cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tenthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tenth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the tenth place; tenth in a row.
forkful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkfuls
form: forksful
Etymology: From fork + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He uncovered the fragrant eggs and b., and I pronged a moody forkful.
ref: 1926 December, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Impending Doom”, in Very Good, Jeeves!, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited […], published 20 June 1930, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: The amount that a fork will hold.
Coordinate terms: knifeful
spoonful
sporkful
forewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forewomen
Etymology: From fore- + -woman.
Senses: topics: management
synonyms: word: foremistress
hypernyms: foreperson
coordinate_terms: foreman
glosses: A female leader of a work crew.
topics: law
glosses: A female foreman of a jury.
biennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Taking place every two years
Synonyms: biannually
flukey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːki/
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: more flukey
form: most flukey
form: fluky
Etymology: From fluke + -y.
Senses: examples: text: For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.
ref: 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 Jun 2018:
glosses: Lucky.
examples: text: We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.
glosses: Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.
Synonyms: sense: lucky
word: jammy
Related terms: fluke
floodlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 9:
text: There are floodlit car parks on each side of the station.
ref: 1962 June, “The Eastern Region completes the Colchester scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 411:
text: We have taken adequate steps to provide for people's security. There are security guards inside and outside the building. The entire building will be flood-lit.
ref: 1976 December 4, anonymous quotee, “Opulent Rainbow Disco Makes Boston Debut”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 23, page 3:
glosses: Lit by floodlights.
floodlit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of floodlight
floodlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floodlights
Etymology: From flood + light.
Senses: glosses: A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
glosses: Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
Hypernyms: light
floodlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floodlights
form: floodlighting
form: floodlit
form: floodlit
form: floodlighted
form: floodlighted
Etymology: From flood + light.
Senses: glosses: To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s).
fuck-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuck-off
form: most fuck-off
form: fuckoff
Senses: examples: text: He was a fuck-off brute.
glosses: Vicious, aggressive, intimidating.
examples: text: My dog got scared by a fuck-off rat in my basement.
glosses: Dissuasively or intimidatingly large; massive.
fuck-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fuck-off
form: most fuck-off
form: fuckoff
Senses: examples: He was fuck-off smashing it out of the park.
glosses: An intensifier.
late lamented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Sadly missed due to death.
late lamented
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: late lamenteds
Senses: examples: text: For my part, I am sorrier for the present baronet, Sir Arthur, than for the late lamenteds.
ref: 2023, Nell Speed, A House Party with the Tucker Twins:
glosses: A deceased person whose absence is keenly felt.
grundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: grundies
Etymology: Derived from Mrs. Grundy, a prudish character from the play Speed the Plough (1798) by the English playwright Thomas Morton.
Senses: synonyms: Mrs. Grundy
glosses: A narrow-minded person or group that is overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.
grundy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: grundier
form: grundiest
Etymology: Derived from Mrs. Grundy, a prudish character from the play Speed the Plough (1798) by the English playwright Thomas Morton.
Senses: glosses: Overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.
grundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: grundies
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Granulated or shotted pig iron.
grundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌn.di/
rhymes: -ʌndi
Forms: form: grundies
Etymology: Backformation from Grundies, an underwear brand name.
Senses: glosses: A pair of underpants
Related terms: word: grundies
word: purist
english: sense 1
translation: sense 1
word: prude
grundies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌn.dis/
rhymes: -ʌndis
Etymology: * As Grundies, an underwear brand name.
* Possibly an abbreviated form of Reg Grundies, rhyming slang for undies, after media magnate Reg Grundy.
Senses: examples: text: So I shrugged and shifted like my grundies were too tight.
ref: 2003, Ken Catran, Bloody Liggie, page 95:
glosses: Underpants.
Aeolic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈɒlɪk/
ipa: /iˈəʊlɪk/
ipa: /iˈɑːlɪk/
Forms: form: Aiolic
form: Æolic
form: Aeolick
form: Æolick
Etymology: From Latin aeolicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰολικός (Aiolikós, “like the Aeolians”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek dialect spoken in Boeotia, Thessalia, Asia Minor and the island of Lesbos.
Meronyms: Boeotian
Aeolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈɒlɪk/
ipa: /iˈəʊlɪk/
ipa: /iˈɑːlɪk/
Forms: form: Aiolic
form: Æolic
form: Aeolick
form: Æolick
Etymology: From Latin aeolicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰολικός (Aiolikós, “like the Aeolians”).
Senses: glosses: Of the Anatolian region Aeolis, Aeolia.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of Aeolus, the Ancient Greek god of the wind.
Of, finding its or their origin in, or borne on winds; aerial.
topics: geography
geology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of Aeolus, the Ancient Greek god of the wind.
Owing its creation, formation, or deposition chiefly to the effects of air currents.
Derived terms: Aeolic Digamma
Aeolic mode
Aeolism
hyperaeolism
died
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: dyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of die
drollness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drollnesses
Etymology: From droll + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being odd or comical.
Arcado-Cypriot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arcadocypriot
form: Arkado-Cypriot
Etymology: From Arcado- + Cypriot.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Arcado-Cypriot Greek.
Synonyms: Arcado-Cyprian
Meronyms: Arcadian
Arkadian
Arcadic
Cyprian
Cypriot
sheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheats
Senses: glosses: A sheatfish
campi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin campī (nominative plural of campus).
Senses: examples: text: Economics major Bob Shatzen, one of two assistant financial managers, is responsible for Wilbur and Stern Halls, Freshman women, and foreign campi.
ref: 1894, Stanford University, The Stanford Quad: Being the Year Book of the Junior Class of … Stanford University, page 119:
text: Master of Liberal Studies students complete the program by attending a total of three ten-day seminars on campi and by finishing…
ref: 2003: John B. Bear, Ph.D. & Mariah P. Bear, M.A., Bears’ Guide to College Degrees by Mail & Internet: 100 Accredited Schools That Offer Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctorates, and Law Degrees by Distance Learning, p94
text: …high-speed wireless communication is now available in many locations such as corporate offices, factories, shopping malls, university campi,…
ref: 2004, Ahmed Karmouch et al., Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications: First International Workshop, MATA 2004, Florianopólis, Brazil, October 2004 Proceedings, page 37:
glosses: plural of campus
campuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campus
campuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of campus
skipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skip
flipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flip
phoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phone
phoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: phonings
Senses: examples: text: So after all this hurry and hustle in the house, the coffee and papers and phonings, the soundings and measurements over the whole place, I was instructed to take off my apron and sit down […]
ref: 2002, Martha Stephens, The Treatment, page 63:
glosses: The act of placing a telephone call.
Derived terms: nonphoning
miscalculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscalculate
foul up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /faʊl ˈʌp/
Forms: form: fouls up
form: fouling up
form: fouled up
form: fouled up
Senses: examples: text: You really fouled up this time.
glosses: To make a mistake, to go wrong.
examples: text: I fouled up question 3 of the exam.
glosses: To botch; to make a mess of.
Synonyms: sense: make a mistake
word: mess up
word: fuck up
word: make a mistake
word: mess up
Derived terms: foul-up
miscalculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈkælkjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: miscalculates
form: miscalculating
form: miscalculated
form: miscalculated
Etymology: From mis- + calculate.
Senses: examples: text: They miscalculated by assuming the dimensions were in imperial, not metric.
glosses: To calculate incorrectly.
examples: text: Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 2:37 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: To make a gross error in judgment.
Derived terms: miscalculator
Sinéad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Sinéad, from Old Northern French Jeanette, from Middle French Jehanne + -ette, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sinead.
Aoife
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.fə/
ipa: /ˈi.fə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Aoife. The name is unrelated to the Biblical name Eva, which was rendered as Éabha in Irish. However, due to the lack of a more precise alternative familiar to English speakers, Aoife has often been anglicised as Eva or Eve.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Pasiphae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪfeɪ.iː/
ipa: /pəˈsɪfi.iː/
ipa: /pəˈsɪfə.iː/
Forms: form: Pasiphaë
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πασιφάη (Pasipháē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The daughter of Helios and the sister of Circe. She was raised as a princess at Cholchis, and then given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, and Catreus. She was also the mother of the Minotaur.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the moons of Jupiter.
dry steering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of turning the wheels of a vehicle that is not moving.
bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
glosses: present participle and gerund of bargain
bargaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargainings
Senses: examples: text: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
ref: 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
glosses: The act of one who bargains.
Derived terms: bargaining chip
collective bargaining
pattern bargaining
plea bargaining
prebargaining
pectopah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectopahs
Etymology: Faux Cyrillic reading of Russian рестора́н (restorán, “restaurant”), and the same word in other languages written in Cyrillic. Doublet of restaurant.
Senses: examples: text: Alex would always comment about the unusually large number of Pectopahs on Gorky Street. I think he thought that it was a chain of shops owned by a company called Pectopah.
ref: 1982, Vernon Johnson Mwaanga, An Extraordinary Life, page 172:
glosses: A Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.
wikipedia: Faux Cyrillic
box-spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-springs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of box spring.
box spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box springs
form: boxspring
form: box-spring
Senses: synonyms: divan bed
glosses: A box-shaped frame into which is a set of spiral springs, upon which rests a bed mattress.
Hypernyms: bedspring
madroño
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madroños
form: madroño
Etymology: From Spanish madroño.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of madrone.
madrone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madrones
form: madrone
form: madrona
form: madroña
form: madrono
form: madroño
Etymology: Anglicization of Mexican Spanish madroño.
Senses: glosses: A strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo).
examples: text: Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road / Fill it with madrone and bay / Stinks like hell and the neighbours complain / Don't give a hoot what they say.
ref: 1993, Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan, Filipino Box Spring Hog:
glosses: Any of three local relatives
glosses: Any of three local relatives:
A Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
glosses: Any of three local relatives:
A Arizona madrone (Arbutus arizonica)
glosses: Any of three local relatives:
A Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis)
Derived terms: word: Mexican madrone
word: Mexican madrono
taxonomic: Arbutus occidentalis
word: Mexican madroño
word: Pacific madrone
word: Pacific madrono
word: Pacific madroño
corner boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner boys
form: cornerboy
Senses: examples: text: Got no time for the corner boys / Down in the street making all that noise.
ref: 1980, Tom Waits, Jersey Girl:
glosses: A young man who hangs around on street corners.
swing shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing shifts
Senses: examples: text: It is generally believed that when rotating shifts are necessary the rotation should move clockwise (that is, day shift first, then swing shift, then graveyard shift, then back to day shift, and so on)
ref: 2006, Roberto Refinetti, Circadian physiology, volume 1, page 580:
glosses: A work shift between a day shift and a night shift, such as from 4PM to midnight, and the group of workers scheduled to work such a shift at a facility.
examples: text: The problem is not usually associated with swing shift operation because the duties are balanced over time. When operators remain on one shift it is common for one shift to complain another has less to do.
ref: 2005, Kenneth E. Heselton, Boiler Operator's Handbook, The Fairmont Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 5:
text: We worked the swing shift. One week on days, one week on afternoons and one week on midnights
ref: 2010, Donald "Duke" Cartwright, Tough, Author House, →ISBN, page 445:
glosses: A system of shifts where each worker alternates between day shifts and night shifts.
Synonyms: sense: shift between day and night shifts
word: second shift
Coordinate terms: graveyard shift
Related terms: clopen
Dutch pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch pinks
Etymology: The pigment sense derives from the pink pigment used historically by painters, and not from the flower that gave its name to the color.
Senses: glosses: A yellow lake pigment.
glosses: Blood.
spark off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sparks off
form: sparking off
form: sparked off
form: sparked off
Senses: examples: text: My letter to the newspaper sparked off an investigation into government corruption.
synonyms: word: instigate
word: provoke
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To initiate something by providing the necessary conditions.
paracme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracmes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρακμή (parakmḗ), corresponding to para- + acme.
Senses: glosses: A point beyond the highest or greatest.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A point after the crisis of a fever is past.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The decadence of an evolutionary series of organisms after reaching its highest point of development.
faint of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faint of heart
form: most faint of heart
Senses: glosses: faint-hearted
faint of heart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: timid people considered as a group
faint-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faint-hearted
form: most faint-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fainthearted.
impedivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impedivities
Senses: glosses: specific impedance; especially the ratio of a pressure phasor associated with a wave at any given point in a medium to the velocity phasor at that point.
glosses: bulk impedance; a measurement of the electrical impedance per unit distance in a bulk material or a solution
phasor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: phaser
PHASR
Forms: form: phasors
Etymology: Blend of phase + vector
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A representation of a complex number in terms of a complex exponential.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A plotted line whose length and angle represent the amplitude and phase, respectively, of a sinusoidally varying quantity such as an alternating current.
Derived terms: synchrophasor
phasor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: phaser
PHASR
Forms: form: phasors
Etymology: From phase + -or.
Senses: glosses: A phase modulator
Synonyms: phaser
platitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platitude
admittivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admittivities
Senses: glosses: The reciprocal of impedivity.
agentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛntɪv/
Etymology: From agent + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
examples: text: On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has contributed to. Thus, agency does not necessarily result in one’s own (sinophone or other) learning goals but may mediate others’ socialization, even when the facilitating or socializing agent is not herself an expert in the Chinese language.
ref: 2015, Patricia A. Duff, Liam Doherty, “Examining Agency in (Second) Language Socialization Research”, in Ping Deters, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Elizabeth R. Miller, Gergana Vitanova, editors, Theorizing and Analyzing Agency in Second Language Learning: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Second Language Acquisition; 84), Bristol: Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, part 1 (Theoretical Approaches to Agency), page 68:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
Derived terms: agentively
agentive nominalisation
agentive nominalization
agentivity
nonagentive
agentive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈd͡ʒɛntɪv/
Forms: form: agentives
Etymology: From agent + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word having an agentive construction.
Related terms: patientive
didjeridoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didjeridoos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of didgeridoo.
railhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪl.hɛd/
Forms: form: railheads
Etymology: From rail + head.
Senses: examples: text: The improved service to and from Taunton is fully justified by the passenger patronage to and from this town, which is a railhead for a large surrounding area.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 590–591:
text: It would also offer an important opportunity to move construction materials in bulk, using a new railhead.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A point on a railway system where goods (or passengers) are loaded, unloaded or transferred to other transport.
examples: text: By 1899 the railhead had reached the further edge of the Athi Plain at mile 315, and halted while the survey parties went ahead, and a supply base was established at the foot of the hills. This spot has become Nairobi.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
glosses: The furthest point on a railroad/railway under construction to which rails have been laid.
examples: text: Alternative form: rail head
text: High levels of railhead contamination (which can prevent train predictor systems working correctly) were present in the area - probably as a result of limited operation of the railhead treatment train, according to RAIB.
ref: 2020 December 30, “Network News: Railhead contamination contributed to level crossing near miss”, in RAIL, page 10:
text: "During the winter, we get really bad snow conditions. We can go to eight inches of snow above the railhead, then the trains are stopped. It's usually more like four inches, but you get big drifts up towards Rannoch.
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 39:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The top surface (head) of a rail.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An area of hostile territory at the end of a rail line that, when captured, serves for the continuous movement into position of further troops and materiel.
Related terms: airhead
beachhead
bridgehead
didjeridoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didjeridoo
didgeridoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didgeridoo
didgeridoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of didgeridoo
railheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of railhead
phasors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasor
theory of relativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theories of relativity
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The theories of special relativity and general relativity, two theories in physics developed mainly by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century from which several important results such as the equivalence of matter and energy and the Einstein field equations are derived.
paracmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paracme
box-springs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of box-spring
Billy Bunter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He looked up through his thick Billy Bunter spectacles and seeing a young man standing behind Laura handed him his empty plate […]
ref: 1989, Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West:
text: Actually he wasn't too bad except he had a green army style hat on, which made him look completely ridiculous; a bit like Billy Bunter in the army.
ref: 2005, Jon Carter, South American Detox:
glosses: A fictional fat boy with round spectacles in Charles Hamilton's stories set at Greyfriars School.
Billy Bunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Billy Bunters
Senses: glosses: A fat boy.
glosses: A punter (in a betting shop etc.).
grottoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grotto + -ed.
Senses: examples: a grottoed headland
glosses: Furnished with grottos.
glosses: Ensconced in a grotto.
Billy Bunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Billy Bunter
short-order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of short order.
short order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Prepared and served quickly.
raw_tags: of food
Derived terms: short-order cook
short-order chef
Related terms: in short order
short order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short orders
Senses: glosses: An order of food that can be prepared and served quickly.
previews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preview
previews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preview
miscalculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscalculate
miscalculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscalculate
sizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sizzle
sizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sizzling
form: most sizzling
Senses: glosses: Hot enough to make a hissing sound.
glosses: Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound.
raw_tags: in the names of dishes in Asian cuisine etc.
glosses: Exciting and intensely emotional or sexual.
examples: text: The two teams played a sizzling match.
glosses: Very skilful or impressive.
sizzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizzlings
Senses: glosses: Such a hissing sound.
pelota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.
Senses: glosses: Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.
Derived terms: Basque pelota
Related terms: pilota
calcified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calcified
form: most calcified
Senses: glosses: Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts.
glosses: Made unchanging or inflexible.
calcified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calcify
Derived terms: hypercalcified
hypocalcified
noncalcified
overcalcified
recalcified
uncalcified
-poeia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːə/
Forms: form: -pœia
Etymology: From Latin -poeia, from Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “I make”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form nouns that denote the making or creating of something.
tenant farmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenant farmer
syntax highlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages.
ref: 2015, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.
freethinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freethinkings
form: free-thinking
Etymology: From free + thinking.
Senses: glosses: The principles of a freethinker; free thought
freethought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free thought.
fundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fundies
Senses: examples: text: You're afraid l'm some sort of fundy and if you say you don't believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for you l'll spend the next hour trying to save your soul.
ref: 2009, Derrick Jensen, Songs of the Dead, page 29:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fundie.
astrobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + biology.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The study of life anywhere in the universe, including Earth.
Hyponyms: biology
exobiology
xenobiology
Related terms: astrovirology
tenant farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenant farmers
Senses: glosses: A person who farms land rented from a landlord.
free thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freethought
Senses: glosses: The principles of a freethinker; freethinking
order of magnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders of magnitude
Etymology: 18th century, in the sense "magnitude (brightness class) of a star", informed by the Greek τῶν μεγάλων τάξις (tôn megálōn táxis) (Ptolemy).
Senses: examples: text: 2011, Enrico Fermi, Wikisource (translator), Concerning a Contradiction between the Electrodynamic and Relativistic Theory of Electromagnetic Mass, 1922, Enrico Fermi, Über einen Widerspruch zwischen der elektrodynamischen und relativistischen Theorie der elektromagnetischen Masse, Physikalische Zeitschrift, v 23, pp 340-344,
However, we notice that although this contraction is of order of magnitude v²:c², it changes the most important terms of electromagnetic mass, i.e, the rest mass.
text: However, this pales to insignificance against the massive volume of spoken language, for with over 500 patrons, any given second of the lunch hour would result in a spoken word count in the thousands, and the whole lunch hour would see a word count orders of magnitude larger than 3000.
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 8:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: OOM
hypernyms: order
scale
glosses: The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.
Related terms: word: dex
word: ballpark figure
concher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conchers
Etymology: From conch + -er.
Senses: synonyms: conch
conche
glosses: A machine (rather like a rotating pestle and mortar) used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding.
glosses: A person who operates such a machine.
conching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conch
conching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A process in the manufacture of chocolate in which the flavour and texture is refined by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher or between rollers.
OSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Operating System Embedded.
cocoa butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkəʊ̯.kəʊ̯ ˈbʌ.tə/
ipa: /ˌkoʊ̯.koʊ̯ ˈbʌ.tɚ/
Forms: form: cocoa butters
Senses: glosses: The fat that is extracted from the cocoa bean to make chocolate; it has a relatively sharp melting point so does not feel greasy when eaten.
Derived terms: cocoa-buttered
Related terms: cocoa powder
sorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorbents
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A substance that can enable sorption.
Derived terms: desorbent
geosorbent
jack-o'-lantern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒæk.əʊˌlæn.tən/
ipa: /ˈdʒæk.oʊˌlæn.tɚn/
ipa: /ˈdʒæk.əˌlæn.tɚn/
Forms: form: jack-o'-lanterns
form: jack-o-lantern
form: jack o'lantern
form: Jack O'Lantern
Etymology: Originally, a night watchman who carried a lantern. (See Jack.)
Attested as a term for ignis fatuus in English folklore in the 1660s, mostly in East Anglia but also in southwestern England.
The sense of carved pumpkin in American English is attested in 1834.
Senses: glosses: A carved pumpkin whose top and stem have been cut out and interior removed, leaving a hollow shell that is then decorated to represent a face, illuminated from within by a candle. It is a symbol of Halloween.
glosses: A carved pumpkin whose top and stem have been cut out and interior removed, leaving a hollow shell that is then decorated to represent a face, illuminated from within by a candle. It is a symbol of Halloween.
A similar item made from a turnip
examples: text: [newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian
ref: 1871, James Russell Lowell, “My Study Windows”, in My Garden Acquaintance:
glosses: A will o' the wisp.
Synonyms: sense: strange light
word: ignis fatuus
sense: strange light
word: will o' the wisp
sense: strange light
word: hinkypunk
sense: strange light
word: Joan the wad
sense: strange light
word: hobby lantern
sense: strange light
english: Lancashire
translation: Lancashire
word: peg-a-lantern
sense: strange light
word: Will the Smith
sense: strange light
english: Worcestershire
translation: Worcestershire
word: Pinket
sense: strange light
word: Will o' the Wikes
sense: strange light
word: Jack-with-a-lantern
Related terms: will o' the wisp
jack-o'-lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jack-o'-lantern
foo fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foo fighters
Etymology: From foo, either a nonce word or a corruption of the French word feu (“fire”), + fighter (“type of aircraft”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various unidentified flying objects, as reported by Allied pilots during World War II.
foo fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foo fighter
Men in Black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of men in black (“covert government operatives”).
sorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorptions
Etymology: Back-formation from absorption; representing Latin sorbeō (“I suck in”).
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption; sorbing.
wikipedia: sorption
Related terms: absorption
adsorption
desorption
usufructuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːz(j)ʊˈfɹʌkt͡ʃʊˌəɹi/
ipa: /-tjʊ-/
Etymology: From Late Latin ūsūfructuārius, from ūsūfructus (“a usufruct”) + -ārius (suffix forming a noun denoting an agent of use from another noun); compare French usufructuaire, Italian usufruttuario, Portuguese usufructuario.
Senses: examples: text: By this longobard Law the Tenant had only a uſufructuary poſſeſſion of the Fee, the Lord reſerving the propriety or Dominum directum to himself.
ref: 1657, [Matthew Hale], “The Preface”, in A Treatise of the Just Interest of the Kings of England, in Their Free Disposing Power, and the Validity of Their Grants Made to Any of Their Subjects. And the History of Acts of Resumption, and How They have been Gain’d. Written at the Request of a Person of Honour, in the Year 1657, by a Person Learn’d in the Laws, Suppos’d My Lord Chief Justice Hales. To which is Added, a Prefatory Discourse, in Answer to a Discourse on Grants and Resumptions, and another of the Exorbitant Grants of W[illiam] III, London: Printed for Thomas Osborne in Gray's-Inn near the Walks, published 1703, →OCLC, page xvi:
text: [T]he French are not ſo ſcruplous; but in the abſoluteſt Monarchy of Europe, plainly declare that their King hath but a uſufructuary right to his Kingdom, and the Territories belonging thereunto, or that he can any way charge them with his debts, or alienate, or diſpoſe of them; without the conſent of the States of France, […]
ref: 1681, “a Lover of Truth and of his Country” [pseudonym; James Tyrrell], “chapter IV”, in Patriarcha non Monarcha. The Patriarch Unmonarch’d: Being Observations on a Late Treatise and Divers Other Miscellanies, Published under the Name of Sir Robert Filmer Baronet. In which the Falseness of those Opinions that would Make Monarchy Jure Divino are Laid Open; and the True Principles of Government and Property (especially in Our Kingdom) Asserted, London: Printed for Richard Janeway, in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, page 122:
text: While water itself is personal property, a water right is a real property interest, a so-called usufructurary right, a right to use water from a specific source for a specific use.
ref: 2001, The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, volume 70, [Topeka, Kan.]: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 1:
topics: law
glosses: Of or pertaining to a usufruct.
usufructuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːz(j)ʊˈfɹʌkt͡ʃʊˌəɹi/
ipa: /-tjʊ-/
Forms: form: usufructuaries
Etymology: From Late Latin ūsūfructuārius, from ūsūfructus (“a usufruct”) + -ārius (suffix forming a noun denoting an agent of use from another noun); compare French usufructuaire, Italian usufruttuario, Portuguese usufructuario.
Senses: examples: text: It was queſtioned, whether Seius had ſtill the right as uſufructuary of the Profits; in regard Titius had only the property given unto him, without the fruits, and profits, belonging to Seius during his life, Julianus answered that Seius having drown'd his right as uſufructuary to the profits, in purchaſing the property, by conſolidating the ſeverall intereſts, The rights which were before diſtinguiſhed, being made one, Titius ſhall have the ſole, and full right in the Land, and Seius by his own act looſe the right of all profits, as uſufructuary to the ſame.
ref: 1652, [Richard Zouch], “Of Profits, and Property Consolidated”, in Cases and Qvestions of Right and Judicature, Resolved in the Civil-Law, part I, Oxford: Printed by Leon. Lichfield, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, →OCLC, title II (Of Title to Goods or Lands, and of Common Right or Property), section II (Of Speciall Right or Commodity), pages 36–37:
text: [T]hat great Aſſembly des notables called by K. Francis the Firſt, to give their Judgment of the Articles of Peace lately made with the Emperour Charles V. at Madrid, their ſenſe was, that Burgundy which by thoſe Articles was to be delivered up, was an inſeparable Member of the Crown, of which he was but the uſufructuary, and ſo he could not diſpoſe of the one any more than of the other; […]
ref: 1681, “a Lover of Truth and of his Country” [pseudonym; James Tyrrell], chapter IV, in Patriarcha non Monarcha. The Patriarch Unmonarch’d: Being Observations on a Late Treatise and Divers Other Miscellanies, Published under the Name of Sir Robert Filmer Baronet. In which the Falseness of those Opinions that would Make Monarchy Jure Divino are Laid Open; and the True Principles of Government and Property (especially in Our Kingdom) Asserted, London: Printed for Richard Janeway, in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row, →OCLC, pages 122–123:
topics: law
glosses: A person who holds property, or the use of assets, by usufruct; a fructuary.
Synonyms: fructuary
Related terms: usufruct
usufruction
Bahá'ís
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bahá'í
maintenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maintenance
rain pitchforks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rains pitchforks
form: raining pitchforks
form: rained pitchforks
form: rained pitchforks
Senses: examples: text: “What there is no question of is”, said Linette, “that my poor frock will be spoiled. It is going to rain pitchforks. There will be water enough to drown you before we reach the house, and your mites of shoes will be lost; but come along”.
ref: 1857, Eliza Lee Follen, Piccolissima:
glosses: To rain heavily.
Synonyms: rain cats and dogs
dissever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛvə/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛvɚ/
Forms: form: dissevers
form: dissevering
form: dissevered
form: dissevered
Etymology: From Middle English disseveren, from Anglo-Norman desevrer, Old French dessevrer, from Vulgar Latin *dissēperō, dissēperāre, from Latin dis- + sēparō.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ſaid floud of Rubicon diſſeuereth the Galle Ciſalpine from Italie.
ref: 1564 February, Erasmus, “The Saiynges of Iulius Caesar”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall], transl., Apophthegmes, that is to Saie, Prompte, Quicke, Wittie and Sentẽcious Saiynges, […], London: […] Ihon Kingston, →OCLC, book II, folio 191, verso, paragraph 7:
text: The storm so dissevered the company […] that most of them never met again.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: They were two cousins, almost like two twins, / Except that from the catalogue of sins / Nature had razed their love—which could not be / But by dissevering their nativity.
ref: a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Fragment”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume IV, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 133:
text: Henchard’s wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance.
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter I, in History of Western Philosophy […], London: George Allen and Unwin, →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: To separate (two or more things); to split apart (something).
examples: text: If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
text: When the corn is threshed, the kernel lieth mixed among the chaff, and afterward are they dissevered asunder with the fan or windle; even so the people in the church do first hear the preaching of God's word; now some stumble, repine, and are offended at it, and others are not offended, and yet they dwell together, one with another; but when they are fanned or windled, and when the wind of trouble and affliction beginneth once to blow, then is it easy to sunder and to know the one from the other, the faithful from the unfaithful.
ref: 1844, George Miles Coverdale, Writings and Translations of Myles Coverdale:
glosses: To divide (something) into separate parts.
Derived terms: undissevered
Related terms: sever
clean-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clean-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from clean up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cleanup.
particle theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: atomic theory
hog-tie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hog-ties
form: hog-tying
form: hog-tied
form: hog-tied
Senses: examples: text: # “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: To tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
glosses: To render helpless.
hog-tie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog-ties
Senses: glosses: The act of tying the feet together in this way.
glosses: A harness used to tie the feet this way.
control code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control codes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A numeric value or string of such values that triggers a specific command or action to occur, rather than displaying a text character.
cartouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartouche
unititular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + titular.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Owned by a single person or company.
escape character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape characters
Etymology: From escape + character.
Senses: examples: text: In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n represents a newline.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.
lame ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lame duck
lame ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lame duck