cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
indenture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛn.ʃɝ/
Forms: form: indentures
form: endenture
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”). The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.
Senses: examples: text: And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter II, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
topics: law
glosses: A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
examples: text: Walking the street very hungry, and not knowing what to do with himself, a crimp's bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encouragement to such as would bind themselves to serve in America. He went directly, sign'd the indentures, was put into the ship, and came over, never writing a line to acquaint his friends what was become of him.
ref: 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 159:
text: It was the critical moment of Oliver’s fate. If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.
ref: 1837 March, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Relates How Oliver Twist Was Very Near Getting a Place, Which Would Not Have Been a Sinecure”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 46:
text: For the next two years, Ann's position in the family grew to be more and more that of a daughter. If it had not been for the indentures lying serenely in that tall wooden desk, she would almost have forgotten, herself, that she was a bound girl.
ref: 1886, Mary E. Wilkins, The Adventures of Ann:
topics: law
glosses: A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
examples: text: The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter X, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: An indentation; a recess.
indenture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɛn.ʃɝ/
Forms: form: indentures
form: indenturing
form: indentured
form: indentured
form: endenture
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”). The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To bind a person under such a contract.
examples: text: Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.
glosses: To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
Derived terms: indenturedness
indentured servant
indenturee
indenturer
indentureship
nonindentured
reindenture
unindentured
Related terms: indent
bondslavery
bondslave
bondsman
bondservant
bonded labour
self-sufficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more self-sufficient
form: most self-sufficient
Etymology: From self- + sufficient, a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτάρκης (autárkēs).
Senses: examples: text: Over the next few decades, several million humans immigrated to Eden Prime and a primarily agrarian culture developed. The new colony quickly became not only self-sufficient, but began exporting goods.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Planets and Locations: Eden Prime Codex entry:
glosses: Able to provide for oneself independently of others; not needing external support.
examples: text: In spite of these conscientious reflections, he was too self-sufficient to think he should find any difficulty in obtaining forgiveness for these sins of omission […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: To rescue London from this short-termism, Byford has put forward a deal that would fill the current gap of £500m annually, explaining: "If we can fill that gap, we can get back to being self-sufficient by 2023."
ref: 2021 October 6, Christian Wolmar, “Both sides must work together to get London back on track”, in RAIL, number 941, page 35:
glosses: Overconfident in one's own abilities; arrogant.
Derived terms: self-sufficiently
Related terms: self-sufficiency
USSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Sports Academy.
glosses: Initialism of United States Ski and Snowboard Association.
glosses: Initialism of United States Student Association.
glosses: Initialism of United Socialist States of America.
epiphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: epiphytic
epiphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: epiphytical
Etymology: From epiphyte + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: epiphytal
epiphytous
glosses: Of or pertaining to an epiphyte.
Derived terms: epiphytically
hemiepiphytic
microepiphytic
Related terms: word: epiphytotic
epiphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiphytics
Etymology: From epiphyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of epiphyte.
synonyms: word: epiphyte
glosses: Misconstruction of epiphytotic (catachresis).
epiphyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪfɑɪt/
Forms: form: epiphytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιφύτον (epiphúton, “one [plant] that grows upon another plant”), from ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), via epi- (“above, over”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: examples: text: It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes.[…]The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as epiphytes, and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.
ref: 1848, John Lindley, A notice of some species of Rhododendron inhabiting Borneo: Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, volume 3, page 88:
text: The nature of the surface of a plant also determines the number and sort of Epiphytes which lodge on it.
ref: 1893, Natural Science: A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, volume 3, page 185:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus). (The science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.)
Hypernyms: epibiont
Coordinate terms: epizoon
Derived terms: cistern epiphyte
epiphytic
epiphytal
epiphytous
epiphytism
epiphytize
epiphytotic
hemiepiphyte
holoepiphyte
microepiphyte
semiepiphyte
Related terms: saprophyte
cwtch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊtʃ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃ
Forms: form: cwtches
form: cwtsh
Etymology: From Welsh cwtsh (“hug, cuddle; little corner, recess”), from Middle English couche. Doublet of couch.
Senses: examples: text: In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.
ref: 1944, Glyn Jones, “An Afternoon at Ewa Shad's”, in The Water-Music and Other Stories:
text: "In better times when the coalman called at our home in William Street he heaved the sacks through the front door and put their contents into the ‘cwtch’ under the stairs, a messy business indeed."
ref: 2007 August 20, Mike Buckingham, Western Telegraph:
glosses: A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
examples: text: I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.
ref: 2007 November 18, Ieuan Evans, The Telegraph:
text: I don’t mind them coming in for a quick cwtch before trudging back off to their own rooms, as long as no conversation is required and it is literally just a five-minute cuddle.
ref: 2011 February 17, Rachel Mainwaring, South Wales Echo:
glosses: A hug or cuddle.
cwtch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊtʃ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃ
Forms: form: cwtches
form: cwtching
form: cwtched
form: cwtched
form: cwtsh
Etymology: From Welsh cwtsio, from cwtsh + -o (suffix forming verbnouns).
Senses: synonyms: word: accoll
word: amplect
word: beclip
word: clip
word: coll
word: hold
word: complect
word: comply
word: cwtch
word: embrace
word: enfold
word: fall on someone's neck
word: glomp
word: halse
word: hug
word: infold
word: oxter
word: press
word: squeeze
word: umbeclap
glosses: To hug, cuddle, embrace, or comfort.
examples: text: A family are about to have a meal round the kitchen table, so the dog is told to go and “cwtch” in the corner, out of harm’s way.
ref: 2014, Alan Meats, “Toffee Dabs and Doughboys”, in Valley Boy Goes West: Memoirs of a Parish Priest, Guildford, Surrey: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, →ISBN, pages 1–2:
glosses: To crouch or lie (down).
deselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːsəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: deselects
form: deselecting
form: deselected
form: deselected
Etymology: From de- + select.
Senses: examples: text: ACTION may deselect a Trainee out of a training program for any of the following reasons: (a) Failure to meet training selection standards which includes, but is not limited to, the following conduct: […]
ref: 1996, Code of Federal Regulations: 1985-1999, page 70:
glosses: To not select; to rule out of selection.
examples: text: One recently deselected Sinn Féin assembly member, Davy Hyland in Newry and Armagh, has already quit the party in protest.
ref: 2007 January 5, The Guardian, page 3:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To reject (an incumbent) as a party's candidate for a forthcoming election.
examples: text: Make sure you deselect any files you wish to keep before proceeding with the deletion.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove from an existing selection.
Synonyms: unselect
Derived terms: deselectable
deselector
Related terms: deselection
moob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: moobs
Etymology: Blend of man + boob.
Senses: examples: text: Vince has Moobs (man boobs = moobs)
ref: 1998 September 6, 6PANTERA, “Re: SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT: November 29, 1998, I'll be there...”, in t-netz.wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 12 Sep 2016, message-ID <6svsrp$dnp@chronicle.concentric.net>:
text: 2001 September 3, miha ³, "Re: I know I shouldn't be doing this but...", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet,
Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs.
text: Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.
ref: 2007 January 6, The Guardian:
text: Ranged along the sides of the broad chamber were curtained booths containing day beds, and from time to time an overweight East End cabbie would emerge from one of these, his moobs glistening with sweat, [...]
ref: 2009, Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psycho too, page 242:
synonyms: man boob
glosses: A plump or untoned breast on a man.
Related terms: foob
moob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: moobs
form: moobing
form: moobed
form: moobed
Etymology: Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”).
Senses: examples: text: Stockfish was slightly moobing until Leela played Qf5. An innocuous looking move that immediately sent alarm bells ringing and Stockfishes^([sic]) evaluation just kept rising.
ref: 2020 September 20, u/FMExperiment, “Stockfish beats Leela to inflict her first defeat in TCEC season 19 and remains the last undefeated engine!”, in Reddit, r/chess, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022:
text: The time taken for an engine to boom / moob can be quite a while because that time taken is completely dependent on the hardware you're running the program on.
ref: 2020 November 27, Allure, “Big changes in engine's evaluation after considerable time”, in Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
text: The reverse was also won uneventfully by LEELA although the fish emotes were numerous in the chat as STOCKFISH 'moobed' to a mere 0.40 evaluation after its 25th move!
ref: 2021 May 26, Matthew Sadler, “The TCEC20 Computer Chess Superfinal: a Perspective”, in ICGA Journal, volume 43, number 1, →DOI, pages 74–87:
topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: boom
glosses: To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position towards zero, indicating a likely draw.
moob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: moobs
Etymology: Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”).
Senses: examples: text: The latest Stockfish on my laptop finds mate in 22 in less than a minute. Do you have any examples where a boom (or moob) occurs after 2-3 minutes of evaluation?
ref: 2020 November 27, the_fox, “Big changes in engine's evaluation after considerable time”, in Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
text: One notable exception to the missing lines being interesting: Sometimes on a moob the sudden insight is 'I'm going to hit the 50 move rule before realizing my advantage'.
ref: 2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!
ref: 2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022:
topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: boom
glosses: An instance of moobing.
floor-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floor-throughs
Senses: glosses: An apartment which covers the entire depth of a building.
self-contradictory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + contradictory.
Senses: examples: text: The statement “We agree to disagree on everything” is self-contradictory.
glosses: Containing multiple claims or ideas that are inherently in disagreement; of something or someone that contradicts itself.
Related terms: self-contradiction
liar paradox
oxymoron
may be
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of maybe.
examples: text: The presence of potato starch in arrow root may be discovered by the microscope.
ref: 1845, Andrew Ure, “ARROW ROOT”, in Recent Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: […], London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see may, be.
cathetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.θɪ.təs/
ipa: /kəˈθɪ.təs/
Forms: form: catheti
form: cathetuses
Etymology: From Latin cathetus, from Ancient Greek κάθετος (káthetos, “perpendicular”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse.
Synonyms: sense: side of a right triangle
word: leg
cuirasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuirass
glosses: plural of cuirasse
cuirasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cuirass
zygodactyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygodactyl
hypotenuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypotenuse
menorahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menorah
flagellums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagellum
chandlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chandler
moobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moob
moobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moob
cwtches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cwtch
thirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirl
thirls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thirl
indentures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indenture
hostas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosta
meridional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹɪdɪənəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French meridional, from Latin merīdiōnālis, from merīdiēs (“noon; south”).
Senses: examples: text: Offices that require heat […] should be meridional.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
text: For much of the 19th century what we now know as South America was called Meridional America
ref: 2021, Pablo A. Baisotti, A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America, Routledge:
glosses: located in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe.
examples: text: This, Constance recognised, may have had nothing to do with the situation – it was probably just a meridional convention – for in the Mediterranean countries nobody trusts his neighbour [...].
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 740:
text: As soon as he heard the news of the trial and execution, he summed up the incident as a monument to Catholic intolerance, meridional superstition and judicial bigotry – and he decided to do something about it.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:
glosses: of or characteristic of southern areas or people, especially those in the southern parts of Europe
topics: astronomy
climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
antonyms: zonal
glosses: along a north–south direction, or relative to a meridian; or relating to meridians or a meridian
Derived terms: extrameridional
meridionality
meridionalization
meridionally
meridional ray
meridional wind
submeridional
Related terms: longitudinal
meridional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹɪdɪənəl/
Forms: form: meridionals
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French meridional, from Latin merīdiōnālis, from merīdiēs (“noon; south”).
Senses: glosses: an inhabitant of a southern region, especially the south of France
vexillologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛksɪˈlɒləd͡ʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: vexillologists
Etymology: From vexillology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies flags.
Related terms: vexillology
vexillographer
vexillophile
dirty Sanchez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty Sanchezes
form: dirty sanchez
Etymology: Referring to a stereotype of mustached Mexicans.
Senses: examples: text: I told her, repeatedly, that the only thing I wanted to do on my birthday was give her a dirty Sanchez, which I think is doubly appropriate for my little wetback slut.
ref: 2002, Morgan D. Rosenberg, Sex, Death and Travel: A Novel:
text: He did the dirty Sanchez - fucked my arse, wiped his cock in his hand, and then drew a mustache of shit across my upper lip.
ref: 2002, Suzi Godson, The Sex Book:
text: 2006 Belegana: Just a Silly Wite Man by Sean Makiney (page 43) http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1411692098&id=i69t8zbyzO4C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&ots=aP-UaO3Je2&dq=%22dirty+sanchez%22&sig=NDclv3box6jZerxrmW9fopqs9ho
[An ex-porn star] will be attending a meeting with presidential advisor [..], giving her recommendations on important national issues.
If their meeting goes accordingly, then Palestine will be receiving a Dirty Sanchez from Israel.
text: 2006 Porn star's name may ring a 'Bell' New York Daily News, originally published on September 27, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20070106083308/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/456104p-383834c.html
We can't get too graphic here, but word is that the action includes some bodily functions and an act known as a "Dirty Sanchez."
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: After anal sex, the act of drawing a mustache on the recipient's face with the object of penetration (usually a penis).
K-12
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʰeɪ̯ θɹu ˈtwɛlv/
ipa: /ˌkeɪ̯ t̪u ˈt̪wɛlv/
rhymes: -ɛlv
Senses: examples: text: Lunchables, made by Kraft Heinz, took its packaged ready-to-eat kids meals directly into K-12 school lunchrooms nationwide through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) for the first time last year.
ref: 2024 April 9, Parija Kavilanz and Sandee LaMotte, “Consumer Reports says Lunchables ‘should not be allowed on menu’ for schools, petitions USDA for removal”, in CNN:
topics: education
glosses: Kindergarten through 12th grade (US) / grade 12 (Canada and the Philippines).
Synonyms: word: K through 12
word: K to 12
Related terms: P-12
ecclesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ecclesiastical.
synonyms: word: ecclesiastical
Derived terms: ecclesially
bromeliad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊˈmiːliæd/
ipa: /bɹoʊˈmiːliæd/
rhymes: -iːliæd
Forms: form: bromeliads
form: bromelid
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of taxonomic name Bromeliaceae + -ad.
Senses: synonyms: bromelia
glosses: Any of various tropical or subtropical New World herbaceous plants in the family Bromeliaceae.
Related terms: air plant
pimiento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈmjɛntəʊ/
ipa: /pɪˈmjɛntoʊ/
ipa: /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/
Forms: form: pimientos
Etymology: From Spanish pimiento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingō (“to paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimento.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pimento, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum.
synonyms: word: pimento
extra: a cultivar of Capsicum annuum
pimento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈmɛntəʊ/
ipa: /pɪˈmɛntoʊ/
Forms: form: pimentos
form: pimentoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.
Senses: examples: text: In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:
glosses: A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
glosses: A tropical berry used to make allspice.
glosses: The tree on which it grows.
Synonyms: sense: red sweet pepper
word: cherry pepper
sense: red sweet pepper
word: pimiento
sense: red sweet pepper
word: Spanish paprika
sense: tropical berry
word: allspice
Derived terms: pimento cheese
pimento loaf
bromeliads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromeliad
pimientos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimiento
pimentos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pimento
Bulgarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bulgarian
sugarbushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarbush
mucky pups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucky pup
duniwassals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duniwassal
starves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of starve
biopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biopsy
biopsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biopsy
dissuaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dissuade
predates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predate
predates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predate
sporanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporange
pursuance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsjuːəns/
ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsuːəns/
Forms: form: pursuances
Etymology: From pursue + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: [N]o man ought to be offended, that sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
ref: 1653, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-five Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Winter Half-year, […]: To the Right Honourable and Truly Noble Richard Lord Vaughan, Earl of Carbery, &c.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume V, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page xiv:
text: About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.
ref: 1911, “Saint Bridget of Sweden”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition:
glosses: A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
glosses: A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
glosses: The state of being pursuant; consequence.
pursuances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pursuance
peduncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈdʌŋ.k(ə)l/
Forms: form: peduncles
Etymology: From Late Latin pedunculus, from pedis, genitive of pēs (“foot”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower/fruit.
examples: text: On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A short stalk at the base of a reproductive structure of a non-flowering plant.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna or stalk-like structures such as the peduncles of some barnacles
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In vertebrates, the base of any relatively massive anatomical member connected to the body by a narrower section. Cf. caudal peduncle of fishes.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
Derived terms: peduncled
Related terms: pedicel
peduncular
pedunculate
conscientiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conscientiously
form: most conscientiously
Etymology: From conscientious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: STORES and tobacco were running out; it was time for a trip to the township. Also for a conscientiously taken holiday.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 58:
text: Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
glosses: In a conscientious manner; attentively.
manifestly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæn.ɪ.fɛst.li/
Forms: form: more manifestly
form: most manifestly
Etymology: From manifest + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
ref: 1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
glosses: In a manifest manner; obviously.
Synonyms: clearly
evidently
plainly
obviously
unmistakably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnmɪsˈteɪkəbli/
Etymology: From unmistakable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
ref: 2025 August 15, Jon Pareles, “10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:
glosses: In an unmistakable manner; unquestionably.
punctually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more punctually
form: most punctually
Etymology: From punctual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a punctual manner; on time.
examples: text: To understand that he is not punctually right, nor those from whom he differs absolutely wrong.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books which Influenced Me:
glosses: Precisely; exactly; minutely.
Synonyms: sense: on time
word: on schedule
word: promptly
word: timely
sense: precisely, exactly, minutely
word: accurately
word: just
word: slap bang
word: exactly
word: in time
word: on time
word: punctually
Hyponyms: word: seasonably
word: tidely
Related terms: word: punctual
divinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more divinely
form: most divinely
Etymology: From divine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a divine manner.
Derived terms: undivinely
intelligently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intelligently
form: most intelligently
Etymology: From intelligent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] into the fracas with nonsensical gibberish, pretending to be speaking intelligently in Tigrinya. We had a lot of fun like that. The class also enjoyed learning American phrases. One of their favorites was "Diddly Jack Squat".
ref: 1979, The Professional Geologist, volume 35, American Institute of Professional Geologists, page 7:
antonyms: unintelligently
glosses: In an intelligent manner; cleverly.
Synonyms: word: brainily
word: brilliantly
word: cleverly
word: ingeniously
word: intelligently
word: quick-wittedly
word: sagaciously
word: savvily
word: smartly
Related terms: word: artificially intelligently
word: intelligence
word: intelligent
vibrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibration
conspicuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conspicuously
form: most conspicuously
Etymology: From conspicuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
mumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mumble
mumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mumblings
Senses: examples: text: The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president.
ref: 2008 March 20, “Obama Challenges the Racial Divide”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act in which someone mumbles something
merited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was a merited reward.
text: Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: deserved
Derived terms: immerited
meritedly
meritedness
unmerited
well-merited
merited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of merit
justifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of justify
hummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌmd/
rhymes: -ʌmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hum
hums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: plural of hum
hums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hum
commissary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒm.ɪ.s(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.mɪˌsɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.məˌsɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkɔm.ə.sə.ɹi/
Forms: form: commissaries
Etymology: From Late Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissar.
Senses: examples: text: The base [Fort Meade] has its own post offices, schools, police, and fire departments. Area children, military brats and civilians alike, would flock to the base daily to take golf, tennis, and swimming lessons. Though we lived off base, my mother still used its commissary as our grocery store, to stock up on items in bulk.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
examples: text: “We tried to provide for you while you were in there. We may not have put as much on your commissary as your in-laws, but what we gave was more to us.”
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 183:
glosses: An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
glosses: A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
examples: text: Great Deſtiny the Commiſſary of God;
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Progress of the Soul”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, stanza IV, page 3:
glosses: One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
examples: text: It has been already hinted , that a Commissary, in Latin stiled Commisarius, is a Title of Ecclefiaftical Jurisdiction
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
glosses: An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: The judge in a commissary court.
glosses: A higher-ranking police officer.
Coordinate terms: BX
PX
shopette
Derived terms: commissarial
commissary general
commissaryship
subcommissary
commissaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissary
circulating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He glanced at the slowly circulating guests.
glosses: Moving about freely.
examples: text: circulating library
glosses: An institution lending from its collection, especially of books, on condition of membership.
Derived terms: circulating library
circulating medium
circulating pump
noncirculating
circulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circulate
consular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: consulary
Etymology: From Middle English consular, from Latin cōnsulāris.
Senses: examples: text: If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?
glosses: Of or pertaining to a consul, or the office thereof.
Derived terms: consularity
nonconsular
unconsular
Related terms: consul
consularly
consulate
proconsular
consular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consulars
form: consulary
Etymology: From Middle English consular, from Latin cōnsulāris.
Senses: examples: text: And reordring the gouernment therof, for a future security, deuides it into. 5. Prouinces, to be ruled by one vice-gerent; 5. Rectors, 2. Consulars, and 3. Presidents.
ref: 1612, Samuel Danyel, The First Part of the Historie of England, London: […] Nicholas Okes, page 15:
text: CICERO being now reduced to the condition of a private Senator, was to take his place on that venerable bench of Conſulars, who were juſtly reckoned the firſt Citizens of the Republic.
ref: 1741, Conyers Middleton, The History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the second edition, volume I, London: […] W. Innys, […] and R. Manby, […], page 242:
text: Each year eight praetorians (ex-praetors) and two consulars (ex-consuls) were chosen to govern the traditional senatorial provinces for one year, and there were various posts (e.g., head of the treasury) to be held by praetorians.
ref: 2004, Christopher S. Mackay, Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251:
glosses: A Roman consul.
dawdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dawdlings
Etymology: From dawdle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays.
ref: 1839, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal:
text: ‘Kuno, how slow you are.’ He smiled gravely. ‘I really believe you enjoy dawdling’.
ref: 1909, E.M. Forster, chapter I, in The Machine Stops:
glosses: gerund of dawdle: the act of one who dawdles.
dawdling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dawdle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dawdle
silkworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silkworm
lapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læpst/
rhymes: -æpst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lapse
lapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /læpst/
rhymes: -æpst
Forms: form: more lapsed
form: most lapsed
Senses: examples: text: The royal charities on Maunday Thursday, are really a portion of an otherwise lapsed custom, which recalled the action of our Lord on the day before His Crucifixion.
ref: 1895, William Andrews, Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects, Hull: Hull Press, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: Discontinued; having ceased or gone out of use.
examples: text: ...satisfy the Doubtful, confirm the Wavering, recover the Lapsed, and be useful to all according to their several Circumstances and Conditions.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani, London: Printed for the Author by D. Leach, →OCLC, page 465:
text: One of them is a lapsed Catholic; the other is in no doubt of what to do, as he has suffered much on account of his adherence to Christianity.
ref: 1821, Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: Changed to a less valued condition or state; especially having lost one's religious faith.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: My mother knew that I was a lapsed Republican, but did not dream of the depth to which I had fallen.
ref: 1981, Jessamyn West, Double Discovery: A Journey, G.K. Hall, →ISBN:
glosses: By extension, having changed a (secular) belief or adherence.
examples: text: The only legitimate claimants must be, Albert of Austria, son of the sister of the last duke John; and the emperor Sigsmund, who might consider this part of Bavaria as a lapsed fief: that in this quality he had given the investiture of it to his son-in-law
ref: 1789, Jean-Charles Laveaux, The Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia, London: J. Derbett, →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Having passed from the original holder or authority; no longer claimed.
raw_tags: of a legacy
Synonyms: sense: having lost one's religious faith
word: nonpracticing
sense: having changed a secular belief or adherence
word: in name
Derived terms: lapsedness
semilapsed
unlapsed
chuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chuckle
chuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chucklings
Senses: examples: text: The shocked silence of the grown-ups is disturbed by the chucklings of the one hipster among them[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Henry Sheehan, “Little Boy Blue”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An instance in which someone chuckles
raw_tags: of chuckle
boldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bold: most bold
squeezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeeze
squeezing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeezings
Senses: examples: text: Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.
ref: 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:
glosses: The act of pressing; compression.
examples: text: An exceedingly minute portion of Prussian blue suspended in water was similarly affected with muriatic acid. A portion of the squeezings of the sponge, which exhibited a greenish colour, evaporated to dryness, and ignited, left a calx […]
ref: 1849, The London Lancet, page 464:
glosses: That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
Derived terms: corn squeezing
money squeezing
overcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcome
overcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcomings
Senses: examples: text: Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
text: In the eyes of their witnesses, exemplary figures redeem their own suffering, which in turn emboldens these witnesses to attempt painful self-overcomings of their own.
ref: 2005, Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Political, page 87:
glosses: The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
defying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: more defying
form: most defying
Senses: glosses: defiant
Derived terms: defyingly
defying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defy
defies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defy
defies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defy
indexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indexers
Etymology: From index + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Our "title index" (list of story titles) is falling behind. If you'd like to come by and help update it, call Mike at GCN.
ref: 1986 December 7, “Indexer Needed”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 13:
glosses: A person or program which creates indexes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: .NET
glosses: A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.
indexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indexer
cwms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːmz/
rhymes: -uːmz
Senses: glosses: plural of cwm
fractals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fractal
fractionation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractionations
Etymology: By surface analysis, fraction + -ation, or, by surface analysis, fractionate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Methane is separated from other hydrocarbons in a gas fractionation plant.
text: After several fractionations, we had a usable product.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided up into smaller quantities (fractions) in which the composition changes according to a gradient; an instance of this process.
qualifier: radiotherapy
glosses: The division of a total dose of radiation into fractions.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
glosses: A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
Derived terms: hypofractionation
microfractionation
oligofractionation
prefractionation
subfractionation
ultrafractionation
Related terms: fractionate
fractionated
hyperfractionated
hyperfractionation
intrafractionation
discolor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: discolors
form: discoloring
form: discolored
form: discolored
form: discolour
Etymology: From Middle English discoloren, discoloren, from Old French descolorer, discolorer, equivalent to dis- + color.
Senses: examples: text: Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.
text: A bad enough bruise can discolor the skin.
glosses: To change or lose color.
Derived terms: discoloration
discolorer
discolorment
discolors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discolor
discoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discolor
discoloring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discolorings
Senses: glosses: discoloration