cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
invoice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/
Forms: form: invoices
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French envois pl, plural of envoi, from the verb envoyer (“to send”). See also envoy.
Senses: glosses: A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
examples: text: The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
synonyms: shipment
glosses: The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
qualifier: generally of a vehicle
glosses: The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
glosses: A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket, used in Taiwan.
Derived terms: commercial invoice
e-invoice
Related terms: sense: price a seller pays
word: sticker price
sense: price a seller pays
word: list price
invoice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/
Forms: form: invoices
form: invoicing
form: invoiced
form: invoiced
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French envois pl, plural of envoi, from the verb envoyer (“to send”). See also envoy.
Senses: examples: text: I will invoice my supplier tomorrow.
glosses: To bill; to issue an invoice to.
glosses: To make an invoice for (goods or services).
Derived terms: invoiceability
invoiceable
invoicee
invoicer
misinvoice
reinvoice
uninvoiced
break a leg
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: break a leg !
Etymology: Unknown; many unproven and widely debated theories exist. One of the most plausible is that it comes from Yiddish הצלחה און ברכה (hatslokhe un brokhe, “success and blessing”) through the heavy Ashkenazi Jewish influence in the American theater, via the misinterpretation in German as Hals- und Beinbruch (“neck and leg fracture”). The Yiddish phrase itself comes from Hebrew הַצְלָחָה וּבְרָכָה (hatzlakhá u-v'rakhá, “success and blessing”). Another possible origin was to wish opposite luck on the performer so as not to jinx the statement.
Senses: examples: text: Go out there and break a leg tonight. Put on a great show!
text: I told my friend to break a leg, before she went on stage.
synonyms: word: toi, toi, toi
english: opera
translation: opera
glosses: Good luck!; Do your best!; Said to someone wishing they perform well in a theatrical production or comparable endeavor.
Related terms: shake a leg
show a leg
blore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: blores
form: bloring
form: blored
form: blored
Etymology: From Middle English bloren, variation of bleren, blaren, from Old English *blǣran, *blārian (“to blare, bellow, cry”). More at blare.
Senses: glosses: To cry; cry out; weep.
glosses: To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.
blore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: blores
Etymology: Perhaps from blore above, a variant of blare, affected by blow. Compare also Gaelic and Irish blor (“a loud noise”).
Senses: examples: text: a most tempestuous blore
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
swarf-penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: money due to a castle guard at the end of his service
chantepleure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chantepleures
form: chantepleuring
form: chantepleured
form: chantepleured
Etymology: From French chanter (“to sing”) + pleurer (“to weep, to cry”).
Senses: glosses: To sing and cry at the same time.
merry-go-sorry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An experience that elicits feelings of both joy and sorrow.
xenodochial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɛnəˈdoʊkiəl/
ipa: /ˌziːnəˈdoʊkiəl/
Forms: form: more xenodochial
form: most xenodochial
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξενοδοχή (xenodokhḗ, “strangers' banquet”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: At least, those intemperate Reflections may serve as Precautionary Documents for Dignitaries of all sorts to humble as well as to steer themselves by, especially in their unfrequented and almost wholly neglected Duty of Christian Hospitality and Oecumenial as well as Oeconomical Reception of Xenodochial Providence-Conformists; who must nevertheless ‘Take “Heart, nor of the Laws of Fate complain, tho’ “now ’tis cloudy, ’twill clear up again.
ref: 1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae, page 3:
text: They both departed from the xenodochial type, in limiting admission to the sick only, and from the city hospital tradition by depending for support entirely on privately donated funds.
ref: 1949, Elizabeth Marion Jamieson, Mary F. Sewall, Trends in nursing history: their relationship to world events, page 313:
text: But to prefer Oxford-street to Dove Cottage is too dramatic a shift for De Quincey to make without mediation; Ann's body — purified by De Quincey's narrative — glosses the brute reality of this preference, this instance of xenodochial pleasure.
ref: 2002, Rajani Sudan, Fair exotics: xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850, page 91:
glosses: (obsolete) Friendly to strangers.
Related terms: xenodochium
xenodochy
liverwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪv.ə.wɜːt/
ipa: /ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɝːt/
ipa: /ˈlɪv.ɚ.wɔːɹt/
Forms: form: liverworts
Etymology: From Middle English lyverwort, liverwort, from Old English liferwyrt, equivalent to liver + wort, from the belief that some species looked like livers and were useful for treating the liver medicinally.
Senses: examples: text: The liverworts are either thallose, without any differentiation into stem and leaves, or leafy.
ref: 1929, Shiv Ram Kashyap, Liverworts of the Western Himalayas and the Panjab Plain, volume I, page 1:
text: Since the thallus of some liverworts resembled a liver, such plants were considered useful in making a concoction that would aid in curing liver ailments. Hence the name "liver-plant," or liverwort. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that liverworts possess curative properties.
ref: 1985, W. B. Schofield, Introduction to Bryology, page 135:
text: 2000 — Barbara Crandall-Stotler & Raymond E. Stotler, "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". pages 21-70 in A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), Bryophyte Biology, page 21.
Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.
glosses: A type of bryophyte with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
synonyms: liverleaf
glosses: A common flowering perennial herb of northern woodlands, Hepatica nobilis (syn. Anemone hepatica), used in traditional European herbal medicine.
Synonyms: hepatic
Clevea
Derived terms: leafy liverwort
Related terms: taxonomic: Pulmonaria spp.
word: lungwort
taxonomic: Asplenium spp.
word: spleenwort
taxonomic: Cardamine subg.Dentaria spp.
word: toothwort
taxonomic: Stachys spp. etc.
word: woundwort
word: Marchantiophyta
undifferentiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undifferentiated
form: most undifferentiated
Etymology: From un- + differentiated.
Senses: examples: text: If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
ref: 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer:
synonyms: nondifferentiated
antonyms: differentiated
glosses: Not differentiated, not different, alike.
examples: text: This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
ref: 2022 May 7, Liang En Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, May Kyawt Aung, Aung Myat Oo, et al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: nondifferentiated
antonyms: differentiated
glosses: Not differentiated, not different, alike.
Describing tissues where the individual cells have not yet developed mature or distinguishing features, or describes embryonic organisms where the organs cannot be identified.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: nondifferentiated
antonyms: differentiated
glosses: Not differentiated, not different, alike.
Describing a plant body where the vascular tissue has not developed, as in the thallophytes.
Related terms: undifferentiable
nondifferentiable
undifferentiation
nondifferentiation
bryophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌɪ̯.əˌfʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪ̯.əˌfaɪt/
Forms: form: bryophytes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Bryophyta, from Ancient Greek βρύον (brúon, “moss”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”) ( + -phyte).
Senses: examples: text: Without going into their reasons, Bold, Alexopoulos, & DelBevoryas (1980) and Crandall-Stotler (1980) believe that there are at least three independent lines of bryophytes and that this is best reflected by establishing three divisions - the Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), and Anthocerotophyta (hornworts).
ref: 1993, Wilson Nichols Stewart, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants, page 77:
text: 2002, William R. Buck, Bryophytes, entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), Life on Earth, page 202,
Because of their small size and often delicate structure, bryophytes have a poor fossil record, dating back only about 290 million years.
text: And so it was that I was introduced to Len Ellis and the quiet world of bryophytes – mosses to the rest of us.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 312:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
Derived terms: bryophytic
Related terms: alt: the hornworts
word: Anthocerotophyta
word: cryptogam
word: embryophyte
alt: the liverworts
word: Marchantiophyta
word: pteridophyte
word: spermatophyte
homicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homicide
metonymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metonymy
greenbottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenbottles
Etymology: From green + bottle. From resemblance to shiny colored-glass bottles.
Senses: glosses: Any of various blowflies of the genus Lucilia that are a brilliant metallic green in colour.
Synonyms: green-bottle fly
green bottle fly
Hypernyms: blowfly
bottlefly
Coordinate terms: bluebottle
Derived terms: greenbottle fly
hoverfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoverflies
form: hover-fly
Etymology: From hover + fly.
Senses: synonyms: flower fly
flower-fly
glosses: Any of various flies from the family Syrphidae that hover in the air and feed on the nectar of flowers.
crowberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊbəɹɪ/
Forms: form: crowberries
Etymology: From crow + berry; probably a calque of German Krähenbeere. Apparently so-called due to birds' fondness for the fruit. Yet the dark color (compare Old Norse blár (“blue-black, like a raven's sheen”)) may be the main or another factor; compare Inuktitut paurngaq (“crowberry”) (allegedly meaning "which looks like soot").
Senses: synonyms: crakeberry
glosses: Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
examples: text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
synonyms: crakeberry
mossberry
glosses: Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
glosses: A fruit of this plant.
Derived terms: red crowberry
Stokavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shtokavian
form: Štokavian
Senses: glosses: The most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, which is used as the dialectal basis for the standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian versions of the language. The word what is usually rendered as što, whence the name.
Stokavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Shtokavian
form: Štokavian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Stokavian dialect.
Related terms: Chakavian
Kajkavian
Čakavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chakavian.
Kajkavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈkɑːviən/
Etymology: From the regional Serbo-Croatian interrogative pronoun kaj (“what”), which is used in that region instead of the standard što.
Senses: glosses: A South Slavic language or supradialect of Serbo-Croatian spoken in central Croatia.
Kajkavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈkɑːviən/
Forms: form: Kajkavians
Etymology: From the regional Serbo-Croatian interrogative pronoun kaj (“what”), which is used in that region instead of the standard što.
Senses: glosses: A speaker of Kajkavian, or a native of northern Croatia.
Kajkavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈkɑːviən/
Forms: form: more Kajkavian
form: most Kajkavian
Etymology: From the regional Serbo-Croatian interrogative pronoun kaj (“what”), which is used in that region instead of the standard što.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Kajkavians or their language.
bazookas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bazooka
glosses: breasts
realpolitik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːlpɒlɪˌtiːk/
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑlpoʊlɪˌtik/
ipa: /ɹiˈɑlpoʊlɪˌtik/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: realpolitiks
form: Realpolitik
Etymology: Borrowed from German Realpolitik (literally “practical, realistic, fact-based, realism-based politics”).
Senses: examples: text: It is Realpolitik in sport, and a Realpolitik which is not wholly unknown in England; but while the spirit of Realpolitik is still perceivable in German sport, it is equally perceivable that the standard English way of viewing sporting competition is becoming more and more approached in Germany.
ref: 1913, Stanley Shaw, William of Germany, page 357:
text: Possibly the Germans themselves regard their Realpolitik as but the continuation of the philosophic tradition of disillusionment: like Xenophanes they would remind us that the gods of the Ethiopians are snub-nosed and swart, of the Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired, and that if oxen had gods their gods would be oxen.
ref: 1918, Hartley Burr Alexander, Liberty and democracy: and other essays in war-time:
text: Realpolitik, in one or another form, is, therefore, from the standpoint of science and of abstract principle, immoral, unsound and no defense of it on the ground of concrete necessity can make it otherwise.
ref: 1932, Elisha Ely Garrison, The Riddle of Economics, page 254:
text: Twenty-first century nation states will no longer tolerate even the mild humiliation of hosting the detritus of 18th- and 19th-century empires. Most European empires were born of the realpolitik of power, mostly the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Paris (1763). The same realpolitik now ordains their dismantling. An early purpose of the United Nations was to bring this about.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
hypernyms: pragmatism
realism
coordinate_terms: Machiavellianism
glosses: Pragmatic, often expansionist, diplomacy and politics focused on perceived national interests of the state to the near exclusion of ethical, moral, and theoretical objectives.
Derived terms: realpolitician
realpolitikal
realpolitiker
greenfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenflies
form: greenfly
form: green-fly
Etymology: From green + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
glosses: Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
Certain aphids (Aphidoidea), commonly known as greenfly in Britain and the Commonwealth.
Especially, Myzus persicae, green peach aphid.
glosses: Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
Lucilia sericata, common green bottle fly.
glosses: Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
Tabanus nigrovittatus, a biting horsefly more commonly known as the greenhead horsefly, greenhead fly, or greenhead.
glosses: Any of several kinds of common insects green in color:
Odontomyia chloris (syn. Musca chloris).
Synonyms: green blight
deafening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more deafening
form: most deafening
Senses: examples: text: But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss.
examples: text: At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Very loud.
Derived terms: deafeningly
deafeningness
deafening silence
Related terms: deaf
deafen
deafening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deafen
deafening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛfənɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: deafenings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: pugging
examples: text: Film and dance theory offer a productive vocabulary for considering the effects of these mutings and deafenings.
ref: 2012, Gary Taylor, Trish Thomas Henley, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, page 338:
glosses: The process by which something is deafened.
blackfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackflies
form: black fly
Etymology: From black + fly.
Senses: glosses: A black or dark green aphid (Aphis fabae) that is a common pest of agricultural crops.
examples: text: According to Bonnie Louison, […] Axel made a mistake when she didn't consult western Massachusetts women about the time and place of the event. Louison said that Axel didn't realize that June is black fly season, that the area is in the grip of a severe drought, […]
ref: 1981 April 18, Jil Clark, “Axel Cancels East Coast Women's Music Festival”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Any of various small black bloodsucking flies of the family Simuliidae.
interacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interacting
form: most interacting
Senses: glosses: Taking part in an interaction.
Derived terms: gravitationally interacting massive particle
noninteracting
strongly interacting massive particle
super weakly interacting massive particle
uninteracting
weakly interacting massive particle
interacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interact
deafening silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deafening silences
Senses: examples: text: The suggestion that they work through the holidays met with deafening silence.
glosses: A noteworthy silence, or absence of response, especially one signifying disapproval or lack of enthusiasm.
Related terms: pregnant pause
tumbleweed moment
Marco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊ
Forms: form: Marcos
Etymology: From Romance Marco (Italian Marco, Portuguese Marco, Spanish Marco).
Senses: examples: text: Marco mainly sells his clothes online.
glosses: A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
glosses: A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
A male given name from Italian.
glosses: A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
A male given name from Portuguese.
glosses: A male given name from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Mark.
A male given name from Spanish.
Coordinate terms: Marc
Marcos
Marcus
Mark
Marko
Markos
Markus
Marq
Marque
Marco
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)kəʊ
Etymology: From Marco Polo, from Latin Marcus Paulus, from Marcus.
Senses: glosses: Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Polo.
amphiprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphiprotic
form: most amphiprotic
Etymology: From amphi- + proton + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to both donate and accept a proton, and thus able to react both as an acid and a base; amphoteric.
Derived terms: amphiproticity
sithee
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: see + thee or see + thou
Senses: examples: text: Sithee, ther's a bowt here at's comin lowse, best to get it aat an a new-un in.
text: Voice. Barlow.—See ’s motor?—comin’ up—sithee?
ref: 1920, D. H. Lawrence, Touch and Go, Act III, page 92:
qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: See thee; variously used as a farewell (i.e. I will see you later) or an admonition to pay attention (= see here)
Related terms: look you
look you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: look + you
Senses: examples: text: For there is no toubt put the tevil, when Owen Thomas saw him, must have peen sitting on a piece of rock in a straight line from him on the other side of the river, where he used to sit, look you, for a whole summer's tay, while Hugh Llwyd was on his pulpit, and there they used to talk across the water!
ref: 1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:
glosses: see here
Related terms: sithee
Carlo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹloʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːləʊ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ləʊ
Forms: form: Carlos
Etymology: From Italian Carlo, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles, Carl, and Carlos.
Senses: examples: text: Charles, come here and be presented to your cousin, Mabel Earnshaw. His name is Carlo, but I couldn't possibly call him by it; it sounds so like a dog. At least, pronounced in my English fashion. And I can't roll my r's.
ref: 1867 June 15, Frances Trollope, “Mabel's Progress”, in All the Year Round, page 579:
glosses: A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles.
fleetingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fleetingly
form: most fleetingly
Etymology: From fleeting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a fleeting manner; transiently
Synonyms: briefly
flickeringly
temporarily
last-ditch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: last ditch
Etymology: Popularized and given its current sense through an 1847 translation by Agnes Strickland of a quote attributed to William of Orange during the French invasion of 1672 on his being advised to surrender Holland to Louis XIV: "No, I mean to die in the last ditch."
Senses: examples: text: a last-ditch attack
text: He sent flowers in a last-ditch effort to keep her from leaving.
text: Only a last-ditch tackle from Michel Salgado denied Didier Drogba after a clever through-ball from Anelka and, from the resulting corner, Ivanovic flicked the ball on for Ramires, who lashed a half-volley against the bar.
ref: 2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 4 - 3 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC:
text: That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.
ref: 2022 June 29, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Strikes set to escalate as RMT issues rallying call”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:
text: There was a last-ditch quality to England’s defending and when Pierre-Emile Højbjerg shaped a curler for the far corner in the 85th minute, England’s hearts were in their mouths. The shot was off target.
ref: 2024 June 20, David Hytner, “Hjulmand rocket earns Denmark draw as England struggle after Kane opener”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Final, as a last resort; done in desperation.
Derived terms: last-ditcher
Related terms: die in the last ditch
Hail Mary pass
last-gasp
shouldn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊdn̩t/
ipa: [ˈʃʊnʔ]
Etymology: From should + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: I shouldn't be telling you all this. It'll make you angry.
ref: 1989 February 5, Colin Robinson, “You Dared Us To Dream That We Are Worth Wanting Each Other”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 8:
glosses: Should not (negative auxiliary)
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
won't
wouldn't
Derived terms: shouldn't've
shouldn't
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʊdn̩t/
ipa: [ˈʃʊnʔ]
Forms: form: shouldn'ts
Etymology: From should + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: Being a list-o-maniac, I suggested we make a list of the "shoulds" and "shouldn'ts." So in the darkness of hazy sleep, I began to mentally prepare mine. The first item on the "should" side was easy: a sibling for our 3-year-old daughter.
ref: 2008, Working Mother, volume 31, number 8, page 20:
glosses: Something that should not be done.
Related terms: couldn't
wouldn't
oughtn't
out-of-service
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: out of service
Senses: examples: text: No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping.
ref: 2005 October 17, “Talk of the Town: Elevator Hack”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: word: out of commission
word: out-of-order
word: bad
word: borked
word: broken
word: broken-down
word: bung
word: busted
word: cactused
word: crocked
word: Donald Ducked
word: down
word: faulty
word: flaky
word: FUBAR
word: fucked
word: fuckered up
word: inoperative
word: janky
word: jiggered
word: kaput
word: knackered
word: malfunctioning
word: munted
word: nonfunctional
word: nonoperational
word: offline
word: off one's feed
word: on the blink
word: on the fritz
word: out of commission
word: out of gas
word: out of kilter
word: out of order
word: out of service
word: out of sorts
word: out of whack
word: screwed up
word: stuffed
word: tits up
word: toes up
word: tore up
word: unfunctional
glosses: Not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable.
Air Sea Rescue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An emergency service, often operated by a branch of the armed forces, that serves to rescue people at sea, or stranded on a coast, normally with the use of helicopters.
air pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air pumps
form: air-pump
Senses: glosses: A pump that moves air either into or out of something.
Related terms: air compressor
air pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air pockets
Senses: glosses: A local region of low atmospheric pressure, or a local downward current; especially one that causes an aircraft to lose height suddenly.
Related terms: clear-air turbulence
clear-air turbulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clear-air turbulences
Senses: glosses: The erratic movement of air masses in the absence of any visual cues, especially such movement that causes unexpected turbulence to an aircraft.
Related terms: air pocket
air navigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the science and technology of determining the position of an aircraft with respect to the surface of the earth and accurately maintaining a desired course
airlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.lɪft/
Forms: form: airlifts
Etymology: From air + lift; compare sealift.
Senses: glosses: The transportation of troops, civilians or supplies by air, especially in an emergency.
glosses: Such a flight.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pipe that is used to suck up objects from the sea bed.
Derived terms: non-forecast airlift
airlift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə.lɪft/
Forms: form: airlifts
form: airlifting
form: airlifted
form: airlifted
Etymology: From air + lift; compare sealift.
Senses: examples: text: The mountaineer who fell down a crevasse had to be airlifted out.
text: My Pelicans are going to start airlifting armor and reinforcements into the city.
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Julie Benz), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: Outskirts:
glosses: To transport (troops etc) in an airlift.
Derived terms: airlifter
air letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air letters
Senses: glosses: An aerogram; a letter sent by airmail.
aerogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerograms
Etymology: From aero- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: An aërogram to the Examiner yesterday from Quito announced the success of the second attempt, and details of the achievement were at once secured.
ref: 1890, “Our New Satellite”, in English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the Mechanic", "Scientific Opinion," and the "British and Foreign Mechanic.", volume 50, E. J. Kibblewhite, page 499:
glosses: A wireless message.
examples: text: Mr. Holt Thomas gave some details of a projected scheme of communication which combined the telephone or telegraph with the aeroplane. Messages sent by the system would be described as aerograms.
ref: 1919, The Electrical Review, volume 84, H. Alabaster, Gatehouse & Company, page 538:
glosses: A telegram whose transmission included at least one segment sent via airplane.
glosses: A thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter and serving as its own envelope for transit via airmail.
examples: text: aerogram 1. A roentgenogram of an organ afer it has been injected with air; also called pneumogram.
ref: 1935, William Alexander Newman Dorland, E. C. Miller, Illustrated medical dictionary, 17th edition, page 53:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: airgram
glosses: A pneumogram.
air lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air lanes
form: airlane
Senses: glosses: A designated route used by commercial aircraft when flying from one airport to another.
Synonyms: air corridor
Related terms: air traffic control
eam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːm/
Forms: form: eams
form: eame
form: eme
Etymology: From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Scots eme (“uncle”), West Frisian iem, omke (“uncle”), Dutch oom (“uncle”), German Ohm, Oheim (“maternal uncle”), Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See uncle. Doublet of oom and ohm.
Senses: examples: text: James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.
ref: 2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622:
glosses: Uncle.
Related terms: neam
bristletail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪsəlˌteɪl/
Forms: form: bristletail
form: bristletails
form: bristle-tail
Etymology: Calque of translingual Thysanura, as Ancient Greek θύσανος (thúsanos, “bristle”) + Ancient Greek οὐρᾱ́ (ourā́, “tail”). By surface analysis, bristle + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
jumping bristletails in the insect order Archaeognatha
glosses: Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
insects in the order Zygentoma such as silverfish and firebrats
glosses: Any of various small, active six-legged arthropods that have two or three bristles at the ends of their abdomens and that do not have wings. These were formerly classified together in the insect subclass Apterygota or the order Thysanura but are no longer considered closely related:
two-pronged bristletails in the hexapod order Diplura
Derived terms: jumping bristletail
Related terms: silverfish
woodworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodworms
Etymology: From wood + worm.
Senses: examples: text: 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,
[…] Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.
text: 1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45,
There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.
text: New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144:
text: His father met a man who said that he had the figure from a ship which went aground near Blackwater Head. It would have to be treated for woodworm, he said.
ref: 1992, Colm Tóibín, chapter 2, in The Heather Blazing, Penguin, published 1994, page 25:
glosses: Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
glosses: Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetle).
qualifier: particularly
glosses: A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.
Synonyms: sense: Anobium punctatum
word: furniture beetle
Hyponyms: sense: any wood-boring beetle larvae
word: deathwatch beetle
financier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /f(a)ɪˈnæn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /f(a)ɪnænˈsɪəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: financiers
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French financier.
Senses: examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
glosses: A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
glosses: A company that does the same.
examples: text: The English financier was obliged to raise new taxes to pay the interest of this immense sum ; the financier of France did no such thing
ref: 1781, Edmund Burke, The Budget for the Year 1781:
glosses: One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
examples: text: ‘Excuse me, can we order some fresh financiers? I know we haven’t finished our mains yet but we’re in rather a hurry.’
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 273:
glosses: A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
glosses: A traditional French (Ragoût à la Financière) or Piemontese (Finanziera alla piemontese) rich sauce or ragout, made with coxcomb, wattles, cock's testicles, chicken livers and a variety of other ingredients.
Derived terms: financieress
microfinancier
financier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /f(a)ɪˈnæn.sɪ.ə/
ipa: /f(a)ɪnænˈsɪəɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: financiers
form: financiering
form: financiered
form: financiered
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French financier.
Senses: examples: text: So time crept on, and the day arrived when Sturk must pay his rent, or take the ugly consequences. The day before he spent in Dublin financiering. It was galling and barren work.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: To carry out financial transactions; to finance something.
quantify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒn.tɪˌfaɪ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.tɪˌfaɪ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.ɾɪˌfaɪ]
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.təˌfaɪ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.ɾəˌfaɪ]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkwɒn.tɪˌfaɪ/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈkwɒn.ɾɪˌfaɪ]
ipa: /ˈkwɔn.tɪˌfɑe/
ipa: /ˈkwɒn.təˌfaɪ/
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟n.təˌfɑe̯]
Forms: form: quantifies
form: quantifying
form: quantified
form: quantified
Etymology: From Medieval Latin quantifico (introduced by Sir William Hamilton in logic).
Senses: glosses: To assign a quantity to.
examples: text: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2013, page 31:
text: Once more significant differences were observed for CTR w/o LIF. (E)- Protein levels for Hexokinase I and II, GAPDH and PKM1/2 were determined by western Blot and quantified by densiometric evaluation.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Dichloroacetate, the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex and the Modulation of mESC Pluripotency”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: The most common model contains two core affect dimensions: arousal, which quantifies the intensity of the response, and valence, which quantifies the aversiveness of the situation—ranging from a very positive (pleasurable) to a very negative (aversive) emotional state.
ref: 2015 August 15, “Expression of Emotional Arousal in Two Different Piglet Call Types”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Standards for methanol extracted pigments chlorophyll a, c 2 . peridinin, β carotene, diatoxanthin and diadinoxanthin were used for quantifying pigments which were normalized per cell.
ref: 2015 October 29, “Transcriptomic Changes in Coral Holobionts Provide Insights into Physiological Challenges of Future Climate and Ocean Change”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To determine the value of (a variable or expression).
examples: text: The statement (#92;forallx#92;in#92;mathbb#123;R#125;)#92;,2x#61;x#43;x quantifies over the real numbers.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To relate a statement (called a predicate) to a given set using a quantifier—either for all (denoted ∀) or there exists (denoted ∃).
Synonyms: sense: measure the quantity of
word: quantitate
word: admeasure
word: bemete
word: benchmark
word: enumerate
word: measure
word: mete
word: numericalize
word: quantify
Hypernyms: word: determine
Hyponyms: word: calibrate
word: chain
word: dial
word: fathom
word: fluoroscope
word: gauge
word: girt
word: mensurate
word: overmeasure
word: parallax
word: photometer
word: premeasure
word: remeasure
word: requantify
word: titer
word: undermeasure
word: walk off
word: weigh
Related terms: word: estimate
word: eyeball
word: operationalize
word: classify
word: measuring device
outperform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊt.pɚˈfɔɹm/
Forms: form: outperforms
form: outperforming
form: outperformed
form: outperformed
Etymology: From out- + perform.
Senses: examples: text: The strategy depends on an ability to outperform the market consistently, which many economists regard as virtually impossible.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
text: Rail has continued to outperform bus operations, where a decline in ridership continues.
ref: 2019 October 23, “Industry Insider: Continued rail growth”, in Rail, page 72:
text: ChatGPT performs well at writing argumentative student essays and outperforms the quality of the human-written essays significantly.
ref: 2023 October 30, Herbold et al., “A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, page 8:
text: It[China] had a buoyant economy outperforming forecasts. Its unemployment rate was among the lowest in years. While consolidating his power for a second term, Mr Xi proudly pointed to China's "flourishing" growth model as something other countries could emulate.
ref: 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:
text: When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].
ref: 2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432:
glosses: To perform better than something or someone.
Derived terms: outperformer
quicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈkwɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quick: more quick
quicker
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈkwɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of quick: more quick
lip sync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipsync
form: lipsynch
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: singing
glosses: The synchronization of prerecorded audio signals and movement of the lips such that there is no lack of simultaneity between them.
Derived terms: lip-sync
lip sync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lip syncs
form: lip syncing
form: lip synching
form: lip synced
form: lip synced
form: lip synched
form: lip synched
form: lipsync
form: lipsynch
Senses: examples: text: Debbie lip synced the theme song to All In The Family.
glosses: Alternative form of lip-sync.
welter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛltə/
ipa: /ˈwɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: welters
Etymology: From Middle English welteren, equivalent to welt + -er (frequentative suffix). Cognates include German Low German weltern (“to wallow; roll”), Old Norse velta (Danish vælte), German wälzen, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waltjan). Akin to wallow and Latin volvō.
Senses: examples: text: He would, except for his guests, have fled outdoors and walked off the intoxication of food, but in the haze which filled the room they sat forever, talking, talking, while he agonized, “Darn fool to be eating all this—not ’nother mouthful,” and discovered that he was again tasting the sickly welter of melted ice cream on his plate.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: And in truth, his mind was such a welter of opposites—of the night and the blazing candles, of the shabby poet and the great Queen, of silent fields and the clatter of serving men—that he could see nothing; or only a hand.
ref: 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:
text: Most of these allegations have already been published; she has denied them all. […] With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion.
ref: 1997 December 8, Peter Hawthorne, “Mugger of the Nation?”, in Time:
text: They use these words to express a welter of opinions on what they think is good or bad, right or wrong, and all too readily wail ‘It's not fair!’.
ref: 2022, Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater, chapter 3, in The Language Game […] , →ISBN:
synonyms: word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A general confusion or muddle, especially of a large number of items.
glosses: A tossing or rolling about.
welter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛltə/
ipa: /ˈwɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: a welter race
glosses: Heavyweight. (of horsemen)
Derived terms: welter-weight
welter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛltə/
ipa: /ˈwɛltɚ/
rhymes: -ɛltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: welters
form: weltering
form: weltered
form: weltered
Etymology: Compare wilt (intransitive verb).
Senses: examples: 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays, London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40,
But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched.
glosses: To wither; to wilt.
lipsync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lip sync.
lipsync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lipsyncs
form: lipsyncing
form: lipsynching
form: lipsynced
form: lipsynced
form: lipsynched
form: lipsynched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lip-sync.
welterweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of welter-weight.