cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hang-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hang-ups
form: hangup
Etymology: From hang up (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: neurosis, obsession, complex
text: We’re said to have so many hang-ups that we don’t even talk about sex until we’re in the pub, and to need to be blind drunk before anything approaching physical contact occurs.
ref: 2013, Nic Fleming, at BBC, Sex Lessons, British Style:
text: I have hang-ups left over from childhood about my body. My wife sometimes reminds me that, instead of saying, “I want to be thin”, I could say, “I want to be happy”, which is profoundly good advice.
ref: 2021 October 30, Rosanna Greenstreet, quoting Bertie Carvel, “Bertie Carvel: ‘I have hang-ups left over from childhood about my body’”, in The Guardian:
text: As if the overpowering sense of grief wasn’t enough, Munch’s art unashamedly confesses to massive sexual hangups.
ref: 2022 May 26, Jonathan Jones, “Zombie workers and sexual hang-ups: how Edvard Munch foresaw our lonely lives – review”, in The Guardian:
text: How can I help my partner get over his hangups? Letting him have sex with other men isn’t working [title]
ref: 2022 September 13, Pamela Stephenson Connolly, “How can I help my partner get over his hangups? Letting him have sex with other men isn’t working”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: issue
glosses: An emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition.
examples: text: Near-synonym: setback
text: What a hang up I got into at once! As I look back on it it's incredible that I could have been so damned dumb.
ref: 1951, Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll, Penguin, published 2008, →OCLC, page 115:
text: Consumers say yes, the numbers add up, industry is largely on board and Labor has no policy hang-ups. This week could be the turning point[.]
ref: 2022 August 14, Adam Morton, “Australia has a steep hill to climb on electric cars – but if ever there was a time, it’s now”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: hiccup
glosses: An unforeseen obstacle to progress; a hitch or delay.
time-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪm.aʊt/
Forms: form: time-outs
form: timeout
Etymology: From time + out.
Senses: examples: text: We're being beaten! We need a time-out!
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A short break in the action of a sport, for substitution, consultation, etc.
examples: text: I'm going to take a brief time-out from this job.
text: Hitting people is not acceptable! Go to your room and take a time-out!
text: As punishment, my mom gave me a 15-minute time-out.
ref: 2001 January 3, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: A break from a tense, heated or stressful situation (often enforced, sometimes as a disciplinary measure); a cooling-off period.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: The abortion of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
timeout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪm.aʊt/
Forms: form: timeouts
form: time out
Etymology: From time + out.
Senses: topics: communication
communications
glosses: The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.
examples: text: My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of time-out.
Derived terms: TV timeout
timepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmpiːs/
Forms: form: timepieces
form: time-piece
Etymology: From time + piece.
Senses: examples: text: The only timepiece she allowed in the house was a sundial. She usually kept the curtains pulled.
text: An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
glosses: A chronometer (any device used to tell the time of day), particularly a clock lacking a chime or similar sounding mechanism.
examples: text: His pocket watch was a beautiful timepiece.
text: The spring-driven clock introduced the truly movable timepiece and, with further innovations in miniaturization, the object that came to be called the watch.
ref: 2013, Stacy Perman, A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A watch (a small portable device used to tell the time of day), particularly one lacking a chime or similar sounding mechanism.
Synonyms: word: chronograph
word: chronometer
word: metronome
word: timepiece
word: timekeeper
word: time-keeper
word: timer
Hypernyms: word: device
word: artifact
Hyponyms: word: alarm clock
word: atomic clock
word: balloon clock
word: chronoscope
word: clepsydra
word: clock
word: clock tower
word: death clock
word: game clock
word: grandfather clock
word: horologe
word: hourglass
word: longcase clock
word: pocket watch
word: pocketwatch
word: punch clock
word: radio clock
word: stopwatch
word: sundial
word: tall-case clock
word: time clock
word: watch
word: wristwatch
word: water clock
Related terms: word: time
word: clockwork
word: clock face
word: dial
word: hand
word: hour hand
word: minute hand
word: second hand
time-release
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The beauty industry, long promising to stop or at least stave off time, is finding a way to market it. Over the last year or so, store shelves have become packed with so-called time-release products, which promise staggered benefits the longer they sink in.
ref: 2012 August 8, Alix Strauss, “Marketing Time in a Bottle Pays Off”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of timed-release.
get stuck in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets stuck in
form: getting stuck in
form: got stuck in
form: got stuck in
form: gotten stuck in
Senses: examples: text: He's really getting stuck in to his new job as chief executive. He's sacked half the boardroom staff already.
glosses: To dedicate a large amount of effort towards.
chuck up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks up
form: chucking up
form: chucked up
form: chucked up
Senses: examples: text: She got ridiculously drunk last night and chucked up in the back of the minicab on the way home.
text: Take it easy on the roller coasters or you're going to chuck up your lunch.
synonyms: upchuck
throw up
glosses: To vomit; throw up.
examples: text: But when you've tried it once or twice, And do not find it over nice, If it's dear at any price, Chuck it up. If it's not a paying game, Not worth the candle — all the same, Chuck it up.
ref: 1891, Gems from Our Village, page 62:
text: What worried me was the sense of being up against something inhumanly formidable and wise and strong. I believed I was willing to own defeat and chuck up the game.
ref: 1919, John Buchan, Mr. Standfast:
text: With a renewed sense of purpose, Logan was ready to chuck up the day as a waste until he stepped into the parlour of their home and almost bumped into a slinky, dark-skinned girl in a cotton docket and lappa, with a mid-leg slit on one side.
ref: 2013, Pede Hollist, “Foreign Aid”, in A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing, →ISBN, page 40:
text: I've never brought off a really big coup yet; when I do I shall chuck it up.
ref: 2014, E. W. Hornung, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, →ISBN:
text: He sounded quite excited, as if he were deriving some vicarious pleasure from the anticipated outcome of my efforts, and I hadn't the heart to tell him how, at that precise moment, I was feeling quite ready to chuck up the whole thing.
ref: 2014, Robert Purvis, Three Men Called Josiah, →ISBN, page 70:
synonyms: throw in the towel
chuck in
jig up
jack up
glosses: To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something).
glosses: To be released from prison.
Derived terms: chuck up the sponge
Related terms: chalk up
chalk up to
piss down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses down
form: pissing down
form: pissed down
form: pissed down
Senses: examples: text: I'm not going to the shops now. It's pissing down.
synonyms: piss it down
glosses: To rain heavily.
Related terms: sense: rain
word: like a cow pissing on a flat rock
Forbes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹbz/
rhymes: -ɔɹbz
Forms: form: Fawbush
form: Fobbs
form: Forbus
form: Forbush
form: Furbush
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A ghost town in California.
glosses: A township and village in Holt County, Missouri, named after John Murray Forbes.
glosses: A minor city in Dickey County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A town and local government area (Forbes Shire) in central-west New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Forbes Park
Mount Forbes
fisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
homophone: fisc
Forms: form: fisks
form: fisking
form: fisked
form: fisked
Etymology: Compare Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the light of Goddes word is once reueled, then he is buſy, then he rores then he fyſkes abrode, and ſtyrreth vp erronious opiniõs.
ref: 1549 April 8 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Fourth Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer whiche He Preached before Kyng Edwarde [VI], the .XXIX. Day of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 50, recto:
glosses: To run about; to fist; to whisk.
fisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
homophone: fisc
Forms: form: fisks
form: fisking
form: fisked
form: fisked
Etymology: Back-formation from fisking.
Senses: examples: text: A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!
ref: 2002 December, Institute of Public Affairs, “The World of Blog”, in Review, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2009:
text: Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.
ref: 2008 March 13, “Fisked By Obama”, in The Economist:
glosses: To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
lus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lu
lus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lu
omigosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: omigosh!
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of oh my gosh.
time reversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time reversals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operation that transforms a physical system undergoing a sequence of events into one in which the events take place in the reverse sequence.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: T-symmetry.
Derived terms: time reversal invariance
time reversal mirror
time reversal signal processing
time-reverse
timesaving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timesaving
form: most timesaving
form: time-saving
Etymology: From time + saving.
Senses: glosses: That reduces the time needed to perform a task, especially by using a shorter route or a more efficient method.
glosses: Prompt or expeditious.
deductive reasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ⁴⁴As a hunter traces the location of an animal by the trail of blood, so a king should trace the location of justice by deductive reasoning.
ref: 2004, Patrick Olivelle, transl., The Law Code of Manu (Oxford World's Classics), New York: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Inference in which the conclusion cannot be false given that the premises are true.
glosses: Inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises.
anti-monarchist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-monarchists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antimonarchist.
sheikh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheikhs
form: shuyookh
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sheik.
atishoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɪʃuː/
enpr: ə-tĭshʹo͞o
Forms: form: atishoo!
Etymology: Both onomatopoeic and a pronunciation spelling of a tissue.
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd the next instant the most peculiar sounds came forth from the statue of Biggoon. "Ah-tishoo!" said the spirit voice, "Oh! Oh! ah-tish-oo!"
ref: 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 24, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of achoo.
synonyms: word: achoo
atishoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɪʃuː/
enpr: ə-tĭshʹo͞o
Forms: form: atishoos
Etymology: Both onomatopoeic and a pronunciation spelling of a tissue.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of achoo.
synonyms: word: achoo
postmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: postmarks
Etymology: Compound of post + mark.
Senses: examples: text: He looked at the mauve envelope doubtfully, and examined the postmark. "Where is Pudlington, James? and one might almost ask—why is Pudlington? No town has any right to such an offensive name."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: A marking made by a postal service on a delivery, usually indicating the place where and the date and time when the item was received or processed for the first time, mostly serving to cancel a postage stamp.
postmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊstˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: postmarks
form: postmarking
form: postmarked
form: postmarked
Etymology: Compound of post + mark.
Senses: glosses: To apply a postmark on.
cartonnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartonnages
form: cartonage
Etymology: From French cartonnage.
Senses: glosses: The papyrus used to wrap mummies in ancient Egypt.
glosses: Pasteboard.
Guy Fawkes Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The revelry on Guy Fawkes Day (the 5th of November) in commemoration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, traditionally including the burning of effigies of the pope, Guy Fawkes, and/or the Devil.
Synonyms: word: Bonfire Night
word: Firework Night
word: Cracker Night
word: Pope Night
Related terms: word: Guy Fawkes Day
word: Gunpowder Treason Day
word: Pope Day
disability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: disabilities
Etymology: Circa 1570 disable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: people with disabilities
text: Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. The King himself intervened by a letter[…]Chatham yielded to such persuasion; though suffering from a universal tremor.
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
synonyms: handicap
qualifier: medical model of disability
glosses: A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
examples: text: While physical and sensory disability is usually identified by asking a subject what he or she can or cannot do (with or without assistance), cognitive disability is assessed with a test such as a mental status questionnaire (MSQ).
ref: 1992, Joan C. Cornoni-Huntley et al., “Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old”, in The Oldest Old, page 278:
synonyms: disabledness
incapacity
antonyms: ability
able-bodiedness
glosses: The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
synonyms: handicap
coordinate_terms: inaccessibility
;
impairment
qualifier: social model of disability
glosses: A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.
examples: text: Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
synonyms: impotence
glosses: Inability.
topics: law
synonyms: disqualification
antonyms: capacity
competency
qualification
glosses: Lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
examples: text: I had to go on disability after the accident.
text: Did you get your disability this month?
synonyms: disability benefits
glosses: Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.
Derived terms: alpha-thalassemia-intellectual disability syndrome
antidisability
cognitive disability
developmental disability
disability-adjusted life year
disability adjusted life year
disability sport
I have a disability
intellectual disability
learning disability
multidisabilities
multidisability
neurodisability
pan-disability
predisability
print disability
Related terms: disable
disabled
disablism
Antwerpen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: A biſhopric. 26 m. almoſt SW from Antwerpen, and 30 NW from Bruſſels.
ref: 1792, W[illiam] Perks, The Youth’s General Introduction to Guthrie’s Geography, London: […] the Author: and sold by Messrs. Robinson, […]; and Scatcherd and Whitaker, […], page 218:
text: During the retreat from Antwerpen in the face of the rapidly advancing German army Julien has lost the thesis that he had planned to submit to the university, but now he has a great idea.
ref: 2010, Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren, The Secret World of Doing Nothing, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 131:
text: Astrid is a thirty-nine-year-old receptionist from Antwerpen province who has been attending Daime works since 2006.
ref: 2021, Marc Gordon Blainey, Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of Antwerp
glosses: Alternative form of Antwerp:
A province of Flanders, Belgium.
glosses: Alternative form of Antwerp:
The largest city and provincial capital of the province of Antwerp, Belgium.
Montréal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Montreal: an island on which is situated the largest city in Quebec, Canada.
Derived terms: Montréaler
Prussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹʌ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Etymology: From Prussia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Prussia.
Derived terms: Prussian blue
Prussian carp
Prussian collar
Prussian green
Prussian ton
Prussian white
Prussian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹʌ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Etymology: From Prussia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Prussian language; see Old Prussian and New Prussian.
Derived terms: High Prussian
Prussian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹʌ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Forms: form: Prussians
Etymology: From Prussia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the geographical region of Prussia.
glosses: A citizen of the German state of Prussia.
glosses: A member of or a person descended from the Baltic ethnic group which inhabited Prussia.
examples: text: The Junkers were the stereotypical Prussians.
glosses: A member of or a person descended from the German ethnic group which settled in Prussia.
jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: jockeys
Etymology: The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Senses: glosses: One who rides racehorses competitively.
glosses: That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
glosses: An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
examples: text: And the crime for which Nuncomar was about to die was regarded by them in much the same light in which the selling of an unsound horse, for a sound price, is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey.
ref: 1841, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings:
glosses: A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
glosses: A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
qualifier: crime
glosses: A prostitute's client.
qualifier: crime
glosses: A rapist.
Synonyms: sense: prostitute's client
word: prostitute's client
Derived terms: bench jockey
bet the jockey, not the horse
bike jockey strap
booze jockey
broadcast jockey
camel-jockey
camel jockey
desk jockey
disc jockey
disk jockey
gas jockey
gin jockey
Horse and Jockey
horse-jockey
jet jockey
jock
jockette
jockey box
jockey briefs
jockeydom
jockeyism
jockeyless
jockeylike
jockey pants
jockey pump
jockeyship
jockey shorts
jockey squat
jockey strap
jockey valve
jump jockey
knob jockey
knob-jockey
lawn jockey
light jockey
nob jockey
outjockey
plough jockey
plow jockey
pump jockey
radio jockey
robot jockey
sausage jockey
slot jockey
suicide jockey
swab jockey
talk jockey
video jockey
yard jockey
jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɒki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Forms: form: jockeys
form: jockeying
form: jockeyed
form: jockeyed
Etymology: The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
Senses: glosses: To ride (a horse) in a race.
examples: text: They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.
glosses: To jostle by riding against.
examples: text: This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. Whether the business in hand be to get a man in, or get a man out, or get a man over, or promote a railway, or jockey a railway, or what else, nothing is understood to be so effectual as scouring nowhere in a violent hurry—in short, as taking cabs and going about.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
glosses: To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage.
glosses: To cheat or trick.
Derived terms: word: jockey for position
word: jockeying
Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Gulf of Mexico
form: Gulf of México
Etymology: Calque of Spanish golfo de México, first attested in 1550 on a world map held at the Bodleian Library. In widespread use since the mid-17th century, predating the independence of Mexico. Alternatively gulf + of + Mexico. Cognate of French golfe du Mexique.
Senses: examples: text: A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling.
ref: 2023 March 29, Ella Nilsen, “Biden administration moves ahead with massive Gulf of Mexico drilling auction, weeks after approving Willow Project”, in CNN:
glosses: A gulf to the south of the United States, to the east and north of Mexico, and to the north of Cuba.
wikipedia: Bodleian Library
Synonyms: sense: gulf between United States and Mexico
word: Bay of Mexico
sense: gulf between United States and Mexico
word: Gulf of America
Related terms: American Mediterranean Sea
Caribbean Sea
Gulf Coast
Gulf Stream
timeserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɪmˌsəːvə/
Forms: form: timeservers
form: time-server
Etymology: From time + server.
Senses: examples: text: Another of Lilly's confidants was the time-server, John Gauden, who was distinctly anti-Laudian in outlook, but who nevertheless became Bishop of Worcester at the Restoration.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 355:
glosses: A person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist.
glosses: Someone who performs a job for the required time only, making a minimum of effort.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.
glosses: Someone who honors their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so.
Hypernyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: server
Belgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belgies
Etymology: Belg(ian) + -ie
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t hold with foreigners as a rule, but from what the newspapers say I make out as how these brave Belgies isn’t the ordinary run of foreigners, and certainly he’s a most polite spoken gentleman.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 114:
text: Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese.
ref: 1980, Barbara Hanrahan, The Frangipani Garden, page 11:
text: Money's coming through any day from the Belgies — it's all in order, paper work, all that — but we need to put up a bit extra just now. Before it comes through.
ref: 1984, Pamela Haines, The Diamond Waterfall, page 353:
text: If you listen carefully, you can hear the Belgies down below in the underground galleries. Hundreds of them there are.
ref: 2014, Leo Kessler, SS Panzer Battalion: Wotan's First Mission:
glosses: A Belgian.
time-share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-shares
form: timeshare
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: A property jointly owned or leased by multiple people who are allowed to use (or sublet) it only during specified periods each year.
time-share
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: time-shares
form: time-sharing
form: time-shared
form: time-shared
form: timeshare
Senses: glosses: To own or lease (a property) by time-sharing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use (a computer or communications band) by time-sharing.
Derived terms: time-sharer
timeshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeshares
Etymology: From time + share.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time-share.
Arabian Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Arabian Peninsula
form: Arabian peninsula
Senses: glosses: A peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
time-sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.
Related terms: batch processing
time-sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of time-share
cocus wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocuswood
Senses: glosses: The tree Brya ebenus
glosses: The wood from the tree, used for making flutes and other musical instruments
cognovit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognovits
Etymology: From Latin cognovit.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.
Adar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲדָר (adár). Doublet of Addaru.
Senses: glosses: The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.
Guiana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡaɪˈænə/
ipa: /ɡaɪˈɑːnə/
ipa: /ɡiˈɑːnə/
ipa: /ɡiˈænə/
Etymology: From the local language (probably Cariban or Arawak), meaning “land of many waters”. Also spelled as Guyana. The French form gave the town name Cayenne.
Senses: glosses: A geological region in the north of South America.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Guyana.
Derived terms: Guiana dolphin
Guiana Island
Portuguese Guiana
Related terms: British Guiana
Dutch Guiana
French Guiana
the Guianas
Guinea
Guyana
decelerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛləɹeɪt/
Forms: form: decelerates
form: decelerating
form: decelerated
form: decelerated
Etymology: Late 19th c., from de- + (ac)celerate. Compare deaccelerate.
Senses: examples: text: In May, for example, the Illinois Central RR. introduced the long-expected streamline version of the Panama Limited, with diesel haulage, cutting the time over the 921 miles between Chicago and New Orleans by 2hr. to 18hr. each way—the fastest on record—but decelerated other trains over the same route.
ref: 1942 November and December, “Notes and News: The War and American Train Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 369:
text: The S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway] could not adhere to this schedule, and had to decelerate the service, but the original timings were restored when the M.R. and L.S.W.R. leased the S.D.R.
ref: 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:
glosses: To reduce the velocity of something.
glosses: To reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
examples: text: One of the disadvantages of increasing intermediate stops is that, as we have pointed out already, certain prestige trains have to suffer, notably the "Cornish Riviera Express", slowed 15min to Plymouth by stops at Taunton and Exeter; the "Torbay Express", decelerated 18min by stops at Reading, Westbury, Taunton and Newton Abbot; and the "Bristolian", which adds 14min in order to allow for a Bath stop and an increased load.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
glosses: To go slower.
Synonyms: word: slow down
word: slow
sense: reduce the rate of advancement
word: retard
Derived terms: deceleratingly
deceleration
decelerationism
decelerative
decelerator
deceleron
undecelerated
Guianas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A geographic region in South America consisting of Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana; sometimes also including the Guayana region of eastern Venezuela and the state of Amapá, Brazil.
Synonyms: Guyanas
Guyanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Guianas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Guianas.
spokesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokesmen
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."
ref: 1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Hearings:
text: Libyan war planes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country's internationally recognized government said on Monday.
ref: 2015 July 20, Ayman Al-Warfalli, “Libyan planes sink ship, attack another near Benghazi: spokesmen”, in Reuters:
text: President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2019:
text: Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
ref: 2022 September 10, Matt McFarland, “Why your car’s speedometer goes up to 160 mph (even when your car can’t)”, in CNN Business:
glosses: One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
Hypernyms: spokesperson
spox
Coordinate terms: spokesdog
spokeswoman
spokeswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spokeswomen
Etymology: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + woman.
Senses: examples: text: Topps[…] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.
ref: 2009 January 28, Brooks Barnes, “Sweet Deal to Promote Tweeny-Bop Girl Group”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021:
text: “As communicated to members of Congress multiple times, these children are not ‘lost,’” said HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley.
ref: 2018 September 19, Tal Kopan, “Trump administration admits it lost track of nearly 1,500 immigrant children”, in CNN:
text: A Chiltern spokeswoman told RAIL: "We have an excellent safety record and are working with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the causes of this incident."
ref: 2020 July 1, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: '165' runs through points and into path of LU service”, in Rail, page 20:
glosses: A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people.
Synonyms: sense: woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people
word: prolocutress
sense: woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people
word: prolocutrix
Related terms: spokesdog
spokesman
spokesperson
retie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: reties
form: retying
form: retied
form: retied
Etymology: From re- + tie.
Senses: examples: text: She stopped walking for a moment to retie her shoe.
glosses: To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before.
kimchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kimchis
form: kimchee
form: kim chee
form: gimchee
form: gimchi
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.
Senses: examples: text: "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
"It's better hot." she said.
ref: 2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook, Dundurn, →ISBN:
text: Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.
ref: 2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN:
glosses: A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
examples: text: How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?
ref: 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:
text: In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...
ref: 2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:
text: ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.
ref: 2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:
glosses: A Korean person.
Derived terms: kimchi-jjigae
kimslaw
lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmz/
rhymes: -æmz
Senses: glosses: plural of lamb
lambs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmz/
rhymes: -æmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lamb
panos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pano
chromaticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromaticisms
Etymology: From chromatic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: the quality or state of being chromatic
examples: excessive chromaticism means excessive increase in harmonic tension -- Mosco Carner
glosses: the act or action of chromaticizing: the use of chromatic notes or tones (contrasted with diatonicism)
equilibrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equilibrants
Senses: glosses: A force equal to, but opposite of, the resultant sum of vector forces; that force which balances other forces, thus bringing an object to equilibrium.
borne out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bear out
time sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time sheets
Senses: examples: text: An old print was discovered some time ago in an arch at Waterloo Dock Goods Station[,] Liverpool, in use as a backing on which to write time sheets.
ref: 1957 August 24, “Notes and News: Tithebarn Street Station, Liverpool”, in Railway Magazine, page 589:
glosses: Alternative form of timesheet.
time signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time signals
form: time-signal
Senses: glosses: A visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day.
time signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time signatures
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A symbol or numerical sign placed on a stave to indicate the meter; in the case of a numerical time signature, the numerator is the number of beats per bar, the denominator represents the value of each beat.
times sign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times signs
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A multiplication sign.
DEROS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of date eligible/estimated to return from overseas.
time study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time studies
Senses: glosses: A direct and continuous observation of a task, using a timekeeping device to record the time taken to accomplish the task.
Derived terms: time and motion study
daysailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daysailings
Etymology: From day + sailing.
Senses: glosses: A brief sailing excursion for pleasure conducted within a single day. It may include sightseeing, picnics, practice of maneuvers, etc.
daysailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daysail
nefandous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈfandəs/
ipa: /nəˈfændəs/
Forms: form: more nefandous
form: most nefandous
Etymology: From Latin nefandus, from ne- (“not”) + fandus, gerundive of fārī (“to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.
ref: 1684, Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences:
text: It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.
ref: 1931, H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
text: some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia.
ref: 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
glosses: Unspeakable, appalling.
nemoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛməɹəl/
Forms: form: more nemoral
form: most nemoral
Etymology: From Latin nemorālis, from nemus (“grove”).
Senses: examples: text: He drank his coffee standing in the clean wash of a wind nemoral and northern, its light going thin and cold.
ref: 1984, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
text: During the centennial period of monitoring, 41 species have disappeared from the flora of Yekaterinburg city, most of them being nemoral and helobious species.
ref: 2019, Alyona Tretyakova, The Flora of Yekaterinburg City:
glosses: Pertaining to groves or woodland.
Derived terms: boreonemoral
Related terms: nemorous
nenuphar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛnjʊfɑː/
Forms: form: nenuphars
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nenuphar, from Arabic نِلُوفَر (nilūfar), نِينُوفَر (nīnūfar), from Middle Persian nylw(k)pl (nīlōpal, “lotus, water-lily”), from Sanskrit नीलोत्पल (nīlotpala, “blue lotus”), from नील (nīla, “blue”) + उत्पल (utpala, “lotus, water-lily”). Compare French nénufar.
Senses: examples: text: We'll try the «lunar waltz» while floats afar / Upon the liquid night — night's nenuphar.
ref: 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Parisian Roof Garden in 1918”, in Poems & poèmes:
text: Arrived at the stall of a fruiterer, she bought Syrian apples, Osmāni quinces, peaches from Uman, jasmine of Aleppo, Damascene nenuphars, cucumbers from the Nile, limes from Egypt, Sultānī citrons, myrtle berries, flowers of henna, blood-red anemones, violets, pomegranate bloom, and the narcissus.
ref: 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
text: Somewhere an iron curtain had gone up, baring a painted one, with nymphs and nenuphars.
ref: 1962, Charles Kinbote [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], Pale Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, published November 1985, →ISBN:
glosses: A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
nictate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪkˈteɪt/
Forms: form: nictates
form: nictating
form: nictated
form: nictated
Etymology: First attested in 1755; borrowed from Latin nictātus, perfect passive participle of nictō (“to wink, blink”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.
ref: 1909, Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato, Chatto & Windus, published 1963:
text: Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
text: In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.
ref: 2011, Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival, page 113:
glosses: To wink or blink; (of certain animals) to close the nictating membrane.
nidor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌɪdə/
ipa: /ˈnʌɪdɔː/
ipa: /ˈnaɪdəɹ/
Forms: form: nidors
Etymology: From Latin nidor.
Senses: examples: text: the material Demons do strangely gluttonize upon the Nidours and Bloud of Sacrifices
ref: 1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea:
text: The First-fruits were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in sacrificiing Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the Smoke, and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with human Sacrifices.
ref: 1743, Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity, edition 3 (London), page 524
text: Elsewhere to blood, smoke, and nidor, he opposes purity of thought, sincerity of affection, […]
ref: 1896, Daniel Waterland, A Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist, page 623:
text: The smell, at some times of year sensible for Miles, of Sheep, and wool-fat, and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread […]
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: The smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.
examples: text: For her part Vicki smells little, not even the nidor of antifreeze at the stock car races at Lake Doucette.
ref: 2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Autumn spring, page 28:
text: The long, yellow face was framed in side whiskers; there hung about him the nidor of stale cigar smoke.
ref: 2008, Edgar Wallace, Devil Man, page 9:
glosses: Any smell.
Derived terms: nidorous
nief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: niefs
form: neif
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin nativus (“natural”). Doublet of naif and native.
Senses: examples: text: That is, because the girl was his nief, or bondwoman, the daughter of one of his villains
ref: 1886, "The Fight at the Pass of Coleshill", The Red Dragon "Notes and Queries", page 471
glosses: A serf or bondsman born into servitude.
nief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: niefs
form: nieves
form: neif
form: nieve
form: nef
form: nefe
form: neff
form: neiff
form: neaf
Etymology: From Middle English neve (“the clenched hand, fist”), from Old Norse nefi, hnefi (also knefi) ("hand, fist, handful"), from Proto-Germanic *hnefô, from Proto-Indo-European *knep- (“to scrape, scratch, grind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Scots neif (“fist”), Norwegian neve, Danish næve, Swedish näve, Middle High German nevemez (“handful”).
Senses: examples: text: Ake thought if ever he was walking alone on a dark-like night and Jimmy came on him, he with his bare nieves and Jimmy with a knife, he'd stand as much chance of getting home safe as a celluloid cat that had strayed into hell[…].
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon, published 2006, A Scots Quair, page 597:
text: Nestorius exploded at that and hit out. He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode:
text: "But t' Maister can stop and hit rarely. Happen he'll mak' him joomp when he gets his nief upon him."
ref: 2004, Jeff Silverman, The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told, page 160:
glosses: A clenched hand; fist.
glosses: A handful or fistful.
glosses: The handgrip of a sword or oar.
Related terms: nievling