cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
advisory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈvaɪzəɹi/
ipa: /ædˈvaɪz(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: advisories
Etymology: From advise + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The Coast Guard issued a small craft advisory, warning little boats to watch out for bad weather.
glosses: A warning.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A warning.
Official information issued by the National Weather Service that highlights special weather conditions that are less serious than a warning. They are for events that may cause significant inconvenience, and if caution is not exercised, it could lead to situations that may threaten life and/or property.
examples: text: Every morning, every 20 students on discipline, will [be under] the advisory of one teacher for 20 minutes.
ref: 1996 March 24, Michigan Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “School Discipline and the Community: Local School Districts, the Judicial System, and Community Programs”, in Discipline in Michigan Public Schools and Government Enforcement of Equal Education Opportunity, page 31:
text: After that, however, the village made steady progress in establishing a system of collective agriculture and communal organization under the advisory of the SERA.
ref: 2017 December 4, Daniel Mann, “Appendix 3: Impressions from Liweta and Namatuhi”, in The smell of Ujamaa is still there[:] Tanzania's Path of Development between Grassroots Socialism and Central State Control in Ruvuma, Würzburg University Press, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: Supervision by an advisor.
Hyponyms: resolution advisory
traffic advisory
Related terms: adviso
aviso
fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraction
fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fraction
conk out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conks out
form: conking out
form: conked out
form: conked out
form: konk out
Etymology: Possibly an onomatopoeic imitation of the sound of a stalling internal combustion engine. Possibly coined by British motorcyclists circa 1910.
Senses: examples: text: He wasn't there, just the dog, conked out on the porch.
text: “We're in the middle of the goddamn ocean!” “Yes we are.” [Laughing] “Well, what are we gonna do?” “Well, we're gonna conk out for a while... and let the current gently roll us back to shore.” “Frank, the current is what brought us out here in the first place. If anything, we should be paddling against it to get back to the beach.” “I'm gonna pretend like I didn't hear that.”
ref: 2011 September 22, Dave Chernin & John Chernin, “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore” (8:10 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 7, episode 2, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):
synonyms: zonk out
glosses: To fall fast asleep; to sleep soundly.
examples: text: The old car conked out halfway up the hill.
text: So, if you want to race your dog, plan a 25-kilometer race on a hot summer day. He'll conk out.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To stop functioning.
examples: text: He lived to be 90, then conked out in his sleep.
text: JOHN LE MESURIER Wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.
ref: 1983, John Le Mesurier, self-penned death notice in The Times (16 November)
glosses: To die.
blackhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackheads
Etymology: From black + head.
Senses: examples: text: See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are blackheads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night.
ref: 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
text: Wallace sees a cluster of tiny blackheads at the corner of his nose.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 215:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: open comedo
coordinate_terms: whitehead
glosses: A type of comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
glosses: A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
glosses: A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
Derived terms: english: second sense
translation: second sense
word: blackheaded
get taken in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets taken in
form: getting taken in
form: got taken in
form: got taken in
form: gotten taken in
Senses: examples: text: I wonder how many people will get taken in by their addition of a fancy-looking front panel to a crummy device.
glosses: To be fooled; to fall for.
examples: text: When her mother died, she got taken in by the next-door neighbour.
glosses: To be unofficially fostered.
Synonyms: be taken in
grams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gram.
Senses: glosses: plural of gram
grams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grams
Etymology: Diminutive of grandmother.
Senses: glosses: grandmother
fall for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls for
form: falling for
form: fell for
form: fallen for
Senses: examples: text: I can't believe how many people still fall for the coin glued to the sidewalk.
glosses: To be fooled by; to walk into (a trap) or respond to (a scam or trick).
examples: text: He really fell for the attractive waitress at his favorite restaurant.
text: They told me he was bad / But I knew he was sad / That's why I fell for the Leader of the Pack
ref: 1965, George Morton, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, “Leader of the Pack”, performed by The Shangri-Las:
text: The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Beautiful hearts are in your eyes / I've been waiting for you to fall for me / And let me in your life
ref: 2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:
glosses: To fall in love with.
Related terms: word: dupe
word: dupe
word: fall guy
fooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːld/
rhymes: -uːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fool
swear off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swears off
form: swearing off
form: swore off
form: sworn off
Senses: examples: text: One of these days, he thinks he will swear off his nightly television regimen and get some exercise.
glosses: To quit or cease completely, or to promise to quit, as a bad habit.
blacktop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈblæktɒp/
Forms: form: blacktops
form: black top
form: black-top
Etymology: From black + top.
Senses: examples: text: Then I was around the hill on the blacktop and in another country.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 284:
glosses: Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac).
glosses: A road so paved.
examples: text: At one time, students were able to play basketball on the blacktop behind the school building, and teachers were also able to park on campus. Now, teachers park on the streets, and there is no place for students to let off steam with casual, non-organized sports before or after school.
ref: 2008, Terrence E. Deal, Ted Purinton, Daria Cook Waetjen, Making Sense of Social Networks in Schools, Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press and the American Association of School Administrators, →ISBN, page 64:
text: From the dismissive receptionist in the main office to the lines on the school blacktop for dropping off and picking up children, schools often make parents feel that they must justify their presence.
ref: 2020, Soo Hong, Natural Allies: Hope and Possibility in Teacher-Family Partnerships, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot.
Hypernyms: sense: paved area on a schoolground
word: schoolyard
blacktop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈblæktɒp/
Forms: form: blacktops
form: blacktopping
form: blacktopped
form: blacktopped
form: black top
form: black-top
Etymology: From black + top.
Senses: examples: text: The county first blacktopped that road decades ago
glosses: To pave with blacktop.
Linnaeus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Linnæus
form: Linné
Etymology: From Swedish Linnæus, from New Latin Linnaeus, from Swedish lind (“linden tree, lime tree”), in reference to a giant linden tree that grew on the family homestead of Carl Linnaeus.
Senses: glosses: Carl (or the latinized Carolus) Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."
Derived terms: Linnaean
Linnæan
Linnean
Linneus
Related terms: binomial nomenclature
take to one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to one's heels
form: taking to one's heels
form: took to one's heels
form: taken to one's heels
Senses: examples: text: [T]hen, confused and frightened, he took to his heels; and, not knowing what he did, made off as fast as he could lay his feet to the ground.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Oliver Twist:
text: Of a sudden, however, a man broke from their company, took to his heels, and fled into the church.
ref: 1908, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 26, in In the South Seas:
text: After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels.
ref: 1955 July 4, “Art: Patriot Painter”, in Time:
text: Often tax defaulters would take to their heels on sighting the tax collectors.
ref: 2010, Dr Oliver Akamnonu, Arranged Marriage and the Vanishing Roots, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: To leave, especially to flee or run away.
Synonyms: make tracks
Related terms: take to the hills
custodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈstoʊdiən/
rhymes: -əʊdiən
Forms: form: custodians
Etymology: From a shortening of Latin custōdiānātus, from Latin custōdia (“a keeping, watch, guard, prison”), from custōs (“a keeper, watchman, guard”). By surface analysis, custody + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: After their parents' death, their aunt became the children's custodian.
text: The building's custodian could fix nearly anything. The place always looked great!
text: The middle class is the. demitone of human society, custodian of the balance, and no fair social order could exist without the cooperation of this class.
ref: 1947, David Saavedra, Go South Young Man, page 80:
text: Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.
ref: 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021:
glosses: A person entrusted with the custody or care of something or someone; a caretaker or keeper.
glosses: An administrator.
glosses: A goalkeeper.
glosses: A protector or guard.
glosses: A janitor; a cleaner.
Derived terms: cryptocustodian
custodianship
Related terms: custodial
custody
unsettled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsettled
form: most unsettled
Senses: examples: text: I was unsettled by the sudden outburst, and since I didn't know what to do I just stood there, confused.
text: Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the publishers to obtain accurate and complete information has exceeded anything that would have been possible twelve months earlier.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
glosses: Disturbed, upset.
glosses: Not in a steady condition, uncertain, subject to change.
glosses: Not populated, having no settlers or other inhabitants.
examples: text: We need to settle this bill; even if you think the charge is too high we can't just leave it unsettled.
glosses: Unpaid.
unsettled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsettle
nondenominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-denominational
form: nondenom
form: non-denom
Etymology: From non- + denominational.
Senses: examples: text: There will be a nondenominational service, open to all, on Saturday beneath the redwoods.
synonyms: nonsectarian
antonyms: denominational
coordinate_terms: interdenominational
ecumenic
ecumenical
glosses: Having no denomination; not specific to a particular religion or sect.
Derived terms: nondenominationality
Related terms: word: nondenominationalism
word: nondenominationally
nondenominational
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nondenominationals
form: non-denominational
form: nondenom
form: non-denom
Etymology: From non- + denominational.
Senses: glosses: One who does not belong to a specific denomination.
pummeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His opponent was smaller but faster, and he got pummeled.
glosses: simple past and past participle of pummel
wetware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wet + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the "wetware"— the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.
ref: 1963, Walter Millis, James Real, The Abolition of War, Macmillan, page xv:
text: … cyberpunk dream to leave behind the fallible "meat" or "wetware" of the body by entering the datasphere ...
ref: 2001, Dr. Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to 'The X-Files, Routledge, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Over the weekend, an impressive crossword-solving computer program, called Dr. Fill, which I wrote about earlier, matched its digital wits against the wetware of 600 of the nation’s best human solvers at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.
ref: 2012 March 18, Steve Lohr, “In Crosswords, It’s Man Over Machine, for Now”, in NYT, retrieved 17 Sep 2012:
glosses: The human brain or mind, often specifically as a computing element. Adapted as a biological parallel to hardware and software. It also used less commonly to refer to other organic or biological matter in the same context. In frequent use in the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.
glosses: The underlying generative code for an organism, as found in the genetic material, in the biochemistry of the cells, or in the architecture of the body’s tissues.
wheedler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheedlers
Etymology: From wheedle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who wheedles.
overlarge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/
Forms: form: more overlarge
form: most overlarge
Etymology: From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.
Senses: examples: text: After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.
text: The house felt overlarge and oversilent with just the two of us, but I was relishing the peace of the kitchen.
ref: 2020, Susan Isaacs, Takes One To Know One:
glosses: Excessively large; too big; oversize.
Derived terms: overlargely
overlargeness
overlarge
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈlɑːdʒ/
Forms: form: more overlarge
form: most overlarge
Etymology: From Middle English overlarge, equivalent to over- + large.
Senses: examples: text: I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
glosses: Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
woundwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woundworts
Etymology: From wound + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Any of several plants of the genus Stachys
glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Achillea millefolium (soldier's woundwort)
glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Anthyllis vulneraria (kidney vetch)
glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Solidago virgaurea (European golden-rod)
glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Bellis perennis (English daisy)
glosses: Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.
Prunella vulgaris (common self-heal)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Stachys palustris
word: clown's woundwort
taxonomic: Stachys arvensis
word: corn woundwort
taxonomic: Stachys arvensis
word: field woundwort
taxonomic: Stachys sylvatica
word: hedge woundwort
taxonomic: Stachys palustris
word: marsh woundwort
taxonomic: Achillea millefolium
word: soldier's woundwort
Related terms: english: Hepatica spp.; Marchantiopsida spp.
translation: Hepatica spp.; Marchantiopsida spp.
word: liverwort
taxonomic: Pulmonaria spp.
word: lungwort
taxonomic: Asplenium spp.
word: spleenwort
alt: Cardamine subg. Dentaria spp.
word: toothwort
poultice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊltɪs/
Forms: form: poultices
Etymology: From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.
Senses: examples: text: The poultice relaxeth the pores.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.
glosses: A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.
Synonyms: cataplasm
Derived terms: bread poultice
poulticelike
poultice pavement
poulticewise
poultice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊltɪs/
Forms: form: poultices
form: poulticing
form: poulticed
form: poulticed
Etymology: From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.
Senses: glosses: To treat with a poultice.
well-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-born
form: most well-born
Senses: glosses: Noble; born into the upper classes.
VMI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Virginia Military Institute.
VMI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of vendor-managed inventory.
stainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stain + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Lead is used as part of the tumbler’s vacuum insulation and is covered by a stainless steel layer that protects consumers from lead exposure, according to the Stanley cup manufacturer, Pacific Market International.
ref: 2024 January 26, Madeline Holcombe and Sandee LaMotte, “Stanley and other drink cups contain lead. Should you be worried?”, in CNN:
glosses: Describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration.
glosses: Unmarked, spotless.
examples: text: After that there were boastings in Hereot! Then did the warriors brag before their stainless queen.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 28:
glosses: Free from sin; morally pure.
Synonyms: sense: resistant to corrosion
word: rustproof
stainless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stainlesses
Etymology: From stain + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The conveyors are made entirely of stainless and the whole facility is designed for regular washdowns.
glosses: Ellipsis of stainless steel.
exchequer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/
ipa: /ɪksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/
enpr: ĕks-chĕk'-ər
enpr: iks-chĕk'-ər
Forms: form: exchequers
form: exchecker
Etymology: From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”); from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the treasurer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.
Senses: glosses: An office of revenue taxation; a treasury.
glosses: An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
Derived terms: english: The UK government treasury department
translation: The UK government treasury department
word: Exchequer
word: exchequer bill
word: exchequership
exchequer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/
ipa: /ɪksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/
enpr: ĕks-chĕk'-ər
enpr: iks-chĕk'-ər
Forms: form: exchequers
form: exchequering
form: exchequered
form: exchequered
form: exchecker
Etymology: From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”); from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the treasurer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.
Senses: glosses: To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.
Exchequer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Proprialization of exchequer.
Senses: synonyms: Treasury
hypernyms: exchequer
;
finance ministry
ministry of finance
treasury department
treasury
glosses: The government department that collects and manages revenue.
Derived terms: Chancellor of the Exchequer
conceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concede
betting parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betting parlors
Senses: glosses: A business establishment for the placing of wagers on athletic competitions and horse or dog races.
Related terms: betting shop
cuisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪs/
ipa: /kwiːs/
rhymes: -ɪs
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: cuisses
form: cuish
form: quish
form: quisse
Etymology: From French cuisse (“thigh”); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot (“armour for the thigh, cuish”). Doublet of coxa.
Senses: synonyms: cuisset
cuissette
cuisser
cush
coordinate_terms: cuissard
chausse
chausson
glosses: Defensive armour (especially of plate) for the thigh.
Related terms: quisser
quisset
trippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪ.pi/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: trippier
form: trippiest
Etymology: From trip + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Someone says there's something more to pay
for sins that you committed yesterday;
it's really rather drippy
but something oh so trippy.
Something happened to me yesterday.
ref: 1967, Jagger–Richards, “Something Happened to Me Yesterday”, in Between the Buttons, performed by The Rolling Stones:
text: Arguably, without Jones, Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-74) would not have revolutionised British TV comedy. He was key in developing the show’s distinctively trippy, stream-of-consciousness format, where each surreal set-up (the Lumberjack Song, the upper-class twit of the year show, the dead parrot, or the fish-slapping dance) flowed into the next, unpunctuated by punchlines.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
Synonyms: lysergic
psychedelic
Related terms: guilt-trippy
a rolling stone gathers no moss
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈɹol.ɪŋ stoʊn ˈɡæð.əɹz noʊ mɔs/
Senses: glosses: A person who never settles in one place will never be successful.
glosses: A person must keep active in order to avoid stagnating.
Related terms: alt: antiproverb
word: a rolling stone gathers momentum
word: let the grass grow under one's feet
catwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catwalks
Etymology: From cat + walk.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel.
examples: text: The lengthening [of the District Line platforms] is being done so that passengers will no longer have to use the narrow catwalks to enter and leave the front and rear portions of eight-car trains.
ref: 1963 June, “News and Comment: Victoria line engineering works”, in Modern Railways, page 370:
glosses: Any similar elevated walkway.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
synonyms: runway
glosses: A narrow elevated stage on which models parade.
glosses: The business of making clothes for fashion shows.
Derived terms: catwalklike
pulverise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulverises
form: pulverising
form: pulverised
form: pulverised
form: pulverize
Etymology: Borrowed from French pulvériser, from Latin pulverizo, pulverizare, from pulvis (“powder”).
Senses: glosses: To render into dust or powder.
glosses: To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
glosses: To defeat soundly, thrash.
examples: text: the stone pulverises easily
glosses: To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
Synonyms: word: pulver
Related terms: nebulize
vaporize
en prise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Undefended, able to be captured.
raw_tags: of a piece
untranslatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌnˌtɹænz.leɪt.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more untranslatable
form: most untranslatable
Etymology: From un- + translatable.
Senses: examples: text: They referred to de Gaulle as a chienlit, a totally untranslatable term that suggests defecation in bed.
glosses: Not able to be translated.
Derived terms: untranslatability
untranslatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌnˌtɹænz.leɪt.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: untranslatables
Etymology: From un- + translatable.
Senses: glosses: A word or phrase that is impossible to translate satisfactorily from one language to another.
Orlando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr-lănʹ-dō
ipa: /ɔɹˈlæn.doʊ/
ipa: /ɔːˈlæn.dəʊ/
rhymes: -ændəʊ
Etymology: From Italian Orlando (“Roland”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Hrōþiland. The city in Florida has gone by the name since 1857, perhaps in honor of the soldier Orlando Reeves, whom the Seminoles killed there in 1835. Previously, it had been settled in 1844 as Jernigan. Doublet of Roland.
Senses: examples: text: St. Oswald's boys were not called Ben. St Oswald's boys were called Leon, or Jasper, or Rufus or Sebastian. A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint.
ref: 2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: A male given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname from Italian derived from the given name.
examples: text: “This pertains to employees in DC, NY, Las Vegas and Orlando. TFG continues to pay chefs and restaurants managers responsible for operating the community kitchens,” the company said.
ref: 2020 May 15, Parija Kavilanz, “Why this chef keeps showing up at disaster zones”, in CNN:
glosses: A city, the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States; see Orlando, Florida.
Related terms: Orlando Furioso
pied noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpjɛdˈnwɑː/
ipa: /ˌpjeɪˈnwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: pieds noirs
Etymology: From French pied noir. See Pied-Noir § Etymology on Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: Oran, the second city of Algeria, was even more European than Algiers; in fact, with 300,000 pied noir inhabitants to 150,000 Muslims, it was the only centre where they predominated.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 47:
text: His parents were pieds-noirs from Algeria who moved to Morocco, so he spent early childhood in Tangier, leaving him with a love for the Mediterranean, a penchant for cultural mixing and an abiding affection for donkeys.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Someone of European origin living in North Africa, especially Algeria, under French rule, particularly one who was repatriated to mainland France after Algerian independence.
wikipedia: Pied-Noir#Etymology
shit one's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits one's pants
form: shitting one's pants
form: shit one's pants
form: shit one's pants
form: shitted one's pants
form: shitted one's pants
form: shat one's pants
form: shat one's pants
Senses: glosses: Synonym of crap one's pants.
synonyms: word: crap one's pants
Synonyms: word: crap one's pants
sense: used other than as an idiom, to be extremely frightened, shocked or in disbelief
word: shit oneself
Related terms: pants-shittingly
scared shitless
scare the shit out of
invaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Medieval Latin invāgīnātus, past participle of Medieval Latin invāgīnāre, from in- + vāgīna (“sheath”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: sheathed
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.
invaginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: invaginates
form: invaginating
form: invaginated
form: invaginated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin invāgīnātus, past participle of Medieval Latin invāgīnāre, from in- + vāgīna (“sheath”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To fold up or enclose into a sheath-like or pouch-like structure, either naturally or as part of a surgical procedure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To turn or fold inwardly.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To fold inward to create a hollow space where none had existed, as with a gastrula forming from a blastula.
Derived terms: invagination
invaginator
uninvaginated
safflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæfˌlaʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: safflowers
Etymology: From Middle French safleur; originally from Arabic أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”) but influenced by safran (“saffron”) and fleur (“flower”).
Senses: examples: text: Safflower is unusual: if you add alkalis to the dye broth it is yellow; with acids it goes a beautiful crimson pink which is the colour of the original ‘red’ tape once tied around legal documents in England […].
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, page 195:
glosses: A cultivated thistle-like plant, Carthamus tinctorius, family Asteraceae, now grown mainly for its oil.
Synonyms: bastard saffron
saguaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈ(ɡ)wɑɹoʊ/
/səˈ(ɡ)wɑɹə/
Forms: form: saguaros
form: sahuaro
form: sawarra
form: suwarro
form: suwarrow
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish saguaro, from a Taracahitic Uto-Aztecan language, probably Yaqui, Mayo or Opata.
Senses: examples: text: The Suwarrow or Saguaro of the natives.
ref: 1858, George Engelmann, Cactaceae of the Boundary, C. giganteus, page 42:
text: The Pitella (pronounced Pitayo) and the Saguaro are the most prized.
ref: 1870, William Abraham Bell, New Tracks in North America: A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean During 1867-8:
glosses: Carnegiea gigantea, a large cactus native to the Sonoran Desert and characterized by its "arms".
Derived terms: saguaro boot
saguaro cactus
saguaro fruit
saguaro stack
sainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saint
sainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sainted
form: most sainted
Senses: examples: text: Pope John Paul II, of sainted memory, is a candidate for beatification.
glosses: Made a saint; saint-like, reverenced.
examples: text: My sainted mother never had an evening dress.
glosses: Used to mark a beloved person mentioned in conversation as being deceased.
glosses: Pious, saintly.
glosses: Much admired.
Synonyms: sense: made a saint
word: blessed
sense: made a saint
word: holy
sense: of a deceased person
word: of blessed memory
sense: of a deceased person
word: late
sense: of a deceased person
word: late lamented
Derived terms: my sainted aunt
my sainted uncle
salaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more salaciously
form: most salaciously
Etymology: From salacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a salacious manner.
satinwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satinwoods
Etymology: From satin + wood.
Senses: glosses: Woody trees in family Rutaceae
Chloroxylon swietenia (Ceylon or East Indian satinwood)
glosses: Woody trees in family Rutaceae
Zanthoxylum flavum (Jamaican satinwood or West Indian satinwood).
glosses: Woody trees in family Rutaceae
Chloroxylon faho (Madagascar satinwood)
glosses: Woody trees in family Rutaceae
Murraya paniculata, from southeast Asia and Australia
glosses: Woody trees in family Rutaceae
Nematolepis squamea, from Australia
examples: text: On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
glosses: Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia or Zanthoxylum flavum.
satyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: satiric
Forms: form: more satyric
form: most satyric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σατυρικός (saturikós), from σάτυρος (sáturos).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a satyr.
sauterne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sauternes
Etymology: A deliberate misspelling by American vintners of the name of the famed French wine region Sauternes and the wines they produce.
Senses: glosses: A wine imitating those of Sauternes.
Sauternes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /soʊˈtəɹn/
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A region of France known for producing dessert wines.
Sauternes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /soʊˈtəɹn/
Forms: form: Sauternes
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: A wine produced in Sauternes, such as the prestigious Château d'Yquem.
secessionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secessionists
Etymology: From secession + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Gustav Klimt was of the Viennese secessionist school.
antonyms: centralist
coordinate_terms: devolutionist
glosses: A person who secedes or supports secession from a political union or an alliance or organisation.
Related terms: secede
secession
secessionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more secessionist
form: most secessionist
Etymology: From secession + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The principality of Freedonia (www.freedonia.org), an earnest collective of secessionist superlibertarians based in Boston, falls into the first category.
ref: 2000 March 24, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2005:
glosses: Seceding or supporting secession.
self-abuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/
Forms: form: self-abuses
form: self-abusing
form: self-abused
form: self-abused
Etymology: From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
Senses: glosses: To harm oneself.
qualifier: now frequently ironic or humorous
glosses: To masturbate.
Related terms: self-care
jinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪŋk.iz/
Senses: examples: text: "Jinkies, that's the man from the dart game!" Velma exclaimed.
ref: 1999, Scooby-Doo, Golden Books:
text: Jinkies! Tweety's Back!
ref: 2004, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed:
text: “Jinkies, Holly,” I said calmly. “Hold your horses.”
ref: 2004, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel, page 104:
text: MEANWHILE... “JINKIES! WE'RE TRAPPED!! IF ONLY I BROUGHT MY AUTO-LASER!” “BUT AT LEAST YOU GOT ME OUT OF THOSE PERVERT-SKELETONS' CLUTCHES WITH THE BEAM-SABER.” “JUST STAY BEHIND ME, GINA. I CAN HOLD THESE CREEPS OFF UNTIL HELP ARRIVES...”
ref: 2020 December 9, Fred Perry, Gold Digger Omnibus #1, Antarctic Press:
glosses: Expressing surprise or amazement.
shortsightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shortsighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-sightedness.
showgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showgirls
Etymology: From show + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: chorine, chorus girl
text: She was a Las Vegas showgirl when she was younger.
hypernyms: showperson#Noun
performer#Noun
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person#Noun
coordinate_terms: showboy#Noun
;
showwoman#Noun
showman#Noun
glosses: A female performer in any of various (usually live) entertainment roles, usually including dancing and singing, often exotically or provocatively costumed.
papaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: papavers
Etymology: From the genus name, from Latin papāver. Doublet of poppy.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.
Derived terms: papaverous
Boaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.əz/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.əz/
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew בֹּעַז (Bṓʿaz).
Senses: examples: text: Then said Boaz vnto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Goe not to gleane in another field, neither goe from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 2:8:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The second husband of Ruth, the father of Obed, the son of Salmon
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Boase
coronet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹənɪt/
ipa: /kɒɹəˈnɛt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹənɪt/
ipa: /kɔɹəˈnɛt/
Forms: form: coronets
Etymology: From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater; a crow; anything curved or hooked (like a door handle or the tip of a bow); a type of crown”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 158:
glosses: A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
glosses: The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
glosses: The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
glosses: Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
glosses: Any of species Craniophora ligustri of moths.
Synonyms: english: infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet
translation: infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet
word: ensign
english: OF-1
translation: OF-1
word: second lieutenant
word: first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer
Derived terms: coronetted
coronitis
semicoronet
chamberlain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚlɪn/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəlɪn/
Forms: form: chamberlains
Etymology: From Middle English chamberlein, chaumberlein, chaumberleyn, from Anglo-Norman chamberlenc, Old French chamberlayn, chamberlenc (“chamberlain”), from Frankish *kamarling (“chamberlain”), equivalent to *kamer (“chamber”) + *-ling (“-ling”). Cognate with Old High German chamarling (“chamberlain”). Compare also Late Latin camerārius. More at chamber, -ling.
Senses: glosses: A senior royal official in charge of superintending the arrangement of domestic affairs and often charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber, especially in the United Kingdom and in Denmark.
glosses: A high officer of state, as currently with the papal camerlengo, but normally now a mainly honorary title.
glosses: An upper servant of an inn.
Derived terms: archchamberlain
chamberlainship
underchamberlain
honeymoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honeymoon
honeymoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of honeymoon
catenaccio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian catenaccio, literally "bolt (for a door)".
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A system of defensive play focused on nullifying opponents' attacks and preventing goal-scoring opportunities, typically using a libero.
Related terms: park the bus
metalithium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + lithium.
Senses: glosses: A heavy isotope of the simplest alkali metal, (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and containing 8 neutrons. Metalithium is an artificial isotope produced by bombarding Lithium 7 with neutrons. It is radioactive, with a half-life of 0.84 seconds.
Bel Paese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛl pɑːˈeɪzeɪ/
ipa: /ˌbɛl pɑːˈeɪzɪ/
ipa: /ˌbɛl pɑˈeɪzi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Bel Paese, from bel paese (literary for “Italy”, literally “fair, beautiful country”).
Senses: glosses: A soft, mild, creamy Italian cheese shaped in small disks and produced from cow's milk, originally from Lombardy.
caciocavallo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːtʃəʊkəˈvɑːləʊ/
Forms: form: caciocavallos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian caciocavallo, from cacio (“cheese”) + a cavallo (“on horseback”), from Sicilian casucavaḍḍu, from the custom of draping two cheeses over a pole to dry. Doublet of kashkaval.
Senses: glosses: An Italian cheese, similar to provolone, originally from Sicily and the South.
Related terms: kashkaval
nidificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈdɪfɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: nidificates
form: nidificating
form: nidificated
form: nidificated
Etymology: First attested in 1814; borrowed from Latin nīdificātus, perfect passive participle of nīdificō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from nīdus (“a nest, dwelling of animals”) + -ficō (“to make, build”). Doublet of nidify and cognate with French nidifier.
Senses: synonyms: nidify
nidulate
nest#Verb
glosses: To make or build a nest.
Related terms: nidifugous
idolatrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more idolatrous
form: most idolatrous
form: idololatrous
Etymology: From idolatry + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: the priests of an idolatrous religion
text: Once Robert Smellie found her in a ruinous kirk on the Lang Muir, where of old the idolatrous rites of Rome were practiced.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Partaking in idolatry; worshipping idols or false gods.
examples: text: An idolatrous veneration for antiquity.
glosses: Engaging in excessive attachment or reverence; inordinately or profanely devoted.
examples: text: An idolatrous image or temple.
glosses: Used in or designed for idolatry; devoted to idols or idol-worship.
examples: text: Next morning, I sent two of my companions to make enquiry about our prospects, but they returned in the afternoon to report that things were not at all promising, as a number of shopkeepers who traded in articles used for idolatrous worship had already engaged the Towncrier to go round and announce that anyone who rented, leased, or sold premises to the "Jesus-Church" would be seized and buried alive!
ref: 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 75:
glosses: Of or pertaining to idolatry.
Derived terms: idolatrousness
nonidolatrous
unidolatrous
Related terms: idolatry
idolatrously
autotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)tɹəʊf/
ipa: /ˈɔtəˌtɹoʊf/
Forms: form: autotrophs
Etymology: From auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).
Senses: examples: text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
Synonyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: producer
Coordinate terms: heterotroph
Derived terms: autotrophic
autotrophically
autotrophy
chemoautotroph
lithoautotroph
photoautotroph
photolithoautotroph
picoautotroph
thioautotroph
Related terms: extremophile
idolatrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more idolatrously
form: most idolatrously
Etymology: From idolatrous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.
ref: 1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:
glosses: In an idolatrous manner.
eben
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eben
form: most eben
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.
eben
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more eben
form: most eben
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English.
Dougherty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doughertys
Etymology: Variant of Doherty.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Dawson County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Murray County, Oklahoma, United States.
Derived terms: Dougherty County
umbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of umbilicus.
umbi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of umbilical.