cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
curlicue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: curlicues
form: curlicuing
form: curlicued
form: curlicued
form: curlycue
Etymology: From curly + cue.
Senses: examples: text: A chandelier the shape of an anchor, hanging over Smith's head as he passed out through this vestibule. Walls curlicued with comb marks of some fancy plasterer.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 231–232:
text: I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr. Hatch, walking across the open field beyond the garden, carrying the dark, curlicued ruins of the Malacca chair to the rubbish heap.
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:
text: “Here We Go Again” is the gentlest kiss-off imaginable, with strings and harp and curlicued guitars cushioning Ms. Stone’s farewell[…]
ref: 2007 October 15, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.
whitest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of white: most white
curlicue fractal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curlicue fractals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of fractal shapes generated iteratively from a given irrational number
iteratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From iterative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an iterative manner; using iteration.
curmudgeonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kə(ɹ)ˈmʌdʒənli/
Forms: form: curmudgeonlier
form: more curmudgeonly
form: curmudgeonliest
form: most curmudgeonly
Etymology: From curmudgeon + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: Since Swift and Kelce debuted their relationship early in the season, certain (curmudgeonly) NFL fans grumbled over the numerous camera shots of the singer’s private box.
ref: 2024 February 12, Alaina Demopoulos, “Romcom ending: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s big night at the Super Bowl”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.
Derived terms: curmudgeonliness
currycomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currycombs
form: curry-comb
form: curry comb
Etymology: From curry + comb.
Senses: examples: text: One hundred currycombs […] One hundred corn horsebrushes […]
ref: 1889, Annual Report of the Military Department, State of Oregon, page 99:
glosses: A comb or brush, having rubber or plastic teeth, used to groom horses.
currycomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: currycombs
form: currycombing
form: currycombed
form: currycombed
form: curry-comb
form: curry comb
Etymology: From curry + comb.
Senses: glosses: To groom using such a comb.
cursedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cursedly
form: most cursedly
Etymology: From Middle English cursedly, cursidli, curstely, corsedlich, equivalent to cursed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cursed manner; miserably
cursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cursively
form: most cursively
Etymology: From cursive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cursive manner.
curtailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɚˈteɪlmənt/
ipa: /kɜːˈteɪlmənt/
Forms: form: curtailments
Etymology: From curtail + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Curtailment was said to be imminent of services on the ex-Caledonian Glasgow-Carlisle main line via Carstairs, also between Glasgow and Lanark and on other ex-C.R. lines in the Glasgow area.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Drastic cuts in Scotland?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644:
glosses: The act of curtailing.
Derived terms: noncurtailment
curtness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtnesses
Etymology: From curt + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being curt.
curvy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɚ.vi/
ipa: /ˈkɜː.vi/
Forms: form: curvier
form: curviest
form: curvey
Etymology: From curve + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A city is entangled in straight lines, while nature is curvy. Fast is straight, but slow is curvy and patient.
ref: 2015, dehyun sohn, Hee-Jung Jang, Timothy Jung, Go Slow and Curvy: Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phenomenon, Springer, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Having curves.
examples: text: I love this woman and her curvy body.
text: He tried to shift his focus back to Jessica and their wedding, but the soft, curvy blonde he'd met recently was stealing more and more of his attention.
ref: 2013, Ava Catori, The Big, Not-So-Small, Curvy Girls Dating Agency, Ava Catori Books:
glosses: Buxom or curvaceous.
examples: text: (see title)
ref: 2016, Carmen Reeves, Yoga: For Curvy Girls Guide - Easy Beginner's Poses for Women with Curves:
glosses: Overweight.
raw_tags: of women
Synonyms: sense: having curves
word: curved
sense: having curves
word: sinuous
sense: having curves
word: tortuous
sense: having curves
word: wavy
sense: buxom
word: Rubenesque
word: zaftig
word: voluptuous
Derived terms: curvily
curviness
custodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌsˈtoʊ.di.əl/
Forms: form: more custodial
form: most custodial
Etymology: From custody + -al; compare French custodial.
Senses: glosses: Providing protection, care, supervision or guarding.
glosses: Of, pertaining to or providing custody, especially of a child.
glosses: Providing punishment by incarceration.
Derived terms: custodial account
custodial area
custodial care
custodial interrogation
custodialism
custodially
custodial parent
custodial rape
custodial sentence
custodial symmetry
noncustodial
postcustodial
Related terms: custodian
custody
custodianship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custodianships
Etymology: From custodian + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The erection and splendour of these structures - tunnels, shafts, stations and bridges included - of which landowners, with their centuries of custodianship over long-sheltered environs, were uniquely situated to ensure.
ref: 2022 May 4, Dr Joseph Brennan, “When the railways met stately homes...”, in RAIL, number 956, page 61:
glosses: The office, or the duty of a custodian.
custom-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: BTO
hypernyms: custom-made
;
custom#Adjective
bespoke#Adjective
;
built#Adjective
made#Adjective
coordinate_terms: customized
purpose-built
glosses: Built according to the specifications of a particular individual.
Related terms: homebuilt
jerry-built
scratch-built
death factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death factor
customhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: customhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of custom house.
death factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death factors
Senses: examples: text: Pivotal Role of the Cell Death Factor BNIP3 in Ceramide-Induced Autophagic Cell Death in Malignant Glioma Cells
ref: 2004, American Association of Cancer Research:
text: The Fas ligand (FasL) is a key death factor of cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells.
ref: 2006, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various substances that cause apoptosis in cells
ligands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligand
custom house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custom houses
form: customhouse
form: customshouse
form: customs house
Senses: synonyms: customs
glosses: An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit
Related terms: exciseman
excise tax
HMRC
custom-made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: custom made
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: custom-built, tailor-made, tailored; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
antonyms: run-of-the-mill
hypernyms: custom#Adjective
bespoke#Adjective
;
made#Adjective
created
coordinate_terms: mass-produced
glosses: Made according to the needs of a particular person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
Synonyms: word: custom-made
word: made-to-measure
word: made-to-order
word: tailor-made
Hypernyms: word: bespoke
word: custom
word: customised
word: customized
word: made
word: created
word: tailored
word: tailorized
Hyponyms: word: BTO
word: custom-built
Related terms: word: cobbled together
word: DIY
word: do-it-yourself
word: do it yourself
word: handbuilt
word: handmade
word: homebrew
word: homebrewed
word: homebuilt
word: homemade
word: improvisational
word: improvised
word: mass-produced
word: prefab
word: prefabricated
word: purpose-built
word: scratch-built
word: scratch-made
word: scratch made
word: self-assembled
word: self-assembly
word: self-build
word: self-built
word: self-made
word: slapped together
word: thrown together
cutoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɒf/
ipa: /kəˈtɔːf/
enpr: ŏf
ipa: /kəˈtɔf/
ipa: /kəˈtɑf/
ipa: [kəˈɾɑf]
ipa: /kəˈtɔːf/
ipa: [kəˈɾɔːf]
Forms: form: cutoffs
form: cut off
form: cut-off
Etymology: Deverbal from cut off.
Senses: glosses: The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
glosses: A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
glosses: A device that stops the flow of a current.
glosses: A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
examples: text: If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.
ref: 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook, page 144:
glosses: A cessation in a flow or activity.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
examples: text: […] I spotted through the window a young woman casually crossing Astor Place wearing a pair of cutoffs, some sandals and — it is fully legal to do this — naked above the waist.
ref: 2021 July 22, Guy Trebay, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
examples: text: Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.
ref: 1919, The Washington Newspaper:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
Derived terms: avulsive cutoff
cutoff low
cutoff time
final order cutoff
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
Related terms: cutback
cutdown
offcut
cutoff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɒf/
ipa: /kəˈtɔːf/
enpr: ŏf
ipa: /kəˈtɔf/
ipa: /kəˈtɑf/
ipa: [kəˈɾɑf]
ipa: /kəˈtɔːf/
ipa: [kəˈɾɔːf]
Forms: form: cut off
form: cut-off
Etymology: Deverbal from cut off.
Senses: glosses: Constituting a limit or ending.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
glosses: Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.
cutoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cutoff
glosses: trousers (most often jeans) that have been shortened by cutting off part or most of the legs
cutout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutouts
Senses: examples: text: According to these keyboard warriors, the young men and women who survived the shooting are part of a big hoax, are liars, are mere cardboard cutouts – “crisis actors” who roam the country looking for mass shootings from which to promote their anti-gun message – all being pushed forward by the giant liberal machine that is Hillary Clinton’s robot attack army.
ref: 2018 February 21, Jeff Pearlman, “Parkland students, ignore the idiots”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cut-out.
cut-price
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They are still taking any chance—the opening of the full Ashford line electric timetable is the latest instance—of stressing that two or three hours' traffic a day in trains crowded with passengers on cut-price season mileage rates does not generate enough revenue to support twenty-four hours a day the resources of men, rolling stock and track needed to cope in comfort with an ever-increasing peak passenger demand.
ref: 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
text: And the checkout chick is too busy taking money to tell you how to operate your cut-price, multi-purpose, plastic encased kitchen magician.
ref: 1979 June 16, The Canberra Times, page 17, column 1:
glosses: Offered for sale at less than the normal price.
cut-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes cut-rate airfares are available because the seat would otherwise go empty.
text: Cut-rate first class return fares are again on offer for weekend travel between London and Glasgow or Edinburgh until March 25; compared with the ordinary fare of £10 16s, £7 10s is the Saturday price of a first class return between Euston and Glasgow, while £7 7s 6d, instead of £10 13s, buys a first class return on Saturdays between Edinburgh Waverley and Kings Cross ...
ref: 1961 January, “News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 10:
synonyms: discount#Adjective
glosses: Offered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate
text: For this jobsite, we'll have none of those shoddy, cut-rate materials, please. Send us the good stuff for this job.
synonyms: discount#Adjective
antonyms: first-rate
glosses: Cheaply made.
Related terms: cutback
flat-rate
emergency medical service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency medical services
Senses: related: word: EMS
glosses: A group of professional responders with medical skills who attend to emergencies or disasters by coming to the location of the event.
raw_tags: in form but singular in construction
Related terms: ED
ER
emergency department
emergency room
EMT
emergency medical technician
EM
emergency medicine
emergency medical services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emergency medical service
talons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talon
sexually transmitted infections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexually transmitted infection
sexually transmitted diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexually transmitted disease
faciodigitogenital dysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare genetic disorder causing defects in bones and cartilage, and characterised by abnormalities of the face, hands and genitals.
Synonyms: Aarskog syndrome
faciodigitogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From facio- + digito- + genital.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the face, fingers and genitals.
Derived terms: faciodigitogenital dysplasia
enslavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enslavements
Etymology: From enslave + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I should like to take this opportunity to express my wish for success and victory in our struggle against Communism and enslavement and for freedom and peace.
ref: 1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Chiang Kai-shek, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 4:
glosses: The act of enslaving or the state of being a slave; bondage
astasia-abasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsteɪ.ʒi.ə əˈbeɪ.ʒi.ə/
ipa: / əˈsteɪ.ʒə əˈbeɪ.ʒə/
ipa: / əˈsteɪ.zi.ə əˈbeɪ.zi.ə/
Forms: form: abasia-astasia
Etymology: From astasia (“not stand condition”) + abasia (“not step condition”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability either to stand or walk due to loss of motor control.
ballottement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballottements
Etymology: From French ballottement, from ballotter (“ballot”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of diagnosing pregnancy, in which the uterus is pushed with a finger to feel whether a foetus moves away and returns again.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increased amount of fluid in the suprapatellar pouch of the knee.
daunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɔntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːntɪŋ
Forms: form: dauntings
Etymology: From daunt + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Lost Bower”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114:
text: But stigmatise it as we please there never was a great man without a strong will, and an infusion of self-reliance sufficient to raise him above the dauntings of opposition and reliance on props.
ref: 1849 January, O. T. Dobbin, “John Wesley, and the Principles Developed in His Career”, in John Kitto, editor, The Journal of Sacred Literature, volume III, number V, London: C. Cox, […]; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Dublin: J. Robertson, […], →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: gerund of daunt.
The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.
examples: text: Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]
ref: 1613, Thomas Dekker; Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, compiler and editor, “A Strange Horse-race”, in The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. In Five Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, [London]: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, pages 339–340:
glosses: gerund of daunt.
The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.
synonyms: taming
vanquishing
daunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɔntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːntɪŋ
Etymology: From daunt + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daunt
drowse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹaʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: drowses
Etymology: The verb is either:
* a back-formation from drowsy, which is attested earlier; or
* possibly from Middle English *drousen (no known attestations), from Old English drūsan, drūsian (“to droop, sink; to become feeble, inactive, low, or slow, drowse”), from Proto-Germanic *drūsijaną (“to look down; mourn”) (possibly merged with *dreusaną (“to fall”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewHs- (“to break off; to fall down”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
cognates
* Danish drøse (“to be negligent; to slow down”)
* Dutch drozen (“to doze; muse”)
* German trauern (“to mourn, be sad”)
* Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (driusan, “to fall; to fall down”)
* Norwegian døse (“to drowse”)
* Old English drēosan (“to fall; to perish; to rush”) (whence Middle English dresen (“to fall down”))
* Swedish drösa (“to be slow”)
Senses: examples: text: in a drowse
text: He saw his mother's face, accepting it / In change for heaven itself, with such a smile / As might have been learnt there,—never moved, / But smiled on, in a drowse of ecstasy, / So happy (half with her and half with heaven) / He could not have the trouble to be stirred, / But smiled and lay there.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sixth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 250:
text: On a sudden, many a voice along the street, / And heel against the pavement echoing, burst / Their drowze; […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: An act, or a state, of being drowsy or sleepy.
examples: text: Here, in this latest August dawn, / By windows opening on the lawn, / Where shadows yet are sharp with night, / And sunshine seems asleep, though bright; / And, further on, the wealthy wheat / Bends in a golden drowse, how sweet / To sit, and cast my careless looks / Around my walls of well-read books, […]
ref: 1862, Coventry Patmore, “Felix Vaughan to Honoria Vaughan”, in [The Angel in the House]: The Victories of Love, book IV, Boston, Mass.: T. O. H. P. Burnham, →OCLC, pages 51–52:
glosses: A state of dullness or inactivity, as if from sleepiness.
carnotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnotites
Etymology: From Carnot + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow mineral that is a potassium uranyl vanadate that is a major ore of uranium, with the chemical formula K₂(UO₂)₂(VO₄)₂·3H₂O.
potcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potchers
Senses: glosses: A machine in which rags, after being washed, are stirred and bleached as part of a process for making paper
glosses: The operator of such a machine; a potcherman
carpoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of extinct echinoderm previously placed in the class †Carpoidea, now placed within the subphylum †Homalozoa.
hardline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdlaɪn/
Forms: form: hardlines
form: hard line
form: hard-line
Etymology: From hard + line.
Senses: examples: text: The Hardlines Digest is an Internet mailing list for members of the retail hardware and home center industry.
ref: 2002, John Cornell III, Hardlines FAQ (live original), Hardlines Digest
topics: business
glosses: A retail product collection consisting primarily of hardware targeting the do-it-yourself customer.
examples: text: Comparable-store sales in hardlines declined in the mid single-digit range, with the strongest performance in sporting goods.
ref: 2010, Staff, Target June Comps "Relatively Soft" - Update (live original), RTTNews
topics: business
glosses: A retail product collection which includes many non-information goods, such as home appliances, housewares, and sporting goods, in addition to the DIY hardware which is the focus of the first definition, above.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A physical wire or cable connection; landline.
hardline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdlaɪn/
Forms: form: hard line
form: hard-line
Etymology: From hard + line.
Senses: examples: text: Smith's hardline approach to drugs gained him the support of many local citizens.
text: To come up with common, honorable, flexible, sensible, creative, meaningful, non-coercive "codes" or expectations of ethical behavior while avoiding laying down hard-line, guilt-inspiring "politically correct" rules and superficial judgements is no small feat.
ref: 1979, Alix Dobkins, Adventures in Women's Music:
text: Emmanuel Macron’s ruling centrist party was divided and soul-searching on Wednesday after a strict new immigration law was approved by parliament but contained so many hardline measures that the far-right Marine Le Pen claimed it as an “ideological victory” for her own anti-immigration platform.
ref: 2023 December 19, Angelique Chrisafis, “France passes controversial immigration bill amid deep division in Macron’s party”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Uncompromising; rigidly holding to a set of beliefs.
examples: text: hardline product
text: Safety, product quality and performance are prerequisites for all hardline products such as toys, cosmetics, furniture, jewellery, DIY, etc.
ref: 2010, Hardline Services by SGS (live page), SGS Group
topics: business
glosses: Belonging to a hardline.
Derived terms: hard-liner
goofing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goof off
cassiterite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈsɪ.təˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: cassiterites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κασσίτερος (kassíteros, “tin”).
Senses: examples: text: In general, the hydroxamates are used for flotation of oxidic minerals (pyrochlore, cassiterite and ilmenite), rare-earth oxides and oxide copper minerals.
ref: 2007, Srdjan M. Bulatovic, Handbook of Flotation Reagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A generally black mineral, composed of tin oxide, SnO₂, which is an important ore of tin.
Synonyms: stream tin
tinstone
wood tin
cat scratch fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat-scratch fever.
Hypernyms: fever
facetiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originated 1520–30 from Latin facētiae, plural of facētia (jest); see facete+-ia and facetious.
Senses: examples: text: The Facetiae of Poggio Bracciolini.
glosses: Witty or amusing writings or remarks.
glosses: Indecent books.
potchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potcher
goofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goof
goofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːfɪŋ
Forms: form: goofings
Senses: examples: text: Teach them some of the general principles of RET and its views on self-acceptance and show them how to accept all people, including themselves, with their failings and their goofings.
ref: 1978, Albert Ellis, Eliot Abrahms, Brief Psychotherapy in Medical and Health Practice, page 92:
glosses: The making of mistakes or blunders.
CCSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCSLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of combined continuity and spotting list.
glosses: Initialism of combined continuity and subtitle list, specialized scripts created for a production (movie, TV show, etc.) after principal photography is complete.
astable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsteɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Etymology: From a- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Not stable.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having multiple states, none of which is stable.
Related terms: bistable
monostable
multivibrator
unstable
ducana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Antiguan dish made using sweet potatoes, white flour, sugar, vanilla essence, grated coconut and sometime raisins, blended and wrapped in large grape leaves or aluminum foil and boiled, often served with salted fish in tomato sauce.
ayat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.(j)ɑt/
Forms: form: ayats
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian آیت, from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayah (“verse of the Quran”).
ayat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.(j)ɑt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian آیت, from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).
Senses: glosses: plural of ayah (“verse of the Quran”)
skeleton key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeleton keys
Senses: glosses: A very simple design of key that usually has a cylindrical shaft (sometimes called a "shank") and a single, minimal flat, rectangular tooth or "bit".
glosses: A key that has parts filed away so that it will open a range of locks.
glosses: A master key.
Related terms: passkey
keychain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːˌt͡ʃeɪn/
Forms: form: keychains
form: key chain
Etymology: From key + chain.
Senses: glosses: A chain or ring to which a key may be attached.
glosses: An ornamental piece holding such a chain or ring.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A digital repository for the storage of cryptographic keys.
Hypernyms: chain
Related terms: keyring
endart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endarts
form: endarting
form: endarted
form: endarted
Etymology: From en- + dart.
Senses: glosses: To throw or shoot out like a dart.
animalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more animalic
form: most animalic
Etymology: From animal + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.
ref: 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: Of or concerning animals.
Synonyms: animalian
baggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more baggily
form: most baggily
Etymology: From baggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a loose baggy manner
banteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more banteringly
form: most banteringly
Etymology: From bantering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'What? Have you found your treasure-trove, Ursula?' he asked banteringly, but looking with envious interest at the instinctive maternity of her sheltering arms.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 269:
text: 'Now I shall have to dine by myself,' he continued, no longer banteringly.
ref: 1954, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin, translated into English by Rosemary Edmonds
glosses: In a bantering manner.
barefacedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barefacedly
form: most barefacedly
Etymology: From barefaced + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a barefaced manner
barometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barometrically
form: most barometrically
Etymology: From barometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a barometer
basally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more basally
form: most basally
Etymology: From basal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a basal manner
Derived terms: laterobasally
mesobasally
subbasally
basely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more basely
form: most basely
Etymology: From base + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a base manner
befittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more befittingly
form: most befittingly
Etymology: From befitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a befitting manner
beguilingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beguilingly
form: most beguilingly
Etymology: From beguiling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beguiling manner
behaviorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more behaviorally
form: most behaviorally
form: behaviourally
Etymology: From behavioral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With respect to behavior.
belatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belatedly
form: most belatedly
Etymology: From belated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bennett was belatedly sent off for a second yellow card after fouling Brahim Diaz in added time but there was no shame in Cardiff losing to a City side who have enjoyed similar dominance over far superior teams this season.
ref: 2018 January 28, Dafydd Pritchard, “Cardiff City 1 - 1 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
text: However, the Japanese battleships and cruisers now come to Chikumas aid, and, within ten minutes, the Roberts is knocked out of action, as the Japanese ships firing at her also belatedly' switch to high explosive, and, within minutes of this change, several massive holes are blasted into her side and she begins to sink.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 30:32 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: Storm Charlie had raged throught [sic] the night and was unleashing further gusts on the morning that RAIL was due to inspect a vegetation management project in Kent. Bit by bit, the train timetable unravelled. A trip beginning at Bradford-on-Avon belatedly reached Bath, but that turned out to be journey's end.
ref: 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: In a belated manner; tardily.
Synonyms: word: late
word: behindhand
word: belatedly
word: lateward
word: tardily
Hypernyms: word: inopportunely
Related terms: word: behind time
word: overdue
belligerently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more belligerently
form: most belligerently
Etymology: From belligerent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.
ref: 1896, Stephen Crane, chapter 11, in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, New York: Appleton, pages 88–89:
text: “How’d you get a job like this?” she asked.
“A fella got to eat,” he began; and then, belligerently, “A fella got a right to eat.”
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 26, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, published 1962, page 512:
text: In truth, Mrs. Lish’s charge of anti-Semitism had backfired with a number of the faculty, who were quite belligerently anti-Semitic themselves.
ref: 1989, John Irving, chapter 7, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, page 338:
glosses: In a belligerent manner; with aggressive hostility.
bemusedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bemusedly
form: most bemusedly
Etymology: From bemused + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bemused manner
beneficently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beneficently
form: most beneficently
Etymology: From beneficent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beneficent manner
beneficially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beneficially
form: most beneficially
Etymology: From beneficial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beneficial manner
benevolently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more benevolently
form: most benevolently
Etymology: From benevolent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a benevolent manner.
benightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more benightedly
form: most benightedly
Etymology: From benighted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 138:
glosses: In a benighted manner.
beseechingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beseechingly
form: most beseechingly
Etymology: From beseeching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Such heavy days, such long, long nights, such aching hearts and imploring prayers, when those who loved her best were forced to see the thin hands stretched out to them beseechingly, to hear the bitter cry, "Help me, help me!"
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 40, in Little Women:
text: Now she opened the window and called beseechingly.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 58:
glosses: In a beseeching manner.
Synonyms: entreatingly
imploringly
bestially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bestially
form: most bestially
Etymology: From late Middle English bestially; equivalent to bestial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bestial manner.
bewilderingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bewilderingly
form: most bewilderingly
Etymology: From bewildering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Yes,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so.[…]’
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Believe me, there are few more bewilderingly birdless places than a New England woodland in early fall.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 141:
glosses: In a bewildering manner, or to a bewildering extent.
bewitchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bewitchingly
form: most bewitchingly
Etymology: From bewitching + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bewitching manner
bilaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bilaterally
form: most bilaterally
Etymology: From bilateral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bilateral manner.
bilingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bilingual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Within this melee of intersections between English and Cantonese, the students, being themselves bilingually fluent, were able to navigate with perfect ease in communicative contexts where the provenance of a certain term or expression matters little.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:
glosses: In a bilingual manner; using two languages.
bisexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bisexually
form: most bisexually
Etymology: From bisexual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bisexual manner.
bitchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bitchily
form: most bitchily
Etymology: From bitchy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The play's opening scene could be happening anywhere. A gay male couple argues bitchily over the drunken behavior of one of them the previous evening. Max, in his stupor, brought home a handsome, blond soldier, much to the chagrin of his whining, slightly effeminate love, Rudy. The banter, the accusations, the reconciliation — the whole thing could have happened this morning.
ref: 1979 December 22, Andy Beck, “BENT: To Remind, To Instruct, To Warn”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 11:
glosses: In a bitchy manner.
bitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bitingly
form: most bitingly
Etymology: From biting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The wind was bitingly cold.
text: She is known to be bitingly sarcastic without provocation.
glosses: In a biting manner.
Related terms: nail-bitingly
bizarrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bizarrely
form: most bizarrely
Etymology: From bizarre + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
text: The forms can be bizarrely funny when blown up to fill a canvas, as in "Supergastrico Compensado" (the artist prefers that his often punning titles remain untranslated), whose eroticized digestive systems have an appealing decorative flair.
ref: 1993 January 1, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:
text: The White House said Wednesday that President Obama had dismissed a government agency’s internal watchdog because he was incompetent and had behaved bizarrely, disputing accusations that he was fired because he had uncovered embarrassing problems in the AmeriCorps program.
ref: 2009 June 17, Neil A. Lewis, “White House Defends Inspector General’s Firing”, in The New York Times:
text: [...] his 'crime' was discovered, was summoned to see the headmaster, Sir Arthur fforde. It could potentially have been a flogging offence, but the headmaster, bizarrely, offered him a glass of nonalcoholic sherry. It no doubt helped that fforde, like [...]
ref: 2017, Sarah Winterton, The Wintertons Unmuzzled: The Life & Times of Nick & Ann Winterton, Two Westminster Mavericks, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: In a bizarre manner.
fast forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fast forwards
form: fast forwarding
form: fast forwarded
form: fast forwarded
form: fast-forward
Senses: glosses: To cause an audio or video tape, digital media stream, etc. to move forward very fast, so that when the device is played, it will start at a later point.
glosses: To be fast-forwarded; to move ahead in this fashion.
examples: text: Antarctica was remote, little of value […] was at stake, and few states had the capacity to get to Antarctica or otherwise challenge the claimants. […] Fast-forward to the present, and the picture looks somewhat different.
ref: 2012, Alan D. Hemmings, Donald R. Rothwell, Karen N. Scott, Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century, page 77:
synonyms: jump-cut
glosses: To shift one's attention or focus toward a later point in time.
examples: text: Metallica have revealed that they plan to ‘fast-forward to the next chapter’ of working with Lady Gaga – sparking rumours of a collaborative album.
ref: 2017 February 15, Andrew Trndell, “Metallica to ‘fast-forward to next chapter’ of working with Lady Gaga”, in NME:
glosses: To advance rapidly in time.
examples: text: Lippman said Crispr is an incredibly useful tool in research, allowing him to ask new questions of the tomato plants he breeds, by fast-forwarding the research process. “The amount of genetics that we’re currently able to do has at least quintupled in the last three years,” he said.
ref: 2019 May 30, Karen Weintraub, “Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To accelerate.
fast forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fast forwards
form: fast-forward
Senses: glosses: The feature that allows media to be fast-forwarded.
glosses: A button that causes media to be fast forwarded.
examples: text: In addition to her simple, punchy opening lines, Roupenian likes to begin stories at true beginnings, like childhood or a brand-new relationship, her tales often ones of maturation in fast-forward.
ref: 2019 January 22, Lauren Holmes, “If You Thought ‘Cat Person’ Was Dark, Wait Until You Read the Rest of the Book”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A state of rapid advancement.
Related terms: »
«
fast backward
rewind
fast-forward
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fast-forwards
form: fast-forwarding
form: fast-forwarded
form: fast-forwarded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fast forward.
fast-forward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fast forward.
proficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proficiency
flirtatiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flirtatiously
form: most flirtatiously
Etymology: From flirtatious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flirtatious manner.
bulkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulkinesses
Etymology: From bulky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The bulkiness of those commodities which are the chief productions of the soil, necessarily imposes very heavy charges on their transportation, to distant markets.
ref: 1791 December 5, Alexander Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volume 10, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of being bulky, or of having bulk.
lick one's chops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: licks one's chops
form: licking one's chops
form: licked one's chops
form: licked one's chops
Senses: examples: text: Pat presently came galloping up the orchard, carrying in his mouth a big field mouse, which, sitting down before us, he proceeded to devour, body and bones, afterwards licking his chops with great satisfaction.
ref: 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Story Girl, ch,. 20:
glosses: To use one's tongue to remove moistness from the sides of one's mouth, as when salivating or at the conclusion of a meal.
examples: text: [The stranger] handed his platter to the large mastiff dog, who, attracted by the smell of the dinner, had sat down before him for some time, licking his chops, and following with his eye every morsel which the guest raised to his head.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: To look forward avidly to eating something.
examples: text: When the Federal Government set up the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) last fall to help prop up the ailing airlines with $10 billion in loan guarantees, many credit-strapped CEOs licked their chops in anticipation of yet another big, fat government handout.
ref: 2002 August 26, Daniel Eisenberg et al., “Air Travel Gets A New Model”, in Time:
synonyms: lick one's lips
glosses: To anticipate something eagerly.
Related terms: rub one's hands
cast accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts accounts
form: casting accounts
form: cast accounts
form: cast accounts
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To perform basic bookkeeping.
glosses: To be numerate; to be capable of arithmetic.
think-tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: think-tanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of think tank.
think-tank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: think-tanks
form: think-tanking
form: think-tanked
form: think-tanked
Senses: examples: text: The chairman had some quite remarkable hearings last year — I think you cited in your testimony Dr. Lange and others who came here and sort of think-tanked for us — and it was very interesting.
ref: 1985, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, Audio and Video First Sale Doctrine:
text: In either event, depending on the nature of the business and the help needed, assistance through the entire procedure will be provided. Everything from devising a business plan to business expansion strategies are think-tanked.
ref: 1990, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Crisis, page 20:
text: Bill will change jobs to be closer, will move from D.C. to L.A., just after the riots, and will do his think-tanking there.
ref: 2013, Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story, →ISBN:
text: And punishing the ones who were responsible for think-tanking, creating and unleashing this horrible monster, murdering biological warfare on the people, while being faithfully, willingly and ready to die in accomplishing their conquest against these evil-doers.
ref: 2016, Warren Henderson, Destiny to Die, →ISBN:
text: To Schroeder, the trip to FedEx's 2015 small-business summit, where she and fellow winners “think-tanked it out,” was invaluable.
ref: 2016, Finance Your Business, →ISBN:
glosses: To perform research and develop recommendations as part of a think tank.
awkwardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is not because I love even my errors and awkwardnesses, but because so much needs improvement that silent correction would have amounted to deceit and explicit correction would have made the whole a labyrinth.
ref: 1981, John H. Schaar, Legitimacy in the Modern State, page 1:
glosses: plural of awkwardness