cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
anesthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈniːs.θə.taɪz/
ipa: /æˈniːs.θə.taɪz/
ipa: /əˈnɛs.θə.taɪz/
ipa: /əˈnɛs.θɪ.taɪz/
Forms: form: anesthetizes
form: anesthetizing
form: anesthetized
form: anesthetized
form: anaesthetize
form: anaesthetise
form: anæsthetize
form: anesthetise
Senses: examples: text: Just prior to surgery the doctor will anesthetize him and he will sleep for four hours.
glosses: To administer anesthesia to: to render unfeeling or unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
Derived terms: anesthetizable
cryoanesthetized
nonanesthetized
overanesthetize
preanesthetize
reanesthetize
unanesthetized
underanesthetized
Related terms: anesthetic
anesthetist
anesthetizer
anguished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anguish
anguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anguished
form: most anguished
Senses: glosses: Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.
Derived terms: anguishedly
unanguished
angularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angularities
Etymology: From angular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property or characteristic of possessing angles.
glosses: A sharp point or angle.
examples: text: It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that staunch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: A stiff, cranky, crotchety manner or behaviour.
Derived terms: equiangularity
atypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more atypically
form: most atypically
Etymology: From atypical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner which is not typical.
artlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more artlessly
form: most artlessly
Etymology: From artless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Of course not , darling," she artlessly replied.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 35:
glosses: In an artless manner.
aridly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aridly
form: most aridly
Etymology: From arid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an arid manner.
archaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more archaically
form: most archaically
Etymology: From archaic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an archaic manner.
articulately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more articulately
form: most articulately
Etymology: From articulate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an articulate manner.
aromatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aromatically
form: most aromatically
Etymology: From aromatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: an aromatically spiced Indian dish
glosses: In an aromatic manner.
assertively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assertively
form: most assertively
Etymology: From assertive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Here it was the province of an electronic harpsichordlike timbre (presumably from a laptop) and an electric bass, played assertively by Zach Layton and supported by the drummer, David Justh. Mr. Justh added considerable filigree in the course of the 66-minute performance, none sanctioned by the score, but captivating enough to justify its berth.
ref: 2007 December 1, Allan Kozinn, “That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2018:
glosses: In an assertive manner.
astringently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From astringent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an astringent.
atonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more atonally
form: most atonally
Etymology: From atonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an atonal manner; without tone.
atmospherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more atmospherically
form: most atmospherically
Etymology: From atmospheric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: […] a picture like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror film, for it deliberately, atmospherically and painfully puts horrors on show, even if they are credible horrors performed by humans.
ref: 2012, Bruce F. Kawin, Horror and the Horror Film, page 152:
glosses: In an atmospheric manner.
examples: text: In the years following World War Two, Americans cut down vast forests, built thousands of factories, assembled millions of atmospherically toxic automobiles, and filthied the water throughout North America.
ref: 2007, Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia:
glosses: With regard to the atmosphere.
atomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From atomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: an atomically powered locomotive
glosses: With regard to atoms or atomic energy.
athletically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more athletically
form: most athletically
Etymology: From athletic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an athletic manner.
asymmetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asymmetrically
form: most asymmetrically
Etymology: From asymmetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an asymmetric manner.
astutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astutely
form: most astutely
Etymology: From astute + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Embarrassed, Bradly mumbled in his beard and began to fill his pipe, inspected astutely by Podson the while.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 124:
glosses: In an astute manner.
applicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more applicably
form: most applicably
Etymology: From applicable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an applicable manner.
apishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apishly
form: most apishly
Etymology: From apish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an apish manner; in the manner of an ape.
apish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪpɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪpɪʃ
Forms: form: more apish
form: most apish
Etymology: From ape + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: apelike
apely
simian
glosses: resembling or characteristic of an ape
Derived terms: apishly
apishness
antagonistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antagonistically
form: most antagonistically
Etymology: From antagonistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antagonistic manner.
anthropologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anthropologically
form: most anthropologically
Etymology: From anthropologic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a manner which pertains to anthropology.
anticlimactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticlimactically
form: most anticlimactically
Etymology: From anticlimactic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anticlimactic manner.
anthropomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌæn.θɹɒ.pəˈmɔːɹ.fɪk.liː/
Etymology: From anthropomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anthropomorphic manner.
antiphonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antiphonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an antiphonal manner; in the manner of an antiphon.
estray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ə.stɹeɪ/
Forms: form: estrays
Etymology: From Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from the Old French verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray.
examples: text: [...] All the day / Had been a dreary one at best, and dim / Was settling to its close, yet shot one grim / Red leer to see the plain catch its estray.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section VIII:
glosses: Stray.
estray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ə.stɹeɪ/
Forms: form: estrays
form: estraying
form: estrayed
form: estrayed
Etymology: From Middle English astrai, from Anglo-Norman estray, from the Old French verb estraier. Etymological doublet with stray.
Senses: examples: text: With other Maids to fiſh upon the Shoar; Estrays apart, and leaves her Company
ref: 1614, Samuel Daniel, Hymen's Triumph:
glosses: To stray.
Related terms: astray
stray
spiritual world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritual worlds
Senses: glosses: The afterlife.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A metaphysical plane of existence parallel to the material world and occupied by spirits and other unearthly forces.
Synonyms: spiritland
spirit world
spiritual worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiritual world
overwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/
Forms: form: overwrites
form: overwriting
form: overwrote
form: overwritten
Etymology: From over- + write.
Senses: examples: text: I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
glosses: To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
examples: text: Many trainees consider that by increasing the length of the piece they will construct a good feature. This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and ultimately lose their interest.
ref: 2013, Richard Rudin, Trevor Ibbotson, Introduction to Journalism:
glosses: To write too much.
examples: text: The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions.
ref: 1954, Edwin H. Ford, Edwin Emery, Highlights in the History of the American Press: A Book of Readings, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 367:
text: He overwrites constantly, but his detailed and understated one-paragraph description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216-18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition.
ref: 1986, David Novarr, The Lines of Life: Theories of Biography, 1880-1970, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 162:
text: That said, the passage just looked at anticipates rather than participates in greatness. It is too adjectival, a stylistic flaw which suggests an insistence more apparent in the ensuing lines (182-91), where one is torn between thinking that Shelley is overwriting and that he is staying close to a feverish intensity.
ref: 1989, Michael O'Neill, The human mind's imaginings: conflict and achievement in Shelley's poetry, Oxford University Press, USA:
glosses: To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
Derived terms: overwritable
overwriteable
overwriter
overwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/
Forms: form: overwrites
Etymology: From over- + write.
Senses: examples: text: Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9.
ref: 2014, Bruce Middleton, Conducting Network Penetration and Espionage in a Global Environment:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
warchalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: warchalks
form: warchalking
form: warchalked
form: warchalked
Etymology: From war + chalk, modelled on war-dialing.
Senses: glosses: To draw chalk symbols in public places (such as the side of a building or a sidewalk) to show users of computers with Wi-Fi capability where a wireless network may be accessed.
White House
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the White House
Etymology: From the Executive Mansion ("house") of the United States of America having been painted white, giving its appearance of a white house; having been painted to cover up the damage from the War of 1812 when the British burned the mansion down.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
ref: 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America.
examples: text: The White House announced its support for the new law.
text: U.S. President Joe Biden held a joint call Friday with both Niinisto and Andersson where, according to a White House statement, he “underscored his support for NATO’s Open Door policy and for the right of Finland and Sweden to decide their own future, foreign policy and security arrangements.”
ref: 2022 May 14, Jari Tanner, “Putin warns Finland NATO membership would harm relations”, in AP News, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
glosses: The US presidency and its administration.
examples: text: Little White House
text: White House of the Confederacy
glosses: Any executive residence
glosses: Synonym of Russian White House.
synonyms: word: Russian White House
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Robertson County, Sumner County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in New Kent County, Virginia, also known as White House Landing.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in Page County, Virginia.
Derived terms: White Houser
Related terms: Blue House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
hooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hook
hooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Forms: form: hookings
Senses: examples: text: There was a surprising number of foul hookings.
ref: 2001, Max Hunn, Fishing Adventures in Florida: Sport Fishing with Light Tackle:
glosses: The act of catching or fastening something on a hook.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.
Derived terms: rug hooking
prattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prattle
thumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbings
Senses: examples: text: The precious autographs could not have endured through many a season the thumbings of "the book-holder" or the prompter.
ref: 1842, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of Literature:
glosses: The act by which something is thumbed.
thumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thumb
embitters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embitter
embittered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embittered
form: most embittered
Senses: examples: text: an embittered enemy
text: […] they were opposed to it on grounds that were at once legal, political, historical, personal, geographical, and mixed; the whole combination of causes operating of necessity to make the opposition an embittered one.
ref: 1884, John William Wallace, An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford, the Patriot Printer of 1776. Sketches of His Life, page 141:
text: Again, by means of the ‘follower’s’ life, it will be revealed who is the admirer; for the admirers will become highly embittered against the follower.
ref: 1944, Søren Kierkegaard, translated by Walter Lowrie, Training in Christianity, page 245:
text: Dawkins’ book is, oddly, much more embittered and deeply emotional, although leavened by his effervescent wit.
ref: 2011, Philip W. Anderson, More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: Deeply hostile, resentful.
Derived terms: embitteredly
embitteredness
unembittered
embittered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embitter
embittering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embittering
form: most embittering
Senses: examples: text: It was a very embittering experience, the climax to what had been for Tony anger and rage with the military way of doing things.
ref: 2011, David Evanier, All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett:
text: The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful, the more embittering it is.
ref: 2012, Joel J. Kupperman, Theories of Human Nature and Human Nature, page 209:
text: It was a very embittering moment, just a few years before, he was the star to the faculty, and now they wouldn't hire him because he was black.
ref: 2013, Alison Stewart, Melissa Harris-Perry, First Class, page 101:
glosses: Causing one to feel embittered.
Derived terms: embitteringly
embittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embitter
embittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embitterings
Senses: glosses: embitterment
embroils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embroil
embroiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embroil
embroiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embroil
embrittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrittles
form: embrittling
form: embrittled
form: embrittled
Etymology: From em- + brittle.
Senses: examples: text: But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
ref: 2014 August 17, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: Repairing and replacing floorboards [print version: Never buy anything from a salesman, 16 August 2014, p. P7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
glosses: To become brittle.
examples: text: True, hydrogen has some drawbacks. It’s costly to liquefy or compress for storage. It’s also hard to push through existing gas pipelines because it’s so light that it leaks, and it embrittles the pipes.
ref: 2023 February 27, Peter Coy, “A Gold Mine of Clean Energy May Be Hiding Under Our Feet”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make (something) brittle.
Derived terms: embrittlement
embrittles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrittle
embrittling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrittle
embrittled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrittle
embrittlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈbɹɪtl̩mənt/
Forms: form: embrittlements
Etymology: From embrittle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Even if no weakening effects were noticed after one or two overheatings, the cumulative heat effects would cause embrittlement and failure after subsequent overheatings.
ref: 1964, Metal Mining & Processing, volume 1, page 32:
glosses: The process of being embrittled; loss of flexibility or elasticity of a material.
Derived terms: hydrogen embrittlement
armado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armados
form: armadoes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of armada (“fleet of warships”).
examples: text: The erizo, or water hedge-hog, is very like the armado, but not quite so large.
ref: 1774, Thomas Falkner, A Description of Patagonia, And The Adjoining Parts of South America:
text: The armado is a thick strong fish with a short body. It is about a foot in length, and generally weighs from four to six pounds. A small part of the belly is cartilaginous, except which the fish is covered with hard thick bone.
ref: 1820, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, History & Description of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, page 481:
glosses: A catfish of the genus Silurus.
overhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhang
overhangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overhang
overhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 42, photo caption:
glosses: present participle and gerund of overhang
overhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhangings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of overhang.
synonyms: word: overhang
overthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overthinks
form: overthinking
form: overthought
form: overthought
Etymology: From Middle English *overthenken, *overthenchen (compare Middle English overthinken (“to grieve; have regrets; be sorry; be anxious”)), from Old English oferþenċan (“to think over; consider”), equivalent to over- + think.
Senses: examples: text: But when I dred that wou'd not work,
I overthought me of a Wile
How I might at my leisure lurk,
My graceless Guardain to beguile.
ref: 1695, J.D. Albany, The Banishment of poverty:
glosses: To think about; think over
overthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overthinks
form: overthinking
form: overthought
form: overthought
Etymology: From over- + think.
Senses: examples: text: Don't overthink the problem. It's not that difficult.
glosses: To think or analyze too much.
examples: text: So to think of self as not to overthink — to think of yourself with sober, moral judgment.
ref: 1859, Henry Ward Beecher, Sermons, page 25:
glosses: To think too highly (of); overestimate
Derived terms: overthinker
overthinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overthink
overthinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overthinkings
Senses: glosses: The act of thinking too much about something.
overthinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overthink
overthought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-thôt′
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈθɔːt/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.və.θɔːt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈθɔt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈθɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology: From overthink.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overthink
overthought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-thôt′
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈθɔːt/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.və.θɔːt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈθɔt/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈθɑt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: overthoughts
Etymology: From over- + thought.
Senses: glosses: Excessive thought or thinking
cortado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹˈtɑdoʊ/
Forms: form: cortados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cortado (“cut”).
Senses: examples: text: We ordered a couple of shots and a couple of cortados and sat by the narrow, unglazed arch that overlooked the reservoir. 'To Yvan,' he declared, and I raised my aguardiente to his, chinking glasses to the insincere memory of [Yvan].
ref: 2009, Chris Haslam, Twelve-Step Fandango, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 93:
text: "[…] and a couple of espressos. Make the lady's a cortado, you know, the way you add just a touch of steamed milk."
ref: 2021, Florencia Mallon, Beyond the Ties of Blood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A cup of espresso served with warm milk.
comed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of come
frig it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: frig it !
Senses: glosses: An expression of frustration similar to, but not as vulgar as fuck it.
Synonyms: word: fuck all
word: fuck it
word: fuck this
english: coarse
translation: coarse
word: screw it
word: whatever
word: who cares
pass for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes for
form: passing for
form: passed for
form: passed for
Senses: examples: text: When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.
ref: 2006, The New Yorker, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012:
glosses: To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not
glosses: To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.
kens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ken
kens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ken
kening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kenning.
kenned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ken
Derived terms: unkenned
dunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dunch
uppishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uppishly
form: most uppishly
Etymology: From uppish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Miss Betty’s at the church now gettin’ married!” announced Marie uppishly, “and you’d best be gettin’ out of here right away, for the wedding party’s due to arrive any minute now […]”
ref: 1919, Grace Livingston Hill, chapter 3, in Exit Betty, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 36:
text: Miguel watched uppishly and without comment.
ref: 1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 4, in Robinson, London: Macmillan:
text: “I have all I need of Zoos in this nursery, thank you,” said Mary Poppins, uppishly. “Hyenas, orang-outangs, all of you. Sit up straight, and no more nonsense.”
ref: 1972 September, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), [revised edition], New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Book Services, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: In an uppish manner, arrogantly, with an air of superiority.
examples: text: […] the tall left-hander slapped a short ball from Adil Rashid wearily and uppishly to extra cover.
ref: 2010 June 30, Andy Wilson, “Kyle Hogg’s bat buoys Lancashire and halts Yorkshire in their tracks”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In an upward direction, with the chance of being caught.
raw_tags: of a ball
uprest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uprests
Senses: glosses: uprising
honor system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honor systems
form: honour system
Senses: examples: text: Our local beekeeper leaves jars of honey for sale in his driveway. There's a coffee can for the money, and payment is on the honor system.
text: George Costanza: Alright, now, how are we gonna monitor this thing?
Jerry Seinfeld: Well, obviously, we all know each other very well, I'm sure that we'll all feel comfortable within the confines of the honor system.
ref: 1992 November 18, Larry David, directed by Tom Cherones, Seinfeld, season 4, episode 11, Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld (actors):
qualifier: alternative in Canada
glosses: A system, policy or understanding based on trust in the honesty, honor, or integrity of others.
Related terms: honesty box
honesty jar
temporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The kalender, […] hath late deſcry'd
 That evill affected planet Mars, ally'd
 To temporizing Mercury, conjoyn'd
 I'th'houſe of Death; […]
ref: a. 1645 (date written), Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Eglogue X”, in The Shepheards Oracles: Delivered in Certain Eglogues, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for John Marriot and Richard Marriot, […], published 1645 (indicated as 1646), →OCLC, page 119:
text: Application of a protective covering as described in this chapter is a temporizing procedure performed before eventual aesthetic restoration of the tooth as an outpatient.
ref: 1997, Fred M. Henretig, Christopher King, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Procedures, page 731:
glosses: Of or relating to temporization (in its various senses).
temporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporizings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who temporizes, or acts evasively.
temporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of temporize
address space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: address spaces
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A range of discrete addresses, all the address locations available in a particular, named, subset of a computer's (virtual or real) memory.
affine space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affine spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a vector space having no origin
air space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air spaces
Senses: examples: text: At that point there was little if anything that could have been done to save the six miners—drilling ultimately determined that the tunnel where the men were presumed trapped had only a half-foot of air space left.
ref: 2005, Paul Foy, “Year after Utah mine collapse, many failures clear”, in FOXnews.com, retrieved 30 Jul 2010:
glosses: Alternative spelling of airspace.
dead-air space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead-air spaces
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A sealed airspace in a cavity wall.
Related terms: bulkhead
deadspace
dead space
headspace
breathing space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breathing spaces
form: breathing-space
Senses: examples: text: He reeled, and on Herminius
He leaned one breathing-space;
Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds,
Sprang right at Astur's face.
ref: 1842, Thomas Babbington Macaulay, Horatius, stanza 45:
synonyms: breathing room
breathing spell
breathing while
hypernyms: space#Noun
room#Noun
volume#Noun
;
time#Noun
coordinate_terms: elbow room
headroom
legroom
yardroom
glosses: Sufficient space or a span of time in which to recover one's breath.
glosses: A rest, pause, or respite.
examples: text: Don't fret, in our division you get a lot of breathing space.
text: By this time the difference between first and third class accommodation had become nominal, and was measured in "breathing space" during peak hours rather than in quality.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 58:
text: Martin Kelly then finished with power to provide some breathing space before Craig Dawson’s scored his fourth goal in five England Under-21 appearances with a looping header.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
glosses: Enough distance so that one can feel unfettered.
column space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: column spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The vector space generated by all the column vectors of a matrix
Related terms: row space
row space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: row spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The vector space generated by all the row vectors of a matrix.
Related terms: column space
compact space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compact spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any topological subset of Euclidean space that is a compact set
connected space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connected spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces.
Related terms: arcwise connected space
locally connected space
simply connected space
crawl space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crawl spaces
form: crawlspace
Senses: examples: text: When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147:
topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A level, a narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A level, a narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
A severely height-limited basement or semi-basement of a building, of less than half a storey high
crawlspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crawlspaces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crawl space.
danger space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danger spaces
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The areas between a weapon and its target in which the trajectory is not greater than the typical height of a human (about 1.8 meters).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The area or space around the target of a missile in which it has a probability of landing or exploding.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A region of the neck bounded by the skull base, alar fascia and prevertebral fascia, from which an infection can spread directly to the thorax.
dark space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dark spaces
Senses: glosses: any of several regions in a glow discharge in which little or no light is produced
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the intergalactic void
qualifier: literal
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, space.
Derived terms: anode dark space
Aston dark space
cathode dark space
Faraday dark space
Langmuir dark space
deep space
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deep-space
form: deepspace
Etymology: Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1934 in his novel Triplanetary, first serialized in Amazing Stories. After deep sea.
Senses: examples: text: Bradley swore a mighty deep-space oath and braced himself against certain annihilation.
ref: 1934 April, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Triplanetary”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 5, page 54:
text: Human exploration of the solar system beyond Earth's orbit will entail many risks for the crew on these deep space missions.
ref: 2005, Lawrence W. Townsend, “Implications of the space radiation environment for human exploration in deep space”, in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, volume 115, →DOI, pages 44–50:
glosses: Of or in the area of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System
deep space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-space
form: deepspace
Etymology: Coined by American science fiction author E. E. Smith in 1934 in his novel Triplanetary, first serialized in Amazing Stories. After deep sea.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the time he spent in the speedster dashing hither and yon. Most of it, however, he spent in the vastly more comfortable mauler; to the armored side of which his tiny vessel clung with magnetic clamps while he slept and ate, gossiped and read, exercised and played with the mauler's officers and crew, in deep-space comradery.
ref: 1937 December, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Galactic Patrol”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 20, number 4, page 73:
glosses: All of space beyond the gravitational influence of Earth, or outside the Solar System, or distant from stars
Hypernyms: outer space
space
double-spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All I do know for certain is that I had something happy and exciting to tell you—and on just one side of the paper, doublespaced — and I knew when I got home that it was mostly gone, or all gone, and there was nothing left to do but go through the motions.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Formatted so that there is a full blank line between each line of text; the style of formatting required by many entities inside business, academia, and publishing.
double-spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doublespaced
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double-space
Related terms: double space
single-spaced
single-space
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: single-spaces
form: single-spacing
form: single-spaced
form: single-spaced
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To type (or format) text without leaving a blank line between each line of text.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To type (or format) text with only one space between consecutive sentences.
Related terms: double-space
drift space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drift spaces
Senses: glosses: The space in an electron tube in which there is no modulated field
dual space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The vector space which comprises the set of linear functionals of a given vector space.
examples: text: The dual space of a Banach space X is the vector space of continuous linear functions X#92;rightarrow#92;mathbb#123;R#125;, which are called functionals. Similar notation is used for duality pairing between the Banach space X and its dual space X': #92;left#92;langleu,v#92;right#92;rangle is the result of applying the functional u#92;inX' to v#92;inX: #92;left#92;langleu,v#92;right#92;rangle#61;u(v) explicitly uses the fact that u is a function X#92;rightarrow#92;mathbb#123;R#125;.
ref: 2011, David E. Stewart, Dynamics with Inequalities, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, page 17:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The vector space which comprises the set of continuous linear functionals of a given topological vector space.
Synonyms: sense: vector space of linear functionals
word: algebraic dual space
sense: vector space of linear functionals
word: dual vector space
sense: vector space of continuous linear functionals
word: continuous dual space
sense: vector space of continuous linear functionals
word: continuous dual
Einstein space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Einstein spaces
Etymology: Named after Albert Einstein.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Riemann space in which the contracted curvature tensor is proportional to the metric tensor
wikipedia: Albert Einstein
Riemann space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Riemann spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of Euclidean space in which tensors are used to describe distance, angle, and curvature
exceptional space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceptional spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A space in which a generalization of quantum mechanics is described in terms of a system with a finite number of degrees of freedom
fishing space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishing spaces
Senses: examples: text: It offers a greater moment of inertia than the strap type for small rails with limited fishing space.
ref: 1982, William W. Hay, Railroad Engineering, page 566:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The space between the base and head of a rail in which a rigid steel bar is placed.
flat space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any Riemann space in which the metric tensors are constants throughout
Related terms: Riemann-Christoffel tensor
function space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: function spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any metric space whose elements are functions
metric space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metric spaces
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Any set on which a metric is defined, giving a distance between any two elements.
Hypernyms: Hausdorff space
semimetric space
topological space
Hyponyms: normed vector space
hair space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair spaces
Etymology: Referring to the thinness of a hair.
Senses: topics: letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
glosses: A piece of metal type used to create the narrowest space.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The narrowest space appearing between letters and punctuation.
Synonyms: english: proofreading
translation: proofreading
word: hr #
oak apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oak apples
form: oak-apple
Senses: examples: text: [T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow on the leaves of an Oak call'd Oak-apples […] are nothing but the Matrices of an Insect, as I elsewhere show.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV:
glosses: A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini).
Derived terms: Oak Apple Day
half space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half spaces
Senses: glosses: A broad step between flights of a staircase.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of the two parts of three-dimensional space divided by a plane.
Derived terms: open half space
oak gall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oak galls
Senses: synonyms: gall-nut
oak apple
oak leaf gall
glosses: A gall produced by an oak by larvae of a common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
headspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdspeɪs/
Forms: form: headspaces
form: head space
form: head-space
Etymology: From head + space.
Senses: examples: text: Control of headspace is important for economic and technical reasons. Underfilling will contravene Weights and Measures legislation and may cause rusting in the headspace […]
ref: 1997, S. D. Holdsworth, “Food Preservation Processes”, in M. D. Ranken, R. C. Kill, C. Baker, editors, Food Industries Manual, 24th edition, Blackie Academic and Professional, →ISBN, page 517:
synonyms: headroom
ullage
glosses: The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).
examples: text: Meronym: mindshare
text: It's like, I need to clear my headspace but I can't do that with him around because he's just ego, you know? He dumps on me. So that's it.
ref: 1996, Andrew Cowan, Common Ground:
text: Harry looked pained. "Please don't let me out of here. I really don't have the headspace for the moral implications of any of that right now. But as I was saying," he did so hate to be interrupted, it was the lecturing academic in him, "if I wanted a third girlfriend, I'd choose from the pool of non-murderers."
ref: 2023 September 18, HarryBlank, “Hidden Depths”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
synonyms: brainspace
glosses: One's capacity for mental activity modeled as a physical space with limits; one's mental state or state of mind.
examples: text: As a business owner, a truly effective business owner that is building a profitable business machine, you need headspace, thinking time, planning time, brainstorming time, education time, decision making time, questioning time and more thinking time.
ref: 2011, Eric J. Gregory, Would You Like Profits, →ISBN:
glosses: Time and opportunity for reflection and thinking.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The gap between the face of the bolt and the stopping surface for the cartridge.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The gas phase in contact and in equilibrium with a nonvolatile liquid in a sample.
synonyms: wonderland
qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: A place within a person (singlet or multiple) that they can visit or inhabit.
headspace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdspeɪs/
Forms: form: headspaces
form: headspacing
form: headspaced
form: headspaced
form: head space
form: head-space
Etymology: From head + space.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To occupy a headspace.
hydrospace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrospaces
Etymology: From hydro- + space.
Senses: synonyms: hydrosphere
glosses: That part of the Earth, or other planet, that lies below the surface of its lakes, seas and oceans,
Related terms: hydrospatial
hyperbolic space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbolic spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any space exhibiting hyperbolic geometry rather than Euclidean geometry
image space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: image spaces
Senses: glosses: That part of an optical system where real or virtual images are formed
Related terms: object space
inertial space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inertial spaces
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A coordinate system (or a frame of reference) defined with respect to the distant stars, whose relative positions do not change over reasonably long periods of time
interaction space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interaction spaces
Senses: glosses: That part of an electron tube in which electrons interact with a modulated field
interplanetary space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That part of outer space between the planets of a solar system and its star
interspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnʹtə-spās
ipa: /ˈɪntəspeɪs/
enpr: ĭn-tə-spāsʹ
ipa: /ɪntəˈspeɪs/
enpr: ĭnʹtər-spās
ipa: /ˈɪntɚspeɪs/
enpr: ĭn-tər-spāsʹ
ipa: /ɪntɚˈspeɪs/
Forms: form: interspaces
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interspatium. By surface analysis, inter- + space.
Senses: examples: text: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
ref: 1818 [1809–10], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, footnote; republished as “Essay XIII”, in The Friend: A Series of Essays, London: Bell & Daldy, 1867, page 55:
text: Tess sat up in bed, lost in a vague interspace between a dream and this information.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 49:
text: In a review of over 1000 interdigital clavuses, 65% were found in the fourth interspace […]
ref: 1988, Shepard R. Hurwitz, Foot and Ankle Pain, page 331:
glosses: A space or interval between two things; an interstice
Synonyms: word: break
word: gap
word: space
word: interlapse
word: interspace
word: interstice
word: interstitium
word: opening
word: separation
Hypernyms: word: interval
Hyponyms: word: hole
Related terms: word: interim
interspace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnʹtə-spās
ipa: /ˈɪntəspeɪs/
enpr: ĭn-tə-spāsʹ
ipa: /ɪntəˈspeɪs/
enpr: ĭnʹtər-spās
ipa: /ˈɪntɚspeɪs/
enpr: ĭn-tər-spāsʹ
ipa: /ɪntɚˈspeɪs/
Forms: form: interspaces
form: interspacing
form: interspaced
form: interspaced
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interspatium. By surface analysis, inter- + space.
Senses: glosses: To place (things) spaced out between other things.
examples: text: When such species as European larch, white pine, or black walnut are widely spaced, in order to promote the most rapid growth, it may be advisable to interspace the area with some more tolerant and slower-growing species.
ref: 1916, Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, numbers 151-175, page 18:
glosses: To sow or seed (an area) with things spaced out between other things.
interstellar space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interstellar spaces
Senses: glosses: The space between the stars.
Related terms: deep space
intervillous space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervillous spaces
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the spaces between the placental villi that contain maternal blood