cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chintzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪntsi/
rhymes: -ɪntsi
Forms: form: chintzier
form: more chintzy
form: chintziest
form: most chintzy
Etymology: From earlier chinchy, from Middle English chynchy (“miserly, stingy”), from Middle English chinche (“stingy, miserly; miser”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Is there a place for being prudent, frugal, and thrifty with the one we love in marriage? Sure. But only when careful ways are outweighed by generosity to overflowing. […] Think of a time when you were being a bit more chintzy with your partner than you needed to be. What was the result and was it worth it?
ref: 2000, Les Parrott, Leslie Parrott, “A Penny Saved is Sometimes Chintzy”, in Meditations on Proverbs for Couples, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 63:
text: They were sitting at the kitchen table. There was a fizzy pop as her father opened a can of ginger ale for Mr. Cooper. Store brand, of course. Lately everything was generic. Not that it mattered to any of them, only Ruth, who said it was just the chintziest way to live.
ref: 2011, Mary McGarry Morris, chapter 4, in Light from a Distant Star: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 34:
text: "But you don't charge a buddy a fee for finding him a job. That's chintzy, man! Chintzy!" / "You won't think it's so chintzy when five bucks multiply each day by the number of heads hauled. We'll split it fifty-fifty."
ref: 2011 February 11, Raymond C. Archuleta, Manuel Vic Villalpando, chapter 7, in The Illicit American: A True Story about the Smuggling of Human Cargo, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 110:
synonyms: word: as tight as Dick's hatband
word: cheap
word: cheeseparing
word: chintzy
word: close
word: close as wax
word: close-fisted
word: illiberal
word: mean
word: miserable
word: miserly
word: narrow-fisted
word: niggardly
word: nipcheese
word: parsimonious
word: peddling
word: penny-wise
word: penny-pinching
word: penurious
word: scrooge-like
word: scrubby
word: shabby
word: still got one's communion money
word: stingy
word: swear
word: tight
word: tight-fisted
word: tight as a tick
word: tighter than Dick's hatband
word: ungenerous
word: ungiving
glosses: Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.
giblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪblət/
ipa: /ˈɡɪblət/
rhymes: -ɪblət
Forms: form: giblets
Etymology: See giblets.
Senses: examples: text: To make a Giblet Pie. Take two pair of giblets nicely cleaned, put all but the livers into a sauce-pan […]
ref: 1784, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy:
glosses: The edible viscera of a bird.
Related terms: gibs
rotund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/
Forms: form: rotunder
form: rotundest
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”). Doublet of round.
Senses: examples: text: He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind:
text: Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.
ref: 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis, 3rd edition, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, pages 96-97:
glosses: Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
glosses: Having a round body shape; portly or pudgy; obese.
glosses: Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.
raw_tags: of a sound
Synonyms: sense: having a round body shape
word: chubby
word: tubby
word: overweight
sense: full and rich sound
word: booming
word: resounding
word: sonorous
Rapunzel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈpʌnzəl/
Forms: form: Rapunzels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rapunzel, the name of several varieties of lettuce.
Senses: glosses: A German fairy tale about a girl imprisoned in a tower who lets down her long hair for a rescuer to climb.
examples: text: […] as they loll in pairs or trios, looking down from the windows like Rapunzels and carpet-knights, while they eat bruised apricots, tomorrow is always on their lips as honey to come.
ref: 1966, Hal Porter, The Paper Chase, Angus and Robertson, page 90:
text: I spot Sleeping Beauty in a thorn forest. Two of them, only they are more like Rapunzels who’ve fallen from their tower.
ref: 2011, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta, Forge, →ISBN, page 172:
text: He keeps all three of us locked up like Rapunzels.
ref: 2020, Lauri Robinson, The Flapper’s Baby Scandal, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: The fictional girl who is the protagonist and title character of the fairy tale.
Derived terms: Rapunzelesque
Rapunzelian
Rapunzel syndrome
restauranteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restauranteurs
Etymology: Blend of restaurateur + restaurant.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of restaurateur.
Derived terms: restauranteuse
Gilbertese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Gilbert + -ese. See Gilbertese language § Name on Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Kiribati.
Synonyms: Kiribati
Gilbertese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gilbertese
Etymology: From Gilbert + -ese. See Gilbertese language § Name on Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: If each Gilbertese passes on land to his or her children, not very many generations will pass before the land plots become relatively fragmented. This was and is the case. Many land plots are small,[…]
ref: 1981, Roland W. Force, Brenda Bishop, Persistence and Exchange: Papers from a Symposium on Ecological Problems of the Traditional Societies of the Pacific Region : XIV Pacific Science Congress, Khabarovsk, U.S.S.R., August--September, 1979:
synonyms: Kiribatian
glosses: A person from the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati.
restaurateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛst(ə)ɹəˈtɜː/
Forms: form: restaurateurs
form: restauranteur
Etymology: Borrowed from French restaurateur.
Senses: glosses: The owner of a restaurant.
Related terms: word: restaurateuse
word: restauratrice
outro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈaʊ.tɹəʊ/
Forms: form: outros
Etymology: Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in. First attested in the title of the song The Intro and the Outro (1967), by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and written by Vivian Stanshall.
Senses: examples: text: […] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]
ref: 1977, Claude Hall, Barbara Hall, This business of radio programming:
text: Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.
ref: 1992, Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett, Practical recording techniques:
text: 2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records
But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: extro
antonyms: intro
glosses: A portion of music at the end of a song.
examples: text: Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:
ref: 2007, Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner's guide:
glosses: The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game, etc.
outliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtlaɪnə/
Forms: form: outliners
Etymology: From outline + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which draws an outline.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software system for organizing text into a hierarchy.
biofact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofacts
Etymology: Blend of bio- + artifact.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: a biological artefact, not altered by human hands; e.g. a seed, or an uncarved wooden roof beam.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
sociology
qualifier: the arts
glosses: A hybrid of an artefact and a living entity, or between concepts of nature and technology.
Synonyms: sense: in archaeology
word: ecofact
nymphette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphettes
Etymology: From French nymphette. By surface analysis, nymph + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: William Douglas was a Scotsman, as canny in his seduction of teenage girls, nymphettes who did not have to be necessarily virgin provided they were kittenish, as he was in his betting on near certain odds.
ref: 1976, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The grand century of the lady, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of nymphet.
Borneo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɹnioʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɔːni.əʊ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbo(ː)ɹnioʊ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboənioʊ/
Etymology: Probably from Sanskrit वरुणद्वीप (varuṇa-dvīpa, “island of Varuna”), therefore a doublet of Brunei.
Senses: synonyms: Kalimantan
glosses: A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.
wikipedia: Guided Democracy in Indonesia
North Kalimantan Communist Party
Meronyms: Brunei
Central Kalimantan
East Kalimantan
North Kalimantan
Sabah
Sarawak
South Kalimantan
West Kalimantan
Derived terms: Bornean
Borneo birdwing Troides andromache)
Borneo camphor
Borneo catshark
Borneo elephant
Borneo rhinoceros
Borneo river shark
Borneo shark
Borneo Time
North Borneo
Related terms: Kalimantan
reactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactivities
Etymology: From reactive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: responsiveness to stimulation
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: relative susceptibility to chemical reaction
Derived terms: alloreactivity
autoreactivity
bioreactivity
bronchoreactivity
cross-reactivity
hyperreactivity
hyporeactivity
immunoreactivity
nonreactivity
overreactivity
photoreactivity
polyreactivity
radioreactivity
seroreactivity
unreactivity
vasoreactivity
xenoreactivity
licorice root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licorice roots
form: liquorice root
Senses: glosses: The root of the liquorice plant, Glycyrrhiza glabra, from which a sweet flavoring with an anise scent is extracted.
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Glycyrrhiza, especially Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum grayi (Gray's licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum apiifolium (celery-leaf licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum californicum (California licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum canadense (Canadian licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum canbyi (Canby's licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum filicinum (fernleaf licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum calderi (Calder's licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum porteri (Porter's licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum tenuifolium (Idaho licorice root)
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Species of Ligusticum:
Ligusticum verticillatum (northern licorice root
glosses: Any of several other species of plants whose roots have a similar aroma and taste.
Osmorhiza longistylis (aniseroot)
licorice extract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licorice extracts
form: liquorice extract
Senses: glosses: A sweet flavorful tisane made from the root of the liquorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra or the North American plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota. Used in candy making.
nymphet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphets
form: nymphette
Etymology: From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
Senses: examples: text: Of the nymphets sporting there In Wyrrall, and in Delamere.
ref: 1612 Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion I. xi. Argt. 171
glosses: A small nymph.
examples: text: […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 19:
glosses: A sexually attractive girl or young woman.
Synonyms: jailbait
lolita
nymph
Coordinate terms: faunlet
Derived terms: nymphetry
tisane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈzæn/
ipa: /tɪˈzæn/
ipa: /tɪˈzɑn/
Forms: form: tisanes
form: ptisan
form: ptisane
form: tisan
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tysanne, Middle French ptisane, tisane (“barley water, medicinal drink”), and their source, Latin tisana, variant of ptisana, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisánē, “peeled barley, barley gruel”), from πτίσσειν (ptíssein, “to peel, to crush”).
Senses: examples: text: Ptisan. A diluent drink which makes a great figure in the dietetic precepts of the ancients.
ref: 1831, Alexander Macaulay, A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use, 2nd edition, page 454:
text: Towards the end of the week the girls complained of violent headaches and restless nights; and before Monday it was very obvious that they were all in a high fever. Tuesday Isabella was delirious, and Mademoiselle Virginie sent the maid to Covent Garden to buy some herbs, which, she said, would form a sovereign tisane.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 57:
text: “Neither,” said Poirot, “I shall go to bed and take a tisane. The expected has happened […].”
ref: 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:
text: The sick people would take away also some herbs for their ptisan, some wine and other comforts […].
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 5:
text: As soon as he had opened the door he worked his way back to his high-backed Queen Anne armchair, where he picked up his bone-china cup and took a sip of a rarefied tisane.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
synonyms: herbal tea
glosses: A medicinal drink, originally made from barley soaked in water.
continuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɪnjuəm/
ipa: /-(j)ɪu̯əm/
Forms: form: continuums
form: continua
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin continuum, neuter form of continuus, from contineō (“contain, enclose”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: spectrum
text: So, the white line implies Blacklessness and the black background implies Whitelessness – that is, once the white line, a continuum, has emerged from blackness, also a continuum, and the two continua engage in an “inter-penetrative” (Buddhist term) process.
ref: 2014, Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sorensen, Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words:
text: In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
glosses: A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
examples: text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: A continuous extent.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The nondenumerable set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
Synonyms: sense: set of real numbers
word: ℝ
Derived terms: anticontinuum
continuum hypothesis
continuumlike
continuum mechanics
continuum theory
dialect continuum
discontinuum
generalized continuum hypothesis
hypercontinuum
language continuum
post-creole continuum
quasicontinuum
subcontinuum
supercontinuum
Related terms: continuous
customization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: customizations
form: customisation
Senses: glosses: The act of customizing something.
Derived terms: recustomization
customisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: customisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of customization.
emulsification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: emulsifications
Senses: examples: text: Mayonnaise is made by the emulsification of oil and vinegar.
text: The oil bath, which is a feature of the original locomotives, has led to an excessive use of oil and also corrosion of the steel motion details because of the entry of water, causing emulsification. The oil bath has thus been dispensed with, and the motion and valve gear of the inside cylinder are no longer completely enclosed, enabling the various working parts to be readily examined.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 729:
glosses: The process by which an emulsion is formed.
Derived terms: demulsification
microemulsification
phacoemulsification
oenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ē'nŏl-ə-jē
ipa: /iˈnɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
enpr: ē'nŏ-lə-jē
ipa: /iˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: enology
form: œnology
form: oinology
Etymology: From oeno- + -logy.
Senses: synonyms: vinology
winelore
coordinate_terms: zythology
glosses: The scientific study of wines and winemaking.
Derived terms: oenological
oenologist
Related terms: oenologically
enology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eno- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oenology.
enophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oenophile.
viticulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪdəˌkəltʃər/
ipa: /ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə/
Forms: form: viticultures
Etymology: From viti- + culture, from Latin vītis + cultūra (“cultivation of the vine, vine-growing”). Compare agriculture.
Senses: examples: text: The old French farmer practiced viticulture and raised some of the best grapes in the world.
He is knowledgeable in viticulture.
glosses: The agricultural practice of growing vines, particularly grape vines.
Synonyms: viniculture
winegrowing
vine-growing
Hypernyms: winemaking
Derived terms: viticultural
viticulturer
viticulturist
autoethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːtəʊˌɛθnəʊˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
ipa: /ɔtoʊˌɛθnəˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
Forms: form: more autoethnographic
form: most autoethnographic
Etymology: From auto- + ethnographic.
Senses: examples: text: If ethnographic texts are a means by which Europeans represent to themselves their (usually subjugated) others, autoethnographic texts are those the others construct in response to or in dialogue with those metropolitan representations.
ref: 1995, Rebecca Jane Dobkins, From Vanishing to Visible: Maidu Indian Arts and the Uses of Tradition:
text: At the same time it often resorts to free indirect speech rather than dialogue, frequently using an autoethnographic point of view, suggesting a more personalized mode of shared ethnographic documentation.
ref: 2007, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Writing in the San/d: Autoethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans:
synonyms: autoethnographical
glosses: Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
Derived terms: autoethnographically
Related terms: autoethnography
-ic
autoethnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəʊ.ɛθˈnɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌɔtoʊ.ɛθˈnɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: autoethnographies
Etymology: From auto- + ethnography.
Senses: examples: text: The aborigine's autobiography was also an autoethnography. It told much about the culture he grew up in.
glosses: An ethnographic study drawing on one's own anecdotal or personal experience, or an approach to conducting research in which anecdotal or personal experience is foregrounded.
Derived terms: autoethnographic
ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
homophone: inns
Senses: glosses: plural of in
Related terms: ins and outs
ins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪnz
homophone: inns
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: insert
endian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.dɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈɛn.di.ən/
ipa: /ˈɪn.di.ən/
homophone: Indian (pin–pen merger)
Etymology: From end + -ian (suffix meaning ‘one from, belonging to, like, or relating to’ forming nouns, and meaning ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives), originally in the noun Big-Endian coined by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) in his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Swift wrote of an emperor of Lilliput who, after his son cuts his finger when opening an egg at the large end, commands his subjects to open them at the small end; those who rebel by opening their eggs at the large end are called “Big-Endians”.
The term was applied in the computing context by the Israeli-American computer scientist Danny Cohen (1937–2019) in 1980.
Senses: examples: text: endian-neutral code
text: In Ken Turkowski's article on the big and little endian addressing used on the 68020 he commented that Motorola's approach "proved" that a machine with consistant^([sic]) bit addressing (e.g., all little or big endian) was impossible. I assume that he was joking.
ref: 1984 August 25, Ian Kaplan, “Inconsistent bit addressing in the 68020: big- AND little-endian”, in net.micro.68k (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for example, at the smallest address (big-endian) or the largest address (little-endian).
wikipedia: Internet Experiment Note
Related terms: word: bi-endian
word: big-endian
word: ended
word: endianless
word: endianness
word: little-endian
word: middle-endian
word: mixed-endian
word: wrong-endian
multibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-byte
Etymology: From multi- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: The computer stored the number in a multibyte location: it took 32 bits or four entire bytes to store so large a value.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Contained in more than one byte.
eye up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eyes up
form: eyeing up
form: eying<l up
form: rare> up
form: eyed up
form: eyed up
Senses: examples: text: That creep in the corner was eyeing me up.
text: The dog was eyeing up my steak.
text: Llanelli: An empty piece of land south of the station is being eyed up by Carmarthenshire Council, to create a better interchange for buses and taxis, and to build a car park.
ref: 2025 April 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Wales”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 25:
synonyms: give someone the eye
glosses: To examine closely something coveted.
ethnogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ĕth′nō-jĕn′ĭ-sĭs
Forms: form: ethnogeneses
Etymology: From ethno- + -genesis. While attested incidentally before the twentieth century, it gained currency particularly in the postwar era as a scholarly concept.
Senses: glosses: The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity.
Related terms: ethnogenetic
ethnogeny
recoup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkuːp/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkup/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkʉːp/
Forms: form: recoups
form: recouping
form: recouped
form: recouped
Etymology: From French recouper (“cut short”).
Senses: examples: text: He barely managed to recoup his money. He sold out for just what he had invested.
text: to recoup losses made at the gaming table
text: In July British Railways installed train-operated red-and-white level crossing half-barriers of a new design at 11 places, [...] The cost is given at £800 a pair, which can be readily recouped on savings in the cost of manning ordinary gated crossings.
ref: 1964 August, “News and Comment: New BR standard half-barrier”, in Modern Railways, page 88:
synonyms: recover
glosses: To make back (an investment or similar).
glosses: To recover from an error.
examples: text: A landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.
topics: law
glosses: To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.
examples: text: Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.
ref: 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: Industry is sometimes recouped for a small price by extensive custom.
ref: 1887, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scotland as it was and as it is:
glosses: To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive voice.
Derived terms: recoupable
recoupment
tell me about it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "I guess it's a lot of work for a cop to juggle personal relationships." / "Tell me about it."
ref: 1996, J. D. Robb, Immortal in Death, page 183:
text: "Go sit with him. I think he's a little depressed. It's not easy to grow old." / "Tell me about it."
ref: 2007, Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant, page 364:
text: "We're on the Air Force family planning routine. Mitch's been out of town so much we haven't even had a chance to try and get pregnant." / "Tell me about it."
ref: 2008, Sara Rosett, Staying Home Is a Killer, page 90:
synonyms: you said it
;
amen#Interjection
coordinate_terms: you're telling me
glosses: Used to express agreement and sympathy with the previous speaker’s statement.
Related terms: join the club
big-endian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See the etymology for endian.
Senses: examples: text: Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
ref: 1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a lower address than the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
examples: text: The network octet order for all protocols in the TCP/IP protocol suite is big-endian. A big-endian computer system need not perform any conversion in building TCP/IP protocol headers from integers stored in its memory.
ref: 1994, James Martin, Joe Leben, TCP/IP Networking: Architecture, Administration, and Programming, Prentice Hall, page 203:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Transmitting the most significant byte of a multibyte number before transmitting the least significant byte; that is, "big end" first.
Synonyms: network byte-order
Related terms: endianness
endianless
little-endian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See the etymology for endian.
Senses: examples: text: Most big Unix machines are big-endian, but Intel x86 machines and older Digital machines are little-endian.
ref: 1999, W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Storing the most significant byte of a multibyte number at a higher address than the least significant byte; that is, "little end" first.
Related terms: endianness
endianless
asexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.sɛk.sjuːˈæ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌeɪ.sɛk.ʃuˈæ.lə.ti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: asexualities
Etymology: From a- (“lacking, without”) + sexuality, equivalent to asexual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being asexual:
The quality of experiencing little or no sexual attraction.
synonyms: anaphrodisia
coordinate_terms: allosexuality
examples: text: The same holds for Vincentius Victor in his discussion of the asexuality of the corporeal form of the soul. In Lactantius, who emphasizes the uncertainty concerning the sex of the phoenix, and in Zeno of Verona, who says that the phoenix is for itself both sexes, the background is again formed by the inferred asexuality of the phoenix.
ref: 1971?, Roelof van den Broek, The Myth of the Phoenix, page 421
glosses: The state or quality of being asexual:
The quality of lacking a sex or sexual organs.
examples: text: The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms.
ref: 2003, Gimme Hugh Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research, page 166
text: While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, …
ref: 2009, Chapter 13 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis, Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 263
glosses: The state or quality of being asexual:
The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.
Hyponyms: graysexuality
Derived terms: gray asexuality
laryngeal prominence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngeal prominences
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The Adam's apple.
beached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
Forms: form: more beached
form: most beached
Etymology: From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Come not to me again: but say to Athens,
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63,
Even now Jove shed the image of a bull,
Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore
On the beached mountainside of Crete,
glosses: Having a beach.
beached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
Etymology: See beach (verb)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beach
beached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -iːtʃt
Forms: form: more beached
form: most beached
Etymology: See beach (verb)
Senses: examples: text: […] Yet she glanced no thought
At her own mermaid nakedness but gathering
The long black serpents of beached seaweed wove
Wreaths for old Jinny and crowned and wound her. […]
ref: 1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 30:
text: It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
glosses: Run or brought ashore
examples: text: a beached whale
text: There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.
ref: 1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103:
text: Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.
ref: 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 109:
glosses: Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
Derived terms: word: beached whale
equine rhabdomyelosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: azoturia
Monday morning disease
glosses: A condition that affects the muscles of horses, ranging from stiffness and mild cramps to the horse becoming unable to stand and producing discoloured urine.
broodmare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broodmares
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brood mare.
dapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdæpəɫ]
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: dapples
Etymology: Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
Senses: glosses: A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
examples: text: “My brother,” said he, “do not ride to–day / The dapple, as you’re wont; but mount the horse / Which I have chosen for thee.
ref: 1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge tr., Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1419158775&id=bXOEL5RL6DsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9x8UPZTbcIMkCOkMCSHT1YEwX9M 2004
text: A Sarronnese officer whom he did not know was leading a riderless horse, a dapple.
ref: 1996, L E Modesitt, The Order War:
text: 2004, D Caroline Coile, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0764126733&id=vmTgPakg8nUC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&sig=5r0UWTYWxGcZayQlGiP4v3b1ajU
Some well-intentioned breeders inadvertently breed two dapples together because occasionally a dapple will have so few patches of mottled coloration it appears undappled.
glosses: An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
dapple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdæpəɫ]
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: more dapple
form: most dapple
Etymology: Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
Senses: examples: text: Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.
ref: 1984, Dan Parkinson, Gunpowder Glory, page 103:
glosses: Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
dapple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdæpəɫ]
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: dapples
form: dappling
form: dappled
form: dappled
Etymology: Uncertain. The adjective is first attested circa 1550 though the first element is already attested in dapple-grey as early as 1386, in Middle English, and later as dappled circa 1400; the OED suggests either:
* a back-formation from dapple-grey, itself a variant of apple-grey, compare possible cognates all said of horses: Old Norse apalgrár (whence Norwegian abildgrå and Swedish apel-grå), German apfelgrau. Compare also French pommelé (“dappled”), from pomme (“an apple”); or,
* a relation with Icelandic depill (“a dot, spot”).
The noun and verb are both later attested likely as back-formations.
Senses: examples: text: Jt ſeemes it is in faſhion vvith you to ſugar your papers vvith Carnation phraſes, and dapple your ſpeeches vvith nevv quodled vvords.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: dappling black on white with uneven strokes
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 75:
text: Kris awoke with a start. Sweat dappled his forehead, and he brushed it away.
ref: 2006, Ace Edmonds, Bands, Part 2:
glosses: To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.
Related terms: dapple-grey
dapple-throat
recollections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of recollection
farrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹi.ɚ/
note: rhotic, without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfæɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: farriers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).
Senses: glosses: A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.
Synonyms: word: blacksmith
word: horseshoer
Derived terms: prick farrier
farriery
farrier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹi.ɚ/
note: rhotic, without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfæɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -æɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: farriers
form: farriering
form: farriered
form: farriered
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ferrier, from Old French ferrier, from Latin ferrārius, from ferrum (“iron”).
Senses: examples: text: though there are many Pretenders to the Art of Farriering and Cow-leeching , yet many of them are very ignorant , especially in the Countrie
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To practise as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.
Related terms: ferrier
furrier
gallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləp/
homophone: Gallup
Forms: form: gallops
Etymology: From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”).
More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
Senses: glosses: The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
examples: text: Charlie and Marnie fought at brunch and then confessed their undying love for each other; Ray got promoted by his coffee-shop boss and then dumped by his croissant-purse-toting girlfriend; and Hannah, with a deadline looming, her OCD blaring, and all her friends elsewhere, desperately FaceTimed Adam—who took a shirtless, rom-commy gallop across Brooklyn to meet her.
ref: 2013 March 18, The "Girls" Roundtable, “The 'Girls' Season-Finale Gut Check: And Hannah Lived Happily Ever After?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An act or instance of going or running rapidly.
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
examples: text: A gallop rhythm:
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topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythm consisting of an 8th note followed by two 16th notes, resembling a horse's gallop.
Derived terms: Canterbury gallop
Gallipoli gallop
Gish gallop
hand gallop
gallop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləp/
homophone: Gallup
Forms: form: gallops
form: galloping
form: galloped
form: galloped
Etymology: From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”).
More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
Senses: examples: text: The horse galloped past the finishing line.
qualifier: etc
glosses: To run at a gallop.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: Gallop lively down the western hill.
ref: a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn:
glosses: To ride at a galloping pace.
examples: text: to gallop a horse
glosses: To cause to gallop.
glosses: To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
examples: text: In the 11th minute the German won possession in midfield and teed up the galloping Kieran Gibbs, whose angled shot was pushed by Kelvin Davies straight into the retreating Jos Hooiveld.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To run very fast.
examples: text: Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
text: Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]
ref: 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey:
glosses: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
qualifier: especially pneumonia
glosses: To progress rapidly through the body.
raw_tags: of an infection
Derived terms: agallop
galloper
gallopingly
outgallop
gymkhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪmˈkɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: gymkhanas
Etymology: From Hindustani گیند خانہ (gendxānā) / गेंदख़ाना (gendxānā, “racquet court”), from گیند / गेंद (gend, “ball”) + خانہ / ख़ाना (xānā, “court”). Influenced by gymnastics and gymnasium.
Senses: examples: text: In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches.
ref: 1900, Winston Churchill, chapter 13, in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A competition where riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes.
examples: text: These privileged gentlemen have a fine club on the Fateh Maidan, a suburb of Hyderabad city, and they enjoy sports and races at the local gymkhana, in fact, they have a very good time, if one may judge by their appearance.
ref: 1914, John Law, chapter XVI, in Modern Hyderabad (Deccan), Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co:
glosses: A place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
glosses: A meeting for such sports.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Synonym of motorkhana.
synonyms: word: motorkhana
Derived terms: icekhana
motorkhana
chasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: chasses
Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chassé.
chasse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: chasses
form: chasseing
form: chassed
form: chassed
form: chasseed
form: chasseed
Etymology: Borrowed from French chassé.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chassé.
chasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ʃæs/
ipa: /ʃɑːs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: chasses
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of chasse-café.
chasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ʃæs/
ipa: /ʃɑːs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
rhymes: -æs
ipa: /ʃɑˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃəˈseɪ/
ipa: /ʃæˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ʃæs/
ipa: /ʃɑːs/
rhymes: -æs
rhymes: -ɑːs
Forms: form: chasses
Etymology: From Middle English chasse, variant of case, from Old French chasse. Doublet of case, cash, and chase.
Senses: glosses: A reliquary casket.
sobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒbɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sob
sobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒbɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒbɪŋ
Forms: form: sobbings
Senses: synonyms: crying
sobs
glosses: Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.
sobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒbɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑbɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒbɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: a sobbing child
text: Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 69:
synonyms: crying
glosses: That or who sobs.
colonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒlənɪsts/
ipa: /ˈkɑlənɪsts/
Senses: examples: text: While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:
glosses: plural of colonist
sovereigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒv.ɹɪnz/
ipa: /ˈsɑv(ə)ɹɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sovereign
slipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈslɪpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slip