cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
garibaldi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡæɹɪˈbældi/
Forms: form: garibaldis
Etymology: The jacket is named after Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, who wore a red shirt of similar appearance. The biscuit is also named after Garibaldi.
Senses: glosses: a biscuit consisting of currants squashed between layers of flaky pastry.
glosses: A bright yellow/orange damselfish, of the genus Hypsypops, from the seas of southern California.
glosses: A kind of jacket worn by women.
Synonyms: sense: biscuit
word: fly biscuit
sense: biscuit
word: dead fly biscuit
sense: biscuit
word: squashed fly biscuit
flaky pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flaky pastries
form: flakey pastry
Senses: topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A form of pastry in which the fat (shortening) is rolled into the dough to produce a flaky texture.
out of someone's way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I gave him a lift, even though his house was a little out of my way.
glosses: Not in the direct route that one would normally use.
Related terms: go out of one's way
out of someone's way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Out of my way!
text: Out of John's way!
glosses: Used to order someone to give clear passage.
Synonyms: sense: used to order someone to give clear passage
word: coming through
sense: used to order someone to give clear passage
word: make way
Türkmenistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: By this time the Latin Alphabet had been adopted officially by four Turkish-speaking nations: the Azerbaijānīs, the Yakuts, and two small North-Caucasian communities called the Balqars and the Qarachays. Its official adoption in Türkmenistan followed as from February and March 1928.
ref: 1928, Arnold J. Toynbee, Veronica Boulter Toynbee, editors, Survey of International Affairs, page 226:
text: The Turkoman nomads of Central Asia, who today inhabit the Türkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Türkmenistan) and the northern parts of Iran and Afghanistan (map 5, see page 92), represent perhaps the archetypical weaving society.[…]There are virtually no rugs of significance produced today in Türkmenistan, and the Turkoman tribes who live in Iran and Afghanistan, while they still weave the red rugs, have like all nomadic peoples changed both their lifestyle and their weaving style under the pressures of modern society.
ref: 1979, Walter B. Denny, Oriental Rugs, pages 91–92:
text: Since the earliest days of Türkmenistan’s independence, the Centre has offered English-language classes for a nominal fee.
ref: 2013, Victoria Clement, “Central Asia’s Hizmet Schools”, in Greg Barton, Paul Weller, Ihsan Yilmaz, editors, The Muslim World and Politics in Transition: Creative Contributions of the Gülen Movement, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, part three (The Contexts of the Muslim World), page 162:
glosses: Alternative form of Turkmenistan: A country in Central Asia
say again
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Please say again?
glosses: "What did you say?" or "Repeat what you have said." A polite formula used when one has not heard or understood what has been said.
examples: text: Bravo Six, say again, over.
text: Bravo Actual, I say again: Eight foot mobiles moving east, over.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: procedure word
glosses: To repeat part of or entire message transmitted over the radio, used instead of "repeat" which is an artillery procedure word.
Synonyms: word: come again
word: excuse me
word: I beg your pardon
word: pardon
word: sorry
word: what
word: eh
word: hey
word: huh
word: I'm sorry
word: pardon me
word: please
word: say again
word: say what
word: what's that
word: what was that
Hyponyms: word: you what
Related terms: word: do what
desorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desorptions
Senses: glosses: The process in which atomic or molecular species leave the surface of a solid and escape into the surroundings; the reverse of absorption or adsorption.
Synonyms: elution
Derived terms: photodesorption
thermal desorption
thermodesorption
Related terms: deabsorb
deadsorb
sorption
Arctica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin arctica, from arcticus (“northern”), from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern”), from Ἄρκτος (Árktos, “Arctos, the Great Bear Constellation”), the constellation Ursa Major which points to the North Celestial Pole, from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”), the star pattern shape of the constellation Arctos.
Senses: glosses: An ancient continent situated in the Arctic, formed from the Canadian and Siberian shields.
glosses: A hypothetical continent that allegedly sank into the Arctic Ocean.
Related terms: sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Atlantis
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Lemuria
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Mu
sense: proposed sunken continents
word: Zealandia
panelvan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panelvans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panel van.
whingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whingy
form: most whingy
Etymology: From whinge + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to whinging; tending to whinge.
wharfage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.fɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹ.fɪdʒ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍɔɹ.fɪdʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪdʒ
Forms: form: wharfages
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *hwerban
Old English hweorfan
Middle English wharf
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
Middle English wharfage
English wharfage
From Middle English wharfage; equivalent to wharf + -age.
Senses: synonyms: dockage
glosses: A dock, quay, or pier.
examples: text: It is pleasant to swim well out into the stream of the river, and, with one’s chin on a level with the wide stretch of water, take in a “trout’s-eye view” of the little town, ascending in tiers of wharfage, trees, grey ramparts, more trees, and clustered roofs, with the old cathedral of the Trinity poised guardian-like above the crumbling walls of the Kremlin.
ref: 1924, Saki, “The Old Town of Pskoff”, in The Square Egg and Other Sketches, London: John Lane, page 156:
text: It was also pointed out wharfage and factory sites with river and canal frontage were adjoining.
ref: 1940 May, “The Why and the Wherefore: The Coley Branch, G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
synonyms: dockage
glosses: Wharfs collectively.
examples: text: If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage then due, he is discharged from liability for future wharfage.
ref: 1895, John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, page 100:
text: the wharfage or shorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling
ref: 1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, Water terminal and transfer facilities, page 537:
synonyms: dockage
coordinate_terms: shorage
demurrage
cranage
tonnage
shippage
;
pilotage
glosses: A fee charged for using a wharf.
Derived terms: wharfinger
Cormac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish, from Old Irish Cormac.
Senses: examples: text: It gave me more of a Cormac McCarthy vibe than a Westworld one, hinting at the death of the old west, the consequences of America’s rapid industrialisation and the death of a way of life, rather than a straightforward romanticisation of the frontier and its outlaw heroes.
ref: 2018 October 10, Keza MacDonald, “Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Related terms: Cormack
Cormick
super-note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-notes
Etymology: From super- + note.
Senses: glosses: A bill of high-quality forged US currency.
Synonyms: superbill
superdollar
-tuple
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: a 20-tuple
ref: 1948, Roy Dubisch, “The number of r-tuples of pairs of integers”, in The American Mathematical Monthly 55:
ref: 2007, Edward Kissin, “On Clarkson-McCarthy inequalities for n-tuples of operators”, in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 135:8:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tuple containing the specified number of terms.
half-cocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not fully cocked.
raw_tags: of a gun
synonyms: half-baked
dough-baked
half-assed
glosses: Not fully prepared.
raw_tags: of a plan etc
Derived terms: go off half-cocked
half-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-hours
form: half hour
form: halfhour
Etymology: From half- + hour.
Senses: glosses: A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
examples: text: The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
ref: 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
ref: 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:
glosses: The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
Synonyms: sense: a thirty minute period of time
word: half an hour
Derived terms: half-hourlong
half-hourly
half-price
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From half- + price.
Senses: glosses: For sale at half the normal price.
half-price
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + price.
Senses: examples: text: West Midlands residents who have just found a new job can get two months' free rail, bus and tram travel to work, plus half-price tickets for a further four weeks, under a new Workwise scheme.
ref: 2021 October 6, “Network News: New recruits go free”, in RAIL, number 941, page 21:
glosses: For sale at half the normal price.
Related terms: half-rate
BOGOF
half-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + witted.
Senses: examples: text: "These girls were a little queer, to be sure, almost half-witted, but that came from their having seen fairies," he added, with an indignant look at the squire.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 264:
synonyms: word: dim-witted
word: slow-witted
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Having low intelligence.
Derived terms: half-wittedly
Related terms: half-wit
halfwit
halloo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈluː/
ipa: /hæˈluː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: haloo
Etymology: From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
Senses: glosses: Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
examples: text: Earl Walter winds his bugle horn;
To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo!
His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn,
And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
ref: 1796, Gottfried Augustus Bürger, “The Chase”, in [Walter Scott], transl., The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, from the German […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], for Manners and Miller, […]; and sold by T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 1:
text: "Halloo!" cried the goodwife, and away she ran after it, with the frying-pan in one hand and the ladle in the other, as fast as she could, and the children behind her, while the goodman came limping after, last of all.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 65:
glosses: Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers.
halloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈluː/
ipa: /hæˈluː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: halloos
form: haloo
Etymology: From Middle English hallow (“pursue, urge on”), from Old French haloer, which is imitative.
Senses: examples: text: List, list, I hear
Som far off hallow break the silent Air.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 96:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with loud halloos, brandishing their spears, and splashing through the water in all directions.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, chapter 70, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: She was afraid that her faint cry would not be heard, but at least one member of the group responded to it, for there was an answering halloo, and a small figure detached itself from the rest and darted forward.
ref: 1962, Joan Aiken, chapter 3, in The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, New York: Doubleday, page 25:
glosses: A shout of halloo.
handhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handholds
Etymology: From hand + hold.
Senses: examples: text: An on-board cleaner passes through, disinfecting every grabrail and handhold as they pass.
ref: 2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47:
glosses: A projection that one may hold onto for support, e.g. in mountain climbing.
examples: text: Miley [Cyrus] and Maxx [Morando] are photographed together at a Gucci event, and this hand-hold makes it pretty clear they're a couple: [an image of Miley Cyrus and Maxx Morando holding hands]
ref: 2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: An act of holding hands.
glosses: The manner in which dancers hold each other's hands during a dance.
Derived terms: handholdless
handhold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handholds
form: handholding
form: handheld
form: handheld
Etymology: From hand + hold.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hand-hold.
Related terms: foothold
balustrade
banister
handrail
railing
hands-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hands-off
form: most hands-off
Senses: examples: text: The NAO's [National Audit Office's] work highlights the tensions and differences between a government taking centralised control of a strategic project and a government that takes a hands-off approach to let local bodies decide the way forward for their areas.
ref: 2024 January 24, Philip Haigh, “A shared vision to deliver East West Rail economic growth”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 30:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hands off: not involving or requiring direct control or intervention.
hangashore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hangashores
Etymology: From Irish aindeiseoir (“sickly person, wretch”).
Senses: glosses: A lazy person.
Related terms: ne'er-do-well
sleiveen
hangashores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hangashore
bakeapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bakeapples
form: baked-apple
Etymology: Probably bake + apple, influenced by bake in composite words, as suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary. An apparent folk etymology is French baie, qu'appelle which roughly translates as "what's the name of that berry".
Senses: glosses: The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
T2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T2s
Etymology: * Transit + 2 occupants.
Senses: glosses: a transit lane restricted to vehicles with a minimum of two occupants.
Derived terms: T2 relaxation time
prime factorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime factorizations
form: prime factorisation
Senses: examples: text: A fifth-grade class will spend a set number of days on prime factorization and then move on to study greatest common factors — whether or not every student is ready.
ref: 2013 October 23, Tina Rosenberg, “In ‘Flipped’ Classrooms, a Method for Mastery”, in The New York Times:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: word: integer factorization
word: prime decomposition
glosses: The factorization of a positive integer into its constituent prime numbers.
fisheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishery
shackled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Restrained by shackles, chained.
shackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shackle
meases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mease
femtometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtometers
Etymology: From femto- + meter.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of femtometre.
femtometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femtometer
envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envelope
envelopes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envelope
mandibulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈdɪb.jəˌli/
Senses: glosses: plural of mandibula
meridionals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meridional
hawthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawthorn
prime constellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime constellations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An ordered set of prime numbers having a constant difference between successive elements
Synonyms: prime cluster
prime k-tuple
prime k-tuplet
Related terms: twin prime
cousin prime
sexy prime
twin prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin primes
Senses: examples: text: Euclid devised a simple, beautiful proof showing that there is an infinite number of primes. But what of the twin primes? As far as you go on the number line, will there always be another set of twins?
ref: 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by two.
Related terms: cousin prime
prime constellation
sexy prime
twin prime pair
stealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealer
cousin prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousin primes
Senses: examples: 3 and 7, and, 7 and 11, are pairs of cousin primes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by four
Related terms: prime constellation
sexy prime
twin prime
sexy prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexy primes
Etymology: From sexy + prime. From Latin sex (“6”).
Senses: examples: 11 and 17, and, 13 and 19, are pairs of sexy primes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of prime numbers that differ by six.
Related terms: cousin prime
prime constellation
twin prime
throw up one's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws up one's hands
form: throwing up one's hands
form: threw up one's hands
form: thrown up one's hands
Senses: glosses: To raise both hands in the air in an exasperated manner.
examples: text: I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead—I'd got to throw up my hands.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: I wanted to throw up my hands and say, "Thanks. See ya." But I couldn't walk away.
ref: 2001, James Patterson, Cradle and All, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 58:
text: So to us, the question isn't just "Does Vista suck?" but "Does Vista suck enough that businesses of any size should simply throw up their hands and migrate over to something else?"
ref: 2007 August 22, Oliver Rist, “Does Vista suck?”, in InfoWorld:
glosses: To cease an attempt because it is perceived as doomed.
Synonyms: sense: to cease an attempt
word: give up
sense: to cease an attempt
word: throw in the towel
American Bobtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Bobtails
Senses: glosses: A short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States, having a short tail as a result of genetic mutation.
American Curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Curls
Senses: synonyms: Curl
glosses: A shorthair or semi-longhair domestic cat breed originating in the United States. This breed displays distinctive backward-curling ears.
American Keuda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Keudas
Etymology: Initialism, from a 1980s study in the US southwest entitled Kitten Evaluation Under Direct Assessment, which sought to establish the characteristics of the ideal barn cat.
Senses: examples: text: The only other breed said to have this flap is the American Keuda.
ref: 2006, Bruce Fogle, Cats, page 116:
text: And if you aren't bored already here are some more: American Keuda, American Ringtail,[…].
ref: 2008, Vicky Halls, The Complete Cat, page 122:
text: This is not the first breed to be developed from street cats; as the American Shorthair, European Shorthair, and American Keuda all show.
ref: 2012, Nancy Robbins, Domestic Cats: Their History, Breeds and Other Facts, page 127:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A domestic cat of a provisional breed originating in the United States.
fall over one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls over one's feet
form: falling over one's feet
form: fell over one's feet
form: fallen over one's feet
Etymology: From the phrase fall over one's feet, meaning stumble.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1998, Diana Wynne Jones, "The Master", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, HarperCollins, →ISBN (2003), page 55,
"Show me the rest of the house," I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige.
text: Supposing there is a scrap—wouldn't she wade right in, trying to help us, and wouldn't you fall over your own feet trying so get her out of it?
ref: 2001, Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 261:
text: "Luther fell over his feet trying to get away from there. He was so eat up with meanness the snakes wouldn't even touch him."
ref: 2004, Michael Morris, A Place Called Wiregrass, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 69:
glosses: To hasten.
American Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A large, short-haired domestic cat breed originating in the United States.
American Wirehair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Wirehairs
Senses: glosses: A large domestic cat of a breed with hard, wiry fur and crinkly whiskers, originating in the United States.
Asian Semi-longhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asian Semi-longhairs
Senses: glosses: A rare domestic cat breed originating in Britain.
Related terms: Asian Shorthair
Australian Mist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian Mists
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Australia.
Birman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Birmans
Etymology: From French birman (“Burmese”).
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed originating in Burma.
glosses: Obsolete form of Burman (“person from Burma”).
Birman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French birman (“Burmese”).
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Obsolete form of Burman (“relating to Burma”).
Birman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Birmans
Etymology: Variant spelling of Dutch Bierman or German Biermann.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
British Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A medium-sized shorthaired domestic cat of a breed originating in Great Britain.
Related terms: British Semi-Longhair
Burmilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Burmillas
Etymology: Blend of Burmese + chinchilla; see Chinchilla Persian.
Senses: synonyms: Smoke
glosses: A medium-sized shorthair domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.
wikipedia: Chinchilla Persian
California Spangled Cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: California Spangled Cats
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of an extinct medium-sized, short-haired breed, originating in the United States during the 1980s, which was bred to resemble a leopard.
spello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: spellos
Etymology: From spell + -o, modeled on typo.
Senses: examples: text: He also wondered why I couldn't spell properly - I had to explain the difference between a typo and a spello.
ref: 2003 October 7, Yowie, "You might be a Californian if...", rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, Usenet
text: It was a typo, not a spello.
ref: 2004 August 19, Some_sappy_Writer, “Missouri's Vote on Gay Marriage”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):
text: Anyway, I'm afraid I would decide to call "sited" in the thesis an error; not a typo or a thinko, but a spello.
ref: 2006 October 12, Bob Cunningham, “Is there a word?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
coordinate_terms: atomic typo
;
clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
scanno
speako
thinko
typo
writo
glosses: A homophonic spelling mistake.
Chartreux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːˈtɹɜː/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːtɹɜː/
ipa: /ʃɑɹˈtɹuː/
Forms: form: Chartreux
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chartreux. Compare chartreuse.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A member of a breed of large, blue, short-haired domestic cats, originating in France.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A Carthusian monk.
Chausie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chausies
Senses: glosses: A large, shorthair, domestic cat hybrid, crossbred from a female Abyssinian and a male Felis chaus.
Related terms: Jungle-Bob
Cornish Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornish Rexes
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with short wavy hair, originating in Great Britain.
Devon Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Devon Rexes
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular medium-sized breed with rippled or swirling hair, originated in Britain in the 1960s.
Egyptian Mau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Egyptian Maus
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a short-haired breed originating in Egypt, with a well-muscled medium-length body.
Related terms: Arabian Mau
European Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A sturdy short-hair domestic cat breed, developed from various ordinary cat breeds.
Exotic Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Exotic Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat breed similar to the Persian cat but with a short dense coat.
German Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German Rexes
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a medium-sized breed with slender legs and a short silky coat.
Havana Brown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Havana Browns
Senses: glosses: A chocolate-colored domestic cat breed, similar to the Siamese breed.
wintard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintards
form: Wintard
Etymology: From Windows + -tard.
Senses: examples: text: Stop being such a Wintard and at least have the backbone required to acknowledge some brilliant engineering.
ref: 1999 March 23, Kevin M. “ktaggart” Taggart, ‘Re: "Infinite Loop"’, comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/msg/c036c35907ca1380
text: How come you post all your wintard drivel in comp.os.linux.advocacy instead of windope.clippy.os.worshipper.advocacy where you can be more readily appreciated. LOL!!!
ref: 2006 June 25, “7” (author), “Re: [News] Windows 98 Users Headed for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
text: Wonder if the other Wintards around here get as large an allowance from their mommies as you obviously do?
ref: 2007 August 29, "nostop" (author), “Re: Why Vists is sometimes no more useful than a pile of wet dog crap”, in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general (Usenet):
glosses: A user or advocate of Microsoft Windows.
Related terms: freetard
Lintard
Mactard
Japanese Bobtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese Bobtails
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular breed with a short bobbed tail like that of a rabbit.
Korat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Korats
Etymology: From Thai โคราช (koo-râat).
Senses: glosses: A blue-grey short-haired breed of domestic cat with heart-shaped head and large green eyes.
Korat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Thai โคราช (koo-râat).
Senses: examples: text: In March 1897, King Chulalongkorn opened the section from Bangkok to Ayuthya, and the railway reached Nakorn Ratsima (Korat) in 1900.
ref: 1953 July, “State Railways of Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 448:
text: A province of Thailand.
text: The capital of Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.
glosses: Synonym of Nakhon Ratchasima
synonyms: word: Nakhon Ratchasima
LaPerm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LaPerms
Etymology: From perm (“curly hairstyle”).
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular breed with curly fur.
Nebelung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nebelungs
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular breed with long bodies, wide-set green eyes, and long dense silky blue-gray fur.
Ocicat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ocicats
Etymology: Blend of ocelot + cat
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed that is spotted like a wild cat, established from Siamese and Abyssinian stock.
Ojos Azules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ojos Azules
Etymology: From Spanish, literally, blue eyes.
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat breed, originating in the southwest United States, that has deep blue eyes.
Oriental Longhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oriental Longhairs
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat breed.
Oriental Shorthair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oriental Shorthairs
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed related to the Siamese.
Peterbald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peterbalds
Etymology: From St Petersburg, where the breed was created, and bald.
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a typically hairless Russian breed with a slim muscular build.
Pixie-bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pixie-bobs
form: Pixie-Bob
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed developed to resemble the North American bobcat.
Related terms: Jungle-Bob
Ragdoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ragdolls
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ragdoll (“a breed of cat”).
Russian Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Russian Blues
form: Russian blue
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: blue cat
glosses: A domestic cat of a breed with dense silver to grey fur.
Scottish Fold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scottish Folds
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed with ears folded down towards the front of the head.
Selkirk Rex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Selkirk Rexes
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed with highly curled hair.
Serengeti cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Serengeti cats
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat breed.
Latin script
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latin scripts
Senses: glosses: The Latin alphabet.
examples: text: This comes to us from the writing tradition of two Slavic languages which normally use the Latin script—namely, Polish and Czech.
ref: 1880, John Michels, “Science”, in American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 485:
text: In 1924 the Soviets held a Conference at Baku to consider this question, and it was decided there to adopt the Latin script for the various Tartar languages of central Asia.
ref: 1942, Jawaharlal Nehru, Glimpses of world history; being further letters to his daughter, written in prison, and containing a rambling account of history for young people, The John Day Company, page 710:
text: Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have adopted Latin script, whereas Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan intend to use the Cyrillic alphabet.
ref: 2001, Marie Smyth, Gillian Robinson, INCORE, Researching Violently Divided Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues, United Nations Univ. Press, page 139
text: Currently the dominance of Internet-based tools and interfaces that accommodate only Latin scripts limits content diversity, the development of local content, and intercultural exchange and collaboration.
ref: 2004, Bonilla, Marcelo, International Development Research Centre (Canada), Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, page 424
glosses: The script (set of symbols) rooted in the Latin alphabet of ancient Rome and adapted over the centuries to form the alphabets of scores of other languages; like Cyrillic script, it corresponds to a family of alphabets rather than a single alphabet.
Singapura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 14th-century Malay kingdom centered in modern-day Singapore.
Singapura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Singapuras
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a small breed with large eyes and ears, brown ticked coat and blunt tail.
Skookum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skookums
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a small, short-legged breed.
glosses: A kind of Native American-themed souvenir doll once common in tourist areas.
Snowshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Snowshoes
Etymology: From snowshoe.
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a particular breed with a light body and darker ears, face, legs, and tail.
Sokoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sokokes
Senses: synonyms: African Shorthair
glosses: A domestic cat of a particular breed with a blotched tabby coat.
Sphynx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: sphynx
Senses: examples: text: Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids.
ref: 1852, C. P. Cranch, “The Palm Tree of Capri”, in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26:
glosses: Dated form of Sphinx (“Egyptian statue”).
Sphynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: Sphynx
form: Sphynxes
form: sphynx
Senses: examples: text: Sphynx cats are often called hairless cats. But Sphynx do have hair. Very short, fine hairs called down cover the Sphynx’s body.
ref: 2001, Joanne Mattern, The Sphynx Cat, Capstone, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A domestic cat of a breed with little or no hair, a narrow long head, and webbed feet.
Toyger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toygers
Etymology: Blend of toy + tiger
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a breed with a tiger-like striped coat.
Turkish Angora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish Angoras
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of an ancient breed with a long, silky coat.
Turkish Van
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkish Vans
Etymology: Short for Turkish Vankedisi.
Senses: glosses: A domestic cat of a rare semi-long-haired breed developed in the United Kingdom from cats obtained from various cities of modern Turkey. They have a coloured head and tail and a white body.
Synonyms: Turkish Vankedisi
Turkish Vankedisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Turkish Van cat.
Synonyms: Turkish Van
Related terms: Van cat
York Chocolate Cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: York Chocolate Cats
Senses: glosses: An American breed of longhaired domestic cat.
term of art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terms of art
Senses: examples: text: The opinion in United States v du Pont does not, in any event, render the term "acquiring" in a consent decree a term of art. The Court fails to explain how its opinion there has served to transform the plain term "acquiring" into a "term of art" that would, by common understanding, have the meaning that the Court today ascribes to it.
ref: 1975, “United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co.”, in United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, page 168:
text: "Juridical power" is a term of art for Foucault. It corresponds to the model of sovereignty and sovereign rights developed during the Renaissance period.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
synonyms: technical term
glosses: A word or phrase whose use or meaning is specific to a particular field of endeavor.
Related terms: argot
cant
jargon
lingo
overgang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overgangs
form: overganging
form: overganged
form: overganged
Etymology: From Middle English overgangen, from Old English ofergangan, from Proto-Germanic *uberganganą, made up from *uber (“over”) + *ganganą (“to walk, step”), equivalent to over- + gang (“to walk, step”). Cognate with Scots owergang (“to overwhelm, master, dominate”).
Senses: examples: text: Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit
ref: c. 1600, unknown author, Proud Lady Margaret:
text: But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang.
ref: c. 1650, unknown author, Eger and Grime:
text: "The trouble is overganging the profit. Read us one o' King David's psalms or canticles, then we'll go to our sleep wi' a song in our hearts."
ref: 1917, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Christine, a Fife fisher girl, page 21:
text: Less dramatically, but packed with economic menace, Elizabeth Bathgate told George Sprot, 'for work what you can your teeth shall overgang your hands and ye shall never get your Sundays meat to the fore.'
ref: 1981, Christina Larner, Enemies of God: the witch-hunt in Scotland, page 97:
glosses: To go beyond or above; to exceed.
Derived terms: overganger
overgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overgangs
Etymology: From Middle English *overgang, from Old English ofergang (“a going across”), equivalent to over- + gang (“a going”).
Senses: examples: text: … all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly.
ref: 1587, Lord Robert of Orkney, "A renunciation" quoted in Notes on Orkney and Zetland, Alexander Peterkin, page 127
text: Sometimes we can put our finger direct on the overgang.
ref: 1883, George Stephens, Prof: S. Bugge's studies on Northern mythology shortly examined:
text: [...] the preservation of adequate or established footpaths, the creation of new stiles or overgangs, in aid of the same object, in the fences required in the process of inclosure, and so forth.
ref: 1892, Quarter Sessions Records of the Peace (Yorkshire North Riding), volume 9, page 249:
text: Its palmbranch logo - "the earliest Christian symbol of triumph over death - and the "still half-Scandian dialect in 12 lines of stave-rime verse" all "announce the overgang from heathendom."
ref: 1990, Dolores Warwick Frese, “Wulf and Eadwacer: The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered”, in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, page 283:
glosses: Something that goes across or over; a transition.
the map is not the territory
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From general semantics; coined by Alfred Korzybski.
Senses: glosses: Our models of the world, and our sensations of the world, are not the true world.
Related terms: finger pointing at the moon
gammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæmə/
Forms: form: gammers
Etymology: Reduction of godmother or grandmother.
Senses: examples: text: If thou return not, Gammer o'er her pail
Will sing in sorrow, 'neath the brinded cow,
And Gaffer sigh over his nut-brown ale […]
ref: 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides, Book the Fourth, Stanza IX:
glosses: An old woman.
Coordinate terms: gaffer
Related terms: Gammer Gurton's Needle
a 16th-century English comedy
brigue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: brigues
Etymology: Borrowed from French brigue, of uncertain origin. Compare Italian briga, Spanish brega.
Senses: examples: text: the rise and decay of the Papal power , the politics of that Court , the Brigues of the Cardinals , the tricks of the Conclaves
ref: October 9 1749, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
glosses: Intrigue; secretive machinations.
brigue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːɡ/
rhymes: -iːɡ
Forms: form: brigues
form: briguing
form: brigued
form: brigued
Etymology: Borrowed from French brigue, of uncertain origin. Compare Italian briga, Spanish brega.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e think it very unbecoming our Prudence, that the Determination ſhould be remitted to the Authors themſelves; when our Adversaries, by Briguing and Caballing, have cauſed so univerſal a Defection from us, that the greater Part of our Society has already deſerted to them, [...]
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
stoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stole
shoemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoe + making.
Senses: glosses: The making of shoes.
Synonyms: cordwainery
the gentle craft
multiple personalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple personality
certosino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Alternative form of certosina.
chalcogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalcogen
chalcogenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalcogenide
dienophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dienophile
dienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diene
cycloadditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycloaddition
cyclohexenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclohexene
amino alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amino alcohol
amine imides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amine imide
extention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of extension.
ammonium imines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ammonium imine
hair extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair extensions
Senses: glosses: A length of hair which is attached to one's normal hair to make it longer.
certosina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certosino
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A decorative technique, similar to marquetry, much used in the Italian Renaissance period.
Brahmanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brahmenism
form: Brahminism
Etymology: From brahman + -ism or brahmin + -ism. Introduced in 1816 as Brahmenism by George S. Faber (OED).
Senses: glosses: The principles and religious practice of the Brahmins, aspects of Hinduism as practiced by the Brahmin caste of India.
examples: text: Alongside Brahmanism was the non-Aryan Shramanic culture with its roots going back to prehistoric times.
ref: 1972, Cromwell Crawford, review of L. M. Joshi, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Hinduism, Philosophy East and West
glosses: Historical Vedic ritualism, contrasted with Shramana traditions.
examples: text: I am sorry to say that I have found it uphill and exasperating work trying to impose Joyce on such “intellectual” people, or people whose opinion carries weight as I know, in London. … There is a strong body of critical Brahminism, destructive and conservative in temper, which will not have Joyce.
ref: July 9, 1919, letter from T.S. Eliot to John Quinn
glosses: The conduct or attitudes ascribed to the social or cultural elite within a given society.
Brahminism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brahmanism.
Brahmenism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Brahmanism.
in principal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in principle.
Related terms: principle
principal
adenotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adenotomy
come into effect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes into effect
form: coming into effect
form: came into effect
form: come into effect
Senses: examples: text: The new rules will come into effect on the first of January.
glosses: To become enforceable, or applicable.
Synonyms: come into force
inure
in effect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Until the new guidelines come out, the old rules are still in effect.
synonyms: standing
glosses: Operating or functioning; in force; in play.
Related terms: into effect
take effect