cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
heliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.li.əˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: heliographs
Etymology: From helio- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, / And hied away to the Hurrum Hills above the Afghan border, / To sit on a rock with a heliograph; but ere he left he taught / His wife the working of the Code that sets the miles at naught. / And Love had made him very sage, as Nature made her fair; / So Cupid and Apollo linked, per heliograph, the pair.
ref: 1886, Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties […], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published 1899, →OCLC:
text: It was a lieutenant and a couple of privates of the 8th Hussars, with a stand like a theodolite, which the artilleryman told me was a heliograph.
ref: 1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book I (The Coming of the Martians), page 91:
text: when we stood up at nightfall we saw, in the sunset, the sparkle of the heliograph above cities, on the far side of the horizon.
ref: 1979, Alasdair Gray, “Five Letters From an Eastern Empire”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 93:
glosses: An apparatus for signalling by means of a moveable mirror which reflects flashes of sunlight.
glosses: A heliogram.
glosses: An instrument for measuring the intensity of sunlight.
glosses: A device for photographing the sun.
glosses: A photograph.
Derived terms: heliographer
heliographic
heliography
oroheliograph
photoheliograph
radioheliograph
spectroheliograph
heliograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.li.əˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: heliographs
form: heliographing
form: heliographed
form: heliographed
Etymology: From helio- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: With damnatory dot and dash he heliographed his wife / Some interesting details of the General's private life.
ref: 1919, Rudyard Kipling, “A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads:
glosses: To send a message by heliograph.
glosses: To send a heliograph.
glosses: To photograph by sunlight.
nugget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭg'ət
ipa: /ˈnʌɡət/
Forms: form: nuggets
Etymology: Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.
Senses: examples: text: a gold nugget
text: Rough men brought pickle bottles full of nuggets. Mysterious dirty-looking calico bags were opened, disclosing small quantities of water-worn flaky gold, which had been washed out of the beds of rivers with a cradle.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 146:
glosses: A small, compact chunk or clump.
examples: text: By now, we hope you have said “no” to processed nuggets and fingers. Instead, how about taking some real chicken, tossing it with real eggs, a little tangy mustard, and a crunchy quinoa coating?
ref: 2014, Laurie David, The Family Cooks:
glosses: A chicken nugget.
examples: text: a nugget of wisdom
text: a nugget of truth
text: As he has in superb works like “The Source” (based on the Afghanistan war logs leaked by Chelsea Manning) and “Sound From the Bench” (which set excerpts from Supreme Court proceedings), Hearne takes these found-text nuggets and gives them music that moves from lushly meditative to frenetic and obsessively repetitive […]
ref: 2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A tidbit of something valuable.
glosses: A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
glosses: A type of boot polish.
glosses: A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
examples: text: Jack stifled a smirk at the ensign's expressionless non-reaction. He'd been a nugget himself once, the new guy fresh from training.
ref: 2009, Nick Scipio, Nereids:
glosses: An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
examples: text: We have previously said that the heuristic algorithms produce good nuggets for most classes and most λ values […]
ref: 2002, Data Mining: A Heuristic Approach, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 93:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A partial description gleaned from data mining.
glosses: A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.
glosses: An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.
Derived terms: chicken nugget
fuck nugget
gold nugget pleco
McNuggets
nugg
nuggetlike
nugget of truth
nuggety
nuggies
quark nugget
red nugget galaxy
nugget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŭg'ət
ipa: /ˈnʌɡət/
Forms: form: nuggets
form: nuggeting
form: nuggetting
form: nuggeted
form: nuggeted
form: nuggetted
form: nuggetted
Etymology: Uncertain, first attested in reference to animals & people in Scotland and in reference to ore chunks in Australia. Possibly from southern English nug (“lump, block”) or Scottish knudge/nudge (“short, sturdy person or animal”) + -et (“forming diminutives”) or from rebracketed alteration of an ingot as a ni(n)got.
Senses: examples: text: The other day, you are told, a fellow nuggetted ten or twenty pounds weight, and, of course, you see no reason why half a hundred weight might not be lying snugly ensconced awaiting the revelations of your pick.
ref: 1852, James Bonwick, Notes of a Gold Digger: and Gold Digger's Guide, Melbourne: R. Connebee, page 8:
glosses: To find nuggets (of something valuable)
examples: text: Among the complaints to Dart, “blackballing” or “nuggetting” was the most common form of sexual abuse carried out by recruits, and referred to a boy being forcibly held down “while boot polish, toothpaste or another substance was forcibly smeared on his genitals or anal area, sometimes with a hard brush.”
ref: 2014 June 17, Helen Davidson, “Blackballing and blanket beatings: decades of abuse at defence training school revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To smear a male's genitals or anus with boot polish or similar substance against his will.
heliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From helio- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the sun.
glosses: The art of making a heliograph.
glosses: The system of signalling by heliograph.
glosses: Photography.
Derived terms: heliographical
photoheliography
heliolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliolites
Etymology: From helio- + -lite, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”); analogous to sunstone.
Senses: glosses: A variety of feldspar, closely related to orthoclase
Synonyms: sunstone
aventurine feldspar
heliolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heliolithic
form: most heliolithic
Etymology: From helio- + lithic.
Senses: glosses: of a civilization characterized by megaliths and sun-worship
heliometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliometers
Etymology: From helio- + -meter, from Ancient Greek Ἥλιος (Hḗlios), from ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”), and French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”).
Senses: glosses: An astronomical instrument, based on a telescope, for measuring the diameter of the sun; now used to measure the angular distance between stars and other celestial bodies.
Related terms: heliometric
heliometry
bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒd.iz/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.diz/
ipa: [ˈbɑ.ɾiz]
Senses: examples: text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: plural of body.
bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒd.iz/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.diz/
ipa: [ˈbɑ.ɾiz]
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of body
helion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helions
Etymology: From helium + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: ion#Noun
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particle#Noun
glosses: Any helium ion, the nucleus of any helium atom.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: ion#Noun
<
particle#Noun
helion
<
ion#Noun
<
particle#Noun
glosses: Any helium ion, the nucleus of any helium atom.
A helium-3 ion, the nucleus of a helium-3 atom. Formula: ³He⁺².
related: word: mul:h
antonyms: antihelion
coordinate_terms: alpha particle
;
proton
deuteron
triton
Derived terms: antihelion
helion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helions
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A meteoroid that arrives from the approximate direction of the Sun.
heliopore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːliəpɔː(ɹ)/
/ˈhiːljəpɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: heliopores
Etymology: From the genus name Heliopora, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) + πόρος (póros, “filament; pore”).
Senses: examples: text: The Heliolites are closely related to the Helioporæ, but the interstices are irregularly cellular[…] The cells contain twelve short rays or striations, and around the aperture twelve granules may generally be distinguished, situated like those of the Heliopores.
ref: 1846, James Dwight Dana, United States Exploring Expedition, volume VII, page 541:
text: The coral-reef species of corals are the following.— 1. In the Astræa tribe (Astræacea), all the many known species. […] 6. Among Hydroids, the Millepores and Heliopores.
ref: 1872, James Dwight Dana, Corals and Coral Islands, page 109:
glosses: A coral of the genus Heliopora, the sun coral or blue coral.
Mabel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪbl̩/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: Mable
Etymology: Clipping of Amabel, from Latin amābilis (“lovable”).
Senses: examples: text: Her name was Mabel Hortense, and the children were very proud of having a cousin who lived in the city and was named Mabel Hortense. At Damsonfield Four Corners, where they lived, all the little girls were name Mary Jane or Sarah Ann or Lucy Maria, or, at the best, Hattie and Carrie; they had scarcely even heard so fine a name as Mabel Hortense.
ref: 1883, Sophie Swett, “All the Plums”, in St. Nicholas Magazine, Vol.10, Part 1, page 34:
text: The red stitching across the breast pocket read Mabel, a name Maggie had not heard since her childhood. What had become of all the Mabels? She tried to picture giving a new little baby that name.
ref: 1988, Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
helioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helioscopes
Etymology: From helio- + -scope.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An apparatus for viewing the Sun without harming the eye, by means of an optical filter that attenuates most of the sunlight while allowing only a small amount of the solar radiation.
Derived terms: helioscopic
spectrohelioscope
viewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of view
viewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: viewings
Senses: examples: text: The agent took them to the property for a viewing.
text: I hated the film at first, but with subsequent viewings it has grown on me.
text: A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]
ref: 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page 162:
glosses: An instance of viewing something.
glosses: A wake.
Derived terms: binge viewing
remote viewing
viewing audience
viewing cone
viewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvjuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: more viewing
form: most viewing
Senses: glosses: Related to or for viewing.
heliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helioses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡλίωσις (hēlíōsis, “exposure to the sun”). By surface analysis, helio- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Sunstroke.
glosses: Sunburn.
glosses: Exposure to the sun.
glosses: Scorching of plants by the sun.
examples: text: The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.
ref: 1925, Hobart Amory Hare, Progressive Medicine, page 219:
text: The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
ref: 1933, Frank Hammond Krusen, Light Therapy, page 4:
glosses: A sunroom or solarium of the Ancient Greeks.
Derived terms: dermatoheliosis
vogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vōg
ipa: /vəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: vogues
Etymology: First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way).
Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag.
The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine.
Senses: examples: text: Miniskirts were the vogue in the '60s.
glosses: The prevailing fashion or style.
examples: text: Hula hoops are no longer in vogue.
text: The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.
ref: 1860, Albrecht Daniel Thaer, The Principles of Practical Agriculture:
glosses: Popularity or a current craze.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
examples: text: Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.
ref: 1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:
glosses: A cigarette.
Derived terms: word: in vogue
word: vogue word
word: voguie
topics: dance
dancing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: voguer
vogue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vōg
ipa: /vəʊɡ/
rhymes: -əʊɡ
Forms: form: vogues
form: voguing
form: vogued
form: vogued
Etymology: First attested in 1565. Borrowed from Middle French vogue (“wave, course of success”), from Old French vogue, from voguer (“to row, sway, set sail”), from Old Saxon wogōn (“to sway, rock”), var. of wagōn (“to float, fluctuate”), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”) and Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“water in motion”), from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move, go, transport”) (compare way).
Akin to Old Saxon wegan (“to move”), Old High German wegan (“to move”), Old English wegan (“to move, carry, weigh”), Old Norse vaga (“to sway, fluctuate”), Old English wagian (“to sway, totter”), German Woge (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”). More at wag.
The dance derives its name from Vogue magazine.
Senses: examples: text: Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over.
ref: 2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian:
text: “Come on, this is boring!” “Okay... little man, bring your best.” (crowd cheering, clamoring) “Okay, looks like the little guy's voguing now. Whoa!”
ref: 2022 July 26, William Meny & Paul Simms, “The Night Market” (19:50 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 4, spoken by Ringmaster (Nick Corirossi):
glosses: To dance in the vogue dance style.
examples: text: Vogue me up.
glosses: To light a cigarette for (someone).
scorch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːtʃ/
ipa: /skɔɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: scorches
Etymology: From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
Senses: glosses: A slight or surface burn.
glosses: A discolouration caused by heat.
topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
Synonyms: sense: slight burn
word: singe
Derived terms: leaf scorch
scorched earth
scorch up
scorchy
scorch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔːtʃ/
ipa: /skɔɹt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: scorches
form: scorching
form: scorched
form: scorched
Etymology: From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).
Senses: glosses: To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
examples: text: Lashed by mad rage, and scorched by brutal fires.
ref: 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure:
glosses: To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
glosses: (To cause) to become scorched or singed
examples: text: Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 289:
text: England delivered an impressive statement of intent in the Rugby World Cup opener by scorching to a 69-7 victory against the United States in front of a record crowd of 42,723 in Sunderland.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
examples: text: Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 16:8:
text: the fire that scorches me to death
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
glosses: To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
glosses: To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
Related terms: livid
heliostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliostats
Etymology: Circa 1750, from New Latin heliostata, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) + Latin status (“stationary”).
Senses: examples: text: In reply, the clockwork heliostats that had tracked the sun to reflect light into the indoor areas during the day now swivelled towards the street lamp to do the same for the night.
ref: 2024, Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story, Hodder & Stoughton, page 90:
glosses: A device that includes a plane mirror which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky. The target may be a physical object, distant from the heliostat, or a direction in space, and is almost always stationary relative to the heliostat, so the light is reflected in a fixed direction.
wikipedia: heliostat
Derived terms: heliostatic
Noel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nōel'
ipa: /nəʊˈɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Noël
Etymology: From Middle English Nowel, borrowed from Old French Noel (“Christmas”), from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birth[day of the Lord]”). Doublet of natal and Natal.
Senses: glosses: Christmas.
Noel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nōel'
ipa: /nəʊˈɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
enpr: nō'(ə)l
ipa: /ˈnəʊ(ə)l/
rhymes: -əʊl
enpr: nōel'
ipa: /nəʊˈɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Noël
Etymology: * (names): From Noel in the sense of Christmas; given since Middle Ages to children born at Christmastide.
* (city in Missouri): Named for brothers Clark Wallace and William Jasper Noel, stockmen and owners of a sawmill.
* (community of Nova Scotia, Canada): Named after its most prominent resident, Noël Doiron.
Senses: examples: text: When Noel came, noisily bursting through the back door with buckets of cleansers and sponges, I introduced myself. "Just call me Noelle," he said of himself. "When I was little they used to call me Noel, Noel, the toilet bowl. Although now I have thought of painting that on the side of my van. It might be good for business? I don't know."
ref: 2009, Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: A male given name from French.
glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
synonyms: Christmas City
glosses: A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Derived terms: Noel Park
Related terms: Noela
Noele
Noeleen
Noelle
Noëlle
heliothid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliothids
Senses: glosses: A moth of what used to be considered the family Heliothidae, but is now the considered the subfamily Heliothinae within the family Noctuidae.
heliotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From heliotrope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: exhibiting heliotropism
Derived terms: apheliotropic
heliotropically
paraheliotropic
heliotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: piperonal
animus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.nɪ.məs/
rhymes: -ænɪməs
homophone: animous
Forms: form: animuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Closely related to Latin anima, which is a feminine form.
Senses: glosses: The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
examples: text: The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides.
ref: 2005 April 22, Christian Science Monitor:
text: However, the Republican party's anti-ESG animus has undoubtedly played a role, according to Bloy.
ref: 2023 April 29, Kenza Bryan, “US investors ditch green funds on ‘woke capitalism’ backlash”, in FT Weekend, page 14:
text: Despite the animus against him, Mélenchon came within an inch of making the presidential election run-off in 2022, just behind Le Pen.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
synonyms: bad blood
glosses: A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
topics: law
glosses: Intention, motivation (of a legal person).
examples: text: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:
qualifier: Jungian psychology
glosses: The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.
Derived terms: english: intent to steal
translation: intent to steal
word: animus furandi
english: intent to insult
translation: intent to insult
word: animus injuriandi
english: intent to harm
translation: intent to harm
word: animus nocendi
Related terms: anima
animose
animosity
equanimity
unanimous
piperonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The methylene ether of 3,4 dihydroxy benzaldehyde; used in perfume to give a floral note
heliotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heliotropisms
Etymology: From helio- + -tropism.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]
ref: 1880 November 6, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, chapter XII, in The Power of Movement in Plants, page 555:
text: A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.
ref: 2012, Staff (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sunflowers inspire more efficient solar power system, R&D Magazine, online
coordinate_terms: heliophilia
paraheliotropism
heliophobia
glosses: The property of some plants of turning under the influence of light; either positively (towards the light) or negatively (away from the light).
Related terms: heliocentric
heliocentrism
heliophile
heliophilic
heliophilous
heliophobe
heliophobic
heliotrope
heliotropic
paraheliotropic
turning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/
enpr: tûrʹ-nĭng
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːn.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: turnings
Etymology: From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Take the second turning on the left.
text: Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
ref: 1974, Shoichi Sano, “Steering and Handling Characteristics of a Vehicle when Fail-safe Tire is Deflated”, in Fifth International Technical Conference on Experimental Safety Vehicles, page 909:
glosses: A turn or deviation from a straight course.
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
hypernyms: machining#Noun
coordinate_terms: boring#Noun[ID#English:_inner diameter|ID]] counterpart>
drilling#Noun
;
milling#Noun
broaching#Noun
shaping#Noun
planing#Noun
grinding#Noun
glosses: The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
examples: text: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies:
text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
examples: text: Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
glosses: One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
examples: text: The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
glosses: Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
Synonyms: sense: shavings
word: swarf
Derived terms: by-turning
engine turning
it's a long road that has no turning
table-turning
turning approver
turning-away
turning away
turning-beam
turning center
turning circle
turning evil
turning gear
turning joint
turning number
turning point
turning post
turning rest
turning steel
turning tool
turning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/
enpr: tûrʹ-nĭng
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɔːn.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Earth is turning about its axis as we speak.
text: He made wooden soldiers by turning them on a hand lathe.
glosses: present participle and gerund of turn
aortal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈɔːtəl/
ipa: /eɪˈɔɹtəl/
ipa: [eɪˈɔɹ.ɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təl
Etymology: From aorta + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Constance leans over him [...] and he has that drop kick in the aortal region as blood rushes to a hard-on.
ref: 2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 180:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: aortic
glosses: Of or relating to the aorta.
Derived terms: intraaortal
paraaortal
periaortal
supraaortal
beag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beags
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English bēag (“circular jewelry worn on the body: ring, armlet, crown, collar”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with dialectal German Baug (“ring, collar”), Icelandic baugur (“ring, circle”). Doublet of bee (“ring”). Related to bagel.
Senses: examples: text: It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
ref: 1878, The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society, Great Britain: Royal Numismatic Society:
text: [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.
ref: 1970, William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England:
glosses: A ring.
Geoffrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/
homophone: Jeffrey
Forms: form: Jeffrey
form: Jeffery
form: Geffrey
Etymology: From Middle English Geffrey, from an Old French aristocratic name, Geoffroi [dʒɔfreʲ] (> West Middle French Geoffrey, East Middle French Geoffroy), itself from Proto-French forms (latinized in -us) Jotfredus, Jozsfredus, Josfredus (10th century) and Jof[f]redus, Jofridus, Jaufredus, Geffredus (11th century), and ultimately of Proto-Germanic origin. The second element is *friþuz (“peace, sanctuary”). The first element may be *gautaz (“a Geat, a Goth”) [making the Proto-Germanic term *Gautafriþu], as opposed to *gōdaz (“good”) or *gudą (“god”) in Godfrey; this would also make it related to Jocelyn. The name was introduced to England by the Normans in the 11th century.
Senses: examples: text: "Were you not aware mamma had a son as well as three daughters?"
"Yes, but I didn't know his name. I like Geoffrey; there's some sound in it."
ref: 1879, Mary Elizabeth Shipley, Looking Back, page 98:
text: Geoff grimaced, then smiled back, reminding himself that when his mother wasn't riding this horse, she was a very interesting woman who had taught medieval literature at Drew University for twenty years. In fact, he had been named Geoffrey because of her great admiration for Chaucer.
ref: 1996, Mary Higgins Clark, Let me Call You Sweetheart, →ISBN, page 207:
text: His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and ''Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's.
ref: 2011, Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 77–78:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the U.K. in the 20th century.
Related terms: Geoff
Godefridus
Godefroy
Godfrey
Godofredo
Goffredo
Jefferson
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/
homophone: Geoffrey
Etymology: Variant of Geoffrey.
Senses: examples: text: - - - you should also be able to sue your association's attorney when they step over the line as Attorney Jeffrey Ewalt did. Oh, my gosh! Even as I say his name Jeffrey, Jeffrey. Jeffrey is a name assigned to little boys with small toys. A cute innocent little boy that would do no harm to anyone. I recommend a name change for Jeffrey Ewalt from Jeffrey to Lucifer.
ref: 2005, Harvella Jones, The Texas Homestead Hoax, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:
text: A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.
ref: 2021 November 30, Parija Kavilanz, “Woman testifies Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein started sexually abusing her when she was 14”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, the usual U.S. spelling of Geoffrey. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century.
examples: text: Health to great [Francis] Jeffrey! Heaven preserve his life
To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife
And guard it sacred in the future wars
Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars!
ref: 1809, George Gordon Byron, English Bards and Scotch reviewers:A Satire:
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Geoffrey.
Related terms: Jeff
Godfrey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑdfɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɒdfɹi/
Forms: form: Godfreys
Etymology: From Old French Godefrei, from Old High German Godafrid (“peace of God”), from Proto-Germanic *Gudafriþuz. Equivalent to god + frith. Doublet of Gottfried and Geoffrey.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Morgan County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Madison County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Stevens County, Washington.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Mercer County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A community north of Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
trawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trawlers
Etymology: From trawl + -er.
Senses: glosses: A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
glosses: A fisherman who uses a trawl net.
Related terms: troller
preggers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.ɡəs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.ɡəɹs/
rhymes: -ɛɡə(ɹ)s
Etymology: Shortening of pregnant + -ers.
Senses: examples: text: Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets.
ref: 2007-07-14, Kyrie O'Connor, “Bluff the Listener”, in Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me, National Public Radio:
synonyms: word: big
word: carrying
word: child-great
word: delicate
word: eating for two
word: enceinte
word: expectant
word: expecting
word: fertilized
word: full
word: gestating
word: gravid
word: great
word: have a bun in the oven
word: heavy
word: hormonal
word: in a family way
word: in the club
word: in the pudding club
word: knocked up
word: preg
word: pregs
word: preggers
word: preggie
word: preggo
word: pregnant
word: pupped
word: quick
word: up the duff
word: up the kyte
word: up the stick
word: up the stump
word: up the spout
word: with child
glosses: Pregnant; carrying developing offspring within one's body.
Derived terms: boypreggers
boy preggers
chryselephantine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kɹɪsɛlɪˈfæntɪn/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσελεφάντινος (khruselephántinos), from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + ἐλεφάντινος (elephántinos, “of ivory”).
Senses: examples: text: I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 17”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: Made of gold and ivory.
fortune cookie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortune cookies
Senses: examples: text: I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind
ref: 2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix:
text: “The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?”
ref: 2009, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
topics: lifestyle
glosses: In the furry fandom, the vulva of canine species. Named so due to its resemblance to the snack.
taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæps/
rhymes: -æps
Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: reveille
tattoo#Noun_2
glosses: A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.
Related terms: evening gun
morning gun
taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæps/
rhymes: -æps
Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum.
Senses: glosses: plural of tap
taps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæps/
rhymes: -æps
Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tap
Related terms: taps aff
ciborium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈbɔəɹɪəm/
Forms: form: ciboriums
form: ciboria
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cibōrium (“drinking-cup”), from Ancient Greek κιβώριον (kibṓrion, “the Egyptian water-lily’s cupulate seed pod”, or “a drinking-cup fashioned therefrom”). Doublet of cimborio.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A fixed vaulted canopy over a Christian altar, supported on four columns.
examples: text: Michael came after her, solemnly bearing the teapot like a ciborium.
ref: 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers of the Eucharist.
holding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōldʹ-ĭng
ipa: /ˈhəʊldɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ]
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
Forms: form: holdings
Senses: examples: text: Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent
ref: 1980, Joseph D. Dwyer, Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, page 9:
text: Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
ref: 2009, The Economist, Law and order in Italy: Trouble with figures:
text: The defender at third position is supposed to keep the partner informed of his holdings in that suit.
ref: 2014, D. K. Acharya, Standard Methods of Contract Bridge Complete, page 378:
glosses: Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
glosses: A determination of law made by a court.
examples: text: Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the Pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 3:
glosses: A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
examples: text: This has no holding,
To swear by him whom I protest to love
That I will work against him.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], line 27:
glosses: Logic; consistency.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
examples: text: Make battery to our ears with the loud music;
The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing.
The holding every man shall beat as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], line 109:
glosses: The burden or chorus of a song.
examples: text: This is one of the principal holdings of that destructive system, which has endeavoured to unhinge all the virtuous, honourable, and useful connexions in the kingdom.
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, London: J. Dodsley, page 104:
glosses: That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
glosses: A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
raw_tags: in texts about Russia
Coordinate terms: sense: determination
word: finding
holding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hōldʹ-ĭng
ipa: /ˈhəʊldɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈhəʉɫdɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈhəʊɫdɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈhoʊɫdɪŋ]
rhymes: -əʊldɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: They were caught holding hands in the dark.
text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hold
Derived terms: bag of holding
be left holding the baby
blanch holding
blench holding
bondholding
breath-holding
cardholding
cross holding
crossholding
cross-holding
deedholding
fiefholding
freeholding
fundholding
handholding
holding action
holding cell
holding charge
holding company
holding deal
holding midfielder
holding note
holding pattern
holding tank
holding the ball
holding the cards
holding the man
holding time
inholding
jobholding
keyholding
landholding
leaseholding
leave someone holding the baby
leave someone holding the bag
lienholding
officeholding
onholding
passholding
patentholding
permitholding
pewholding
placeholding
plotholding
policyholding
powerholding
recordholding
rightsholding
roadholding
runholding
section 104 holding
shareholding
shipholding
slaveholding
small holding
stakeholding
stallholding
steinholding
stockholding
titleholding
toolholding
unitholding
wardholding
message in a bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messages in a bottle
form: messages in bottles
Senses: examples: text: I'll send an SOS to the world / I hope that someone gets my / Message in a bottle
ref: 1979, Sting, “Message in a Bottle”, in Reggatta de Blanc, performed by The Police:
synonyms: sea-bottle
glosses: A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world.
examples: text: 'Cause you could be the one that I love, oh, oh, oh / I could be the one that you dream of, of, of / A message in a bottle is all I can do-oo / Standin' here, hopin' it gets to you
ref: 2021, Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Shellback, “Message in a Bottle”, in Red (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: An analogous message sent off into the world or universe without knowledge of who the recipient will be: plaques on craft launched into outer space, interstellar radio messages, stationary time capsules, balloon mail, and so on.
traditionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈdɪʃəˌnəli/
ipa: [tɹəˈdɪˌʃn̩li]
ipa: [tɹɪˈdɪˌʃn̩li]
note: with syncope
ipa: /tɹəˈdɪʃˌnəli/
note: with syncope
ipa: /tɹəˈdɪʃənli/
Forms: form: more traditionally
form: most traditionally
Etymology: From traditional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a traditional manner.
examples: text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
text: Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
ref: 2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN:
glosses: From the beginning.