cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːtəs/
rhymes: -iːtəs
Forms: form: fetuses
form: fetus
form: feti
form: fetii
form: foetus
form: fœtus
form: phoetus
form: phœtus
form: faetus
form: fætus
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.
Senses: examples: text: Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
ref: 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
glosses: An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
examples: text: The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
text: Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur. […] The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.
ref: 2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, in CNN:
glosses: A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
examples: text: The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.
ref: 1959 [1689], John Locke, chapter 6, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, vol. 2, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., page 77:
glosses: A neonate.
Derived terms: fetal
feticide
fetopathy
fetucide
fetus fetishist
fetuslike
grandfetus
multifetus
superfetation
Related terms: fetus in fetu
fetus papyraceus
embryo
manoeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnuːvə/
ipa: /məˈnuːvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: manoeuvres
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.
Senses: examples: text: The system also reacts to unexpected traffic situations and handles them independently by employing evasive manoeuvres within the lane or by braking manoeuvres
ref: 2021, “Mercedes-Benz self-driving car technology approved for use”, in Fleet news:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
manoeuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnuːvə/
ipa: /məˈnuːvɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: manoeuvres
form: manoeuvring
form: manoeuvred
form: manoeuvred
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.
Senses: examples: text: Three pairs of double doors are provided on each side, wide enough to take pallet trucks, and strengthened floors to allow the trucks to manoeuvre inside the vehicle.
ref: 1959 November, “Talking of Trains: S.R. Motor Luggage Vans”, in Trains Illustrated, page 523:
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
Derived terms: manoeuvrability
manoeuvrable
manoeuvreable
manoeuvrer
outmanoeuvre
Valsalva manoeuvre
Related terms: overtaking
manœuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manœuvres
Senses: examples: text: She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 25:
text: […] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]
ref: 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
text: Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.
ref: 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
text: Peter, forging ahead with the bag, stopped to see the result of these manœuvres.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:
text: […] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre.
ref: 1940, Winston Churchill, We shall fight on the beaches:
text: All early accounts agree that one of Stalin’s characteristics was ‘laziness’ or ‘indolence’ - which Bukharin impressed on Trotsky as Stalin’s ‘most striking quality’. Trotsky remarked that Stalin ‘never did any serious work’ but was always ‘busy with his intrigues’. Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 74–75:
text: […] and the belief that states had increasingly little room for manœuvre if they wanted their people to benefit from it.
ref: 2003, David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 7:
glosses: Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
manœuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manœuvres
form: manœuvring
form: manœuvred
form: manœuvred
Senses: examples: text: We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in the scoring of the goal.
ref: 1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 103:
text: Mr.Marples has thus manœuvred himself into a corner.
ref: 1963 June, “Second thoughts on Beeching”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
text: My face was being pushed into the wall, when my brother, Neil, arrived behind me. He forced the palms of his hands flat against the wall, either side of my head, and used the leverage to push back, creating a little space for me to manœuvre in.
ref: 2016, Kevin Sampson, “Introduction”, in Voices of Hillsborough: The Real Story Told by the People Themselves, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Dated spelling of manoeuvre.
Derived terms: manœuvreable
outmanœuvre
bludgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/
ipa: /ˈblʊd͡ʒ.ən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: bludgeons
Etymology: First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).
Senses: examples: text: We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.
glosses: A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
Derived terms: bludgeonry
Related terms: truncheon
bludgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/
ipa: /ˈblʊd͡ʒ.ən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: bludgeons
form: bludgeoning
form: bludgeoned
form: bludgeoned
Etymology: First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).
Senses: examples: text: The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
text: They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
text: Thomas Briggs, a senior bank clerk in the City, lived in Hackney, and on 9 July 1864 he was returning there by train from Fenchurch Street after a Saturday spent at work when he was bludgeoned to death in a first-class carriage, probably by a young German tailor named Franz Müller. (Let's hope it was Müller, because he was hanged for it.) And so Briggs was an all-round pioneer: an early commuter and the very first victim of a railway murder.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
glosses: To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
examples: text: Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
text: Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy.
Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
glosses: To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
Synonyms: sense: to club
word: cudgel
sense: coerce
word: harass
sense: coerce
word: pummel
Derived terms: bludgeoner
unbludgeoned
Related terms: clobber
beat
inn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: in
Forms: form: inns
Etymology: From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:
synonyms: word: hotel
word: inn
word: lodging
word: lodging house
glosses: Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
synonyms: word: alehouse
word: boozer
word: boozing ken
word: bousing ken
word: drinker
word: drinkery
word: gargle-factory
word: gin joint
word: groggery
word: local
word: nineteenth hole
word: pot-house
word: pub
word: public house
word: rummery
word: saloon
word: tavern
word: watering hole
glosses: A tavern.
examples: text: the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns
glosses: One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
examples: text: Leicester Inn
glosses: The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
examples: text: But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:
text: Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 12:
glosses: A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
Derived terms: coaching inn
coach inn
Cross Inn
inmate
innful
innholder
innkeeper
innkeeping
innless
innlike
innyard
motor inn
New Inn
no room at the inn
posting inn
Tram Inn
inn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn
ipa: /ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: in
Forms: form: inns
form: inning
form: inned
form: inned
Etymology: From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
Senses: examples: text: But where do you intend to inn to-night?
ref: 1714 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Friday, March 5. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
text: We inned at the signe of the Swan.
ref: circa 1570, Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1554/2
text: I never innd in the Towne but once.
ref: 1606, Sir G. Goosecappe I, iii, in Bullen O. Pl. III
text: John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.
ref: 1726, Brice's Weekly Journal, 18 February, 3:
text: I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.
ref: 1885, M. J. Colquhoun, Primes in Indis, I, xiv, 217:
glosses: To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
examples: text: I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
ref: 2018 [1607], Thomas Middleton, Michaelmas term and a trick to catch the old one, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 27:
text: These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.
ref: 1710, New Map Trav. High Church Apostle, 7, quoted in 1901, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901), page 309
glosses: To lodge or house (someone or something).
Related terms: bed and breakfast
guesthouse
hostel
hotel
motel
vampire bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampire bats
Senses: examples: text: I noticed a peculiarity which distinguished these bats from any others with which I had come in contact (and on the Rio Negro my experiences in this respect had been ghastly and terrible: men wither and die there from nightly visitations of vampire bats).
ref: 1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xix. 172:
glosses: Any of the three small bats of the subfamily Desmodontinae, native to Central and South America, which use their teeth to cut the skin of larger animals while they are asleep and surreptitiously drink blood, their sole source of food.
Synonyms: vampire
Hyponyms: common vampire bat
Desmodus rotundus
white-winged vampire bat
Diaemus youngi
hairy-legged vampire bat
Diphylla ecaudata
Derived terms: word: false vampire bat
taxonomic: Vampyrum spectrum
word: Linnaeus's false vampire bat
taxonomic: Vampyrum spectrum
word: spectral vampire bat
taxonomic: Diaemus youngi
word: white-winged vampire bat
fruit bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit bats
Senses: glosses: Any of several tropical fruit-eating bats of the family Pteropodidae; a megabat.
Synonyms: english: flying fox; ambiguous, some sources limit the term to the genera Pteropus and Acerodon within Pteropodidae
translation: flying fox; ambiguous, some sources limit the term to the genera Pteropus and Acerodon within Pteropodidae
word: flying fox
word: megabat
he'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
ipa: /hɪl/
homophone: heal
homophone: heel
homophone: hill (in some accents)
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: he’ll
form: he’l
Etymology: Contraction of he (wi)ll and he shall
Senses: glosses: Contraction of he will.
glosses: Contraction of he shall.
Related terms: I'll
it'll
she'll
they'll
we'll
you'll
analog-to-digital converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog-to-digital converters
form: A-D
form: A2D
form: ADC
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: digital-to-analog converter
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that converts an infinite resolution analog signal to a finite resolution digital signal.
question
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛs.tʃən/
ipa: /ˈkwɛs.tjən/
ipa: /ˈkwɛʃ.tʃən/
ipa: /ˈkwɛʃ.tən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkwɛs.tʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkwɛʃ.tʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkwɛʃ.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkwɛs.ʈən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkwɛʃ.ʈən/
ipa: /ˈkwɛ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈkwɛʔ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛstʃən
Forms: form: questions
form: questioning
form: questioned
form: questioned
form: quæstion
Etymology: From Middle English questionen, questyonen, partly from Middle French questionner and partly from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Yet he lingered in Perryville with the determination of seeing Ruth, and questioning her about Helen Murray's letters.
ref: 1836, Frederick W. Thomas, East and West, volume 2:
text: However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, pages 54–55:
text: Another former resident noticed the car because it was new and upscale and no one ever came back to question him. This points to serious flaws in the investigation from the beginning.
ref: 2019, Nic Pizzolatto, “The Hour and the Day”, in True Detective, season 3, episode 4 (television):
glosses: To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
examples: text: Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true.
ref: 1985 April 17, Frank Herbert, 15:46 from the start, in Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985, UCLACommStudies, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2017:
text: He questioned South Korean claims that China is a major source of its pollution.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
glosses: To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
examples: text: He that questioneth much shall learn much.
ref: 1597, Francis Bacon, Of Discourse:
glosses: To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
examples: text: I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To argue; to converse; to dispute.
Synonyms: word: frain
word: quaeritate
Derived terms: question the question
questioner
Related terms: answer
ask
interrogative
ko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: Co.
Forms: form: ko
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).
Senses: examples: text: Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.
qualifier: go
glosses: A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.
examples: text: Black wins the ko easily.
qualifier: go
glosses: ko fight
examples: text: Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.
qualifier: go
glosses: a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone
Derived terms: hanami ko
ko fight
ko threat
ten thousand year ko
diner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dī'nər
ipa: /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: diners
Etymology: From Catalan diner. Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, dinero, and dinheiro.
Senses: glosses: A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.
conk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋk/
ipa: /kɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conks
form: konk
Etymology: Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.
Senses: glosses: The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
glosses: A nose, especially a large one.
glosses: Alternative spelling of conch.
Derived terms: artist's conk
conky
conk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋk/
ipa: /kɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conks
form: conking
form: conked
form: conked
form: konk
Etymology: Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: To hit, especially on the head.
Derived terms: cold-conk
conk off
conk out
conk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋk/
ipa: /kɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conks
Etymology: From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
conk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋk/
ipa: /kɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conks
form: conking
form: conked
form: conked
Etymology: From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product.
Senses: examples: text: The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.
ref: 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965:
glosses: To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
conk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒŋk/
ipa: /kɑŋk/
rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: conks
form: conking
form: conked
form: conked
Etymology: Unknown. Attested since the early twentieth century.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, have two or more engines, so that there is still some power left if one engine conks.
ref: 1921, Australian Aero Clubs, Sea, Land and Air, volume 3, page 310:
text: I watch television when it's playing, but it done conked out. Everything is conked out.
ref: 1983, Walli Leff, Marilyn Haft, Time without Work, page 93:
glosses: To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
raw_tags: with out
glosses: To become unconscious.
raw_tags: with out
hooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhuː.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhu.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈhu.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hooters
Etymology: From hoot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who hoots.
glosses: The horn in a motor vehicle.
examples: text: Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.
ref: 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, page 34:
text: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
ref: 1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
text: A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.
ref: 1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive Whistle Gift”, in Railway Magazine, page 322:
glosses: A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift.
examples: text: Aye, it may be a joke to you, but it's his nose. He can't help having a hideous great hooter! And his poor little head, trembling under the weight of it!
ref: 1964, A Hard Day's Night, spoken by Grandfather (Wilfrid Brambell):
text: Shouldn't worry me, I thought, but sure enough, 20 seconds later the smell of wafting cigarette smoke drifts over the back of my seat and up my hooter.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 36:
text: Somebody yelled, ‘You bit off a bloke’s nose in Ireland.’ The story was that I’d amputated his hooter.
ref: 2014, Vinnie Jones, It's Been Emotional, page 118:
glosses: A nose, especially a large one.
glosses: An owl.
glosses: A woman's breast.
examples: text: There, nestled in one of her gloved palms was a massive, blue-veined hooter with a pus-filled bump on it the size of a pecan. It was his hooter and his pus-filled bump. ¶ “You ole rascal,” she said, and gently lowered his dick between his legs.
ref: 1994, Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-Tep, page 23:
text: He called it “Hooterville,” mainly because he was such a fan of Petticoat Junction, and he really enjoyed getting his hooter worked on.
ref: 2006, Eric Mawson, Oil and Vinegar: A Conscripted Soldier in the Vietnam War:
glosses: A penis.
glosses: A large cannabis cigarette.
examples: text: G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.
ref: 1969, Jerzy Peterkiewicz, Green Flows the Bile, page 25:
synonyms: hoot
glosses: The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.
raw_tags: in the negative
Derived terms: eight-hooter
jill-hooter
cher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'cher.
faire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fair.
faire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fair.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: laisser faire
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: laissez faire
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: laissez-faire
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: savoir-faire
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: scène à faire
fer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .
ref: 1957 January 18, Sally, quoting a villager, “For Ladies Only …”, in Mt. Vernon Register-News, volume XXXVII, number 93, Mount Vernon, Ill., →OCLC, page 7, column 5:
text: ‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
ref: 1997, J.K. Rowling, chapter IV, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of for.
Derived terms: fer instance
gofer
o-fer
Related terms: sense: terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated
word: attack au fer
sense: terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated
word: fer-de-lance
sense: terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated
word: fer-de-moline
sense: terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated
word: martel de fer
sense: terms containing the word "fer", but etymologically unrelated
word: prise de fer
paire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pair.
greenhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnhaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: form: greenhouses
Etymology: From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within.
Senses: examples: text: The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 54–55:
glosses: A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
examples: text: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
ref: 1941 March 24, Life, page 85:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The glass of a plane's cockpit.
examples: text: Figure 2.6 shows the diagram Charnley published of the airflow in the 'greenhouse'; it can be seen that reasonable downward unidirectional airflow was achieved close to the operating table.
ref: 2010, William Whyte, Cleanroom Technology:
text: The greenhouse system for providing a nearly bacteria-free operating environment consists of a 10 by 10-foot aluminum frame with plexiglass panes forming three sides and a polyvinyl curtain forming the fourth side. […] However, the greenhouse contains its own light supply, while this is an extra with the air curtain unit.
ref: 1972, Southern Hospitals, volumes 40-41, page 10:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hothouse
antonyms: icehouse
glosses: A hot state in global climate.
Synonyms: sense: building used to grow plants out of season
english: UK commercial operations
translation: UK commercial operations
word: glasshouse
sense: building used to grow plants out of season
word: plant-house
sense: building used to grow plants out of season
word: conservatory
Derived terms: greenhouse bug
greenhouse cockpit
greenhouse effect
greenhouse-friendly
greenhouse gas
greenhouselike
greenhouse slug
greenhouse warming
nongreenhouse
screenhouse
worldhouse
Related terms: greengrocer
greens
microgreens
cloche
cold frame
growhouse
hotbed
hotbox
greenhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnhaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡɹːnˌ(h)aʊs/
Forms: form: greenhouses
form: greenhousing
form: greenhoused
form: greenhoused
Etymology: From green + house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within.
Senses: glosses: To place (plants) in a greenhouse.
examples: text: It's almost impossible to make judgements when you're being playful – as by definition it's spontaneous activity – so your baby ideas get nurtured and greenhoused better.
ref: 2008, Chris Barez-Brown, How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas:
glosses: To nurture in order to promote growth.
vapour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapours
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of vapor.
vapour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vapours
form: vapouring
form: vapoured
form: vapoured
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of vapor.
greenhouse effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenhouse effects
Etymology: First attested in 1901 by Swedish meteorologist Nils Gustaf Ekholm.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, the atmosphere may act like the glass of a green-house, letting through the light rays of the sun relatively easy, and absorbing a great part of the dark rays emitted from the ground, and it thereby may raise the mean temperature of the earth's surface.
ref: 1901, Nils Gustaf Ekholm, “On the Variations of the Climate of the Geological and Historical Past and their Causes”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume XXVII, number 117, page 19:
text: It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.
ref: 1988 June 24, James E. Hansen, quotee, “Quotation of the Day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A2:
text: This contrasts strangely with Mr. Bush's campaign oratory last summer. “Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the ‘White House effect’; as President, I intend to do something about it,” he said in Michigan on Aug. 31. […] Mr. Bush has not acted.
ref: 1989 May 9, George H. W. Bush, quotee, “The White House and the Greenhouse”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page A30:
text: In August 1988, Hansen had given dramatic testimony to Congress asserting that “the scientific evidence for the greenhouse effect is overwhelming.” “The greenhouse effect is real, it is coming soon, and it will have major effects on all peoples.”
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting James E. Hansen, chapter 4, in Merchants of Doubt:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hothouse effect
qualifier: climate change
glosses: The process by which a planet is heated by solar radiation which is retained by its atmosphere.
wikipedia: Nils Gustaf Ekholm
Derived terms: anti-greenhouse effect
supergreenhouse effect
Related terms: greenhouse gas
global warming
sphere of influence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheres of influence
Etymology: In reference to Anglo-German colonial rivalry in Africa. First use appears c. 1885.
Senses: examples: text: […]it does not mean that the major powers have a right to chop the globe into spheres of influence as colonial empires did centuries ago.
ref: 2022 February 23, Madeleine Albright, “Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A spatial region over which a state has a level of cultural, economic, military or political exclusivity.
glosses: A concept division over which a person, organization, etc. exerts control.
spectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of spectacle
spectacles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/
Forms: form: spectacle
Senses: examples: text: He needed to get new spectacles because his original ones had broken.
glosses: A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”).
synonyms: word: pair
extra: score of zero runs in both innings
Synonyms: word: eyeglasses
word: glasses
word: pair of eyeglasses
word: pair of glasses
word: pair of specs
word: pair of spectacles
word: specs
Derived terms: word: bespectacled
word: flyaway spectacles
word: Harry Potter spectacles
word: John Lennon spectacles
word: rose-colored spectacles
word: rose-coloured spectacles
word: rose-tinted spectacles
english: someone who wears spectacles
translation: someone who wears spectacles
word: specky
word: X-ray spectacles
specs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: specks
homophone: spex
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of spectacles.
glosses: Specifications: plural of spec
Derived terms: granny specs
pair of specs
X-ray specs
specs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: specks
homophone: spex
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spec
lunettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunette
lunettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circular lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.
aire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of air.
Derived terms: rockaire
première
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premières
Senses: examples: text: At yet another première, she watches William file out of the theatre with Agnes at his side.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 369:
glosses: Alternative spelling of premiere.
première
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premières
form: premièring
form: premièred
form: premièred
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of premiere.
premiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈmɪɚ/
ipa: /pɹɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈmiɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛmjɛə/
rhymes: (General American) -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: premier (in some US pronunciations, not in UK pronunciation)
Forms: form: premieres
form: première
Etymology: From French première (“first”).
Senses: glosses: The first showing of a film, play or other form of entertainment, often held as a special event with celebrity guests.
glosses: The first episode of a television show or a particular season of that show.
glosses: In a series of narrative works, the installment that is chronologically set first.
glosses: The leading woman of a group, especially in a theatrical cast.
premiere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈmɪɚ/
ipa: /pɹɪ-/
ipa: /-ˈmiɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛmjɛə/
rhymes: (General American) -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: premier (in some US pronunciations, not in UK pronunciation)
Forms: form: premieres
form: premiering
form: premiered
form: premiered
form: première
Etymology: From French première (“first”).
Senses: examples: text: The new film premieres this weekend.
text: His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Of a film or play, to play for the first time.
examples: text: The local theatre will premiere its latest play this week.
glosses: To present a film or play for the first time.
Related terms: premier
è
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: È
form: ès
form: è's
Senses: glosses: Found in words borrowed from other languages.
examples: My wingèd helmet and my wingèd heel
glosses: Used poetically instead of e in order to indicate that it is pronounced, as opposed to mute.
Derived terms: -èd
Related terms: é
occhio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occhios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian occhio (“eye”). Doublet of oculus.
Senses: glosses: A sound hole
Related terms: eye
malocchio
maloik
stoopid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stoopider
form: more stoopid
form: stoopidest
form: most stoopid
Etymology: Perhaps imitative of the American pronunciation of stupid, or implying the referent would spell the word that way.
Senses: examples: text: Did you read what he wrote? How stoopid was that?
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of stupid, used as an emphatic form of the word.
Eis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eises
Etymology: Borrowed from German Eis.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
OTT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ tiː ˈtiː/
ipa: /əʊ tiː ˈtiː/
Forms: form: more OTT
form: most OTT
Etymology: Initialism of over the top.
Senses: examples: text: Even for her, though, this one was OTT: a skin-tight ankle-length gold pleated gown, simultaneously retro and futuristic.
ref: 2022, Ellery Lloyd, chapter 2, in The Club, Mantle, →ISBN:
text: Insider secret: Her makeup artist often uses Armani Fluid Sheer Glow Enhancer Highlighter to add that sheen without any OTT chunky glitters.
ref: 2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of over the top.
OTT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊ tiː ˈtiː/
ipa: /əʊ tiː ˈtiː/
Etymology: Abbreviation of Ottawa.
Senses: related: word: Ott
word: Ott.
glosses: Abbreviation of Ottawa.
kumquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmkwɑt/
ipa: /ˈkʌmkwɒt/
Forms: form: kumquats
form: cumquat
form: komquat
Etymology: From Cantonese 柑橘 (gam¹ gwat¹) or 金橘 (gam¹ gwat¹, literally “golden tangerine”). Related to loquat – same second character.
Senses: glosses: A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia (Citrus japonica, syn. Fortunella japonica).
Derived terms: alt: Citrus × georgiana
word: citrangequat
word: kumquatini
alt: Citrus × japonica
word: lemonquat
taxonomic: Citrus × floridana
word: limequat
taxonomic: Citrus japonica × Citrus reticulata
word: mandarinquat
word: Nagami kumquat
word: orangequat
alt: Citrus × japonica
word: sunquat
word: yuzuquat
Related terms: loquat
olim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew עולים (olím).
Senses: glosses: plural of oleh
coup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coo
Forms: form: coups
form: couping
form: couped
form: couped
Etymology: Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
Senses: examples: text: The squaws of another race will sing the death-song of their benefactor, and woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !
ref: 1895, Frederic Remington, “Lieutenant Casey’s Last Scout”, in Pony Tracks, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 48:
glosses: To execute a coup.
examples: text: We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.
ref: 2020 June 24, Elon Musk, Twitter (tweet), deleted; screenshot and quoted in Alan MacLeod, “United Tesla Company: Widespread Condemnation of Elon Musk's Bolivia Coup Comments”, in MintPress News, 2020 July 27:
text: In response to the accusation that the US government organised a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in order for Tesla to secure lithium there, Musk tweeted: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
ref: 2023 November 25, Douglas Rushkoff, quoting Elon Musk, “‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.
glosses: To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
Related terms: english: acknowledgement of a successful hit
translation: acknowledgement of a successful hit
word: touché
coup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuː/
ipa: /ku/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: coo
Forms: form: coups
form: couping
form: couped
form: couped
Etymology: From Middle English coupen (“to buy; (figuratively) to pay for”), from Old Norse kaupa (“to buy, bargain, barter, exchange”).
Senses: examples: text: How that he had been couped from hand to hand, ſometimes kept againſt his will as Captive, ſometimes beſieged, ſometimes brought to battle againſt his will by the Duglaſſes to fight againſt the Earl of Lenox, […]
ref: c. 1610, James Melvil, edited by George Scott, The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-hill: Containing an Impartial Account of the Most Remarkable Affairs of State during the Last Age, Not Mention’d by Other Historians: […], London: […] E. H. for Robert Boulter […], published 1683, →OCLC, page 2:
text: [W]hen he had gotten, beſide twelve chalder of victuall, a hundred pound ſterling a-year, from the Engliſh, out of the ſtipends of other kirks, all contented him not; but he made almoſt a trade of couping horſes.
ref: 1656 September 11 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Baillie, “For Mr. Spang, at Middelburgh”, in David Laing, editor, The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie, […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Robert Ogle, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 323:
text: Now after Tom’s return to Scotland, he got a wife, and took a little farm near Dalkeith, and became a very douse man, for many years, following his old business the couping horses and cows, and feeding veals for the slaughter, and the like.
ref: [1848?], “Part V.”, in The Comical Tricks of Lothian Tom, with a Selection of Anecdotes, Glasgow: […] [T]he booksellers, →OCLC, pages 20–21:
text: There’s Billy the Barber for coupin’ see cliver, / Wiv his linties, an’ greenies, gowldspinkies an’ a’— / For a pig or a pup he wad lowp i’ the river, / Still wi’ Fishers an Pilots he likes for to jaw.
ref: [1849], J[oseph] P[hilip] Robson, “The Stars o’ Hartlepool. ‘Barbara Bell.’”, in J. P. Robson, editor, Songs of the Bards of the Tyne; or, A Choice Selection of Original Songs Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect. […], Newcastle upon Tyne: […] P. France & Co., […], →OCLC, page 356:
text: To Coup, to exchange. “I’ll coup thee,” I will give you this for that. “Will you coup seats with me?” exchange seats. See To Swap.
ref: 1855, an Inhabitant [pseudonym; Francis Kildale Robinson], A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases, Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. […], London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 37:
text: Mod[ern] Sc[ottish] I’ll coup knives with you.
ref: 1884–1928, “Coup, cowp (kɑup), v.¹”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1082, column 1:
glosses: To exchange, barter.
Derived terms: couper
pulmonary embolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary embolisms
form: PE
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The embolism or obstruction of a pulmonary artery, usually by a detached blood clot from a leg or pelvic vein, which causes a stoppage of blood into the lungs; symptoms include shortness of breath, chest pain, fainting, and sometimes death.
Related terms: deep vein thrombosis
superfluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈpɜːflu.əs/
ipa: /sjʊˈpɜːflu.əs/
ipa: /suˈpɝflu.əs/
ipa: /səˈpɜːflu.əs/
Forms: form: more superfluous
form: most superfluous
Etymology: From Middle English superfluous, from Latin superfluus (“superfluous”), from superfluō (“overflow”), from super (“above, more than, over”) + fluō (“flow”). Compare mellifluous and fluid, also from Latin. Literally corresponds to overflow, which is from Germanic, rather than Latin.
Senses: examples: text: With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
text: Then I began to play in timid fashion, venturing only twenty or thirty gulden at a time. Meanwhile, I observed and took notes. It seemed to me that calculation was superfluous, and by no means possessed of the importance which certain other players attached to it, even though they sat with ruled papers in their hands, whereon they set down the coups, calculated the chances, reckoned, staked, and—lost exactly as we more simple mortals did who played without any reckoning at all.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IV, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IV):
glosses: In excess of what is required or sufficient.
Synonyms: word: dispensible
word: excessive
word: extra
word: extraneous
word: extravagant
word: pleonastic
word: supernumerary
word: surplus
word: unnecessary
word: needless
word: redundant
Coordinate terms: gratuitous
Derived terms: superfluous interval
superfluous man
Related terms: superflux
superfluity
mellifluous
orangery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒrɪndʒərɪ/
Forms: form: orangeries
form: orangerie
Etymology: From French orangerie; equivalent to orange + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A greenhouse in which orange trees are grown.
glosses: A garden or plantation where orange trees are grown.
Related terms: lemonary