cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
out of luck
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You're out of luck: the train has just left.
glosses: Experiencing a temporary misfortune.
Derived terms: shit out of luck
Catherine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæθɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈkæθəɹɪn/
rhymes: -æθəɹɪn
Forms: form: Catharine
form: Katharine
form: Katherine
form: Kathryn
form: Catheryn
form: Cathryn
form: Katheryn
Etymology: From French Catherine, from Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē), *Ἑκατερίνη (*Hekaterínē), of debated meaning, possibly from ἑκάτερος (hekáteros, “each of the two”), or from the name of the goddess Hecate. The apheresis of the first syllable as well as the spelling with ⟨th⟩ in Latin languages, German and English, is due to a folk etymology, dating from Roman times, which associated the name with the Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”). The name belonged to a 4th-century saint and martyr from Alexandria who was supposedly tortured on the wheel from where the term Catherine wheel originates.
Senses: examples: text: - - - despite of what you say of my fine name, I think my head is so obstinate and inflexible that the name Catherine was well chosen. It suits my character. I was given the name by the late Empress Elisabeth, to whom I owe much; she gave it to me out of affection and out of respect for her mother
ref: 1763 Voltaire and Catherine the Great: Selected Correspondence. Voltaire, Catherine, Antony Lentin.(Translation from French.)Publ. Oriental Research Partners,1973
text: It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her;
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: "Is that your given name?" "Not exactly. My father named me Catherine, and my mother nicknamed me Carrie. Nobody calls me Catherine." "Oh, but you're much more a Catherine than a Carrie," observed Peter seriously. "Carrie is simple and mundane; Catherine is complex and beautiful."
ref: 1981, Carole Gift Page, Carrie, Bethany House Publishers, published 1994, →ISBN, page 55:
text: "Yes, Catherine sounds like a lovely name. I like it. My new name will be Catherine." She rolled the name Catherine silently again. The name had character a noble ring to it she really liked it.
ref: 2003, Michael O. Gregory, The Dead Years, page 35:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Mount Catherine
Related terms: word: Caitlin
word: Catarina
word: Cathryn
word: Catrina
word: Catriona
word: Kaitlyn
word: Karen
word: Kari
word: Karin
word: Katelyn
word: Katerina
word: Katerine
word: Kateryna
word: Kathleen
word: Katrina
word: Katrine
word: Katya
word: Trina
word: Cat
word: Cate
word: Cath
word: Cathi
word: Cathie
word: Cathy
word: Catie
word: Kat
word: Kate
word: Katey
word: Kath
word: Kathi
word: Kathie
word: Kathy
word: Katie
word: Katy
word: Kay
word: Kaye
word: Kit
word: Kitti
word: Kittie
word: Kitty
out of one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊt əv wʌnz maɪnd/
Senses: examples: text: You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far.
text: Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head?
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Insane, crazy.
examples: text: When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry.
glosses: Temporarily mentally unstable; very distressed.
examples: text: Try to put the day's troubles out of your mind and relax.
glosses: Away from the focus of one's thoughts.
Synonyms: sense: crazy
word: off one's head
sense: crazy
word: out of one's box
sense: crazy
word: out of one's cotton-picking mind
sense: crazy
word: out of one's gourd
sense: crazy
word: out of one's head
sense: crazy
word: out of one's skull
sense: crazy
word: out of one's wits
sense: crazy
word: out there
Related terms: word: wrongminded
sense: crazy, temporarily distressed
word: lose one's mind
out of order
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You've got my index cards out of order again.
antonyms: in order
glosses: Out of normal sequence.
examples: text: The lift is always out of order.
text: With the lift in the block still out of order, they climbed the flights and flights of steps. When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both were weary beyond words.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: out of commission
glosses: Not functioning properly.
examples: text: I suppose my remarks about his wife were out of order.
synonyms: out of line
glosses: Inappropriate or unsuitable.
glosses: Not in order: not according with e.g. the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.
examples: text: Architas Tarentinus returning from a war, where he had beene Captaine generall, found his house all out of order, husbandrie all spoiled, and by the ill government of his Bailife, his ground all waste and unmanured […].
ref: , II.31
glosses: untidy
Related terms: in order
out of pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: out-of-pocket
Senses: examples: text: After three races he was £10 out of pocket.
text: A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Lacking funds, or suffering a financial loss; broke.
examples: text: Like a coward, he called his agent's work number and left a voicemail that he'd be out of pocket for several days but would try to check his messages here and there.
ref: 2006, Lauren Dane, Sudden Desire, page 20:
text: Sir, Senders is still in Yosemite camping with his family. He'll be out of pocket until tomorrow night.
ref: 2011, Boyd Morrison, chapter 4, in The Catalyst:
text: I'm going to be out of pocket for a while. Doing some...training.
ref: 2012, Vicki Hinze, Acts of Honor, page 196:
glosses: Not available; unable to be reached.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Wild or inappropriate; unexpected.
out of pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: out-of-pocket
Senses: examples: text: I had lots of out-of-pocket expenses.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the spending of cash rather than using credit.
examples: text: A thread of the most hilarious outta pocket tweets. Feel free to add on
ref: 2020 April 14, Chris (@notchr15), Twitter:
glosses: Shocking and unexpected or inappropriate.
out of pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: out-of-pocket
Senses: examples: text: pay out of pocket for medication
text: Over a decade ago I came out as a transgender woman and began to navigate my transition. That’s when I was confronted by the harsh fact that transition-related healthcare was often not covered by insurance and instead largely paid for out of pocket.
ref: 2015 September 16, Andy Marra, “Many trans people still are denied healthcare because of their identity”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of out of one's own pocket.
synonyms: word: out of one's own pocket
Derived terms: OOP
out-of-pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of pocket.
out-of-pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of pocket.
out-of-print
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, but that book has been out-of-print for twenty years.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: No longer offered for sale by a publisher; no longer on the firsthand market.
out of proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: out of all proportion
Senses: examples: text: I only said that she wasn't as young as she used to be, and her response was out of proportion.
text: Six days of the week it [work] soils / With its sickening poison — / Just for paying a few bills! / That's out of proportion.
ref: 1955, Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived, Toads:
glosses: Not in a proper or pleasing relation to other things, especially in terms of size.
out of sight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: outta sight
form: outtasight
Senses: examples: text: Jack's really mad at you. You'd better stay out of sight for a few days.  The notice was out of sight behind the door.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: In the daytime the beds are made up but completely out of sight, giving the passenger a comfortable little private room; as the time for retiring comes, after preparing for rest in the same spacious conditions, he is able, practically at a touch, to pull the bed into position ready for use.
ref: 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
glosses: Not accessible to view.
examples: text: With the company merger out of sight, the bankruptcy will proceed.
qualifier: aspiration; etc; aspiration; etc
glosses: Not yet attainable.
raw_tags: of a goal
examples: text: How was the party? Out of sight, man!
text: 1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.
text: I went to the movie the other night
The plot was groovy, it was out of sight
ref: 1975, “Speakin' Out”, in Tonight's the Night, performed by Neil Young:
glosses: Superb, excellent.
glosses: Very expensive.
glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: sense: not accessible to view
word: invisible
sense: not accessible to view
word: unapparent
sense: not accessible to view
word: unseeable
sense: not accessible to view
word: unseen
sense: not accessible to view
word: unvisible
sense: not accessible to view; in hiding
word: hidden
sense: superb
word: excellent
sense: very expensive
word: expensive
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Related terms: out of sight, out of mind
out of one's sight
out of sorts
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of sorts
form: most out of sorts
Etymology: Comes from printing terminology where "sort" means a metal type for printing a particular letter.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!"
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Dutiful Friendship”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, pages 474–475:
text: "My lads," said he, "we've had a hot day and are all tired and out of sorts."
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 13, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: Irritable or somewhat unwell, with vague medical symptoms.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.
Synonyms: out of order
Related terms: out of spirits
out of stock
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, there's been a run on turkeys and we're out of stock.
topics: business
synonyms: sold out
glosses: Unable to sell an item because none are available in inventory.
raw_tags: of a seller
examples: text: The turkeys are out of stock but we have some guinea fowl in the back.
topics: business
synonyms: sold out
antonyms: in stock
glosses: Unavailable because the stock in inventory has all been sold or used up.
raw_tags: of an item
Derived terms: stockout
Related terms: overstocked
stocked up
stockless
understock
unstocked
out of the ordinary
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The food was expensive, and nothing out of the ordinary.
text: The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.
ref: 1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
text: My house / Is out of the ordinary / That's right / Don't wanna hurt nobody
ref: 1983, Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House”, in Speaking in Tongues:
glosses: Unusual or exceptional, especially for the better.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: nothing to write home about
-in-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Etymology: From the oblique stem of Latin -tūdō being -tūdin-.
Senses: glosses: An epenthetic syllable inserted before Latinate suffixes appended to nouns ending with -itude or -tude.
out of the question
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of the question
form: most out of the question
Senses: examples: text: A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.
ref: 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost Special:
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Hunger Games:
glosses: Not remotely possible.
um-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: umbe-
form: umb-
Etymology: From Middle English um-, umbe-, embe-, from Old English ymb-, ymbe- (“around”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbi-, from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Dutch om- (“around”), German um- (“around”), Latin amb- (“around, about”), Latin ambi- (“both”), Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around, about”), Sanskrit अभि (abhi, “against, about”).
Senses: qualifier: now rarely productive
glosses: Prefix meaning around, about.
raw_tags: in dialects
Derived terms: umbeclip
umbedo
umbehold
umbelie
umbesiege
umbestount
umbestride
umbeweround
umboth
umbothman
umbworld
umlock
umstart
out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of the way
form: most out of the way
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out-of-the-way (“remote or secluded”).
glosses: Unusual or out of the ordinary.
glosses: Improper or offensive.
out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more out of the way
form: most out of the way
Senses: examples: text: 'I'm not an out of the way nervous woman.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 14, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 176:
glosses: Unusually or excessively.
out of the way
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Please move your bike out of the way.
text: I was elbowed out of the way by the bouncer.
text: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
text: The railway ran through the resort's narrow streets up to Weymouth Quay station, with thoughtlessly parked vehicles sometimes having to be bumped out of the way.
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 55:
glosses: So as not to obstruct or hinder; not in the way.
examples: text: Now that the main problems are out of the way, we can start working on the details.
glosses: Taken care of; handled.
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:remote place
out-of-the-way
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out-of-the-way
form: most out-of-the-way
Senses: examples: text: I know this out-of-the-way hotel where we could stay.
text: It was from no choice of my own that I was brought up in an out-of-the-way pallazzo, with nothing to do but to fall in love.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 8:
text: “Even Darjiling is a little out-of-the-way hole.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35:
text: Passenger numbers had been rising sharply. But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again.
ref: 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:
glosses: Remote or secluded.
out of tune
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The violins go out of tune in damp weather.
text: By the end of the song, I was completely out of tune with the guitar.
text: It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
synonyms: off-pitch
pitchy
antonyms: in tune
glosses: Not in the correct musical pitch.
examples: text: The party’s social policy is out of tune with the values of most citizens.
text: […] a house which is aping the town fashions of Germany and France, a prim, hideous, straight-up-and-down thing, plastered all over on the outside to look like stone, and altogether so stiff, and formal, and ugly and forbidding, and so out of tune with the gracious landscape, and so deaf and dumb and dead to the poetry of its surroundings, that it suggests an undertaker at a picnic, a corpse at a wedding, a puritan in Paradise.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXXI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 324:
synonyms: out of step
glosses: Not in agreement or in harmony (with something).
Related terms: untune
out of work
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: out-of-work
Senses: glosses: unemployed, or having nothing to do
examples: text: This lost time was caused mainly because the operator had to find the dispatcher and notify him that the machine was out of work.
ref: 1955, Franklin G. Moore, Manufacturing Management, page 812:
glosses: not working correctly; out of order
ri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ris
form: li
Etymology: From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.
Senses: qualifier: Units of measure
glosses: A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
ri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.
sexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksɪz/
rhymes: -ɛksɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of sex
glosses: plural of sexe
sexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksɪz/
rhymes: -ɛksɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sex
fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑðɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɑː.ðəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of father
fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑðɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɑː.ðəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of father
outpatient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outpatients
Etymology: From out- + patient.
Senses: examples: text: An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: NHS outpatient clinic at New Street”, in Rail, page 13:
topics: government
healthcare
antonyms: inpatient
glosses: A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.
outpatient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From out- + patient.
Senses: examples: text: MR. MILLER: It is more outpatient than it is inpatient.
ref: 1991, United States Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care, Proceedings of the Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care, page 1174:
text: The changes are necessary because "health care is going more outpatient than inpatient," Whitacre said.
ref: 1994 June 6, “Huntington Hospital Plans Renovation Project Construction is Expected to be Completed within Two Years”, in Fort Wayne News Sentinel:
text: It is outpatient and prepaid.
ref: 1998 August 23, “Public Health Officer Warns of Risks of Liposuction”, in Los Angeles Times:
topics: government
healthcare
antonyms: inpatient
glosses: Provided without requiring an overnight stay by the patient.
Synonyms: ambulatory
outpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: outposts
Etymology: From out- + post.
Senses: examples: text: The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.
glosses: A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
examples: text: Sgt. Smith fleeced most of the rest of the outpost of their earnings in their weekly game of craps.
glosses: The body of troops manning such a post.
examples: text: Beyond the border proper, there are three small outposts not officially under government protection.
text: On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country.
ref: 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
text: […] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
ref: 2009, Julius Mutwol, Peace Agreements and Civil Wars in Africa, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An outlying settlement.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
Related terms: outport
reposting
provincial
indefatigably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndəˈfætəɡəbli/
Forms: form: more indefatigably
form: most indefatigably
Etymology: From indefatigable + -ly, but indefatigable itself was attested later. In use since the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner
homey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmi/
rhymes: (US) -oʊmi
Forms: form: homeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of homie.
Derived terms: homeycide
homeyness
homey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmi/
rhymes: (US) -oʊmi
Forms: form: homier
form: homiest
Etymology: From home + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Susan added some homey touches to her office.
glosses: Befitting a home; cozy, intimate.
Synonyms: homely
err
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜː/
ipa: /ɛɚ/
ipa: /ɝ/
ipa: /ɛr/
ipa: /øː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /eː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) er
homophone: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) air
homophone: are (“unit of measurement”)
homophone: ayr
homophone: Ayr
homophone: e'er
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
Forms: form: errs
form: erring
form: erred
form: erred
Etymology: From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”).
Senses: examples: text: He erred in his calculations, and made many mistakes.
text: Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
ref: 1910, James P. Porter, chapter 2, in Intelligence and Imitation in Birds; A Criterion of Imitation, page 7:
glosses: To make a mistake.
glosses: To sin.
glosses: to stray.
Derived terms: errable
erroneous
err on the side of
err on the side of caution
error
inerrable
to err is human
err
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜː/
ipa: /ɛɚ/
ipa: /ɝ/
ipa: /ɛr/
ipa: /øː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /eː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: (all non-US pronunciations, /ɝ/ US pronunciation:) er
homophone: (/ɛɚ/ US pronunciation, all fair–fur merger pronunciations:) air
homophone: are (“unit of measurement”)
homophone: ayr
homophone: Ayr
homophone: e'er
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
Senses: examples: text: Err... what did you just say?
glosses: Elongated form of er (“sound of hesitation”).
social responsibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social responsibilities
Senses: examples: text: There are normally anti-embarrassment clauses in such arrangements and, from a corporate social responsibility point of view, the upside of standing by a tarnished individual is often outweighed by the downside.
ref: 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A voluntarily assumed obligation toward the good of society at large as opposed to the self alone.
bradawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹædɔːl/
Forms: form: bradawls
Etymology: From brad + awl.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I wish I wos behind him vith a bradawl,’ muttered the long one.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36
text: For the first adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open], you might need to remove the screws from the frame, move the hinge slightly, and then make new screw holes with a bradawl and reinsert the screws.
ref: 2016 January 30, Jeff Howell, “Swinging doors: it's not open and shut”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), page 15:
glosses: An awl with a blade similar to a small, straight screwdriver; used for making holes, especially in wood to take screws.
commonplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: more commonplace
form: most commonplace
form: common place
form: common-place
Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
Senses: examples: text: "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 7, in St. Ronan's Well:
text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,[…], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.
ref: 1911, Joseph Conrad, chapter 1, in Under Western Eyes:
text: In the old days, hopping onto the platform from a not-yet-stopped train was a commonplace stunt for daily commuters in a hurry.
ref: 2025 July 9, Frank Mueller, “Protecting the railway from new and existing dangers”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 62:
synonyms: word: routine
word: undistinguished
word: unexceptional
word: quotidian
word: banal
word: bromidic
word: quotidian
word: clichéd
word: commonplace
word: cookie-cutter
word: corny
word: dog-eared
word: everyday
word: hackneyed
word: hoary
word: meh
word: overdone
word: pat
word: played out
word: prosaic
word: shopworn
word: stale
word: stock
word: threadbare
word: timeworn
word: tired
word: trite
word: unoriginal
word: vapid
word: warmed-over
word: well-worn
antonyms: distinguished
inimitable
unique
glosses: Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
Derived terms: commonplaceism
commonplacely
commonplaceness
commonplacer
uncommonplace
commonplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: commonplaces
form: common place
form: common-place
Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
Senses: examples: text: Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 17, in Active Service:
text: And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
ref: 1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:
glosses: A platitude or cliché.
examples: text: It is odd how easily the common-places of morality or of sentiment glide off in conversation. Well, they are "exceedingly helpful," and so Lord Avonleigh found them.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 137:
text: "MY dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker-street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.[…]"
ref: 1891 [September], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure III.—A Case of Identity.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II (July to December), number [9], London: […], page 248, column 1:
text: And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
text: The smallest commonplace of domestic life, so amiable to the healthy mind, lacerates like a blade.
ref: 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Collecting data via transects is a commonplace in biology[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
glosses: Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
examples: text: Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of common-place.
ref: 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:
glosses: A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
glosses: A commonplace book.
commonplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/
ipa: /ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: commonplaces
form: commonplacing
form: commonplaced
form: commonplaced
form: common place
form: common-place
Etymology: A calque of Latin locus commūnis, referring to a generally applicable literary passage, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὸς τόπος (koinòs tópos).
Senses: glosses: To make a commonplace book.
examples: text: I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the […]historians.
ref: 1711, Henry Felton, Dissertation on Reading the Classics:
glosses: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
examples: text: And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
ref: 1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:
text: c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King
For the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.
glosses: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.
Related terms: commonplace book
comprehensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more comprehensible
form: most comprehensible
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin comprehensibilis.
Senses: glosses: Able to be comprehended.
Synonyms: word: apprehensible
word: clear
word: intelligible
word: understandable
word: comprehensible
word: explainable
word: explicable
word: explicatable
word: fathomable
word: graspable
word: illuminable
word: lucid
word: pellucid
word: perspicuous
word: straightforward
word: tangible
Derived terms: comprehensible input
comprehensibleness
comprehensibly
intercomprehensible
noncomprehensible
uncomprehensible
Related terms: word: comprehend
word: comprehensive
word: crystal clear
word: translucent
word: transparent
word: obvious
word: describable
comprehend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/
ipa: /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/
ipa: /kɔmpɹɪˈhend/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: comprehends
form: comprehending
form: comprehended
form: comprehended
Etymology: From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.
Senses: examples: text: I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
text: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
synonyms: see
glosses: To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
examples: text: And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2009, page 9:
glosses: To include, comprise; to contain.
Derived terms: comprehender
comprehendible
miscomprehend
precomprehend
Related terms: comprehensibility
comprehensible
comprehension
comprehensive
comprehensiveness
comprise
Duresm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French Duresm. Doublet of Durham.
Senses: glosses: Durham.
glosses: The name signed by alternate bishops of Durham, the other being Dunelm.
Durham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹəm/
ipa: /ˈdɝəm/
homophone: durum
Forms: form: Durhams
Etymology: From Old English Dūnholm, meaning "hill islet". In order to get from Dunholm to Durham, two major processes had to take place. Firstly, the n at the coda of the first syllable, dun, underwent dissimilation. Specifically, by influence of the m in the coda of the following syllable (holm), said n denasalised and lenited to the oral r, thus dur. Secondly, after a weakening of the vowel quality in the more weakly-stressed syllable holm, this ending was misanalysed as the similar-sounding toponymic suffix, -ham, meaning home or farm.
Doublet of Duresm and Dunelm.
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England, and noted for their beef-producing quality.
Dunelmensis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Dunelmensis (“of or from Durham”).
Senses: glosses: The bishop of Durham.
Dunelm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Latin name for the city; compare Dunelmensis. Doublet of Durham.
Senses: examples: text: Before Aldhun's arrival, the town of Dunelm, or Durham, consisted only of a few scattered huts or cottages.
ref: 1747, Andrew Kippis, Biographia Britannica: or The Lives Of The Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain And Ireland, page 93:
glosses: Durham.
graceful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪsfʊl/
Forms: form: more graceful
form: most graceful
form: gracefull
Etymology: From Middle English graceful; equivalent to grace + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: She is a graceful dancer.
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: airy
glosses: Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
examples: text: The athlete's graceful acceptance of the controversial second-place finish won the admiration of the spectators.
glosses: Magnanimous, lacking arrogance or complaint; gracious.
examples: text: Bringing a system down cleanly will preserve the operating system and some log files, but again will destroy the contents of the RAM (the volatile data). Windows and Linux are two operating systems that require a graceful shutdown.
ref: 2009, Dale Liu, Cisco Router and Switch Forensics:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Gradual and non-disruptive.
Derived terms: graceful degradation
gracefully
gracefulness
graceful pitta
nongraceful
ungraceful
Related terms: grace
gracious
gory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɡɔɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: gorier
form: goriest
Etymology: From gore + -y. Compare Middle English gorry (“muddy”), and güre, gire, girre (“gory, clotted”), from Old English gyr, gyru (“filthy, muddy”), from gor (“dirt, dung”); Old Frisian gere, iere (“muddy water”). More at gore.
Senses: examples: text: a gory movie
glosses: Covered with blood; very bloody.
examples: text: Her autobiography gives all the gory details of her many divorces.
glosses: Unpleasant.
Derived terms: gorily
goriness
ungory
gore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gô
ipa: /ɡɔː/
enpr: gôr
ipa: /ɡoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōr
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gores
Etymology: From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth).
Senses: glosses: Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
examples: text: And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: A gout or mass of such blood.
examples: text: The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
ref: 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
examples: text: As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.
ref: 1508, John Fisher, Treatise concernynge […] the seven penytencyall Psalms:
qualifier: obsolete except in dialects
glosses: Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
Derived terms: begore
border gore
candy gore
gorcrow
gorefest
goregrind
gorehound
goreless
goresome
gorhen
gorn
gorno
gory
gore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gô
ipa: /ɡɔː/
enpr: gôr
ipa: /ɡoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōr
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gores
form: goring
form: gored
form: gored
Etymology: From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt-esc earth).
Senses: glosses: To cover or smear with blood.
gore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gô
ipa: /ɡɔː/
enpr: gôr
ipa: /ɡoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōr
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gores
form: goring
form: gored
form: gored
Etymology: From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).
Senses: examples: text: The bull gored the matador.
synonyms: horn
glosses: To pierce with a horn or tusk.
raw_tags: of an animal
synonyms: word: jab
word: run through
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
glosses: To needle or wound the feelings of.
raw_tags: with at
Derived terms: engore
gorer
whose ox is gored
gore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gô
ipa: /ɡɔː/
enpr: gôr
ipa: /ɡoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōr
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gores
Etymology: From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
Senses: examples: text: I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.
ref: 1968, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program, Highway Safety, Design, and Operations, Freeway Signing and Related Geometrics, page 448:
text: With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.
ref: 2010, John L. Campbell, Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, page 20-5:
text: Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.
ref: 2011, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, 2011, page 10-97:
glosses: A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
glosses: A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
glosses: The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
examples: text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
glosses: An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
glosses: A projecting point.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
glosses: A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
Synonyms: sense: triangular piece of land where roads meet
word: neutral area
sense: triangular piece of land where roads meet
word: ghost island