cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
MCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MCOs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of miscellaneous charge order.
topics: government
healthcare
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of managed care organization.
glosses: Initialism of movement control order.
anomalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒmələs/
ipa: /əˈnɑmələs/
ipa: /əˈnɔmələs/
rhymes: -ɒmələs
Forms: form: more anomalous
form: most anomalous
Etymology: From Late Latin anōmalos, from Ancient Greek ἀνώμᾰλος (anṓmălos).
Senses: examples: text: statistically anomalous
text: highly anomalous
text: The scientist noted an anomalous result in the data.
text: His behavior was anomalous given the circumstances.
glosses: Deviating from the normal; marked by incongruity or contradiction; aberrant or abnormal.
glosses: Of uncertain or unknown categorization; strange.
glosses: Having anomalies.
Derived terms: anomalously
anomalousness
anomalous water
nonanomalous
Related terms: anomal
anomaly
nut behind the bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the nut behind the bolt
Etymology: Punning use of the word nut to refer to a fool, rather than a mechanical nut. Implies that most firearm accidents are the responsibility of the shooter and not a failure of the gun.
Senses: examples: text: He said the accident was caused by a faulty trigger, but I think it was the nut behind the bolt.
glosses: The person using a firearm; the shooter.
resumé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resumés
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of resume (“summary, especially of employment history”).
glosses: Alternative spelling of résumé.
distributed computing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: SETI is a well-known example of distributed computing, with over five million computer users involved.
glosses: The process of aggregating the power of several computers to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way.
glosses: The use of the idle time of large numbers of networked computers to work on projects too large for any single group.
HP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
Etymology: Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.
glosses: Initialism of Hewlett-Packard.
examples: text: Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.
ref: 2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian, Technology news & features, page 2:
glosses: Initialism of Harry Potter.
HP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
Forms: form: HPs
form: HP
Etymology: Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.
Senses: examples: text: Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205
glosses: Initialism of hire purchase.
glosses: Initialism of horsepower.
examples: text: If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
topics: games
role-playing-games
video-games
glosses: Initialism of hit points / health points.
glosses: Initialism of higher power.
glosses: Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
glosses: Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
synonyms: mul:H₂O₂
HPO
PO
glosses: Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
glosses: Initialism of handphone.
glosses: Initialism of home page.
glosses: Initialism of horizontal pitch.
Derived terms: sense: hydrogen peroxide
english: liquid hydrogen peroxide
translation: liquid hydrogen peroxide
word: LHP
sense: hydrogen peroxide
english: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
translation: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
word: HPGP
sense: hydrogen peroxide
english: hydrogen peroxide vapor
translation: hydrogen peroxide vapor
word: HPV
sense: hydrogen peroxide
english: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
translation: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
word: VHP
sense: hydrogen peroxide
english: alkaline hydrogen peroxide
translation: alkaline hydrogen peroxide
word: AHP
epitomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/
Forms: form: epitomizes
form: epitomizing
form: epitomized
form: epitomized
form: epitomise
Etymology: From epitome + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
examples: text: The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.
ref: 1997, Michael Moortgat, “Categorial Type Logics”, in J. van Benthem, A. ter Meulen, editors, Handbook of Logic and Language, page 99:
glosses: To be an epitome of.
Synonyms: sum up
Derived terms: epitomization
epitomizer
unepitomized
Related terms: epitomistic
epitomy
estranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She estranged her husband by not talking to him for over a year.
glosses: simple past and past participle of estrange
estranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more estranged
form: most estranged
Senses: glosses: Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.
Synonyms: alienated
Coordinate terms: separated
Derived terms: estrangedness
unestranged
Related terms: bestranged
glide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: glides
form: gliding
form: glided
form: glid
form: glode
form: glided
form: glid
form: glode
form: glidden
Etymology: From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.
Senses: examples: text: The river glideth at his own sweet will:
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC:
text: It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 137:
text: The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Chapter VI:
text: But it was 37-year-old Giggs who looked like a care-free teenager as he glided across the pitch he knows so well to breathtaking effect.
ref: 2011 January 22, “Man Utd 5 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
examples: text: The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
glosses: To cause to glide.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To pass with a glide, as the voice.
Synonyms: sense: to move effortlessly
word: coast
sense: to move effortlessly
word: slide
glide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: glides
Etymology: From Middle English gliden, from Old English glīdan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-.
Cognate with West Frisian glide, glydzje, Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, German gleiten, Norwegian Nynorsk gli, Danish glide, Swedish glida, Finnish liitää.
Senses: glosses: The act of gliding.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: semivowel
semiconsonant
glosses: A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
glosses: A bird, the glede or kite.
hyponyms: bell glide
glosses: A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor while being moved.
glosses: The joining of two sounds without a break.
glosses: A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
Derived terms: sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: boostglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: downglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glidant
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide bomb
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide kip
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glideless
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glideosome
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide pad
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide path
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glider
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide ratio
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide reflection
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide slope
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glideslope
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glide time
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: gliding
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: gliding vowel
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: glip
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: handglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: hang-glide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: hang glide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: midglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: offglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: off-glide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: onglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: on-glide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: outglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: overglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: paraglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: upglide
sense: Derived from noun or verb
word: voice glide
gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: glidings
Etymology: From glide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action or motion of something that glides.
glosses: The hobby, sport, or act of flying a glider.
Derived terms: hang gliding
gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From glide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glide
gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From glide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That moves or changes with a glide.
examples: gliding shifts; gliding hours; gliding time
qualifier: employment
glosses: Employing flexitime.
Derived terms: gliding ant
glidingly
glidingness
gliding plane
archiepiscopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: archepiscopal
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “bishop”); see also Latin archiepiscopālis.
Senses: examples: text: In 960 or 961, the notorious Dunstan entered our archiepiscopal chair, which he occupied till death called him to another world in 968.
ref: 1814, James Sargant Storer, Henry Sargant Storer, History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, volume 1, unnumbered page:
text: This city and chair of Ailbe has been constantly understood by our old writers as that of Emly; but it is doubted whether it ought to be honoured with the title of an archiepiscopal see.
ref: 1829, John Lanigan, chapter I, in An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, page 285:
text: It also determined an archiepiscopal and primatial hierarchy: two archiepiscopal provinces with metropolitan sees located at Armagh and at Cashel were recognised, under each of which there were to be twelve episcopal sees, with primacy accorded to Armagh.
ref: 2010, Marie Therese Flanagan, chapter I, in The Transformation of the Irish Church in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, page 34:
glosses: Of or relating to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
Derived terms: archepiscopally
archiepiscopal cross
Related terms: archiepiscopate
episcopal
fufufu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /fuːfuːfuː/
Forms: form: fufu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ふふふ (fufufu, onomatopoeia for the sound of laughter; compare English hahaha).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The sound of laughter; especially a snicker.
raw_tags: in translations of Japanese works
Related terms: kukuku
periaktoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίακτοι (períaktoi), masculine plural of περίακτος (períaktos, “revolving, pivoting”), from περιάγω (periágō, “I turn round”).
Senses: glosses: plural of periaktos
periaktoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περίακτοι (períaktoi), masculine plural of περίακτος (períaktos, “revolving, pivoting”), from περιάγω (periágō, “I turn round”).
Senses: glosses: A device for changing scenery in a theatre. A row of adjacent, three-sided columns form a backdrop to the stage and are turned in unison to show a different face.
renminbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛn.mɪn.bi/
/ˈɹən.mɪn.pi/
Forms: form: renminbis
form: renminbi
form: jenminpi
form: renminpi
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 人民幣／人民币 (rénmínbì, “people's currency”).
Senses: examples: text: Now, the Fang County government is trying “incentives,” according to a statement posted Saturday on its website. People who report their own fevers will receive 1,000 renminbi, the equivalent of $143 — a few days’ salary for the average Hubei resident.
The statement also said that people who report the fevers of others would get 500 renminbi, which raised the prospect of neighbors turning one another in. Communist Party cadres who investigate and verify such reports would receive the same amount.
ref: 2020 March 12, “Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia Pacific:
synonyms: yuan
RMB
CNY
glosses: The official currency of the People's Republic of China.
tightwad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightwads
Etymology: From tight + wad.
Senses: examples: text: That tightwad would drive ten miles to save a few cents on gas.
text: He gulps down the hot coffee and leaves a nice fat tip. No one can say he's a tightwad.
ref: 1966, Burt Blechman, Stations, published 1969, page 40:
glosses: One who is stingy; someone overly cautious or defensive with money.
Synonyms: frugal
miser
skinflint
Derived terms: tightwaddish
in the same boat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You can ignore their problems, but you could be in the same boat someday.
glosses: In the same situation or predicament; having the same problems.
Related terms: get in the boat and row
Detroit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɹɔɪt/
ipa: /ˈdiːtɹɔɪt/
other: [dɪˈt͡ʃɹɔɪt]
note: Michigan
ipa: /ˈdiːtɹɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Etymology: From French détroit (“strait”) in Rivière du Détroit (Detroit River). Doublet of district, via Latin.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll tell you what Detroit is. We’re a prideful people that love our city more than anything – even if we do, in many cases, make the difficult decision to leave the city for somewhere outside the boundaries.
ref: 2017 October 5, Aaron Foley, “Why Detroit’s city storyteller wants to ban the word ‘gritty’”, in CNN:
glosses: The largest city and former capital of Michigan, United States, a major port on the Detroit River, known as the traditional automotive center of the U.S. It is the county seat of Wayne County.
examples: text: 'Cause in the real world they're shutting Detroit down / While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets on out of town.
ref: 2009, John Anderson, John Rich, “Shuttin' Detroit Down”, performed by John Rich:
glosses: The United States' automotive industry.
Synonyms: sense: city of Michigan
word: 3-1-3
sense: city of Michigan
word: Arsenal of Democracy
sense: city of Michigan
word: D
sense: city of Michigan
word: The D
sense: city of Michigan
word: D-Town
sense: city of Michigan
word: Hockeytown
sense: city of Michigan
word: Motor City
sense: city of Michigan
word: Motown
sense: city of Michigan
word: Rock City
Derived terms: Detoilet
Detroit City
Detroit Lakes
Detroit River
square away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squares away
form: squaring away
form: squared away
form: squared away
Senses: examples: text: I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job.
glosses: To finish, complete, tidy or put in order.
examples: text: Accordingly, when the wheel was relieved at eight o'clock, the order was given to keep her due north, and all hands were turned up to square away the yards and make sail.
ref: 1969, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast: Twenty-four Years After:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To square the ship's yards to make her run before the wind, with the wind blowing straight from the stern.
out of line
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I lost my place when I had to get out of line to find you.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, line.
examples: text: I hope my comments yesterday were not out of line.
glosses: Inappropriate or unsuitable, especially by reason of being unmannerly or indelicate.
examples: text: Pope Innocent III […] led a crusade against the out-of-line Albigensians in Provence.
ref: 1984 December 29, Charlie Shively, “Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 10:
glosses: Disobedient, not following orders or order.
glosses: Not in a line, straggly.
Synonyms: out of order
audacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ô-dāʹshəs
ipa: /ɔːˈdeɪʃəs/
enpr: ô-dāʹshəs
ipa: /ɔˈdeɪʃəs/
ipa: /ɑˈdeɪʃəs/
ipa: /ɑˈdeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more audacious
form: most audacious
Etymology: From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“I am bold, I dare”).
Senses: examples: text: It was an audacious thing for her to attempt, but boldness had often served her turn before.
ref: 1871, Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds:
text: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
text: The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
ref: 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
text: Cuba’s economy minister described "audacious" measures to tame inflation…
ref: 2022 May 14, Dave Sherwood and Nelson Acosta, “Cuba sees hints of recovery, announces "audacious" measures to tame inflation”, in Reuters:
synonyms: bold
daring
courageous
intrepid
venturesome
temeritous
temerarious
antonyms: shy
cautious
prudent
glosses: Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
synonyms: impudent
presumptuous
brazen
cheeky
glosses: Impudent, insolent.
Derived terms: audaciously
audaciousness
boldacious
unaudacious
Related terms: audacity
outdaciousness
zero in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zeroes in
form: zeros in
form: zeroing in
form: zeroed in
form: zeroed in
Etymology: The phrase possibly comes from adjusting a sighting mechanism of a firearm to minimise the discrepancy between where the sight points and where a bullet lands on a target.
Another possible source is the Cartesian coordinate system in mathematics. In the coordinate system, points are defined relative to an origin (point of reference) labeled O, which has an (x,y) coordinate pair of (0,0).
Senses: examples: text: The pilot zeroed in on the bunker and launched a guided missile.
text: Zero in and find a watermark in the image.
text: When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me to zero in on a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.
ref: 1981 September 15, day@RAND-UNIX, “C debugging”, in fa.unix-wizards (Usenet):
text: The Biden administration has also zeroed in on the building, Federation Tower East, the tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital.
ref: 2021 December 6, Andrew E. Kramer, “Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To focus one's aim; to zoom in and center (on something).
examples: text: We have zeroed in on the source of the problem.
text: See if you can zero in on the caller.
glosses: To successfully narrow down a search (for).
examples: text: One member of the check fraud team will zero in on the fingerprints.
text: Scholarship suggests that pop culture feminists have correctly zeroed in on sexual double standards as a key source of gender inequality in sexuality.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, Paula England, “Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? Compared to What?”, in Contexts, volume 9, number 3, →DOI, page 23b:
coordinate_terms: tune in
glosses: To concentrate or focus one's attention (on a task).
examples: text: At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes.
text: With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. A Champions League season that had seemed to be zeroing in on another coronation for Lionel Messi had been wrenched, gleefully, the other way.
ref: 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian:
glosses: To converge (on).
Related terms: dial in
home in
all the marbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After a day's worth of events, it came down to one last match; this one was for all the marbles.
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: everything; all that is to be had.
Related terms: all she wrote
hook, line and sinker
lose one's marbles
fork over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forks over
form: forking over
form: forked over
form: forked over
Senses: examples: text: I forked over half the allotment this morning.
glosses: To turn over (soil, hay, etc.) with a gardening fork.
examples: text: Hundreds of spectators forked over the 70 bucks for tickets.
text: Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To pay, give up or hand over a large amount of money.
take it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it easy
form: taking it easy
form: took it easy
form: taken it easy
Etymology: From take easy + it.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to stay home Saturday and take it easy.
text: Take it easy, it's just a game!
text: As she goes, you have a wash yourself, and although you will have to change your clothes to get rid of all the coal-dust, you are glad of soap and water and take it easy at last.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
synonyms: chill
glosses: To relax or rest.
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
‘someone’
expansion: [with on ‘someone’]
glosses: Synonym of go easy (“treat gently and with understanding”)
synonyms: word: go easy
extra: treat gently and with understanding
Related terms: take easy
take it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From take easy + it.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going home now. Take it easy.
synonyms: so long
take care
glosses: A farewell.
Related terms: have it easy
put one's feet up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's feet up
form: putting one's feet up
form: put one's feet up
form: put one's feet up
Senses: examples: text: It is also disconcerting when you suddenly realise that the driver isn't steering, but may be thumbing over his Customs papers with his feet up.
ref: 1948 March and April, “Notes and News: Lines in County Donegal”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:
synonyms: kick one's feet up
glosses: To relax.
Related terms: let one's hair down
take it easy
kick back
kick back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks back
form: kicking back
form: kicked back
form: kicked back
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to stay at home on Saturday and just kick back.
text: Ooh, bet you're thinking, "She's so cool"
Kicking back on your couch, making eyes from across the room
Wait, I think I've been there too
ref: 2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us, performed by Gracie Abrams:
synonyms: take it easy
lie back
kick it
kick up one's heels
glosses: To relax; to laze.
examples: text: It was the local government’s practice to kick back to the police officer a portion of the fines collected from traffic tickets.
text: It was the insurer’s practice to kick back to the broker approximately 0.12% of the premium paid by the policyholder.
text: It was the company’s practice to kick back to the negotiator at the client company.
glosses: To pay part of the proceeds of a transaction to a person or organization that mediated it, often in a way that is covert, improper, and illegal.
examples: text: They'll kick it back to you if it turns up.
glosses: To return (something) to its original or rightful owner.
examples: text: We'll kick back some beers.
glosses: To drink (something).
Derived terms: word: kickback
Related terms: sense: split proceeds corruptly
word: tollgate
kick back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick backs
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of kickback.
kickback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪkbæk/
Forms: form: kickbacks
form: kick-back
form: kick back
Etymology: Deverbal from kick back.
Senses: examples: text: Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
ref: 2010, Christina T. Loguidice, Bill Loguidice, Wii Fitness For Dummies:
glosses: A backward kick; a retrograde movement of an extremity.
examples: text: Central to his [Yury Skuratov's] investigation were kickbacks supposedly paid by a Swiss construction company for contracts to restore government buildings, including both houses of parliament.
ref: 2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 4, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 65:
text: You sell cars and help arrange car insurance for buyers. Insurance brokers pay back part of their commissions to you for referring customers to them. You must include the kickbacks in your income.
ref: 2021 February 11, “Publication 17 (2020), Your Federal Income Tax”, in irs.gov, Internal Revenue Service, retrieved 24 Aug 2021, Kickbacks:
hypernyms: word: bribe
word: gift
word: payment
word: quid pro quo
glosses: A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; especially, a kind of quid pro quo in which if you (an insider) secretly help me (an outsider) win the bid for the contract then I will secretly send you a portion of the contract value; thus, a kind of bribe.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
qualifier: machinery
glosses: Recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
qualifier: machinery
glosses: An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
topics: business
forestry
qualifier: machinery
glosses: An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
examples: text: We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, kickbacks, and thumper-bumpers.
ref: 1973, Doug Anderson, “Pinball Wizard”, in Texas Monthly, volume 1, number 7, August 1973, page 84:
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
synonyms: kicker
glosses: A relaxed party.
Derived terms: antikickback
Related terms: word: kick back
word: bribe
word: fee splitting
doozy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: doozies
form: doozie
form: duesey
form: duesy
Etymology: Unknown. First appearance 1903. Perhaps from daisy (“the flower”) (Rudyard Kipling used daisy in this sense) or the name of Italian actress Eleonora Duse. The automobile manufacturer Duesenberg is often erroneously cited as the origin, but the word existed more than a decade earlier. Alternatively, possibly from Polish duży, but this is chronologically unlikely and not attested in period sources.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozy.
text: Like the em unit, the rem unit is based on declared font size. The difference — and it’s a doozy — is that whereas em is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied, rem is always calculated using the root element.
ref: 2017, Eric A Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, Kindle edition, O'Reilly Media, page 126:
synonyms: lulu
glosses: Something that is extraordinary: often troublesome, difficult or problematic, but sometimes extraordinary in a positive sense.
doozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: doozier
form: dooziest
form: doozie
form: duesey
form: duesy
Etymology: Unknown. First appearance 1903. Perhaps from daisy (“the flower”) (Rudyard Kipling used daisy in this sense) or the name of Italian actress Eleonora Duse. The automobile manufacturer Duesenberg is often erroneously cited as the origin, but the word existed more than a decade earlier. Alternatively, possibly from Polish duży, but this is chronologically unlikely and not attested in period sources.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the races were billed he began to evolve Schemes — one Doozy scheme followed the other...
ref: 1903, Alfred Leon Kleberg, Slang Fables from Afar, page 83:
text: The hydra wasn't the doozy? How could it not be the doozy? What could be doozier than that?
ref: 2011, “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
glosses: Of high quality; remarkable; excellent.
examples: text: Who was that doozy fellow I saw you with?
ref: 1917, Elsie Warnock, “Terms of approbation and eulogy in American dialect speech”, in Dialect Notes, volume IV, page 21:
text: Sweetie, do let me show you the dooziest little afternoon frock that Poiret designed for me in Paris.
ref: 1920, Jane Barrett, “English review”, in High School Life, volume 21, page 531:
glosses: Sporty, ostentatious, flashy.
woozy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːzi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: woozier
form: wooziest
Etymology: From Middle English wosy (“muddy, miry”), from Middle English wose (“mud, slime, ooze”) + -y. Doublet of oozy. Perhaps influenced by boozy.
Senses: examples: text: I got off the rollercoaster feeling a bit woozy.
glosses: Queasy, dizzy, or disoriented.
glosses: Intoxicated by drink or drugs.
Synonyms: sense: queasy, dizzy, or disoriented
word: giddy
sense: queasy, dizzy, or disoriented
word: lightheaded
sense: queasy, dizzy, or disoriented
word: whifty
sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
word: stoned
Derived terms: woozily
wooziness
deliverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/
Forms: form: more deliverable
form: most deliverable
Etymology: From deliver + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The packages were not deliverable because the roads had flooded out.
text: Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network or a murderous dictator or the two working together constitutes as grave a threat as can be imagined.
ref: 2002 August 27, “Eyes on Iraq: In Cheney’s Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
text: In any of our worlds, if we went out to consult on options that weren't deliverable, we would rightly be heavily criticised for wasting people's time.
ref: 2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 50:
glosses: Able to be delivered.
Derived terms: undeliverable
deliverable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/
Forms: form: deliverables
Etymology: From deliver + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Due to inclement weather, we will be unable to provide our deliverables.
text: We packaged the deliverable, a program called FLOOD.EXE, in an installer file.
topics: business
management
glosses: The tangible end product; that which will be delivered.
peekaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikəbu/
Forms: form: peek-a-boo
Etymology: From peek + -a- + boo.
Senses: topics: games
synonyms: peepbo
glosses: A game for a small child in which one covers one's face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo!" or "Peekaboo!".
peekaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikəbu/
Forms: form: peek-a-boo
Etymology: From peek + -a- + boo.
Senses: examples: text: The model was wearing a peekaboo swimsuit.
glosses: With holes, slits or transparent fabric to reveal what is normally hidden.
raw_tags: of clothing
examples: peekaboo boxing
a peekaboo guard
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Being or using a style of boxing with the hands kept close to the face to defend it.
Derived terms: peekaboo blouse
peekaboo bra
peekaboo card
peekaboo dress
peekaboo tank top
peekaboo top
peekaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikəbu/
Forms: form: peekaboos
form: peekabooing
form: peekabooed
form: peekabooed
form: peek-a-boo
Etymology: From peek + -a- + boo.
Senses: examples: text: A spike of white bone peekabooed through the flesh of his wrist and blood spurted.
ref: 2013, Stan Timmons, Ammon's Horn:
text: “Mount Rainier has escaped the clouds.” I turned to the volcano peekabooing through the trees in the distance.
ref: 2013, Marianne Harden, Malicious Mischief:
glosses: To peep out.
peekaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpikəbu/
Forms: form: peek-a-boo
Etymology: From peek + -a- + boo.
Senses: examples: text: “The Sire is the oldest living vampire in the world.” “He's the vampire from which all other vampires have descended.” “All of them.” “Do not ever open this door.” “Peekaboo.” (growling)
ref: 2021 September 2, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “The Cloak of Duplication” (3:29 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
synonyms: peep bo
peep-bo
peepbo
peepo
glosses: Boo (when showing oneself unexpectedly).
Related terms: Picabo
pat on the back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pats on the back
form: pat-on-the-back
Senses: examples: text: Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done.
glosses: Praise, congratulations.
Synonyms: back-pat
pat on the back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pats on the back
form: patting on the back
form: patted on the back
form: patted on the back
form: pat-on-the-back
Senses: examples: text: Don't pat yourself on the back so vigorously; you might hurt yourself.
glosses: To praise or congratulate.
Synonyms: back-pat
Derived terms: back-patty
break one's arm patting oneself on the back
slap on the wrist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæp ɒn ðə ˈɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈslæp ɑn ðə ˈɹɪst/
note: Southern US, Midland US
ipa: /ˈslæp ɔn ðə ˈɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈslæp ɔʊn ðə ˈɹɪst/
Forms: form: slaps on the wrist
form: slapping on the wrist
form: slapped on the wrist
form: slapped on the wrist
Senses: examples: text: Gorbachev played a skillful diplomatic game in Asia. While enhancing Soviet relations with South Korea—moving from no ties to full diplomatic relations in only three years— he continued to back North Korea, though slapping its leader on the wrist for its nuclear program. While Soviet trade with South Korea will rise from $85 million in 1985 to an estimated $1 billion in 1995, Moscow continued to provide $1 billion in aid to North Korea and to equip the 1.1 million troops in its armed forces with Soviet weapons.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: Synonym of wrist-slap.
synonyms: word: wrist-slap
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist.
slap on the wrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæp ɒn ðə ˈɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈslæp ɑn ðə ˈɹɪst/
note: Southern US, Midland US
ipa: /ˈslæp ɔn ðə ˈɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈslæp ɔʊn ðə ˈɹɪst/
Forms: form: slaps on the wrist
form: slaps on wrists
Senses: examples: text: He got a slap on the wrist, but I don't think he'll reform.
text: Although he permitted "slap on the wrist" against the procurement personnel who misprocured on the basis of incorrect technical information, he did nothing against those technical personnel who "perpetrated misconceptions" and disseminated "statements which were inaccurate, unproven, inconsistent" and who were "biased against JRL interests" and who thus misled these procurement personnel.
ref: 1983, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs, Management of the Department of Defense, page 29:
glosses: Synonym of wrist-slap.
synonyms: word: wrist-slap
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, wrist.
commonplace book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commonplace books
form: commonplace-book
Senses: examples: text: I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book.
ref: 1910, Samuel Butler, chapter 2, in Unconscious Memory:
text: The compiler of a commonplace book is on his own; he can put in anything that appeals to him: aphorisms, poems, parts of poems, newspaper clippings, song lyrics, bits of humor, overheard conversations—anything that has struck him as exciting, that he has found stimulating, odd or amusing.
ref: 1970 May 3, William Cole, “Speaking of Commonplace Books”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But the other kind of commonplace book was different. Its goal was to gather a collection of the wisest statements, usually of the ancients, for future meditation.
ref: 2012 January 23, Alan Jacobs, “‘Commonplace Books’: Tumblrs of an Earlier Era”, in The Atlantic:
text: Popularized in a previous period of information overload, the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the commonplace book was more than a diary or journal of personal reflections. It was a learning tool that the educated class used to understand a rapidly changing world and their place in it.
ref: 2022, Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, Profile Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: commonplace
glosses: A personal notebook or journal in which memorabilia, quotations, etc., are written.
preparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: preparations
form: præparation
Etymology: From Middle English preparacion, from Middle French preparacion, from Latin praeparatio, praeparationem. Morphologically prepare + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: I went over my notes in preparation for the exam.
glosses: The act of preparing or getting ready.
glosses: The state of being prepared; readiness.
examples: text: The traditional remedy is a bitter preparation made from steamed herbs.
glosses: That which is prepared.
A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That which is prepared.
A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That which is prepared.
Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
glosses: The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
glosses: Devotional exercises introducing an office.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.
Derived terms: biopreparation
cryopreparation
cytopreparation
impreparation
maxipreparation
minipreparation
nanopreparation
nonpreparation
out of preparation
overpreparation
phytopreparation
preparational
preparationism
preparationist
preparation room
repreparation
underpreparation
unpreparation
Related terms: prepare
scrapbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæpˌbʊk/
Forms: form: scrapbooks
Etymology: From scrap + book.
Senses: glosses: A book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged.
scrapbook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæpˌbʊk/
Forms: form: scrapbooks
form: scrapbooking
form: scrapbooked
form: scrapbooked
Etymology: From scrap + book.
Senses: glosses: To create scrapbooks.
instruct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɹakt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: instructs
Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
Senses: glosses: Instruction.
instruct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌkt/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɹakt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
Senses: examples: text: For he had neither ship, instruct with oares,
Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.
ref: c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 4, p. 62:
glosses: Arranged; furnished; provided.
examples: text: Who ever by consulting at thy shrine
Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct
To flye or follow what concern’d him most,
And run not sooner to his fatal snare?
ref: 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, London: John Starkey, Book 1, lines 438-441, p. 24:
glosses: Instructed; taught; enlightened.
count on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaʊntʌn/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /kaʊnʌn/
Forms: form: counts on
form: counting on
form: counted on
form: counted on
Senses: examples: text: Don't count on being able to get back into the building after 5pm.
text: Can we count on you to help out?
text: He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
ref: 1999, Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor:
text: Or perhaps something unusual occurred in the current period that you can't count on to repeat itself.
ref: 2001, Builder's Guide to Accounting:
text: "Hopefully you can count on them for a long period of time. Quite frankly, not often do you give those players up."
ref: 2009, “Going green: Young talent cuts costs, builds continuity”, in USA Today:
text: The trial will be targeted at Russians as well as an international audience — and the organizers will be counting on extensive coverage in the world press.
ref: 2022 June 23, Francine Hirsch, “Russia is counting on the media to spread propaganda about show trials”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 14 Dec 2022:
glosses: To rely on, trust, or expect.
Synonyms: bank on
hang one's hat on
count in
reckon on