cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corncob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈkɔɹn.kɒb/
enpr: kôrnʹ-kŏb
ipa: /ˈkɔɹn.kɑb/
Forms: form: corncobs
form: corncobbing
form: corncobbed
form: corncobbed
form: corn-cob
form: corn
form: cob
Etymology: From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.
Senses: glosses: To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
raw_tags: of turbines and rotor blades
examples: text: “Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”
ref: 2017 July 18, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN:
text: Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.
ref: 2017 September 4, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen:
text: Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig
ref: 2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11
glosses: To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
corned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Consisting of grains; granulated.
examples: text: Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
ref: 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN:
glosses: Preserved in salt.
raw_tags: of meat
examples: text: A year ago last Fo'th July / A lot of the boys was here. / We all got corned and signed the pledge / For to drink no more that year.
ref: 1890, John Hay, “The Pledge at Spunky Point”, in Poems, page 30:
glosses: Drunk.
Derived terms: corned beef
corned-out
uncorned
corned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corn
coronae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊniː/
ipa: /-aɪ/
ipa: /-eɪ/
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊniː/
ipa: /-aɪ/
ipa: /-eɪ/
Senses: synonyms: coronas
glosses: plural of corona
cortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cortex
Synonyms: cortexes
cosmetician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmeticians
Etymology: From cosmetics + -ician.
Senses: examples: text: Is that like a cosmetician? "A cosmetician can refer to a person with little training," she explained, "who works, say, in a department store to sell and apply makeup."
ref: 1990 June 10, William Safire, “On Language; Cosmetological Chartist”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
text: And interestingly, many cosmeticians predict that high-def could actually reduce the amount of plastic surgery in Hollywood, because the tiny seams look Frankensteinian at such high resolution.
ref: 2005 June 12, Clive Thompson, “Not Ready for Their Close-Up”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2021:
glosses: A person skilled at applying cosmetics.
glosses: A person who manufactures or sells cosmetics.
Synonyms: beautician
cosmetologist
cosmogonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmogonists
Etymology: From cosmogony + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a person who studies cosmogony
cotton-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays.
ref: 1859, Opportunities for Industry and the Safe Investment of Capital:
glosses: The harvesting of cotton
cotton-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cotton-pickin'
Senses: examples: text: "Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,"
ref: 1959, U.S. Army Aviation Center, U.S. Army Aviation School, United States Army aviation digest, page 31:
text: "Oh, wait one damn cotton-picking minute," Andy said.
ref: 1967, Howard Fast., The Hunter and the Trap, page 14:
text: I think the President's Adviser on Domestic Affairs should keep his cotton-picking hands off the economic policy for a change.
ref: 1975, Richard M Nixon - Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President:
text: Santana spat, “You've got to be out of your cotton-picking mind. Who the hell would go back to that place?”
ref: 2019, Larry Johns, The Devil's Breath:
glosses: An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value.
examples: text: "...are not entitled to anything, Mrs. Wright, (referring to one of the appellees), because your son (referring to the deceased, F.A. Wright, Jr.), was a cotton picking Negro."
ref: 1965, “American law reports annotated. second series”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 76, page 1276:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, picking.
cottonseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonseeds
form: cotton-seed
form: cotton seed
Etymology: From cotton + seed.
Senses: glosses: The seed of the cotton plant.
synonyms: cottonweed
cottontop
glosses: The composite Micropus.
Derived terms: cottonseed meal
cottonseed oil
cottonseed meal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The residue of ground cottonseed after extraction of cottonseed oil; used as a constituent of oilseed cake.
cottonseed oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonseed oils
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
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vegetable oil
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oil
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glosses: A pale yellow vegetable oil extracted from cottonseed; used in salad dressings, margarine, etc.
rootlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootlets
Etymology: From root + -let.
Senses: examples: text: She can almost hear them pushing up through the soil, their rootlets sniffing for nutrients and crowding the rootlets of their neighbours, their leaves releasing clouds of airborne chemicals.
ref: 2013, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, Bloomsbury, page 208:
glosses: One of the smallest roots, hair roots.
Related terms: rootling
oilseed cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilseed cakes
Senses: glosses: Any of various varieties of animal feed manufactured from the meal remaining after vegetable oil has been extracted from seeds such as cottonseed and groundnut
rosebush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊzˌbʊʃ/
Forms: form: rosebushes
Etymology: From rose + bush.
Senses: glosses: The shrub that roses grow on; a rose plant.
Synonyms: word: rosier
romantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more romantically
form: most romantically
Etymology: From romantic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She began asking the question, “Were you friends with your partner before you became romantically involved?” in her other research and conducted a meta-analysis for this paper.
ref: 2021 July 20, Sarah Molano, “Most romantic relationships start as friendships, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: In a romantic way.
roomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rumor
Forms: form: roomers
Etymology: From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).
Senses: examples: text: Many years ago, while rummaging through cartons in our basement, I found a tattered, coverless copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. It had probably been left behind by one of the roomers with whom we shared our house.
ref: 1987 December 20, Joseph Beam, “Not A Bad Legacy, Brother”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 8:
glosses: A person who rents a room.
examples: text: Rents were to be $60 a month for a two-room flat, $90 for a three-roomer and $120 for a four-roomer.
ref: 2009, Peter H. L. Lim, Chronicle of Singapore, 1959-2009: Fifty Years of Headline News, page 59:
glosses: A residence having the specified number of rooms.
roomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rumor
Etymology: From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).
Senses: examples: text: The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.
ref: 1581, Richard Madox, A Learned and a Godly Sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, London:
text: 1607, John Harington (translator), Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, London: John Norton and Simon Waterson, Book 41, stanza 17, p. 343,
Yet did the master by all meanes assay,
To steare out roomer, or to keepe aloofe,
Or at the least to strike sailes if they may,
As in such danger was for their behoofe.
glosses: At a greater distance; farther off.
answerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːn.sə.ɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈæn.sə.ɹɚ/
Forms: form: answerers
Etymology: From answer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1714, Jonathan Swift, The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, London: John Morphew, in Bertrand A. Goldgar and Ian Gadd (eds.), English Political Writings 1711-1714, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 256,
It is a very unfair Thing in any Writer to employ his Ignorance and Malice together, because it gives his Answerer double Work […]
text: 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of the Answerer” in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 141,
Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer,
To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
text: He prayed that Leo didn't think he was a fool. The other men in Leo’s life, anonymous partners, answerers of ads, old boyfriends, old Pete, massed impatiently behind him […]
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
synonyms: replier
respondent
responder
antonyms: asker
questioner
glosses: A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.
Derived terms: book-answerer
roofless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roof + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Before the tornado we had a dining room with a skylight; after it we had a roofless home with too much ventilation.
glosses: Without a roof, open to the sky.
synonyms: homeless
houseless
glosses: Having no house or home; unsheltered.
roomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roomie
romancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romancers
Etymology: From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.
ref: 1977, “The Stranger”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger:
glosses: One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
examples: text: [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26:
text: No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
romancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romancers
Etymology: From romance + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: examples: text: Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.
ref: 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:
topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: A romantic film or television show.
cowgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cowgirl
roofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofings
Etymology: From roof + -ing (“material, collection”).
Senses: examples: text: As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
ref: 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
glosses: Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles.
glosses: The process of constructing a roof or roofs.
glosses: A way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers.
Derived terms: roofing bone
roofing nail
roofing tin
roofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roof
rootless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rootless
form: most rootless
Etymology: By surface analysis, root + less.
Senses: glosses: Of a plant or another thing, having no roots.
glosses: Being a wanderer; having no ties to a particular locale.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: rooted
glosses: Without (the use of) a root user account.
Derived terms: rootless cosmopolitan
rootlessness
Related terms: rootedness
uprootedness
rosewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊzˌwɔːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rosewaters
Etymology: From rose + water.
Senses: coordinate_terms: rose syrup
glosses: A liquid produced by steeping rose petals in water, used as a coloring agent and a flavoring ingredient in certain foods.
Derived terms: revolutions are not made with rosewater
rose-water
rosewater philosophy
rosewater sailor
roguishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roguishnesses
Etymology: From roguish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His dark black beard accentuated his roguishness.
glosses: The property of being or appearing roguish.
rocketry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocketries
Etymology: From rocket + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.
ref: 2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: The making and launching of rockets, its science and practice.
roamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roamers
Etymology: From roam + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who roams.
roadwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadworks
Etymology: From road + work.
Senses: examples: text: The traffic jam was caused by roadwork being done during rush hour.
glosses: The construction or maintenance done to roads.
examples: text: The athlete needed to get home early to do his roadwork before it got too dark to be safe.
glosses: Exercise such as running and jogging done on the roads.
examples: text: […] the Beatles had resigned from roadwork in the summer of '66 (much like Brian Wilson)—their tour ending, appropriately enough, in the hippie utopia of San Francisco—and turned Abbey Road Studios into their very own musical sandbox […]
ref: 2010, Will Romano, Mountains Come Out of the Sky:
glosses: The taking of a band on the road to perform music in different locations.
Related terms: roadworker
roadworking
roarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roarers
Etymology: From roar + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who roars.
glosses: One of a group of young men who would carouse in taverns, then pick brawls on the street for entertainment.
examples: text: He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer […]
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 23, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
glosses: A broken-winded horse.
Synonyms: sense: young man who picks brawls
word: roaring boy
Derived terms: bullroarer
roadbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊdˌbɛd/
Forms: form: roadbeds
Etymology: From road + bed.
Senses: glosses: The prepared location for a road, including its foundation.
examples: text: Holonym: right of way
text: The roadbed, much of it fringing Swansea Bay, has been given free to the local authorities.
ref: 1960 February, “Swansea & Mumbles closure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 95:
glosses: A trackbed.
counterculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercultures
form: counter-culture
form: counter culture
Etymology: From counter- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: I suspect that just about everything we still consider valuable and interesting from the Victorian decades will turn out to have belonged to the Victorian counterculture.
ref: 1985, Morse Peckham, Romanticism and Ideology:
text: Seneca's literary contemporary, Petronius, reflected the " seamy " side of city life by representing Roman "counterculture" in his racy and imaginative farce the Satyricon.
ref: 2005, Robert B. Kebric, Roman People, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages:
text: Finally, of course, there is an unending succession of countercultures oriented around lifestyle choices and recreational interests, from nudists and health food enthusiasts to Polar Bear Clubs and skateboarders.
ref: 2015 March 26, Gina Misiroglu, American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.
Derived terms: countercultural
counterculturish
counterculturism
counterculturist
counterculture
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: counter-culture
form: counter culture
Etymology: From counter- + culture.
Senses: examples: text: The concert was a cultural happening for members of the counterculture in the St. Louis area.
ref: 1971 August 16, W. Thomas Stewart, “A record turnout for The Who at Mississippi River Festival”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
text: The sexual revolution has wreaked havoc on the American family: increasing rates of divorce, illegitimacy, and single-parent families. The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass. The self-indulgent notions of no-fault living, the cult of victimization, the futility of work, and the inherent injustice of American society, which the counterculture promoted, have corroded the respect for merit and personal striving, which are the human virtues surest to help individuals grow, develop moral codes, and achieve success.
ref: 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: The counterculture has long since outlived the enthusiasm of its original participants and become a more or less permanent part of the American scene, a symbolic and musical language for the endless cycles of rebellion and transgression that make up so much of our mass culture.
ref: 1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A cultural movement most prominent in the 1960s and 1970s, associated with peace, free love and opposition to commercialism; the hippie movement.
counterespionage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-espionage
Etymology: From counter- + espionage.
Senses: glosses: All those activities undertaken to neutralize or exploit the espionage activities of another nation or an enemy.
Synonyms: counterintelligence
counterintelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterintelligences
form: counter-intelligence
Etymology: From counter- + intelligence.
Senses: glosses: counterespionage
counterfeiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌfɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: counterfeiters
Etymology: From counterfeit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Sensations abound in this exciting melodramatic production dealing with the life of a French adventureress, madly in love with a counterfeiter, whom she betrays when she learns he has secretly wedded a famous female detective, only to aid him to escape when the officers are about to arrest him.
ref: 1910 January 8, “Family Theater”, in The Butte Inter Mountain, volume XXVIII, number 304, Butte, Mont., page 10, column 1:
text: Early offerings--many of them packaged in sultry covers featuring buxom women in silk pajamas--were huge sellers. But when copycats and counterfeiters drove down margins, Chan switched to real estate, snapping up 200 acres of land in the city of Guigang and erecting dozens of office towers and residential developments. Among his most ambitious recent projects: a luxury Guigang housing complex dubbed "Wealthy Persons' New Town."
ref: 2000 August 1, Clay Chandler, “A Golden Goose in Red China? Entrepreneur Bets Millions That Foie Gras Will Fatten Export Figures”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
glosses: A person who counterfeits.
Related terms: word: counterfeitress
counterfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfoils
Etymology: From counter- + foil.
Senses: glosses: the part of a cheque that is retained in the chequebook as a record; a stub
Synonyms: counterstock
bookmarklet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookmarklets
Etymology: From bookmark + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small piece of JavaScript code stored as a URL within a bookmark.
Synonyms: favelet
counterrevolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrevolutions
form: counter-revolution
form: counter revolution
Etymology: From counter- + revolution.
Senses: examples: text: The military leaders behind the original coup were executed in the aftermath of the counterrevolution.
text: Egypt's spring 2014: is the counter-revolution now complete? [title]
ref: 2014 March 23, Patrick Kingsley, “Egypt's spring 2014: is the counter-revolution now complete?”, in The Observer:
text: This corporate counter-revolution is easiest to see in Democrats’ enthusiastic support for Republicans’ legislative response to the coronavirus crisis.
ref: 2020 May 26, David Sirota, “Democrats are fueling a corporate counter-revolution against progressives”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A revolution aiming to reverse the political or social changes instigated by a previous revolution.
Derived terms: counterrevolutionary
counterrevolutionist
propwash deflection unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propwash deflection units
Senses: glosses: A device placed over or behind the propeller of a boat to deflect its prop wash downward as a very effective form of agitation dredging, primarily used by salvors to remove mud or sand from shallow-water shipwrecks.
Synonyms: deflector
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trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: plural of trust
trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trust
stipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪpjuˌleɪtəd/
/ˈstɪpjəˌleɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: Required as a condition of a contract or agreement.
glosses: Specified, promised or guaranteed in an agreement.
stipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪpjuˌleɪtəd/
/ˈstɪpjəˌleɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stipulate
Related terms: stipulate
stipulation
stipulative
Comanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmænt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: Comanches
form: Comanche
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Spanish comanche, a corruption of Old Ute kɨmantsi *[kɨˈman.tʃi] (“enemy”, “foreigner”) (compare Modern Southern Ute [kɨˈmaːtʃi̥] (“enemy”, “stranger”)). The Comanches’ autonym is Nʉmʉnʉʉ (“the people”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Numunuu
glosses: A member of a Native American ethnic group residing especially in Texas and Oklahoma.
qualifier: plural only "Comanches"
glosses: A light single-engine aircraft, the Piper PA-24 Comanche.
qualifier: plural only "Comanches"
glosses: A military helicopter, the RAH-66 Comanche.
Comanche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmænt͡ʃi/
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Spanish comanche, a corruption of Old Ute kɨmantsi *[kɨˈman.tʃi] (“enemy”, “foreigner”) (compare Modern Southern Ute [kɨˈmaːtʃi̥] (“enemy”, “stranger”)). The Comanches’ autonym is Nʉmʉnʉʉ (“the people”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Comanche people, culture, or language.
Comanche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmænt͡ʃi/
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Spanish comanche, a corruption of Old Ute kɨmantsi *[kɨˈman.tʃi] (“enemy”, “foreigner”) (compare Modern Southern Ute [kɨˈmaːtʃi̥] (“enemy”, “stranger”)). The Comanches’ autonym is Nʉmʉnʉʉ (“the people”).
Senses: glosses: The nation of these people.
examples: text: You don’t have to be a member of a tribe to help protect native languages. In Oklahoma, public students can choose to take Indigenous language courses like Bodéwadmimwen, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Comanche and others for school credit — an empowering step toward recognition and respect. Many tribal nations, including CPN, also offer free resources such as language apps, workshops and virtual lessons open to learners of all backgrounds and abilities.
ref: 2025 June 19, Robert Collins, “Learning an Indigenous language in Oklahoma is a living link to tribal ancestors”, in The Oklahoman, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2025:
glosses: The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by these people, sometimes classified as a variety of Shoshone.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Barton County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yellowstone County, Montana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small city in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Comanche County, Texas.
glosses: A locality and municipality in Pacajes province, La Paz department, Bolivia.
Derived terms: Comanche County
Comanche stitch
Comanchean
franco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: francos
Etymology: From Italian franco (“French”). Doublet of franc and frank.
Senses: glosses: A former currency of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, issued between 1805 and 1808.
glosses: The CFA franc as used in Equatorial Guinea, worth 4 ekwele.
Related terms: franc
lira
franco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: francos
Etymology: From Franco-.
Senses: examples: text: The anglos have seen the whole of the country, and the continent, as hospitable, while the francos have over a long period come to view Quebec as their real homeland.
ref: 1977, Report on Confederation:
text: Something similar had occurred in Canada, where first of all the sector is divided between anglos and francos; […]
ref: 1998, Dick Bird, Never the Same Again: A History of VSO, Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, →ISBN, page 193:
text: “Language is always an issue in Quebec and here’s a play that both anglos and francos will have a language problem with,” Ackerman says.
ref: 2011, Katharine Goodland, John O’Connor, A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance since 1991, volumes 3 (Canada and USA), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Franco (“French person”).
hometown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
Forms: form: hometowns
form: home town
Etymology: From home + town.
Senses: examples: text: These vehicles convey Esther from her hometown hospital, then to a city hospital, and finally from the city hospital in another hearselike conveyance […]
ref: 1994, Lindsey Tucker, Textual escap(e)ades:
text: “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”
ref: 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom:
text: Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama.
ref: 2021 April 10, AJ Willingham, “Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game”, in CNN:
glosses: An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
examples: text: hometown decision, hometown verdict
glosses: Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.
Derived terms: homeboy
hometowned
hometowner
hometownish
Rochester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒt͡ʃɪstə/
ipa: /ˈɹɑt͡ʃɛstɚ/
Forms: form: Rossiter
Etymology: From Middle English Rovescester, from Old English Hrofesċeaster (literally “Hrofi's fortified camp”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A town and historic city in Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7468).
glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Rochester with Byrness Parish Council) in Northumberland, England.The north of the parish borders onto Scotland (OS grid ref NY8398).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Fulton County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Cedar County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A tiny home rule city in Butler County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Oakland County, Michigan; a suburb of Detroit.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A large city, the county seat of Olmsted County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Andrew County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Strafford County, New Hampshire.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A large city, the county seat of Monroe County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Ulster County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Lorain County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Haskell County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Thurston County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Racine County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A British surname.
Derived terms: Rochester Hills
Related terms: english: sense 1
translation: sense 1
word: Medway Towns
Franco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian or Spanish, equivalent to English Frank or Francis.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Francisco Franco, the long-ruling right-wing 20th century Spanish caudillo since the Spanish Civil War (1939–1975).
Franco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Francos
form: franco
Etymology: From Franco-.
Senses: examples: text: Other Franco-American journalists didn’t see it his way, notably the editor of the Jean-Baptiste a newspaper in Northampton, Massachusetts. A journalistic debate began on the merits of repatriation, some newspapers calling those Francos who returned to Québec traitors while other papers used the same epithet to describe those Francos who remained in New England.
ref: 1979 May, Paul Paré, “A History of Franco-American Journalism”, in A Franco-American Overview, volume 1, →ISBN, page 241, column 1:
text: As will be demonstrated, it provided very good analytical material for reflection on the relationships between Anglos and Francos in Quebec. […] Firstly, the Francos of Quebec are perceived as being in general agreement on their collective name, which name others are also seen to recognize.
ref: 1982, Gary Caldwell, Eric Waddell, editors, The English of Quebec: From Majority to Minority Status, →ISBN, pages 131 and 141:
text: Because of my earlier interest in ethnic relations in New England—e.g. the Anglos and Francos in New Hampshire and Maine (Khleif 1973)—and my familiarity with British community studies, I became interested in Welsh-English relations and did fieldwork on that subject in 1973–1974.
ref: 1980, Bud B. Khleif, Language, Ethnicity, and Education in Wales, Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 327:
text: In my own case in the area of Mile-End (a mixed neighborhood of Jews, Greeks, Portuguese, Anglos, Francos), my back balcony (or more precisely, la galérie) is a mere foot and a half wide and joins me with my two neighbors, women with whom I often converse.
ref: 1996, Elspeth Probyn, Outside Belongings, Routledge, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: A French person.
currying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɝɹi.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌɹi.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curry
currying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɝɹi.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkʌɹi.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: curryings
Etymology: Named after American mathematician Haskell Curry.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument.
alehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alehouse
rumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmpəl/
rhymes: -ʌmpəl
Forms: form: rumples
form: rumpling
form: rumpled
form: rumpled
Etymology: From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).
Senses: examples: text: I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
text: They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
glosses: To muss; to tousle.
Derived terms: rumple up
rumpler
unrumple
rumple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌmpəl/
rhymes: -ʌmpəl
Forms: form: rumples
Etymology: From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).
Senses: glosses: A wrinkle.
Related terms: Rumplestiltskin
rubberneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɚˌnɛk/
Forms: form: rubbernecks
Etymology: From rubber + neck. Coined in the sense of "tourist" in the United States in the late 19th century. A favored Americanism of H.L. Mencken.
Senses: examples: text: We must have looked gorgeous. And what made it worse, there was at least a hundred rubbernecks that didn't have anything better to do than stand around and watch everyone falling all over themselves.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 17, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:
synonyms: rubbernecker
glosses: Someone who engages in rubbernecking, or turning and staring.
glosses: A tourist.
examples: text: A suitable washer B1 and rubberneck B2, both of well known description, are provided to form with clapper arm B3 a watertight joint...
ref: 1912, Edward C. Wood, Electrically Operated Bell for Submarine Signaling http://www.google.com/patents?id=p51jAAAAEBAJ, US Patent 1186961, line 57
text: "Hi, ''rubberneck!' -- he clutched at her pear-like breast jutting from her sweater — 'how long did you think you'll duck me?'"
ref: 1972, Can Themba, The Will to Die, page 59:
glosses: Someone or something with a flexible neck.
Derived terms: rubberneck bus
Related terms: bystander
leatherneck
onlooker
redneck
roughneck
rubberneck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌbɚˌnɛk/
Forms: form: rubbernecks
form: rubbernecking
form: rubbernecked
form: rubbernecked
Etymology: From rubber + neck. Coined in the sense of "tourist" in the United States in the late 19th century. A favored Americanism of H.L. Mencken.
Senses: examples: text: The driver was so busy rubbernecking, trying to get a good view of the accident, that he was almost part of another accident.
glosses: To watch by craning the neck (as though it were made of rubber), especially if the observer and observed are in motion relative to each other.
examples: text: Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge.
ref: 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To cause (someone) to watch in fascinated horror, as if rubbernecking to see a roadside accident.
Derived terms: rubbernecker
ruefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruefulnesses
Etymology: From rueful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This was the second time she had mentioned money, but now there was no trace of ruefulness in her voice, she spoke as if merely stating a fact.
ref: 2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 46:
glosses: The property of being rueful.
ruinously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ruinously
form: most ruinously
Etymology: From ruinous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ruinously high interest we agreed to will bankrupt us in a year if the economy doesn't improve quickly.
glosses: in a way that will cause ruin
to-and-fro
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to-and-fros
form: to-and-froing
form: to-and-froed
form: to-and-froed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of to and fro.
to-and-fro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of to and fro.
to-and-fro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-and-fros
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of to and fro.
tobogganer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tobogganers
form: tobogganner
Etymology: From toboggan + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who rides or uses a toboggan.
elephant's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: ivory
reinflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪt
Forms: form: reinflates
form: reinflating
form: reinflated
form: reinflated
Etymology: From re- + inflate.
Senses: glosses: To inflate or fill with air again.
Synonyms: reflate
bywoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bywoners
form: bijwoner
Senses: glosses: A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own.
bound morpheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bound morphemes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: A morpheme that can only occur when bound to a root morpheme. For example: cran- (as in cranberry), -ed, -ing, -ly.
Hypernyms: root morpheme
Hyponyms: cranberry morpheme
growling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The growling dog frightened him.
glosses: Producing a growl.
Derived terms: growlingly
growling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growlings
Senses: examples: text: The growling from her stomach told us she was hungry.
glosses: A sustained instance of growls or guttural noises.
qualifier: jazz
glosses: The technique of producing a low-pitched growling or rumbling sound on a wind instrument.
growling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of growl
QPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QPCs
Senses: examples: text: Those QPCs from the burger joint sure are yummy, but they pack pounds on you too!
glosses: Initialism of quarter-pounder with cheese.
regressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regression
drugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drug
drugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌɡɪŋ
Forms: form: druggings
Senses: examples: text: alleged druggings of horses
text: In a small handful of cases, courts have held that state horseracing authorities failed to establish that trainers were responsible for alleged druggings of horses while under their care[…]
ref: 1998, American Law Reports: Annotations and cases, volume 59, page 253:
glosses: The act of giving a dose of drugs (to a person or animal), especially illicitly and improperly.
examples: text: She finally quit all that drinking and drugging that was ruining her life.
coordinate_terms: drinking
smoking
glosses: The habit of using drugs; drug use.
drugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drug
drugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Forms: form: more drugged
form: most drugged
Senses: glosses: Containing one or more drugs; laced with drugs.
Related terms: drugged driving
drugged-out
nondrugged
undrugged
beta blockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta blocker
hireling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ə.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhaɪɹˌlɪŋ/
Forms: form: hirelings
Etymology: From Middle English hirlyng, from Old English hȳrling (“hireling, employee”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūʀijuling. Cognate with West Frisian hierling, Dutch huurling (“hireling, mercenary”), German Low German Hüürling,
German Heuerling. By surface analysis, hire + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes alſo like the dayes of an hireling?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:1, column 2:
text: When my poor James was in the small-pox, did I allow any hireling to nurse him?
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Miss Crawley at Nurse”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence.
examples: text: […]it may bee truely affirmed, that no kinde of men loue buſineſſe for it ſelfe, but thoſe that are learned; for other perſons loue it for profite; as an hireling that loues the worke for the wages;
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 10, recto:
text: These vain bickerings / Are spawn'd in courts by base intrigues and baser / Hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives.
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, “Sardanapalus”, in Sardanapalus, a Tragedy; The Two Foscari, a Tragedy; Cain, a Mystery, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 56:
glosses: Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself.
examples: text: In the afternoon they went to a neighbouring livery stables to look for hirellings.
ref: 1934, Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Chapter 3, Section 5:
glosses: A horse for hire.
glosses: A prostitute.
Synonyms: flunky
lackey
mercenary
Related terms: underling
downwind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈwɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Forms: form: further downwind
form: farther downwind
form: more downwind
form: furthest downwind
form: farthest downwind
form: most downwind
Etymology: From down- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: ... the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both, and drove us downwind like pieces of paper.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:
glosses: in the same direction as the wind is blowing
examples: text: I don't want to live downwind from a pig farm.
glosses: positioned relative to something in such a way that it can be smelled in the wind
raw_tags: followed by from
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: in the direction opposite that of landing in a traffic pattern
Synonyms: leeward
Derived terms: downwinder
OLPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of One laptop per child, a charity.
glosses: Initialism of Outer Loop Power Control.
Related terms: ILPC
TPC
interleave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interleaves
form: interleaf
Etymology: From inter- + leave.
Senses: examples: the interleave of sectors on a floppy disk
glosses: An interleaved or interspersed arrangement.
cowpoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpokes
Etymology: From cow + poke.
Senses: glosses: A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle)
glosses: A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence.
Synonyms: word: cowhand
word: cowperson
word: cow-puncher
Hyponyms: word: cowboy
word: cowgirl