cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wrassle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsl̩/
ipa: /ˈɹæs(ə)l/
homophone: rassle
homophone: wrastle
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: wrassles
form: wrassling
form: wrassled
form: wrassled
Senses: examples: text: Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself.
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 8, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, [United States?]: Alien Ebooks, published 2023, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Miss Reba turned to Boon again. "What you been doing? wrassling with hogs?" / "We got in a mudhole back down the road. We drove up. The automobile's outside now."
ref: 1962 June 4, William Faulkner, chapter V, in The Reivers: A Reminiscence, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wrestle, representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English.
examples: text: […] "wrassled" up some fresh sheets for her, […]
ref: 2011 July 15, Ellen James, Doctors in the House, Harlequin+ORM, →ISBN:
glosses: To gather with effort.
raw_tags: with "up"
wrassles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrassle
wrassling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrassle
wrassled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrassle
rassle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæsl̩/
ipa: /ˈɹæs(ə)l/
homophone: wrassle
homophone: wrastle
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: rassles
form: rassling
form: rassled
form: rassled
Senses: examples: text: I've spent this whole morning rassling with that dumb horse, Sam …
ref: 1940, Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Fair Weather”, in The Long Winter, uniform edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1953 (1968 printing), →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wrestle.
rassled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rassle
rassles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rassle
rassling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rassle
amœbæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of amoebean.
raclage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French raclage, from the verb racler.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The destruction of a soft growth by rubbing, as with a brush or harsh sponge; curettage, grattage, scraping.
œnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Such establishments are managed by expert œnologists, who must be educated specially for the work, and there are already abundance of thoro works, treating the subject.
ref: 1909, Thomas Volney Munson, chapter VII, in Foundations of American Grape Culture, Orange Judd Company, page 239:
glosses: plural of œnologist
mowa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mowas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mahua.
underbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbuildings
Etymology: From underbuild (“to build beneath, lay a foundation for”), equivalent to underbuild + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It appears from the evidence that although the Dean of Guild authorities considered the defective underbuilding to have been sufficient to warrant the demolition of the wall, it must have otherwise been in a weak and decayed condition.
ref: 1900, Scotland. Courts, The Scottish law reporter:
text: The rubble concrete underbuilding has a uniform thickness of 5 feet, where the depth is less than 10 feet, but for greater depths the underbuilding is 6 feet thick at the top.
ref: 1904, Brysson Cunningham, A treatise on the principles and practice of dock engineering:
glosses: A substructure; foundation; infrastructure.
Synonyms: substruction
groundwork
put out a fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts out a fire
form: putting out a fire
form: put out a fire
form: put out a fire
form: put out the fire
Senses: examples: text: The manager had to put out the fire after a raw hamburger was served to a customer.
text: Laporta is getting fed up with putting out all the fires that keep emerging around the club every time Koeman opens his mouth, while the Dutchman, protected by a bulletproof contract, is probably thinking 'as you sow, so shall you reap', and only just resisting adding the phrase: "Come on then, sack me!"
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To address a problem, especially an unexpected one caused by the incompetence, negligence, or misconduct of another person.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: put out a fire.
Related terms: firefighting
safety coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety coffins
Senses: glosses: Any coffin specially designed for the occupant to leave it in case of premature burial, such as by warning other people to help him.
safety coffins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety coffin
out-Herod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /aʊtˈhɛɹəd/
Forms: form: out-Herods
form: out-Heroding
form: out-Heroded
form: out-Heroded
form: outherod
Etymology: From out- + Herod.
Senses: examples: text: I could haue ſuch a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it out-Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 266:
text: nor is his tone anything like so venomous as Carlyle's in that unpleasing essay on Cagliostro, in which he threw all decency to the winds and out-Heroded the Inquisition whilst ranting against it.
ref: 1948, E. M. Butler, The Myth of the Magus:
text: The farther and the longer away from his native country, the more he out-Heroded Artemus Ward and Petroleum V. Nasby.
ref: 1989 November 9, Harry Levin, “Putting Pound Together”, in New York Review of Books:
glosses: To surpass in evil and cruelty (originally and chiefly with Herod as direct object).
Derived terms: out-Herod Herod
CGIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CGI
Common Gateway Interface
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A protocol for calling external software via a Web server to deliver dynamic content.
Common Gateway Interfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Common Gateway Interface
Server Side Include
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Server Side Includes
Senses: examples: text: A Server Side Include, on the other hand, is a simple command you place within an HTML page that adds functionality—such as reading an external file, inserting the current date or last file-modification date, […]
ref: 2002, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 443:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: SSI
glosses: A server-side directive in a certain scripting language used on the World Wide Web, allowing the contents of external files to be included at specified points within a web page.
Small Scale Integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSI
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an integration type for digital circuits that contain transistors numbering in the tens providing a few logic gates per chip
Coordinate terms: MSI
LSI
VLSI
ULSI
discrete component
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete components
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor) or active (transistor or vacuum tube).
discrete components
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discrete component
medium scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medium-scale integration
form: MSI
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of transistors providing dozens of logic gates per chip.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
large scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large-scale integration
form: LSI
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An integration type for digital circuits that contain tens of thousands of transistors providing thousands of logic gates per chip.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
Derived terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
infrigidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infrigidants
Etymology: From in- + frigid + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A medical agent or substance which produces a feeling of cold when applied to the body.
infrigidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɹɪd͡ʒɪdeɪt/
Forms: form: infrigidates
form: infrigidating
form: infrigidated
form: infrigidated
Etymology: From Latin infrigidatus, past participle of infrigidare (“to chill”). See in- and frigid.
Senses: examples: text: […] I vvas not deceived in expecting, that the dry ſalt, remaining in the pipkins, being rediſſolved in a due proportion of vvater, vvould very conſiderably infrigidate it; […]
ref: 1666 July 29 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, “A New Frigorifick Experiment, Shewing How a Considerable Degree of Cold may be Suddenly Produced without the Help of Snow, Ice, Hail, Wind, or Nitre, and that at any Time of the Year. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 549, column 2:
glosses: To make (something) cold; to chill.
Related terms: infrigidation
very large scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: very-large-scale integration
form: VLSI
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of thousands of transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: WSI
ultra large scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULSI
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An integration type for digital circuits that contain more than one million transistors providing hundreds of thousands of logic gates per chip.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: LSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: GSI
WSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of wafer-scale integration.
wafer-scale integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".
Gorka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Górka.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
numbre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbres
Senses: examples: text: Also I advertise you, that one Sher’ Thursday last, I was secretly informyd, that a gret numbre of yomen of the countrey woll shortely com to me, to desier me to be a meane for thaym to the Kinges grace, to have thair loone money agayne.
ref: 1858, Willam Cantuar, Archæologia Cantiana, volume I, page 37:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of number.
underbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbuilds
form: underbuilding
form: underbuilt
form: underbuilt
Etymology: From under- + build.
Senses: examples: text: The two eastern arches have been underbuilt for the sake of strengthening them.
ref: 1900, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire archaeological journal: Volume 15:
glosses: To build beneath another structure; provide a foundation or support for; undergird.
examples: text: Appellee was obliged to overbuild, rather than underbuild, the appellant's telephone line for the distance of these six spans for the following reason [...]
ref: 1903, West Publishing Company, The Northeastern reporter: Volume 65:
glosses: To perform insufficient construction on a building or in an area; build below a specified requirement or standard.
Derived terms: underbuilding
Related terms: underbuilder
ingeniate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingeniates
form: ingeniating
form: ingeniated
form: ingeniated
Etymology: See ingenious.
Senses: examples: text: And I must all I can ingeniate To answere for the same
ref: 1607, Samuel Daniel, Funeral Poem Upon the Death of the Noble Earl of Devonshire:
glosses: To invent; to contrive.
glocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊk(ə)l/
Forms: form: more glocal
form: most glocal
Etymology: Blend of global + local.
Senses: examples: text: Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.
ref: 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
topics: business
government
politics
glosses: Both global and local.
Derived terms: glocally
aërotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1889, The Century Dictionary (1st ed., New York &c.), volume 1, “Aërotropism”
Aërotropism, in bot., deviation of roots from their normal direction by the action of gases.
glosses: Dated form of aerotropism.
Tudorbethan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of Tudor + Elizabethan
Senses: examples: text: This same essay, much of which is explicitly directed against the Tudorbethan ‘aesthetic’ of the Prince of Wales, concludes with Ballard saying: ‘I look forward to … the transformation of Britain into the ultimate departure lounge.’
ref: 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
text: [...] on what John Betjeman called 'these mild home county acres' the Metropolitan would create Metroland, a series of Tudorbethan havens for the office toilers of London, destroying the mildness of those acres in the process, of course.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 169:
topics: architecture
glosses: Mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.
Related terms: Jacobethan
mock Tudor
insperse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: insperses
form: inspersing
form: inspersed
form: inspersed
Etymology: From Latin inspersus, past participle of inspergere (“to sprinkle upon”); prefix in- (“in, on”) + spargere (“to sprinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: the Verity of these Paradoxes, inspersed upon the ensuing Treatise
ref: 1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes:
glosses: To sprinkle; to scatter.
wussette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wussettes
Etymology: From wuss + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female wuss.
instiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: instillers
Etymology: From instill + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As is th' instiller of divinest love Unchang'd by time immortal maugre death.
ref: 1601, John Marston, What you Will:
text: Never was there such a juggle as was played in my mind, nor so artful an instiller of loose principles, as my Tutor
ref: 1749, Philip Skelton, Ophiomaches: Or, Deism Revealed:
text: This faithful advisor or instiller of doubts about the religion states: the religion's goal on earth contradicts the government's goal on earth.
ref: 2012, Simon A. Wood, Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs:
text: Whilst many believed that he was only an accessory and had not been involved in any active killing, Major Royale, increasingly through his inebriate haze, believed that this man was the generator, the instiller of planned thoughts, the procreator of violence.
ref: 2013, Caroline Cressey, The Bluebell Wood, page 131:
glosses: One who instills.
examples: text: While on the subject of eye instruments, we must notice Dr. Lewis's instiller for collyria.
ref: 1851, “The Great Exhibition”, in The Medical times:
glosses: An eyedropper.
instillator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instillators
Senses: glosses: An instiller.
examples: text: Exceptionally it is extremely difficult to determine just when the instillator catheter has been introduced to the proper depth.
ref: 1907, James William White, Edward Martin, Genito-urinary Surgery and Venereal Diseases, page 160:
text: The Keyes or the Guyon instillator may be employed for fluids; only the former can be used with ointments .
ref: 1910, Edward Loughborough Keyes, Diseases of the genito-urinary organs, page 196:
text: The use of the instillator is indicated when total flushings are unavailing.
ref: 1916, Hobart Amory Hare, A Text-book of practical therapeutics, page 776:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for injecting controlled amounts of fluids or ointments into the urethra, consisting of a catheter with a fitting on the outside for a syringe.
schizosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizo- + sexual, after schizophrenic and terms ending in -sexual (such as homosexual).
Senses: examples: text: In individuals of inherited schizophrenic predisposition, the sexual organization remains at a rudimentary level because at least two of its essential constituents, pleasure and love, are innately defective. The ensuing schizosexual behavior is marked by blurred awareness and floundering activity.
ref: 1963, Hendrik Marinus Ruitenbeek, editor, The Problem of Homosexuality in Modern Society, Dutton, page 123:
text: +SCHIZOSEXUAL — to prefer sex with one’s other selves.
ref: 1996 June 11, 3:00am, “Mindwarp Trismegistus” (user name), alt.tasteless.jokes (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: PLEASE ADD TO: Sexual Preference Terminology”, Message ID: <31BD1502.7685@infogo.com>#1/1
text: 2007 May 29, 7:12pm, “~tanya” (user name), alt.support.anxiety-panic (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Finally I have been Diagnosed!”, Message ID: <1180462371.704935.42460@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
i’m schizosexual […] (which means i hallucinate about gettin’ laid).
glosses: Exhibiting pathologically divergent sexual behaviour, or sexual behaviour (imagined to be) associated with schizophrenia.
schizosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizosexuals
Etymology: From schizo- + sexual, after schizophrenic and terms ending in -sexual (such as homosexual).
Senses: examples: text: But once Walter plucks up the courage to fully penetrate Automan, he has a sort of breakdown and becomes a split personality. […] After which this futuristic schizosexual goes cruising through the city streets at night, picking up men.
ref: 2011 March 1, Charlie Brooker, How TV Ruined Your Life, series 1, episode 5: “Progress”, 12:07–12:24
glosses: Someone exhibiting such behaviour.
intactile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not tactile.
paranoidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more paranoidly
form: most paranoidly
Etymology: From paranoid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paranoid manner.
underbuilder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌbɪldə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: underbuilders
Etymology: From under- (“subordinate”) + builder.
Senses: examples: text: an underbuilder in the house of God
ref: 1651, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying:
glosses: A subordinate or assistant builder.
Related terms: underbuild
innerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more innerly
form: most innerly
Etymology: From Middle English inhirly, ynhirly, inderly, equivalent to inner + -ly. Compare Dutch innerlijk, German innerlich, Danish inderlig, Swedish innerlig.
Senses: glosses: Inward; deep-seated.
innerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more innerly
form: most innerly
Etymology: From Middle English innerly, inderly, inderlich, inderlike, equivalent to inner + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within; inwardly.
matchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ætʃi
Forms: form: more matchy
form: most matchy
Etymology: From match + -y.
Senses: glosses: color-coordinated, matching, especially to an excess.
Synonyms: matchy-matchy
Derived terms: matchiness
mixy-matchy
mowyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mowyers
Etymology: From mow + -yer.
Senses: glosses: One who mows; mower.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The long-billed or sickle-billed curlew (Numenius americanus).
insteep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstiːp/
Forms: form: insteeps
form: insteeping
form: insteeped
form: insteeped
Etymology: From in- + steep.
Senses: examples: text: York, all haggled over, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd, / And takes him by the beard.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
glosses: To steep or soak; drench.
roleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊl.ləs/
ipa: /ɹoʊl.ləs/
ipa: [ɹoʊɫ.ləs]
Etymology: From role + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a role.
Derived terms: rolelessness
œconomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: There was another mode of œconomizing, which, in his opinion, need only be ſtated to the Houſe to induce them to adopt it.
ref: 1799 C.E., The Senator : or, Clarendon’s Parliamentary Chronicle., W. Stratford; volume XXIV, page #633
text: ..in no longer submitting to the pain of absence, they would also derive, what in their situation was of such essential importance, the œconomizing from his army allowance, which in its accumulations could be devoted to the payment and satisfaction of his creditors,..
ref: 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: present participle and gerund of œconomize
glass-half-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glass half empty
Etymology: From the expression "Is the glass half empty or half full?", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.
Senses: examples: text: Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”
ref: 2006, Laura Klepacki, Avon: Building The World's Premier Company For Women:
glosses: pessimistic
raw_tags: of a person
wikipedia: Is the glass half empty or half full?
unlawful detainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of retaining possession of property without legal right.
topics: law
glosses: A legal action intended to remedy unlawful detainer by restoring possession of property to its owner.
glass-half-full
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glass half full
Etymology: From the expression Is the glass half empty or half full?, the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.
Senses: examples: text: Normally she is an extremely positive, glass half-full sort of girl, someone who can find the silver lining in any situation. However, when it came to her breakup, she refused to see the many positive things that could come from it...
ref: 2008, Megan Frost, Common Sense of a Different Kind: Matter-Of-Fact Thoughts on Women and Dating:
glosses: optimistic
raw_tags: of a person
have it easy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it easy
form: having it easy
form: had it easy
form: had it easy
Senses: examples: text: Kids have it so easy nowadays.
glosses: To have favourable conditions for an easy life.
Related terms: take it easy
life is like a box of chocolates
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Appeared in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, when the lead character Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) says “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Life is full of surprises; you never know what will happen next.
wikipedia: Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
Related terms: such is life
that's life
this is the life
bowl of cherries
Web browser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Web browsers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of web browser.
plain to see
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So what now? It's plain to see we're over
And I hate when things are over
When so much is left undone
ref: 1993 October 13, Todd Pipes, “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, in Home, performed by Deep Blue Something, published 11 July 1995:
synonyms: word: plain as day
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: apparent
word: arrant
word: undoubted
word: glaring
word: bait
word: blatant
word: clear
word: clear as a bell
word: clear as day
word: clear cut
word: crystal clear
word: cut and dried
word: decided
word: elucidate
word: evident
word: eyely
word: intuitive
word: manifest
word: notable
word: noticeable
word: obvious
word: open-and-shut
word: ostensible
word: palpable
word: patent
word: plain
word: plain as a haystack
word: plain as a pikestaff
word: plain as day
word: plain as Dunstable highway
word: plain as porridge
word: plain as print
word: plain as Salisbury
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: prima facie
word: res ipsa loquitur
word: straightforward
word: undissembled
glosses: Evident; obvious.
Related terms: clear-eyed
open-eyed
not so fast
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to tell someone to cease doing something or to call into question what someone has said.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, so, fast.
Related terms: hold one's horses
next thing one knows
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: the next thing one knows
Senses: examples: text: ([Milton Dosantos]) just said they were on the roof and the next thing they knew, they were flat on their backs
ref: 1990 July 22, “2 Roofers Hit by Lightning, Man Critically Injured”, in South Florida Sun - Sentinel:
text: He had three fingers on one hand because one of them had been shot off, and he'd sit there doing this and next thing you know, out would come this three-dimensional folded cage or a box or cranes or snails. Really remarkable.
ref: 1998, Al Rapaport, Buddhism in America:
text: Roy: You remember the woman from last night? She seemed lovely, right?
Moss: She was a delight.
Roy: Yeah. We get outside, there's a group of tramps, two of whom she knows by name. She starts screaming at them, "You owe me money! You owe me money!" She thinks that the tramps owe her money. Next thing I know, it all kicks off. I'm running for my life. It was a horrible evening, a really horrible evening, and she's a really horrible woman.
Moss: Right. But you slept with her?
Roy: Yeah.
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
glosses: suddenly, out of the blue.
Related terms: little did one know
surprise party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surprise parties
Senses: glosses: A preplanned party in which participants secretively gather in a certain location, wait for the arrival of the person they wish to honour and, traditionally, greet the arrival of the honoured person by shouting, "Surprise!".
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtwiːdəlˈdʌm ən ˌtwiːdəlˈdiː/
Etymology: From Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a pair of identical characters in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from an epigram written by poet John Byrom.
Senses: examples: text: The radicals said that Nixon and Humphrey were Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
glosses: Two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way.
examples: text: Some officers were starting to call Edendale's two detective chief inspectors Tweedledum and Tweedledee, because they were rarely seen except when they were sitting alongside each other at the head of a briefing.
ref: 2007, Stephen Booth, Blood on the Tongue: A Crime Novel:
text: With their apparently identikit backgrounds and bland politicians' patter, the contest has sometimes seemed an incestuous choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When even the promised fratricidal war between the Miliband brothers failed to take off, one newspaper cartoonist illustrated a caricature of the contestants with the caption: Who cares who wins?
ref: 2010 August 25, Seumas Milne, “Ed is the only Miliband who offers a genuine alternative”, in The Guardian online:
glosses: A pair of people who spend a lot of time together, and look and act similarly.
Coordinate terms: sense: two persons or organizations deemed indistinguishable in some way
word: six of one, half a dozen of the other
Derived terms: Tweedledum and Tweedledumber
reäct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reäcts
form: reäcting
form: reäcted
form: reäcted
Etymology: The ä emphasizes the pronunciation of the word with two syllables rather than one syllable.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of react.
hand axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand axes
form: hand-axe
form: handaxe
form: hand ax
form: hand-ax
form: handax
Etymology: From Middle English hand-ax, handax, handex, hond axe, from Old English handæx, from Proto-Germanic *handakwisī; equivalent to hand + axe.
Senses: glosses: A stone tool made by flaking to produce an edge, used without a handle.
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A hatchet or throwing axe.
hand axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hand ax
glosses: plural of hand axe
reäction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reäctions
Etymology: The diaeresis emphasizes the pronunciation of the word with three rather than two syllables.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of reaction.
HV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of high voltage.
glosses: Initialism of high velocity.
glosses: Initialism of herpesvirus.
glosses: Initialism of holiday village.
Derived terms: AciHV
CaHV
CeHV
ChHV
CHV
CoHV
CαHV
FHV
HSV
HV conduction time
αHV
roger that
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction.
Senses: examples: 1969 "Capsule Communicator: '11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. You can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK.' Commander (Neil A. Armstrong): 'Roger that. Thank you.' ", Apollo 11 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (Tape 4/5, mission time 5h 16 min), 16 July 1969.
1974 "This is the book for everybody who ever groaned under the onslaught of trivia transmitted by the astronauts ('This sunset is really something, Houston...' 'Roger that...'). review of M. Collins, "Carrying the Fire", Flying Magazine, November 1974, p. 108.
1989 "'It's going to blow visibility to shit, too.' 'Roger that.'" Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, p. 506.
topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
glosses: Used to acknowledge receipt and understanding of a message
Synonyms: roger
Related terms: copy that
jacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒeɪsənt/
Etymology: From Latin jacens, present participle of jacere (“to lie”): compare French jacent. Doublet of jessant.
Senses: examples: text: the jacent posture
glosses: Lying stretched out.
jaculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaculators
Etymology: Latin; see jaculate.
Senses: glosses: One who throws or casts.
glosses: The archerfish.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A retinaculum
trilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: more trilly
form: most trilly
Etymology: From trill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She was a sweet young thing with cheek dimples and a trilly laugh...
ref: 1914, Sewell Ford, Wilt thou Torchy:
text: This bird has a number of calls, but the most common is a loud chuck (Example 3). Immature birds utter a trilly note (Example 4), which is a common marsh sound in mid-summer.
ref: 1984, Donald J. Borror, Songs of Western Birds:
text: He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.
ref: 2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball:
text: 31 March 2011, Mallika Rao at RollingStone.com, American Idol Recap: Stuck In the Middle
Paul McDonald, whose "Rocket Man" was wispy and unmemorable; Stefano Langone, still with the weird enunciations and trilly voice...
glosses: Having a trill sound.
spilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: more spilly
form: most spilly
Etymology: From spill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then Jeffry, with heavy-handed humor which ill became him, complained within her hearing that most of his oyster stew, spilly food which he had intentionally ordered, had poured over into his coffee.
ref: 1980, Fannie Hurst, Anatomy of me:
text: [He was] very windy, and he was very spilly right from the beginning. Just really spilly after every feed, numerous clothing changes for him and for me.
ref: 2007, Mavis Kirkham, Exploring the dirty side of women's health:
glosses: Prone to spilling.
quilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more quilly
form: most quilly
Etymology: From quill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts […]; the one is a quilly or finny substance, consisting of several long, slender and variously bended quills or wires, something resembling the veins of leaves […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
examples: text: […] sometimes you may even run across a quilly ball lying right on top of the ledge, or catch one of the numerous porcupine family picking its way leisurely among the rocks.
ref: 2005, Jean M. Thompson, Wild Kindred of Fur, Feather and Fin, page 79:
glosses: With quills; quilled.
thrilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪli
Forms: form: thrillier
form: thrilliest
Etymology: From thrill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: To know it is to feel it, the clitoris so complicated and so clever, as thrilly as a high-tension wire. In its nest within a nest like the word within a word. The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus. This is carnal knowledge.
ref: 1970, Germaine Greer, The Politics Of Female Sexuality:
text: ...I saw his eyes inside the mask smiling at me and right there at that moment everything became okay, exultant new world vision, a new thrilly freedom down down down in the blue glass light world.
ref: 1995, Timothy Leary, High Priest:
text: Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins. His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.
ref: 2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me:
glosses: exciting, producing a thrill.
failure to thrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failures to thrive
Senses: glosses: Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: chiefly geriatrics
glosses: Abnormal weight loss, malaise.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see failure, thrive.
Related terms: failure to launch
ill-thrift
Northwest Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of the North Germanic and West Germanic languages combined. This includes all modern Germanic languages, and all ancient Germanic languages except for East Germanic (which includes primarily Gothic).
glosses: The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Northwest Proto-Germanic or Proto-Northwest Germanic).
Northwest Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these languages.
Related terms: East Germanic
North Germanic
West Germanic
joculator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joculators
Etymology: From Latin joculātus. Doublet of juggler and jongleur.
Senses: examples: text: The joculators' were sometimes excellent tumblers; yet, generally speaking, I believe that vaulting, tumbling, and balancing, were not exectued by the chieftan of the gleeman's company, but by some of his confederates
ref: 1801, Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England:
glosses: A jester; a joker.
Synonyms: word: joculatrix
judicare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒudɪˌkɛə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒudɪˌkɛɚ/
Etymology: Blend of judicial + care; compare Medicare, denticare.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A form of legal aid in which private lawyers and law firms are paid to handle cases from eligible clients alongside the cases from their own fee-paying clients.
jugum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuː.ɡəm/
Forms: form: juga
form: jugums
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin jugum (“a yoke, collar; a pair of anything; the summit, ridge”). Doublet of yoke and yuga.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A connecting ridge or projection, especially on a bone.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lobe on the forewing of some moths which interlocks with the hindwing in flight.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pair of opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.
Derived terms: jugary
Related terms: jugal
jugate
jugulum
jugum penis
jugum petrosum
jugum sphenoidale
juves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juve
properest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Very probably,” answered Partridge; “but if the top of the hill be properest to produce melancholy thoughts, I suppose the bottom is the likeliest to produce merry ones, and these I take to be much the better of the two. […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: […] Mr. Rushworth discovered that the properest thing to be done, was for him to walk down to the Parsonage directly, and call on Mr. Crawford, and inquire whether Wednesday would suit him or not.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 156:
glosses: superlative form of proper: most proper.
promptest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of prompt: most prompt
profiteered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of profiteer
privatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of private: most private
privater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of private: more private
precisest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of precise: most precise
preciser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of precise: more precise
Rabaul Creole German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Unserdeutsch.
possiblest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of possible: most possible
possibler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of possible: more possible
positivest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: positivist
Senses: glosses: superlative form of positive: most positive
pontooned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a pontoon, or pontoons, attached to it.
pontooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pontoon
mæanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Above the relief projects also a broader fascia, on which a rich mæander has likewise been painted ; both these mæanders, it seems, were red ; above this last mæander, and separated from it by a bird’s beak moulding decorated with leaves, was another broad fascia between the beams of the roof, with a beautifully twisted palm‐leaf ornament ; upon this was an ovolo painted with eggs, and finally over this last the soffits of the roof.
ref: 1836, W. R. Hamilton, “On the Polychromy of Greek Architecture”, in Transactions of the Institute of British Architects, volume I, page 86:
glosses: plural of mæander
mæanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mæander
piggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of piggy: more piggy
piggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of piggy: most piggy
Lamarckian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lamarckians
Etymology: From Lamarck + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Even after Darwin began publishing, Spencer remained a Lamarckian, a disciple of an earlier advocate of evolution who believed organisms could pass on acquired characteristics to their offspring.
ref: 2011, Jeff Riggenbach, Mises Daily, The Real William Graham Sumner:
glosses: A supporter or an advocate of Lamarckism.
Lamarckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lamarck + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Lamarckism.
distinguishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɪŋɡ.wɪʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: distinguishments
Etymology: From distinguish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: "We notice what we notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes."
ref: 1865, John Grote, Exploratio philosophica: rough notes on modern intellectual science, Part 1, University of Cambridge, page 50:
text: "And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons...
ref: 1833, Samuel Lewis Southard, Joseph Hendrickson, Thomas L. Shotwell, Edward Hopper, Argument of Samuel L. Southard: in the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson versus Thomas L. Shotwell, page 157:
glosses: A distinction; observation of difference.
Related terms: distinction
distinguishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distinguishment
stœchiometrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of stoichiometrical.
antisocial personality disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisocial personality disorders
form: APD
form: ASPD
form: anti-social personality disorder
form: antisocial-personality disorder
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
hypernyms: personality disorder
glosses: A personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior, a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.
wikipedia: antisocial personality disorder
Related terms: conduct disorder
cluster B personality disorder
sociopathy
psychopathy