cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seafood fork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafood forks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of fish fork.
synonyms: word: fish fork
gas gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas gauges
form: gas gage
Senses: glosses: A gauge in a vehicle that shows how much gasoline remains in the vehicle.
parking brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parking brakes
Senses: examples: text: RSSB's report, released on September 23 2004, revealed that that the parking brakes on neither trolley had applied. It also revealed how the fixed piping carrying hydraulic pressure to the brake units on both had been severed and blanked off. This meant the parking brakes would not have been able to be released from the RRV. Washers to provide a clamping force to keep the parking brakes on were also missing, rendering them "completely inoperative".
ref: 2024 February 7, Greg Morse, “Tebay tragedy and track safety”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 41:
glosses: A brake in a vehicle that can be set to avoid the vehicle rolling down a hill or being pushed away.
Synonyms: handbrake
ngaio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ngaios
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: An evergreen tree of species Myoporum laetum, native to New Zealand.
Synonyms: mousehole tree
Derived terms: ngaio weevil
tidily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tidily
form: most tidily
Etymology: From Middle English tidili, tidily, equivalent to tidy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tidy manner; neatly; cleanly.
glosses: seasonably; betimes
glosses: suitably; duly; favourably
twoth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːθ
homophone: tooth
Etymology: From two + -th (ordinal suffix). Compare West Frisian twadde (“second”), Dutch tweede (“second”), German zweite (“second”).
Senses: examples: text: The colonel would then shout, "Twoty-twoth, form quarter distance column on the grenadier company."
ref: 1872, “Reminiscences of the Army”, in The Cape monthly magazine, volume 5, page 302:
text: In Dev. twoth is used for second, as the twenty-twoth of April.
ref: 1905, Joseph Wright, The English dialect grammar, page 269:
text: The hundred-and-oneth stitch was my stent, and it's done. I'm not ever going to take the hundred and twoth. I've decided.
ref: 1905, Annie Hamilton Donnell, “The Hundred and Oneth”, in Rebecca Marry, Reprint edition (Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2009:
text: Donnellson snorted to himself thinking of the las Third Level Commander that the old ninty-twoth had endured.
ref: 2009, Alan Black, Steel Walls and Dirt Drops (SciFi), Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
qualifier: now dialectal or whimsical
glosses: Second.
tiebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪˌbɹeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: tiebreakers
form: tie breaker
form: tie-breaker
Etymology: From tie + breaker.
Senses: glosses: Something that is used to pick a winner from a tied situation.
Synonyms: tiebreak
Related terms: tie breaker
tie-breaker
tiebreakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiebreaker
emergency brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency brakes
Senses: examples: text: At 0725, the driver operated the emergency brakes to no immediate effect. [...] As the train passed through Platform 11 at around 30mph, the train manager realised there was a problem and applied the emergency brake, bringing the train to a stand [...].
ref: 2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Brake pipe issue prompted Caledonian Sleeper runaway”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: A brake which can be used by passengers in a vehicle to stop in event of an emergency.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A parking brake.
timidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From timid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His timidness prevented him from challenging authority or asking his boss for a raise.
glosses: The property of being timid; shyness.
Synonyms: timidity
oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌnθ/
rhymes: -ʌnθ
Etymology: From one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: Soon after the first law of thermodynamics was postulated in the mid nineteenth century, it was realized how the law presupposed a more elementary law, which we now call the zeroth law ... But scientists soon realized how even the zeroth law was too advanced, since it presupposed a yet more elementary law, which explains why the minus-oneth law had to be formulated. —Paul M. S. Monk, 2008. "Laws and the minus-oneth law of thermodynamics", in Physical chemistry: understanding our chemical world, p. 8.
(see table 9.1 with row numbers four, ten, and sixteen terminating respectively at the eleventh, twenty-ninth and forty-oneth place) —A. R. Rajwade, 2001. Convex polyhedra with regularity conditions and Hilbert's third problem, p. 72.
glosses: 'first', or other ordinal derivatives of 'one', such as hundred-and-oneth or minus-oneth
examples: text: About once a year, and generally after the six o'clock news (query for B.B.C. experts — is the six o'clock public more gullible?) a Very Big Noise has reported that, after the n — nth or n — plus — oneth year of the war, the health of the nation is yet again better than ever.
ref: 1945, Feed & Farm Supplies - Volume 31, page 240:
text: The attempts, to a mathematician at any rate, are less comprehensible than the n plus oneth dimension, where n is any integer you please.
ref: 1945, Eric Temple Bell, Numerology: The Magic of Numbers, page 99:
text: If the billionth dog in the line is a Saint Bernard, then the last (billion-plus-oneth) dog in the line is a Saint Bernard.
ref: 2008, Steven D. Hales, What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: Used at the end of algebraic expressions indicating ordinal position that end in 1, such as (k+1)ᵗʰ
oneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌnθ/
rhymes: -ʌnθ
Forms: form: oneths
Etymology: From one + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: about twenty thirty-oneths in value of such sales being made as hereinafter mentioned to a syndicate of persons in the United Kingdom, about seven thirty-oneths to residents in the United States, and about four thirty-oneths to residents in other European countries and the colonies. —"Brooke & Co. (Limited) v. Commissioners of Inland Revenue". In The Weekly Reporter, vol. XLIV, p. 671, August 15, 1896. Supreme Court of Judicature, House of Lords, London.
glosses: (in compounds with twenty-, thirty-, forty-, etc.) A fractional part of an integer ending in one
examples: text: And then it was found that Dr. Whewell, or, as others asserted, one Dr. Donaldson, of Cambridge, had already responded to a similar challenge with an anticipatory variation of the idea : Youths who would senior wranglers be Must drink the juice distilled from tea, Must burn the midnight oil from month to month, Raising binomials to the n + 1th (n plus oneth).
ref: 1892, William S. Walsh, Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities, page 970:
glosses: An ordinal value that is represented by an expression ending in 1 such as the (n + 1)th.
raw_tags: in algebraic expressions
Synonyms: first
Derived terms: eighty-oneth
fifty-oneth
forty-oneth
ninety-oneth
onety-oneth
seventy-oneth
sixty-oneth
thirty-oneth
twenty-oneth
tipsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipsinesses
Etymology: From tipsy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tipsy.
kph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪpiˈeɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
Forms: form: kph
Senses: examples: text: The change, from a maximum top speed of 80 kph (48 mph) to 100 kph (60 mph), has been spurred on by a roads revolution in India, the centrepiece of which is the 3,650-mile Golden Quadrilateral highway, the largest infrastructure project undertaken since the country became independent in 1947.
ref: 2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian:
related: word: KPH
word: mul:km/h
word: km/hr
word: kmph
word: mul:kmh
coordinate_terms: mph
MPH
M.P.H.
mi/h
mi/hr
mi./hr.
mi./hr
glosses: Initialism of kilometre(s) per hour.
coordinate_terms: wpm
cps
glosses: Initialism of keystroke(s) per hour.
Related terms: speeding
speed limit
speedometer
turreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: turrited
Etymology: From turret + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In 1321 he built a huge turreted palace a short distance north of Avignon with an accompanying pleasure garden leading down to the River Ouvèze at Sorgues.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 53:
glosses: Having one or more turrets.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being in the shape of a long spiral.
raw_tags: of a gastropod shell
trifocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + focal (see focus). Coined by John Isaac Hawkins, their inventor, in 1826.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.
Related terms: bifocals
trifocal
participatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪsɪpətəɹi/
ipa: /pɑː(ɹ)tɪsɪˈpeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more participatory
form: most participatory
Etymology: From participate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: participatory behavior
glosses: Relating to participation.
glosses: Open to participation.
Derived terms: nonparticipatory
participatorily
participatory democracy
participatory economics
tradeswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradeswomen
Etymology: From trade + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female skilled manual worker
Hypernyms: word: skilled worker
word: tradesperson
word: tradie
tradeswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradeswoman
drying machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drying machines
Senses: glosses: A clothes dryer.
school year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school years
form: schoolyear
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: word: SY
glosses: The academic year of a school.
report card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: report cards
Senses: examples: text: And with that in mind, I'm going to distribute your report cards. Now, is there a Christian Stobich in this class?
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Mr Hall (Wallace Shawn):
topics: education
glosses: A document, on cardboard or plain paper, indicating the grades that a student has earned, issued at the end of a term of a regular period.
glosses: An update on progress with regard to a policy or system.
OCONUS
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of outside [the] contiguous United States, i.e. Alaska, Hawaii, the US territories, and all other countries.
hydromel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromels
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hydromel, hydromeli, from hydro- (from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”)) + mel (“honey”).
Senses: glosses: Mead, especially one of low alcohol content.
aguamiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish aguamiel.
Senses: glosses: The sap of the Mexican maguey plant.
shoulder girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder girdles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The human pectoral girdle, consisting of the collarbones and shoulder blades.
pectoral girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectoral girdles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bony or cartilaginous assembly that supports the forelimbs in vertebrates
Synonyms: english: in humans
translation: in humans
word: shoulder girdle
pushup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushups
Etymology: Deverbal from push up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of push-up.
pushcart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊʃˌkɑɹt/
Forms: form: pushcarts
Etymology: From push + cart.
Senses: synonyms: pushcar
glosses: A small cart, normally with two or four wheels, that can be pushed by hand.
Related terms: food cart
purlieus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purlieu
purifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purifiers
Etymology: From purify + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or device that purifies (by removing impurities).
Derived terms: air purifier
exhaust purifier
water purifier
purgatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more purgatorial
form: most purgatorial
Senses: examples: text: What aunswere then will you make to him that shall frame out of Saynt Paul an argument to ouerthrow the whole force and estimacion of your Purgatory on this wise?
Fe. Christ needeth no Purgatoriall Expiation.
Ri, Christ is our Righteousnes, out of S. Paul.
So. Ergo. Our Righteousnes needeth not any Purgatoriall Expiation.
ref: 1581, Walter Haddon et al., translated by James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall, London: John Daye, Book 3:
text: At the same time, [the three bishops] emitted a summary confession of their faith […] that there is no purgatorial state after this life […]
ref: 1784, John Brown, A Compendious History of the British Churches in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, volume 1, Glasgow, page 113:
text: […] can you suppose it would offend that benevolent Being […] to raise a devoted heart from purgatorial torments to a state of heavenly bliss, when you could do it without the slightest injury to yourself or any other?
ref: 1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 35, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
text: […] fearful lest in the midst of the purgatorial fire, which differed from the infernal only in that it was not everlasting, his penance might avail no more than a drop of moisture […]
ref: 1917, James Joyce, chapter 4, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, London: The Egoist, page 171:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory.
examples: text: But to enter the Church in such an unscholarly way that he could not in any probability rise to a higher grade through all his career than that of the humble curate wearing his life out in an obscure village or city slum—that might have a touch of goodness and greatness in it; that might be true religion, and a purgatorial course worthy of being followed by a remorseful man.
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 3, Chapter 1:
text: Often […] exile is conceived as a purgatorial experience which the West Indian must undergo in order to know himself.
ref: 1970, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, “George Lamming and the Colonial Situation”, in Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London: Heinemann, page 127:
text: Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.
ref: 2020, David Bowe, Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante, page 144:
glosses: That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.
puppetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌp.ɪ.tɹi/
Forms: form: puppetries
Etymology: From puppet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The art of making, and performing with puppets
glosses: The action of a puppet, or a stilted or puppet-like dramatic performance
glosses: finery; affectation
Derived terms: shadow puppetry
punditry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌn.dɪ.tɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈpan.dɪ.tɹɪ/
Forms: form: punditries
Etymology: From pundit + -ry.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a pundit.
glosses: The opinion or advice of a pundit.
examples: text: Serious times demand honesty and self-awareness from people in positions of authority and, at the end of the day, political parties giving succour to fringe views about life-and-death matters is a Faustian pact. This isn’t speculation, or a serve of two-bit punditry to fuel the opinion cycle. This is the lesson of Donald Trump.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021:
glosses: The behaviour of a pundit.
puncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌn.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpʌn.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: punchers
Etymology: From punch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who punches (in a specified manner).
glosses: A person who keys data into a computer system.
examples: text: This sewing machine works like a ticket puncher or a pair of pliers. Squeezing the two hand grips together operates the needle and the thread and material feeds.
ref: 1949, Popular Science, volume 155, number 6, page 112:
synonyms: punch
glosses: A device for punching something, such as tickets.
glosses: A cowpuncher; a cowboy.
Derived terms: Bible puncher
cowpuncher
ideograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ideogram
ideography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: ideographies
Etymology: From ideo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: The classical Yi ideography
glosses: The use of ideograms; semasiography or logography.
Related terms: ideograph
ideographic
mostest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: most + -est
Senses: examples: text: git thar fustest with the mostest
ref: 1917: anon., New York Times, attributed incorrectly to Nathan Bedford Forrest (the correct quote is "to git thar fust with the most men")
text: Indeed there are mansions along Beechwood Avenue, including the former home of Pearl Mesta, "the hostess with the mostest."
ref: 2006, Nicholas Sarno, God Bless the Squirrel Cage:
glosses: most.
bleeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bleed
pastiglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian pastiglia. Doublet of pastegh, pastel, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.
Senses: examples: text: But it was the white-lead pastiglia box that was closest to the cassone in both form and decoration.
ref: 2005, Malcolm Bull, “Objects”, in The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Sassetta was his example, but Berenson actually missed the only element in that artist’s oeuvre that can lay claim to Asian influence: the pastiglia in the frame of the San Sepolcro altarpiece, in which the pattern of intertwined morning glories with the buds and leaves seen from different points of view is Chinese in origin (Fig. 4).
ref: 2014, Carl Brandon Strehlke, “Bernard Berenson and Asian Art”, in Joseph Connors, Louis A[lexander] Waldman, editors, Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage, [Florence]: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The set of prints also influenced manuscript and book illustrations, including borders of books of hours and frontispieces; also majolica dishes, such as two large dishes by Jacopo de Cafaggiolo, one of them dated 1514; Renaissance enamels; white lead pastiglia caskets; and bronze plaquettes.
ref: 2021, Jean Michel Massing, “Prints and the Beginnings of Global Imagery”, in Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Magdalena Herman, editors, The Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Multiplied and Modified (Routledge Research in Art History), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Images):
glosses: Low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain.
wikipedia: British Museum
Marcus Curtius
store brand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: store brands
Senses: examples: text: Supermarkets are fighting national brands with store brand products.
glosses: Synonym of own brand.
synonyms: word: own brand
Related terms: white label
shoulder girdles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder girdle
terrifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more terrifyingly
form: most terrifyingly
Etymology: From terrifying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The special effects were terrifyingly realistic the first time I saw them.
text: After 'class war', we now apparently have 'location war'. If this idea is allowed to progress beyond Ms Harperson's terrifyingly one-track mind, hundreds of public organisations will have to have special quotas for Yorkshirepersons or Cornishpersons whenever a vacancy occurs.
ref: 2009 July 15, “Rights for Northerners. A PC honours list. What have we done to deserve Harriet Harperson and her equality maniacs?”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2009:
glosses: In a terrifying manner.
tiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who sets tiles.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
tilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiler
timelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more timelessly
form: most timelessly
Etymology: From timeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a timeless manner.
Synonyms: word: atemporally
word: eternally
word: timelessly
Related terms: word: timelessness
word: timeless
timelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmləsnəs/
ipa: /ˈtaɪmləsnəs/
ipa: /ˈtaɪmlɪsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈtaɪ̯mlɪ̈snɪ̈s/
Forms: form: timelessnesses
Etymology: From timeless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Of all the things that attracted her to the park, the timelessness of the ever-flowing river was most pleasing.
text: A sense of timelessness prevails in the little Derbyshire village of Repton, which was once the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 332, photo caption:
text: In the Larghetto slow movement Mr. Tetzlaff played the wistful melodic phrases with arching lyricism and radiantly penetrating pianissimos, while in the orchestra Mr. Levine achieved an uncanny balance between timelessness and subdued intensity.
ref: 2007 January 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Serious German Violinist Gets a Rock Star Ovation”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being timeless.
Synonyms: word: atemporality
word: extratemporality
word: eternal now
topics: religion
lifestyle
word: eternity
word: timelessness
word: untime
Related terms: word: timeless
word: timelessly
tininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌɪninəs/
Forms: form: tininesses
Etymology: From tiny + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He himself seemed to have shrunk to the tininess of the insect he had watched at the foot of the larch […]
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 78:
glosses: The property of being tiny; minuteness.
tipsily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tipsily
form: most tipsily
Etymology: From tipsy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tipsy manner.
tiptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiptops
Etymology: From tip + top.
Senses: glosses: The very topmost point.
glosses: The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
examples: text: Bad little bitch give me tiptop, don’t stop, this little beat is a co-bop
ref: 2020 July 27, “Sodapop”, Grimz (lyrics), Giusepe (music):
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Oral stimulation of the male member, a blowjob (more commonly top).
tiptop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tip + top.
Senses: glosses: Excellently; in a first-rate manner.
tiptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiptops
Etymology: From the name of a brand of freeze pops originally made by a now defunct West Bromwich company called Crystallized Confections. The term is mainly used in the West Midlands and Wales but is sometimes used elsewhere in Britain and in Ireland.
Senses: examples: text: Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate.
ref: 2017, Kenny Attaway, Black Cream: A Handful of Sky & a Pocketful of Confetti:
text: Brand names also came up with many naming the treat based on the product sold in their region. US users claimed that the sweet treat aught(sic.) to be referred to as an Otter Pop, a popular brand across the pond. Meanwhile UK users were more in favour of the Mr Freeze, found in many a corner shop while Welsh customers said the correct name was in fact a Tip Top.
ref: 2018 June 25, Martha Cliff, “Ice pops... or freezies? Debate over the CORRECT name for classic summer treat goes ciral on Twitter - so what do YOU call them?”, in MailOnline, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2021:
text: To us, these are (and always have been) called 'cool pops'. To others - particularly on Twitter - they're everything from 'ice pops' to 'ice lollies' to 'ice poles' to 'freeze pops' to 'Tip-Tops'.
ref: 2023 April 17 (last accessed), “The internet is arguing about what these frozen things are officially called”, in entertainment.ie, entertainment.ie, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022:
glosses: A freeze pop, irrespective of brand.
tirelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tireless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His tirelessness in helping the poor won him an award and a nervous breakdown from exhaustion.
glosses: The property of being tireless.
toecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toecaps
Etymology: From toe + cap.
Senses: examples: text: He had been warming his feet by the fire when his toecaps - a wartime economy measure - burst into flames.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:
glosses: A piece of leather or other material on a shoe or boot that covers the toes.
glosses: A piece of leather or other material on a shoe or boot that covers the toes.
a piece of hard steel or leather on a shoe or boot for protection of the toes.
totterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: totterers
Etymology: From totter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who totters.
treasonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From treason + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: His treasonous actions earned Benedict Arnold eternal scorn.
glosses: Like or in the way of treason.
Synonyms: traitorous
Derived terms: nontreasonous
treasonously
untreasonous
turbulently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more turbulently
form: most turbulently
Etymology: From turbulent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And she had turbulently admitted to his wringing questions that her visit to Middleton had been undertaken less because of the invalid relative than in shamefaced fear of her own weakness if she remained near his home.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 29”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The Hoptons, the greengrocer’s family over the way, were “rough” she thought; they were really turbulently jolly […]
ref: 1934, H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, Chapter I, section 4:
text: The 2,600-mile Mekong, the world's eleventh longest river and one of the least used, rises in the Himalayan plateau of China near Tibet, plunges turbulently through the mountain gorges of Yunnan, and emerges to divide and water the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
ref: 1969 December 26, “The Muddied Mekong”, in Time:
text: The shiny, very dark, and turbulently ornate woodwork […]
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: In a turbulent manner.
turgidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more turgidly
form: most turgidly
Etymology: From turgid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a turgid manner.
alkyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkyl
Rylan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly a variant of Ryland, meaning "rye field" and from Old English.
Senses: glosses: A rare surname from Old English.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
aryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aryl
Braeden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant spelling of Braden.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of somewhat uncommon usage, variant of Braden.
first sergeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first sergeants
Senses: glosses: In the United States Army, a non-commissioned officer ranking above sergeant first class and below sergeant major; equal in rank to a master sergeant but with greater command authority.
glosses: In the United States Marine Corps, a non-commissioned officer ranking above gunnery sergeant and below sergeant major or master gunnery sergeant; equal in rank to a master sergeant, but with command rather than technical responsibilities.
glosses: In the United States Air Force, an appointment (not a rank) for the senior member of enlisted personnel in a squadron or other unit. The appointment is usually held by a master sergeant.
tinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tin
tinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinnings
Senses: examples: text: […] he admits that sometimes poisonings produced by utensils with worn tinnings are not caused by saturnine colic.
ref: 1852, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Volume 77, page 175:
glosses: A covering or lining of tin.
microsaccade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsaccades
Etymology: From micro- + saccade.
Senses: glosses: A small, jerky eye movement that is a part of normal vision when fixating on an image, which seems to play a role in visual perception.
Derived terms: intermicrosaccade
microsaccadic
Related terms: saccade
macrosaccade
DNE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: college
glosses: Initialism of do not erase, written on chalk boards to protect information from being erased.
topics: business
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of does not exist.
DNE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of division net earnings, the net earnings for a particular business division.
cloud computing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the long run, full embrace of “cloud computing” will require some kind of convenient always/everywhere internet access different from what we have now. But this is an interesting step.
ref: 2008 March 18, James Fallows, “Another step toward the online “cloud computing” life”, in The Atlantic:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.
Related terms: utility computing
utility computing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of computing in which the computer resources are consumed like a traditional utility (water, electricity, gas).
ultracold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultracold
form: most ultracold
Etymology: From ultra- + cold.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a temperature close to absolute zero, especially one at which quantum-mechanical properties are observed.
glosses: Extremely cold; of utmost coldness.
quantum-mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quantum mechanical.
demyelination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demyelinations
Etymology: From de- + myelination or de- + myelin + -ation.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: myelination#Noun
coordinate_terms: hypomyelination#Noun
hypermyelination#Noun
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dysmyelination#Noun
glosses: The removal of the myelin sheath from a nerve fibre, usually as a result of disease causing myelinolysis.
Related terms: word: demyelinate
english: much less common variant
translation: much less common variant
word: demyelinization
word: myelinoclasis
word: myelinolysis
myelin sheath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelin sheaths
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An envelope of myelin that surrounds nerve fibres.
nerve fibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve fibres
form: nerve fiber
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An axon
autocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Vasopressin could be an autocrine hormone in the olfactory epithelium.
text: Many scientific papers suggest an autocrine action of acetylcholin in the lung.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a hormone, neuropeptide, etc.: acting on the cell that produced it.
Synonyms: autocrinal
autocrinous
Coordinate terms: endocrine
exocrine
heterocrine
paracrine
Derived terms: autocrinally
proinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.ɪnˈflæm.əˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.ɪnˈflæm.ə.tɹi/
Forms: form: more proinflammatory
form: most proinflammatory
form: pro-inflammatory
Etymology: From pro- + inflammatory.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: anti-inflammatory
glosses: Producing or promoting inflammation.
proinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.ɪnˈflæm.əˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.ɪnˈflæm.ə.tɹi/
Forms: form: proinflammatories
form: pro-inflammatory
Etymology: From pro- + inflammatory.
Senses: examples: text: "The second wave of proinflammatories (or chemotactic factors) are released to activate white blood cells so they can begin attacking pathogens... "
ref: 1999, Eugene R. Zampieron, Ellen Kamhi, Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide to Arthritis, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory substance.
brassinosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brassinosteroids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of steroidal plant hormones produced by members of the genus Brassica; the brassins
Related terms: brassinolide
brassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brassins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: brassinosteroid
towelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towelette
ephemerides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛfɪˈmɛɹɪdiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛfəˈmɛɹədiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ephemeris
ephemerides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛfɪˈmɛɹɪdiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛfəˈmɛɹədiz/
Senses: examples: text: Or let him [that is melancholy] calculate Sphæricall Triangles, caſt a Natiuity, make an Ephemerides, read Suiſſet the Calculators vvorkes, Scaliger de emendatione temporum, till he vnderſtand it, read Scotus and Suarez Metaphyſicks, or Schoole Divinity, Occam, Entisberus, Durand &c.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Exercise rectified of Body and Minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4, page 236:
qualifier: plural taken as singular
glosses: An ephemeris.
lance corporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lance corporals
form: lance-corporal
Etymology: From lancepesade, an anglicization from Italian lancia spezzata
Senses: glosses: An enlisted rank of grade E-3 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above private first class and below corporal. Abbreviated as LCpl.
glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, ranking above private and below corporal. A rank with NATO code OR-3.
lance corporals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lance corporal
plushness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plush + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being plush.
pluckiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plucky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being plucky.
plusher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of plush: more plush
Related terms: plushers
pluckier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of plucky: more plucky
pluckiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of plucky: most plucky
plushest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of plush: most plush
pluckily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pluckily
form: most pluckily
Etymology: From plucky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was loudly praised for sticking so pluckily to his self-imposed task, and to this day, though it is thirteen years ago, the diggers on the Australian coast talk of the voyage of the Springbok and speak gratefully of the man who helped to save her.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 181:
text: Once, one of the Bats, having seized a large and powerful T. pronuba, brought its feet so far forward that it fell over on to its back, but pluckily held the moth in its pouch until it was secured.
ref: 1899, Charles Oldham, “The mode in which Bats secure their prey”, in The Zoologist, volume 3, number 700, page 472/473:
text: Herb was initially overcome by Jakarta ('The impressions of noise, chaos, tremendous crowdedness and I suppose whitelessness were perhaps the strongest, and I felt something of a stranger') and faced with the familiar conundrum ('again the sensation of the thousands of hungry people all around –happy looking often, pluckily cheerful but in fact hungry –is strange and upsetting'), but he quickly slipped into the volunteer lifestyle with relish, borrowing a bike from Soewarto, a friend from Kempen, and spending a lot of his time with volunteers, including Lance Castles and John Gare.
ref: 2011, Jemma Purdey, From Vienna to Yogyakarta:
glosses: In a plucky manner.
plushly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plushly
form: most plushly
Etymology: From plush + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Within months, 2,000,000 copies of [Janet Mead's version of] "The Lord's Prayer"—which featured an earthy bass line, ominous fuzz-tone, plushly uplifting strings, and an ethereal lead vocal—were sold.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 308:
glosses: In a plush manner.
Tagus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪ.ɡəs/
Etymology: Derived from Latin Tagus.
Senses: glosses: A major river in Spain and Portugal, the longest in Iberia.
benim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪm
Forms: form: benims
form: benimming
form: benam
form: benomen
form: benome
form: benumb
form: benimme
form: benime
form: benymme
form: bynemme
Etymology: From Middle English benimen, from Old English beniman, from Proto-West Germanic *bineman, from Proto-Germanic *binemaną (“to take away”). Equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + nim. Compare German benehmen.
Senses: examples: text: And on the right hand were two flowers like a lily, and the one would have benome the others whiteness, but a good man departed them that the one touched not the other; and then out of every flower came out many flowers, and fruit great plenty.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “viij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI:
text: Benombe of ones lymbes […]
[…] He is now benomme of his lymmes.
ref: 1530, John Palsgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Alas ! it benimeth from man his wit and his reason, and all his debonaire life spiritual that should keep his soul. Certes it benimeth also God's due lordship (and that is man's soul) and the love of his neighbours : […]
ref: 1876, Henry Morley, “Illustrations of English religion”, in Chaucer:
text: To visit I should much prefer
Some sick but wealthy usurer :
With patience would I comfort him,
In hope some deniers to benimme,
And when pale death steals o'er his face,
Transport him to the burial-place.
ref: 1900, Guillaume (de Lorris), Jean de Meun, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Romance of the Rose - Volume 2
text: […] by his name maketh clepe him and name him Rude Intendment hath made him an espier of ways and a waiter [waylayer] of pilgrims and will benim [rob] them their burdons and unscrip them of their scrips, beguiling them with lying words.
ref: 1963, William Matthews, Later medieval English prose:
glosses: To take away; rob; deprive; ravish
Related terms: benimming
benumb
first sergeants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first sergeant
gunnery sergeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunnery sergeants
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A non-commissioned officer of rank E-7 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant.
wikipedia: Gunnery Sergeant
upon't
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: upon’t
Senses: examples: text: For by the Boſſes and Plates upon’t, it ſeems to be Arm’d.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 217:
glosses: Contraction of upon it.
trimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪmə/
Etymology: From trim + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trim: more trim
trimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trimmer
blue ribbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue ribbons
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of Middle French cordon bleu (“blue ribbon”), worn by knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit, or after Blue Riband, a sailing award.
Senses: examples: text: Mom's strawberry jam won the blue ribbon at the Holland County Fair three years running.
text: These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the [college].
ref: 1859, Frederic William Farrar, Julian Home:
text: Mr. Allen’s work, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” took home the blue ribbon in the fair’s contest for emerging digital artists — making it one of the first A.I.-generated pieces to win such a prize, and setting off a fierce backlash from artists who accused him of, essentially, cheating.
ref: 2022 September 2, Kevin Roose, “An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The highest honor or prize awarded in some competitions and contests.
glosses: The emblem of the Order of the Garter.
glosses: The badge adopted by a teetotal society.
glosses: A badge worn or displayed to advocate freedom from online censorship.
blue ribbon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: blue-ribbon
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of Middle French cordon bleu (“blue ribbon”), worn by knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit, or after Blue Riband, a sailing award.
Senses: examples: text: The governor selected a cadre of blue ribbon social scientists to serve on her poverty task force.
text: A blue ribbon jury of accomplished artists will choose the best three entries.
glosses: Highly superior in quality, style, substance, prestige, etc.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Pertaining to the Liberal Party, its supporters and regions.
Related terms: gold medal
postvocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstvəʊˈkælɪk/
Etymology: From post- + vocalic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: (Of a phoneme) occurring after a vowel.
Derived terms: postvocalically
Related terms: intervocalic
prevocalic
non-prevocalic
eternal recurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The concept dates from ancient times and was popularized by the philosopher Nietzsche (1844-1900).
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
human-sciences
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The belief or theory that all the events in cosmic history repeat in an endless cycle.
Synonyms: eternal return
piing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pi
taxpaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax-paying
form: tax paying
Etymology: From tax + paying.
Senses: glosses: The payment of taxes.
taxpaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tax-paying
form: tax paying
Etymology: From tax + paying.
Senses: examples: text: The taxpaying public feels that it is actually their money and they should be heard.
glosses: That pays taxes.
terrifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From terrific + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: "The test was terrifically hard," said the tired student.
text: Upon examination it was found that a large breakage had been made, directly under their bows, and the sea was rushing in terrifically.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
glosses: In a terrific or extreme way.
eternal return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
human-sciences
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: Eternal recurrence.
oes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oe
examples: text: A, aes; Bee, Bees; Cee, Cees; Dee, Dees; E, Ees; Eff, Effs; Gee, Gees; Aitch, Aitches; I, Ies; Jay, Jays; [...] En, Ens; O, Oes; Pee, Pees; Kue, Kues; Ar, Ars; […] Wy, Wies; Zed, Zeds.
ref: 1840, Brandon Turner, A new English grammar, page 230:
text: Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Epic:
text: These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.
ref: 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:
text: [It] is desirable [...] that we may have a shorter and simpler term in stead of Double-u. [...] Dr. Webster [...] is not yet tired of his experiment with "oo;" but thinks still to make the vowel sound of this letter its name. Yet [...] If W is to be named as a vowel, it ought to name itself, as other vowels do, and not to take two Oes for its written name. Who that knows what it is, to name a letter, can think of naming w by double o?
ref: 1860, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction, Historical and Critical, page 154:
glosses: plural of o, the name of the letter O.
oes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: owes
Senses: examples: text: The Colours, that shew best by Candlelight, are; White, Carnation, and a Kinde of Sea-Water-Greene; And Oes, or Spangs, as they are of no great Cost, so they are of most Glory.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Small circle-shaped sequins of precious metal sewn to clothing for decorative effect, popular in the 17th century.
traumatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traumatize
traumatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of traumatize
traumatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of traumatize
traumatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traumatized
form: most traumatized
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Injured, e.g. tissues, by force or by thermal, chemical or other agents.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having been subjected to psychological trauma.