cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ABEND
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ABENDs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abend.
ABEND
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Folks, I just heard from Paul Saunders, another of our patrons who is ABEND at the moment.
ref: 1994 January 5, Lydia M. Uribe, “Paul Saunders could use some cheering up....”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):
text: ABEND when translated means i had a VERY crappy 5 day weekend and now i am WAY behind at work and i won't be around for awhile till i catch up.
ref: 1998 May 37, "barbara trumpinski" (username), "kitten is ABEND", in alt.med.fibromyalgia, Usenet
text: Unfortunately she is ABEND. Some of us Jackals have been taking turns filling in during her absence.
ref: 1999 February 17, Dr. Charlie, “Re: Dr.L is a fraud and her callers are fools!!”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):
glosses: Acronym of absent by enforced net deprivation.
UTF-8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: UTF8
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.
Coordinate terms: UTF-7
UTF-16
UTF-32
UTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UTFs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unicode Transformation Format: Any of various algorithms that map Unicode codepoints to unique sequences of bytes.
Derived terms: UTF-1
UTF-7
UTF-8
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-16
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
UTF-32
Related terms: ASCII
EBCDIC
BCD
Baudot code
Morse code
UTF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Universal Transfer Format.
glosses: Initialism of Unabomber Task Force.
sapodilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæpəˈdɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: sapodillas
Etymology: From Spanish sapodilla, from Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl.
Senses: glosses: A long-lived evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, native to the New World tropics.
examples: text: They heard the flight of the bats as they attacked the ripe sapodillas at their feet.
ref: 1988, Jorge Amado, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Captains of the Sands, Penguin, published 2013, page 45:
glosses: The edible fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: chikoo
naseberry
saprotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saprotrophs
Etymology: From sapro- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: An organism that lives off dead or decaying organic material by secreting enzymes into it and then absorbing its nutrients.
Hypernyms: decomposer
Hyponyms: saprobe
saprophyte
saprotrophism
Meronyms: mushroom
saprobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saprobes
Etymology: From sapro- + -obe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives off of dead or decaying organic material
Synonyms: saprotroph
saprobiont
Meronyms: mushroom
Related terms: saprobiotic
saprotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saprotroph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to saprotrophs (or saprobes)
Related terms: saprotrophism
saprotrophy
sarsparilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarsparillas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sarsaparilla.
satinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛt
Forms: form: satinets
Senses: glosses: A faux satin usually made of synthetic fiber or cotton.
Derived terms: satinet loom
satinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satinettes
Etymology: From satin + -ette.
Senses: synonyms: satinet
glosses: A faux satin usually made of synthetic fiber or cotton.
glosses: One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls and turbits, having a white body, tricolored shoulders, and bluish-black tail with a large white spot on each feather.
impenetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/
Forms: form: inpenetrable
Etymology: From Middle English inpenetrabel, inpenetrabyle, from Middle French impenetrable or directly from its etymon, Latin impenetrābilis. By surface analysis, im- + penetrable.
Senses: examples: text: The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
text: The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow fall: The avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024:
synonyms: impermeable
impregnable
antonyms: penetrable
permeable
pregnable
glosses: Not penetrable.
examples: text: When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
ref: 1991, Varg Vikernes, “Dunkelheit”, performed by Burzum:
glosses: Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.
examples: text: Business jargon makes this document impenetrable—I can’t understand it.
synonyms: word: unfathomable
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: fathomless
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: unfathomable
word: ungraspable
word: unintelligible
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
antonyms: word: fathomable
word: confusing
word: incomprehensible
glosses: Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.
Derived terms: impenetrableness
impenetrably
impenetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɛnɪtɹəbəl/
Forms: form: impenetrables
form: inpenetrable
Etymology: From Middle English inpenetrabel, inpenetrabyle, from Middle French impenetrable or directly from its etymon, Latin impenetrābilis. By surface analysis, im- + penetrable.
Senses: examples: text: I should lose the reputation that I am gradually acquiring among our impenetrables here, were I to confess the excitement which I felt at the idea of entering his house—the house of that great general under whose command you made your first charge.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVI. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 236:
glosses: A person not openly given to friendship.
penetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnətɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more penetrable
form: most penetrable
Etymology: From Middle English penetrable, penytrable, from Old French penetrable, from Medieval Latin penetrābilis.
Senses: examples: text: On the east the high mountain-chain of Zagros, penetrable only in one or two places, forms a barrier of the most marked character, and is beyond a doubt the natural limit for which we are looking.
ref: 1867, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World:
glosses: Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
examples: text: A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all.
ref: 1900, Arthur M. Mann, The Boer in Peace and War:
text: A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.
ref: 1996, Peter Carruthers, Peter K. Smith, Theories of Theories of Mind:
glosses: Capable of being fully understood.
Derived terms: interpenetrable
nonpenetrable
unpenetrable
Related terms: penetrableness
penetrably
aurum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˈo.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˈoː.ɹəm/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
Etymology: From Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of or.
Senses: glosses: Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
glosses: A sweet, orange-flavored Italian liqueur.
Related terms: aurum coronarium
aurum fulminans
aurum mosacium
aurum musivum
menace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Forms: form: menaces
Etymology: From Middle English manace, from Old French manace, menace, &c., from Late Latin minācia (“threat, menace”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: the dark menace of the distant war.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A perceived threat or danger.
glosses: The act of threatening.
glosses: An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
Synonyms: sense: the act or process of threatening, a tendency to threaten
word: minacity
sense: the act or process of threatening, a tendency to threaten
word: minacy
Derived terms: lavender menace
menaceful
red menace
yellow menace
menace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Forms: form: menaces
form: menacing
form: menaced
form: menaced
Etymology: First attested in 1303: from Middle English manacen, from Old French menacer, manecier, manechier and Anglo-Norman manasser, from the assumed Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from Latin minācia, whence the noun.
Senses: examples: text: to menace a country with war
text: My master […] did menace me with death.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
ref: 1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:
glosses: To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
examples: text: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
glosses: To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
young gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: young guns
Etymology: Possibly a play on young'un.
Senses: examples: text: […] McKillen – not a man to entrust just anyone to build his homes – clearly had huge faith in the young gun.
ref: 2021 January 30, Tanya Sweeney, “The Irish architect who became the ‘megamansion king’ of LA”, in The Irish Times:
glosses: A new or rising talent or star; rising star.
muscle woman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscle women
form: musclewoman
Senses: glosses: a female bodybuilder
Related terms: muscle man
muscled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bearing muscles or muscle tissue.
glosses: Having large muscles.
Synonyms: muscled up
Derived terms: bemuscled
double-muscled
overmuscled
undermuscled
unmuscled
muscled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muscle
softy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softies
form: softie
Etymology: From soft + -y.
Senses: synonyms: word: nestle-cock
word: sissy
word: wuss
word: big girl's blouse
word: candy-arse
word: candy-ass
word: milksop
word: milquetoast
word: namby
word: namby-pamby
word: nestle-cock
word: pansy
word: pantywaist
word: poon
word: pushover
word: pussy
word: sissy
word: softy
word: tenderling
word: weakling
word: weenie
word: wimp
word: wuss
word: wussy
qualifier: occasionally endearing
glosses: A weak or sentimental person.
glosses: Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.
glosses: A soft drink containing no alcohol.
glosses: A soft toy.
glosses: A flaccid state of the penis.
Related terms: softhearted
muscling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muscle
muscling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The legs are set wide apart due to the very thick muscling.
glosses: muscles in the body, meant collectively
examples: text: The effects of muscling were of secondary importance to the effects of fatness.
glosses: the process of muscle formation or growth
Derived terms: double muscling
spotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spŏtʹĭd
ipa: [ˈspɒtɪ̈d]
ipa: [ˈspɑɾɪ̈d]
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spot
Derived terms: well spotted
wells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: examples: text: The town's water supply consisted of three wells, but a new one was being dug to meet demand from the new development.
glosses: plural of well
wells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: examples: text: Every time she sees her little grandson, her face wells with joy.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of well
love bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love bombs
form: lovebomb
form: love-bomb
Senses: examples: text: Be careful not to drop love bombs, and try not to get wrapped up in someone else's bombing.
ref: 2023, Dawn Dais, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce: A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.
love bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: love bombs
form: love bombing
form: love bombed
form: love bombed
form: lovebomb
form: love-bomb
Senses: examples: text: My hypothesis is that a great many of the troubled children who have been love bombed would have had elevated or blunted cortisol prior to the intervention and that measured afterwards, the experience would have “reset” them to more benign ones.
ref: 2018 [2014], Andrew Odgers, editor, From Broken Attachments to Earned Security, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of love-bomb.
Related terms: word: love bombing
welling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of well
welling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: wellings
Senses: examples: text: It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
text: Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.
ref: 1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters:
glosses: The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
Derived terms: downwelling
upwelling
crooner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːn.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: crooners
Etymology: From croon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.
text: “But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”
ref: 2021 September 16, Sarah Naftalis, “The Casino” (8:14 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
text: “Curious.” “Ah, don't waste those big Vulcan brain juices, T'Lyn. He's just a novelty beach crooner.” “Krog is my favorite musician.” “Oh. Sorry. I-I've heard he's very, uh, tropical.” “He is a master of the Vibe Tubes.”
ref: 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (8:44 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):
glosses: One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.
bottling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlings
Senses: examples: text: The bottlings from the barrel-aged wines bear a premium label.
glosses: A batch of bottled liquids, as from a single vat, barrel, or seasonal growth.
glosses: The act of pelting (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
bottling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bottle
Derived terms: bottling plant
welled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛld/
homophone: weld
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of well
gay bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay bombs
Senses: glosses: A theoretical chemical weapon whose aim is to instigate feelings of mutual homosexual attraction amongst enemy soldiers.
bottled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bottle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bottle
bottled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bottled
form: most bottled
Etymology: From bottle + -ed.
Senses: examples: bottled water
glosses: Packaged in a bottle.
examples: text: Then turning to the others at the table as though appealing to a jury, he asked, "Y'know what this Arkansas Ape did the last time we got bottled? […]
ref: 1971, George Harsh, Lonesome Road, page 125:
glosses: drunk
glosses: Shaped or protuberant like a bottle.
glosses: Kept in restraint; bottled up.
Synonyms: sense: drunk
word: drunk
sense: bottle-shaped
word: lecythiform
sense: Kept in restraint
word: contained
sense: Kept in restraint
word: suppressed
Derived terms: bottled gas
bottled in bond
estate-bottled
nonbottled
in absentia
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin in absentia (“in absence”).
Senses: examples: text: The defendant was convicted in absentia after fleeing during the trial.
text: The first chancellor of West Germany, Conrad Adenauer […] continued to keep Hans Globke as his secretary of the chancellery despite protests. […] Even after an East German court indicted Globke in absentia in 1950, Adenauer would not budge.
ref: 2004 October 28, Leslie Feinberg, “Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights”, in Workers World:
topics: law
glosses: While not present; while absent
examples: text: Since then, the ex-minister has been in absentia, likely relaxing on his private yacht.
text: At Sora’s involuntary acknowledgment of their crew currently in absentia, Shiro nodded.
ref: 2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4:
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Absent in general; not present.
semantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmæntɪk/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈmæntək/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
raw_tags: of code
glosses: Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.
raw_tags: of a detail or distinction
Derived terms: asemantic
autosemantic
biosemantic
endosemantic
episemantic
ethnosemantic
exosemantic
extrasemantic
grammaticosemantic
isosemantic
lexicosemantic
metasemantic
monosemantic
morphosemantic
neurosemantic
nonsemantic
phonosemantic
phono-semantic compound
phono-semantic matching
polysemantic
presemantic
psychosemantic
quasisemantic
semanteme
semantically
semantic analysis
semantic bleaching
semantic borrowing
semantic calque
semantic change
semantic differentiation
semantic drift
semantic field
semantician
semanticism
semanticist
semanticity
semanticization
semanticize
semantic layer
semantic loan
semantic memory
semantic net
semantic network
semantic-pragmatic disorder
semantic satiation
semantic shift
semantic tableau
semantic versioning
semantic Web
synsemantic
unsemantic
zoosemantic
Related terms: semantical
semantics
semasiology
sematic
sematology
seme
sememe
semiotic
semiotics
semantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmæntɪk/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈmæntək/
rhymes: -æntɪk
Forms: form: semantics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.
Senses: examples: text: Its semantic is polysyllabic, viz. it uses the word formations of spoken Chinese.
ref: 2005, Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, Yinglin Wang, San tzu ching explicated, the classical initiation to classic Chinese couplet I to XI, page 21:
text: In this particular case, the semantic is on the left of its host sinogram.
ref: 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:
text: The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has been removed.
ref: 2017, Vladimir Skultety, Understanding Chinese Characters:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.
egged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡd/
rhymes: -ɛɡd
Senses: glosses: Containing or bearing eggs.
Derived terms: unegged
Related terms: over-egged
egged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡd/
rhymes: -ɛɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of egg
egging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egg
egging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: eggings
Senses: examples: text: “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.
ref: 2010, Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin, Tasting Freedom, page 167:
glosses: The act of pelting with eggs.
examples: text: Plover egging was once a popular tradition.
glosses: The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
Derived terms: turtle-egging
Wells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
homophone: wells
Forms: form: Wels
Etymology: From Old English wella, genitive plural of well (“spring”), in reference to a residence near a group of springs. The original use of the genitive case here would've indicated origin. The -s ending of the modern form would be added later on upon reanalysis after the breakdown of the case system (outside of pronouns) that occurred in the development of English.
Senses: glosses: An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a well or a spring.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A small cathedral city and civil parish with a city council in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST5445).
glosses: A small town in Norfolk, England; in full, Wells-next-the-Sea.
glosses: A town in the Cariboo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, Indiana; named for founder James Oscar Wells.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A census-designated place in Ottawa County, Kansas.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in York County, Maine; named for the city in England.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Faribault County, Minnesota; named for J. W. Wells, father-in-law of Canadian-American Minnesota politician Clark W. Thompson.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Elko County, Nevada.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Hamilton County, New York; named for land agent Joshua Wells.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Cherokee County, Texas; named for railroad engineer Maj. E. H. Wells.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Rockland, Manitowoc County and Rantoul, Calumet County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin; named for early settler James Wells.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A number of townships, including in Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Wells Township.
Derived terms: Hay-Wells syndrome
Jim Wells County
Muckle-Wells syndrome
Wellsburg
Wells County
Wellsean
Wellsian
Wells-next-the-Sea
Wells River
Wellsville
corkscrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corkscrew
corkscrews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corkscrew
stipulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪpjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪpjəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: stipulates
form: stipulating
form: stipulated
form: stipulated
Etymology: From Latin stipulātus, perfect active participle of stipulor (“to demand a formal promise, stipulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 726:
text: My contract stipulated that I would make dinner for him at six o'clock and leave at seven after finishing the dishes; but the Professor began objecting to this schedule as soon as my son arrived on the scene.
ref: 2003, Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor
glosses: To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
examples: text: Out of special love and affection they stipulate that the survivor shall remain in full possession and use the entire temporal estate which they leave behind and none of the heirs shall demand an account or proof or balance so that the survivor may manage the estate in the manner he or she thinks best.
ref: 1990, Irene English Shoemaker, Van Buskirk: A Legacy from New Amsterdam:
glosses: To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
examples: text: The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.
text: The parties stipulate that Exhibits 1 through 3 accompanied the initial Verified Complaint and Jury Demand, and that they are displayed in this text in the Exhibits section solely for clarity of the layout.
ref: 2016 January 1, Elizabeth I. Boals, Shailee D. Sharma, Stanton v. Armstrong: Case File, Aspen Publishers, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: law
glosses: To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
examples: text: Although another person cannot stipulate for us, yet in our stipulations we can associate with ourselves another person who stipulates for the same performance, and is called an adstipulator.
ref: 2020 March 26, Gaius, Institutes of Roman Law, Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN:
glosses: To ask for a contractual term.
raw_tags: followed by for
examples: text: Parties stipulate to serve discovery and notice discovery depositions no later than 45 days after the opening of discovery, and to respond to discovery within 30 days and take discovery depositions no later than the closing date of discovery.
ref: 1999, Steven H. Bazerman, Jason M. Drangel, Guide to Registering Trademarks, Aspen Publishers Online, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: law
glosses: To mutually agree.
Derived terms: stipulated
stipulative
Related terms: stipulation
stipulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪpjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪpjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪpjəlɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪpjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɪpjəˌleɪt/
Etymology: From stipule + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
stimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪmjʊleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more stimulated
form: most stimulated
Senses: glosses: In a condition or state of stimulation.
Derived terms: stimulated emission depletion microscope
stimulated emission depletion microscopy
stimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈstɪmjʊleɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stimulate
implements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪmpləmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of implement
implements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpləmɛnts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of implement
rebuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: rebuys
form: rebuying
form: rebought
form: rebought
Etymology: From re- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To buy again, especially to buy something previously sold (or pawned)
rebuy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: rebuys
Etymology: From re- + buy.
Senses: glosses: A type of poker tournament that allows players to purchase more chips during the course of the tournament.
stilyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stilyards
form: steelyard
Senses: glosses: a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs etc. The thing to be weighed hangs from the short side of a beam; the long side has graduated notches for a standard weight.
corks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cork
corks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cork
stilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stilt
corking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cork
corking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corking
form: most corking
Senses: examples: text: a wonderful all around ballplayer and a corking fine fellow
ref: 1927, Lou Gehrig, Following the Babe in Alan D. Gaff, Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir, Simon & Schuster 2020, page 59
glosses: splendid, enjoyable, bang-up
Derived terms: corkingly
corking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.
implementing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpləmɛntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of implement
corked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːkt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cork
corked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːkt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kt
Forms: form: more corked
form: most corked
Senses: examples: text: Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 554:
glosses: Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
examples: text: Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
glosses: Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
examples: text: the corked faces of the outlaws
glosses: Blackened by burnt cork.
Derived terms: corked bat
corked up
Related terms: cork taint
stilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: stilts
Etymology: From Middle English stilte, stulte, from Old English *stilte, *stylte, from Proto-Germanic *stiltijǭ, *staltijǭ, *stultijǭ (“stilt”), from Proto-Germanic *stelt- (“to be stiff”). Akin to Danish stylte, Dutch stelt, German Stelze.
Senses: glosses: Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.
coordinate_terms: pile
pier
staddle stone
glosses: A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
glosses: Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
glosses: A crutch.
examples: text: He[…]shot MacLaren when between the stilts of his plough,[…]
ref: 1829 December, [Walter Scott], “Introduction”, in Rob Roy (Waverley Novels; VII), Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Company; London: Simpkin & Marshall, →OCLC, pages lxxxvii–lxxxviii:
glosses: The handle of a plough.
Derived terms: word: banded stilt
taxonomic: Himantopus mexicanus
word: black-necked stilt
word: black-winged stilt
word: stilt bug
taxonomic: Microstegium vimineum
word: stilt grass
word: stilt house
word: stilt palm
taxonomic: Himantopus knudseni
word: stilt plover
word: stilt root
taxonomic: Calidris himantopus
word: stilt sandpiper
word: stiltwalker
stilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: stilts
form: stilting
form: stilted
form: stilted
Etymology: From Middle English stilte, stulte, from Old English *stilte, *stylte, from Proto-Germanic *stiltijǭ, *staltijǭ, *stultijǭ (“stilt”), from Proto-Germanic *stelt- (“to be stiff”). Akin to Danish stylte, Dutch stelt, German Stelze.
Senses: glosses: to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts
glosses: to apply unnecessary pomp or formality
jestingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jestingly
form: most jestingly
Etymology: From jesting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he flattered me, tickled me, stroaked me, groped me, frizled me, curled me, kissed me, embraced me, laid her Hands about my Neck, and now and then made jestingly, pretty little Horns above my Forehead: […]
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], chapter 14, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 3rd book:
text: This was spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer; and, therefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent matters till they reached the parsonage.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 10, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: Were you free to chuse,
As jestingly I’ll put the supposition,
Without a thought reflecting on your Katherine,
What sort of woman would you make your choice?
ref: 1827, Charles Lamb, “The Wife’s Trial; Or, The Intruding Widow”, in The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon, published 1838, page 264:
text: 1918, E. Craigie Melville, “In Camp” in Poems from the Trenches, Somerville, Mass.: The Thistle Press, p. 18,
Still I shall hate to leave you for the sake of those splendid nights
When the long, hard day is over and Sergeant has douzed the lights,
And we lie on those beds of straw that unfortunate Tommies get,
And jestingly jolly each other as we smoke a last cig’rette;
text: They heard her talking normally, even jestingly, with one of the aunts, and they admired her for her courage.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 6:
glosses: In jest; jokingly.
mockingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mockingly
form: most mockingly
Etymology: From mocking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I remember how mockingly bright the day seemed as I went back on my melancholy pilgrimage to the little house at Woking, how busy the streets and vivid the moving life about me.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 291:
text: It then mockingly says they connect “like-minded Tesla owners with one another, facilitating a vibrant community through shared contact information.”
ref: 2025 March 18, Michael Gauthier, “Tesla Owners’ Personal Info Leaked On DOGEQuest Site, Musk Calls It Domestic Terrorism”, in Carscoops:
glosses: Said, written, or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule; with mocking effect.
Derived terms: self-mockingly
al desko
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of alfresco + desk.
Senses: examples: text: Lunches usually consist of cold sandwiches consumed al desko.
ref: 1981 January 30, Stephanie Mansfield, “The Last Memo”, in The Washington Post:
text: The number of folks who have taken to dining al desko is causing some new problems in the workplace.
ref: 1994 March 29, “Workers Are Increasingly In To Lunch”, in Philadelphia Daily News:
text: A recent study published in a British daily claimed that dining ‘al desko’ was fast becoming the new norm for office workers.
ref: 2004 November 12, Alex Elgar, “Dining 'Al desko'”, in The CB Friday:
text: We need to encourage our children to ask the child sitting alone at lunch whether they'd like company, and we need to do the same for that work colleague who always eats their lunch alone al desko, even when we'd rather dine on our own.
ref: 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 11, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: At a desk (typically used of eating).
Related terms: deskfast
seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of seal
seals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seal
sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: ceiling
Etymology: From seal (“device”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Used for closing securely.
Derived terms: sealing apparatus
sealing bath
sealing bloom
sealing cell
sealing compound
sealing material
sealing money
sealing power
sealing smut
sealing strip
sealing-thread
sealing-water
sealing-wax
sealing wax
self-sealing
sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: ceiling
Etymology: From seal (“device”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seal
sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: ceiling
Forms: form: sealings
Etymology: From seal (“device”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Action of the verb to seal in any sense.
Derived terms: seam sealing
sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: ceiling
Etymology: From seal (“mammal”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seal
sealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
homophone: ceiling
Etymology: From seal (“mammal”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Hunting of seals (the animals).
Derived terms: sealing-voyage
sealed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seal
sealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːld/
rhymes: -iːld
Senses: examples: text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: Closed by a seal.
glosses: Preventing entrance.
glosses: Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
Synonyms: sense: preventing entrance
word: impermeable
Derived terms: heat-sealed
hermetically sealed
keep one's lips sealed
my lips are sealed
sealed battery
sealed beam
sealed-beam headlight
sealed bearing
sealed bid
sealed book
sealed cabin
sealed crustless sandwich
sealed earth
sealed indictment
sealed instrument
sealed jar technique
Sealed Knot
sealed off
sealed-off
sealed orders
sealed pattern
sealed porter
sealed record
sealed refrigeration compressor
sealed room
sealed round
sealed second-price auction
sealed server
sealed source
sealed system
sealed unit
sealed verdict
signed, sealed and delivered
tar-sealed
unsealed
skit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: skits
form: skitting
form: skitted
form: skitted
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: To make fun of.
examples: text: Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […]
ref: 1873, Robert Tannahill, The Soldier's Return: A Scottish Interlude in Two Acts. With Other Poems and Songs, page 12:
text: The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough.
ref: 1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, page 64:
text: I could feel her eyes skitting over to me after she said something that might have shocked me - but I stayed quiet.
ref: 2002 November 26, Sue Miller, While I Was Gone, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 164:
text: Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.
ref: 2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
Related terms: skittish
liquids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid
comedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmiː.dɪk/
rhymes: -iːdɪk
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔməɖɪk/
Forms: form: more comedic
form: most comedic
form: comœdic
Etymology: From comedy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It was done for comedic purposes
glosses: Relating to comedy.
Synonyms: comic
comical
Derived terms: comedically
metacomedic
noncomedic
uncomedic
RDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RDHs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of registered dental hygienist.
leaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːkt/
rhymes: -iːkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of leak
leaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːkt/
rhymes: -iːkt
Senses: examples: A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.
glosses: Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
Derived terms: unleaked
leaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈliːkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of leak
leaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːkɪŋ/
Forms: form: leakings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something leaks.
examples: text: […] on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.
ref: 2007, Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater, page 15:
glosses: That which leaks out.
NASCAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæs.kɑɹ/
Forms: form: Nascar
Senses: examples: text: 2008 February 16, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
Chuck Liddell, also known as Ice Man, is one of the stars of the sport that has been called the NASCAR of the twenty-first century, mixed martial arts.
text: Unfortunately for Brown, the reaction was negative. Despite being a rising NASCAR star, he said it became “extremely difficult” to attract sponsors because major corporations saw his unintentional association with the LGB meme to be divisive.
ref: 2022 January 5, “NASCAR rejects ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sponsorship”, in RT, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2022:
text: Unflinching candor is a large part of the reason DBC has seen its popularity steadily rise since it started before the 2016 NASCAR season, an idea conceived by Dirty Mo Media founder Mike Davis, who thought a show featuring Griffin and Majors would provide additional exposure to JR Motorsports’ sponsors.
ref: 2022 March 11, Jordan Bianchi, “‘Door, Bumper, Clear’: The unfiltered NASCAR podcast that isn’t afraid to speak its mind”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Acronym of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a U.S. auto racing organization founded in 1948.
Related terms: ARCA
stock car
leaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːks/
rhymes: -iːks
homophone: leeks
Senses: glosses: plural of leak
leaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːks/
rhymes: -iːks
homophone: leeks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leak
fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈtiːɡz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fatigue