cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
twinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɪŋ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Forms: form: twinkles
form: twinkling
form: twinkled
form: twinkled
Etymology: From Middle English twinclen, twynclen, from Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”), equivalent to twink (“to wink; blink; twinkle”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”).
Senses: examples: text: We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
text: These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: The western sky twinkled with stars.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.
ref: 1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
synonyms: flicker
fulgurate
glimmer
scintillate
shimmer
wink
glosses: To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
raw_tags: of a source of light
examples: text: His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
synonyms: sparkle
glosses: To be bright with delight.
raw_tags: of eyes
examples: text: She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes[…]
ref: 1922, Mrs. Juliet M. Hueffer Soskice, Chapters from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist's Granddaughter, page 165:
text: The Owl Fell a Moping and Twinkling.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: nictitate
glosses: To bat, blink or wink the eyes.
examples: text: A butterfly twinkled among the vines[…]
ref: 1988, Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle, page 190:
synonyms: flicker
flirt
flutter
glosses: To flit to and fro.
Derived terms: twinkle out
twinkler
two by four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two by fours
form: two-by-four
Senses: examples: text: Well, Moses stood on the Red Sea shore, And smote the water with a two by four
ref: 1959, “Mary Don't You Weep”, performed by Nat King Cole:
text: Moses stood on the Red Sea shore, smotin' that water with a two by four
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Linin' Track”, performed by Lead Belly:
glosses: A length of sawn wood of cross section nominally 2 inches by 4 inches (actual dimensions 1½ × 3½ in modern use), most often employed as structural framing lumber (dimensional lumber).
examples: text: He'll plan a two by four / But not for me.
ref: 1930, George, Ira Gershwin, “But Not for Me”:
glosses: A small, modest building.
examples: text: […] the movie plot of Superman II, in which Superman and Lois Lane work up to a sexual liaison (which was seen before 1960 only in “two by fours” and similar pornographic comic strips.).
ref: 2008, Barry Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era, page 354:
glosses: Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
synonyms: word: Tijuana Bible
extra: kind of pornographic comic book
Derived terms: clue-by-four
Related terms: four by two
2x4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2x4s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of two by four.
Related terms: 1x2
2x2
2x6
2x8
2x10
2x12
1x4
4x4
4x6
4x8
4x10
4x12
2x1
4x1
4x2
two by two
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: in pairs, especially one of each sex
two-edged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + edged.
Senses: glosses: having two cutting edges
raw_tags: of an edged weapon etc
examples: text: Then there's that term 'gay'. Does that still mean all homosexual people? For some folks, as mentioned earlier, yes. For others, no. It is in reality a two-edged term. On the hand meaning all sisters and brothers, yet on the other hand sisters in the political, social, economic liberation movement, called Gay Liberation. It implies a political stand.
ref: 1973 December 1, Don McGaw, “Homosexual=Homophile=Gay=Gay Community?”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 24, page 4:
glosses: having two, often contrasting, meanings or interpretations
Related terms: double-edged
two-way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtu.weɪ/
Etymology: From two + way. Compare Old English twiweġ (“intersection, junction of two roads”).
Senses: glosses: Allowing traffic in two directions.
raw_tags: of a highway
qualifier: visibility
glosses: Moving or occurring in opposite directions.
raw_tags: of traffic
examples: text: The inner power cars are brake second class compartment coaches; the guard has means of both bell and two-way telephone communication with the driving compartment.
ref: 1960 September, “Inter-city diesel units for the Hull-Liverpool service of the N.E.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 560:
glosses: Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving.
raw_tags: of a radio
qualifier: treaty
glosses: Involving the mutual action or participation of two parties.
raw_tags: of a project
examples: text: There are increasing examples of Indigenous-led research, and "two-way" collaborative research between scientists and Indigenous land custodians.
ref: 2023 August 11, Sarah Legge, Libby Rumpff, Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, “Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response”, in Science, volume 381, →DOI, page 8, column 3:
topics: education
glosses: Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Playing both offense and defense in the same game.
examples: A two-way chart; a two-way table.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate.
raw_tags: of a table
Derived terms: two-way mirror
two-way street
two-way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtu.weɪ/
Forms: form: two-ways
Etymology: From two + way. Compare Old English twiweġ (“intersection, junction of two roads”).
Senses: glosses: A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti.
Coordinate terms: sense: serving of Cincinnati chili
word: three-way
sense: serving of Cincinnati chili
word: four-way
sense: serving of Cincinnati chili
word: five-way
sense: serving of Cincinnati chili
word: six-way
two-way communication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-way communications
Senses: glosses: Any form of communication between two parties, both of whom can send and receive messages.
sonny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
homophone: sunny
Forms: form: sonnies
Etymology: From son + -y.
Senses: glosses: A familiar form of address for a boy.
synonyms: friend
buster
buddy
pal
glosses: Form of address to a boy or man, to express contempt, warning etc.
Derived terms: sonny boy
sonny Jim
Related terms: sissy
Sonny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for a male child.
examples: text: 'I was christened "Sonny"', the boy said with a protective formality which was clearly of some years' growth. ' It seems to have been all right then. Fashionable, you know. Now, of course, it's ghastly. Everyone calls me Sinclair, even Mother.'
ref: 1938, Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds, page 136:
text: Sonny had had to change his mind about so many things, as his life changed, as the very meaning of his ridiculous name changed - first a hangover from sentimental parents, then a nickname to reassure the crowds at rallies that he was one of them, then an addendum to his full names in a prison dossier: 'also known as Sonny'. A common criminal with aliases.
ref: 1990, Nadine Gordimer, My Son's Story, page 55:
glosses: A male given name from English.
examples: text: Sonia was hired and quickly persuaded everyone to call her “Sonny.” Josie recalls, “For some reason, she did not care for her first name, but I thought it was beautiful. I was surprised that she spelled her nickname 'Sonny' rather than 'Sunny', but I suppose it was because of the letter 'o' in Sonia.
ref: 2009, Del Halterman, Walk-Don't Run - The Story of the Ventures, →ISBN, page 58:
text: She couldn't believe Irina had said that so openly. Then Sonny gasped before she could stop herself. “What is it?” Irina looked down at herself. “What's the matter?” “Nothing.” Sonny shook her head and took up her notes as if to discuss them.
ref: 2009, Trish Perry, Sunset Beach, →ISBN, page 135:
text: "The guy who wrote Sonny her very first fan letter . . . Give it up for Eric!” [...] "Marshall, I have to say something." Marshall looked a little puzzled at Sonny's serious tone of voice, but he handed the microphone to her.
ref: 2011, N. B. Grace, Sonny With A Chance: Making the Cut, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Sonny suddenly recall a prayer her mother had said to her before she left for Colombia. They that hope in the Lord will [...] soar [...]. And then her mother had said, "Go soar, Sonny." Her mother had faith in her and she had to draw strength from that faith now. It was almost as if she'd known Sonny would need this verse at some point to keep her going.
ref: 2016, Lisa Mondello, Her Only Protector, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sonia.
would've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdəv/
other: /ˈwʊdə/
rhymes: -ʊdəv
Senses: examples: text: We would've been warmer if you had closed the window.
text: I would've gone if it hadn't rained.
glosses: Contraction of would have indicating a non-occurring action or state that was conditional on another non-occurring event in the past.
Related terms: would of
woulda
tympanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪm.pən.əm/
rhymes: -ɪmpənəm
Forms: form: tympanums
form: tympana
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“a drum, timbrel, tambourine; the eardrum”). Doublet of timbre, timpani, timbal, and tymbal.
Senses: glosses: A drum.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
(in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
examples: text: It was a black-and-white picture of a Romanesque doorway, with flanking saints and a lively Last Judgement in the tympanum […].
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.
Derived terms: epitympanum
hypotympanum
mesotympanum
pseudotympanum
tympanic
timpanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timpanums
form: timpana
form: tympanum
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The eardrum.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle ear.
glosses: The diaphragm of a telephone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An external hearing organ in some insects.
topics: architecture
glosses: An ornamental panel in any triangular space.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kettledrum.
repartee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpɑɹˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˌɹɛpɑːˈtiː/
Forms: form: repartees
form: repartée
Etymology: From French repartie, a deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).
Senses: examples: text: Many persons must laugh when a great person or an acknowledged wit says a clever thing, such as a smart repartee, or a really good pun.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 241:
text: Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: A slight smile broke on his lips. ¶ "You are always prepared to sacrifice your principles for a repartee," he answered.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 41, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: joke
glosses: A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing.
glosses: A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
examples: text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.
ref: 1982 December 11, Frances Russell, “Economic performance buoys Pawley’s position”, in The Vancouver Sun (The Weekend Sun), Vancouver, BC, page A6:
glosses: A skill in replying swiftly and wittily.
repartee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpɑɹˈteɪ/
ipa: /ˌɹɛpɑːˈtiː/
Forms: form: repartees
form: reparteeing
form: reparteed
form: reparteed
form: repartée
Etymology: From French repartie, a deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).
Senses: examples: text: Aubrey speaks of him as 'incomparable at reparteeing, the bull that was bayted, his witt beinge most sparkling, when most set on and provoked.'
ref: 1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4:
glosses: To reply with a repartee.
examples: text: To see them together, friendly, reparteeing, chummy, would turn your stomach--Barbara so exquisite and high-born, and the man, his eyes full of evil fires, sitting like a great toad on the model's chair.
ref: 1913, Gouverneur Morris, The Penalty:
glosses: To have a repartee (a conversation marked by witty retorts or replies).
timestamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmˌstæmp/
Forms: form: timestamps
form: time-stamp
Etymology: From time + stamp (noun); the verb sense derives from the noun.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
qualifier: video
glosses: The time at which something in a video occurs.
Derived terms: Lamport timestamp
timestamp-based concurrency control
time-stamping
timestamp reply
timestomp
Related terms: word: datestamp
word: timecard
word: time clock
word: timesheet
word: update
timestamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪmˌstæmp/
Forms: form: timestamps
form: timestamping
form: timestamped
form: timestamped
form: time-stamp
Etymology: From time + stamp (noun); the verb sense derives from the noun.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To record the date and time of (an event, etc).
Derived terms: timestamped
Related terms: word: datestamp
discours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discourses
Senses: examples: text: A SHORT DISCOURS Of the excellent Doctour and Knight,maiſter Leonardo phioravanti bolognese vppon Chirurgerie.
ref: 1580, Leonardo Phioravanti, translated by Iohn Hester, A Short Discours of the Excellent Doctour and Knight, Maister Leonardo Phioravanti Bolognese vppon Chirurgerie. […], London: […] Thomas East, title page:
text: IOHN HVIGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. his Diſcours of Voyages into yͤ Easte & West Indies.
ref: [1598], Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, translated by [William Phillip], Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. His Discours of Voyages into yͤ Easte & West Indies. […], London: […] [John Windet for] Iohn Wolfe […], title page:
text: Thus farr the occaſion of this diſcours againſt Tumults; now to the diſcours it ſelfe, voluble anough, and full of ſentence, but that, for the moſt part, either ſpecious rather then ſolid, or to his cauſe nothing pertinent.
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, “Vpon the Insolency of the Tumults”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Obsolete form of discourse.
vaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: vauts
Senses: examples: text: Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A vault; a leap.
vaut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: vauts
form: vauting
form: vauted
form: vauted
Senses: examples: text: Like to thicke clouds that threat a stormy showre ,
And vauted all within like to the skye
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To vault; to leap.
idée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēdā′
ipa: /iːˈdeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: idées
Etymology: Borrowed from French idée (“idea”). Doublet of idea.
Senses: glosses: Idea, occurring only in certain set phrases which are borrowings from French
Related terms: idée fixe
idée maîtresse
idée mère
idée reçue
typeset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpˌsɛt/
Forms: form: typesets
form: typesetting
form: typeset
form: typeset
Etymology: From type + set.
Senses: glosses: to set or compose written material into type
examples: text: ASCII does not conform to an expanded character set that includes Classic Greek letters, so you will please understand if the μ does not typeset correctly.
ref: 2007, Ray Horak, Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, page 309:
glosses: to be set or composed into type
Derived terms: laser typeset
typesetter
typesetting
typeset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪpˌsɛt/
Etymology: From type + set.
Senses: glosses: Set in type.
raw_tags: of text
typesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typesettings
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: composition
glosses: The setting of written material into type.
Derived terms: hot metal typesetting
Related terms: typeset
typesetter
typesetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typeset
snow day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow days
Senses: glosses: A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.
glosses: A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to bad winter weather, especially snow.
A day when a school or other workplace is closed due to weather
coordinate_terms: heat day
hypernyms: weather day
glosses: A day set aside on a school calendar in certain climates, assuming a closure will occur during a given time period.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A day on which a fall of snow is observed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see snow, day.
Related terms: white Christmas
white Easter
plumbagineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plumbagineous
form: most plumbagineous
Etymology: Plumbaginaceae + -ous
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the family (Plumbaginaceae) of gamopetalous herbs, of which plumbago is the type. The family includes also statice, the thrift, and a few other genera.
eccentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛk.sɛnˈtɹɪs.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˌɛk.sənˈtɹɪs.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: eccentricities
Etymology: From eccentric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
examples: text: For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The farthest distance from a vertex to any other vertex.
bestir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈstɜː/
ipa: /bɪˈstɝ/
ipa: /biˈstɝ/
ipa: /bəˈstɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: bestirs
form: bestirring
form: bestirred
form: bestirred
Etymology: From Middle English bestyrien, bestirien, from Old English bestyrian (“to heap up, pile up”), equivalent to be- + stir.
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding all the various temptations to bad temper, pride, greediness, adultery and so forth, the enemy really has but one temptation, and that is, to bestir the saints.
ref: 1986, Watchman Nee, The Life that Wins, page 75:
glosses: To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
examples: text: Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
ref: c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:
text: The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, […]
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, published 2009:
text: When he had bestirred himself, […] it was clear daylight, though the sun had not tipped the yellow wall in the east.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 9, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 108:
text: And so I hope we can bestir ourselves not to “Rally Around Caesar,” as the recent Economist recommends. I hope we will bestir ourselves to rally around an emergency/militant reconstruction of a secular democracy consecrated to the equality of each and every living one of us.
ref: 2009, June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die:
text: Why is it so important to bestir oneself? Bestirring oneself means that one feels truly fortunate and excited to stand before one's Creator and that one longs for this moment.
ref: 2010, Moshe Samsonowitz, Beyond What the Eye Perceives, page 42:
text: Could these well-paid civil servants bestir themselves not only to rescue the American republic from danger but to strengthen its democratic governance, refresh its ideals, and reclaim its sadly soiled national honor?
ref: 2017 July 9, Garrett Epps, “The Generational Significance of the Travel Ban Cases”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: We may officially have three branches of government, but Americans seem to accept that it’s more like 2.25: A presidency that acts unilaterally whenever possible, a high court that checks the White House and settles culture wars, and a Congress that occasionally bestirs itself to pass a budget.
ref: 2020 June 20, Ross Douthat, “The Tempting of Neil Gorsuch”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make active; to rouse oneself.
freethinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freethinkers
form: free-thinker
Etymology: From free + thinker, since 1692.
Senses: glosses: A person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
examples: text: The report projected that in the Asia-Pacific region, the proportion of freethinkers is projected to decline from 21 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2050.
ref: 2015 April 6, Siau Ming En, “Religiosity on rise in Asia-Pacific, proportion of freethinkers on decline”, in Today Online, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2015:
glosses: A person with no religion.
Derived terms: freethinking
freethought
typewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typewritings
Etymology: From type + writing.
Senses: glosses: The act, or the skill, of using a typewriter.
examples: text: Older typewriters produced typewritings in which the horizontal space allocated for each character was precisely the same.
ref: 2004, Peter White, Crime Scene to Court: The Essentials of Forensic Science, page 159:
glosses: The material produced by a typewriter; typescript.
typewriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From typewrite + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typewrite
typewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From type + written.
Senses: glosses: written using a typewriter
typewritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From type + written.
Senses: glosses: past participle of typewrite
Related terms: type
typed
peckerwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛkɚwʊd/
ipa: /ˈpɛkəwʊd/
Forms: form: peckerwoods
form: peckawood
Etymology: Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
Senses: examples: text: On the morning of the next, one of Mr. White's daughters came into the house to inform me that there was a "peckerwood" in a tree in the yard. I immediately took my gun and went out to investigate thinking that perhaps it was a Pileolated Woodpecker, a bird I wanted to obtain.
ref: 1900 January 15, T. P. Drowne, “A Trip to Fauquier Co., Virginia; With Notes on the Specimens Obtained.”, in Walter F. Webb, editor, The Museum: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Research in Natural Science, volume 6, number 3, Albion, page 38:
text: When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.
ref: 1953, Jesse Stuart, The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge, New York: McGraw-Hill, →LCCN, →OL:
text: There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.
ref: 1992, Robert Morgan, The Mountains Won't Remember Us: And Other Stories, New York: Scribner, published 2000, →ISBN, →OL, page 40:
glosses: A woodpecker.
examples: text: Throughout this territory are mills of every variety and size, from the small "peckerwood" tractor mill capable of cutting only a few thousand feet of lumber per day to the world's largest pine lumber mill with a capacity of more than one million feet per day.
ref: 1933 January 7, Traffic Service Corporation, “Serving an essential Industry: Lumber”, in The Traffic World, volume 51, number 1, page 8:
text: The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.
ref: 2002, John E. Lancaster, Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story, 1st edition, Macon: Mercer University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 222:
glosses: A peckerwood sawmill.
examples: text: All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 16:
text: Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.
ref: 1967, John Oliver Killens, 'Sippi, New York: Trident Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 50:
glosses: A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
glosses: A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Synonyms: sense: white person
word: white person
sense: rustic
word: redneck
Derived terms: featherwood
wood
woodpile
Related terms: peckerhead
billycock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billycocks
form: billy-cock
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of earlier bully-cocked.
Senses: examples: text: a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.
ref: 1911, GK Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown:
text: All this blazed up and showed faces far back, round, pale, smooth, bearded, some with billycock hats [...].
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 68:
text: the grandmother who, for some unknown reason, was dressed as a man, wearing a billycock and a corked moustache, ridiculous and plump in tight trousers and a red waistcoat [...].
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 56:
text: the increasing paralysis confined her to this steel trolley, pushed by a gloved attendant dressed in a billycock hat and a long grey dustcoat.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 372:
glosses: A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.
federate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹət/
ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: fœderate
Senses: glosses: Federated, united in an alliance or federation.
federate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹət/
ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: federates
form: fœderate
Senses: examples: text: But I do not admit that there is an opportunity for such a choice (whatever Baldus and Romanus may do) against one of two federates to the advantage of the other. 'If he cannot aid one without injury to the other, it is better not to help the one than to do harm to the other', as the words of Ambrose run; and that is the sense of the law and the rule which rates the avoidance of harm above the consideration of gain. What if, in order to benefit one federate, it is necessary to wrong the other doubly ? If two brothers who are lords of a feudal subject wage war upon each other, the vassal is bound to aid neither of them, since they mutually oppose each other, says Baldus. And allies mutually interfere with one another, as happens in other cases, which Romanus notes.
ref: 1964, Alberico Gentili, De iure belli libri tres, volume 2:
glosses: A member of a federation.
glosses: Anglicised form of Latin foederatus.
examples: text: A Federate (Application) can be defined as an application that implements or conforms to the HLA standard.
ref: 2016, Okan Topçu, Umut Durak, Halit Oğuztüzün, Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach:
qualifier: computer simulation
glosses: a system participating in a collective simulation, particularly within the context of the HLA (High Level Architecture) standard.
federate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹət/
ipa: /ˈfɛdəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: federates
form: federating
form: federated
form: federated
form: fœderate
Senses: glosses: To unite in a federation.
Derived terms: defederate
federator
refederate
an'
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æn/
ipa: /ən/
ipa: [n̩]
rhymes: -æn
Senses: examples: text: She'll be ridin' an' comin' up soon.
text: The smart girl an' the silly boy.
qualifier: others
glosses: Contraction of and.
Derived terms: brideangroom
Calvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælvɪn/
rhymes: -ælvɪn
Etymology: Latinization of Norman-Picard Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve (“bald”) person.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French or Spanish, notably borne by John Calvin, French Protestant theologian.
examples: text: Marty McFly: Calvin? Wh… Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
Lorraine Baines: Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.
ref: 1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle
Calvin cycle
Calvinism
Madeline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmæd(ə)lɪn/
/ˈmædəlaɪn/
Etymology: Anglicized from French Madeleine, from Ancient Greek Μαγδαληνή (Magdalēnḗ). Doublet of Madeleine and Magdalene.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Related terms: word: Madelaine
word: Madelyn
word: Madlyn
sense: pet forms
word: Maddie
sense: pet forms
word: Maddy
sense: pet forms
word: Mattie
zero deflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The adjustment of a sight, exactly parallel to the axis of the bore of the gun to which it is attached.
Osiris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ō-sī′rĭs
ipa: /əʊˈsaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /oʊˈsaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /əʉˈsɑɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /ɐʉˈsaɪ.ɹəs/
ipa: /oˈsaɪ.ɹɪs/
ipa: /oːˈsaj.ɾis/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Osīris, derived from Ancient Greek Ὄσῑρῐς (Ósīrĭs), derived from Egyptian wsjr.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: An exoplanet in the Pegasus constellation, HD 209458 b.
Derived terms: Osirian
Osiric
Osirified
Osirify
Osirism
deflection change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflection changes
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A change in azimuth setting applying to all guns in a battery when the target moves, or when a shift is made from one target to another. A deflection change does not include the deflection difference which allows for the difference in positions of the various guns firing at the same target.
deflection difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deflection differences
Senses: glosses: The amount that a piece in a battery is traversed toward or away from a given piece (usually the base piece) to vary the width of the sheaf.
azimuth circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azimuth circles
Senses: glosses: Instrument for measuring azimuths. It is a graduated circle on a sight, gun carriage, searchlight, etc.
heder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heders
form: hederim
form: hadarim
form: hedarim
Etymology: From Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder, “room”).
Senses: glosses: An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts.
caterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪtəɹɚ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: caterers
Etymology: From cater + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1821 June 19, ”Peregrine,” The Traveller: Letter IV, in The Kaleidoscope; Or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, page 401,
It was in vain that I petitioned, appealing to our caterer, if proofs of appetite were wanting; for sick men seldom have occasion for that important person′s services.
text: “I say, Mr. Cribbage,” cried an old master′s-mate, to the caterer, who had entered shortly after the tea-kettles, and assumed his place at the end of the table, “what sort of stuff do you call this?”
ref: 1830, Frederick Marryat, “The King′s Own”, in The Complete Works of Captain F. Marryatt, volume I, published 1840, page 335:
text: There is a caterer for the table, whose sleekness of face, rotundity of person, and general air of comfortable well-being, do great honor to the cheer he provides.
ref: 1838, The Southern Literary Messenger, volume IV, page 263:
glosses: A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.
examples: text: If so, you will probably sign a contract with a caterer months, maybe years, in advance and make a substantial down payment.
ref: 1979 July 23, Andrew O. Shapiro, “Of Canceled Parties and the Beleaguered Teenager”, in New York, page 64:
text: 1994, John N. Ingham, Lynne B. Feldman, Dutrieuille, Peter Albert (1838—1916) and Albert E. Dutrieuille (July 26, 1877—April 25, 1974), entry in African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary, page 225,
From a family of French West African descent, Albert Dutrieuille was the last of the great African-American caterers in Philadelphia.
text: Although many hotels work with outside Kosher caterers to provide Kosher services, some have developed their own in-house Kosher catering departments.
ref: 2008, Zushe Yosef Blech, Kosher Food Production, page 176:
glosses: A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.
Synonyms: sense: person responsible for provisions
word: cater
sense: person responsible for provisions
word: manciple
sense: person responsible for provisions
word: obsonator
sense: person responsible for provisions
word: steward
Derived terms: caterership
Related terms: cater
catering
provisioner
bygones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌɡɑnz/
Forms: form: bygone
Etymology: Plural of bygone (noun).
Senses: examples: text: […] if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Things that happened in the past.
Related terms: let bygones be bygones
bygone
ascii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin asciī, plural of ascius, from Ancient Greek ἄσκῐος (áskĭos, “shadowless”).
Senses: glosses: ascians
ascii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.
ref: 2009, Paul Taylor, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.
downright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnɹaɪt/
note: as a postqualifier or at the end of a clause
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌɹaɪt/
rhymes: (as a postqualifier or at the end of a clause) -aɪt
Forms: form: downrights
Etymology: The adverb is derived from Middle English dounright, dounriȝt (“right down, straight down; face down; vertically; used for emphasis: outright, downright”), and then either:
* possibly an aphetic form of adounright (“straight down; directly, immediately (?)”), from adoun (“downward”, adverb) (from Old English adūn, adūne (“down, downward”, adverb), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā, *dūnu (“hill; sand dune”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“haze, mist; smoke”)) + right (“direct; straight; etc.”, adjective) (from Old English riht (“straight; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten”)); or
* from doun (“down, downward; etc.”, adverb) (from Old English dūne (“down”), ultimately from dūn (“hill, mountain”): see above) + right.
By surface analysis, down (adverb) + right (adjective).
The adjective and noun are derived from the adverb. Noun sense 1 (“low grade of wool”) may be from the obsolete adjective sense 2.2 (“in its most basic form; ordinary”).
Senses: examples: text: It is ſaid, there are nine Sorts of VVool contained in one good Fleece, vvhich to make out, they ſay, that there are five Sorts for making Cloth, and four for Combings; a ſuperfine VVool, a head VVool, Dovvnrights, Seconds, and Livery.
ref: 1749, William Ellis, “Of Sheering Sheep”, in A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, Made on Sheep, Grass-lambs, and House-lambs: Or, The Country Gentleman’s, the Grasier’s, the Sheep-dealer’s, and the Shepherd’s Sure Guide: […], London: […] T[homas] Astley; and sold by R[oberts?] Baldwin, Jun. […]; and E. Nicolson, […], →OCLC, book III, page 382:
glosses: A low grade of wool from the lower parts of the sides of a fleece.
examples: text: [T]he middle of it [i.e., the thigh, is] the prop or thiller, the body the vveight, and the leg the povver; either of vvhich being brought by a ſharp angle to a dovvnright or perpendicular or more, vvith the thiller, vvill by ſo much leſſen the vveight, from the yielded aſſumption in that mechanick povver, That the point, vvhich is toucht by a perpendicular from the centre of heavineſs, is one of the terms: […]
ref: 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, page 153:
glosses: A vertical line; a perpendicular, a vertical.
helen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helens
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of curved, spine-like appendages on some hyoliths.
caesar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsizɚ/
ipa: /ˈsiːzə/
homophone: seizer
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: caesars
Etymology: By extension from personal name Caesar.
Senses: glosses: emperor, ruler, dictator
glosses: Alternative form of Caesar.
glosses: Any agaric mushroom of the genus Amanita, section Amanita sect. Caesareae.
Derived terms: caesaropapism
oxford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: äks'fərd
ipa: /ˈɑksfɚd/
enpr: ŏks'fəd
ipa: /ˈɒksfəd/
homophone: Oxford
Forms: form: oxfords
Senses: examples: text: The other evening I was doing a very grown-up thing, ironing an oxford cloth shirt for work[…].
ref: 2007 March 17, Nicholas Kulish, “How Close Is Too Close to Shane MacGowan and the Pogues?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (cloth)
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Oxford (shoe)
Related terms: saddle oxford
suspiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suspiciously
form: most suspiciously
Etymology: From suspicious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The police officer looked at her suspiciously.
topics: manner
glosses: In a way suggesting suspicion.
examples: text: She was behaving very suspiciously.
topics: manner
glosses: In a way that arouses suspicion.
examples: text: Suspiciously, he had taken out an insurance policy on his wife just months earlier.
qualifier: evaluative
glosses: Causing suspicion.
examples: text: It looked suspiciously like a molding-compound repair of a dent.
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a degree that makes one suspect something.
lucy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucies
Etymology: From Latin lūcius.
Senses: examples: text: That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
ref: 1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, January to June issue, pg. 38:
glosses: The northern pike (a kind of fish).
prosecutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/
Forms: form: prosecutors
Etymology: 1590s, from Medieval Latin prosecutor, from prōsequor (English prosecute). By surface analysis, prosecute + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Annie Jay was the Wisconsin government prosecutor in the trial of a man for forging his client's signature.
text: The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.
ref: 1861, Edward William Cox, Reports of Cases in Criminal Law:
text: It sat by mutely while Jack Abramoff, the superlobbyist, spun schemes that eroded public trust, until prosecutors had to move in.
ref: 2008 February 22, “Now a Reminder From Mr. Cunningham”, in New York Times:
glosses: A prosecuting attorney.
examples: text: The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.
topics: law
glosses: A person, as a complainant, victim, or chief witness, who institutes prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
Derived terms: criminal prosecutor
crown prosecutor
Crown prosecutor
prosecutorial
special prosecutor
Related terms: prosecute
prosecution
perceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛptɪv/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛptɪv/
rhymes: -ɛptɪv
Forms: form: more perceptive
form: most perceptive
Senses: examples: text: He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
glosses: Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
Derived terms: imperceptive
metaperceptive
misperceptive
nonperceptive
perceptiveness
photoperceptive
unperceptive
visuoperceptive
Related terms: perceive
perception
perceptivity
perceptively
birdie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː.di/
ipa: /ˈbɝ.di/
ipa: [ˈbɚɾi]
ipa: /ˈbɜː.di/
ipa: [ˈbɜːɾi]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)di
Forms: form: birdies
form: birdieing
form: birdying
form: birdied
form: birdied
form: birdy
Etymology: From bird + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Sörenstam birdied to take the lead.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score a birdie.
examples: text: Sörenstam birdied the seventeenth hole to take the lead.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To score a birdie at (a hole).