cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
marine climate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine climates
Senses: glosses: A relatively mild climate moderated by the presence of a large body of water.
-ac
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk/
ipa: /æk/
other: /ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/
Forms: form: -ack
form: -aque
Etymology: From French -acque, from New Latin -acus, from Ancient Greek -ακός (-akós, “-ic”). Related to -ic and -y.
Senses: glosses: One affected with.
glosses: Of, belonging to.
-ac
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk/
ipa: /æk/
other: /ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/
Forms: form: -ack
form: -aque
Etymology: From acetic acid, which is used in the synthesis of many of these compounds.
Senses: examples: text: ketorolac
glosses: Used to form the names of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that are derivatives of acetic acid.
dump truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmpˌtɹʌk/
ipa: /ˈdʌmpˌt͡ʃɹʌk/
Forms: form: dump trucks
Senses: examples: text: Specialised long-reach excavators with a clamshell grab then reach though the openings to lift the spoil to the surface, which is then deposited in articulated dump trucks (ADTs).
ref: 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
related: word: dumptruck
synonyms: dumper truck
tipper
tipper truck
tip truck
hypernyms: truck
lorry
<
motor vehicle
<
vehicle
coordinate_terms: tractor-trailer
semi-trailer truck
semi
rig
;
tanker truck
tank truck
;
pickup truck
;
fire truck
firetruck
glosses: A heavy truck, for carrying loose, bulk cargo (e.g., soil, gravel, grain), having a hinged bed that allows the contents to be unloaded onto the ground via dumping.
synonyms: word: dumpy
word: cake
word: back
word: junk in the trunk
word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: A large pair of buttocks.
Related terms: dumpcart
tumbril
dumpster
rolloff
mudflaps
skip
skip car
-age
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /edʒ/
ipa: /ɑː(d)ʒ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
From Middle English -age, from Old French -age, from Latin -āticum. Cognates include French -age, Italian -aggio, Portuguese -agem, Spanish -aje, Occitan -atge, Romanian -aj. Doublet of -atic.
Senses: examples: text: word + -age → wordage
synonyms: -ery
-ing
glosses: Forming nouns with the sense of appurtenance or collection.
examples: text: block + -age → blockage
text: marry + -age → marriage
text: slip + -age → slippage
text: shrink + -age → shrinkage
glosses: Forming nouns indicating an action, process, or result.
examples: text: bond + -age → bondage
text: marry + -age → marriage
text: parent + -age → parentage
text: line + -age → lineage
glosses: Forming nouns of a relationship or state.
examples: text: orphan + -age → orphanage
text: hermit + -age → hermitage
glosses: Forming nouns indicating a place.
examples: text: post + -age → postage
text: broker + -age → brokerage
text: cork + -age → corkage
glosses: Forming nouns indicating a charge, fee, or toll.
examples: text: percent + -age → percentage
text: mile + -age → mileage
glosses: Forming nouns indicating a rate.
examples: text: volt + -age → voltage
text: foot + -age → footage
text: tonne + -age → tonnage
text: hour + -age → hourage
glosses: Forming nouns of a unit of measure.
aerial ping pong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A reference to the football going up and down the ground by long high kicks. (Reference: Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University).
Senses: examples: text: 'Australian Rules draws bigger crowds in Melbourne than Rugby in Sydney.' 'What?' Sydney Sam would say, 'that's not football, mate, it's aerial ping-pong.'
ref: 1965, Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, page 43:
glosses: Australian rules football.
relying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rely
historians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɔːɹɪənz/
ipa: /hɪˈstɔɹi.ənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of historian
basing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of base
basing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: basings
Senses: examples: text: Incidental revenues from sales and repairs and practically all ground expense were recorded as applicable to a particular station and then prorated to individual routes on the basis of arrivals, departures, and basings of equipment.
ref: 1937, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Reports, page 20:
text: In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.
ref: 1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174:
glosses: The storage or housing of something within a base.
Derived terms: L-basing
nonbasing
biases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbaɪəsəz/
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈbaɪəˌsiːz/
Forms: form: biasses
Senses: glosses: plural of bias
biases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəsɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbaɪəsəz/
note: for the noun plural
ipa: /ˈbaɪəˌsiːz/
Forms: form: biasses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bias
interlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
Derived terms: interlinkingly
interlinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlinkings
Senses: examples: text: We here see that the interlinkings between Orthopters and Neuropters began in the Paleozoic. It is probable that such comprehensive or intermediate forms were more numerous in the past than they now are.
ref: 1864, American Journal of Science:
glosses: A linking between things or concepts; an interconnection.
Related terms: interlink
experimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of experiment
experimenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experimentings
Senses: examples: text: Still others were not especially interested in these experimentings with group exercises and rituals, but saw no problem with Ronnie and others engaging in that work.
ref: 2001, Steven Gans, Leon Redler, Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy, page 271:
glosses: experimentation
deleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delete
deleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deleted
form: most deleted
Senses: examples: the movie's deleted scenes
glosses: Having been deleted or eliminated; absent from the final version.
glosses: Killed or murdered.
Derived terms: codeleted
nondeleted
deleted scene
expletive deleted
oxbow lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxbow lakes
Senses: examples: text: Humans called this an oxbow lake—one that had originally been part of the river.
ref: 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 1”, in Adulthood Rites, page 69:
glosses: A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
Synonyms: word: billabong
Related terms: resaca
diatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From French diatonique or Late Latin diatonicus, ultimately from Ancient Greek διατονικός (diatonikós), in the phrase [γένος (génos, “type, genus”)] διατονικός (diatonikós) (in reference to the diatonic tetrachord, and in contrast to the chromatic and enharmonic tetrachords), from διάτονος (diátonos) (διά (diá) + τόνος (tónos)), of disputed etymology, as both components are ambiguous.
Most plausibly, διάτονος (diátonos) refers to “stretched intervals”, as the intervals of the diatonic tetrachord are the most evenly distributed or “stretched out”, compared to the chromatic and enharmonic tetrads, which use smaller, more crowded together intervals. Compare pyknon, from πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compressed”), referring to the lower part of the non-diatonic tetrachords: the diatonic tetrachord has widely spaced notes (“stretched out”), while the other tetrachords have a closely spaced notes (“compressed”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of a musical scale which contains seven pitches and a pattern of five whole tones and two semitones; particularly, of the major or natural minor scales.
Derived terms: diatonically
diatonic button accordion
diatonicism
diatonic scale
diatonic semitone
nondiatonic
pandiatonic
undiatonic
teiid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
teiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teiids
Senses: examples: text: The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
ref: 2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, published 2006, page 195:
text: As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).
ref: 2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, “9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode”, in Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles, editors, Lizard Ecology, page 293:
text: The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.
ref: 2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146:
glosses: Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
Hyponyms: sense: lizard of family Teiidae
english: genus Cnemidophorus
translation: genus Cnemidophorus
word: whiptail
Maritimes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɹɪˌtaɪmz/
Forms: form: the Maritimes
Senses: examples: text: There are surprisingly many universities in the Maritimes.
glosses: Synonym of Maritime provinces: A geographic region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
synonyms: word: Maritime provinces
extra: A geographic region of Canada comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Related terms: maritime
Atlantic provinces
Atlantic Canada
Prairies
eliminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eliminable
form: most eliminable
Senses: glosses: able to be eliminated.
Related terms: ineliminable
ineliminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + eliminable.
Senses: examples: text: Although ignorance of disability probably exaggerated the physical suffering of most people with disabilities in the minds of people without disabilities, the importance of ineliminable suffering must not be overlooked.
ref: 1996, Suan Wendell, The Rejected Body, Routledge, page 82:
text: In feminist thinking the masculine pronoun carries an ineliminable reference to the male sex, and therefore must be applied only to males.
ref: 2002 December, Roger Scruton, “Language and Ideology”, in The Literary Review:
text: Because both reasons make ineliminable reference to the deliberating agent's perspective, each nicely captures the thought that the demands of that perspective are bound to play some central role in any adequate justification of the searchlight view.
ref: 2009, George Sher, Who Knew? Responsibility Without Awareness, Oxford University Press, page 19:
glosses: Unable to be eliminated.
Derived terms: ineliminably
Related terms: eliminable
eliminated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eliminate
Wendy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛn.di/
ipa: /ˈwɪndi/
rhymes: -ɛndi
homophone: windy (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: Popularized by the character in J. M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan (1904) (though occasionally found earlier; the author explained that he got it from Fwendy-Wendy ("friend"), a nickname given to him by a child.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of the Welsh Gwendolen; or from Wendelin, a diminutive of Wendel.
A habitational forename meaning, "island at the river bend", from Old English wende (“watercourse with a bend”) + ēġ (“island”).
Senses: examples: text: "What's your name?" he asked.
"Wendy Moira Angela Darling," she replied with some satisfaction. "What is your name?"
"Peter Pan."
ref: 1911, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, chapter III, in Peter and Wendy, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name.
wikipedia: J. M. Barrie
Peter and Wendy
floccillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floccillations
Etymology: From floccillus, diminutive of floccus (“flock”) and the suffix -ation.
Senses: glosses: Picking at the bedclothes, usually seen in delirious, feverish or dying people.
Synonyms: carphologia
carphology
crocydismus
natto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nattō
Etymology: From Japanese 納豆 (nattō).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese food product made from fermented soybeans.
nattō
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Let’s take a look at the history of nattō, which those scholars consider the masterpiece of fermented Japanese foods, to determine when and how it was first produced and how it came to be mass produced the way it is today.
ref: 1982, “Eating Customs”, in Morita Tohru, editor, The East, Tokyo: East Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:
text: Moments later Akiko was in the kitchen, opening the refrigerator and pulling out a carton of nattō. “Mmm, this will be good,” she murmured as she eagerly dug her chopsticks into the sticky, slippery beans.
ref: 2012, Rachel Herz, “Let’s Eat”, in That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: The fermentation also reduces the ‘beany’ flavor and aroma of soybeans and increases the level of alkyl pyrazines that are responsible for the characteristic odor of nattō.
ref: 2016, DK O’Toole, “Soybean: Soy-Based Fermented Foods”, in Colin Wrigley, Harold Corke, Koushik Seetharaman, Jon Faubion, editors, Encyclopedia of Food Grains, 2nd edition, volume 3 (Grain-Based Products and Their Processing), Kidlington, Oxfordshire; Waltham, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 125, column 2:
text: Nattō consumption is believed to be a significant contributor to the longevity of the Japanese population. Recent studies have demonstrated that a high nattō intake is associated with decreased risk of total CVD mortality and, in particular, a decrease in risk of mortality from ischemic heart diseases.
ref: 2021, Akhlaq A. Farooqui, “Importance of fermented foods on human health”, in Tahira Farooqui, Akhlaq A. Farooqui, Gut Microbiota in Neurologic and Visceral Diseases, London; San Diego, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.; Kidlington, Oxfordshire: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 78:
text: I’ve even brought nattō, the slimy, pungent fermented soybeans beloved in Japan, but which few non-Japanese can tolerate. Usually eaten at breakfast, nattō is bursting with probiotics, good for gut health, like so many other Japanese foods, and rich with protein.
ref: 2022, Katherine Tamiko Arguile, “Seimei: Pure and clear”, in Meshi: A Personal History of Japanese Food, Melbourne, Vic.: Affirm Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of natto.
Tōkyō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: While this appears to be the case with many modern dialect systems, there is considerable debate as to whether the Kyōto-Ōsaka system, which makes more distinctions, is older or newer than the Tōkyō system.
ref: 1990, Masayoshi Shibatani, The languages of Japan, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Tōkyō commands a prominent position in the Kantō region on the southern cost of Honshū, Japan's largest island.
ref: 2007, Alexis C. Kelly with Deborah Kaufman, Fodor's Tōkyō, Fodor's Travel (Random House), →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Tokyo.
condemning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condemning
form: most condemning
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the mites of sympathy, of friendly feelings towards Denmark which are mingled with your condemning judgments, are withheld by the German papers; but, seriously speaking, I cannot see that they do anything but render your concluding sentences the more condemning.
ref: 1864, Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga, The Invasion of Denmark in 1864 - Volume 1, page 383:
text: Ah, my Brethren, that is a very condemning thing, to sin against a tender conscience.
ref: 1871, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870, page 138:
text: Ironic remarks were considered more condemning than literal remarks, and direct remarks were considered more condemning than indirect ones, but these effects were independent and did not influence one another.
ref: 2007, Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston, Irony in Language and Thought, page 331:
glosses: Synonym of condemnatory.
synonyms: word: condemnatory
Derived terms: condemningly
noncondemning
uncondemning
condemning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of condemn
condemning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condemnings
Senses: examples: text: Thy Servant knew that she was beloved of thee, and that she lay in thy bosome from a child, and there she might have lived without the condemnings or reproaches of men, or of this Generation […]
ref: 1654, Anna Trapnell, The Cry of a Stone:
glosses: condemnation
fuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuku
form: fukus
Etymology: From Japanese 服 (fuku, “clothes”).
Senses: examples: text: I think that since the Sailor Senshi of the Sol System have Sailor fuku similar to school uniforms, then the Sailor Starlight's fuku are similar to their planet's school uniforms.^_^
ref: 1997 September 6, Crimson Jacket, “Sailor Starlights”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025:
text: Mankichi attends a middle school in a small village, which has gakuran for guys and fukus for girls. - https://official-tropes.fandom.com/wiki/Sailor_Fuku
glosses: A Japanese-style school uniform, especially a sailor fuku.
examples: The moisture wicking is excellent, which is great for wearing fuku to hot Texas summer cons. - https://thegeekyseamstress.com/2019/06/14/costume-notes-sailor-pluto-3-0/
Oh the joys of wearing fuku in public. - https://cosplay.com/index.php/s/3n65bmjw9
glosses: A costume, as of an anime character.
Related terms: uniform
terza rima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛːtsə ˈɹiːmə/
ipa: /ˌtɝtsə ˈɹimə/
Forms: form: terze rime
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian terza rima (literally “third rhyme”).
Senses: examples: text: In attempting to make the ‘Divina Commedia’ better known to English readers, it might have been held only a fitting mark of deference to my original to reproduce it, if practicable, in the metre of the poet's own choice. But on the appearance of my ‘Inferno,’ its Terza Rima was denounced as the one ‘deleterious ingredient’ which corrupted the version throughout, […]
ref: 1865, Dante Alighieri, “preface”, in John Dayman, transl., The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman, page viii:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.
Related terms: ottava rima
terzanelle
telestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈlɛstɪk/
homophone: telestich
Forms: form: more telestic
form: most telestic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τελεστικός (telestikós), from τέλος (télos, “mystery religion”).
Senses: examples: text: Orithya was the daughter of Erectheus, and the prieſteſs of Boreas; for each of the winds has a preſiding deity, which the teleſtic art, or the art pertaining to ſacred myſteries, religiouſly cultivates.
ref: 1804, Plato, “The Phædrus”, in Floyer Sydenham, Thomas Taylor, transl., The Works of Plato, viz. His Fifty-five Dialogues, and Twelve Epistles, Translated from the Greek; Nine of the Dialogues by the Late Floyer Sydenham, and the Remainder by Thomas Taylor: with Occasional Annotations on the Nine Dialogues Translated by Sydenham, and Copious Notes, by the Latter Translator; in which is Given the Substance of nearly all the Existing Greek Ms. Commentaries on the Philosophy of Plato, and a Considerable Portion of such as are already Published. In Five Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Thomas Taylor, by R. Wilks, Chancery-Lane; and sold by E. Jeffery, and R. E. Evans, Pall-Mall, page 293, footnote 2:
text: He paused, and took a drink. ‘Do you remember last fall, in Julian’s class, when we studied what Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy?’
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to religious mysteries.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hierophant.
glosses: Mystical.
telestic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈlɛstɪk/
homophone: telestich
Forms: form: telestics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τελεστικός (telestikós), from τέλος (télos, “mystery religion”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telestich.
Nihon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Nippon and Japan.
Senses: examples: ref: 1993 November 17, David Richardson, “Exchange student to Nihon!”, in sci.lang.japan (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
ref: 1993 December 26, Gabriele Schramm, “places to live in Nihon?”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
text: It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!
ref: 1994 January 16, Rikiya Asano, “AIDS on the way to Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022:
ref: 1996 February 5, sumimasen... ima nanji desu ka, “pen pals in nihon? 8)”, in sci.lang.japan (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
ref: 1996 February 25, Kurt Pertsch, “WORKING IN NIHON”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
ref: 2010 August 1, mtfe...@netmapsonscape.net, “Back from Nihon”, in fj.life.in-japan (Usenet), retrieved 05 Jun 2022:
glosses: Japan.
Related terms: Nihongo
reigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: rains
homophone: reins
Senses: glosses: plural of reign
reigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: rains
homophone: reins
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reign
rains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: reigns
homophone: reins
Senses: glosses: plural of rain
rains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: reigns
homophone: reins
Senses: examples: text: The rains came early this year.
text: The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:
glosses: A rainy season; monsoon
rains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
homophone: reigns
homophone: reins
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rain
caiman lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caiman lizards
Senses: glosses: Any semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America
uwatedashinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uwatedashinage
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上手出し投げ, literally "pulling overarm throw".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker pulls his opponent forward and down.
uwatehineri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uwatehineri
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 上手捻り, literally "twisting overarm throw".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker twists his opponent in the direction of his outside arm.
uwatenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uwatenage
Etymology: From Japanese 上手投げ (“overarm throw”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker heaves his opponent down as he turns away
waridashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waridashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 割り出し, literally "upper-arm force out".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker grabs his opponent's arm at the biceps and pushes him back and out.
watashikomi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watashikomi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 渡し込み (watashikomi, “thigh-grabbing push down”).
Senses: examples: text: Akinoshima chases "Yankee Doodle Dandy" around the dohyo, until he finally wins by watashikomi (thigh grabbing push down).
ref: 1999 March 22, Ken Crouch, “Day 9 spoiler - Kintaro's Musings Group”, in rec.sport.sumo (Usenet):
text: Kyokushuzan deployed several rare techniques such as watashi-komi, which he used in September of 1996.
ref: 2013, J Sargeant, Wild Men, Bad Boys and Model Citiizens:
text: Thigh-Grabbing Push Down (Watashikomi)
ref: 2016, Andrew Zerling, Sumo for Mixed Martial Arts: Winning Clinches, Takedowns, & Tactics, →ISBN:
text: Ozeki Terunofuji (4-2) outlasted top-ranked maegashira Tochiozan (0-6), while New Year champion Kotoshogiku saw off sekiwake Okinoumi (1-5) with a watashikomi thigh-grabbing pushdown to level his mark at 3-3.
ref: 2016 November 18, “Goeido, Hakuho fall; Kakuryu still unbeaten”, in The Japan Times:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker, while driving his opponent forward, grabs his leg and pulls it, forcing him over.
yaguranage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaguranage
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 櫓投げ, meaning inner thigh throw.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker pulls his opponent towards him, places his knee against his opponent's inner thigh and drives the leg upwards while forcing him over.
yobimodoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yobimodoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 呼び戻し, literally pulling body slam.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker first pulls his opponent forward, then suddenly releases his grip and pushes him back and down.
yorikiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yorikiri
Etymology: From Japanese 寄り切り (yorikiri, “frontal force out”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker drives his opponent out backwards while maintaining a constant grip on his mawashi.
yoritaoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoritaoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 寄り倒し, literally "frontal crush out".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which, during a yorikiri attack, the opponent collapses to the floor.
zubuneri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zubuneri
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ずぶねり, meaning "head pivot throw".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker buries his head in the opponent's chest, locks his arm, and spins him down using the head as fulcrum.
-agog
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -agogue.
Derived terms: demagog
-agogue
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -agog
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”), from ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something that leads to something else, as:
Something that stimulates a flow such as secretion or circulation.
glosses: Something that leads to something else, as:
Someone who leads others.
-amine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine.
-ance
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-əns/
Forms: form: -ence
form: ⠨⠑
Etymology: From Middle English -aunce, -ance, from Anglo-Norman -aunce and continental Old French -ance, from Latin -antia, -entia.
Senses: examples: text: ally + -ance → alliance
text: perform + -ance → performance
text: reluct + -ance → reluctance
glosses: Added to an adjective or verb to form a noun indicating a state or condition, such as result or capacity, associated with the verb.
examples: text: appear + -ance → appearance
text: resist + -ance → resistance
glosses: Added to a verb to form a noun indicating a process or action.
Related terms: -ency
-ancy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ənsi/
Etymology: From Latin -antia, -entia, with influence from French -ance, French -ancie, Spanish -ancia, etc.
Senses: examples: text: account + -ancy → accountancy
text: ascend + -ancy → ascendancy
text: expect + -ancy → expectancy
glosses: Added to verbs and adjectives to form nouns conveying a condition or quality associated with the verb.
Related terms: -ance
-androus
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -andry + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: having a specified number of stamens
glosses: having the specified number of husbands
-andry
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -ănʹdri
ipa: /-ˈandɹi/
other: /-ændɹɪ/
Etymology: From three inextricable sources:
* the Ancient Greek -ανδρία (-andría), forming abstract nouns of quality or condition from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”, “husband”);
* Ancient Greek ἀνδρ- (andr-) (andr-: the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr)) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns of quality or condition); and,
* the -andry element of polyandry. First attested in 1680.
Senses: examples: text: mono- + -andry → monandry [1855]
text: polygyny + -andry → polygynandry [1962]
glosses: male mate(s), husband(s)
examples: text: pseudo- + -andry → pseudandry [1868]
text: mis- + -andry → misandry [1898]
text: protero- + -andry → proterandry [1922]
glosses: man, men; male(s)
examples: text: proto- + -andry → protandry [1870]
text: syn- + -andry → synandry [1900]
glosses: male reproductive organ(s); (especially in botany): stamen(s)
Derived terms: diandry
gynandry
Related terms: -androus
polyandry [1680]
spanandry [1924]
-ant
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ənt/
Etymology: From Middle English -ant, -aunt, partly from Old French -ant, from Latin -āns; and partly (in adjectival derivations) continuing Middle English -ant, a variant of -and, -end, from Old English -ende (present participle ending), see -and.
Senses: examples: serve → servant
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The agent noun derived from verb.
glosses: An adjective corresponding to a noun in -ance, having the sense of "exhibiting (the condition or process described by the noun)".
examples: ascend → ascendant
err → errant.
glosses: An adjective derived from a verb, having the senses of: (a) "doing (the verbal action)", and/or (b) "prone/tending to do (the verbal action)".
examples: blatant, blicant; flippant, old-farrant
glosses: Alternative form of -and.
Related terms: -ance
reinstate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː.ɪnˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: reinstates
form: reinstating
form: reinstated
form: reinstated
Etymology: From re- + instate.
Senses: examples: text: Of these nine days, six will be needed for jacking. The remainder of the time will be given over to removing and then reinstating track and overhead line, power and signalling equipment from a 200-metre stretch of the ECML above.
ref: 2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, page 44:
glosses: To restore to a former position or rank.
examples: text: My trip along the rest of the line is delightful. It's yet another route that has recovered from previous rationalisation by having tracks and platforms reinstated in recent years.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
text: The ancient taboo, which Plato wishes to reinstate, is an important element.
ref: 2002, Gloria Ferrari, Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece, University of Chicago Press, sourced from https://books.google.no/books?id=ShYNG_q10UkC&pg=PA87&hl=no&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false, page 144:
glosses: To bring back into use or existence; resurrect.
Derived terms: reinstatement
reinstater
reinstator
ragtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: ragtimes
form: rag-time
Etymology: Likely from ragged + time, in reference to its heavy use of syncopation, or from rag, an American dialectal term for a dance ball.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical form having a rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music in this style.
Derived terms: ragtimelike
ragtimer
ragtimey
ragtiming
ragtimy
ragtime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæɡˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: ragtimes
form: ragtiming
form: ragtimed
form: ragtimed
form: rag-time
Etymology: Likely from ragged + time, in reference to its heavy use of syncopation, or from rag, an American dialectal term for a dance ball.
Senses: glosses: To perform this style of music.
bat for the other team
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats for the other team
form: batting for the other team
form: batted for the other team
form: batted for the other team
form: bat for the other side
Etymology: From cricket or baseball, in print c. 1990.
Senses: glosses: To be homosexual.
Related terms: bat for both sides
on the other bus
bat for the wrong team
group marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: group marriages
Senses: glosses: A form of polygynous, polyandrous marriage in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit.
Synonyms: circle marriage
Hypernyms: polygamy
Coordinate terms: bigamy
ensue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsjuː/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃuː/
ipa: /ɛnˈsjuː/
ipa: /ɛnˈʃuː/
ipa: /ɪnˈsuː/
ipa: /enˈsjʉː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: ensues
form: ensuing
form: ensued
form: ensued
Etymology: From Old French ensu-, stem of some conjugated forms of ensuivre (“follow close upon, come afterward”) (French ensuivre), from Latin īnsequere, from īnsequi (“to pursue, follow, follow after; come next”), from in- (“upon”) (see in-) + sequi (“follow”) (see sequel).
Senses: examples: text: to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew, / Seeking aduentures [...].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
text: To ensue his example in doynge the like mischiefe.
ref: 1606, G. W. Justine, transl., The Historie of Justine:
glosses: To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
examples: text: Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.11:
glosses: To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.
examples: text: Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
text: After ſo bad a beginning, whats like to inſue?
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:
glosses: To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
Synonyms: sense: to follow
word: carry out
sense: to follow
word: follow
sense: to follow
word: pursue
sense: to be subsequent to
word: come after
word: follow
word: succeed
sense: to occur afterwards
word: arise
sense: to occur afterwards
word: follow
Derived terms: ensuable
coveted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of covet
coveted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more coveted
form: most coveted
Senses: glosses: Highly sought-after.
Derived terms: uncoveted
contraption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹæp.ʃən/
Forms: form: contraptions
Etymology: Possibly a Western US English dialectal word of unknown origin. Perhaps from contrive + trap + -tion, while also possibly approximating construction. Chambers suggests contrivance + adaption. Neither Chambers nor Concise Oxford suggests a US origin. Compare cantrip, cantrap (Scots dialect), a wilful piece of trickery.
Senses: glosses: A machine that is complicated and precarious.
examples: text: “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Any object.
Synonyms: sense: mechanical device
word: contrivance
sense: mechanical device
word: device
sense: mechanical device
word: fandango
sense: mechanical device
word: gadget
sense: mechanical device
word: mechanism
sense: mechanical device
word: construction
classmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑːs.meɪt/
ipa: [ˈklæsmeɪt]
ipa: [ˈklasmeːt]
ipa: [ˈklasmɛjt]
Forms: form: classmates
Etymology: From class + mate.
Senses: examples: text: Danny and I have been classmates for five years, but I've never spoken to him outside of lessons.
text: She was your classmate at the village school from first grade.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 353:
glosses: A student who is in the same class at school.
examples: text: The Class 87 is the only main line-certified member of the fleet left in the UK, although there are 21 classmates in use overseas [...]
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, page 30:
glosses: A member of a different sort of class, such as locomotives etc.
Related terms: coursemate
schoolmate
carpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːpuːl/
Forms: form: carpools
Etymology: From car + pool.
Senses: examples: text: The neighbors decided on a carpool to get their kids to school, so that they wouldn't each have to drive every day.
glosses: An arrangement whereby several people travel together in the same car in order to save costs, reduce pollution etc.
glosses: The group of people who participate in such a pool.
Synonyms: sense: arrangement to travel together
word: lift scheme
Hypernyms: sense: arrangement to travel together
word: rideshare
Derived terms: carpooler
carpool lane
fampool
carpool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːpuːl/
Forms: form: carpools
form: carpooling
form: carpooled
form: carpooled
Etymology: From car + pool.
Senses: glosses: To travel together in such a pool.
Related terms: carpooling
vanpool
burly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːli/
ipa: /bɝli/
ipa: /bʌrle/
ipa: /bʌrlɪ/
ipa: /bøːli/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /beːli/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɛːli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
homophone: barely (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: burlier
form: burliest
form: bowerly
Etymology: From Middle English burly, burely, borly, burlich, borlich, borlic (“tall, stately”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots burely, burly (“rough, stout, sturdy, strong”). Perhaps from Old English *būrlīċ (“noble, stately”, literally “bowerly”), equivalent to bower + -ly; or from Old English *byrlīċ (“high, raised”), from byre (“raised area, mound”), cognate with Old High German burlīh, purlīh (“lofty, elevated, high, exalted”), related to Old High German burjan (“to raise, lift, push up”), English burgeon. However, Irish burla (“bundle, pack; burly person”) points to a different origin.
Senses: examples: text: He’s a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener.
text: With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 12.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 301:
text: She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
text: Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432:
glosses: Large, well-built, and muscular.
raw_tags: of a man
examples: text: That goal was burly.
text: Kimi Räikkönen is a burly Formula 1 driver.
qualifier: East End of London
glosses: Great, amazing, unbelievable.
examples: text: That wave was burly! (i.e. large, dangerous and difficult to ride)
text: This hike is going to be burly, but worth it because there is good body surfing at that beach.
qualifier: surf culture and/or Southern California
glosses: Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
Derived terms: burlily
burliness
unburly
burly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːli/
ipa: /bɝli/
ipa: /bʌrle/
ipa: /bʌrlɪ/
ipa: /bøːli/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /beːli/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /bɛːli/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
homophone: barely (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more burly
form: most burly
Etymology: burl + -y
Senses: glosses: Full of burls or knots; knotty.
Related terms: hurly-burly
take to the streets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to the streets
form: taking to the streets
form: took to the streets
form: taken to the streets
Senses: examples: text: But for the first time, the lese-majesty law was discussed substantially […] It follows an unprecedented youth movement that took to the streets in 2020 to challenge that law and to call for the royal budget to be reduced and its political influence curbed.
ref: 2023 May 15, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Thai election may be turning point as taboo over monarchy fades”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To gather together in the public streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or opposition.
raw_tags: of a crowd of people
glosses: To rampage or riot.
whooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whoop
Derived terms: whooping cough
whooping crane
whooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoopings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whupping.
dreamboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹiːmbəʊt/
ipa: /ˈdɹimˌboʊt/
rhymes: -iːmbəʊt
Forms: form: dreamboats
Etymology: From dream + boat, probably suggesting a person “carrying” or embodying the dreams of another; the term appeared in some 1930s and 1940s love songs, referring to a metaphorical boat carrying a lover’s dreams, such as “When My Dream Boat Comes Home” (1936) written by the Canadian-American bandleader Guy Lombardo (1902–1977) and “Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat” (1941) by the American songwriters Otis (1898–1970) and Leon René (1902–1982), and Emerson Scott.
Senses: examples: text: My new fella is such a dreamboat. He can dance, can sing, and is the captain of the school hockey team.
synonyms: word: hottie
word: hunk
word: looker
word: stunner
word: beefcake
word: bona omi
word: chicken
word: chick magnet
word: dimber cove
word: dreamboat
word: himbo
word: hunk
word: lady-killer
word: man-meat
word: pretty boy
word: rizzler
word: spunk
word: stud
word: stud muffin
word: superhunk
word: twink
word: beaut
word: beauty
word: bobby-dazzler
word: crumpet
word: dish
word: dreamboat
word: eye candy
word: good looker
word: looker
word: lulu
word: sex on a stick
word: sex on legs
word: smoke show
word: stunna
word: stunner
antonyms: word: beautiful person
glosses: An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.
examples: text: My new car is a dreamboat.
synonyms: beaut
peach
glosses: Anything considered highly desirable for its kind, especially a car.