cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blue room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue rooms
Senses: glosses: In cinema, a room with blue (or occasionally green) walls in which effects shots are filmed.
examples: text: Phyllis Ash was working a flight where the smooth routine was suddenly interrupted by a ten-year-old boy who went to the "blue room" (toilet) and proceeded to get his penis stuck in his zipper.
ref: 1980, Robert J. Serling, From the captain to the colonel, page 423:
text: […] they intended to use the “blue room”, or lavatory.
ref: 2019, Colin C. Law, A Flight Attendant's Essential Guide, page 4:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The toilet/washroom on a passenger aircraft.
Related terms: green room
siku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sikus
Senses: glosses: A type of traditional panpipe from the Andes.
screening room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screening rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in which films are shown on a large screen for a small private audience.
reading room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reading rooms
Senses: examples: text: There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.
ref: 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
synonyms: athenaeum
glosses: A dedicated space in a library, or similar institution of learning, set aside for reading.
glosses: A reference library.
Related terms: reading the room
guest room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest rooms
form: guest-room
form: guestroom
Etymology: From guest + room.
Senses: glosses: A room in a home or hotel set aside for the use of visiting guests.
Synonyms: spare room
Coordinate terms: room service
lamp room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamp rooms
Senses: glosses: A room at the top of a lighthouse in which the signal light is housed.
map room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A room in a library set aside for the storage and use of maps.
meeting room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meeting rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a building, such as an office building, set aside for the use of people to hold meetings.
Synonyms: conference room
music room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: music rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a school or house set aside for instruction in music.
sewing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewing rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a home set aside for sewing.
showroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/
Forms: form: showrooms
Etymology: From show + room. Verb sense circa 2011.
Senses: glosses: A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
glosses: A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
Hypernyms: room
showroom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃoʊˌɹum/
Forms: form: showrooms
form: showrooming
form: showroomed
form: showroomed
Etymology: From show + room. Verb sense circa 2011.
Senses: examples: text: This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.
glosses: To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.
ume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ume
form: umes
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 梅 (ume).
Senses: glosses: Japanese apricot, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.
embalming room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embalming rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a funeral parlor set aside for the embalming of bodies prior to the funeral service and burial, consisting of a table, embalming machine, chemicals, and tools.
boiler room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiler rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a building that houses the boiler(s) and similar equipment.
glosses: A compartment on a steamship that houses the boiler.
glosses: A telemarketing firm that makes cold calls.
Related terms: boilerhouse
engine room
machine room
plant room
art room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art rooms
Etymology: art + room
Senses: glosses: A room in a school set aside for instruction in the visual arts.
cutting room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting rooms
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A room in which a film is edited to its final form.
Derived terms: on the cutting room floor
science room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science rooms
Senses: synonyms: science lab
glosses: A room in a school set aside for instruction in the sciences.
copy room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a school or business set aside for the copy machines.
lisle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: lisles
Etymology: Named after Lisle, France (now Lille), where it was first produced.
Senses: examples: text: She herself dressed in dark dresses of heavy rayon crêpe, with grey Lisle stockings bound under the knee with two loops of knotted elastic.
ref: 1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 11:
text: He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41:
glosses: A type of strong cotton thread, or a cloth woven from such thread.
ferrocenophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocenophanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a ferrocene containing a bridge of carbon atoms between the two cyclopentadienyl rings; used as ligands in asymmetric catalysis
Related terms: ferrocenophanone
logistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From logistical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Regarding or using logistics.
glosses: Regarding or using symbolic logic.
ferrocenophanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocenophanones
Etymology: From ferrocenophane + -one?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a ferrocenophane containing a carbonyl functional group on the bridge; used in the synthesis of asymmetric catalysts
ferrocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrocenes
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of metallocenes containing an iron atom between two cyclopentadienyl rings; especially the simplest of the class bis-cyclopentadienyl iron.
Derived terms: acetylferrocene
ferrocenium
Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒm.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.mə.ni/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒməni
rhymes: (nonstandard, technical) -ɑːni
Forms: form: Romani
form: Romanis
form: Rommany
form: Romany
form: Romanese
form: Rromani
Etymology: From Romani romani, feminine form of romano (“of or pertaining to the Roma”), from rom (“man”). See also Roma.
Not related to Romanian, Roman or Rome.
Senses: examples: text: The Romani have long been discriminated against.
glosses: A member of the Roma, a nomadic people with origins in India.
Synonyms: word: Rom
word: Roma
word: Bohemian
word: Gypsy
word: gypsy
Hyponyms: word: Roma
word: Romanichal
word: Sinto
Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒm.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.mə.ni/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒməni
rhymes: (nonstandard, technical) -ɑːni
Forms: form: Rommany
form: Romany
form: Romanese
form: Rromani
Etymology: From Romani romani, feminine form of romano (“of or pertaining to the Roma”), from rom (“man”). See also Roma.
Not related to Romanian, Roman or Rome.
Senses: glosses: The Indo-Aryan lect of the Roma people, or one of its sublects (such as Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc), closely related to Hindi and Rajasthani.
Synonyms: Gypsy
Rom
Romanes
Meronyms: Balkan Romani
Kalo Finnish Romani
Sinte Romani
Vlax Romani
Related terms: Angloromani
Balkan Romani
Kalo Finnish Romani
Para-Romani
Romani studies
Scandoromani
Sinte Romani
Vlax Romani
Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒm.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.mə.ni/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒməni
rhymes: (nonstandard, technical) -ɑːni
Forms: form: Rommany
form: Romany
form: Romanese
form: Rromani
Etymology: From Romani romani, feminine form of romano (“of or pertaining to the Roma”), from rom (“man”). See also Roma.
Not related to Romanian, Roman or Rome.
Senses: examples: text: Every year the local Romani population, still called “gypsies” by many, lit harvest fires.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 158:
glosses: Of or belonging to the Roma people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Romani terms
Domari
Romani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒm.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.mə.ni/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒməni
rhymes: (nonstandard, technical) -ɑːni
ipa: /ɹəˈmɑːni/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈmɑːni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɒm.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.mə.ni/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ.mə.ni/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒməni
rhymes: (nonstandard, technical) -ɑːni
Etymology: In some cases, derived from Italian Romani, Romano, or cognates thereof.
Senses: glosses: A surname
activated sludge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: activated sludges
Senses: glosses: Sewage that has been aerated and agitated in order to promote the growth of beneficial microorganisms that break down organic matter.
heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Etymology: From heel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heel
heeled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Forms: form: more heeled
form: most heeled
Etymology: From heel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a heel (often of a specified type, as in high-heeled etc.).
examples: text: I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.
ref: 1903, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, Norton, published 2005, page 896:
glosses: Prepared, especially armed with a weapon.
examples: text: I have a large apt. could accommodate you. Tell Neal to come too if he is heeled.
ref: 1949 September 26, William S. Burroughs, “To Jack Kerouac”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Wealthy; having enough money.
Derived terms: sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: feather-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: flat-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: light-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: Louis-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: low-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: round-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: spring-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: spring-heeled Jack
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: spur-heeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: unheeled
sense: compound adjectives of the sense “having a heel of some type”
word: well heeled
Related terms: well-heeled
onocentaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒnəˈsɛntɔː/
Forms: form: onocentaurs
Etymology: Late Latin onocentaurus, from Ancient Greek ὀνοκένταυρος (onokéntauros, from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”)).
Senses: glosses: A centaur with the body of an ass, instead of a prototypical horse.
hwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hwans
form: hwan
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 환(圜) (hwan).
Senses: glosses: The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.
Related terms: won
migmatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɡmətʌɪt/
Forms: form: migmatites
Etymology: From Swedish migmatit, from Ancient Greek μίγμα (mígma, “mixture”) + Swedish -it (“-ite”).
Senses: examples: text: More specifically, many of these rocks are described as migmatites, in which the pink veins seem to blend insensibly into a kind of swirling granite.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 163:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any rock of mixed appearance, being an intimate mixture of granite and older rock, specifically from intense metamorphism which partially melts the rock, causing it to recrystallize in a state intermediate between igneous and metamorphic.
Derived terms: migmatitic
skilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From skill (verb).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skill
skilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skillings
Etymology: From Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skilling. Doublet of shilling.
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century. (A subdivision of the Swedish riksdaler, the Danish and Norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler).
skilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skillings
Etymology: Compare sheeling.
Senses: examples: text: The barn may be built with lean-to's or skillings all round[…]
ref: 1844, James Atkinson, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales:
glosses: A bay of a barn.
glosses: A small addition to a cottage.
millerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millerites
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Miller + -ite, from British mineralogist William Hallowes Miller.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: A nickel sulfide mineral, NiS, that occurs as hairlike tufts.
srang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: srangs
form: srang
Senses: glosses: The monetary unit of Tibet from 1909 to 1959.
glosses: A Tibetan unit of weight, used particularly for silver and gold.
Brobdingnag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: […] if this Treatiſe ſhould happen to be tranſlated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that Kingdom) and tranſmitted thither, the King and his People would have reaſon to complain that I had done them an Injury by a falſe and diminutive Repreſentation.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [225]:
text: The satire takes a new twist when, on his second voyage, Gulliver visits Brobdingnag, whose inhabitants tower above him. The boot is now on the other foot, and it is Gulliver who is exposed as diminutive of stature and understanding alike. The Brobdingnagians furthermore excite Swift's disgust at the flesh. Their very grossness exaggerates all the minute flaws and hideousness normally concealed from the eye by the limitations of human vision.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.151
glosses: A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Coordinate terms: Lilliput
Derived terms: Brobdingnagian
fiorino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiorinos
form: fiorini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fiorino.
Senses: glosses: The monetary unit of Tuscany from 1826 to 1859, subdivided into 100 quatrini; a florin.
fantasy land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasy lands
form: fantasyland
Senses: examples: text: In the movie Back to School, an economics professor suggests building a factory in a place where no political corruption must be calculated into the costs; the protagonist replies "How about fantasy land?"
text: I’d toil away at my job, which I hated with a passion. But I’d dream, too. No, no, they couldn’t take away my dreams. In my fantasy world, I didn’t have it that bad. In fact, I had a pretty cool beach house and loads of money and good friends. Real life wasn’t that great, but living in fantasy land was terrific. But soon, fantasy land was bombed by reality and I found myself living in a painful world.
ref: 2009, Romy Miller, “Everything You Know Might Quite Possibly Be Wrong”, in How to Be Wanted: Use the Law of Attraction to Date the Man You Most Desire and Live the Life You Deserve, The Book Factory, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: An ideal place that does not exist in reality.
Hypernyms: land
Related terms: dreamland
dreamworld
neverland
fantasyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasylands
Senses: examples: text: That, however, is in the fantasyland where comic-strip characters grow up.
ref: 1988 May 27, Ted Cox, “Reading: Artists in Dreamland”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of fantasy land.
colostrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɒstɹəm/
Forms: form: colostra
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin colostrum, of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.
ref: 1988 May 17, Gina Kolata, “For Travelers, Milk From Immunized Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: beestings
first milk
fore-milk
green milk
glosses: A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth.
glosses: A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.
Derived terms: colostric
colostrous
reif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reifs
form: rief
Etymology: From Middle English ref, reaf, reif, from Old English rēaf (“plunder, spoil, booty, raiment, garment, robe, vestment, armor”), from Proto-West Germanic *raub, from Proto-Germanic *raubą, *raubaz (“rape, robbery”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to rip, tear”).
Cognate with Scots reif, rief (“robbery, depredation, spoliation”), Saterland Frisian roowje (“loot, rob”), Dutch roof (“spoil, booty, robbery”), German Raub (“robbery, spoils, plunder”). See also reave, robe.
Senses: examples: text: The opposition, which, as we shall see, was headed by Archbishop Beaton, protested against the "daily slaughters, murders, reifs, thefts, depredations, and heavy attemptates, that are daily and hourly committed within this realm in fault of justice."
ref: c. 1524, a letter, recorded in The History of Scotland (John Hill Burton, 1873), volume 3, page 109
text: […] meaning to live by reif of other mennes goodes, wherein they have no manner of propertie.
ref: c. 1577-1587, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles:
text: […] the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their surnames for the committing of divers thefts, reifs, and herships.
ref: 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:
text: In the year 1567, in the first Parliament of James VI., an important Act was passed, entitled "Anent Theft and Receipt of Theft, Taking of Prisoners by Thieves, or Bands for Ransoms, and Punishment of the same." It relates especially to the […] "other inhabitants of the remanent Shires of the Realm," bearing that it is not unknown of the continual theft, reif, and oppression committed within the bounds of the said Sheriffdoms, by […] thieves and "broken men" [who] commit daily "thefts, reifs, herschips, murders, and fire raisings" upon the peaceable subjects of the country.
ref: 1898, Robert Borland, Border Raids and Reivers, page 42:
glosses: Robbery.
FPTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of first past the post.
cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
glosses: plural of cowboy
cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cowboy
third-party claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-party claims
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant.
décolletage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɒlətɑːʒ/
Forms: form: décolletages
form: decolletage
Etymology: Borrowed from French décolletage.
Senses: glosses: A low neckline on a woman's dress, especially one that reveals or emphasizes her cleavage.
examples: text: I visualized businessmen trying to see the tops of her stockings or into the valley of her décolletage as she bent to put drinks on a table.
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 450:
text: If you want to continue wearing low-cut necklines and avoid having to rely on turtlenecks and scarves to hide your neck, you have to take care of the delicate skin below your jawline, namely your neck and décolletage.
ref: 2014, Harold Lancer, Younger: The Breakthrough Anti-Aging Method for Radiant Skin:
glosses: The portion of a woman's body that is revealed by a low neckline; the upper chest, as well, sometimes, as the neck, and shoulders.
pyroantimonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + antimonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pyroantimonic acid or its derivatives.
pyroarsenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + arsenic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyroarsenic acid or its derivatives
pyroboric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + boric.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to pyroboric acid or its derivatives.
pyromucic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyromucic acid or its derivatives
pyrophosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + phosphoric.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyrophosphoric acid or its derivatives
pyrosulfuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pyrosulphuric
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyrosulfuric acid or its derivatives
pyrosulphuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + sulphuric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrosulfuric.
pyrotartaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, or relating to pyrotartaric acid or its derivatives
pyrotungstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + tungstic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyrotungstic acid or its derivatives
pyrovanadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to pyrovanadic acid or its derivatives
wreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːθs/
ipa: /ɹiːðz/
rhymes: -iːθs
rhymes: -iːðz
Senses: examples: text: The children hung wreaths on all the doors.
glosses: plural of wreath
wreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːθs/
ipa: /ɹiːðz/
rhymes: -iːθs
rhymes: -iːðz
Senses: examples: text: A ring of smoke wreaths the building.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wreath
wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: Rex
homophone: rex
Senses: examples: text: Many wrecks can be found below the waters of the Caribbean.
glosses: plural of wreck
wrecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛks
homophone: Rex
homophone: rex
Senses: examples: text: That guy wrecks his car every month.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wreck
stonily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stonily
form: most stonily
Etymology: From stony + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was curious to remark the different mien and bearing of the other Federal prisoners who were taken yesterday […]. Some looked stonily and unconsciously forward […]
ref: 1862, “The Southern Confederacy”, in The Times:
text: All their meagre breasts panted together, the violently dilated nostrils quivered, the eyes stared stonily up-hill.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:
glosses: In a stony manner.
wagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some gamblers make wagers all day long.
text: The Spartans were wagers of war.
glosses: plural of wager
wagers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A clever gambler wagers just enough to get ahead of the game, but not so much that he could be knocked out.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wager
prevailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more prevailing
form: most prevailing
form: prævailing
form: prævaling
Etymology: By surface analysis, prevail + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The prevailing opinion was for additional planning time.
text: He has a Humour more prevailing than his Curioſity, and will willingly diſpence with the hearing of one ſcandalous Story, to avoid giving an occaſion to make another, by being ſeen to walk with his Wife.
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, pages 19–20:
text: But they could never gain my conſent to put him to death, for the reaſons above mentioned, ſince it was an Engliſhman (even yourſelf) was my deliverer: And, as merciful counſels are moſt prevailing, when earneſtly preſſed, ſo I got them to be of the ſame opinion, as to clemency.
ref: 1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, pages 210–211:
text: I have heard generally that alderman Archer has a more prevailing and powerful influence in the commons than any other alderman, and exercises that influence;
ref: 1826, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons Papers, volume 17, page 411:
glosses: Predominant; of greatest force.
examples: text: Fever and dysentery are the most prevailing diseases in this division, more particularly the latter, which is one of the most destructive amongst the troops in India, and particularly so in the European constitution.
ref: 1829, James Annesley, Sketches of the Most Prevalent Diseases of India, page 247:
text: One of the most prevailing defects in this people is their invincible indolence, and hatred of labour, which has, at all times, paralysed the government of their best princes, and impeded the success of their most brilliant enterprises.
ref: 1832, David Brewster, “Spain”, in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, volume 17, page 371:
text: In Sydney at 9 am, by far the most prevailing wind is a westerly, particularly during the colder two-thirds of the year.
ref: 1940, Australian Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 33 - 1940, page 49:
text: This world-wide travel organisation recently attained its centenary, and under happier conditions than those prevailing at the present time the event would doubtless have been celebrated worthily.
ref: 1941 November, “Notes and News: The Centenary of Cook's”, in Railway Magazine, page 513:
glosses: Prevalent, common, widespread.
Synonyms: sense: prevalent, common, widespread
word: pervasive
word: ubiquitous
word: widespread
Derived terms: prevailing party
prevailing wind
prevailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: prævailing
form: prævaling
Etymology: By surface analysis, prevail + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevail
ghey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gheyer
form: gheyest
Senses: examples: text: Like the subject says, I'm tired of rampant ghey furry porn, sorry guys, too many dicks and not enough nips and twat..
ref: 2002, Alan Kennedy, in fur.artwork.erotica [news:a96jnv$r9l$1@velox.critter.net]
text: Sometimes ghey celebs who don't wanna look so ghey will "get married" to kinda cover it up.
ref: 2003, Mad Hatter©, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
text: 2005, daesfunka, in ardkor.comhttp://www.ardkor.com/what-the-fuck-is-breakcore.php
Breakcore is about licking big guns, I mean about gheyness.
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of gay (“homosexual”).
examples: text: Just looking for a good site to give me info about all the moves, fatality's, nudatlities (if they exist=P) so I dont have to wade through the ghey posts to find the worthwhile ones
ref: 1998, Herb Wilson, alt.games.mk (Usenet):
text: Don't be ghey. Go BUY it for like $15 US dollars. Order it from chips and bits, I'm sure it's cheap.
ref: 1999, Brennan Murray, alt.games.moo2 (Usenet):
text: I said at the end of the match "See, I don't need no ghey crutch to whoop yas."
ref: 2000, Frank Rizzo, alt.games.quake3 (Usenet):
text: That is pretty ghey considering street commodores did the 160hp → 240hp EFI V8 for around $5000
ref: 2001, Daniel Gordon, aus.cars (Usenet):
text: How many posts left..? 998,797.. that's seriously ghey.
ref: 2006, Tom Dean (TomTom), in rock-forums.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20071015131655/http://rock-forums.com/showthread.php?p=42020&posted=1#post42020
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of gay (“lame, uncool”).
promontory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒm.ən.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑməntɔɹi/
Forms: form: promontories
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prōmineō, from prō- + *mineō (“to project or jut”, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”)) + -tōrium (“place”).
Senses: examples: text: Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.
ref: 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:
text: South of Hang-chou Wan (Bay) below Shanghai, the China coastline changes from a smooth, flat topography to one of irregular, rocky promontories and numerous islands. Foochow, the Fugiu of Marco Polo, dates from the seventh century. Offshore the Ma-tsu Lieh-tao (Matsu and Pei-kan, or Changshu Islands) are heavily fortified Nationalist strongholds.
ref: 1970, Ken Fitzgerald, The Space Age Photographic Atlas, Crown Publishers, page 196:
synonyms: cliff
headland
hoe
bluff
glosses: A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A projecting part of the body.
A projection on the sacrum.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A projecting part of the body.
A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.
Derived terms: Promontory Point
Related terms: prominent
bombilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɒmˈbiː(j)ə/
/boʊmˈbiʃə/
Forms: form: bombillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).
Senses: examples: text: The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.
ref: 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:
glosses: A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.
progressive rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rock music genre originating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, heavily influenced by classical music and jazz.
Synonyms: prog rock
Hypernyms: rock
lens flare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lens flares
Senses: examples: text: Lens flare is usually unwanted, but can be exploited for artistic effect.
glosses: A stray patch of brightness in a photographic image resulting from aberrant refractions or reflections within the lens due to an exceptionally bright light source, sometimes one just outside the image proper.
SOAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊp/
ipa: /səʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Senses: examples: text: The specified system will use SOAP for message exchange.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Simple Object Access Protocol, a standard Internet protocol for exchanging structured information in a distributed environment.
SOAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊp/
ipa: /səʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of subjective, objective, assessment, and plan.
Related terms: urls: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/
word: W3 SOAP specifications
IQR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Abbreviation of interquartile range.
Related terms: outlier
range
venezolano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venezolanos
Senses: glosses: The currency of Venezuela from 1874 to 1879, divided into 100 centavos.
expiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkspiˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: expiations
Etymology: From Middle French expiation, from Latin expiātiō (“satisfaction”).
Senses: examples: text: One day he came not: I was told, and truly, that business the most imperative required his personal attendance; yet I could not force the ghastly terror of his illness from my mind. I dared not tempt my fate by content—the agony which I suffered seemed a sort of expiation.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 193:
text: Under this plea, felons of the worst kind might claim, till this time, to be taken out of the hands of the law judges, and to be tried at the bishops’ tribunals; and at these tribunals, such a monstrous solecism had Catholicism become, the payment of money was ever welcomed as the ready expiation of crime.
ref: 1870, James Anthony Froude, chapter IV, in History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, volume I:
text: And see far off below you, where the gulf is fixed, / Your persecutors, in timeless torment, / Parched passion, beyond expiation.
ref: 1935, T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, part I:
synonyms: atonement
propitiation
glosses: An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
examples: text: expiation of his immanities fore.
ref: 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
synonyms: plunder
pillage
glosses: The act of expiating or stripping off.
Derived terms: expiational
Related terms: expiate
expiatory
Gotham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒθəm/
ipa: /ˈɡəʊtəm/
Etymology: “Homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + hām (“home”).
* (New York City nickname): First used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers: see the quotation.
The original pronunciation had /th/ with later loss of /h/. The pronunciation with /θ/ is a spelling pronunciation that arose from a misreading of th as a digraph.
Senses: examples: text: This passage of the erudite Linkum was applied to the city of Gotham, of which he was once Lord Mayor, as appears by his picture hung up in the hall of that ancient city;—but his observation fits this best of all possible cities "to a hair." It is a melancholy truth that this same New-York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praise-worthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured, and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings; for which we are very sorry, indeed.
ref: [1807 April 18, Will Wizard [pseudonym; Washington Irving [et al.]], “Saturday, April 18, 1807. On Style.”, in Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others, number 8, London: J[ohn] Limbird, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 52, column 2:
text: Naturally sweetened desserts—delicious ones—have several hiding places in Gotham, and the Upper East Side's Candle Café is among the best.
ref: 2010, Jared Koch, Alex Van Buren, Clean Plates Manhattan 2011 […] , page 99:
glosses: Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Rushcliffe borough, Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity (OS grid ref SK5330).
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Ellipsis of Gotham City: a fictional city serving as the primary setting for the Batman franchise.
Derived terms: Gothamite
keep it real
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːp ɪt ˈɹiːl/
Forms: form: keeps it real
form: keeping it real
form: kept it real
form: kept it real
Etymology: From keep + it + real.
Senses: glosses: To perform an individual’s experience of being black in the United States.
examples: text: You can trust Pablo. He always keeps it real.
glosses: To be authentic, to be true to oneself; to be cool.
examples: text: A: I'm out, bro. B: Keep it real, son.
glosses: In the imperative, an exhortation used as a departing salutation.
Synonyms: keep it one hundred
Related terms: keep on keeping on
back payment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back payments
Senses: examples: text: The employer paid a back payment to his employee on his wages from three months earlier.
glosses: An overdue payment from a debtor to a creditor on money owed.
Related terms: back pay
blaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: blamings
Etymology: From Middle English blamyng, blamynge, equivalent to blame + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of accusing or assigning culpability to.
Derived terms: blamingly
unblaming
victim-blaming
blaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Etymology: From blame + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blame
obsessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obsess
obsessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more obsessed
form: most obsessed
Senses: examples: text: What was starting to unsettle him, to frighten him, was the idea that Merry was less horrified now than curious, and soon he himself became obsessed, though not, like her, by the self-immolators in Vietnam but by the change of demeanor of his eleven-year-old.
ref: 1997, Philip Roth, American Pastoral:
text: Strangely, although it is an international cliché that the British are obsessed with the weather, it is a fixation with minor irritations: will rain spoil the wedding, the Test Match, the bank holiday?
ref: 1999 June 28, Mark Lawson, The Guardian:
text: Everyone lay around in a sort of focused inertia, drinking, handing cigarettes back and forth, forgetting with whom, or whether, they were supposed to be romantically obsessed.
ref: 2007, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day:
glosses: Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
examples: text: Believing that an evil spirit is trying to obsess one is a dangerous belief, and when one comes to believe he is obsessed by an evil spirit, though there is not an evil spirit within a thousand miles of him, he will have all the symptoms.
ref: 1915, E. W. Sprague, Spirit Obsession Or a False Doctrine & A Menace to Modern Spiritualism, →ISBN, page 86:
text: It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil...
ref: 2007, James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus, →ISBN, page 100:
text: What of demon possession, whereby a person is not only obsessed or oppressed by evil spirits, but these spirits actually reside in such a person?
ref: 2010, Joseph Agbi, Living in God's Kingdom, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
Derived terms: obsessedly
obsessedness
self-obsessed
unobsessed
depending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Johnson said, “Depending on how it melts, a lot of the freshwater will be leaving the region for the ocean, which will have severe impacts on water and food security."
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
glosses: present participle and gerund of depend
Derived terms: depending on
depending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Behind the shield are placed in saltire two batons representing that belonging to his office, and round the shield is placed a gold collar of SS, and a triple chain also of gold, and depending from it the proper badge of Lyon King of Arms.
ref: 1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families – A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, 3rd edition, page 46:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Suspended or hanging from another element, such as a shield, helmet, crest, or a badge hanging from a chain.
Derived terms: dependingly
Related terms: depend
minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnʹdĭd
ipa: /ˈmaɪndɪd/
Forms: form: more minded
form: most minded
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mind
English -ed
English minded
From mind + -ed. Compare Old English -mōd (“minded”), Old English ġehyġd (“minded; disposed”).
Senses: examples: text: a fair-minded decision by a traditionally minded Pope.
text: literary-minded/literature-minded/two-minded
text: Downtown merchants can’t condone sending the spend-minded to Lancaster Mall, where they can park without fear in mega-macadam lots.
ref: 2004 October 29, Carol McAlice Currie, “Unposted laws make downtown seem unwelcoming”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 1C:
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Having or exemplifying a mind of the stated type, nature or inclination.
examples: text: I am minded to refuse the request.
text: Order another drink if you are so minded
text: He seems minded to go ahead with the plan.
text: But Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander instead said she was "minded to approve" the plans, and extended a decision deadline to the end of October.
ref: 2025 March 19, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Public transport concerns delay Gatwick bid”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 22:
glosses: Having a preference for doing something; having a likelihood, or disposition to carry out an act.
Derived terms: able-minded
absent-minded
absent-minded professor
airminded
alike-minded
bad-minded
bloodyminded
bloody-minded
book-minded
broad-minded
civic-minded
closed-minded
closedminded
close-minded
dirty-minded
doubleminded
double-minded
dull-minded
ear-minded
ego-minded
even-minded
evil-minded
eye-minded
fair-minded
fairminded
feebleminded
feeble-minded
fuzzy-minded
good-minded
green-minded
heavenly-minded
high-minded
hive-minded
large-minded
liberalminded
liberal-minded
light-minded
like-minded
literal-minded
little-minded
longminded
long-minded
lowminded
low-minded
midget-minded
mindedly
mindedness
narrow-minded
narrow minded
noble-minded
off-minded
open-minded
public-minded
right-minded
same-minded
self-minded
serious-minded
simple-minded
single-minded
singleminded
sloppy-minded
small-minded
soft-minded
strong-minded
tenderminded
tender-minded
toughminded
tough-minded
twi-minded
unminded
up-minded
weak-minded
weakminded
well-minded
woolly-minded
wooly-minded
wrongminded
wrong-minded
minded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnʹdĭd
ipa: /ˈmaɪndɪd/
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mind
English -ed
English minded
From mind + -ed. Compare Old English -mōd (“minded”), Old English ġehyġd (“minded; disposed”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mind
originated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of originate
liver and onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cooked meal consisting of liver fillets with onions, especially sliced, and other seasoning.
every last
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He never leaves without checking every last door.
synonyms: every single
each and every
glosses: every; without exception (used for emphasis).
Related terms: every man Jack
to the last man
take sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes sides
form: taking sides
form: took sides
form: taken sides
Senses: examples: text: I am not going to argue with you, and I am not going to take sides in this discussion.
synonyms: pick sides
choose sides
glosses: To ally oneself with a given opinion, agenda or group; to support one side or viewpoint in a competition or confrontation.
Related terms: side with
make fun of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes fun of
form: making fun of
form: made fun of
form: made fun of
Etymology: Recorded 1737. Preserves the older meaning of fun, from Middle English fon, fonne (“foolish, simple, silly”),
fun (c. 1700) meaning "a cheat, trick, hoax", from a verb fun meaning "to cheat, trick" (1680s).
Senses: examples: text: Please stop making fun of your sister and just help her!
glosses: To tease, ridicule or make jokes about, generally in a pejorative manner.
Synonyms: sense: to ridicule
word: make sport of
sense: to ridicule
word: poke fun at
sense: to ridicule
word: mock
sense: to ridicule
word: deride
Related terms: make light of
make light of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes light of
form: making light of
form: made light of
form: made light of
Senses: examples: text: I wish you wouldn't make light of the matter, when it obviously means a great deal to him.
text: It was also a satisfying night for England coach Capello. Not only did he have a vital victory to celebrate, but his team selection was fully justified as Cahill gave an almost flawless performance in defence and Scott Parker's display made light of the surprising exclusion of Frank Lampard.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
text: Messages accessed as part of inquiry show politicians also appeared to make light of cases[.]
ref: 2023 March 9, Angela Giuffrida, “Revealed: Italian leaders tried to protect country’s image at start of pandemic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To regard without due seriousness; to joke about.
Synonyms: take lightly
Related terms: gloss over
after the fact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːftə ðə ˈfækt/
ipa: /ˌæftɚ ðə ˈfækt/
Senses: topics: law
glosses: After the occurrence of some action or event, such as a crime or the formation of a contract.
examples: text: You made the commitment, and you can't change the terms after the fact.
synonyms: post hoc
glosses: Too late; after something is finished or final.
Derived terms: accessory after the fact
Related terms: before the fact