cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autostereogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autostereograms
Etymology: From auto- + stereogram.
Senses: examples: text: To help see a random dot autostereogram correctly, pull the eyes (and face) towards, say, within one inch of the random dot autostereogram, and then slowly pull away, until the central 3D shape coalesces into view.
text: If you stared at the pattern long enough, your brain would trick itself into seeing a hidden 3D image. It was called an autostereogram, and it was easy to make one if you were a moderately skilled programmer.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 7:
glosses: A single-image stereogram, designed to trick the human eye and brain into seeing a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional image.
Synonyms: magic eye
foreseeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foreseeable
form: most foreseeable
Etymology: From foresee + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This project will not be finished in the foreseeable future.
text: Whatever is decided, it is clear that Crossrail 2 must be regarded as a non-starter for the foreseeable future.
ref: 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: able to be foreseen or anticipated
Derived terms: foreseeableness
foreseeably
for the foreseeable
unforeseeable
unforeseeably
larikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of larrikin.
calorimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: kă'lərĭʹmĭtə
ipa: /ˌkæləˈɹɪmɪtɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kaləri.miʈə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: calorimeters
form: calorimetre
Etymology: From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An apparatus for measuring the heat generated or absorbed by either a chemical reaction, change of phase or some other physical change.
Derived terms: bomb calorimeter
calorimetric
calorimetry
microcalorimeter
minicalorimeter
nanocalorimeter
calorimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The climax was reached in the 1880's and 1890's through the meticulous work of the German physiologist Max Rubner. His calorimetric measurements of living organisms showed beyond any doubt that the law of conservation of energy held in living tissue as well as in the non-living universe.
ref: 1968, Isaac Asimov, Photosynthesis, Basic Books, Inc., page 63:
glosses: of, or relating to calorimetry, or measured by a calorimeter
Derived terms: calorimetrically
magnetocalorimetric
microcalorimetric
noncalorimetric
ceilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceilometers
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the altitude of the cloud base, especially above an airfield.
haughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haugh
cloud base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud bases
form: cloudbase
Senses: glosses: The altitude of the base of a mass of cloud; measured by a ceilometer.
cephalometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalometers
Etymology: From cephalo- + -meter.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of cephalostat.
synonyms: word: cephalostat
glosses: Synonym of craniometer.
synonyms: word: craniometer
Related terms: cephalometry
cephalometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalometries
Etymology: From cephalo- + -metry.
Senses: synonyms: cephalometrics
hypernyms: anthropometry
glosses: The measurement of the head, especially in order to study growth, development, and disease.
Related terms: english: device
translation: device
word: cephalometer
word: cephalometric
stots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stot
stottin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of stot; Alternative spelling of stotting.
stotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stot
glosses: simple past and past participle of stott
tynes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tyne
lema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First coined 1789, from Ancient Greek λήμη (lḗmē, “substance that gathers in the corner of the eye; rheum”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.
Synonyms: sebum palpebrale
craniometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craniometers
Etymology: From cranio- + -meter.
Senses: synonyms: cephalometer
coordinate_terms: pelvimeter
glosses: A device used to measure the size of the skull.
Derived terms: craniometric
craniometry
cryometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryometers
Etymology: From cryo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A thermometer used at very low temperatures.
Derived terms: cryometric
cryometry
verbalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbalizations
Etymology: From verbalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An instance of verbalizing.
verbalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbalization
cryometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of very low temperatures
Related terms: cryometer
cryometric
cryometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cryo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cryometry, or measured using a cryometer.
versifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versifiers
Etymology: From Middle English versifiour, from Old French versifieor; equivalent to versify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who versifies.
glosses: An inferior poet.
Hypernyms: poet
versifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versifier
cytophotometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytophotometers
Etymology: From cyto- + photo- + -meter.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An optical device which measures the light passing through a stained section of tissue in order to analyze the compounds within its cells.
Related terms: cytophotometric
cytophotometry
cytophotometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + photo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The analysis of the chemical composition of cells using a cytophotometer
cytophotometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + photometric.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cytophotometry, or measured using a cytophotometer.
Derived terms: cytophotometrically
venturesomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From venturesome + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Somebody must lead the way. I just showed that the thing could be done; but you men brought up to the use of steam cannot conceive the vast importance of my bit of venturesomeness to the Eastern trade of the time.
ref: 1899, Joseph Conrad, Youth And Two Other Stories:
glosses: The degree or quality of being venturesome.
dekameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkəmiːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dekameters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of decametre.
Derived terms: dekametric
dekametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decametric.
decametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛkəˈmɛtɹɪk/
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or measured using a decameter/decametre; especially of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength between one and ten decameters.
densimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densimeters
Etymology: From dense + -i- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A densitometer.
Derived terms: lactodensimeter
Related terms: densimetric
densimetry
densitometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densitometers
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the optical density of a material; especially to test film and print quality.
glosses: A device that measures the specific gravity of a substance; a densimeter.
Derived terms: microdensitometer
photodensitometer
videodensitometer
Related terms: densitometric
densitometry
dilatometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatometers
Etymology: From dilate + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the expansion of solids and liquids when heated, or when subjected to some other physical process.
Related terms: dilatometric
dilatometry
dioptometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dioptometers
Etymology: From di- + opto- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure ocular refraction, in order to prescribe corrective lenses.
Related terms: dioptometric
dioptometry
venturous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venturous
form: most venturous
Etymology: From venture + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e ſhewed me a ſtately Palace, and how the People were clad in Gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous Man and cut his way through the armed men that ſtood in the door to keep him out; and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal Glory.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 78:
text: Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.
ref: 1709, Matthew Prior, “Henry and Emma. […]”, in The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, […], published 1779, →OCLC, page 246:
glosses: Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
Related terms: venture
nothing ventured, nothing gained
venturously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more venturously
form: most venturously
Etymology: From venturous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a venturous manner; daringly; in a fashion displaying boldness, or an enterprising spirit.
Synonyms: adventurously
venturesomely
bios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bio
glosses: A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
Derived terms: diplobios
geobios
halobios
limnobios
bios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βίος (bíos). Doublet of jiva and quick.
Senses: glosses: In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
venturousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From venturous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being venturous; mettle; one's willingness to undertake potentially hazardous endeavours.
Synonyms: daring
venturesomeness
like a hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If you find one you like, plan to guard it like a hawk until the purchase is finalized.
qualifier: simile
glosses: With particular vigilance or attention, implying sharp vision.
Derived terms: watch like a hawk
rami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramus
pervicacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pervicacious
form: most pervicacious
Etymology: From Latin pervicāx + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: You are recommended, Miss, to the practice of your private devotions. May they be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures that ever was heard of!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Extremely stubborn or headstrong; wilful, obstinate.
Derived terms: pervicaciously
pervicaciousness
leave for dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves for dead
form: leaving for dead
form: left for dead
form: left for dead
Senses: examples: text: He stood in the middle of a narrow part of the road, stopped the horse, and struck Fyot with a heavy cudgel, leaving him for dead in the ditch.
ref: 1835, Anne Laura Thorold, Letters from Brussels, in the summer of 1835:
text: The Writer having received two wounds, is left for dead on the field
ref: 1851, Personal Adventures of an Austrian Officer in the Hungarian War of 1848 and 1849:
text: When Steele rides after them, they shoot him and leave him for dead in the desert.
ref: 2001, R. Phillip Loy, Westerns and American Culture, 1930-1955:
glosses: To abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.
examples: text: However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.
ref: 2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To disregard or bypass as unimportant.
sprong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Like to the cruel brothers of the earth,
Sprong of the teeth of Dragons venemous,
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
text: And the whole family, therewith adredd,
Rashly out of their rouzed couches sprong
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of spring
left for dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leave for dead
Minneapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪniˈæpəlɪs/
Etymology: Minnehapolis proposed in 1852 by Charles Hoag as a (misspelt) blend of Dakota mníȟaȟa (“waterfall”) (mní (“water”) + ȟaȟa (“curling”)) + Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city”). Amended to Minneapolis at a town meeting the same year.
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.
ref: 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN:
glosses: The largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Ottawa County, Kansas, United States.
Derived terms: Minneapolitan
Mpls
Murderapolis
Minneapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minneapolitans
Senses: glosses: Someone from the city of Minneapolis.
Minneapolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Minneapolitan
form: most Minneapolitan
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Minneapolis.
Saint Paul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈpɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: The places are named after Paul the Apostle.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Saint who spread Christ's teachings in the early Christian era.
related: word: St Paul
word: St. Paul
glosses: Any saint named Paul.
glosses: The capital city of Minnesota, United States and the county seat of Ramsey County.
glosses: A river in western Africa, flowing from southern Guinea, through Liberia, and into the Atlantic Ocean.
glosses: A parish of Antigua and Barbuda.
glosses: A parish of Dominica.
Related terms: english: Saint Paul
translation: Saint Paul
word: San Pablo
english: Saint Paul
translation: Saint Paul
word: São Paulo
putting green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putting greens
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area of a golf course nearest the hole, with a smoother surface to make putting easier.
Related terms: greenkeeper
greenkeeping
putter
sand wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand wedges
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf club (an iron) with a heavy flange on the bottom, ideal for bunker shots.
golf club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf clubs
form: golf-club
Senses: examples: text: Once the tough job is done for Prosser, he says he can then get his golf clubs back out - they have been in the cupboard untouched for a decade.
ref: 2023 November 15, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “A healthy person is a more productive person”, in RAIL, number 996, page 37:
glosses: In golf, the implement used to hit the golf ball.
glosses: A club or organization where golf is played.
Hyponyms: approach wedge
baffing spoon
baffy
brassie
chipper
cleek
driver
gap wedge
hybrid
iron
jigger
lob wedge
lofter
mashie
mashie niblick
mid-iron
mid-mashie
niblick
pitching wedge
play club
putter
Sabbath stick
sand wedge
spade mashie
wedge
wood
double bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double bogeys
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: buzzard
glosses: A score of two over par (for one hole).
triple bogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple bogeys
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score of three over par (for one hole)
tap in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap ins
form: tap-in
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A simple, short putt very close to the hole.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A simple shot into the goal from close range, and without opposition.
tap in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taps in
form: tapping in
form: tapped in
form: tapped in
form: tap-in
Senses: examples: text: Bent was again left with the simplest of finishes when Rooney picked out Young and he unselfishly crossed for Bent to tap in from inside the six-yard area.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To kick a simple shot, without opposition, from close range into the goal.
synonyms: touch in
tap on
glosses: To enter a public transport system (especially the London Underground) by tapping a travelcard on the card-reader
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To contact (someone); to call (someone) on the phone.
synonyms: tag in
glosses: To switch places with someone.
Related terms: tap into
tee off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tees off
form: teeing off
form: teed off
form: teed off
Senses: examples: text: I always check the wind direction before I tee off.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the first shot of the hole, from the tee.
examples: text: Reyes teed off on a hanging curve to give the Cardinals a 3-1 lead.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball very hard, especially for a home run.
examples: text: Boy, do his jibes ever tee me off!
synonyms: word: cheese off
word: pee off
word: piss off
word: tick off
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To irritate, vex, or annoy.
palude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paludes
Etymology: From Middle English palude, from Anglo-Norman palude, palud, palu, from Old French palu, from Latin palūs, palūdem. Reinforced (and with pronunciation influenced) by French palude, palud and Italian palude.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:palude.
glosses: A marsh or swamp.
sterna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sternum
pitching wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitching wedges
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An iron designed for pitch shots
LPGA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Ladies Professional Golf Association.
approach shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approach shots
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any shot, normally not when teeing off, aimed to land on the green, hit for accuracy more than power.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A shot intended to allow the player hitting it to get to the net.
Synonyms: approach
self-assurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + assurance.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-confidence: the state or quality of being confident in oneself.
synonyms: word: self-confidence
extra: the state or quality of being confident in oneself
Related terms: word: self-assured
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: self-insurance
astore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: astores
form: astoring
form: astored
form: astored
Etymology: From Middle English astoren, from Old French estorer, from Latin instaurare.
Senses: glosses: To store; to furnish with stores.
Golden Retriever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Golden Retrievers
form: golden retriever
Senses: glosses: A breed of dog, originating in Britain.
Derived terms: Golden Retriever boyfriend
Azawakh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Azawakhs
Etymology: From Zarma, meaning land of the north.
Senses: synonyms: Bareeru
Hanshee
Idi
Oska
Rawondu
Tuareg Sloughi
Wulo
glosses: A sighthound bred in Western Africa around Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
Related terms: Azawad
Azawagh
whistle-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle-stops
Etymology: Named for the train whistle that is frequently blown before stopping in small towns.
Senses: glosses: A small train station.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering.
Related terms: front porch campaign
jerkwater
whistle-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Named for the train whistle that is frequently blown before stopping in small towns.
Senses: examples: text: We've only got 30 minutes at the stadium, so I'll give you a whistle-stop tour.
glosses: Extremely brief and hurried.
Related terms: whistle-stop cafe
whistle-stop train tour
whirlwind
whistle-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whistle-stops
form: whistle-stopping
form: whistle-stopped
form: whistle-stopped
Etymology: Named for the train whistle that is frequently blown before stopping in small towns.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To make a brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering.
walloping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more walloping
form: most walloping
Senses: glosses: whopping, large in size.
glosses: of exceptional, impressive quality.
walloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wallopings
Senses: glosses: A series of wallops or blows; a beating.
examples: text: For forgetting to pick up the package again, my boss gave me a walloping.
synonyms: tongue lashing
glosses: Verbal abuse.
glosses: A thrashing, serious defeat.
Related terms: dock walloping
pot-walloping
walloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wallop
perogative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of prerogative.
more cry than wool
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: all cry and no wool
Etymology: Derived from the practice of shearing sheep, in which the sheep may "cry" as their wool is removed. The earliest recorded variation appears to be by 15th century English lawyer John Fortescue, who wrote "Moche Crye and no Wull" in De laudibus legum Angliae (c. 1470), ch. x.
Senses: examples: text: Theſe are the Crimes of which we are guilty, before any Law to prohibit us: it were more allowable to plant Poiſon than to Manufacture with us, and we lie, it ſeems, under ſuch an Obloquy and Clamour, (which, as far as I can judge by your Letter, you alſo liſten to) that, as to import our Cattle to you is a Nuſance, and to export our Wools is Felony ; ſo, by Gradation, to erect here a Manufacture ought to be no leſs than Treaſon. And yet there is more Cry than Wool in all this Matter : For I dare, and do aſſure you, that, modeſtly ſpeaking the whole Quantity of what we work up in Ireland, amounts not to the Half of what any one Clothing-County in England does.
ref: 1747, John Smith, Chronicon Ruſticum Commerciale; or, Memoirs of Wool, &c., London: T. Osborne, page 304:
text: In rebuttal, the petitioner offers more cry than wool. He points first to the vague threats that his family and friends relayed to him during his 1990 return to El Salvador, and speculates that members of the FMLN still sought to harm him at that time. This is unabashed surmise.
ref: 1999 February 26, Bruce M. Selya, “Aguilar-Solis v. INS”, in 1st Cir. 1999, case no. 98-1484:
glosses: Dramatic assertions that are backed by little evidence.
Related terms: all bark and no bite
all smoke and no fire
all hat and no cattle
Pekingology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Peking + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the behavior of the government of the People's Republic of China.
Related terms: Kremlinology
Pekingologist
Pekingologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pekingologists
Etymology: From Peking + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Pekingology.
Synonyms: China watcher
Related terms: Kremlinologist
Pekingologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pekingologist
sand wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sand wedge
veraciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more veraciously
form: most veraciously
Etymology: From veracious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...take the following pages, as you do some long and gossippy letter written for you by a relative or friend traveling through distant scenes and incidents, and jotting them down lazily and informally, but ever veraciously ...
ref: 1888, Walt Whitman, November Boughs; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose, 1855-1892:
glosses: In a veracious manner; honestly; truthfully.
verdantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more verdantly
form: most verdantly
Etymology: From verdant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And, around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!
ref: 1808, “Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms”, in Thomas Moore (lyrics), Irish Melodies:
text: With that she left me, and soon returned with a volume, verdantly bound, and garnished with a curious frontispiece in green,—nothing less, than a fragment of real moss cunningly pressed to a fly-leaf.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses:
glosses: In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (green color.)
glosses: In a verdant manner; in a fashion indicating greenness (naivety.)
Synonyms: greenly
veritably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹɪtəbli/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹətəbli/
Forms: form: more veritably
form: most veritably
Etymology: From veritable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My comfort was, that it happened a long time ago, and that he had doubtless been transported a long way off, and that he was dead to me, and might be veritably dead into the bargain.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XIX, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 315:
text: A book with veritably no shading or subtlety
ref: 1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “So Precious A Love”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: In a veritable manner; in a way that truly and accurately describes something.
Synonyms: genuinely
null infinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null infinities
Etymology: From the physics concept of "at infinity" or "far", where fields are small, and the math concept of null set. Ironically, a null infinity may be neither far nor a null set.
Senses: glosses: In a closed space-time, especially for an Einstein cylinder, null infinity for a given point is the limit of convergence of the light cone most distant from the given point. That is, it is the limit of a set of points that each have a time-like separation from every point that has a space-like separation from the given point.
Bharat Army
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Barmy Army, and Bharat.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Bharat, Army. An Indian army.
examples: text: The Bharat Army—with around 30 in Gandhi topis, 51 tricolour T-shirts and Sachin Tendulkar posters—continually cheered the Indians […]
ref: 2004, Boria Majumdar, J A Mangan, Cricketing Cultures in Conflict: Cricketing World Cup 2003:
text: Every Barmy Army chant was countered by the British Bharat Army. India batted first. […]
ref: 2011 February 5, (mint) Lounge:
text: Fan involvement was the main 90's phenomena, and the Barmy Army were the fore-runners and leaders in this (and have since been followed by the Bharat Army (India), the Aussie Cricket Family, etc).
ref: 2011, Pete Christopher, Barmy Days and Balmy Nights, page 319:
text: […] loyalists such as England's Barmy Army and India's Bharat Army, who follow their national cricket team […]
ref: 2014, Rob Steen, Floodlights and touchlines:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The group composed of Indian cricket fans who travel, sporadically, around the world to watch and support the Indian cricket team in action.
light cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light cones
form: lightcone
Senses: examples: text: This gives the future light cone of the event. Similarly, you can define the past light cone—as the history of a spherical shell of light converging in on the event. All these spatial spheres, past and future, represent cross-sections through the space–time light cone, […]
ref: 1998, Hermann Bondi, Miranda Weston-Smith, editors, The Universe Unfolding, Clarendon Press, page 384:
qualifier: relativity
glosses: In special relativity, the pattern describing the temporal evolution of a flash of light in Minkowski spacetime. This is modeled in 3-space using the two horizontal axes as spatial dimensions, while the vertical axis is time.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, cone.
satguru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satgurus
form: sadguru
Etymology: From Sanskrit सत्गुरू (satgurū), from सत् (sat, “true”) + गुरु (guru, “teacher”).
Senses: glosses: In Hinduism and Buddhism, a great teacher; a supremely wise guide.
glosses: In Sikhism, God.
Related terms: guru
patronus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patronuses
Senses: examples: text: Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.
ref: 2017, Luvvie Ajayi, “Know Your Worth”, in Beverly Bond, editor, Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth., 37 INK/Atria Books, →ISBN, page 64, column 2:
text: For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.
ref: 2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN:
text: She’s my patronus. When I can’t deal with real life, I escape into her virtual space, where everything is perfectly lit, perfectly coifed, and perfectly accompanied by neo-soul music I never hear anywhere but natural hair videos and the beauty supply shop.
ref: 2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water, Tor Teen, published 2021, →ISBN:
text: I am 16 years old. My patronus is a unicorn and I literally talk to moon and love the croissant crescent. I love to talk about fireflies, stars and books.
ref: 2020, Sanchi, “Sanchi”, in Krittika Pahwa, compiler, The Edge of Seventeen, The Little Booktique Hub, →ISBN, page 44:
text: The screen came alive with a little ‘Hi’ / I knew you were my patronus
ref: 2021, VeeKay, Runa: Fleeting Thoughts Collected, →ISBN:
text: She wore khaki shorts, scuffed hiking boots, and a lavender T-shirt with an open book on the front that read My patronus is a bookworm.
ref: 2021, Jennie Marts, When a Cowboy Loves a Woman, Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN:
text: Since then, Jimmie joined my relay team, and the rest is history. I’m convinced he’s my patronus. I need his fire, jokes and brotherly love to get across Death Valley.
ref: 2021 November 26, Kelaine Conochan, “Badwater ultramarathon: What I lost and found during 135 miles of the world's most impossible run”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2021; published in J.A. Adande, editor, The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2022, Triumph Books, 2022, →ISBN:
text: Falling for you / Did me good / I swear it did // You changed my attitude / My patronus / And my life // You changed me [an illustration of a Patronus-like dog]
ref: 2022, Alena Rehse, “You Changed Me”, in Turtles & Paperclips: My Thoughts On You, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, section IV (Saving), page 59:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Patronus.
endmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ĕndʹmĭl'
Forms: form: endmills
Etymology: From end + mill.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of milling machine: a cutter (cutting tool used in machining) with cutting edges on both the end and sides.
bulrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: bulrushes
form: bullrush
Etymology: From Middle English bulrish, perhaps from bule (“bull”) (in the sense of "large") + rish (“rush”).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A plant referred to in the story of Moses as growing along the banks of the Nile, which is believed to be the papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
glosses: Any of various tall, narrow-leaved plants growing near water, especially cattail or reedmace, in the genus Typha.
qualifier: Americas
glosses: Sedges in the genera Bolboschoenus or Schoenoplectus (formerly considered Scirpus), having clusters of spikelets.
examples: text: Explorers Eyre, Kreft, and George Moore all refer to the importance of bulrush starch in different parts of the continent.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 56:
glosses: Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga.
Derived terms: bulrushlike
bulrushy
chairmaker's bulrush
great bulrush
green bulrush
Olney's bulrush
seek a knot in a bulrush
softstem bulrush
woolgrass bulrush
Related terms: rush
cattail
papyrus
reed
sedge
marsh harrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsh harriers
Senses: glosses: A raptor in species Circus aeruginosus, which inhabits swampy ground.
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
An African marsh harrier (Circus ranivorus)
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
A western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
An eastern marsh harrier (Circus spilonotus),
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
A Papuan harrier (Circus spilonotus spilothorax or Circus spilothorax),
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
A swamp harrier (Circus approximans)
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
A Reunion harrier (Circus maillardi maillardi or Circus maillardi)
glosses: Any member of the raptor genus Circus of similar appearance and habit to Circus aeruginosus.
A Madagascar marsh harrier (Circus maillardi macrosceles or Circus macrosceles).
secret-sacred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 2001, Moira G. Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era
Most major Australian museums now hold secret/sacred material in a separate storage area, with access restricted to specified curatorial staff and to those members of the relevant Aboriginal community who have the right to view such material.
2004, Robert Tonkinson, Individual Creativity and Property-Power Disjunction in an Australian Desert Society, in Property and Equality: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism
While it is true that, in some areas, women possessed secret-sacred knowledge and rituals, nowhere was this corpus considered more important for social reproduction than that held by mature men, who claimed they exercised their responsibilities for the society as a whole.
glosses: In Australian Aboriginal culture, restricted to initiated men, or to women; not public knowledge.
Synonyms: secret and sacred
blew a gasket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow a gasket
hit the roof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the roof
form: hitting the roof
form: hit the roof
form: hit the roof
Senses: examples: text: When he found out I wrecked his brand-new car, he hit the roof.
text: Half a year of profits gone and now there's hell to pay / The cops say they know who, but there's no proof / The banker hit the roof / and damn near took the car.
ref: 1981, Stan Rogers, “Night Guard”, in Northwest Passage:
synonyms: hit the ceiling
go ballistic
blow one's top
flip out
go ape
go apeshit
lose it
lose one's rag
pop one's cork
glosses: To be explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
examples: text: Snider’s dad slipped. He hit the roof with a thump, letting go of Snider to throw his arms out and catch himself.
ref: 2009, Alan Gratz, The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings, Speak, Penguin Group, published 2010, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, the, roof.
Related terms: scrape someone off the ceiling
refocus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refocuses
form: refocusses
form: refocusing
form: refocussing
form: refocused
form: refocused
form: refocussed
form: refocussed
Etymology: From re- + focus.
Senses: examples: text: Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: to focus on something else
examples: text: These two sets of questions are interrelated in such a way that they often actually work to prevent productive discussion of the movie's politics. Just a few observations might make this point clear, and help to refocus the debate that has surrounded the film since its opening earlier this summer.
ref: 1989 August 12, Phil Harper, “Why It's So Hard To Talk About This Movie”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 9:
text: to refocus a microscope
glosses: to change the focus of
glosses: to change one's priorities
examples: text: Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.
ref: 1954, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
glosses: to come back into focus
Related terms: focus
prioritize
aperçus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aperçu
BOGO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ˈboʊ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: BOGOF
form: BOGOFF (UK)
Senses: glosses: Acronym of buy one, get one (free).
Synonyms: two for the price of one
greasiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of greasy: most greasy
angriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: āng′-rē-əst
ipa: /ˈeɪŋ.ɹi.əst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of angry: most angry
long-tailed tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-tailed tits
Senses: glosses: Any of many subspecies of small passerine birds with long tails, Aegithalos caudatus, found throughout Europe and Asia
bluest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːɪst/
ipa: /ˈbluːəst/
rhymes: -uːɪst
rhymes: -uːəst
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blue: most blue
maddest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mad: most mad
go awry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes awry
form: going awry
form: went awry
form: gone awry
Senses: glosses: To become twisted, or turned to one side.
glosses: To depart from the correct course.
glosses: Of a situation, to fall apart or unravel; to fall into disorder; to hit the fan.
Derived terms: the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry
asphyxiophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From asphyxia + -philia.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A paraphilia involving an attraction to breathplay.
Derived terms: asphyxiophiliac
slowest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊɪst/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɪst/
ipa: /ˈsloʊəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slow: most slow
slowest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊɪst/
ipa: /ˈsloʊɪst/
ipa: /ˈsloʊəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slow (adverb): most slow
sedge warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedge warblers
Senses: examples: text: A nearby sedge warbler competes, blaring out its more hurried, chaotic whirrs, chatters and whistles from the top of a small tree.
ref: 2016 July 12, Rob Yarham, The Guardian:
glosses: A small European warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, family Acrocephalidae, that winters in sub-Saharan Africa
sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sub-Saharan Africa
form: Subsaharan Africa
Senses: glosses: Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.
Synonyms: word: Subsahara
word: black Africa
word: darkest Africa
word: Negroland
alt: racist
word: Nigritia
adjutant stork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjutant storks
Senses: glosses: The marabou
fattest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fat: most fat
funniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈfʌnɪ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ.ɪst/
note: without Rosa's roses merger
enpr: fŭn′ēĭst
ipa: /ˈfʌni.ɪst/
note: without Rosa's roses merger
note: Rosa's roses merger
enpr: fŭn′ēəst
ipa: /ˈfʌni.əst/
note: Rosa's roses merger
Senses: examples: text: Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: superlative form of funny: most funny
funniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌni.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈfʌnɪ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈfʊnɪ.ɪst/
note: without Rosa's roses merger
enpr: fŭn′ēĭst
ipa: /ˈfʌni.ɪst/
note: without Rosa's roses merger
note: Rosa's roses merger
enpr: fŭn′ēəst
ipa: /ˈfʌni.əst/
note: Rosa's roses merger
Senses: glosses: superlative form of funny: most funny
bleakest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country.
ref: 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
glosses: superlative form of bleak: most bleak
nominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomination
modifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modification
experiencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of experience
experiencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experiencings
Senses: examples: text: As a still further alternative, there's the conjecture that […] our split-brain patient was engaged in not one, but two experiencings. Quite dramatically, during the differentially stimulating setup of the experimental situation, her experiencings were qualitatively very different, and not just numerically distinct.
ref: 2006, Peter K. Unger, Philosophical Papers: Volume Two, page 195:
glosses: The process of undergoing an experience, or the experience itself.
one-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English oneyed, on-eied, on-eiȝed, from Old English ānēġed (“one-eyed”), from Proto-Germanic *ainaugidaz, equivalent to one + eyed. Compare Old English ānīeġe (“one-eyed”), Scots ane-eit, aan eet (“one-eyed”), Saterland Frisian eenooged (“one-eyed”), West Frisian ieneagich (“one-eyed”), Dutch eenogig (“one-eyed”), German einäugig (“one-eyed”), Danish enøjet (“one-eyed”), Swedish enögd (“one-eyed”), Icelandic ein-eygður, ein-eygur (“one-eyed”).
Senses: glosses: Having only a single eye, particularly when a greater number is normal.
glosses: Being able to see out of only one eye.
Derived terms: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
one-eyed jack
one-eyed king
one-eyed monster
one-eyed snake
one-eyed trouser snake
lallapalootza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lallapalootzas
form: lollapalooza
form: lalapalooza
Etymology: Origin unknown. Probably a fanciful formation.
Senses: examples: text: Saturday night we had our final parade with the fireworks finish, and it was a lallapalootza!
ref: 1904, Hugh McHugh, I'm from Missouri (They had to Show Me), New York: G.W. Dillingham, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: Something very good of its kind.
Derived terms: -a-palooza
palooza
revolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō (“roll back”).
Senses: glosses: Rolled or recurved on itself.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.