cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rapier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪpˌɪə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rapiere, from Middle French (espee) rapiere, from Old French rapiere, raspiere, from Spanish raspadera (“poker; raker; scraper”), from Spanish raspar (“to scrape”), of Germanic origin. More at rasp.
Senses: glosses: Extremely sharp.
examples: text: John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses.
glosses: Cutting; employing keen wit.
rapier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪpˌɪə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rapey: more rapey
ingrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingrained
form: most ingrained
form: engrained
Etymology: From ingrain + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
glosses: Being an element; present in the essence of a thing
glosses: Fixed, established
Synonyms: sense: in the essence of a thing
word: inherent
sense: fixed, established
word: bred-in-the-bone
word: radicated
Derived terms: ingrainedly
ingrainedness
uningrained
ingrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: engrained
Etymology: From ingrain + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingrain
androgenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒ.ən.əs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Forms: form: more androgenous
form: most androgenous
Etymology: From androgen + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The Leydig cells play a primary role in synthesis of androgenous hormones in gonochoristic fish.
ref: 1983, B.J. Duchac et al., “Electron microscopical studies of gonads in primary and secondary males of protogynous hermaphroditic fish”, in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing androgens; androgenic
glosses: Misspelling of androgynous.
Derived terms: androgenously
anastrophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæstɹəfi/
rhymes: -æstɹəfi
Forms: form: anastrophes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Anastrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: […] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.
ref: 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon:
synonyms: hyperbaton
inversion
hypernyms: word order#Noun
glosses: Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
Related terms: anastrophic
anastrophism
antimetabole
chiasmus
SVO
SOV
OSV
VSO
VOS
Yodaspeak
secretes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […] As a balbal, he preys particularly on sick people because their spirits are most vulnerable at that time. He secretes himself under the house, directly beneath the patient. He particularly likes to feed on human liver, which he attacks invisibly; or, also unseen, he sucks the blood of the patient. […]
ref: 1967–1968, Richard Lieban, quoted in John P. McAndrew, People of Power: A Philippine Worldview of Spirit Encounters, Ateneo de Manila University Press (2001), page 92
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of secrete
Related terms: secrets
decubitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkjuː.bɪt.əs/
Forms: form: decubitus
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin dēcubitus (“lying down”).
Senses: examples: text: The initial recesses of the pleural cavity filled with blood effusion are declivitous; they can vary according to the decubitus, whereas, with the progressive filling of the pleural cavity, blood is invariably collected in the lateral pleural spaces over the apex of the lung (apical cap): they are very large pleural effusions, in the order of about 800-1200 cc.
ref: 2016, Mariano Scaglione, Ulrich Linsenmaier, Gerd Schueller, Emergency Radiology of the Chest and Cardiovascular System:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The posture of someone in bed, lying down or reclining.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of decubitus ulcer.
aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪdz/
homophone: ades
homophone: aides
homophone: AIDS
Senses: glosses: plural of aid
aids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪdz/
homophone: ades
homophone: aides
homophone: AIDS
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aid
brainstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnstɔːm/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnstɔɹm/
rhymes: -eɪnstɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: brainstorms
form: brainstorming
form: brainstormed
form: brainstormed
form: brain-storm
form: brain storm
Etymology: From brain + storm. In the sense of "problem-solve", devised as a method of group creative problem-solving by advertising executive Alex F. Osborn and his employees, who coined the term based on the image of using "the brain to storm a problem". First use appears c. 1945. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the unrelated idea that it resembles a storm in the brain. First use appears c. 1861.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwihle at Winterfell, another overdone scheme designed mainly to surprise the audience. In the black of her chambers, Sansa brainstorms with Littlefinger what Arya could want. “After she murders you, what does she become?” he asks. To which Sansa does everything but gasp and spit-take, widening her eyes and saying like she’s just realizing it for the first time, “Lady of Winterfell.”
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: On another occasion, when trying to brainstorm things I could do to make myself feel better despite all the pandemic restrictions, Woebot suggested I “try doing something nice for someone in your life,” like make a calming tea for my housemate or check in with a loved one.
ref: 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
glosses: To participate in a brainstorming session.
examples: text: I need you to brainstorm some suggestions for next week's activity schedule.
coordinate_terms: brainchild#Verb
ideate
glosses: To think up (ideas); especially, to do so creatively.
Derived terms: brainstormer
Related terms: word: bounce off
raw_tags: with an idea or ideas
word: spitball
word: workshop
brainstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnstɔːm/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnstɔɹm/
rhymes: -eɪnstɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: brainstorms
form: brain-storm
form: brain storm
Etymology: From brain + storm. In the sense of "problem-solve", devised as a method of group creative problem-solving by advertising executive Alex F. Osborn and his employees, who coined the term based on the image of using "the brain to storm a problem". First use appears c. 1945. In the sense of "seizure, convulsion, brain activity", from the unrelated idea that it resembles a storm in the brain. First use appears c. 1861.
Senses: examples: text: I had been working on the problem for weeks, and then I had a brainstorm and saw that the solution was easy.
synonyms: brainwave
glosses: A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
glosses: A session of brainstorming, investigating a problem to try to find solutions.
examples: 2005 October 5, "Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night", BBC Online, 5 October
A terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. … Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm. Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at first and third bases.
glosses: An unexpected mental error.
examples: text: electrical brainstorm
glosses: Alternative form of brain storm (“activity in the brain, such as a seizure or convulsion”).
Derived terms: brainstormy
tiresome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪɹsəm/
ipa: /ˈtaɪəsəm/
Forms: form: more tiresome
form: most tiresome
Etymology: From tire + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Eventually his long stories became tiresome.
text: “How quickly have I fallen!” thought Tarzan; but in his heart he did not consider it a fall—rather, he pitied the poor creatures of Paris, penned up like prisoners in their silly clothes, and watched by policemen all their poor lives, that they might do nothing that was not entirely artificial and tiresome.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 131:
glosses: Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.
Synonyms: sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: boring
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: dull
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: irksome
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: slow
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: tedious
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: wearisome
sense: causing fatigue or boredom
word: exhausting
Derived terms: tiresomeness
Capulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capulets
Etymology: Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.
Senses: examples: text: It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet.
ref: 1913, Annabella Bruce Marchand, Dirk, a South African, page 198:
text: Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother, Thomas.
ref: 1963, Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Education of a general, 1880-1939, page 8:
text: She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague.
ref: 2004, Scott Casper, Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More, page 161:
text: That said, Capulet's skepticism has a sound rationale. She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat. Montague has posited two kinds of things, heat itself and heat radiation, each popping up to do the job it is good for and then conveniently metamorphosing into the other when that's what's needed instead.
ref: 2020, Michael Strevens, The Knowledge Machine:
glosses: A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
Related terms: Montague
Montague
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒntəɡjuː/
rhymes: -ɒntəɡjuː
Forms: form: Montagues
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French, variant of Montagu.
glosses: A male given name.
examples: text: It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet.
ref: 1913, Annabella Bruce Marchand, Dirk, a South African, page 198:
text: For seven years she and her father, and her father-in-law, remained estranged, till old Santa-Pia Capulet lay on his death bed, still adamant in his political convictions, recalcitrant against the orders of the state (on emancipation), and unrelenting toward his daughter, the dead Romeo, and old Montague; and so he died, with only a vague gesture of forgiveness toward Fidelia, though Campos (Prince Escalus) had been trying all the while to bring about a reconciliation.
ref: 1960, Helen Caldwell, The Braziliam Othello of Machado de Assis: A study of Dom Casmurro, page 124:
text: Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother, Thomas.
ref: 1963, Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Education of a general, 1880-1939, page 8:
text: Romeo's mother was precisely what I had painted her — a Lady Montague of the severest, with coffee-coloured point-lace, a Cornelia one shade too stout for the mother of the Gracchi.
ref: 2003, Grant Allen, Clarissa Suranyi, The Type-Writer Girl, page 104:
text: She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague.
ref: 2004, Scott Casper, Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More, page 161:
text: That said, Capulet's skepticism has a sound rationale. She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat. Montague has posited two kinds of things, heat itself and heat radiation, each popping up to do the job it is good for and then conveniently metamorphosing into the other when that's what's needed instead.
ref: 2020, Michael Strevens, The Knowledge Machine:
glosses: By analogy with the Shakespearean play, a member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the husband in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or of a group that is feuding with another, similar group identified as Capulet.
glosses: A city in Siskiyou County, California.
glosses: A town in Massachusetts.
glosses: A city in Michigan.
glosses: A town in New York.
glosses: A township in Ontario.
glosses: A community in Prince Edward Island.
glosses: An unincorporated census-designated place, the county seat of Montague County, Texas.
Derived terms: Montague County
Shepton Montague
Related terms: Capulet
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Etymology: Named after German neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885–1964) and Alfons Maria Jakob (1884–1931).
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: CJD
glosses: A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).
Derived terms: new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
CJD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætfɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæt̚fɪʃ]
Forms: form: catfish
form: catfishes
Etymology: From cat + fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers. Compare West Frisian katfisk (“catfish”), Dutch katvis (“catfish”). Compare also German Seekatze (“catfish”, literally “sea-cat”).
Senses: examples: text: “You don’t see catfish that big anymore, except in Chernobyl […] Nobody fishes there anymore, so the catfish thrive. They’ve gotten really enormous, some even twelve or thirteen feet long. They’re bottom-feeders, and apparently the mud still contains a lot of radioactive particles, but the catfish don’t seem to mind.”
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 213:
synonyms: word: catlet
word: sheat
word: sheatfish
word: river chicken
glosses: Any fish of the order Siluriformes, mainly found in fresh water, lacking scales, and having barbels like whiskers around the mouth.
glosses: The meat of such a fish, popular in the Southern U.S. and Central Europe.
Derived terms: African glass catfish
airbreathing catfish
airsac catfish
banjo catfish
blue catfish
cat
catfish effect
channel catfish
Chao Phraya giant catfish
cuckoo catfish
Danube catfish
driftwood catfish
electric catfish
flathead catfish
ghost catfish
holy catfish
leopard catfish
mailed catfish
mudcat
naked catfish
North American freshwater catfish
Pac-Man catfish
shark catfish
stinging catfish
striped catfish
Striped Raphael catfish
suffering catfish
talking catfish
thorny catfish
three line catfish
upside-down catfish
walking catfish
wels catfish
whale catfish
widemouth blindcat
catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætfɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæt̚fɪʃ]
Forms: form: catfishes
form: catfishing
form: catfished
form: catfished
Etymology: From cat + fish. Likely so named for its prominent barbels like a cat's whiskers. Compare West Frisian katfisk (“catfish”), Dutch katvis (“catfish”). Compare also German Seekatze (“catfish”, literally “sea-cat”).
Senses: examples: text: I only use this rod for catfishing.
glosses: To fish for catfish.
Derived terms: catfisher
Related terms: catshark
noodling
catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætfɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæt̚fɪʃ]
Forms: form: catfish
form: catfishes
Etymology: From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.
Senses: examples: text: Many online dating users create profiles on these online dating platforms looking for potential partners. However, they might end up meeting with users who have bad intentions, potential catfish. These catfish have begun pushing away potential, innocent users and possibly hindering the success of these online dating platforms.
ref: 2020, Mariah Simmons, Joon Suk Lee, “Catfishing: A Look into Online Dating and Impersonation”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis: 12th International Conference, SCSM 2020, […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12194), part I, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, “Ethics and Misinformation in Social Media” section, page 356:
synonyms: catfisher
glosses: Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.
glosses: Such a false profile.
Derived terms: Chadfish
cockfish
wokefish
catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætfɪʃ/
ipa: [ˈkʰæt̚fɪʃ]
Forms: form: catfishes
form: catfishing
form: catfished
form: catfished
Etymology: From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.
Senses: examples: text: Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.
ref: 2013 January 17, Mary Pilon, “In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: [to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.
ref: 2014 January 16, 12:17 from the start, in Cooperative Polygraphy (Community), season 5, episode 4 (TV), spoken by Troy (Donald Glover), via NBC:
glosses: To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).
Derived terms: blackfish
catfisher
Chadfish
cockfish
hatfish
maskfish
wokefish
wyrd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪəd/
ipa: /wɝd/
ipa: /wiɚd/
homophone: word
homophone: weird
homophone: Word
Forms: form: wyrds
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English wyrd. Doublet of weird.
Senses: examples: text: Wyrd is too vast, too complex for us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.
ref: 1983, Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer, Century:
text: I had journeyed back to England as part of my research on this book to meet with two Englishmen who were practicing Anglo-Saxon shamans who had been researching and practicing the sounds and ways of wyrd.
ref: 1992, Fred Alan Wolf, The eagle's quest: a physicist's search for truth in the heart of the shamanic world, Simon and Schuster, page 51:
text: His three sisters sat, beneath the tree, one twisting the wyrd on her distaff, one spinning the wyrd on her wheel, one weaving the wyrds of gods and men on her loom.
ref: 2009, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Bones of the Dragon: Volume 1, Macmillan, page 78:
synonyms: word: orlay
word: weird
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: Fate, destiny, particularly in an Anglo-Saxon or Old Norse context.
Related terms: wyrd folk
plaice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plās
ipa: /pleɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: place
Forms: form: plaice
form: plaices
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English playce, plays, from Old French plaiz, from Late Latin platessa, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad”). See platy-, plat and flat.
Senses: glosses: Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice), commonly found in the North Sea and Irish Sea, with smooth brown skin and red or orange spots.
synonyms: plaice-fluke
Dutch plaice
glosses: Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice), of the North American Atlantic.
glosses: Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus (Alaska plaice), of the eastern North Pacific.
glosses: Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Acanthopsetta nadeshnyi (scale-eye plaice), of the western North Pacific.
glosses: Several similar marine flatfish of the righteye flounder family Pleuronectidae:
Liopsetta glacialis (polar plaice)
brainstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainstormings
Etymology: From brainstorm + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: blue-sky thinking
masterminding
thought shower
glosses: A method of problem solving in which members of a group contribute ideas spontaneously.
Derived terms: wikistorming
brainstorming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From brainstorm + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brainstorm
smokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊkəbl̩/
Forms: form: more smokable
form: most smokable
form: smokeable
Etymology: From smoke + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unsmokable
glosses: Capable of or fit for being smoked (as tobacco, etc.).
Derived terms: unsmokable
smokable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊkəbl̩/
Forms: form: smokables
form: smokeable
Etymology: From smoke + -able.
Senses: examples: text: On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Something that can be smoked.
vegemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegemites
Senses: examples: text: More informally: vegemite and marmite share some property.
ref: 2008 August 12, Luca Moretti, “The ontological status of minimal entities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Vegemite.
LDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And that history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting an LDS church in Michigan last Sunday.
ref: 2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN:
synonyms: Mormon
glosses: Initialism of Latter-day Saint.
Derived terms: LDS Church
LDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LDSs
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of local dive shop.
glosses: Initialism of Loeys-Dietz syndrome.
Latter-day Saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latter-day Saints
form: Latter Day Saint
form: LDS
Senses: examples: text: The early Latter-day Saints used to practice polygamy.
synonyms: Mormon
hypernyms: Christian
glosses: A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or other Latter-day Saint churches.
lays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lase
homophone: laze
Senses: glosses: plural of lay
lays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lase
homophone: laze
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lay
formulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: formulates
form: formulating
form: formulated
form: formulated
Etymology: From formula + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: He failed to formulate his ideas more clearly.
text: The Assembly then formulated its demands, which were thirty in number, including the removal of all Huguenot temples built near churches
ref: 1876, George Perkins Marsh, Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles:
text: Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like comed, goed, seed, buyed, bringed, etc. frequently used by young children.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Look closely at the pretty seashell print on these blouses. They’re actually formulated from mathematical equations!
ref: 2020 February 7, AJ Willingham, “What a great week for rescue pets!”, in CNN:
glosses: To put into a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
Derived terms: deformulate
formulatable
formulative
formulator
preformulate
Related terms: formula
formulable
formulaic
formulation
misformulate
reformulate
condo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑndoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɒndəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒndəʊ
Forms: form: condos
Etymology: Shortening of condominium.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of condominium.
Derived terms: condo building
condo-hotel
condoization
condoize
condop
condotel
max out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maxes out
form: maxing out
form: maxed out
form: maxed out
Senses: examples: text: In the bench press, he has maxed out at 110 kg.
coordinate_terms: tap out
glosses: To reach the limit of one's capabilities.
examples: text: This machine maxes out at a 110 kW output.
text: Nadja had not thought of the word elegant since her mother made her model for no real occasion one sequined monstrosity after another at Denise's Bridal Affair, pretending her daughter was a pageanteer and hadn't maxed out at a B-cup.
ref: 2013, Xhenet Aliu, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories, page 69:
synonyms: top out
glosses: To reach a maximum or a point at which no more growth or improvement is possible.
examples: text: to max out one's credit card(s)
text: I've spent all afternoon shopping and maxed out my credit card.
coordinate_terms: use up
;
fill up
glosses: To use (something) to the limit of its capabilities.
glosses: To relax.
glosses: To serve an entire sentence with no early parole, time off for good behavior, etc.
Related terms: maximization
maximize
handholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handholdings
Etymology: From hand + holding.
Senses: examples: text: “I want to fuck gender. What does that mean? It means taking gender, a beautiful, wonderful thing and rockin it just right. Most cisfolk, they're stuck holding hands. And that's not to say no cisfolk fuck gender, or that hand holding isn't its own amazing thing. […]”
ref: 2010 Spring, “The Queerest Art: Genderf*ck”, in OutWrite Newsmagazine, University of California, Los Angeles, page 7:
glosses: The holding of hands.
glosses: Strong personal support or reassurance.
handholding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + holding.
Senses: glosses: Holding hands.
glosses: Deeply and ostentatiously in love.
raw_tags: of a couple
fluff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌf/
ipa: /flɐf/
ipa: /flʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: fluffs
form: fluffing
form: fluffed
form: fluffed
Etymology: From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,
of uncertain ultimate origin:
* Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”); see flaw
* Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).
* Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).
For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”), Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).
Senses: examples: text: The cat fluffed its tail.
glosses: To make something fluffy.
glosses: To become fluffy, puff up.
examples: text: She gave the music-stool a twirl or two and fluffed down on to it like a whirl of soap-suds in a hand-basin.
ref: 1872, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table:
glosses: To move lightly like fluff.
synonyms: flub
glosses: To make a mistake in one's lines.
raw_tags: of an actor or announcer
examples: text: Either side of Rooney's fluffed chance, it was a tale of Ukrainian domination as they attacked England down both flanks and showed the greater fluidity of the teams.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: flub
glosses: To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
glosses: To break wind, to fart.
examples: text: To get Lance Bronson hard, Chi Chi, in desperation, called Sharon Kane to come and fluff him on the set. People were always asking me how they could get a job as a fluffer.
ref: 2008, Blue Blake, Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star, page 187:
glosses: To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
examples: text: The warmup guy — as I now know is common for live audiences in taped television performances — kept fluffing the crowd like they were preschoolers.
“Now what are you going to do when we introduce the first comedian?”
Wild cheers.
“C'mon, that's not good enough! Let's try it again! What are you going to do???”
ref: 2016, Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother:
glosses: To bring to a state of excitement.
examples: text: A genial counter-man told Mr. Manners that, if he played artful, he might even now obtain the position of outside porter; you got no pay there, but you could gain a moderate competency by fluffing.
ref: 1900, The Railway Magazine, volume 7, page 559:
glosses: To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
Derived terms: fluff about
fluff-dry
fluffer
fluff girl
fluff off
fluff one's feathers
fluff one's lines
fluff out
fluff up
refluff
unfluffed
blenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: blennies
Etymology: From Latin blennius, blendius, from Ancient Greek βλεννός (blennós, “mucus, slime”) (whence Modern Greek βλέννα (vlénna)), because of its slimy coating. From Proto-Indo-European *mel- (“soft”).
Senses: glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Blenniidae (combtooth blennies)
glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Chaenopsidae (pikeblennies, tubeblennies, and flagblennies)
glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Clinidae (weedfishes)
glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers)
glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Labrisomidae (labrisomids)
glosses: A true blenny, any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order Blenniiformes that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
Tripterygiidae (triple-fin blennies)
glosses: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
bartail blenny (Platycephalus indicus, in family Pseudochromidae)
glosses: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
viviparous blenny (Zoarces viviparus, in family Zoarcidae)
glosses: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
convict blenny/engineer blenny (Pholidichthys leucotaenia, in family Pholidichthyidae)
glosses: A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
scooter blenny (Neosynchiropus ocellatus, in family Callionymidae)
Derived terms: blackflap blenny
butterfly blenny
eel-blenny
eelblenny
fangblenny
freckled blenny
Japanese snake blenny
jewelled blenny
kappie blenny
Montagu's blenny
tompot blenny
pilchard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪl.tʃəd/
ipa: /ˈpɪl.t͡ʃɚd/
Forms: form: pilchard
form: pilchards
Etymology: Unknown. Compare Dutch pelser.
Senses: examples: 1839, John Hookham Frere (translator), The Birds, lines 76–77, in Acharnians and two other plays
He longs occasionally for human diet,
His old Athenian fare: pilchards, for instance.
glosses: Any of various small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae.
Synonyms: sense: small fish
word: sardine
sprat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: sprat
form: sprats
Etymology: From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.
glosses: Any of various similar fish of other genera.
glosses: Anything petty or insignificant.
examples: text: The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
ref: 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:
glosses: A sixpence.
Derived terms: word: a sprat to catch a mackerel
word: throw a sprat to catch a mackerel
taxonomic: Sprattus sprattus
word: European sprat
taxonomic: Spratelloides gracilis
word: slender sprat
word: spratlike
Related terms: spratting
pilchard
sardine
sprat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: sprats
form: spratting
form: spratted
form: spratted
Etymology: From Middle English sprotte, from Old English sprot. Older source is unknown. Cognate with German Sprotte, Dutch sprot. Compare sprout.
Senses: examples: text: […] spratting the land. This treatment is supplemented by about half a ton of artificial manure, largely made up of a mixture of superphosphate and some nitrogenous manure.
ref: 1923, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming, volume 98, page 190:
glosses: To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).
dotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏtʹĭd
ipa: /ˈdɑtɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɒtɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From dot + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dot
dotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏtʹĭd
ipa: /ˈdɑtɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɒtɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Forms: form: more dotted
form: most dotted
Etymology: From dot + -ed.
Senses: examples: Please print your name and address clearly on the dotted line.
glosses: Made up of a series of dots.
raw_tags: of a line
examples: text: The dotted name java.util.Scanner is the fully qualified name of the Scanner class.
ref: 2012, Barry A. Burd, Michael Burton, Donn Felker, Java and Android Application Development For Dummies eBook Set:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That contains dots.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: With a dot after, increasing the value of the duration by half of the basic note.
raw_tags: of notes and rests
examples: text: The woods filtered men and the fields became dotted.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter XI, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: Covered with irregularly scattered objects.
Derived terms: dotted bar line
dotted decimal
dotted gizzard shad
dotted line
dottedness
dotted note
dotted quad
dotted Swiss
double-dotted
polka-dotted
sign on the dotted line
soft-dotted
undotted
Related terms: dashed
dash-dotted
enrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enrols
form: enrolling
form: enrolled
form: enrolled
Senses: glosses: Standard spelling of enroll.
Derived terms: enrolee
enrolment
misenrol
reenrol
unenrol
Jeremy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.ɪ.mi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.ə.mi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹ.mi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜɹ.mi/
homophone: germy
Forms: form: Jeremys
Senses: examples: text: Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 2:17:
text: He had the name of Jeremy given to him, because Jeremiah, as his father said, was a family name; and there was an advantage in curtailing a syllable, and in showing a preference towards the names of the New Testament over those of the old.
ref: 1840, John Bowring, Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, p.169:
text: Fry: You don't meet many American Jeremies, do you? Have you ever met an American Jeremy?
Clarkson: No, it's too complicated. There's three syllables.
ref: 2004 October 22, QI, Season 2, Episode 4
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, English form of Jeremiah. Also used to anglicize Irish Diarmaid (Dermot).
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Jerry
Tiw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tiu (“Anglo-Saxon counterpart of Tyr”).
grandstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn(d)stænd/
Forms: form: grandstands
Etymology: From grand + stand.
Senses: glosses: The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers.
glosses: The audience at a public event.
Derived terms: grandstand finish
grandstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn(d)stænd/
Forms: form: grandstands
form: grandstanding
form: grandstanded
form: grandstanded
Etymology: From grand + stand.
Senses: examples: text: Many politicians prefer to grandstand on hot-button issues rather than enact tough policy changes.
glosses: To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.
Derived terms: grandstander
grandstanding
grandstand play
Related terms: play to the gallery
Ganesha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /ɡəˈneːʃ(ə)/
ipa: /ɡəˈneɪʃə/
Forms: form: Ganesa
form: Ganesh
Etymology: From Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Synonyms: Aumkara
Ekadanta
Gajanana
Ganapati
Heramba
Lambodara
Shurpa Karna
Umaputra
Vakratunda
Vighnaharta
Vinayaka
Ganesha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /ɡəˈneːʃ(ə)/
ipa: /ɡəˈneɪʃə/
Forms: form: Ganesa
form: Ganesh
Etymology: From Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
Senses: glosses: The psychedelic drug 2,5-dimethoxy-3,4-dimethylamphetamine.
titty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪti/
note: t-flapping
ipa: [ˈtʰɪɾi]
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: titties
form: tiddy
form: tittie
Etymology: From tit + -y. Sense of sister perhaps from baby talk form of sissy.
Senses: examples: text: That hot bird will show you her titties for a fiver, mate!
text: damn girl is your titty a penis because i want to suck on it
ref: 2019 December 18, @MistaKwabs, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2024:
glosses: A breast.
glosses: A nipple.
glosses: A kitten.
glosses: A sister or girl.
Derived terms: city titty
itty bitty titty committee
kitty's titties
man titty
titty bar
titty fuck
titty juice
titty skittle
titty twister
tough titty
tough titty said the kitty
whiny-ass titty baby
tittie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titties
Etymology: From tit + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of titty.
Titty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Letitia.
titties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titty
glosses: plural of tittie
Derived terms: kitty's titties
polysemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.lɪ.siː.mi/
ipa: /pəˈlɪ.sɪ.mi/
Forms: form: polysemies
Etymology: From polyseme + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fifty years ago the linguist and semanticist Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy, the fact that some words have a network of multiple but related meanings, is "the pivot of semantic analysis" […]
ref: 2011, Brigitte Nerlich, Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and Language, page 3:
text: Polysemy proliferates in natural language: Virtually every word is polysemous to some extent.
ref: 2017 July 27, Agustín Vicente and Ingrid L. Falkum, “Polysemy”, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
antonyms: monosemy
hypernyms: colexification
coordinate_terms: homonymy
;
homosemy
glosses: The quality characteristic of a polyseme, a sign (such as a word or symbol) that has multiple meanings (senses), often including multiple similar ones.
Related terms: word: ambiguity
english: result of polysemy
translation: result of polysemy
word: lexical ambiguity
word: polysemic
word: polysemous
word: polysemously
word: homonymy
scrooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrooches
form: scrooching
form: scrooched
form: scrooched
form: scrootch
form: scrouge
Senses: glosses: To crouch, or hunker down.
Synonyms: scrunch
thylakoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thylakoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “sack, bag”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis
grana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granum
granum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grana
Etymology: From the late 19th c., from Latin grānum (“grain, seed or small kernel”). Doublet of corn, grain, gram, and grao.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stack-like structure in plant chloroplasts that contain chlorophyll; the site of photosynthesis.
granum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granums
form: grannum
Senses: examples: text: Each of 'em has a ſev'ral Gin, / To catch Intelligences in. / Some by the Noſe vvith fumes trapan 'em, / As Dunſtan did the Devils Grannum.
ref: 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “Canto III”, in Hudibras. The Second Part. […], London: […] T[homas] R[oycroft] for John Martyn, and James Allestry […], →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: One's grandmother.
chloroplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔːɹəʊˌplæst/
Forms: form: chloroplasts
Etymology: From chloro- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organelle, found in the cells of green plants and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place, characterized by a high concentration of chlorophyll and two membranes.
Hypernyms: plastid
Coordinate terms: leucoplast
chromoplast
Meronyms: granum
Derived terms: chloroplastal
chloroplast DNA
chloroplastic
extrachloroplast
kleptochloroplast
macrochloroplast
nonchloroplast
subchloroplast
Related terms: mitochondrion
hydrogenosome
circuit rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circuit riders
form: circuit-rider
Senses: glosses: An itinerant preacher, especially a Methodist.
glosses: A judge who holds court in a series of towns.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.
Related terms: sawdust trail
incidental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnsɪˈdɛntəl/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈdɛntəl/
note: nasal flap
ipa: [ɪnsɪˈdɛ.ɾ̃əl]
note: enunciated
ipa: [ɪnsɪˈdɛn.tʰəl]
Forms: form: more incidental
form: most incidental
Etymology: From incident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.
text: incidental evidence
glosses: Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
examples: text: Injuries are incidental to contact sports: they're going to happen.
glosses: Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
glosses: Occurring by chance.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
raw_tags: of radiation
Synonyms: sense: existing as an accident
word: accidental
word: contingent
sense: occurring by chance
word: accidental
word: serendipitous
Derived terms: coincidental
incidental expense
incidentally
incidental music
incidentalness
incidentaloma
incidentalome
nonincidental
unincidental
Related terms: incident
incidence
incidental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnsɪˈdɛntəl/
ipa: /ɪnsəˈdɛntəl/
note: nasal flap
ipa: [ɪnsɪˈdɛ.ɾ̃əl]
note: enunciated
ipa: [ɪnsɪˈdɛn.tʰəl]
Forms: form: incidentals
Etymology: From incident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: She's costing us a lot in incidentals.
glosses: Minor items, not further defined. Incidental expense.
glosses: Something that is incidental.