cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
non-native
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˈneɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: nonnative
Etymology: From non- + native.
Senses: examples: text: Use purple three-awn grass to replace the overused, invasive non-native weedy Mexican feather grass (Nassella tenuissima).
ref: 2016, Greg Rubin, Lucy Warren, The Drought-Defying California Garden, Portland: Timber Press, published 2021, →ISBN, page 135:
text: The economy is at full employment and the state is flush with tax revenue but their social media feeds depict a country overrun with “non-native” predators such as Jozef Puska, a Slovak man convicted earlier this month of murdering a teacher, Ashling Murphy, in 2022.
ref: 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Not native; not indigenous to a particular area; foreign; invasive.
Derived terms: non-native speaker
non-native species
non-native
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒnˈneɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: non-natives
form: nonnative
Etymology: From non- + native.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not native.
inner workings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nobody really understands the inner workings of politics.
glosses: The mechanisms that function internally to a system and are not outwardly visible
blood drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood drives
Senses: examples: text: The local blood drive will replenish the area's blood supply.
glosses: An activity, usually charitable, in which persons are requested to donate blood, either to maintain a general supply or in response to a specific shortage or emergency.
Related terms: food drive
toy drive
blood drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood drive
spare part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare parts
Senses: examples: text: It is extremely difficult to obtain spare parts from abroad, and these are manufactured in the shops [workshops].
ref: 1945 November and December, H. R. Fox, “The Jamaica Railway, 1845-1945”, in Railway Magazine, page 317:
glosses: A component of any manufactured goods, kept in reserve to replace one that fails; a spare.
Related terms: car part
anchor pylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchor pylons
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pylon that forms the endpoint of a high-power transmission line and uses horizontal insulators, necessary when interfacing with other modes of power transmission and, due to the inflexibility of the conductors, when significantly altering the direction of the pylon chain.
Synonyms: strainer pylon
lactivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lactivores
Senses: glosses: An animal with a diet consisting mainly of milk or other dairy products.
screw shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screw shoes
Senses: glosses: A regular shoe with screws (1/4 to 3/8 inch) screwed into the bottom to give it grip while running on ice and snow.
soup sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soup sandwiches
Etymology: An expression of military origin, calling to mind a picture of soup being poured over bread.
Senses: examples: text: That's as messed up as a soup sandwich.
text: That guy is a big soup sandwich.
text: “Right now it’s all still very much a soup sandwich,” said the Army official of the ongoing planning efforts, “but we expect to trot the whole thing out in April.”
ref: 2005 January 27, Jon R. Anderson, “Army wrapping up work on final draft of 1st Infantry Division relocation plan”, in Stars and Stripes, retrieved 08 Sep 2009:
glosses: Someone or something that is not as it should be; something disorganized or unfinished.
Related terms: shit sandwich
managing director
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: managing directors
form: MD
Senses: examples: text: But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:
glosses: The chief executive of a limited company.
Coordinate terms: word: chairperson
word: chair
word: chairwoman
english: sometimes coinstantial
translation: sometimes coinstantial
word: chairman
Related terms: english: sometimes holonymous
translation: sometimes holonymous
word: board of directors
english: sometimes hypernymous
translation: sometimes hypernymous
word: board member
preferability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preferabilities
form: preferrability
Etymology: From preferable + -ity or prefer + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.
ref: 1993, Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: The state of being preferable.
Synonyms: preferableness
Oulipian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French Oulipo + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Oulipo movement in France
Oulipian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oulipians
Etymology: From French Oulipo + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of this movement
what's the craic
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what's the crack
Etymology: See craic.
Senses: glosses: What's happening?
nodding donkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodding donkeys
Etymology: From the resemblance to a donkey with its head nodding.
Senses: synonyms: horsehead
glosses: A pumpjack.
pumpjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌmpˌd͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: pumpjacks
form: pump jack
Etymology: From pump + jack.
Senses: glosses: The ground-based drive for a submerged pump in an oil borehole.
Synonyms: nodding donkey
self-serving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-serving
form: most self-serving
Etymology: From self- + serving.
Senses: examples: text: "Most of the time when people consider the question of what rules society should have for using software, the people considering it are from software companies, and they consider the question from a self-serving perspective," says Stallman, opening his speech.
ref: 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom:
text: Don’t assume that the connotations of authority, history, scholarship, hallowed tradition and judiciousness in the word “Academy” actually fit this self-serving club.
ref: 2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian:
text: For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.
ref: 2020 September 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: We MUST seize the moment”, in Rail, page 3:
text: While the PSOE’s leader and caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, argues that the act of clemency would help promote coexistence after the tumultuous political and territorial crisis of 2017, his opponents have decried the move as a cynical and self-serving means of remaining in power.
ref: 2023 November 12, Sam Jones, “Fresh protests held across Spain over amnesty deal for Catalan separatists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Showing interest only in oneself (pursuing self-interest to the exclusion of other goals).
Derived terms: self-servingly
self-servingness
Related terms: selfish
jungle fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thuran, down with an attack of jungle fever, lay in the shelter among the branches of their tree of refuge.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 181:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several tropical diseases, but especially malaria.
synonyms: black fever
glosses: Attraction of a person of non-African descent towards people of African descent.
Coordinate terms: sense: sexual attraction
word: coal burner
sense: sexual attraction
word: mud shark
sense: sexual attraction
word: once you go black, you never go back
sense: sexual attraction
word: oreo
sense: sexual attraction
word: Oreo
sense: sexual attraction
word: snow bunny
sense: sexual attraction
word: wigger
Related terms: sense: sexual attraction
word: Asian fever
sense: sexual attraction
word: black fever
sense: sexual attraction
word: blue fever
sense: sexual attraction
word: white fever
sense: sexual attraction
word: yellow fever
portuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portuaries
Senses: examples: text: The Queen's private devotions […] which she performed after the custom of her Religion out of her own portuary, with her beads and crucifix, sometimes in the Latin, and sometimes in the English tongue.
ref: 1823, John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: A portable breviary; a porteous.
VXer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VXers
Etymology: From VX + -er.
Senses: examples: text: VXer looking for employment -- MyDoom.V, contains a cleartext message to all and sundry, stating "We searching 4 work in AV industry".
ref: BitDefender PR, 2004
text: VXer targets Romanian gypsy music -- A mass-mailing virus designed to wipe Romanian gypsy music off PCs is spreading rapidly […]
ref: The Register, 2005
glosses: An author or creator of computer viruses.
cross-country
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cross country
form: crosscountry
Etymology: From cross- + country.
Senses: examples: text: There are certain parts of Great Britain in which, even in peace time, the speed of cross-country travel has made no advance for more than half-a-century.
ref: 1940 May, “Items of Interest: From Chippenham to Hay”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:
text: Passenger traffic consists largely of through expresses from London, Bristol and Birmingham to South Wales via Severn Tunnel Junction, and cross-country trains from the north and Midlands via Pontypool Road. (In Britain cross-country trains connect regional centres, and avoid London.)
ref: 1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 125:
text: I made reservations for three with USAir, Manchester, New Hampshire, to Seattle, Washington. […] I negotiated with Polly's doctors to transfer her treatment cross-country.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
glosses: From one side of a country to the other.
glosses: Across countryside.
glosses: Relating to cross country racing.
glosses: Across countries; international.
raw_tags: of data or research
Synonyms: sense: across countries
word: cross-countries
cross-country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-countries
form: cross-countrys
form: cross country
form: crosscountry
Etymology: From cross- + country.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross country.
Derived terms: canicross
downcountry
moto-cross
Related terms: cross-country skiing
skydiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sky diving
form: sky-diving
Senses: glosses: The practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.
Derived terms: formation skydiving
indoor skydiving
skydiver
tandem skydiving
Related terms: parachuting
skydiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sky diving
form: sky-diving
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skydive
dagoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dago
ill-equipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ill-equipped
form: most ill-equipped
Etymology: From ill (adverb) + equipped.
Senses: examples: text: King Vajiralongkorn has stacked his privy council with generals plucked straight from the junta's cabinet; the junta has looked to the palace to help adjudicate in a long-running and volatile dispute over who should fill a vacant post at the head of Thai Buddhism, which the military government had appeared ill-equipped to handle alone.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
glosses: Not well equipped; lacking important resources and supplies.
glosses: Mentally unprepared for a situation or task.
clamouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clamoring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clamour
clamouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamourings
form: clamoring
Senses: glosses: A sound that clamours.
clamoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clamored
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clamour
devolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devolve
dissemblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissembler
in demand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in demand
form: most in demand
Senses: examples: text: At the heart of that dramatic opening period was in-demand midfield man Charlie Adam, who continues to be pursued by Liverpool and has informed Blackpool of his desire to leave.
ref: 2011 January 25, Phil McNulty, “Blackpool 2 - 3 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: Importantly, apprenticeships provide an alternate route into employment, giving people from all backgrounds the chance to build in-demand skills and a career for life.
ref: 2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:
glosses: Sought-after; popular; coveted.
codependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more codependent
form: most codependent
Etymology: From co- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-dependent.
Derived terms: codependently
codependent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codependents
Etymology: From co- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-dependent.
codifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codifiers
Etymology: From codify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which codifies.
coeducational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coeducation + -al.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to coeducation
Derived terms: coeducationalize
coeducationally
coexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + existent.
Senses: examples: text: Juxtaposed with the reports of war related fatalities, such information cannot but help but allow viewers to reconfirm metaphorical connections between war and AIDS. And give ^([sic]) the coexistent realities of the epidemic and the War Against Iraq, it isn't a great leap to link those two specific realities together.
ref: 1991 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Are We Having A War, Or What?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 9:
glosses: existing at the same time as something else
coexistent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coexistents
Etymology: From co- + existent.
Senses: glosses: That which coexists with another.
coffeecake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeecakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coffee cake.
coffeepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeepots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffee pot.
Derived terms: coffeepotful
cogency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogencies
Senses: examples: text: All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
ref: 1781, Samuel Johnson, “Addison”, in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, volume 5, London: J. Nichols, page 156:
text: A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.
ref: 1928 Oct, Richard McKeon, “Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting”, in Speculum, volume 3, number 4, page 444:
glosses: The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
cogitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cogitative
form: most cogitative
Etymology: From Old French cogitatif.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, inclined to or capable of cogitation.
Derived terms: cogitatively
cogitativeness
cogitativity
incogitative
cogitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogitators
Etymology: From cogitate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who cogitates; a thinker
cognitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cognitional
form: most cognitional
Etymology: From cognition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cognition
cognizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/
Forms: form: more cognizable
form: most cognizable
form: cognisable
Etymology: From cognize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being known or perceived.
examples: text: But there are many cases involving the question of federal power which are not cognizable before the federal courts; and, of course, as to these, we must look out for some other umpire.
ref: 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 64:
topics: law
glosses: Within the jurisdiction of a particular court.
Derived terms: cognizableness
cognizable offence
cognizably
incognizable
noncognizable
precognizable
uncognizable
cohabitant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohabitants
Senses: examples: text: Even the discoveries, in the past several decades, that cats carry a parasite that could contribute to schizophrenia, and that outdoor cats wreak ecological disaster, haven’t budged a curiously imbalanced relationship with this furry companion—or maybe cohabitant is more accurate.
ref: 2016 November 13, Britt Peterson, “The Case Against Cats”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: cohabitee
cohabiter
cohabitor
glosses: A person who cohabits with another
coheir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɛː(ə)/
ipa: /koʊˈɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coheirs
Etymology: From co- + heir.
Senses: glosses: One of several who are heirs to an estate
Derived terms: coheiress
coheirship
coherency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/
ipa: /koʊˈhɪə.ɹən.si/
Forms: form: coherencies
Etymology: From Latin cohaerēntia.
Senses: examples: text: even in all things therein created, there must be some image, somewhat resembling, and having coherencie with the workeman that wrought and framed them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: By ten o’clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Exodus from London”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 150:
text: Then, as she released me, I made it out to her, made it out perhaps only now with full coherency even to myself. “Two hours ago, in the garden”—I could scarce articulate—“Flora saw!”
ref: 1898, Henry James, chapter VII, in The Turn of the Screw:
glosses: The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
Derived terms: decoherency
incoherency
drop like flies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops like flies
form: dropping like flies
form: dropped like flies
form: dropped like flies
form: drop off like flies
form: die like flies
Senses: examples: text: Seymour: Audrey, quick! We've got to do an emergency [flower] arrangement.
[…]
Mr. Mushnik: The Shivas are our most important funereal account. A big, enormous family, they're dropping off like flies!
ref: 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
text: Hit 'em with a left, a left, and a right / Got 'em dropping like flies with the stars in their eyes
ref: 2017, Stray From The Path, “Good Night Alt-Right”:
qualifier: simile; especially soldiers; simile; especially soldiers
glosses: To die en masse, one after the other.
raw_tags: of members of a group
cohesively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊˌhiːsɪv.li/
ipa: /koʊˈhisɪv.li/
Forms: form: more cohesively
form: most cohesively
Etymology: From cohesive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cohesive manner
neocortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocortices
form: neocortexes
Etymology: From neo- + cortex.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.
Hypernyms: cerebral cortex
Coordinate terms: allocortex
Related terms: neocortical
coldblooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coldblooded
form: most coldblooded
Senses: examples: text: Imogen was British, she was allowed to use British spelling, and I admired her majestic disdain for the coldblooded Americanization of the English tongue.
ref: 2013, Sharon Edwards, “Some Sunny Day”, in Pioneer Boulevard: Los Angeles Stories, Pasadena, Calif.: Consonant Books, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cold-blooded.
cold-shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold-shoulders
form: cold-shouldering
form: cold-shouldered
form: cold-shouldered
Senses: examples: text: If the peculiar Mr Heaton had first accosted her yesterday instead of six weeks ago, she would have cold-shouldered him without hesitation.
ref: 2006, Michel Faber, The Apple, Canongate Books, page 23:
glosses: To disrespect someone, especially by ignoring them.
Related terms: cold shoulder
cold shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold shoulders
form: cold-shoulder
form: coldshoulder
Etymology: Possibly coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1816, from give someone the cold shoulder.
Senses: glosses: A deliberate act of disrespect; a slight or snub.
Derived terms: give someone the cold shoulder
cold shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold shoulders
form: cold shouldering
form: cold shouldered
form: cold shouldered
form: cold-shoulder
form: coldshoulder
Etymology: Possibly coined by Sir Walter Scott in 1816, from give someone the cold shoulder.
Senses: glosses: To deliberately slight or snub someone.
standup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stand-up.
collapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collapse
Paralympic Games
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Paralympic Games
Etymology: Blend of paraplegic + Olympic Games.
Senses: synonyms: Paralympiad
Paralympics
Paras
glosses: An international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue.
stave in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: staves in
form: staving in
form: staved in
form: stove in
form: staved in
form: stove in
form: stoven in
Senses: examples: text: "We'll get an axe and stave in all these barrels and the liquid will all run out", threatened the man.
glosses: To stave from the outside, to crush inward, to cause to collapse inward.
cave ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cave-ins.
reiteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reiterations
Etymology: From reiterate + -ion, equivalent to re- + iteration.
Senses: glosses: The act of reiterating.
glosses: Something reiterated or restated.
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: ret
glosses: The form that backs or perfects paper already printed on one side.
Synonyms: sense: act of reiterating
word: repetition
sense: something reiterated
word: recurrence
word: repetition
word: reoccurrence
sleep around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps around
form: sleeping around
form: slept around
form: slept around
Senses: examples: text: Sleeping around sleeping around / What will the neighbors say / Sleeping around all over town / What will the neighbors say
ref: 2006, “Sleepin' Around”, in Rather Ripped, performed by Sonic Youth:
glosses: Synonym of fuck around: to sleep with numerous partners.
synonyms: word: fuck around
extra: to sleep with numerous partners
not guilty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: not guilties
Senses: examples: text: If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.
topics: law
glosses: A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
examples: text: My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl.
ref: 2003, D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little, →ISBN, page 238:
topics: law
glosses: A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
examples: text: Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said.
ref: 2006, John Lutz, Chill of Night, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
examples: text: The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage.
ref: 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
Synonyms: sense: plea of non-culpability
word: innocent
sense: verdict of non-culpability
word: acquittal
Coordinate terms: sense: plea of non-culpability
word: guilty
sense: plea of non-culpability
word: no contest
sense: plea of non-culpability
word: nolo contendere
sense: plea of non-culpability
word: not proven
sense: verdict of non-culpability
word: guilty
not guilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt.
topics: law
glosses: Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.
examples: text: The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that.
glosses: Innocent.
musicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicologists
Etymology: From musicology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies musicology.
Derived terms: ludomusicologist
zoomusicologist
music video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: music videos
Senses: glosses: A short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.
Synonyms: MV
Hypernyms: film
short
short film
vid
video
video short
Hyponyms: english: anime music video
translation: anime music video
word: AMV
english: hentai music video
translation: hentai music video
word: HMV
word: lyric video
english: Pony music video
translation: Pony music video
word: PMV
english: porn music video
translation: porn music video
word: PMV
word: songvid
Derived terms: AMV
HMV
lyric video
MV
PMV
video vixen
YTPMV
Related terms: MTV
VMA
musically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːzɪkəli/
Forms: form: more musically
form: most musically
Etymology: From Middle English musicallye, musikili; equivalent to musical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The wind chimes tinkled musically in the breeze.
text: Something might alſo be ſaid of the choice of Words, in our refined Engliſh Tongue; which are to be liked and approved according to their tone, and the ſweetneſs of their cadence, that is, as they run muſically in the Ear.
ref: 1656, T[homas] B[lount], Glossographia: Or a Dictionary, Interpreting all ſuch Hard Words, Whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spaniſh, French, Teutonick, Belgick, Britiſh or Saxon, as are now uſed in our refined Engliſh Tongue. […] , To the Reader:
text: […] with accents muſically ſweet
A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.
ref: 1737, R[ichard] Glover, “Book VI”, in Leonidas. A Poem., page 152:
text: A gentle breeze fills the huge sail of our dhow, and draws us through the water that ripples musically against her sides.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Prill laughed musically[.]
ref: 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 276:
glosses: In a musical manner.
examples: text: The film looked good, but was musically lacking.
text: He's alſo muſically given, and ſo light of Heel, that there are few People can out-walk him.
ref: 1734, The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turkiſh Spy who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undiſcover'd at Paris: […] , page 232:
text: Each sings the tune and words independently of his predecessor and follower, and their blending, though a collision of three sets of words and three sets of notes, is musically coherent.
ref: 1893 November 24, Owen Wister, “Catholicity in Musical Taste”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LXXII, number CCCCXXXIII:
glosses: In terms of music.
musicless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From music + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without music
Derived terms: musiclessness
Antananarivo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Madagascar.
Synonyms: Tana
Dodoma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Tanzania.
Related terms: Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑɹ.ɛs.səˈlɑm/
ipa: /ˌdɑːɹ.ɛs.səˈlɑːm/
Etymology: From Arabic دَار اَلسَّلَام (dār as-salām, “house of peace”).
Senses: glosses: The largest city in Tanzania, and former capital (till 1974).
Synonyms: Dar
Related terms: Brunei Darussalam
Dar al-Islam
VBScript
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From VB + script.
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A scripting language that is a subset of Microsoft Visual Basic.
Tipperary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɪpəˈɹɛəɹi/
Etymology: From Irish Tiobraid Árann (“Well of Ara”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Derived terms: Tipperarian
Tipperaryman
Longford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔŋfɚd/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋfəd/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋfɚd/
Etymology: From Old English lang (“long”), definite form langa + ford.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2137).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, next to Gloucester, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8320).
glosses: A number of places in England:
A small village in the borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, formerly in Middlesex, on the north side of Heathrow Airport (OS grid ref TQ0576).
glosses: A number of places in England:
The Longford River, a man-made river in Greater London, flowing from the Colne at Longford to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace.
glosses: A number of places in England:
A northern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3583).
Longford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔŋfɚd/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋfəd/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋfɚd/
Etymology: From Irish an Longfort (literally “the camp, the stronghold”), anglicized to be identical to Etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A town, the county town of County Longford, Ireland.
glosses: An earldom in the Peerage of Ireland.
Galway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒːlweː/
ipa: /ˈɡɔːlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɔlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑlweɪ/
rhymes: -ɔːlweɪ
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Gaillimh, of uncertain meaning, said to mean "stony' (referring to the River Corrib). If so, it probably derives from Old Irish calad (“hard”); compare caillou, of Gaulish origin.
Senses: examples: text: I swear I'm gonna put you in a song that I write / About a Galway Girl and a perfect night
ref: 2017, “Galway Girl”, performed by Ed Sheeran:
synonyms: County Galway
glosses: A county in the West of the Republic of Ireland.
glosses: A city in County Galway, Ireland.
glosses: A toponymic surname from Irish.
Derived terms: Galway Bay
Galway hooker
Galwayman
Galwaywoman
Galwegian
Related terms: Galloway
Galway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒːlweː/
ipa: /ˈɡɔːlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɔlweɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑlweɪ/
rhymes: -ɔːlweɪ
Forms: form: Galways
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Gaillimh, of uncertain meaning, said to mean "stony' (referring to the River Corrib). If so, it probably derives from Old Irish calad (“hard”); compare caillou, of Gaulish origin.
Senses: examples: text: In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]
ref: 1884, James Douglas Jerrold Kelley, American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races, page 161:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Ellipsis of Galway hooker.
Sligo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪɡəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪɡəʊ
Etymology: From Irish Sligeach (literally “abounding in shells”).
Senses: examples: text: In the Workmans the other night, Connell told a girl he was from Sligo and she made a funny face and said: Yeah, you look like it.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, “Three Months Later (November 2011)”, in Normal People:
glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Sligo, Ireland.
Wexford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛksfə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Old Norse Veisafjǫrðr (literally “inlet of the mudflats”), from veisa (“pool, pond”) and fjǫrðr (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland, (County Wexford).
glosses: A town in County Wexford, Ireland.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Former name of Entrelacs, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A township in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Derived terms: english: Michigan
translation: Michigan
word: Wexford County
Carlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ləʊ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ləʊ
Etymology: From Irish Ceatharlach.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Carlow, Ireland (Irish grid ref S 7276).
Cavan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkævn̩/
Etymology: From Irish an Cabhán.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: The county town of County Cavan, Ireland.
glosses: A rural community in Yass Valley council area, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A northern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
glosses: A commune in Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany, France.
Cavan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkævn̩/
Forms: form: Cavans
Etymology: Various origins:
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Caomháin (“descendant of Caomhán”), a diminutive form of the personal name Caomh.
* Borrowed from Cebuano Cavan, a surname of unexplained origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Donegal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnɪɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˌdʌnɪˈɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˌdɒnɪˈɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˈdɑnɪɡɔl/
ipa: /ˈdɑnɪɡəl/
ipa: /ˌdʌniˈɡɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Dún na nGall (literally “fort of the foreigners or strangers”).
Senses: glosses: A county in northern Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Donegal.
Coordinate terms: Far-Downer
Derived terms: Donegal Bay
Donegal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnɪɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˌdʌnɪˈɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˌdɒnɪˈɡɔːl/
ipa: /ˈdɑnɪɡɔl/
ipa: /ˈdɑnɪɡəl/
ipa: /ˌdʌniˈɡɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: Donegals
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Dún na nGall (literally “fort of the foreigners or strangers”).
Senses: glosses: A type of coarse tweed made in this county.
glosses: A coat made from this tweed.
Kildare
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪlˈdɛɹ/
ipa: /kɪlˈdɛɚ/
ipa: /kɪlˈdɛə/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Irish Cill Dara, from Old Irish Cell Daro (literally “Church of the Oak”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A town in County Kildare (Irish grid ref N 7212).
Leitrim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliːtɹɪm/
Etymology: From Irish Liatroim.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A village on the River Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland.
glosses: A village north-west of Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref J3039).
glosses: A neighbourhood of Gloucester, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Louth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /laʊð/
rhymes: -aʊð
Etymology: Named after the Irish god Lugh.
Senses: examples: text: The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.
ref: 1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282:
glosses: A county (County Louth) in the Republic of Ireland.
glosses: A village in County Louth, Ireland.
glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3287).
Meath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːð/
rhymes: -iːð
Etymology: From Middle Irish Mide.
Senses: synonyms: County Meath
glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: A former kingdom in Ireland; a petty kingdom in central eastern Ireland that existed from the 1st to the 12th century CE
Derived terms: County Meath
County of Meath
Meath County
Monaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnəhən/
/ˈmɒnəhən/
Forms: form: Monaghans
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Muineachán. The surname derives from an anglicization of Irish Ó Manacháin.
Senses: examples: text: The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.
ref: 1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282:
glosses: A placename
A county of Ireland.
glosses: A placename
A town in County Monaghan, Ireland.
glosses: An Irish surname.
Derived terms: Otonabee-South Monaghan
Related terms: Monahan
Offaly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Uíbh Fhailí.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
Westmeath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
Related terms: Meath
Wicklow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪkləʊ/
/-oʊ/
Etymology: Likely from Old Norse víkingr (“viking”), genitive indefinite plural vikinga + ló (“meadow, lea”), thus 'vikings' meadow'. Earlier spellings include Wykinglo in 1173, Wygingelow in 1185, Wykinglo in 1192, and Wykinglowe in 1355.
Senses: glosses: A county of Ireland.
glosses: The county town of County Wicklow (Irish grid ref T 3194).
Derived terms: Wicklow Mountains
Tralee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæˈliː/
ipa: /tɹəˈliː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Irish Trá Lí.
Senses: examples: text: The law was altogether without force in the highlands which lie on the south of the vale of Tralee. No officer of justice willingly ventured into those parts. One pursuivant who in 1680 attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: A town in and the county town of County Kerry, Ireland.
skin diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Swimming underwater without a diving suit.
glosses: Free-diving.
skin diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skin-diving.
skin-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skin-dive
skin-dive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skin-dives
form: skin-diving
form: skin-dived
form: skin-dove
form: skin-dived
Senses: glosses: To swim underwater with equipment.
sipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sippers
Etymology: From sip + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sips.
glosses: A glass with a narrow tube on one side, for sipping port, etc.
glosses: A drinking straw.
sippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sipper
riverine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvəɹaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ.ɪn/
ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ.in/
ipa: /ˈɹɪvɚ.aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: more riverine
form: most riverine
form: technical
Etymology: From river + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: "Indian legends would alone have been my guide, for I found that rumors of a strange land were common among all the riverine tribes."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).
ref: 2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46:
text: 2017: We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution" by R. Alexander Pyron in the Washington Post
When beavers make a dam, they cause the local extinction of numerous riverine species that cannot survive in the new lake.
text: The meeting – titled Amazon: Centre of the World – brought together hundreds of forest guardians and their supporters, including indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, riverine communities, quilombolas, environmental activists, academics, artists, Catholic bishops, nuns and European visitors from Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future.
ref: 2019 November 18, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon deforestation 'at highest level in a decade'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or pertaining to rivers, or located on or by a river; inhabiting a river or its surrounds.
Synonyms: fluvial
Derived terms: riverine rabbit
Related terms: estuarine
riparian
annunciator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annunciators
Etymology: From Latin [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Anything that announces something.
glosses: Anything that announces something.
An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated.
glosses: A signalling device that shows which of several electrical circuits is active, especially such a device in a telephone switchboard.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A buzzer in a signal box that sounds when a train activates a treadle positioned on the track, and thus provides a warning or announcement of a nearby train.
red top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red tops
Etymology: The titles of these newspapers are traditionally presented on a red banner at the top of the front page.
Senses: examples: text: Just as broadsheets only exceptionally outsell any of the tabloids, so middle-market tabloids—the Mail and Express—only rarely outsell the red tops (although the upmarket Sunday Times outsells the mid-market Express on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday outsells The People).
ref: 1997 August 13, Brian Macarthur, “Diana: mover and shaker”, in The Times:
text: Tabloids have their own language. Maybe it's because the pages are smaller than the broadsheet papers, or perhaps it's because they have to make room to fit all those pictures of Jordan in her knickers in each day, but tabloidese is a language and a skill peculiar to the red tops.
ref: 2010, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A tabloid newspaper, particularly one of those considered to have lower journalistic standards than the broadsheets.
Related terms: black top
interfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interface
interfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interfacings
Senses: glosses: A layer of fabric inserted between other layers of a garment to provide stiffening
unhearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hearing.
Senses: examples: text: [She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:
text: Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 272:
antonyms: hearing
glosses: Not hearing.
PATA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of parallel ATA: a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk.
cold shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold shoulder
cold shoulders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cold shoulder
cohabitants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohabitant
coffeepots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffeepot
coffeecakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffeecake
nicknames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickname
ATA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: AT + attachment
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)
Synonyms: AT Attachment
Advanced Technology Attachment
IDE
Integrated Device Electronics
Integrated Drive Electronics
Coordinate terms: EIDE
Derived terms: PATA
SATA
ATA-33
ATA-66
ATA-100
ATA-133
Related terms: SCSI
iSCSI
SAS
ESDI
ATA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of anti-transglutaminerase antibody.
ATA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Initialism of American Taekwondo Association.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: Initialism of American Tennis Association.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Allen Telescope Array.
glosses: Initialism of American Telemedicine Association.
glosses: Initialism of Automotive Technician Accreditation.
glosses: Initialism of Alberta Teachers' Association, a trade union in Alberta.
intimidates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intimidate
pumpjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpjack
vanadites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadite