cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
culet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkju.lɪt/
/ˈkju.lɛt/
Forms: form: culets
Etymology: From Middle French culet, diminutive of cul (“bottom”), from Latin culus (“arse”).
Senses: examples: text: The Turk prosecuted his advantage to the uttermost of his power; yet the other[…]not onely avoided the Turkes violence, but having drawne his Faulchion, pierced the Turke so under the Culets thorow backe and body, that although he alighted from his horse, he stood not long ere hee lost his head, as the rest had done.
ref: 1630, John Smith, True travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 49:
synonyms: garde de rein
hoguine
glosses: A component of armor, consisting of overlapping plates designed to protect the buttocks.
examples: 1999, John W. Kenney, III, 7. Pressure Effects on Emissive Materials, D. Max Roundhill, John P. Fackler Jr. (editors), Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Compounds, Plenum Press, page 234,
The common diamond cut for high pressure work is the modified brilliant cut (see Fig. 1) in which the point of a brilliant cut diamond (i.e., the type of diamond commonly found in an engagement ring) is lopped off to provide a flat surface, called a culet, for pressure transmission. Two opposed diamond culets, separated by a thin, extrudable metal gasket into which a small sample hole is drilled, are squeezed together mechanically to reduce the volume of a hydrostatic medium and thereby increase the pressure of the sample as shown in Fig. 1.
2006, Antoinette Leonard Matlins, Diamonds: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide, LongHill Partners (GemStone Press), 2nd Edition, page 85,
The culet looks like a point at the bottom of the stone, but it is normally another facet—a tiny, flat, polished surface. This facet should be small or very small. A small or very small culet won't be noticeable from the top. Some diamonds today are actually pointed. This means that there really is no culet, that the stone has been cut straight down to a point instead. The larger the culet, the more visible it will be from the top. The more visible, the lower the cost of the stone. Stones described as having a large or "open" culet, such as old-European or old-mine cut diamonds (see chapter 5), are less desirable because the appearance of the culet causes a reduction in sparkle or brilliance at the very center of the stone. For the same reasons, a broken or chipped culet will seriously detract from the stone's beauty and significantly reduce the cost.
2012, Samuel T. Weir, Yogesh K. Vohra, Chapter 4: Advances in Customized Diamond Anvils, John Loveday, High-Pressure Physics, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 68,
A final step is to polish the rough as-grown diamond layer on [the] culet of the designer anvil to smooth the surface and shape the culet so that is suitable for high-pressure experiments.
glosses: A small, flat face often cut at the base of a brilliant-cut gemstone.
depravedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depraved + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being depraved; depravity
depravedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more depravedly
form: most depravedly
Etymology: From depraved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a depraved manner.
existed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɪstɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exist
depressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more depressive
form: most depressive
Etymology: From French dépressif or Medieval Latin depressivus.
Senses: glosses: Causing depression; dispiriting.
glosses: Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of depression.
Derived terms: antidepressive
anxiodepressive
cardiodepressive
depressive black metal
depressive disorder
depressively
depressiveness
depressive personality disorder
depressive realism
depressive suicidal black metal
depressivity
immunodepressive
major depressive disorder
manic-depressive
manic depressive
neurodepressive
nondepressive
overdepressive
persistent depressive disorder
postdepressive
prodepressive
subdepressive
vasodepressive
depressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: depressives
Etymology: From French dépressif or Medieval Latin depressivus.
Senses: glosses: A person suffering from depression.
bidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-/
Etymology: From bi- + directional.
Senses: glosses: Moving in two directions (usually opposite).
examples: text: However, statistical modelling paints a different picture. We found that the influence of mental health and ideology on harmful attitudes and beliefs was two-and-a-half times stronger than networking. We also found that mental health and ideology shared a potential bidirectional relationship, with poor mental health causing greater buy-in to ideology and vice versa.
ref: 2024 February 27, Andrew G. Thomas, “Incels Uncovered: How Potent Is the Black Pill?”, in Psychology Today:
glosses: Operating or functioning in two directions (usually opposite).
Derived terms: bidirectionality
bidirectionalize
bidirectionally
bidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-/
Forms: form: bidirectionals
Etymology: From bi- + directional.
Senses: glosses: Such an antenna or microphone
depressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more depressively
form: most depressively
Etymology: From depressive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a depressive manner.
dispiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more dispiriting
form: most dispiriting
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, though, the sumptuous, eerie look and mood of the movie make it possible to ignore this dispiriting and superfluous adherence to convention.
ref: 2005 July 15, A. O. Scott, “Looking for the Candy, Finding a Back Story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Kane's late leveller will make a big difference to England's morale before two home games against Italy and Hungary, as a second successive loss would have been dispiriting for a side suffering a physical and mental toll after such a long season.
ref: 2022 June 7, Phil McNulty, “Germany 1-1- England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
Derived terms: dispiritingly
dispiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispirit
depressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From depressive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being depressive.
Related terms: manic-depressiveness
dispirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪɹɪt
Forms: form: dispirits
form: dispiriting
form: dispirited
form: dispirited
form: disspirit
Etymology: From dis- + spirit.
Senses: synonyms: word: deject
word: get down
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To lower the morale of; to make despondent; to dishearten.
Derived terms: dispiritedly
dispiritedness
dispiritingly
dispiritment
agent provocateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌpɹəʊ.vɒk.æ.tʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: agents provocateurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French agent provocateur (literally “provocative agent”).
Senses: examples: text: "This agent-provocateur business is quite foreign to British justice."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: I was told afterwards—quite possibly it was true—that agents provocateurs were touching off masses of explosive in order to increase the general noise and panic.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: Suspecting that the man was an agent provocateur sent by the Prince, Pottinger told him that regrettably he had neither the knowledge nor the authority to instruct him in this or any other religion.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 50:
text: The criminalisation of protest has been aided by the director of public prosecution's recent guidelines on prosecuting protesters, which fail to account for the role of the police in prompting violence at demonstrations through tactics such as kettling, the use of batons, agents provocateurs and undercover policing.
ref: 2012 March 25, Nadine El-Enany, The Guardian:
glosses: A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.
Related terms: false flag
disheartening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disheartening
form: most disheartening
Senses: examples: text: After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.
ref: 1958 February 24, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:
synonyms: discouraging
antonyms: heartening
glosses: Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
Synonyms: word: crushing
word: demotivating
word: demoralizing
word: disappointing
word: discouraging
word: disheartening
word: dispiriting
word: gutting
Derived terms: dishearteningly
Related terms: word: frighten
disheartening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dishearten
dispiritedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispiritedly
form: most dispiritedly
Etymology: From dispirited + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Cora's dazed stare followed them to earth and returned to Bradly, still unable to visualize him as a pauper. Bradly, having done with pretences and illusions, now dispiritedly accepted the inevitable.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 209:
text: "Ah, well,' he said, shrugging his shoulders dispiritedly.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 45:
glosses: In a dispirited manner.
dispiritedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispirited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being dispirited.
agente provocatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʒɒ̃(t)pɹəvɒkəˈtɹiːs/
Forms: form: agentes provocatrices
Etymology: Borrowed from French agente provocatrice.
Senses: examples: text: “It's a star part I am offering you. The beautiful, slinky agente provocatrice.”
ref: 1954, Nicholas Blake, The Whisper in the Gloom:
text: Rigault set an agente provocatrice to pick up the judge in a café; then, once the bait had been taken, Rigault arraigned the judge with seducing his sister […].
ref: 1965, Alistair Horne, The Fall of Paris:
text: Manya Shohat was charged with having been an agente provocatrice who betrayed Jews to the czarist secret police.
ref: 1996, Michael Brown, The Israeli-American Connection, page 115:
glosses: A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.
Synonyms: agente provocateuse
dispiritingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dispiritingly
form: most dispiritingly
Etymology: From dispiriting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dispiriting manner.
dispiritment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispiritments
Etymology: From dispirit + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; — and await, not entirely in a distracted manner, what the Supreme Powers, and the Silences and the Eternities may have to say to you.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
glosses: Dispiritedness; disheartenment.
disheartenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disheartenments
Etymology: From dishearten + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of disheartening.
glosses: The state of being disheartened; dejection.
craterlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craterlets
Etymology: From crater + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small crater.
glosses: A crater-like feature of a larger crater.
corrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹʌptɪd/
rhymes: -ʌptɪd
Forms: form: more corrupted
form: most corrupted
Senses: glosses: Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
glosses: Dishonest.
examples: text: It proved impossible to recover any data from the corrupted disk.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Containing errors.
Synonyms: corrupt
Derived terms: corruptedly
corruptedness
incorrupted
noncorrupted
uncorrupted
corrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹʌptɪd/
rhymes: -ʌptɪd
Senses: glosses: past participle of corrupt
katagelophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of catagelophobia.
gynephobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gynophobia.
Holton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holtons
form: Houlton
Etymology: The first element has a wide variety of possible origins, among which Old English hōh (“promontory, hill-spur”), healh (“corner, nook”), holh (“hollow, depression”) or holt (“small wood”). The second element is tūn (“enclosure; settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP6006).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST686268).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in East Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM4077).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Ripley County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Jackson County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Muskegon County, Michigan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Holton Heath
Holton le Clay
Holton le Moor
Holton St Mary
maasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːʃə/
Forms: form: maashas
form: masha
Etymology: From Hindi माशा (māśā).
Senses: glosses: A traditional unit of weight in South Asia, usually about a gram and variably equivalent to a tenth or a twelfth of a tola; in modern use, standardised to 0.972 grams and a twelfth of a tola.
glosses: A coin in South Asia weighing one maasha, variably equivalent to a tenth or a twelfth of a rupee.
mabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mabbles
form: mabbling
form: mabbled
form: mabbled
Senses: glosses: To wrap up.
mabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their usual Drink is Mabby, made of Potato's, which refreshes, and is good against the Phlegm; also another Liquor call'd Oko, made of steep'd Cassadar, and is like Beer in taste, strength, and colour.
ref: 1671 [1670], Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, America: being an accurate description of the New World […], page 358:
text: The flips or vines they feed hogs and rabbits with; and an excellent drink is made of the roots, called mabby.
ref: 1795 October, “Review of New Publications”, in The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, volume 65, part 2, number 4, page 845:
text: Others were selling yams, water cresses, radishes, tomatoes, bananas, achiote or annatto, beans, peas, beef, fat bacon, lard, codfish, fresh fish, coffee, sugar, tobacco twists, cigars, rice, bread, sirups used as sweet drinks, mabby (a native drink), and butter.
ref: 1899 March 5, “The Yauco Market”, in Porto Rico: Reports of Henry K. Carroll, Dec. 30, 1898 and Oct. 1899 and of U.S. Insular Commission, May, 1899, published 1899, page 234:
glosses: A Barbadian spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes.
mabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We allowed as how mabby you took it 'long with you.
ref: 1996, Ray Broadus Browne, Lincoln-lore: Lincoln in the Popular Mind, page 42:
text: "Mabby he won't be tellin' ye all, even if be is shtarted, " replied Mrs. Finerty.
ref: 2009, Charles Stewart, The Fugitive Blacksmith, page 162:
text: “Mabby I haint got common sense, and mabby I haint got eyes in my head,” Eli muttered, with dull fire in the place where eyes should have been, if he had had any.
ref: 2014, Mary MacLane, Michael R. Brown, Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader, page 565:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of maybe.
Philippine Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The islands of the Malay Archipelago on which the country of Philippines is situated
mabolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mabolos
Etymology: Borrowed from Philippine Spanish mabolo, from Tagalog mabulo.
Senses: glosses: A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros blancoi) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.
glosses: The edible fruit of this tree.
macadamize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: macadamizes
form: macadamizing
form: macadamized
form: macadamized
form: macadamise
form: McAdamise
form: McAdamize
Etymology: From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.
Senses: examples: text: Lo there what mix’d conditions run!
The orphan lad; the widow’s son;
And Fortune’s favour’d care—
The wealthy born, for whom she hath
Mac-Adamized the future path—
The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!
ref: 1824 April 10, Thomas Hood, “Ode on a distant Prospect of Clapham Academy”, in New Monthly Magazine, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2016, pages 355–357:
text: 1860, Review of Erastus C. Benedict, A Run Through Europe, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 21, p. 546,
He pointed to the macadamized streets about that great hospital, and said, “The managers applied to the Emperor to macadamize the streets, to prevent the noise, and he did it. He does all that is asked of him.” Some say, however, that the Emperor is so ready to macadamize, because paving stones are so convenient in revolutionary barricades.
text: 1900, Aylmer Maude (translator), The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy, Maldon, Essex: The Free Age Press, Chapter 6, p. 55,
But even if a means could be found to get all to agree to produce certain articles (though there is no such means, and can be none, except coercion), who, in a free society, without capitalistic production, competition and its law of supply and demand, will decide which articles are to have the preference? Which are to be made first, and which after? Are we first to build the Siberian railway and fortify Port-Arthur, and then macadamise the roads in our country districts, or vice versâ?
text: Though the village has recently got a macadamized road under Prime Ministers Gram Sadak Yojna Scheme and regular bus service has now been provided, there are a number of women who have lost their lives due to not receiving medical aid or help during pregnancy and child birth.
ref: 2016 July 8, Ezabir Ali, “Gwalta: On the Line of Hostility”, in Greater Kashmir:
synonyms: macadam#Verb
qualifier: American and Oxford British spelling
glosses: To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
wikipedia: John Loudon McAdam
Derived terms: macadamization
macadamizer
unmacadamized
macarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: macarizes
form: macarizing
form: macarized
form: macarized
form: macarise
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μακαρίζω (makarízō).
Senses: examples: text: Couldn't I now say that “happy” is not used to describe things, but when I call someone happy I'm really doing this other thing, pragmatically I'm macarizing him?
ref: 2013, Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard, Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, page 192:
glosses: To congratulate or laud; to pronounce blessed or happy.
Related terms: macarism
Maccabean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmækəˈbɪən/
Forms: form: Maccabæan
Senses: examples: text: the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times
glosses: Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees.
macerater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maceraters
Etymology: From macerate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, macerates.
synonyms: macerator
glosses: An apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
engraved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engrave
engraved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪvd/
Senses: glosses: Made by engraving.
glosses: Decorated with engravings.
Derived terms: nonengraved
unengraved
logistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/
Etymology: From French logistique, coined or popularized 1830 by Antoine-Henri Jomini from logis (“lodging place”), in phrases maréchal des logis (“marshall of lodging”) (see maréchal des logis), major-général des logis (“major-general of lodging”). Possibly influenced by existing mathematical term logistique, of Ancient Greek origin; see logistic.
Senses: examples: text: logistics company
text: logistics management
text: handle the logistics
text: The logistics of the operation required careful planning.
text: She works in logistics, managing global supply chains.
text: We underestimated the logistics of moving an entire lab.
qualifier: operations
glosses: The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from their point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of satisfying customer requirements.
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: supply line
glosses: The procurement, supply, maintenance, and transportation of equipment, facilities, and personnel.
Derived terms: first-party logistics
fourth-party logistics
intralogistics
logistics network
nonlogistics
reverse logistics
Related terms: logistical
logistically
logistician
logistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of logistic
supply chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply chains
Senses: examples: text: [during the British expedition to Tibet] ... the expedition under General Macdonald became dominant. The difficulties of penetrating a hostile and barren country in the dead of winter, of keeping a supply chain with India unbroken, and of fighting for the capture of fortified passes ...
ref: 1905 January 5, “The Year at Home and Abroad”, in The Independent, volume 58, number 2927, page 7:
text: In Bullough’s estimation, Moneyland is the dark twin of globalization, an unregulated system made possible by the same tissues of connectivity that have enabled global supply chains, cross-border trade and electronic cash flows.
ref: 2019 May 28, Zachary Karabell, “How Hidden Billions Are Making the Rich Richer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It adds that the majority of TfL's costs are spent on its supply chain and internal labour costs. "Without a stable source of income or funding during the COVID-19 pandemic, our supply chain will not be able to gain adequate assurance that TfL will be able to fund their future commitments," the report concludes.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Roden, “Transport for London fears £3.2bn funding gap”, in Rail, page 8:
text: Two months after gas and food shortages caused shudders of anxiety across the country, Britain continues to face challenges in its supply chain.
ref: 2021 November 28, Stephen Castle, Jenny Gross, “A Wine Rack on Rails? U.K. Businesses Seek Solutions to Shortages.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: logistics network
supply network
hypernyms: chain
;
network#Noun
coordinate_terms: value chain
glosses: A system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from the supplier to the customer.
Derived terms: supply chain attack
supply chain visibility
Related terms: food chain
interdependence
last mile
logistics
resilience
resupply
supply line
acrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acro- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A love of heights.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Sexual arousal from heights or high altitudes.
Related terms: acrophilic
crushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, crush + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crush
crushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more crushing
form: most crushing
Etymology: By surface analysis, crush + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: a crushing defeat
text: The fruits of these kickstarted endeavors began to show in 1915, first in the deployment of a new range of depth charges. These were, mercifully, smaller than Jellicoe's "crushing hand of God" prototype, and, whilst practically just as lethal to submarines, they were significantly less risky to the launching ship, and could also be carried in larger numbers.
ref: 2019 July 24, Drachinifel, 11:06 from the start, in Anti-Sub Warfare in WW1 - From Hammers to Hunter-Killers, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:
text: The TSSA union stated that he had been carrying out maintenance and died as a result of crushing injuries.
ref: 2020 December 16, Paul Clifton, “Investigation begins after death at Eastleigh depot”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: That crushes; overwhelming.
examples: text: crushing guilt
text: Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.
glosses: Devastatingly disheartening.
Synonyms: word: gutting
Derived terms: crushingly
crushingness
noncrushing
crushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌ.ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪŋ
Forms: form: crushings
Etymology: By surface analysis, crush + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to crush.
glosses: A former method of execution by placing heavy weights on the victim.
examples: text: oilseed crushings
glosses: Crushed material.
examples: text: Mr. Holtze speaks with feeling upon this subject. His own experience had shown him the folly of planting sugar in dry soil, at a distance from water; the natural consequence was that, though the cane grew on the ironstone ridges of Palmerston, it would not throw up sufficient juice to make a good crushing.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 265:
glosses: The act of subjecting sugarcane to crushing.
-cyte
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: sīt′
ipa: /-ˌsaɪt/
ipa: /-ˌsɑɪt/
ipa: /-ˌsajʈ/
homophone: cyte
Etymology: From Latin cyta, from Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos, “vessel, jar”). Compare cyte.
Senses: glosses: Used to form cell names and classifications for mature cells.
Related terms: cyt-
cyto-
adipocyte
akaryocyte
amebocyte
amoebocyte
astrocyte
blastocyte
choanocyte
coenocyte
erythrocyte
gametocyte
granulocyte
hemocyte
hepatocyte
histiocyte
leukocyte
lymphocyte
macrocyte
megakaryocyte
megasporocyte
melanocyte
microcyte
microgametocyte
microsporocyte
monocyte
myelocyte
oligodendrocyte
oocyte
osteocyte
phagocyte
pituicyte
plasmacyte
reticulocyte
schistocyte
siderocyte
spermatocyte
spongiocyte
sporocyte
thrombocyte
thymocyte
chocolate starfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate starfishes
Senses: synonyms: word: starfish
word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus.
Muskogee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈskoʊɡiː/
Forms: form: Muskogees
form: Muskogee
Etymology: From Creek Mvskoke.
Senses: glosses: A member of an American Indian people, the Creek.
Muskogee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈskoʊɡiː/
Etymology: From Creek Mvskoke.
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by these people.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States.
Synonyms: english: senses 1 and 2
translation: senses 1 and 2
word: Muscogee
Derived terms: Muskogee County
gleeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːkt/
rhymes: -iːkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gleek
machinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machinators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin māchinātor (“engineer, inventor”).
Senses: glosses: One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Related terms: machinate
machination
machinatrix
machiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machiners
Etymology: From machine + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who operates a machine.
glosses: A horse employed to pull a vehicle.
Synonyms: sense: one who operates a machine
word: machinist
sense: a horse
word: coach horse
sense: a horse
word: post horse
machinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃiː.nɪst/
Forms: form: machinists
Etymology: From French machiniste, from machine 'machine, mechanical device', from Latin machina, from Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine”).
Senses: glosses: A constructor of machines and engines; someone knowledgeable about machines.
glosses: A person skilled in the use of machine tools for fashioning metal parts or tools out of metal.
synonyms: machine operator
operator
glosses: A person who operates machinery.
synonyms: stage machinist
glosses: A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
Derived terms: machinist block
woodchuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊd.t͡ʃʌk/
Forms: form: woodchucks
Etymology: Borrowed from Cree ocêk, otchek (“fisher”), borrowed from Ojibwe ojiig (“fisher, marten”), or a similar term in a related Algonquian language, subsequently reapplied to the groundhog.
An earlier form of this word, woodshock, still sometimes designates the marten. Also a doublet of wejack.
Senses: synonyms: groundhog
whistle pig
land-beaver
moonack
glosses: A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
obit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊbɪt/
Forms: form: obits
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).
Senses: glosses: The death of a person.
examples: text: Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 582:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
glosses: A record of a person's death.
Derived terms: post-obit
obit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊbɪt/
ipa: /əˈbɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
ipa: /ˈɒbɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊbɪt/
Forms: form: obits
Etymology: Clipping of obituary.
Senses: examples: text: So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.
ref: 2010 December 9, Roy Greenslade, “Don't laugh - new TV show is set on a newspaper obits desk”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An obituary.
masturbatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæs.tɜː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tɚ.bəˌtɔːr.i/
Forms: form: more masturbatory
form: most masturbatory
Etymology: From masturbate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: There is widespread opinion that the female is slower than the male in her sexual responses, but the masturbatory data do not support that opinion.
glosses: Of or relating to masturbation.
examples: text: A 2025 phenomenon involving teenagers and masturbatory twentysomethings with limited education and experience given the authority to tell five-star generals, former presidents, cabinet secretaries, academics, and ambassadors how to do their jobs.
ref: 2025 March 24, David Gardner, “‘You’ve Been Doged!’ Now Musk’s Goons Have Their Own Word”, in The Daily Beast:
glosses: Excessively self-absorbed or self-indulgent.
glosses: vain, futile, pointless (having no real substance, value, or importance)
Synonyms: autoerotic
Derived terms: masturbatorily
masturbatory insanity
nonmasturbatory
Related terms: english: self-indulgent group behavior
translation: self-indulgent group behavior
word: circlejerk
heterophenomenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛt.ɹəʊ.fə.nɒm.ənˌɒl.ə.dʒi/
Forms: form: heterophenomenologies
Etymology: From hetero- + phenomenology, coined by American philosopher Daniel Dennett.
Senses: glosses: phenomenology of the other
examples: text: I go to some lengths in my book to explain that heterophenomenology is nothing other than the scientific method applied to the phenomena of consciousness, and thus the way to save the rich phenomenology of consciousness for scientific study. I didn't invent the heterophenomenological method; I just codified, more self-consciously and carefully than before, the ground rules already tacitly endorsed by the leading researchers.
ref: 1993, Daniel Dennett, Consciousness and Cognition, volume 2, number 1:
glosses: method of studying the consciousness of other people
Derived terms: heterophenomenological
Related terms: qualia
quale
qualophile
qualophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualophiles
Etymology: From quale + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
ironclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iron + clad.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the average vehicle, cash delivery vans are ironclad and almost unstoppable.
text: In that flickering pallor it had the effect of a large and clumsy black insect, an insect the size of an ironclad cruiser, crawling obliquely to the first line of trenches and firing shots out of portholes in its side.
ref: 1903, The Land Ironclads, Digitized edition (Science Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2006:
hypernyms: metalclad#Adjective
coordinate_terms: steelclad[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
glosses: Covered with iron, steel, or (loosely) any other tough metal; armor-plated.
examples: text: The suspect had an ironclad alibi for his whereabouts on the night of the crime.
glosses: Solid or certain; not able to be disputed or questioned; irrefutable.
examples: text: an ironclad oath or pledge
glosses: Rigorous; severe; exacting.
examples: text: All the previous articles had only elicited a growl here or there from a hide-bound Catholic or from an iron-clad Evangelical, but now his post-bag was full.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Even if you’ve run an ironclad household budget and managed your retirement accounts on your own, you’re about to be at a level of wealth in a different stratosphere. It’s time to hire professionals.
ref: 2025 March 19, Jessica Roy, “She hit the $1.2 billion jackpot. But the California winner must do this to make it last a lifetime”, in San Francisco Chronicle:
glosses: Stubborn; inflexible.
ironclad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ironclads
Etymology: From iron + clad.
Senses: examples: text: He turned again to the nearest land ironclad, advancing now obliquely to him and not three hundred yards away, and then scrambled the ground over which he must retreat if he was not to be captured.
ref: 1903, The Land Ironclads, Digitized edition (Science Fiction), Project Gutenberg, published 2006:
glosses: A ship, vessel, or vehicle with a covering of iron, steel, or (loosely) any other tough metal.
examples: text: About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 178:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An armor-plated warship, (especially) one preceding the invention of harveyized steel.
glosses: A wooden warehouse with an outer skin of corrugated metal.
Derived terms: ironclad beetle
land ironclad
Related terms: ironside
disputed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpjuːtɪd/
Forms: form: more disputed
form: most disputed
Senses: examples: text: The theory, though common, was widely disputed.
text: The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13:
glosses: Argued; not certain, agreed upon, or accepted.
glosses: Claimed by more than one sovereign state.
raw_tags: of territory
Derived terms: indisputed
nondisputed
undisputed
disputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpjuːtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: They disputed the issue loudly and vehemently.
glosses: simple past and past participle of dispute
Derived terms: disputedly
pencil pusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil pushers
form: pencil-pusher
Etymology: US origin, 1881.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.
ref: 2012, Danielle Steel, The Sins of the Mother, Random House, →ISBN, page 285:
text: The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.
ref: 2013, Karin Slaughter, Busted, Random House, →ISBN:
synonyms: office worker
bureaucrat
desk jockey
paper-pusher
pen-pusher
glosses: One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.
Related terms: desk job
pixel pusher
overstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈstɛp/
enpr: ō'vəstĕpʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈstɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: oversteps
form: overstepping
form: overstepped
form: overstepped
Etymology: From Middle English *oversteppen, from Old English ofersteppan, from Proto-Germanic *uberstapjaną (“to step over; overstep”), equivalent to over- + step. Cognate with Dutch overstappen, German Low German överstappen, German überstapfen, überstepfen.
Senses: examples: text: That color scheme really oversteps the bounds of good taste.
text: As a result, there was a gain of 3½ min. from Goraghwood to Dundalk, which we reached 2 min. early. Nevertheless, the customs officials succeeded in overstepping their 13-min. time allowance, and we left 1 min. late.
ref: 1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
synonyms: transgress
glosses: To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
examples: text: As an instance of this inability to control the muscles well, may be cited the almost constant tendency to understep or overstep especially with the fore legs.
ref: 1907, University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report - Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station:
text: If a sense of feeling gave him some knowledge of the width of the steps the fact that the third step was ⅝ of an inch wider could not cause him to overstep, but if it had any effect it would tend to cause him to understep.
ref: 1945, North eastern reporter. second series - Volume 60, page 499:
text: Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
ref: 2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:
glosses: To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:overstep.
glosses: To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
Derived terms: overstepper
overstep the line
overstep the mark
overstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈstɛp/
enpr: ō'vəstĕpʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈstɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Etymology: From Middle English *oversteppen, from Old English ofersteppan, from Proto-Germanic *uberstapjaną (“to step over; overstep”), equivalent to over- + step. Cognate with Dutch overstappen, German Low German överstappen, German überstapfen, überstepfen.
Senses: examples: text: A few animals, such as bison, commonly use an understep walk, while several species, including black bears, cougars and pronghorn regularly use an overstep walk.
ref: 2012, Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks: Midwest Edition, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Therefore, an understep (where the hind track lies behind the front track) is probably a slower gait than a direct-registering walk where the hind lies on top of the front, and both are probably slower than an overstep walk, where the hind track registers beyond the front track.
ref: 2012, Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans, Field Guide to Animal Tracks and Scat of California, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: A gait in which the hind foot touches ground in front of where the front foot touches the ground.
glosses: A movement in which one oversteps.
examples: text: […] an overstep of their legal bounds as an organization of any kind, and a violation of your civil rights.
ref: 2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall, page 45:
glosses: A decision or action that goes too far.
conventions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈvɛn.ʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of convention
draw the line
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws the line
form: drawing the line
form: drew the line
form: drawn the line
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind if they have some fun, but I draw the line at anything that might harm others.
text: By contrast, the British government draws the line at giving the Community a significant new role in setting minimum standards on working conditions, labor representation on corporate boards, and social affairs.
ref: 1991 December 11, Tom Redburn, “Labor Standards: Where Britain Drew the Line”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
text: We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy[…] and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.
ref: 2025 February 20, Juan Cole, quoting Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can’t draw the Line at Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at Democracy”, in Informed Comment (juancole.com):
glosses: To set a boundary, rule, or limit, especially on what one will tolerate.
Derived terms: sense: second sense
word: line drawing
Related terms: cross the line
draw a line in the sand
draw a line under
red line
hard-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-headed
form: most hard-headed
Senses: examples: text: This increase has not been caused by empire-building on the part of transport managers, who have to convince such hard-headed men as accountants and boards of directors of their arguments.
ref: 1960 March, “A transport manager's view of B.R. freight services”, in Trains Illustrated, page 179:
text: Having found a property that 'feels' right you then have to adopt a hard-headed attitude and consider the realities of life in a new environment.
ref: 1997, “Buying a Rural Property”, in Back to Basics, Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Limited, page 10:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hardheaded.
sunne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunnes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of sun.
A2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Ann Arbor.
A1
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: A-1
form: A 1
Etymology: From various rating systems, as that of Lloyd's of London or the condition of insured ships. First attested in 1837.
Senses: glosses: In good health.
glosses: In excellent or top condition.
glosses: First-class. (Compare A 2 and A 3, which are inferior grades.)
raw_tags: of a ship
A1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A1s
Senses: glosses: Under the International Union of Railways (French: Union internationale des chemins de fer, UIC) classification system, a steam locomotive that has two coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels; also called an 0-2-2.
artsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹtsi/
Forms: form: artsier
form: artsiest
Etymology: From arts + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, we were the artsy kids. Theatre people and comic book writers. The geeks. The freaks. Well, we've been sitting here all along at our own table in a forgotten corner of the high school cafeteria, and have some stuff to show you.
ref: 2001 January 25, Douglas Rushkoff, “Second sight”, in The Guardian:
text: GusGus, Icelandic veterans of artsy techno music, have always enjoyed provoking their audience, and when they do so here, it's exhilarating.
ref: 2014 June 19, Paul MacInnes, “GusGus: Mexico review – artsy techno veterans get weird and dirty”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of arty.
Derived terms: artsily
artsiness
artsy-craftsy
artsy-fartsy
artsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹtsi/
Forms: form: artsies
Etymology: From arts + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artsie.
snow-capped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snowcapped
Senses: examples: text: In the current era of global warming, Mount Kilimanjaro is no longer permanently snow-capped.
text: But the adventurous visitor only needs to travel just a few hours north of the capital to find a less crowded city, where culinary delicacies can be eaten against the backdrop of a snow-capped, active volcano.
ref: 2025 April 8, Joshua Korber Hoffman, “The ‘Shinkansen kiss’: Japan’s little-known rail spectacle that attracts trainspotters from around the world”, in CNN:
glosses: Covered with snow at the top, especially of a hill or mountain.
Hypernyms: capped