cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kryptonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪptənaɪt/
Forms: form: kryptonites
Etymology: From a fictional radioactive element, kryptonite, that has a detrimental effect on the otherwise invulnerable character Superman. Apparently formed as krypton (“a chemical element, Kr”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The terrific seven-grain bread here is the kryptonite of restaurant reviewers: two mini-loaves and you are incapacitated.
ref: 1991 October 25, Bryan Miller, “Restaurants: John Clancy's”, in New York Times:
text: So while recording or sampling a Charlie Manson track […] makes for shock rock kudos aplenty, a devotion to Hubbard is kryptonite for credibility.
ref: 2006 March 25, Jonathan Leggett, “Cult musicians”, in The Guardian:
text: We all have our own kryptonite or kryptonites, so don't tempt yourself by listening to so-called friends who are just demonic tools being used to bring you under.
ref: 2016, Marlon Orlando Cole, Orphans: Nature's Beloved, page 93:
text: But of course porn is kryptonite to many investors.
ref: 2025 May 24, “OnlyFans has a shot at ditching its NSFW image”, in FT Weekend, Lex., page 20:
synonyms: word: Achilles heel
word: weakness
word: Achilles heel
word: chink in the armor
word: glass jaw
word: kryptonite
word: soft spot
word: soft underbelly
word: vulnerability
word: weakness
word: weak spot
glosses: The one weakness of something or someone that is otherwise invulnerable.
glosses: Crack cocaine.
kryptonite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪptənaɪt/
Forms: form: kryptonites
form: kryptoniting
form: kryptonited
form: kryptonited
Etymology: From a fictional radioactive element, kryptonite, that has a detrimental effect on the otherwise invulnerable character Superman. Apparently formed as krypton (“a chemical element, Kr”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: And even those two were pretty puny, like Superman after he had been kryptonited.
ref: 1998, Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, Melbourne: Penguin, page 173:
glosses: To expose to, or attack with, kryptonite.
glosses: To destroy, wreck, or ruin; to affect adversely, as Superman is affected by kryptonite.
toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒfi/
enpr: täʹfē
ipa: /ˈtɔfi/
rhymes: -ɒfi
Forms: form: toffees
form: taffy
form: toffy
Etymology: An alteration of taffy.
Senses: glosses: A type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard.
glosses: A small, individual piece of toffee.
glosses: Any kind of sweets; candy.
Derived terms: banoffee
bonfire toffee
cinder toffee
English toffee
for toffee
honeycomb toffee
maple toffee
sponge toffee
sticky toffee pudding
toffee apple
toffee-brown
toffee-colored
toffee-coloured
toffee hammer
toffee-nose
toffee-nosed
toffee paper
toffee penny
Related terms: butterscotch
caramel
fudge
toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒfi/
enpr: täʹfē
ipa: /ˈtɔfi/
rhymes: -ɒfi
Forms: form: toffees
form: toffeeing
form: toffeed
form: toffeed
form: taffy
form: toffy
Etymology: An alteration of taffy.
Senses: examples: text: The plant will close and three-quarters of Britain's apple toffeeing capacity will lie idle.
ref: 1971, The Economist - Volume 239, page 74:
text: But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Lowry, The Bellini Madonna:
text: The fire had claimed three of Mr. Barry's barns and the wine presses and the oak fermentation vessels were blackened and sprung, the wine-sugars toffeeing the floor.
ref: 2015, Tony Weston, Making a Name, page 93:
glosses: To coat in toffee.
technocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛknə(ʊ)kɹat/
Forms: form: technocrats
Etymology: Back-formation from technocracy, equivalent to techno- + -crat.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of technocracy.
examples: text: Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87:
text: Would the site’s community of decentralized, uncompensated editors continue to govern it according to its principles of openness, transparency, and neutrality, or would a handful of highly paid NGO technocrats re-orient Wikipedia toward endorsing and promoting the ever-shifting currents of the Western elite social justice regime?
ref: 2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2025:
text: [Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney]’s been able to sell himself as a no-nonsense technocrat who knows how to steer a crisis.
ref: 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025:
glosses: An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
glosses: A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
Related terms: technocracy
technocratic
plumb bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumb bobs
form: plumb-bob
Senses: glosses: A metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line.
Derived terms: plumbob
Related terms: plummet
Brahman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brahmans
form: Brāhman
form: Brachman
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman).
Senses: examples: text: The coins of this dynasty are all marked with the figures of the Brahman Bull and a horseman; and it is remarkable that this very Hindú device was retained by the Mohammedan sovereigns who reigned over the same countries.
ref: 1846 June 20, “Asiatic Society.—June 6.—The Earl of Aukland in the chair.”, in The Athenæum, number 973, page 632:
glosses: A breed of beef cattle from India with a hump on the shoulder.
glosses: A Brahmin
Brahman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brahma
form: Brahmin
form: Brahmana
form: Brāhman
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (bráhman).
Senses: glosses: The unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools.
Derived terms: Brahmanic
Brahmanical
Brahmanism
Brahmaputra
Brahmin
Siva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Shiva.
Coordinate terms: Brahma
Vishnu
Derived terms: sense: Hindu god of destruction
word: Sivaism
sense: Hindu god of destruction
word: Sivaist
sense: Hindu god of destruction
word: Sivaite
plumb line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumb lines
form: plumbline
Etymology: From Middle English plumblyne, equivalent to plumb + line.
Senses: glosses: A cord with a weight attached, used to produce a vertical line; a plummet.
glosses: Any vertical reference line.
Related terms: word: plumb
word: plummet
word: plumb bob
word: plumb-line
toffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toffies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toffee.
toffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: toffier
form: toffiest
Etymology: From toff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him.
ref: 2007, Craig Sherborne, Muck, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Rather it lurks in the now-republished photos of Mr Osborne in the Fauntleroy outfit of the Bullingdon club, a toffy Oxford society of which he was a member at the same time as Mr Rothschild (and of which David Cameron, the Tory leader, is also an alumnus).
ref: 2008 October 23, “The king of Corfu”, in The Economist:
text: She heaves an exasperated sigh that would do a shop assistant in a toffy dress emporium proud.
ref: 2012, Paddy O'Reilly, The Fine Color of Rust, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Posh, upper-class; snooty.
Related terms: toffee-nosed
for toffee
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can't swim for toffee.
text: This book was always going to be on the cards. As her work testifies, she [Tracey Emin] may not be able to spell for toffee but words are very important to her.
ref: 2006 October 7, Nicholas Lezard, “In bed with Tracey Emin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Bleeding Nora! Half head, it was. Do you want a flake in that, love? Couldn't pull a pint for toffee.
ref: 2016, Matthew Bulgo, Constellation Street, Oberon Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
synonyms: for sour apples
for the life of one
glosses: At all, especially of a (completely lacking) skill or ability.
toffee apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toffee apples
Etymology: The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.
Senses: examples: text: Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
synonyms: word: candy apple
glosses: A candy apple.
examples: text: Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines.
ref: 2014, Richard Baber, The SOTCW World War I Compendium:
glosses: A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.
toffee-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toffee-nosed
form: most toffee-nosed
Etymology: Probably from toff or from toffee-nose + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer.
Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.
ref: 2000 December 18, BBC and Bafta Tribute to Michael Caine, 16:43-17:05:
glosses: Snobbish, condescending or aloof.
toilet water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilet waters
Etymology: Calque of French eau de toilette.
Senses: examples: text: A toilet water with a strong scent, originally produced at Cologne, Germany.
ref: 2008, Andrew Delahunty, “eau de Cologne”, in From Bonbon to Cha-cha: Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: A perfumed mixture of water and alcohol somewhat like cologne: synonym of eau de toilette.
examples: text: This may provide a simple explanation for the seemingly universal desire of all dogs to drink from the toilet. Since toilet water has likely been refreshed more recently than the water in Fido's bowl, it tastes better.
ref: 2019, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce, Unleashing Your Dog:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see toilet, water: wastewater in a toilet.
tolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: [ˈtɔ̟l.ə.ɹəns]
Forms: form: tolerances
Etymology: From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
Senses: glosses: The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
examples: text: Both [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and [David] Ben-Gurion also wrote songs of praise to the Ottoman Empire, its tolerance toward ethnic minorities in general — and to Jews in particular — as well as to the democratic changes it was undergoing.
ref: 2019 July 21, Dmitry Shumsky, “When Zionism imagined Jewish nationalism without supremacy”, in +972 Magazine:
glosses: The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
glosses: The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
examples: text: Our customers can generally accept ten times the tolerance which we can achieve in our machining operations.
glosses: The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
glosses: The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Hyponyms: sense: deviation from a standard
word: fault tolerance
Derived terms: aerotolerance
autotolerance
barotolerance
Byzantine fault tolerance
chaotolerance
chronotolerance
crosstolerance
cryotolerance
halotolerance
heterotolerance
homotolerance
house of tolerance
hypertolerance
immunotolerance
nontolerance
osmotolerance
phototolerance
pseudotolerance
psychrotolerance
radiotolerance
thermotolerance
tolerance break
trypanotolerance
xenotolerance
xerotolerance
zero tolerance
Related terms: tolerability
tolerable
tolerant
tolerate
toleration
tolerance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹəns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈtɔl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈtɒl.ə.ɹəns/
ipa: [ˈtɔ̟l.ə.ɹəns]
Forms: form: tolerances
form: tolerancing
form: toleranced
form: toleranced
Etymology: From Middle French tolerance, from Latin tolerantia (“endurance”), from tolerans, present participle of Latin tolerō (“endure”).
Senses: glosses: To design or engineer a material to a specified tolerance.
toleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒləˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: tolerations
Etymology: From Middle French toleration, from Latin tolerātiōnem, accusative singular of tolerātiō, from the verb tolerō (“I tolerate”). Compare tolerance.
Senses: glosses: Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
glosses: The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
examples: text: Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 86:
glosses: Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
Derived terms: religious toleration
toll-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll-bars
form: tollbar
Senses: glosses: a gate or other barrier placed across a road where a toll is taken
toll barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll barriers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tollbar.
synonyms: word: tollbar
toll bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll bridges
Senses: glosses: A bridge at which a toll is charged for passage.
toll call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll calls
Senses: glosses: A telephone call with a higher charge than that for a normal local call.
glosses: A long-distance call.
Hypernyms: telephone call
toll-collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll-collectors
Senses: synonyms: tolltaker
glosses: A person who collects the toll at a toll road or toll bridge.
glosses: A device that counts the people going through a turnstile and paying a toll.
toll plaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll plazas
Senses: glosses: a row of toll booths on a toll road or turnpike
toll booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll booths
form: tollbooth
Etymology: From Middle English tolboth.
Senses: synonyms: toll shop
coordinate_terms: tollhouse
glosses: A booth on a toll road or toll bridge where the toll is collected.
Related terms: tollbar
toll-collector
tollgate
tolltaker
toll plaza
toll road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toll roads
form: tollroad
Senses: glosses: A road for the use of which a toll must be paid; a turnpike.
tom cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tomcat.
first-degree burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-degree burns
Senses: glosses: A mild burn that causes redness of the skin but no blistering.
Related terms: second-degree burn
third-degree burn
second-degree burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-degree burns
Senses: glosses: a burn, more severe than a first-degree burn, that blisters the skin
Related terms: third-degree burn
third-degree burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-degree burns
Senses: glosses: A severe burn that destroys skin and underlying tissue and exposes nerve endings.
Related terms: first-degree burn
second-degree burn
fogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogos
Senses: examples: text: And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo beclouds all the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs or the broom.
ref: 1824, The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 176:
glosses: Alternative form of hogo (“strong unpleasant smell”).
programmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈɡɹæməbəl/
Etymology: From program + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This enables programmable tensiometry and fluid movement while insuring efficient energy transfer to the in-wheel electrostatic nanomotors.
ref: 2007 November 11, Phil Patton, “Far Out: Studios Imagine Smart Cars for a World Transformed by Robots”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of being programmed.
Derived terms: EPROM
erasable programmable logic device
field-programmable gate array
programmability
programmable logic array
programmable logic controller
programmable matter
programmable read only memory
programmable read-only memory
Related terms: timer
programmable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈɡɹæməbəl/
Forms: form: programmables
Etymology: From program + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the important decision-making functions found on computers are available on TI programmables: Looping. Branching. Flags. Sub-routines. Yet there's no special language to learn.
ref: 1974, The Michigan Technic, volumes 93-95, page 33:
glosses: A calculator that allows the user to write programs.
laten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: latens
form: latening
form: latened
form: latened
Etymology: From late + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
text: Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.
ref: 1930, Alec Waugh, Three Score and Ten, page 3:
text: Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.
ref: 2011, Catherine Winchester, Northern Light:
glosses: To grow late; become later.
coatimundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coatimundis
form: coatimondi
Etymology: From Portuguese coatimundi, from Nheengatu kuatimu'ne, from Old Tupi kua'ti (see coati) + mu'ne (“trick, snare”).
Senses: glosses: A ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua), a South American carnivore.
laundrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laundrettes
Etymology: From laundry + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: The laundrette was a decent walk away; the air outside its doors was always scolding and brash, as if the air there was so clean it could sting you.
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 115:
glosses: Synonym of launderette (UK)
synonyms: word: launderette
extra: UK
Synonyms: word: laundromat
missen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Here's to yaw an me, an to mi wife's husband, noan forgettin misen!
glosses: Myself.
missen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mizzen.
tailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪld/
rhymes: -eɪld
Etymology: From Middle English tayled; equivalent to tail + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tail
coati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈɑːti/
ipa: /koʊˈɑti/
rhymes: -ɑːti
Forms: form: coatis
Etymology: From Spanish coatí, from Portuguese quati, coati, from Old Tupi kua'ti, from cua (“belt”) + tim (“nose”).
Senses: examples: text: Prospectors and cowpunchers who see the animals most often, sometimes call them Mexican monkeys. Others believe the coati to be a peculiar kind of arboreal anteater. More generally in this region, coatis are called “chulo bears” or simply “chulos,” and will be so referred to hereafter.
ref: 1974, Bil Gilbert, “Chulo”, in Backpacker, page 89:
text: The coatis are four small, carnivorous mammals related to the raccoon, red panda and ringtail, or cacomistle. They range in size from 15 inches (38 cm) in the mountain coati, Nasuella olivacca, to 16-26 inches (41-67 cm) long in the three species Nasua nasua, N. nelsoni and N. narica.
ref: 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, Coati: International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Chickaree - crabs, page 478:
text: Above: Maya effigy vessel depicting a red coati or opposum with some anthropomorphic traits.
ref: 2004, Hope B. Werness, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art, page 88:
glosses: Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.
Synonyms: word: Brazilian aardvark
word: tejon
Derived terms: taxonomic: Nasua narica
word: brown coati
taxonomic: Nasua narica nelsoni
word: Cozumel Island coati
taxonomic: Nasua narica nelsoni
word: island coati
taxonomic: Nasuella spp.
word: mountain coati
taxonomic: Nasua nasua
word: ring-tailed coati
taxonomic: Nasua nasua
word: South American coati
taxonomic: Nasua narica
word: white-nosed coati
Related terms: coatimundi
neuralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ældʒɪk
Etymology: From neuralgia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or affected by neuralgia.
Derived terms: antineuralgic
neuralgically
postneuralgic
neuralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ældʒɪk
Forms: form: neuralgics
Etymology: From neuralgia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A heavy clay soil is bad for all neuralgics, and the house should be dry, and on a sandy or gravel soil. The desideratum for all neuralgic affections is perpetual summer […]
ref: 1907, The Medical Brief, volume 35, page 840:
glosses: A person afflicted by neuralgia.
diamond cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond cutters
Senses: glosses: A craftsman who cuts diamonds.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A professional wrestling move in which the wrestler takes the opponent's neck and drops them to the mat.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball hit up the middle of the diamond over the pitching mound reaching the outfield.
vasalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vasal
vasalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vasal
steel cage match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steel cage matches
Senses: glosses: A special match in wrestling where opponents wrestle inside an enclosed cage surrounded by steel
Atlas moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atlas moths
Etymology: Partial calque of translingual Attacus atlas.
Senses: glosses: a large moth, Attacus atlas, from the tropical forests of southeast Asia
niladic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ædɪk
Etymology: From nil + -adic.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an operator or function in a program, having no arguments.
Synonyms: nullary
Related terms: dyadic
monadic
triadic
bobbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobbin
bobbins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Don't take this the wrong way, my friend, but I've never heard such complete and utter bobbins in all my life.
ref: 2011, James Lovegrove, Redlaw, volume 1:
qualifier: Lancashire; Manchester; Lancashire; Manchester
glosses: crap, rubbish, something worthless or nonsensical
tombola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒmˈbəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: tombolas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian tombola.
Senses: glosses: A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
examples: text: He had been given no choice in the matter of sharing rooms. Gary and he were drawn out of the tombola together, so together they were.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 43:
glosses: The drum from which the tickets are drawn.
Related terms: bingo
lotto
yarmulka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yarmulkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yarmulke.
basking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bask
Derived terms: basking shark
basking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baskings
Senses: examples: text: With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short […]
ref: 1999, Linda Simon, William James Remembered:
glosses: The act of one who basks.
distracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distracted
form: most distracted
Senses: examples: text: Plenty of accidents happened with a look-out present but momentarily distracted.
ref: 2021 September 22, Dr Mike Esbester, “Trackside safety: a permanent problem”, in RAIL, number 940, page 79:
glosses: having one's attention diverted; preoccupied; distrait (literary)
examples: text: Runs about the house like a distracted person crying and making a most hideous noise.
ref: 1737, J. Bricknell, The Natural History of North Carolina, page 342:
text: There'll be a procession— bands— dead march— bells tolling— all the girls in tears— Yum-Yum distracted— then, when it's all over, general rejoicings, and a display of fireworks in the evening.
ref: 1885, W. S. Gilbert, “Act I”, in The Mikado:
glosses: distraught
Derived terms: distractedly
distractedness
nondistracted
undistracted
distracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distract
hard lemonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard lemonades
Etymology: From "Mike's Hard Lemonade", a North American brand of shandy.
Senses: glosses: An alcopop resembling lemonade.
diverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜːtəd/
Senses: glosses: that has been subject to diversion
Derived terms: nondiverted
undiverted
diverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜːtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divert
Tommy gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tommy guns
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Thompson submachine gun.
Derived terms: tommy gunner
Thompson submachine gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thompson submachine guns
Etymology: From Thompson + submachine gun. Named after John Taliaferro Thompson, an American army officer.
Senses: glosses: A .45-caliber American submachine gun, having a wooden stock and a drum, stick, or box magazine.
wikipedia: en:John Taliaferro Thompson
Synonyms: Chicago typewriter
chopper
Thompson SMG
Tommy gun
trench broom
Hypernyms: .45
gun
machine gun
submachine gun
Derived terms: Thompson SMG
Tommy gun
Related terms: gun
machine
machine gun
sub-
submachine
submachine gun
Thompson
Thompson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒmp.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɒm.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɑmp.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɑm.sən/
Forms: form: Thompsons
form: Tompson
form: Tomson
form: Thomson
form: Thomason
form: Thomasson
Etymology: Variant of Thomson, from Tom + -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas". In some instances of people so named, a calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“McTavish”); also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas".
Senses: examples: text: Police believe Mangione had been traveling around Pennsylvania in the days after Thompson was killed, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh to Altoona, where he was recognized earlier Monday at a McDonald's restaurant.
ref: 2024 December 10, Jesse Zanger, Renee Anderson, “Luigi Mangione, suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, charged with murder in NYC”, in CBS News:
glosses: A British surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A British surname transferred from the given name.
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Bulgaria.
glosses: A placename:
A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TL9296).
glosses: A placename:
A city in Northern Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A rural municipality in Pembina Valley Region, Manitoba; in full, the Rural Municipality of Thompson.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bullock County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Winnebago County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sullivan County, New York.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Geauga County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Erin, Washington County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Thompson Township.
Derived terms: Big Thompson River
Feit-Thompson theorem
Thompson Falls
Thompsonian
Thompson-Nicola
Thompsons
Thompson submachine gun
Thompsonville
Related terms: word: MacTavish
word: McTavish
Thompson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒmp.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɒm.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɑmp.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɑm.sən/
Forms: form: Thompsons
form: Tompson
form: Tomson
form: Thomson
form: Thomason
form: Thomasson
Etymology: Variant of Thomson, from Tom + -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas". In some instances of people so named, a calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“McTavish”); also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas".
Senses: glosses: A member of a Salish people of British Columbia.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Ellipsis of Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy gun”).
Thomson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒm.sən/
ipa: /ˈtɑm.sən/
Forms: form: Thomsons
form: Tomson
form: Thompson
form: Tompson
form: Thomason
form: Thomasson
Etymology: From Tom + -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas". In some instances of people so named, a calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“MacTavish”). Also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas". Many with the name MacTavish changed their name to Thomson and Thompson after Culloden. Being derived from Thomas ultimately gives this surname an Aramaic derivation - teoma 'twin'.
Senses: glosses: A British surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A British surname transferred from the given name.
A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of McDuffie County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Carroll County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former city in Carlton County, Minnesota, now merged into the city of Carlton.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A hamlet in the town of Greenwich, Washington County, New York.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Singapore, named after Thomson Road, which was named after John Turnbull Thomson.
glosses: A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after Alexander Thomson (pioneer).
Derived terms: Gibbs-Thomson effect
Gibbs-Thomson equation
Thomson effect
thomsonite
Related terms: word: MacTavish
word: McTavish
gtg
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of good to go.
synonyms: G2G
IGTG
glosses: Initialism of got to go (as a form of farewell).
Related terms: brb
gtg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gtgs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of get-together.
pink ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink tickets
Senses: glosses: A figurative pass entitling the holder to a free night out.
ginnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪnəl/
rhymes: -ɪnəl
Forms: form: ginnels
form: gennel
Etymology: From ginn (“a road or passage down to the sea”) + -el (diminutive suffix), ultimately from Old English ginn (“a side expanse, an opening, abyss”).
Senses: examples: text: […]maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel ov a wyndy neet waitin o'th' sweetheart comin out.
ref: 1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland, page 59:
text: At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:
text: Pssht, get over here, whoopie / Finish him like Sub-Zero / Out the window, into the garden / Over the fence and straight through the ginnel
ref: 2014 September 7, “Spitfire”, Aaron Davis (lyrics), performed by Davis, Aaron [as Bugzy Malone], JDZ Media:
qualifier: Lancashire; Manchester; Lancashire; Manchester
glosses: A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
Synonyms: ennog
snicket
twitchel
Derived terms: snickelway
tom-tom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom-toms
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, with reduplication.
Senses: examples: text: It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort than they had ever known; and some of their women and children had disappeared since the malevolent tom-tom had begun its incessant beating far within the black haunted woods where no dweller ventured.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: Many visitors to France will go back to the States after a three months' fling of night spots and sight-seeing without remarking that can-can girls and champagne play about the same part in French life today as the tom-tom and totem pole in American life.
ref: 1949 June 26, Ann Hightower, “If Paris Is Can-Can, New York Is Tom-Tom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 167:
glosses: A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.
glosses: Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.
raw_tags: as a pair
glosses: Alternative form of tam-tam (“a kind of flat gong”).
tom-tom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tom-toms
form: tom-tomming
form: tom-tommed
form: tom-tommed
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, with reduplication.
Senses: glosses: To play the tom-tom (pair of drums).
tomtom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomtoms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tom-tom.
tomtom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tomtoms
form: tomtomming
form: tomtommed
form: tomtommed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tom-tom.
tam-tam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tam-tams
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer.
tam-tam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tam-tams
form: tam-tamming
form: tam-tammed
form: tam-tammed
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To beat on a drum.
Related terms: tom-tom
tone arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tone arms
Senses: glosses: a light, balanced arm that holds the pickup cartridge on a record player
toneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toneless
form: most toneless
Etymology: From tone + -less.
Senses: examples: text: And sure enough she had settled down at once, so that in less than two months it seemed to Stephen that Miss Puddleton must always have been at Morton, must always have been sitting at the large walnut table, must always have been saying in that dry, toneless voice with the Oxford accent: ‘You’ve forgotten something, Stephen,’ […]
ref: 1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 2, p. 71:
text: The Cumshewa totem poles were dark and colourless, the wood toneless from pouring rain.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 4, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: Lacking tone or expression.
glosses: Lacking vitality; listless; lifeless.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Lacking tone or pitch, have the neutral tone.
Derived terms: tonelessly
tongue and groove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue and grooves
form: tongues and grooves
Senses: glosses: A joint, in flooring or panelling, made by fitting a ridge (tongue) along the edge of one board into a corresponding slot (groove) on another.
T&G
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T&Gs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tongue and groove.
see you later
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Ellipsis of I will see you later or I hope to see you later.
Senses: synonyms: see you around
goodbye
cul8r
glosses: A phrase used at parting, and not necessarily implying that the person being addressed will be seen later by the speaker.
Derived terms: laters
you later alligator
you later, baked potato
Related terms: ya
you around
you in hell
you soon
you tomorrow
you when I see you
Vedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪdɪk/
ipa: /ˈveɪðɪk/
note: without laxing
ipa: /ˈved̪ɪk/
ipa: /ˈvɛd̪ɪk/
note: with laxing from Veda; compare Hindi वैदिक
ipa: [ʋɛː.d̪ɪk]
rhymes: -eɪdɪk
rhymes: -eɪðɪk
Etymology: From Veda + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Vedas
glosses: Of or relating to the Sanskrit language of the Vedas
tonnage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: tonnages
Etymology: From Old French tonnage.
Senses: examples: text: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
glosses: The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
glosses: The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
glosses: The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
glosses: A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
glosses: The total shipping of a fleet or nation.
examples: text: DB Cargo is understood to be looking at the feasibility of re-gearing some of its Class 66s to allow them to haul the same tonnages as the Class 60s it has taken out of its fleet in the latter part of 2023.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: GB Railfreight heads for biggest fleet”, in RAIL, number 998, page 18:
glosses: A weight in tons, especially of cargo or freight.
Synonyms: topics: shipping
transport
economics
sciences
sense: ships
word: tunnage
Coordinate terms: sense: charge per ton
word: cranage
sense: charge per ton
word: demurrage
sense: charge per ton
word: shippage
sense: charge per ton
word: shorage
sense: charge per ton
word: wharfage
cubic feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubic foot
cubic foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic feet
Senses: glosses: A measure of volume or capacity equivalent to that of a cube having unit dimension of one foot; equals 28.32 litres.
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Senses: glosses: An online computer role-playing game in which a large number of players can interact with one another.
Synonyms: MMORPG
Related terms: massively multiplayer online game
eki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 駅(えき) (eki).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese train station.
PAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of periodic automatic replenishment: in inventory control, a fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations.
glosses: Initialism of photosynthetically-active radiation.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of precision approach radar.
coordinate_terms: ESA
AESA
PESA
MSA
glosses: Abbreviation of phased-array radar.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of pseudoautosomal region.
glosses: Initialism of personnel accountability report.
PAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of Philippine Area of Responsibility.
PAR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of planed all round: of timber, planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.
Related terms: PSE
go after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes after
form: going after
form: went after
form: gone after
Senses: examples: text: The downed officer couldn't go after the criminal.
glosses: To pursue in attempt to catch another.
examples: text: In Little League, usually everyone goes after the ball.
text: Inspired, the scientist went right after the new idea.
glosses: To pursue an object or a goal.
Related terms: get after
prothonotary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothonotaries
form: protonotary
Etymology: From Middle English prothonotarie, from Medieval Latin protonotarius, from Byzantine Greek πρωτονοτάριος (prōtonotários), from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) + Byzantine Greek νοτάριος (notários), from Latin notārius (“notary”).
Senses: glosses: A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
examples: text: I accordingly did direct him how to enter an appearance with the prothonotary and to obtain a copy of the plaint or declaration.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 231
text: Prothonotary was a pretty impressive-sounding title for a clerk of court, but that’s how the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania rolled.
ref: 2012, Melissa F. Miller, chapter 39, in Inadvertent Disclosure (The Sasha McCandless Series; Volume 1), e-book edition, Brown Street Books, →ISBN, page 7542:
glosses: A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts, (Canada) in Federal Court.
qualifier: Greek Orthodoxy
glosses: The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
Derived terms: prothonotary warbler
eutherian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Eutheria, from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals like humans and rodents than to marsupials.
Derived terms: noneutherian
eutherian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutherians
Etymology: From Eutheria, from Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).
Senses: glosses: An animal of the group Eutheria.
Derived terms: eutheriancentric
koto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotos
Etymology: From Japanese 箏 (koto).
Senses: examples: text: Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 94:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
Derived terms: kotoist
kotolike
celesta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛstə/
other: /t͡ʃəˈlɛstə/
rhymes: -ɛstə
Forms: form: celestas
form: celeste
Etymology: From French célesta.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: celeste
glosses: A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
Derived terms: celestist
celeste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: celestes
Etymology: Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Bleu celeste.
Derived terms: celestist
Related terms: bleu celeste
giocoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more giocoso
form: most giocoso
Etymology: From Italian giocoso, from Latin iocōsus.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Merry; playful.
grazioso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊsoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊzoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊsəʊ
rhymes: -əʊzəʊ
Forms: form: more grazioso
form: most grazioso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grazioso (“graceful”), from Latin grātiōsus (“agreeable, popular”), from grātia (“grace”). Doublet of gracioso and gracious.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: graceful, flowing
grazioso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊsoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɡɹɑtsiˈoʊzoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊsəʊ
rhymes: -əʊzəʊ
Forms: form: more grazioso
form: most grazioso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grazioso (“graceful”), from Latin grātiōsus (“agreeable, popular”), from grātia (“grace”). Doublet of gracioso and gracious.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: gracefully, flowingly
rallentando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian rallentando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
ritenuto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian ritenuto. Doublet of retinue.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (of a passage in a musical score) immediately slower, held back at a slower rate of pace.
ritenuto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritenutos
Etymology: From Italian ritenuto. Doublet of retinue.
Senses: glosses: A musical passage of this kind.