cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tweens
Etymology: Blend of teen + between in the sense of "between childhood and adolescence"
Senses: examples: text: When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
ref: 2002 March 2, Billboard, volume 114, number 9, page 70:
text: This grade school thinking forgets that tweens are one of the most sophisticated groups of consumers in the marketplace, and that kids this age have zero tolerance for being treated like children.
ref: 2004, Lisa Johnson, Andrea Learned, Don't Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy--And How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market, page 5:
text: Next stop on the worthless train is the tweens who range from ages ten to thirteen years old. The tweens are so damn annoying, they make me want to jump off a cliff.
ref: 2006 Twenty Something Essays by Twenty Something Writers page 113
text: However, if we worry too much about feeding our tweens, and if we show them we're worried, we could be passing on some unhealthy messages.
ref: 2011, Hollie Smith, You and Your Tween: Managing the years from 9 to 13, Netmums, unnumbered page:
text: America's tweens (ages eight to twelve) are a population of more than twenty million.
ref: 2015 MKTG page 63
text: But in this variation on Superbad’s wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism.
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
glosses: A child, especially a girl, in the age range between middle childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age.
Synonyms: preteen
teenybopper
Hypernyms: preadolescent
pre-teen
Derived terms: tweendom
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: more tween
form: most tween
Etymology: Blend of teen + between in the sense of "between childhood and adolescence"
Senses: examples: text: I am going to describe a video that threw me into a pit of despair. It begins with a woman running into the aisle of a big-box store and telling a tween boy that she needs phone chargers.
ref: 2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Of or having to do with tweenagers.
tween
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tweens
Etymology: Blend of twenty + teen
Senses: examples: text: At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.
ref: 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, “2, The Shadow of the Past”, in Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring:
text: And although Mums don't always control the purse strings of the tweens (the younger set in their twenties), they are not entirely a forgotten influence.
ref: 1960, Display World, vol. 77 p. 62
glosses: A number or age in the twenties (plural only), or a person of that age.
hematocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematocytes
Etymology: From hemato- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any blood cell produced by hematopoiesis, but especially a red blood cell
Derived terms: hematocytopenia
partial ordering relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial ordering relations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A partial order.
decision-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But what if Google's biggest problem isn't a lack of flexibility or the speed of its decision-making, but a fundamental cultural inability to create new lines of business that can keep the company growing? What if it's just a gargantuan one-trick pony?
ref: 2011 January 30, Mathew Ingram, “What If Google Is Just a One-Trick Pony?”, in BusinessWeek:
text: The projects, which are due to start in November, are: [...] Rail performance modelling for strategic decision-making - [...]
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:
text: Transport Minister Mulley, with just six months left in office before Harold Wilson's Labour government was toppled by Edward Heath's Conservatives, was hamstrung by inefficient working practices - although thankfully for him he did not have to answer to 2020-style media questioning over why slow decision-making allowed costs to escalate.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: Alternative form of decision making.
decision making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decision-making
form: decisionmaking
Senses: examples: text: The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters
ref: 2011 January 25, Dave Clarke, “Panel says financial crisis avoidable”, in Reuters:
glosses: The process of reaching a decision.
Related terms: decisionmaker
decision science
decision theory
declaimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkleɪmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: declaimers
Etymology: From declaim + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who declaims.
machicotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A similar practice in French cathedrals, called machicotage, is documented from 1391 through at least the eighteenth century.
ref: 1995, Peter Jeffery, Re-Envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant:
glosses: A style of singing, especially of sacred music, cultivated from the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, centered on Paris, and derived from the Gallican ritual; in this style vocal lines are decorated with improvised ornamentation, and differentiated from each other in a polyphonic composition also by tone color.
Related terms: machicote
beatemest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beat 'em + -est.
Senses: glosses: Best.
like sixty
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But there's these poor, miserable trash have children like sixty; and there's folks living in splendid houses, dying for children, and can't have any.
ref: 1856, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, page 191:
text: In transcribing them, I have inserted one or two apostrophes, for the poet always complained that though he could spell like sixty, he never could mind his stops.
ref: 1873, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville, page 119:
text: That Maine water was so cold that he came to like sixty sore as a pup and wanting to fight Joe.
ref: 1932, John Dos Passos, 1919, page 51:
text: I charged at those trees going like sixty — at least sixty, whatever it means — and was well in among them when a strange thing happened.
ref: 1965, Richard S. Prather, Meandering Corpse, page 91:
text: Some kids still can't read yet. But they are dumb, dumb-bells, dumb bunnies. Morag can read like sixty. Sometimes she doesn't let on in school, though.
ref: 1974, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, page 28:
text: Maybe the truth was that all of them — himself, the kids, Uncle Henry, Mrs. Biggs, even Argyle — were bailing like sixty, trying to stay afloat in their sorry little tubs.
ref: 1995, James P. Blaylock, All the Bells on Earth, page 269:
glosses: Quickly, easily or briskly.
mochila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mochilas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mochila. Doublet of macheer.
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A large leather flap that covers the saddle tree.
declamatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklæmətɹi/
Forms: form: more declamatory
form: most declamatory
Etymology: Equivalent to declaim + -atory.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of a declamation.
examples: text: He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.
ref: 1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:
text: Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.
ref: 1908, R. Forsythe, “Our Hippopotamus Hunt”, in The Wide World Magazine, volume XX, London: George Newnes, Ltd., page 400:
glosses: Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
Derived terms: declamatoriness
undeclamatory
declarable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈklæɹəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more declarable
form: most declarable
Etymology: From declare + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That it was in use among the Greeks, the word triclinium implieth, and the same is also declarable from many places in the Symposiacks of Plutarch.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of being declared.
examples: text: goods that are declarable at customs
glosses: That must be declared.
Derived terms: indeclarable
undeclarable
from soup to nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: soup to nuts
Etymology: From the order of courses in a formal full-course dinner, which typically begins with soup and ends with a dessert such as nuts.
Senses: glosses: From the first course of a meal to the last.
examples: text: We went through the whole agenda, from soup to nuts.
text: [That cat] is a broken reed to lean on in the matter of catching mice. My own acquaintance with him is a longstanding one, and I have come to know his psychology from soup to nuts. He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
synonyms: from A to Z
from soda to hock
from aardvark to zymurgy
glosses: From start to finish, from beginning to end; throughout.
Related terms: soup-to-nuts
draggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡi/
Forms: form: draggier
form: draggiest
Etymology: From drag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: About two years ago I had been feeling tired and draggy for about six months. I went to find out what was going on. They told me I had Epstein-Barr.
ref: 1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: It seemed to Chip that Julia was leaving him because "The Academy Purple" had too many breast references and a draggy opening, […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: The Who start off ramshackle, draggy even. They pick up while on a run of Tommy songs; by Amazing Journey they sound much more like the fizzing fathers of freak-beat.
ref: 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Moving or developing very slowly; tending to drag on; dull.
examples: text: The performer strode onto the stage wearing a glittery, draggy outfit.
glosses: Typified by, or characteristic of, drag (women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment).
Derived terms: dragginess
draggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæɡi/
Forms: form: draggies
Etymology: Clipping of dragon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: >(Gets an offended look) Don't listen to him, Patricia!!!
>
>-Kazul
Was I offensive, my little draggy-poo? I so sowwy.
BTW, have you ever heard of the SciFi story called "The Game of Rat and Dragon"?
ref: 1998 November 17, softrat, “New in this ng”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet):
text: > Once there was a dragon […] > Thank you everyone, for making this little draggy feel right at home.
ref: 1999 September 21, Fulgore, quoting Karenji, “The Dragon's Quest”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet):
text: ‘[…] He is just SO cute, aren’t you, my little baby draggy yum yums?’ / ‘Baby draggy yum yums?’ repeated Borgon. ‘Look what he did to my axe!’
ref: 2014, Kjartan Poskitt, Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
text: The blood drained from his face as he turned to see the dragon crouched low, watching them. “Nice, draggy, draggy,” Josette breathed in a singsongy tone.
ref: 2014, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Son of No One, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
text: “Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.
ref: 2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: Lisa backed away as the beast opened its jaws. “Good dragon. Who’s a good draggy? Queen draggy.[…]”
ref: 2020, John Rogan, Shadowcast, Lulu, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Diminutive of dragon.
Related terms: dwaggy
wide berth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide berths
Senses: examples: text: Steer to port and give the rocks a wide berth.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Adequate distance from sea vessels or other objects to ensure safety and maneuverability.
examples: text: Our cat always gives the vacuum cleaner a wide berth.
text: He's so obnoxious that everyone gives him a wide berth.
text: One [sheep] was "bagged" but gave the rest of the train a wide berth and appeared only somewhat shaken.
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:
text: Only Samantha escaped with her dignity intact, because she gave the series a wide berth.
ref: 2025 August 13, Jennifer Weiner, “In ‘And Just Like That …’ a Craven Era Took Its Revenge on Youth and Hope and Fun”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A considerable or comfortable distance from a person or object, especially for safety or deliberate avoidance.
stanzaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stanza + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
ref: 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
text: a couplet in stanzaic form
glosses: Of or pertaining to stanzas.
Derived terms: interstanzaic
intrastanzaic
body bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body bags
Senses: glosses: A non-porous bag designed to contain a human body, used for the storage and transport of corpses.
corbiestep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corbiesteps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corbie step.
corbie step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːbi ˌstɛp/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹbi ˌstɛp/
Forms: form: corbie steps
form: corbie-step
form: corbiestep
form: corbel-step
Senses: examples: text: It is a great red-brick house - that is, the front is of brick, with corbie steps on the gables and a text over the door; but the courtyard into which the omnibus drives is of black and white 'cage-work' in wood and plaster.
ref: 1904, Montague Rhodes James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, number 13:
topics: architecture
glosses: One of a series of step-like projections at the top of a gable.
Synonyms: cat-step
crow step
Related terms: corbel
corbie gable
cornfield meet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnfiːld ˌmiːt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌfild ˌmit/
Forms: form: cornfield meets
Etymology: Either from the fact that early train collisions often occurred out in the country alongside a cornfield rather than in a station or siding; or from staged events where two old steam locomotives were purposely run head on at each other, often in an open field, for public entertainment. In the latter idea, the term may jocularly echo field meet as a spectacle in the field involving opposing contestants.
Senses: examples: text: Do you think it's possible for two trains to have a cornfield meet right in the middle of an automatically protected block? Of course it is, if one of the hoggers is drunk or asleep at the throttle […]
ref: 1943, Railroad Magazine, volume 34, New York, N.Y.: Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100, column 1:
text: One such instance when a conductor failed to follow a prescribed timetable resulted in a head-on smashup on the Long Island Railroad at the end of the Civil War. On August 28, 1865, General Grant and General Sherman collided in a pasture at Jamaica, New York. Five passengers were killed in this cornfield meet.
ref: 1968, Robert C[arroll] Reed, “Head-on Collisions”, in Train Wrecks: A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line, New York, N.Y.: Bonanza Books, Crown Publishing Group, →OCLC, page 55:
text: [A] couple of passenger trains staged a cornfield meet in the deep cut on Mount Holly, which the road settled with "gratuities" amounting to $50,000. By this time the Rutland had built up enough financial stability to weather these incidents with a minimum of distress.
ref: 1997, Jim Shaughnessy, “The Hunted Traps the Hunter”, in The Rutland Road, 2nd edition, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. […] "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years.
ref: 1998, Ian Savage, “Preface”, in The Economics of Railroad Safety (Transportation Research, Economics and Policy; 7), New York, N.Y.: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page xi:
text: [An 1899 man discovering ragtime:] [N]ow they're writing music that sounds like a cornfield meet.
ref: 2007, Eddie Campbell, The Black Diamond Detective Agency: Containing Mayhem, Mystery, Romance, Mine shafts, Bullets, New York, N.Y.; London: First Second Books, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An accidental head-on collision or near head-on collision of two trains.
Synonyms: sense: collision
english: hobo slang
translation: hobo slang
word: prairie meet
sense: near-collision
word: Mexican standoff
Related terms: train wreck
retablo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈtæbləʊ/
Forms: form: retablos
Senses: glosses: A votive picture, especially one displayed above and behind the altar in a church.
four of a kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Four cards of the same rank.
Related terms: three of a kind
five of a kind
belate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈleɪt/
Forms: form: belates
form: belating
form: belated
form: belated
Etymology: From be- + late.
Senses: glosses: To impede; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
Derived terms: belated
croque-monsieur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croque-monsieurs
form: croque monsieur
Etymology: French croque-monsieur, from croquer (“to crunch”) + monsieur (“mister”)
Senses: glosses: A hot grilled ham and cheese sandwich, originating from France.
Related terms: croque-madame
High Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Highestrete. More at high street.
Senses: examples: text: This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of high street.
glosses: A hamlet in St Stephen-in-Brannel parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9653).
glosses: A hamlet in Hawkhurst parish, Tunbridge Wells borough, Kent, England, on a road of the same name (OS grid ref TQ7430).
glosses: A hamlet in Darsham parish, East Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM4170).
croque-madame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: croque-madames
form: croque madame
Etymology: From French croque-madame, from croquer (“to crunch”) + madame (“missus”).
Senses: glosses: A croque-monsieur with a fried egg on top.
Jack Russell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jack Russells
Etymology: From the Reverend Jack Russell (1795–1883) who developed the breed in the early 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A breed of terrier dog, usually white with brown patches and commonly found domesticated and kept as pets.
ruban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubans
Senses: examples: text: […] and at the same time to suspend from a ruban at your neck a basket full of little Spaniels […]
ref: 1770, François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, Dialogues of the Dead. A new translation, etc., page 110:
glosses: A ribbon.
cymar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cymars
Etymology: See simar and chimer/chimere.
Senses: examples: text: Her body shaded with a light cymar
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A scarf.
glosses: A loose light dress for women.
mortaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mortar
mortared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mortar
leap years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leap year
hornbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornbill
Tupi-Guarani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest subfamily of the Tupi languages of South America.
Boxford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Box + ford.
Senses: glosses: A town and census-designated place in Essex County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU4271).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9640).
glosses: A surname.
cornfield meets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornfield meet
ultimate frisbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ultimate
ultimate disc
glosses: A non-contact competitive team sport played with a light flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.
Coordinate terms: disc
disc golf
frisbee
head-on collision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head-on collisions
Etymology: From head-on + collision.
Senses: topics: transport
synonyms: cornfield meet
head-on
frontal collision
glosses: A collision where the front ends of two vehicles (such as ships, trains, cars, planes, etc.) hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision.
wikipedia: head-on collision
head-on collisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head-on collision
stop short
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops short
form: stopping short
form: stopped short
form: stopped short
Senses: examples: text: He had only taken a step forward into the room when he again stopped short to exclaim.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle.
examples: text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
text: He stopped short of saying the story was true but accused the palace of lying when they "squashed" it.
ref: 2022 December 15, Jack Royston, “Prince Harry throws more accusations at Prince William than ever before”, in Newsweek:
synonyms: hold back
glosses: To voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point.
examples: text: Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.
ref: 2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 58, photo caption:
glosses: To come to a stop before reaching a certain point.
Related terms: short stop
Atwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Atwoods
Senses: glosses: A surname; an English topographic surname for someone who lived near a wood.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Logan County, Colorado, United States, derived from the surname.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Rawlins County, Kansas, United States.
Derived terms: Atwoodian
Atwood machine
Atwood's machine
Atwood number
ignis fatuus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪɡnɪs ˈfætjuːəs/
Forms: form: ignes fatui
Etymology: From New Latin ignis fatuus (literally “foolish fire”).
Senses: examples: text: Fiery spirits or devils are such as commonly work by blazing stars, fire-drakes, or ignes fatui; which lead men often in flumina aut præcipitia, saith Bodine[…]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: An Ignis Fatuus, that bewitches, / And leads Men into Pools and Ditches
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 16:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A will o' the wisp.
examples: text: […] they think this is written on purpose to be published; and that this defence is so published, that it may serve as an Ignis fatuus to mislead them […]
ref: 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon Ireland, page 55:
text: He cursed the journey he had been led to take after what had proved but an ignis fatuus, deluded as he had been by false expectations;[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 49:
text: Henrietta’s career, however, was not so successful as might have been wished even in the interest of her private felicity; that view of the inner life of Great Britain which she was so eager to take appeared to dance before her like an ignis fatuus.
ref: 1908, Henry James, chapter XIX, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as The Portrait of a Lady (EBook #2833), United States: Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
text: A reality which is neither of these two, but an object in itself (into which the thing in itself has unfortunately dwindled in the hands of Kant), is the phantom of a dream, and its acceptance is an ignis fatuus in philosophy.
ref: 1909, Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will And Idea, page 5:
text: Like some ignis fatuus belated upon the road behind them which all could see and of which none spoke. For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:
text: But he was slow – painfully slow, hour after hour slow, sweating and struggling in front of his own class slow – to accept the truth about the simple statement: the truth being that it is an ignis fatuus.
ref: 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, Picador, page 805:
glosses: A delusion, a false hope.
cornfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornfield
outsole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsoles
Etymology: From out- + sole.
Senses: glosses: The underside of a shoe or other footwear, which makes contact with the floor.
Derived terms: outsoler
outsole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsoles
form: outsoling
form: outsoled
form: outsoled
Etymology: From out- + sole.
Senses: glosses: To fit (footwear) with an outsole.
surquedry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surquedries
form: surquedy
form: surquidry
Etymology: From Old French surcuiderie.
Senses: examples: text: They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371:
glosses: Overweening pride; arrogance.
fosters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foster
fosters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foster
deleteriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deleteriously
form: most deleteriously
Etymology: From deleterious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deleterious manner; harmfully.
extirpates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extirpate
extirpating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extirpate
in-kind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in + kind, a calque of Latin in specie.
Senses: examples: text: I made an in-kind donation to the charity after cleaning out old clothing from my closet.
text: As a self-funded museum, we only receive in-kind support from the government, which provides us with some documents and articles of historic significance.
text: Free guarana soda from 2pm on is just one of the many in-kind benefits for employees here.
hypernyms: moneyless
qualifier: payment or gift
glosses: consisting of goods or commodities (as opposed to money).
Synonyms: non-monetary
caramel apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caramel apples
Etymology: Compound of caramel + apple.
Senses: glosses: A dessert or snack made by dipping an apple in liquid heated caramel and often sprinkling with nuts etc., then allowing the caramel to cool and harden.
caramel apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caramel apple
hell-for-leather
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: hell for leather
Etymology: Earliest reference is from 1889 in "The Gadsbys" by Rudyard Kipling, referring to the effect on the leather of a saddle (or perhaps a crop) of riding a horse as fast as possible.
Senses: examples: text: He rode hell-for-leather to catch up with the stagecoach.
glosses: As fast as possible; recklessly fast.
Synonyms: like a bat out of hell
Related terms: hell-bent for leather
homosexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1982, G L Hansen, Measuring prejudice against homosexuality (homosexism) among college students — a new scale:
text: Examined the relationship between homosexism (homophobia)...
ref: 1983, Walter Samuel Hunter, Psychological abstracts:
text: […] unjust behaviour resulting from prejudice (e.g., not renting a house to a gay couple because of homosexism).
ref: 2010, Lisa Vaughn, Psychology and Culture, page 10:
glosses: Homophobia.
Related terms: heterosexism
reference point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference points
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of point of reference.
Vietraq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Vietnam + Iraq; coined shortly before the Iraq War that began in 2003.
Senses: examples: text: Or for some of the unlucky things, like Enron et al that went nuts stealing on his watch, or Vietraq that lacks enough troops according to three out of four multi-starred generals but not Rumsfeld, or the falling dollar that hasn't created sales, or the collapse of US respect which might see some recovery if we ever send troops to a country that doesn't have oil.
ref: 2003 July 9, Hobdbcgv, “The Prez - 2 wars, depression, lies, jail w/o trial ?”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):
text: Who knows, he may just hit the jackpot with the US style legal system they are installing in Vietraq.
ref: 2005 June 22, Kevin V. Russell, “Re: Ten's exclusive with Wood.”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
text: They know when they are paying record prices and can't afford the energy to pump water to irrigate wilting crops. They know whodunnit. Bush on bended knee has to go to China to borrow money to keep up the Vietraq War and mother hubbard's^([sic]) cupboard is bare in washington^([sic]) and getting bare in the heartland.
ref: 2006 August 2, Righturds Doing More than Al Qaeda in Gutting America, “Re: Heat wave cooks local Jersey farmers' crops”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet):
glosses: The Iraq War, implying similarity with the Vietnam War where an earlier cessation of conflict might have avoided needless casualties.
excruciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excruciations
Senses: glosses: Excruciating pain.
gagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɡɪŋ/
Etymology: From gag + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gag
Derived terms: gagging for it
gaggingly
gagging order
gagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: gaggings
Etymology: From gag + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She was restarted on L-DOPA later, in the middle of July, and this time the tongue-pulsions and gaggings were not evoked at all, but, on the contrary, a striking improvement occurred.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: A gag motion or reflex.
gagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: more gagging
form: most gagging
Etymology: From gag + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Then the old scourge of dusk swooped down upon the warderless hoard. It is he who burns up the sky at night in long trails of yellow flame, who flies above houses in a whirlwind of shrieking wings and gagging smoke.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:
glosses: That causes one to gag.
friendlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of friendly: more friendly
dries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of dry
dries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry
deviated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deviate
Derived terms: undeviated
craves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crave
craves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹeɪvz/
rhymes: -eɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of crave
complicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of complicate
classier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The seats themselves are a little classier than on the '196s', having a leather headrest.
ref: 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 54:
glosses: comparative form of classy: more classy
busier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The concourse at Glasgow Central is clean and clutter-free, making it easy for large numbers of passengers to pass through even at busier times.
ref: 2025 May 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 44, image caption:
glosses: comparative form of busy: more busy
biding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: bidings
Etymology: From Middle English biding, bydyng, equivalent to bide + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
ref: 2007, Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand:
glosses: An awaiting; expectation.
examples: text: For they brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harborough, where wee saw their women and lodging, which is nothing but the skin of some beast layd upon the ground : and over them in stead of houses, is nothing but five or sixe sticks layd acrosse, which stand upon two forkes with stickes on the ground and a fewe boughes layd on it.
ref: 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, volume XI, Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, published 1904, page 307:
text: A moſt poore man, made tame to Fortunes blows
Who, by the Art of knowne, and feeling ſorrowes,
Am pregnant to good pity. Giue me your hand,
Ile lead you to ſome biding.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 1:
text: No, gracious Lady, Flanders claims my Birth; / At Antwerp has my conſtant biding been, / Where ſometimes I have known more plenteous Days / Than thoſe which now my failing Age affords.
ref: a. 1714, Nicholas Rowe, “The Tragedy of Jane Shore”, in The Dramatick Works of Nicholas Rowe, volume II, London: T. Jauncy, published 1720, page 7:
glosses: Residence; habitation.
biding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From bide + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bide
balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance
balances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balance
unraveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unravel
tinkering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋkɚɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tinker
tinkering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪŋkɚɪŋ/
Forms: form: tinkerings
Senses: glosses: An experimental fix or change.
tackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tackle
tackling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tacklings
Senses: examples: text: His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […]
ref: 1915, Ford Madox Ford, When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture:
glosses: The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The tackle of a vessel.
glosses: The harness for drawing a carriage.
Derived terms: blocking and tackling
tasker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taskers
Etymology: From task + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who imposes a task.
glosses: One who performs a task, such as a day-labourer.
glosses: A labourer who receives wages in kind.
spiraling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spiral
spiraling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiralings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spiralling.
sparked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spark
sparked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparked
form: most sparked
Senses: glosses: That has had sparks (of electricity) passed through it
seduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seduce
replicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of replicate
relaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relax
rammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ram
rammed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rammed
form: most rammed
Senses: examples: text: Night has fallen since the performance began. There's a minor road right outside, behind the concert hall building, a yellow-lit cul-de-sac with a loading bay and some unattended trucks. There's a major road adjoining the minor road, rammed with stationary traffic. Some of the vehicles are, indeed, taxis, but all of them are unoccupied, and most have their doors left open.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Filled to capacity, especially with people.
Synonyms: sense: filled to capacity with people
word: crowded
word: packed
word: compact
Derived terms: jam rammed
rammed earth
rammed to the rafters
prohibits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prohibit
pampering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pamperings
Senses: examples: text: After all, hospitality is natural to man. Amid the ten thousand pamperings that attend upon wealth, it is forgotten, because we have not need for it; but it is only suspended, and the moment it is necessary, it revives.
ref: 1837, Robert Plumer Ward, Illustrations of Human Life, page 104:
glosses: The act by which somebody is pampered.
pampering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pamper
Derived terms: pamperingly
nurtured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nurture
manipulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manipulate
bombardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombardos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of bombardon.
lovelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: lŭv′lē-ə
ipa: /ˈlʌv.li.ə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lovely: more lovely
impersonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impersonate
flossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flossings
Senses: examples: text: The dentist advised regular flossings.
glosses: The act of removing food and plaque from one's teeth using dental floss.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The use of a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.
glosses: The performance of the floss dance move.
flossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of floss
finders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finder
Derived terms: finders keepers
escalated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of escalate
embezzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embezzle
embezzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embezzlings
Senses: glosses: embezzlement
dredging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dredge
dredging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dredgings
Senses: examples: text: Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:
glosses: That which is dredged up.
glosses: The act of using a dredger or excavator to dredge a harbour, river, channel or watercourse.
Derived terms: data dredging
disobeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disobey
cackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cackle
cackling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacklings
Senses: glosses: A sound that cackles.
butted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪd/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɨd]
homophone: budded
rhymes: -ʌtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butt
butted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪd/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɨd]
homophone: budded
rhymes: -ʌtɪd
Senses: examples: a big-butted woman
glosses: Having a butt or backside (of a specified kind).
butted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɪd/
ipa: [ˈbʌɾɨd]
homophone: budded
rhymes: -ʌtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of but
bragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brag
buries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bury
boosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boost
unlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlock
unlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: plural of unlock
undermined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermine
symbolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of symbolize
suspending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suspend
stapled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of staple
stapled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a stapled document
glosses: Fastened with staples.
examples: Gossypium barbadense is a fine long-stapled variety of cotton.
glosses: Having a specified kind of staple.
sodding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sod
sodding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Open the sodding door!
glosses: An intensifier.
Derived terms: sodding hell
sifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English syftynge; equivalent to sift + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sift
sifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siftings
Etymology: From Middle English syftynge; equivalent to sift + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: sieving
screening
coordinate_terms: sorting
filtering
glosses: The act by which something is sifted.
synonyms: screenings
glosses: The material which falls through a sieve.
scurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From scurry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scurry