cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tic-tac-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick-tack-toe
form: tick-tat-toe
form: tit-tat-toe
form: tic tac toe
form: tick tat toe
form: tit tat toe
Etymology: Imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.
Synonyms: word: noughts and crosses
word: naughts and crosses
word: X's and O's
word: exie-osies
word: X O
word: X-O
conversationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃənəlɪst/
ipa: /ˌkɑːnvɚˈseɪʃənəlɪst/
Forms: form: conversationalists
Etymology: From conversational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist.
glosses: A person who participates in a conversation.
examples: text: But Shulgin, while a nimble conversationalist, can have trouble with names — of people and places, never chemicals.
ref: 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person skilled in general conversation.
Hyponyms: deipnosophist
Derived terms: conversationalistic
ticket-collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket-collectors
Senses: glosses: a person who collects the tickets of patrons entering a cinema, theatre etc so that they cannot be used again
Related terms: ticket-inspector
ticket inspector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket inspectors
form: ticket-inspector
Senses: examples: text: This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes).
ref: 2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 34:
glosses: A person who checks that passengers on a train etc have a valid ticket, and marks it so that it cannot be used again.
Synonyms: word: conductor
word: ticket collector
Related terms: ticket inspection
ticket-collector
primordial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/
ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/
ipa: /pɹɑɪˈmoː.di.əl/
Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al.
Senses: examples: text: the primordial facts of our intelligent nature
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: As an archetypal image of primordial unity, the cosmic egg suggests that there is unity and fragmentation, eternity and time.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:
glosses: First, earliest or original.
examples: text: a primordial leaf; a primordial cell
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
glosses: Primeval.
glosses: Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
Derived terms: primordial black hole
primordial cell
primordial chaos
primordial element
primordial fluctuations
primordial ocean
primordial ooze
primordial phallus
primordial sea
primordial sludge
primordial soup
Related terms: exord
exordium
primordium
primordial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɔː.di.əl/
ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɔɹ.di.əl/
ipa: /pɹɑɪˈmoː.di.əl/
Forms: form: primordials
Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al.
Senses: glosses: A first principle or element.
examples: text: With a horrified shriek she tore herself from Tarzan’s arms, and the ape-man turned just in time to ward with his arm a terrific blow that De Coude had aimed at his head. Once, twice, three times the heavy stick fell with lightning rapidity, and each blow aided in the transition of the ape-man back to the primordial.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 45:
glosses: A primordial condition or state.
ticket-holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket-holders
form: ticketholder
form: ticket holder
Senses: examples: text: For $50 ticketholders were invited to see "Little Miss Sunshine" and clips from past Arkin films, and to attend a question-and-answer session.
ref: 2007 January 7, Margy Rochlin, “Dry as Ever, Shrugging at Hollywood”, in New York Times:
text: The Ambassador Group also pulled the plug on almost half of its shows, including Carousel, Wicked, Zorro, The Sound of Music, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, Grease, and Be Near Me. It said ticketholders would be entitled to rebook.
ref: 2009 February 3, Helen Pidd, “West End musicals and shows cancelled due to snow”, in The Guardian:
glosses: someone who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey
ticket office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticket offices
Senses: examples: text: On the opposite side of the concourse is the triple-counter ticket office and three self-service machines which are adjacent to a large customer service counter and the gateline.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 29:
text: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
synonyms: booking office
glosses: An office or booth where tickets may be purchased to allow admittance or for travel.
Related terms: english: for cinema and theatre
translation: for cinema and theatre
word: box office
ticking-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickings-off
Senses: glosses: an admonition or reprimand
ticking-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the idling of an engine
glosses: doing a gentle amount of work
tickety-boo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪkɪti ˌbuː/
Forms: form: ticketty-boo
form: tickety boo
form: ticketyboo
form: tiggity-boo
form: diggity boo
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Chiefly and originally British slang. Possibly from an Indo-Aryan language: compare Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū, “it's all right, sir”). The phrase could have been picked up by British personnel in India before independence and spread in modified form to the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Commonwealth. It may also be a corruption from French: "ce que t'es beau", "how beautiful you are", adopted similarly to "toodeloo' (bye-bye), which is a corruption of "tout a l'heure" (see you later, today). Likely from WW1 Tommies. Alternately, it may be an extended version of that's the ticket, possibly influenced by peekaboo. Attested in English since the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: I want everything to be all tickety-boo. I want to marry you properly according to the English law so that your people will know that I'm playing straight with you.
ref: 1947, Nevil Shute [pseudonym; Nevil Shute Norway], chapter 6, in The Chequer Board, [London]: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, 1947, →OCLC, page 220:
text: Great days! The dawn’s breaking over no-man’s-land – Dewdrops glistening on the poppies in the early morning sun! ‘Good morning, corporal! All quiet on the Western Front?’ … ‘Tickety-boo, sir!’
ref: 1975, Tom Stoppard, Travesties, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 23:
text: 'Whit's up wi' yer John Greig (leg) then? Ye didnae have that before.' / 'Aw ye noticed!' said the mercenary, 'We were in a fight one day w' some o' that Taliban mob and I copped a hit wi' a grenade, but I've got an artificial one on, so am tickety boo.'
ref: 2011, Harry Morris, “Eye, Right!”, in It Wisnae Me … Honest!, Edinburgh: Black & White, →ISBN, part four:
text: Miriam begins to type: Unfortunately, it looks as if our time and place for meeting has been confused once again. We do hope that everything is tickety-boo for you— / […] Gloria stands. “Am I mad? You just used the word ‘tickety-boo’ in an e-mail to a young girl who didn’t grow up in England and who probably doesn’t watch PBS.”
ref: 2016, Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town (Christmas Hope; 9), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: A-okay
all right
cromulent
fine
hunky-dory
glosses: Correct, satisfactory.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
absconds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abscond
absconding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abscond
absconding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abscondings
Senses: examples: text: The factors related to increase in number of abscondings were younger age, psychiatric problems, multi-drug abuse and living alone.
ref: 1998, Arne Gerdner, Compulsory Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorders, page 85:
glosses: An instance in which someone absconds.
absconded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abscond
plurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊə.ɹəlz/
ipa: /ˈplɔː.ɹəlz/
ipa: /ˈplʊɹəlz/
ipa: /ˈplɝəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of plural
absents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absent
absenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absent
absented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absent
cut up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cut up
form: most cut up
Senses: examples: text: Put the cut up vegetables in the pot.
glosses: Having been cut into smaller pieces.
examples: text: He is cut up pretty bad.
glosses: Wounded with multiple lacerations.
examples: text: She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing.
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
examples: text: I go to the gym to get stronger and cut up.
glosses: Muscular and lean.
tick over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticks over
form: ticking over
form: ticked over
form: ticked over
Senses: glosses: to idle (to run at a slow speed, or out of gear).
raw_tags: of an engine
examples: text: While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm.
text: So soon we're too old to carry
We knew we only had a little while
In the middle keep ticking over
Before you know it, parent a parent
ref: 2011, The Maccabees, Pelican:
qualifier: of
glosses: To run smoothly and without problems.
absorbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absorb
abstained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstain
abstaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstain
abstains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abstain
abases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪsəs/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abase
abashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more abashing
form: most abashing
Senses: examples: text: […] many young People have by the grace of the Lord been prepared for full Communion, and have taken hold of the Covenant, confessing, that they have felt the impression of that Word upon that abashing occasion spoken:
ref: 1684, Increase Mather, chapter 12, in An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, Boston: Joseph Browning, pages 366–367:
text: Why these fair girls are so stared at by the men, and the young fellows, now-a-days, have a damn’d impudent stare with them,—’tis very abashing to a woman—very distressing!
ref: 1784, Hannah Cowley, A Bold Stroke for a Husband, London: T. Evans, act III, scene 3, pages 47–48:
text: 1814, Frances Burney, The Wanderer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 166,
[…] the mixt party there assembled, was prepared to survey her with a curiosity which she found extremely abashing.
text: Before Angus appeared, Martin had to wait a quarter-hour in a smaller, richer, still more abashing reception-room.
ref: 1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 24, in Arrowsmith, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 265:
text: But when the roaring died, there was only the silence: the awful, abashing stillness of the prison night.
ref: 2006, Sarah Waters, chapter 3, in The Night Watch, London: Virago, published 1944, page 287:
synonyms: bewildering
disconcerting
glosses: Tending to abash; causing embarrassment or the loss of self-possession.
Derived terms: abashingly
abashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abash
abashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abash
abdicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dɪ.keɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abdicate
abducting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.dəkˈtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abduct
abducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌkts/
ipa: /æbˈdəkts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abduct
abhors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈhoɹz/
ipa: /əbˈhoɹz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abhor
abides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪds/
ipa: /əˈbaɪds/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abide
binominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin binōminis (“having two names”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Consisting of two names.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Pertaining to the noun binomen.
examples: text: The principle of binominal nomenclature is important in the ICZN.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Pertaining to the nomenclature system for the rank of species in biological taxonomy.
Synonyms: topics: taxonomy
biology
natural-sciences
word: binomial
binominal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binominals
Etymology: From Latin binōminis (“having two names”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: binomen
binomial
binomial name
binominal name
species name
dionym
glosses: A scientific name, at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construct involving two nouns or two names.
gasface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gasfaces
form: gasfacing
form: gasfaced
form: gasfaced
Etymology: From gas + face.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To disrespect someone.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To make a stupid or disrespectful face to someone.
abid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪd
Etymology: See abide.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abide
abid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪd
Forms: form: abids
Etymology: From Arabic عَبْد (ʕabd, “slave”).
Senses: glosses: slave
glosses: servant
glosses: worshipper
binomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binomina
Etymology: Latin bis (“double, twice”) + nōmen (“name”).
Senses: glosses: A name having two parts.
examples: text: Each type species is cited in its original binomen (Recommendation 67B of the Code, ICZN 1999α), and if that name is a synonym then it is followed by the valid name of the species in parentheses.
ref: 2020 March 5, James E. O'Hara et al., Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: binomial
binomial name
binominal
binominal name
species name
dionym
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
abolishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abolish
abolishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abolish
abolished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɒlɪʃt/
ipa: /əˈbɑlɪʃt/
Forms: form: abolisht
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abolish
play with oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays with oneself
form: playing with oneself
form: played with oneself
form: played with oneself
Senses: glosses: To masturbate.
Derived terms: go play with yourself
Related terms: play with
aborts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abort
aborts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abort
abounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abound
abounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abound
shell suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell suits
Etymology: From shell + suit, from the outer nylon shell of each part.
Senses: glosses: A lightweight tracksuit consisting of a zip-front jacket and matching elasticated trousers, each having an outer nylon shell, often bearing panels and flashes of different colours, and inner cotton lining; popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s both as sportswear and as general leisurewear.
abrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrade
abrading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrade
abraded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrade
abridging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abridge
abridging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: abridgings
Senses: glosses: An abridgment.
abridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abridge
abrogated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrogate
abrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrogate
meconium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈkəʊnɪ.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: meconiums
Etymology: From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).
Senses: examples: text: The meconium is dark brownish-green in color. The first meconium passed is semi-solid, having been partially dried out in the large intestine.
ref: 1915, John Lovett Morse, Fritz Bradley Talbot, Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding, New York: MacMillan, page 78:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
synonyms: word: aunti/aunti Emma
word: big O
word: chandu
word: Chinese tobacco
word: dopium
word: dream gun
word: dream stick
word: fi-do-nie
word: gee
word: God's medicine
word: gondola
word: goric
word: guma
word: hop/hops
word: meconium
word: midnight oil
word: mud
word: ope
word: pen yan
word: pin gon
word: pox
word: skee
word: toxy
word: when-shee
word: yen
word: ze
word: zero
glosses: Opium.
Derived terms: meconic
meconium aspiration
meconium ileus
abseils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abseil
abseils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abseil
abseiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abseil
abseiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abseilings
Senses: examples: text: He pictured the abseiling, literally a flight down the mountain on the doubled cord of his long rope, and he thought that those hours speeding down the cliffs would be the finest of his life.
ref: 1977, The New Yorker, page 33:
text: Greenpeace offers its supporters the chance to fund brave and glamorous adventures (inflatables pitted against whalers; abseilings against smokestacks), and in exchange to wear something very like the medieval pilgrim's token: to put a rainbow sticker in their car windows.
ref: 1995, New Scientist - Volume 145, page 40:
text: Moderate ravines, with some drops requiring rope or prolonged swims, include Oscuros de Balce/s, Estrechos de Balce/s and Gorgoncho/n, all close to Bierge, while experts-only abysses above Rodellar include Gorgas Negras, Otin and Mascu/n Superior, all involving thirty-metre abseilings and strenuous clambering.
ref: 2004, Marc Dubin, The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees, →ISBN, page 464:
text: Between that and the abseiling, I think I left enough skin behind on those rocks to cover an entire second person.
ref: 2013, Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: The process or act of abseiling.
abseiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abseil
absolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absolve
absolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absolve
dealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: dealings
Etymology: From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A business transaction.
examples: text: Shylock:
O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others![…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.
Derived terms: double-dealing
fair dealing
inside dealing
insider dealing
plain dealing
slavedealing
switch dealing
underdealing
wheeler-dealing
wheeling and dealing
dealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deal
brainfart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainfarts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brain fart.
tidiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidinesses
Etymology: From tidy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:
glosses: The quality of being tidy.
tidy-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidy-ups
form: tidy up
Senses: examples: text: A final tidy-up and his masterpiece is complete.
ref: 2014 November 20, “Courtship”, in Life Story, episode 5 (TV series), spoken by David Attenborough, via BBC:
glosses: An instance of something being tidied up.
tie down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties down
form: tying down
form: tied down
form: tied down
Senses: examples: text: While the number of children that appear at these events is variable, as the community realizes that reliable, responsible childcare is provided at events, more and more parents will not feel tied-down at home with the kids.
ref: 1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 8:
coordinate_terms: hold back
hold down
hold off
set back
glosses: To constrain, or to confine within set limits.
coordinate_terms: hold down
glosses: To secure as if with a rope or hook.
Derived terms: word: tie-down
word: tiedown
tickling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tickle
tickling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a tickling sensation
glosses: That tickles
tickling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticklings
Senses: examples: ticklings and muscular aches
glosses: A sensation that tickles.
examples: text: It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]
ref: 1998, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 31, page 290:
glosses: The act by which someone is tickled.
tightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tighten
tightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightenings
Senses: examples: text: There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.
ref: 2007 September 28, Steven R. Weisman, “I.M.F. Faces a Question of Identity”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of making more tight.
Derived terms: belt-tightening
electoral tightening
tightening gel
tight-fisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tight-fisted
form: most tight-fisted
form: tightfisted
Etymology: From tight + fist + -ed.
Senses: glosses: reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy
Synonyms: pinchfist
tightfisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tightfisted
form: most tightfisted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tight-fisted.
tightness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightnesses
Etymology: From tight + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
ref: 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:
glosses: The quality or degree of being tight.
Derived terms: chest tightness
tightrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪtˌɹoʊp/
Forms: form: tightropes
form: tight-rope
form: tight rope
Etymology: From tight + rope.
Senses: glosses: A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
glosses: A difficult or desperate situation.
Hyponyms: high wire
highwire
low-wire
low wire
Coordinate terms: slackline
Derived terms: tightrope artist
tightrope dancer
tightroper
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
walk a tightrope
tightrope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪtˌɹoʊp/
Forms: form: tightropes
form: tightroping
form: tightroped
form: tightroped
form: tight-rope
form: tight rope
Etymology: From tight + rope.
Senses: glosses: To walk on a tightrope.
Derived terms: tightroper
tight-rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight-ropes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tightrope.
tight rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight ropes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tightrope.
walk a tightrope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: walks a tightrope
form: walking a tightrope
form: walked a tightrope
form: walked a tightrope
Senses: examples: text: The company constantly walked a tightrope between operating on little money and filling orders quickly.
text: The older me, the one who prefers wine to fizz, wishes Leerhsen had more to say about things like: a) the elite and vernacular food worlds pre- and post-Bourdain; b) how Bourdain walked a moral tightrope across the conventions of travel writing and reporting, no mean feat for a wealthy white man in skinny jeans; […].
ref: 2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To undertake a precarious course of action.
Related terms: walk on eggshells
herbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəːbɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈ(h)ɚbɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: herbages
Etymology: From Middle English herbage, from Old French erbage, from Early Medieval Latin herbāticum, from Latin herba (“grass”). By surface analysis, herb + -age.
Senses: glosses: Herbs collectively.
examples: text: I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.
ref: 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:
text: The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 97:
glosses: Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
glosses: The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
topics: law
glosses: The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).
Derived terms: herbaged
ecycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ecycles
form: ecycling
form: ecycled
form: ecycled
Etymology: Blend of electronic + recycle or blend of electrical + recycle.
Senses: glosses: To recycle or re-use electronic or electrical waste.
glosses: To break down and reuse component materials or parts of electronic or electrical equipment.
glosses: To reuse equipment as a whole, following data cleansing and reconfiguration.
Derived terms: ecyclable
no joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Unable to establish visual or radio contact with a target aircraft.
examples: text: I've been waiting 20 minutes for a bus, and still no joy.
text: We X-rayed the briefcase last night, but no joy. The P160 technician reckoned it was lined in lead foil.
ref: 1994, Stuart Woods, Heat:
glosses: A negative outcome; no success; a failure.
Related terms: no-go
no dice
no dice
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: nō dīs
Etymology: A term used in the game craps when the dice land off the table, invalidating the throw.
Senses: glosses: An unacceptable alternative.
glosses: An unfavorable result.
examples: text: We looked all over the house for it. No dice.
text: The board considered the proposal at the meeting, but no dice for now.
text: I′m a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler / About a-workin′ all summer just-a tryin' to earn a dollar / Every time I call my baby, try to get a date / My boss says "No dice son, you gotta work late"
ref: 1958, Cochran, Ray Edward; Capehart, Jerry Neil, “Summertime Blues” (vinyl), performed by Cochran, Ray Edward, Liberty Records, →OCLC, B-side "Love Again":
glosses: Used to express a negative outcome or decision.
Related terms: no-go
no joy
no soap
Danielle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dænˈjɛl/
ipa: /dænˈjeɫ/
Forms: form: Danielles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Danielle, the feminine form of Daniel.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Daniel.
call number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call numbers
Senses: qualifier: library science
glosses: An identification number, usually consisting of a combination of numbers and characters, used to identify and locate materials within a library; the shelfmark that conveys it.
hypochondriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypochondriatic
form: most hypochondriatic
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to hypochondria or a hypochondriac.
panhellenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panhellenic
form: most panhellenic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Panhellenic.
opening credits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: opening titles
coordinate_terms: closing credits
glosses: The credits shown at the beginning of a film, TV program, etc.
Related terms: intro
opening sequence
title sequence
endogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + -gamous.
Senses: examples: text: Many recent immigrants' marriages are endogamous.
glosses: Taking place within a social group.
raw_tags: of a marriage
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to endogamy.
Derived terms: endogamously
Related terms: endogamy
platina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto"). It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans. Doublet of platinum.
Senses: examples: text: She recites the principal metals, and has Sophie repeat them: gold, silver, platina, quicksilver, copper, iron, lead, tin, aluminium.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 792:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: platinum.
Derived terms: platina mohr
platina yellow
mantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mănʹtĭk
ipa: /ˈmæntɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
ipa: /ˈmantɪk/
Forms: form: more mantic
form: most mantic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e casts his horoscope secundum artem, then, taking a branch of tamarisk, a favorite tree from which to get the divining rod, he names some twenty-nine or thirty mantic arts, from pyromancy to necromancy, by which he offers to predict his future.
ref: 1921, Sir William Osler, The Evolution of Modern Medicine:
glosses: Relating to divination; prophetic.
Derived terms: manticism
mantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mănʹtĭk
ipa: /ˈmæntɪk/
rhymes: -æntɪk
ipa: /ˈmantɪk/
Forms: form: mantics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαντικός (mantikós), from μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”), from μαίνομαι (maínomai, “I am mad, raving”).
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly ignored are Israel’s more momentous earlier prophets or mantic guilds affiliated with Elijah and destined to be transformed into the writing prophets of Judah after 750 […]
ref: 1999, The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, →OCLC, page 377:
glosses: A soothsayer, a seer.
red wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red wolves
Etymology: From red + wolf from being a grey wolf relative with a reddish coat.
Senses: glosses: Canis rufus, a medium-sized canine native to the southeastern United States.
cortege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹˈtɛʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹ.tɛʒ/
Forms: form: corteges
form: cortège
Etymology: Borrowed from French cortège.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two
ref: 1660 February 3 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 24th, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.
Synonyms: entourage
gang
group
followership
posse
retinue
Related terms: sycophant
lackey
groupie
cohors amicorum
cortège
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cortèges
Senses: examples: text: On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at the palace she found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her. ...The cortège proceeded about a mile, when a courier announced the Princess's approach, who arrived almost as soon. The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293:
text: We crowd outside to wait for the funeral cortège. We know this is an important death.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 106:
text: The heart of the ceremony remains the parade of nations: the world shrunk to an hourlong cortège, when athletic prowess takes a back seat to country-by-country voguing.
ref: 2024 July 25, Jason Farago, “Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cortege.
manganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæŋˈɡæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From manganese + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing manganese in its higher oxidation states.
Derived terms: manganate
manganic acid
manganomanganic
permanganic acid
potassio-manganic sulfate
potassio-manganic sulphate
Related terms: manganous
manganate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manganates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing the ion MnO₄²⁻.
Derived terms: hypermanganate
hypomanganate
manganate of potash
phyllomanganate
sodium manganate
Related terms: manganic acid
permanganate
manganous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manganese + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing manganese in its +2 oxidation state.
Derived terms: ferromanganous
manganous bromide
manganous carbonate
manganous chloride
manganous dichloride
manganous sulfate
manganous sulphate
Related terms: manganic
mangani-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: manganic
Derived terms: manganicyanhydric acid
manganicyanic acid
manganicyanide
Related terms: mangano-
mangano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: mangan-
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing manganese
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: manganous
Derived terms: manganocalcite
manganocyanhydric acid
manganocyanic acid
manganolite
manganomagnetite
manganophyllite
manganosiderite
manganostibiite
manganowolframite
Related terms: mangani-
mangan-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing manganese
Derived terms: mangan-amphibole
mangan-apatite
manganblende
manganbrucite
manganchlorite
mangancolumbite
manganhedenbergite
manganpectolite
mangantantalite
Related terms: mangano-
direct-to-video
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a motion picture, originally released in a home video format (historically VHS) without being released to cinemas or broadcast on television.
Related terms: direct-to-DVD
made-for-TV
OVA
sensimilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sinsemilla.
jing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese 精 (jīng, “essence”).
Senses: glosses: According to traditional Chinese medicine, a dense essence stored in the kidneys that is the material basis for the physical body. It is yin in nature.
Related terms: jing-jang
jing ping
naphtha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæfθə/
ipa: /ˈnæpθə/
Forms: form: naphthas
Etymology: From Latin naphtha, from Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha, “naphtha”), from Old Persian *naftah, probably borrowed or assimilated from Akkadian 𒉌𒆳𒊏 (napṭu, “naphtha”) . The Greek mediation is reflected in the spelling – ‘ph’ and ‘th’ (from ‘φ’ and ‘θ’).
Senses: glosses: Naturally occurring liquid petroleum.
examples: text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into — they go in under archways, secret entrances of rotted concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass... certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through...
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
text: The Common Room and the Library were lit by anbaric light, but the Scholars preferred the older, softer naphtha lamps in the Retiring Room.
ref: 1995, Philip Pullman, Northern Lights:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.
Derived terms: napalm
naphthacene
naphtha lamp
naphthalene
naphthalenide
naphthalide
naphthalimide
naphthene
naphthenic
nates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪtiːz/
rhymes: -eɪtiz
Etymology: From Latin natēs, plural of natis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
examples: text: Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.
ref: 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
text: He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:
glosses: The buttocks.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The umbones of a bivalve shell.
gallstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallstones
Etymology: From gall + stone.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small, hard object, in the shape of a pebble, that sometimes forms in the gallbladder or bile duct; composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts.
Synonyms: bilestone
cholelith
Hypernyms: calculus
stone
tightrope walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightrope walkers
form: tightrope-walker
Senses: synonyms: aerialist
funambulist
highwire walker
rope dancer
tightrope artist
tightrope dancer
tightroper
glosses: An acrobat who practices tightrope walking.
Related terms: skywalker
slackrope walker
tightrope-walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightrope-walkers
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Farini [i.e., William Leonard Hunt], the celebrated tightrope-walker, and rival of [Charles] Blondin, advertised that he would carry his wife across the rope stretched from one side of the ring to the other, at a height of about sixty feet, upon his back—a feat he had performed in other places.
ref: 1863 January 17, “Fatal Feat”, in The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXV, number 15,489, Belfast, →OCLC, page [4], column 2:
text: We saw where the great tightrope-walker Karl Wallenda scaled the canyon on a tightrope back in 1970.
ref: 2024 June 29, Bill King, “The third weekend in June”, in Opelika-Auburn News, volume 134, number 181, Opelika, Ala.: Lee Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 2:
text: The novel, which went on to win both a National Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, presents several apparently disparate stories while a tightrope-walker modeled after Philippe Petit tiptoes between the twin towers on a wire.
ref: 2025 March 19, Ron Charles, “Colum McCann’s ‘Twist’ drags us to the depths of the ocean”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of tightrope walker.