch
be up to snuff
cut it
hack it
make the cut
make the grade
measure up
pass muster
glosses: To achieve the expected standard; to be effective or good enough; to suffice.
cottage industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage industries
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: proto-industry
text: A craft such as quilting may be pursued as a hobby or as a cottage industry.
text: Scotland and Ireland are famous for their tweeds and homespuns and what are known as the "cottage industries" have been recently revived in those countries as the products of their hand looms have become deservedly popular abroad.
ref: [1907, Kate Heintz Watson, Textiles and Clothing:
text: Oak bark is still used to some extent. Shoe-making used to be an important cottage industry, but the introduction of machinery has carried the work to large factories elsewhere.
ref: 1911, Horace Woollaston Monckton, Berkshire, Cambridge University Press:
glosses: A job or occupation carried out at home or on a part-time basis, historically often manufacturing work such as sewing, lacemaking, or spinning.
examples: text: Customers quickly sensed the change when CA took over a company: The new owners vigorously enforced license agreements, often in the courts. A cottage industry soon sprang up to advise companies on how to negotiate with CA.
ref: 1996 November 11, Amy Cortese, “Computer Associates: Sexy? No. Profitable? You Bet”, in BusinessWeek, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2000:
text: So why was there so much breathlessness about a blogger joining this emphatically non-exclusive club? Because the blogging story has become a cottage industry, a cultural fashion trend that blogger and establishment alike have a vested interest in keeping alive.
ref: 2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in The Atlantic:
text: Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.
ref: 2008 June 5, Barbara Kiviat, “The Big Trouble In Small Loans”, in Time, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2011:
text: Remote and difficult to access, many villages in China’s interior have developed a criminal cottage industry, involving anything from drugs to internet fraud to counterfeiting.
ref: 2017 April, Robert Foyle Hunwick, “Big in China: Murder Villages and Scam Towns”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A small-scale industry, with relatively few employees or a limited customer base or low economic impact.
Related terms: preindustrial
preindustrialization
proto-industrialization
terra incognita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terra incognita (“unknown land”).
Senses: examples: text: Behold me now in the full career of my voyage of discovery, exploring the James River in the steamboat, on a clear, hot fifteenth of June, and looking with a sagacious perspicacity on the commonest sights of this terra incognita.
ref: 1832, John Pendleton Kennedy, “Introductory Epistle”, in Swallow Barn; or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion, volume 1, page 5:
text: The gap that remains in the interior will no doubt be eventually bridged over by railway communication; and thus the great continent will no longer be a terra incognita to the general world, who have hitherto only heard of the splendid country through which the railway will pass, from the reports of telegraph constructionists and overlanding parties.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 242:
text: Unfortunately, this great rocky tableland has of late years become almost a terra incognita to the nature-lover, as a result of the agreement which was made, after prolonged controversy, between the Peak District Society and the grouse-shooting landlords, inasmuch as, while permitting the traveller to skirt the shoulders of the hill, it excluded him wholly from its summit.
ref: 1922, Henry S. Salt, The Call of the Wildflower, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Land that has never been explored or mapped; uncharted territory.
examples: text: The concept of the unconscious or an inner terra incognita, an unknown country of the psyche that precedes and predicates the Cartesian subject, the focal point of rational consciousness, was a revolutionary idea.
ref: 2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 9
text: How commonly stinging insects encounter this problem is scientific terra incognita.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Ideas or concepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
Related terms: incognition
terra firma
frontier
parts unknown
unknown quantity
virgin territory
on the fence
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I am still on the fence about which way to vote.
text: The letter was from a 41-year-old man who was also on the fence about kids: “Things like quiet, free time, spontaneous travel, pockets of non-obligation,” he wrote. “I really value them.”
ref: 2017 May 22, Olga Khazan, “How People Decide Whether to Have Children”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Undecided; wavering in one's opinion.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, fence.
Derived terms: sit on the fence
formerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹmɚli/
ipa: /ˈfɔːməli/
other: /ˈfɔːmərli/
homophone: formally (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From former + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Xenia Robertson, formerly known as Xenia Isaamov, is from Ukraine.
glosses: at some time in the past
examples: text: This ranch was formerly owned by slaveholders.
glosses: previously; once
Synonyms: word: afore
word: aforehand
word: already
word: antecedently
word: at one time
word: before
word: beforehand
word: beforetime
word: ere
word: erenow
word: erewhile
word: erstwhile
word: erstwhiles
word: foretime
word: formerly
word: in advance
word: in the past
word: late
word: once
word: precedently
word: previously
word: sometime
word: sometimes
word: therebefore
word: while
word: whilere
word: whilom
word: yestertide
word: yestertime
word: yet
Hyponyms: word: recently
word: long ago
word: hitherto
word: one day
word: ereyesterday
word: last night
word: the night before last
word: yester
word: yesterday
word: yestern
word: yestereve
word: yesterevening
word: yesternight
word: yestersol
word: yesteryear
Derived terms: formerly known as
Related terms: word: since
word: theretofore
word: former
virgin field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgin fields
Senses: synonyms: word: greenfield
word: virgin territory
glosses: Synonym of virgin territory.
glosses: An oilfield that has not yet been exploited.
on the mend
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: My foot is on the mend but it still hurts to walk.
text: My stress and frustration resulted in a spastic colon and the need for weeks of medication. While on the mend, another avenue [for funding] was suggested to me - individual Jewish philanthropists.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 44:
text: His neighbours somehow rescued him after he was shot in the face and back, and he is on the mend after life-saving surgery.
ref: 2023 October 13, Jacob Steinberg, “‘They came to slaughter us’: Spurs fan shot by Hamas damns English football’s response”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Healing or recovering, as from an injury or illness.
raw_tags: of persons and their health
examples: text: Our marriage went through a difficult time, but now it is on the mend.
glosses: Improving or undergoing restoration to a previous, more favorable condition.
raw_tags: of situations or things
take a spill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a spill
form: taking a spill
form: took a spill
form: taken a spill
Senses: examples: text: He took a spill and scraped his knee.
glosses: To trip and fall.
mofo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊfoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊfəʊ
Forms: form: mofos
form: mo-fo
form: mo fo
form: mo' fo
Etymology: Abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking.
Senses: examples: text: Man, he's a big mofo.
glosses: Abbreviation of motherfucker.
mofo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊfoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊfəʊ
Forms: form: mo-fo
form: mo fo
form: mo' fo
Etymology: Abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking.
Senses: examples: text: Man, he's got a big mofo truck.
glosses: Abbreviation of motherfucking.
mofo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊfəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmoʊfoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊfəʊ
Forms: form: mo-fo
form: mo fo
form: mo' fo
Etymology: Abbreviation of motherfucker or motherfucking.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of motherfucking.
physiotherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiotherapists
Etymology: From physio- + therapist or physiotherapy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise.
Synonyms: word: physio
word: physical therapist
Derived terms: physiotherapy
off the wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Originally off the water wagon or off the water cart, referring to carts used to hose down dusty roads: see the 1901 quotation below. The suggestion is that a person who is “on the wagon” is drinking water rather than alcoholic beverages. The term may have been used by the early 20th-century temperance movement in the United States; for instance, William Hamilton Anderson (1874 – c. 1959), the superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League, is said to have made the following remark about Prohibition: “Be a good sport about it. No more falling off the water wagon. Uncle Sam will help you keep your pledge.”
Senses: examples: text: She kept up her diet for an entire month before falling off the wagon.
text: He is off the wagon again.
glosses: No longer maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from an undesirable habit, especially drinking alcohol.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
New York Anti-Saloon League
William Hamilton Anderson
temperance movement in the United States
Related terms: fall off the wagon
by and large
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sailing: a ship may (or may not) sail well both close by the wind, and large, downwind, with sheets extended.
Senses: examples: text: It was, by and large, an unexceptional presentation.
text: “The people doing this by and large don’t have any real concept of how to tell a story, and neither do any kind of A.I.,” Ms. Williams said on Wednesday.
ref: 2023 February 23, Michael Levenson, quoting Sheila Williams, “Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. "There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver," he says. "There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.
ref: 2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 29:
synonyms: word: for the most part
word: generally
word: mostly
word: on the whole
word: usually
word: all in all
word: all things considered
word: altogether
word: as a rule
word: basically
word: by and large
word: chiefly
word: feckly
word: for the most part
word: generally
word: in the main
word: largely
word: mainly
word: mostly
word: on the whole
word: overall
word: predominantly
word: pretty well
word: primarily
word: principally
glosses: Mostly; generally; all things considered.
examples: text: Miss Betsey, a charming frigate, that will do honour to our country, if you take her by and large.
ref: 1769, Southern Literary Messenger, volume XVII, number 183, page 2:
text: […] a man who has heard of the biter bit, feels rather perplexed on the whole, take it by-and-large […]
ref: 1833, John Neal, The Down-Easters, volume 1, New York: Harper & Brothers:
glosses: In one way or another.
examples: text: […] For to make a Ship to drawe or goe but little into the water, and to hold a good winde, and to ſaile well both by and large, were very neceſſarie, and eſpecially in theſe our ſhallowe Seas, […]
ref: 1578, William Bourne, Inventions or Devises, London:
english: […] To make a ship that draws little water, holds good wind, and sails well both by and large was very necessary, especially in our shallow seas, […]
translation: […] To make a ship that draws little water, holds good wind, and sails well both by and large was very necessary, especially in our shallow seas, […]
bold_translation_offsets: 81
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topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sailing alternately into the wind and in the same direction as the wind.
Australian English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Prior to the 1980s, Australian English had been widely deprecated by Australians themselves, principally as a result of a sense of inferiority known as "cultural cringe".
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 295:
glosses: The form of the English language used in Australia.
wikipedia: Australian English
buildup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪldʌp/
Forms: form: buildups
form: build-up
Etymology: Deverbal from build up.
Senses: examples: text: Snow buildup on roads makes for hazardous driving.
text: There was a buildup of pressure in the boiler.
text: One of the pricetags of the U.S. military buildup is a lack of health care in poorer communities.
ref: 1988 December 11, Wickie Stamps, “Cambridge Conference Chronicles Anticommunism”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 3:
glosses: An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.
examples: text: Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).
ref: 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 103:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth.
Related terms: buildout
obround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obrounds
Etymology: From ob- + round.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A plane shape consisting of two semicircles connected by parallel lines tangent to their endpoints.
examples: text: Four slugs of wrought boron containing stainless steel containing 1 and 2 wt % boron were prepared from 1 in. thick plate material as 1-1/8 in. dla. x 5 in. long obrounds and irradiated in the MTR reactor for a preliminary engineering check of […]
ref: 1959, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Minutes of the seventh annual Atomic Energy Commission Welding Conference:
glosses: A feature or component with an obround shape.
Synonyms: stadium
discorectangle
Related terms: circle
ellipse
oval
Terpsichore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təpˈsɪkəɹi/
ipa: /tɚpˈsɪkəɹi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τερψιχόρη (Terpsikhórē, from τέρψις (térpsis, “enjoyment, delight”) + χορός (khorós, “chorus”)).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 81 Terpsichore, a main belt asteroid.
Related terms: terpsichorean
fence in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fences in
form: fencing in
form: fenced in
form: fenced in
Senses: examples: text: If we fence in that field, it will be a good pasture for a horse.
glosses: To enclose with a fence.
examples: text: Many people feel fenced in by the new rules.
glosses: To restrict freedom.
Coordinate terms: english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: box in
lure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /lʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /lɔː/
ipa: /ljʊə/
ipa: /lɜː/
ipa: /lʊəɹ/
ipa: /lɝ/
ipa: /lʉːɹ/
homophone: lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lures
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
Senses: examples: text: How many have with a smile made small account
Of Beauty and her lures
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
examples: text: My Faulcon now is ſharpe and paſſing emptie, / And til ſhe ſtoope ſhe muſt not be full gorg'd, / For then ſhe never lookes upon her lure.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 222:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
glosses: A velvet smoothing brush.
Derived terms: gyplure
illure
luresome
Lurex
spoon lure
lure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /lʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /lɔː/
ipa: /ljʊə/
ipa: /lɜː/
ipa: /lʊəɹ/
ipa: /lɝ/
ipa: /lʉːɹ/
homophone: lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lures
form: luring
form: lured
form: lured
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman lure, from Old French loirre (Modern French leurre), from Frankish *lōþr, from Proto-Germanic *lōþr-, perhaps ultimately related to *laþō (“invitation, calling”), or from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). Compare English allure, also from Old French. Probably related to German Luder (“bait”).
Senses: examples: text: It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
ref: 2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and The Body in Question”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years. Research Professor is what you then want to become, so you can finally stop worrying about students and do the research that lured you into academia in the first place!
ref: 2014, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, What is the difference between a research professor and a professor?:
synonyms: entice
glosses: To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile.
glosses: To attract fish with a lure.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To recall a hawk with a lure.
Derived terms: luringly
Related terms: allure
lure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /lʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /lɔː/
ipa: /ljʊə/
ipa: /lɜː/
ipa: /lʊəɹ/
ipa: /lɝ/
ipa: /lʉːɹ/
homophone: lore (some speakers with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: lures
Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic lúðr.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of lur.
or so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: How many people came to the party? – Thirty or so.
text: It was about half full or so.
text: In the first twenty or so years.
text: A VVeek or ſo vvill probably reconcile us.
ref: 1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 21:
text: When everyone had finished off with a drink from the well and an apple or so, the Dwarf produced a pipe about the size of his own arm, filled it, lit it, blew a great cloud of fragrant smoke and said, "Now."
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: Roughly, approximately.
pistol-whip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pistol-whips
form: pistol-whipping
form: pistol-whipped
form: pistol-whipped
Senses: glosses: To strike or beat (someone) with a pistol, especially with its butt.
piece of piss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of piss
Senses: examples: text: Rollerblading is a piece of piss if you know how to roller-skate.
glosses: Something easy to achieve.
Synonyms: cinch
piece of cake
Related terms: easy as ABC
easy as pie
like falling off a log
like taking candy from a baby
pistolwhip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pistolwhips
form: pistolwhipping
form: pistolwhipped
form: pistolwhipped
Senses: examples: text: Whose woods these are I think I know, They are my Uncle Sam's, and so This simple country farmer blows His stack, and on his tippy toes Takes all the wood that he can cut Before the ranger doubles back And pistolwhips me forty whacks.
ref: 1978, Howling Wolf, Collected Poems, 1956-1978:
text: She's just fussing at me because I had a chance to pistolwhip her kid brother a few months ago and passed on the opportunity."
ref: 1990, Tabor Evans, Longarm in the Red Desert, page 8:
text: Sensing that the tall woman was getting ready to pistolwhip his friend, Calque raised his voice in an effort to deflect her attention.
ref: 2010, Mario Reading, The Mayan Codex:
glosses: Alternative form of pistol-whip.
yorker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yorkers
Etymology: Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.
Senses: examples: text: He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.
text: I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 8:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
Synonyms: sandshoe crusher
tice
Derived terms: york
Related terms: Royal Yorker
wagon wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagon wheels
Senses: glosses: The wheel of a wagon, including railway wagons.
glosses: Synonym of ruote (“a type of pasta shaped like a wheel”).
synonyms: word: ruote
extra: a type of pasta shaped like a wheel
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.
Derived terms: wagon-wheel effect
cricket field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricket fields
Senses: glosses: The area of grass (within the boundary) on which a cricket match is played.
glosses: A cricket ground.
Related terms: cricket pitch
cricket ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricket grounds
Senses: glosses: An arena in which a cricket match is played; a cricket field plus the viewing areas, pavilion etc.
Hypernyms: ground
Related terms: cricket pitch
wicketkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wicketkeepers
form: wicket-keeper
Etymology: From wicket + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]
ref: 1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:
text: The fielder clad in armour who squats behind the batsman should be respected as a specialist and not treated as a dabbler. The wicketkeeper controls the mood around the pitch. His gloves hold most of the catches, his voice accompanies every appeal. He is the factory foreman, responsible for every ball.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 210:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: keeper
wickie
glosses: A player who stands behind the batsman’s wicket ready to catch the ball, or to stump the batsman.
Derived terms: keep wicket
wicket-keeping gloves
Related terms: wicketkeeping
wicket-keeping gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: protective gloves worn by a wicket keeper to cushion the hands when repeatedly catching balls
wicket maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wicket maidens
Senses: examples: text: He bowled a wicket-maiden over before lunch.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A maiden over in which a bowler gets a batsman out.
with the spin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: hitting the ball in the same direction that it is spinning off the pitch
world cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world cups
Senses: glosses: An event or competition where competitors and/or teams from several different countries to establish a world champion.
glosses: The trophy awarded to the winner of such an event.
wrist spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist spins
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of bowling in which the bowler spins the ball by releasing it from the back of the hand, running his/her fingers down the side of the ball as it is released.
Related terms: finger spin
wrist spinner
wrist spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrist spinners
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who specializes in wrist spin
Related terms: finger spinner
finger spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finger spinners
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler who specializes in finger spin
Related terms: wrist spinner
wrong 'un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong 'uns
form: wrong'un
form: wrongen
Etymology: From wrong + one. Compare young'un.
Senses: examples: text: We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose.
ref: 2000, Gilda O'Neill, My East End: Memories of Life in Cockney London:
text: Some reasons why Naseem Hamed might have been stripped of his MBE for speeding, where acknowledged wrong 'uns Jeffrey Archer, Shirley Porter and Mark Thatcher kept their honours.
ref: 2007 January 5, The Guardian, G2 p. 3:
glosses: A dishonest or disreputable person; a crook or rogue.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A googly.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A horse deliberately held back in order to lose a race.
Related terms: good 'un
bad 'un
'un
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: 'uns
form: 'n
form: un
form: in(s), 'in(s)
Etymology: The apostrophe is not justified historically: this word preserves an original pronunciation of one without an initial /w/; see one for more.
Senses: examples: text: Give me one of those round 'uns.
glosses: One (a thing).
examples: text: We've got a clever 'un here!
qualifier: facetious or dialect
glosses: One (a person).
examples: text: Tom Trevarton had a piece of hoggan weth un.
ref: 1866, Higham, Dial., 14
glosses: Him or her.
Derived terms: sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: goodun
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: green 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: li'l 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: lil' 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: lil'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: pink 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: red 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: thick-un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: thissun
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: wrong 'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: young'un
sense: derivatives of 'un(s) and un(s)
word: you-uns
pink 'un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink 'uns
Senses: examples: text: When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the "Pink 'un" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet.
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle:
glosses: A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on pink newsprint.
Coordinate terms: green 'un
green 'un
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green 'uns
Senses: glosses: A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on green newsprint.
Coordinate terms: pink 'un
newsprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsprints
Etymology: From news + print.
Senses: examples: text: The journalism trade publication Editor and Publisher announced in the spring of 1954 that more newsprint had been generated about Jorgensen during the previous year than about any other individual—over a million and a half words, the rough equivalent of fifteen full-length books.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 73:
glosses: An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers.
wildfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldˌfaɪɚ/
Forms: form: wildfires
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire.
Senses: synonyms: forest fire
coordinate_terms: brushfire
bushfire
glosses: A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
glosses: Greek fire.
topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
examples: text: So, it appears a revolution has happened and a very unexpected one. Of course it was only a matter of time before it happened. With WiFi connectivity spreading faster than wildfire and a laptop or tablet in one’s bag, what’s the point of a mobile nowadays?
ref: 2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: “It was my own personal watch and I wanted to change the face,” she said in an interview during a recent business trip to New York. “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.”
ref: 2022 December 9, Rachel Felder, “These Timex Dials Were Designed With a Jeweler’s Eye”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably.
Derived terms: spread like wildfire
wildfire-fighter
Related terms: conflagration
spread like wildfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spreads like wildfire
form: spreading like wildfire
form: spread like wildfire
form: spread like wildfire
Senses: examples: text: The virus spread like wildfire throughout the Internet.
text: The propaganda of the rebels spread like wild-fire, and the hopes of the more daring Irish Catholics rose high.
ref: 1789, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 651:
text: "We can sense the tension in Perth," wrote the Scotsman, "when the news spread like wildfire that a runaway engine of ancient vintage was heading north without a soul on the footplate.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
text: Inspired by Edith Piaf’s 1951 song of the same name, Padam Padam is a reference to the sound of the human heartbeat, and has spread like wildfire thanks to its infectious nature and brevity (it clocks in at 2 mins, 46 seconds).
ref: 2023 May 31, Nadia Khomami, “Kylie Minogue ‘bursting with joy’ as new single Padam Padam soars up charts”, in The Guardian:
text: It became a popular garden plant in the 20th century, when a Chinese variant (Buddleia Davidii ^([sic])) was introduced. That's when the trouble started. The plant has spread like wildfire since. Its fast-growing invasive nature and survivability is a huge problem for the railways, as (left alone) it can cause serious, expensive damage to structures, block drivers sightlines, or pose a risk to lineside workers.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
wiliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wilinesses
Etymology: From wily + -ness.
Senses: glosses: deceitful cleverness or shrewdness
Related terms: wily
schoolgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolgirls
Etymology: Compound of school + girl.
Senses: examples: text: That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.
ref: 1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33:
text: Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.
ref: 2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream:
text: “Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.
ref: 2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in The New York Times:
hypernyms: schoolchild
pupil
student
coordinate_terms: schoolboy
glosses: A girl attending school.
Derived terms: Kirkman's schoolgirl problem
schoolgirldom
schoolgirlhood
schoolgirlish
schoolgirlism
schoolgirl pin
schoolgirly