cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phenomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnɒm.ɪ.nə/
ipa: /fɪˈnɑm.ɪ.nə/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnə
Forms: form: phenomenas
form: phenomenae
form: phænomena
form: phœnomena
Etymology: The plural form of phenomenon, formed according to the Ancient Greek -ον (-on) → -α (-a) pluralisation pattern.
Senses: examples: text: And that this doctrine is true, the accidents or Phenomenas evidently declare unto us; […]
ref: 1645, Kenelme Digby, “Of three sorts of violent motion, Reflection, Vndulation, and Refraction”, in Two Treatises: In the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule, Is Looked Into: In Way of Discovery of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, London: […] Iohn Williams, […], page 139:
text: Senſe is Deceitful, and may feign, / As well in counterfeiting Pain / As other groſs Phænomena'''’s, / In which it oft miſtakes the Caſe.
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto I”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: A new musical prodigy has turned up in Cincinnati more wonderful than all the infant phenomenas in that line that have appeared for many a day.
ref: 1871 August 6, “Notes and Comments”, in The New York Times, volume XX, number 6201, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024, page 3, column 4:
text: “One could say that the precious-metals markets are excellent places to study human behavior,” Dr. [Henry] Jarecki observed during an interview the other day. “They are laboratories for studying changing human moods, mob psychology and related phenomenas.”
ref: 1974 March 10, H. J. Maidenberg, “Spotlight”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024:
text: Although it seemed like a fad a few years ago, Twitter has evolved into a phenomena with more than 200 million users -- some of whom play college basketball at major schools.
ref: 2011 February 26, Myron P. Medcalf, “Watch what U tweet cuz itll get U in trubl”, in The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.: Star Tribune Media Company LLC, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
glosses: A phenomenon.
nicher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nichers
form: nichering
form: nichered
form: nichered
Senses: examples: text: "Aha-ha-ha! Hee-hee-hee!" nichered McMurdie, misconstruing the Laird's meaning.
ref: 1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride:
glosses: Alternative form of nicker (“to neigh”).
nicher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of niche: more niche
disgruntle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡɹʌnt(ə)l/
Forms: form: disgruntles
form: disgruntling
form: disgruntled
form: disgruntled
Etymology: From dis- (intensifier) + gruntle (“grumble, grunt”).
Senses: examples: text: A pregnant woman who ordered pizza in Florida was stabbed 14 times by a delivery driver who police say was disgruntled over her $2 tip.
ref: 2024 December 27, Leah Sarnoff, “Pregnant woman stabbed 14 times by pizza delivery driver over $2 tip: Police”, in abcnews.go.com:
glosses: To make discontent or cross; to put in a bad temper.
Derived terms: disgruntlement
regruntle
Related terms: grunt
gruntle
blue peter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue peters
form: Blue Peter
Etymology: The flag, serving as a signal of recall for departure, was used by the British Navy from 1777, and the name “blue peter” had become common by the end of the 18th century. An all-blue flag had earlier seen use for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company. While “blue” obviously refers to the dominant colour of the flag, the origin of the second part of the term, “peter”, is unknown. Often said to be a corruption of “blue repeater”, there is actually no signal flag that goes by that designation. The use of the flag to spell the letter “P” dates from 1857 and so cannot have played a role in the origin of the term.
The whist play, introduced by Lord Henry Bentinck, was named by him after the flag.
Senses: examples: text: We lay out in the stream for another whole day, with the Blue Peter flying, to show that we were ready for sea, and to summon any passengers who might yet remain on shore.
ref: 1851, W.H.G. Kingston, Peter the Whaler:
text: If we clung as devotedly as some philosophers pretend we do to the abstract idea of life, or were half as frightened as they make out we are, for the subversive accident that ends it all, the trumpets might sound by the hour and no one would follow them into battle - the blue-peter might fly at the truck, but who would climb into a sea-going ship?
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A blue signal flag with a white rectangle in the centre, signifying "P". When flown alone, indicates that a ship is ready to sail, requiring all crew members and passengers to return on board.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In whist, a play that calls for trumps by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a lower one.
blue peter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blue peters
form: blue petering
form: blue petered
form: blue petered
form: Blue Peter
Etymology: The flag, serving as a signal of recall for departure, was used by the British Navy from 1777, and the name “blue peter” had become common by the end of the 18th century. An all-blue flag had earlier seen use for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company. While “blue” obviously refers to the dominant colour of the flag, the origin of the second part of the term, “peter”, is unknown. Often said to be a corruption of “blue repeater”, there is actually no signal flag that goes by that designation. The use of the flag to spell the letter “P” dates from 1857 and so cannot have played a role in the origin of the term.
The whist play, introduced by Lord Henry Bentinck, was named by him after the flag.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In whist, to play a blue peter.
Blue Riband
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: blue riband
Senses: examples: text: The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm left New York on May 3 [1904], at 3.10 p.m. and reached Plymouth Sound on May 9 at 8 a.m. This was then a very fast crossing of the Atlantic, but it was not the record. The same ship had held the "Blue Riband" in 1902, but had been slightly bested by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, a larger vessel of the same line, in 1903, and that stood as the record until the Cunard Line secured the honours in 1909 with the Mauretania and held them for an unbroken period of 20 years.
ref: 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, pages 201–202:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A trophy for the fastest sea crossing of the Atlantic by a liner.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: An award from the British Motorcycling Federation for advanced riding.
examples: text: The men's downhill race is considered by many to be the blue riband event of the Winter Olympics.
glosses: The most prestigious event, award etc. of its type or class.
raw_tags: without caps
Related terms: blue ribbon
bluejacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluejackets
Etymology: From blue + jacket.
Senses: examples: text: It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: ‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: sailor
glosses: A seaman of a British warship
examples: text: […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.
ref: 1939, Fred J. Buenzle, Arthur Grove Day, Bluejacket: An Autobiography, page 12:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An enlisted man in the US Navy.
examples: text: He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A uniformed policeman.
synonyms: Confederate spiderwort
snotgrass
snot grass
snotweed
cowslobber
glosses: An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).
bench-warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bench-warmers
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who rarely or never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute.
Related terms: warm the bench
warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɔːmə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Etymology: From warm + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of warm: more warm
warmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɔːmə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: warmers
Etymology: From warm + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] tortillas are kept warm and moist in an electric warmer […]
ref: 1993, Raymond Sokolov, Why We Eat What We Eat:
coordinate_terms: heater
;
cooler
;
coolant
glosses: Something that warms (something else) by providing some small amount of heat, such as a hot water bottle or a soup.
glosses: A piece of clothing for warmth via insulation of body heat.
coordinate_terms: primer#Noun
;
explainer#Noun
;
warm-up#Noun
glosses: An introductory activity, for example in a lesson, to stimulate interest in a topic.
Derived terms: bench-warmer
bottle warmer
diaper warmer
footwarmer
handwarmer
heart-warmer
leg-warmer
nappy warmer
neckwarmer
peg warmer
spoon warmer
triple warmer
tyre warmer
warmer-upper
willy warmer
winter warmer
wipe warmer
disconsolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɒnsəlɪt/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɑnsəlɪt/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin discōnsōlātus (“comfortless”), from dis- (“away”) + cōnsōlātus (“consoled”).
Senses: glosses: Disconsolateness.
nuncupative will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof.
trudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: trudges
Etymology: Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).
Senses: examples: text: The morning after the landslip, with rain still pouring down, it was an unpleasant trudge through deep mud to get there.
ref: 2020 September 9, Paul Clifton, “Heavy rainfall causes landslip in Hampshire: At the scene...”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
trudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: trudges
form: trudging
form: trudged
form: trudged
Etymology: Mid-16th century. Original meaning was somewhat idiomatic, meaning "to walk using snowshoes." Probably of Scandinavian origin, compare Icelandic þrúga (“snowshoe”), Norwegian truga (“snowshoe”) and dialectal Swedish trudja (“snowshoe”).
Senses: examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
This famous archaeological site marks the farthest limit of human migration out of Africa in the middle Stone Age—the outer edge of our knowledge of the cosmos. I trudge to the caves in a squall.
glosses: To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
glosses: To trudge along or over a route etc.
Derived terms: trudger
sale-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sale-proof
form: most sale-proof
Etymology: From sale + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: That used car has one thing going for it: it is sale-proof.
glosses: Nearly impossible to sell to others.
napalm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.pɑːm/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.pɑlm/
Forms: form: napalms
Etymology: Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance.
Senses: examples: text: A trio of needle-nosed silver Phantom jets descended from the clouds and dropped a colossal load of napalm on the jungle. Flames turned the screen red and orange. Silence followed.
“You smell that?” Kilgore said, almost to himself. Then, louder, “You smell that?” Lance, the champion surfer, asked “What?” Kilgore, lit by the glow of burning trees, retorted, “Napalm, son—nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours, and when it was all over I walked up; we didn’t find one of ’em … not one stinking dink body. But the smell—you know, that gasoline smell—the whole hill—it smelled like … victory.”
ref: 2013 April 1, Robert M. Neer, “PARIAH”, in Napalm: An American Biography, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 140:
glosses: A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas.
examples: text: When leaked, the controversial documents proved to be political napalm.
text: sexual napalm
glosses: Anything very incendiary; dynamite.
Derived terms: antinapalm
napalmer
napalmlike
napalm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.pɑːm/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.pɑlm/
Forms: form: napalms
form: napalming
form: napalmed
form: napalmed
Etymology: Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance.
Senses: glosses: To spray or attack with napalm.
latent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tənt/
rhymes: -eɪtənt
Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”).
Senses: examples: text: There is known latent demand for rail freight and the rail freight industry is working with Scottish businesses to develop new rail freight services, as environmental concerns are beginning to change the logistics choices of Scottish producers.
ref: 2020 August 12, Philip Haigh, “Scotland reveals 2035 decarbonisation strategy”, in Rail, page 12:
synonyms: hidden
invisible
antonyms: apparent
patent
visible
active
glosses: Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
examples: 2008 July 2, Joe Palca, “Scientists Make Herpes Breakthrough”, abstract, All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Those infected with a herpes virus are infected for life. That’s because the virus goes "latent." Sometimes, it awakes from its slumber, producing painful illnesses.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: dormant
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
antonyms: active
glosses: Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
raw_tags: of a virus
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
Derived terms: antilatent
latency
latensification
latent fingerprint
latent heat
latently
latentness
latent news
latent print
latent space
latent time
latent value
latent variable
semilatent
latent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tənt/
rhymes: -eɪtənt
Forms: form: latents
Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”).
Senses: examples: text: Once the latent prints have been visualized by the superglue and powder dusting techniques, they should be photographed again. Then the developed latents need to be lifted and placed on backing cards. The latent cards are documented by putting the case number, date and time of lifting, initials of person processing the evidence, and a sketch indicating the location of the lifted latent print on the back of the lift card, as shown in Photo 6.6.
ref: 2001, Henry C. Lee, Timothy Palmbach, Marilyn T. Miller, Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook, →ISBN, page 383:
text: Paralegal workers do not argue cases in court, and these crimescene fingerprint gatherers do not compare crime-scene latents to known prints of suspects and present their findings in court.
ref: 2008, Jim Fisher, Forensics Under Fire, →ISBN:
qualifier: forensics
glosses: The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
examples: text: These kinds of latents define the invariant dispositional properties enabling prediction and control of the external environment. Finally, there are the latents that underlie manifestation as relationships of power, as cause to effect, condition to occurrence, or dependent variable to independent variable.
ref: 1975, Rudolph J. Rummel, Understanding Conflict and War, →ISBN:
text: That is, the observed covariance between indicator y₁ and y₃ would mirror the understandable causal behavior of the corresponding underlying latents.
ref: 2007, William Outhwaite, Stephen Turner, The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology, →ISBN, page 166:
text: If one were to compute the reproduced covariances among the latents of the structural model, they might be different from the covariances obtained between the same number of latents in the measurement model.
ref: 2009, Stanley A. Mulaik, Linear Causal Modeling with Structural Equations, →ISBN, page 209:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
examples: text: Even if latents may not be actually detectable in any given situation, they may nevertheless be present in it. Latents may become actual if proper triggering conditions are in place, or they may be lost in the process.
ref: 2011, Javier Cumpa, Erwin Tegtmeier, Ontological Categories, →ISBN, page 158:
text: After we discovered Leah and I realized what she was, the flood gates opened. More and more latents have been discovered, as well as cubs.
ref: 2016, Christa Wick, Alpha Curves: A BBW Shapeshifter Romance:
glosses: Anything that is latent.
unconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
Forms: form: more unconscious
form: most unconscious
Etymology: From un- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
synonyms: insentient
oblivious
out of it
out on one's feet
unaware
down for the count
under
lost to the world
senseless
glosses: Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
examples: text: My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
text: It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
ref: 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son:
text: Reshaping [of British Railways] was far from perfect. It was tainted by statistical overreach, the unconscious biases of its author, and by the political demands being placed upon the BRB by government.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 49:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: word: subconscious
english: non-technical
translation: non-technical
glosses: Without directed thought or awareness.
examples: text: Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
ref: 1998, Charles Rosen, The Cockroach Basketball League, page 144:
text: "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."
ref: 1999, Joseph Leininger, Terry Whalin, Lessons from the Pit: A Successful Veteran of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, page 10:
text: Someone who has reeled off a string of baskets will say, "I was unconscious," as if he were following the Zen injunction to be mindful while suspending thought.
ref: 2002, Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, page 292:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: in the zone
on a roll
glosses: engaged in skilled performance without conscious control.
Coordinate terms: conscious
preconscious
Derived terms: he's unconscious
she's unconscious
unconsciousness
unconscious
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
Forms: form: unconsciouses
Etymology: From un- + conscious.
Senses: examples: text: Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: subconscious
subconsciousness
subconscious mind
glosses: That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.
Derived terms: collective unconscious
cell phone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cell phones
form: cellphone
form: cell-phone
Etymology: Clipping of cellular phone.
Senses: glosses: A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.
Synonyms: word: cell
word: cellular mobile
word: cellular
word: cellular telephone
word: cellular phone
word: handphone
word: mobile
word: mobile phone
word: sail foam
word: wireless phone
Derived terms: cell phone lot
latrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈtɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: latrines
Etymology: From French latrine (“latrine”), from Latin lātrīna.
Senses: glosses: An open trench or pit used for urination and defecation.
qualifier: otherwise military
glosses: Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.
glosses: A chamber pot.
Synonyms: word: privy
sense: other toilet facilities
word: toilet
word: bathroom
word: and Thesaurus:chamber pot
Derived terms: latrinal
latrinalia
Latrino
lats
cardinal symptom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal symptoms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The primary or major symptom by which a diagnosis is made
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The particular symptom which is regarded most important for choosing the curing substance
facility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: facilities
Etymology: From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.
Senses: examples: text: Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
text: As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
glosses: A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
examples: text: Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do. But it was very difficult, and I did not know how I would ever write anything as long as a novel. It often took me a full morning of work to write a paragraph.
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
examples: text: The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
synonyms: word: ease
word: knack
word: ability
word: technique
word: aptitude
word: capacity
word: capability
word: competency
word: competence
word: cunning
word: dexterity
word: ease
word: facility
word: knack
word: list
word: prowess
word: moxie
word: potential
word: proficiency
word: skill
word: talent
word: tekkers
word: touch
glosses: Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Clipping of credit facility.
glosses: A toilet.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
glosses: Affability.
Derived terms: correctional facility
cryofacility
dining facility
ex facie
facility maintenance
facility time
facility trip
infacility
interfacility
materials recovery facility
multifacility
N-facility
nonfacility
prima facie
chaptzem
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Yiddish כאַפּטסעם (khaptsem), from כאַפּן (khapn, “to catch, get”) and אים (im, “him”).
Senses: glosses: Help! Catch him/her/them!
egestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛstʃən
Forms: form: egestions
Etymology: From Old French egestion, from Latin ēgestiōnem, accusative of ēgestiō (“emptying, voiding”), action noun from the perfect passive participle of ēgerō (“to carry out”), from ex- + gerō.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of egesting
Synonyms: english: result
translation: result
word: egesta
english: act
translation: act
word: excretion
Related terms: egest
rasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæsp/
ipa: /ɹɑːsp/
rhymes: -æsp
rhymes: -ɑːsp
Forms: form: rasps
Etymology: From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”).
The noun is from Middle French raspe.
Senses: hypernyms: file
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tool#Noun
glosses: A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
examples: text: the rasp of her perpetual cough
coordinate_terms: grating
glosses: The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
Hypernyms: file
Derived terms: rasp coral
rasp-house
rasp palm
rasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæsp/
ipa: /ɹɑːsp/
rhymes: -æsp
rhymes: -ɑːsp
Forms: form: rasps
form: rasping
form: rasped
form: rasped
Etymology: From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”).
The noun is from Middle French raspe.
Senses: glosses: To use a rasp.
glosses: To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
examples: text: “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To say in a raspy voice.
examples: text: to rasp wood to make it smooth
text: to rasp bones to powder
glosses: To work something with a rasp.
examples: text: Some sounds rasp the ear.
text: His insults rasped my temper.
glosses: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
rasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæsp/
ipa: /ɹɑːsp/
rhymes: -æsp
rhymes: -ɑːsp
Forms: form: rasps
Etymology: From raspberry.
Senses: examples: text: Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: The raspberry.
Hypernyms: berry
breeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
Forms: form: breeks
form: britches
Etymology: From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), the plural of brōc (“legging, buttocks”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“crotch, legging, trousers”).
Akin to West Frisian broek (“leggings, over-trousers”), Dutch broek (“pair of trousers, underpants, long-johns”), obsolete German Bruch (“pair of hose, leggings, pants trousers”), Old Norse brók (“breeches”) (whence Danish brog); compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin, yet ultimately borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic source above. Compare brail.
Senses: glosses: plural of breech
breeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪ.t͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
Forms: form: breech
form: breeks
form: britches
Etymology: From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), the plural of brōc (“legging, buttocks”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“crotch, legging, trousers”).
Akin to West Frisian broek (“leggings, over-trousers”), Dutch broek (“pair of trousers, underpants, long-johns”), obsolete German Bruch (“pair of hose, leggings, pants trousers”), Old Norse brók (“breeches”) (whence Danish brog); compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin, yet ultimately borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic source above. Compare brail.
Senses: examples: text: And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best: / His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, / And there was a hole where the tail came through.
ref: 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83:
glosses: A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
synonyms: trousers
pants
glosses: Trousers; pantaloons.
Derived terms: bear's breeches
breeches buoy
breeches-flower
breechesless
breechesmaker
breeches part
breeches pipe
breeches role
Dutchman's breeches
knee-breeches
open-kneed breeches
petticoat breeches
too big for one's breeches
trunk breeches
underbreeches
wear the breeches
Related terms: pantaloons
britches
jodhpurs
disfranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disfranchises
form: disfranchising
form: disfranchised
form: disfranchised
Etymology: From dis- + franchise.
Senses: glosses: To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
Derived terms: disfranchisement
disfranchiser
undisfranchised
fud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuds
Senses: examples: text: The other poets were either hornrimmed intellectual hepcats with wild black hair like Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like Ike O'Shay (in a suit), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like Francis DaPavia (who looks like a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like Warren Coughlin.
ref: 1958, Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums:
text: The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build structures, then you could not be an engineer.
ref: 2006, P. Aarne Vesilind, The Right Thing to Do: An Ethics Guide for Engineering Students, →ISBN:
text: Or as some baffled wannabe-trendy Oxbridge fud in the Telegraph put it, "acting like Mucous: it is big and it is clever."
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: Alternative form of fuddy-duddy.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FUD.
dwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: dwellings
Etymology: From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
Senses: examples: text: The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.
text: For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 9:
text: I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
ref: 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: abode
word: crib
word: digs
word: domicile
word: dwelling
word: flop
word: habitation
word: home
word: homestead
word: pad
word: pied-à-terre
word: place
word: quarters
word: residence
word: woning
glosses: A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.
Derived terms: word: dwellinghouse
word: dwelling house
word: dwelling-place
word: dwelling place
word: indwelling
english: prehistoric structure
translation: prehistoric structure
word: lake dwelling
word: multidwelling
dwelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɛl.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Etymology: From dwell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwell
French door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French doors
Senses: glosses: Synonym of French window.
synonyms: word: French window
amenity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmiːnəti/
ipa: /əˈmɛnəti/
Forms: form: amenities
form: amœnity
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
text: The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May.
ref: 1834, George Bancroft, “Spaniards in the United States”, in History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume I (Colonial History), Boston, Mass.: Charles Bowen; London: R. J. Kennett, →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: Pleasantness.
examples: text: All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
text: The Castle is an antique extent of ground, which now they call Marsfield, and would have ben a fitting area to have plac’d the Ducal palace in. The suburbs are large, the prospects sweete, with other amenities, not omitting the flower gardens, in which all the inhabitants excel.
ref: 1671 October 27 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 17 October 1671]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 445:
glosses: A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant.
glosses: Convenience.
examples: text: Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.
ref: 2005, James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Grove Atlantic, page 40:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: facility
infrastructure
glosses: A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc.
Derived terms: amenities
amenity block
amenity fee
amenity tree
civic amenity site
communal amenity
disamenity
public amenity
Related terms: amene
gas jar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas jars
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical lidded glass vessel for collecting and storing gases from experiments etc.
grammage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammages
Etymology: From gram + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Grammage of paper is very important because all physical properties and many optical and electrical properties are affected by the change in grammage. Paper is sold by weight; therefore, the lowest grammage paper that will do the job is usually selected by the customer.
ref: 2017, Sabit Adanur, Paper Machine Clothing: Key to the Paper Making Process, Asten, →ISBN, page 31:
qualifier: paper production
glosses: The mass per area of paper measured in grams per square meter (g/m²).
examples: text: grammage of cosmic rays around galactic supernova remnants
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The integral of matter density along the path (of a cosmic ray).
IC50
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The concentration of an inhibitor that is required for 50-percent inhibition of an enzyme in vitro.
Related terms: LD50
effective dose
intergenic region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intergenic regions
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: DNA sequences located between genes that make up a large percentage of the human genome with no known function.
Japscat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Jap + scat.
Senses: glosses: Coprophilia, originating in Japanese pornography.
gourmand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊə.mənd/
ipa: /ˈɡʊʁmɑ̃/
ipa: /ɡɔɹˈmɑnd/
ipa: /ˈɡʊɹ.mɑnd/
rhymes: (US) -ɑnd
Forms: form: gourmands
form: gormand
Etymology: From Middle English gourmaunt, gormond, gromonde, from Old French gormant (“a glutton”, noun), from gormant (“gluttonous”, adjective), of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: I knew him, at Caivs trencher, when for hyre, / He proſtituted his abuſed body / To that great gourmond, fat Apicivs;
ref: 1603 (first performance; published 1605), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Seianus his Fall. A Tragœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, page 365:
text: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
examples: text: The third key was the number of demands from different patrons or groups for their own specialized cuisines. Such patrons included the court, rich households, and scholar-gourmands. Buddhists and Muslims also elaborated their own cuisines (sucai 素菜 and qingzhen 清真).
ref: 2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Agriculture, Food, and the Environment”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 636:
glosses: A person who appreciates good food.
Synonyms: sense: person given to excess consumption
word: glutton
word: trencherman
word: glutton
sense: person who appreciates food
word: chowhound
sense: person who appreciates food
word: gastronaut
sense: person who appreciates food
word: gourmet
sense: person with a special interest or knowledge of food
word: foodie
Derived terms: gourmandise
gourmandism
gourmand syndrome
Related terms: gourmet
suicide king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide kings
Etymology: So called because in common depictions, the king of hearts appears to be stabbing himself in the head with his sword.
Senses: examples: text: When Henry played poker, he liked to declare suicide kings wild, as he felt it lent him an air of sophistication.
text: Bayr laid the card down on top of the cowboy's. “Suicide king,” he said softly, touching the king of hearts' sword with his forefinger.
ref: 2008 April 30, Connie Bailey, “Fancy Pants”, in Know When to Hold'em: A Dreamspinner Press Anthology, Frisco: Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A king of hearts in a deck of playing cards.
Synonyms: king of hearts
Related terms: one-eyed jack
man with the ax
wild card
house of cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/
ipa: [ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkʰɑɹdz]
Forms: form: houses of cards
Senses: glosses: A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
examples: text: The essentials of megalithic construction are either the single large slab or the large slab as walling stone with another large slab resting on two or more large walling stones as a capstone—a sort of house of cards architecture.
ref: 1958, Glyn Edmund Daniel, The Megalith Builders of Western Europe, page 18:
text: Dolmens impress only by their massiveness: their house-of-cards construction is the simplest possible […]
ref: 1977, Lionel Casson, Joseph Jacobs Thorndike, Mysteries of the past, page 49:
text: Also, it has been proposed that lithium ions can be adsorbed on both sides of the graphene sheets that are aggregated disorderly into a “house of cards” architecture, leading to two layers of lithium for each graphene sheet […]
ref: 2017, Markus Antonietti, Klaus Müllen, Chemical Synthesis and Applications of Graphene and Carbon Materials:
glosses: Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
glosses: A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
stychomythia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stichomythia.
impost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpəʊst/
ipa: /ˈɪmpoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: imposts
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impost, itself borrowed or adapted from Latin impōsitus, past participle of impōnō (“I impose”).
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
ref: 1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, “Epilogue to the Wild Gallant, as It was First Acted”, in The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1669, →OCLC:
text: 1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120,
[…] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.
text: […] before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 162:
text: The Ashanti traded with the tribes to the north and with coastal folk to the south, and caravans going in either direction were liable for imposts according to the nature of the goods they carried.
ref: 1941, Melville J. Herskovits, chapter 3, in The Myth of the Negro Past, New York: Harper, page 68:
text: New universal direct taxes had to be introduced […], while the burden of indirect taxes was also made heavier, with new imposts being levied on an ensemble of items ranging from playing cards to wigs.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 56:
glosses: A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap.
Related terms: imposter
impostor
impose
impost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpəʊst/
ipa: /ˈɪmpoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: imposts
Etymology: From Italian imposta, from Latin imposta.
Senses: examples: text: The outer circle [of Stonehenge] has been formed by a combination of two uprights and an impost; yet each combination of these three stones is detached, and without any connection with the rest, except that of coinciding in the form of a circle.
ref: 1798, William Gilpin, Observations on the Western Parts of England, London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, Section 7, p. 79:
topics: architecture
glosses: The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.
student ghetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: student ghettos
Senses: glosses: A residential area, for instance in a college town, that predominantly consists of rental housing for postsecondary students.
pressurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: pressurizes
form: pressurizing
form: pressurized
form: pressurized
form: pressurise
Etymology: From pressure + -ize.
Senses: antonyms: depressurize
glosses: To put (physical) pressure on; to put under pressure.
examples: text: These men were indignant concerning the press coverage of the case and were careful to point out that Osborne did not pressurize them into sex or invade their privacy in any way.
ref: 1981, Paul Wilson, The Man They Called a Monster:
glosses: To coerce, put under duress; to pressure.
sponge bath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponge baths
Senses: glosses: A type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with a sponge. Usually the person being washed is bed-ridden.
spoken pause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoken pauses
Senses: glosses: A temporary stop in any form of speech.