cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭnʹdə(r)-(h)ănd'
ipa: /ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌ(h)ænd/
Forms: form: underhands
form: underhanding
form: underhanded
form: underhanded
Etymology: From under + hand.
Senses: examples: text: Couture made straight for the refrigerator and returned with cold beer, underhanding them in turn to each of the team members, Sergeant Thi included.
ref: 2010, Michael Hodgins, Reluctant Warrior, →ISBN:
text: Michael underhanded his half-dozen sticks into the audience as the stage lights went dark and house lights came up at the rear of the auditorium.
ref: 2013, George R.R. Martin, Wild Cards: Inside Straight, →ISBN:
text: In that era, a pitcher's job was to initiate play by underhanding the ball to the batter in a way that would prevent hard hits but not necessarily in hopes of a strikeout.
ref: 2014, Jack Heffron, The Local Boys: Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
examples: text: The time has arrived when monkeying with the public must cease, when lying and underhanding your competitor in the baking business must be banished from the plan of business development.
ref: 1922, Baking Technology - Volumes 1-2, page 193:
text: The other was that the majority of the purchasing contracts represented “good deals” because suppliers would not wish to be caught underhanding this company due to its size and influence in the market.
ref: 1994, Benjamin Gilad, Business blindspots:
text: Many have been underhanded by fate and occasionally made to ask, like I once did, if there is a God, and if there is, how could they experience His power.
ref: 2010, Christiana I. Chineme, God Didn't Do It; He Only Signed Off On It, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: To trick, deceive or gull.
examples: text: About one-half the body has been mined by underhanding into mill holes; but with the adoption of the water drill, shrinkage stoping is being largely used and the larger stopes are mined as at Levack.
ref: 1903, Mining Reporter - Volume 47, page 480:
text: The floors are then extracted by underhanding, and finally the pillars at the levels are trimmed to the minimum size necessary to support the walls.
ref: 1925, Bureau of Mines Information Circular, page 166:
text: This method is used only in a one-set panel mined from level to level by underhanding into the chute at the foot- wall end of the previous panel.
ref: 1942, Mining Technology - Volume 6, Issue 1, page 9:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken ore.
underhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭnʹdə(r)-(h)ănd'
ipa: /ˈʌn.də(ɹ)ˌ(h)ænd/
Forms: form: underhands
Etymology: From under + hand.
Senses: examples: text: Your underhand should be entirely under the quilt.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The lower of two hands, the hand under the work.
present perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A perfect tense that expresses action in the past (usually completed) with consequences in the present time.
Derived terms: present perfect continuous
exit poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit polls
Senses: glosses: A poll taken of a sample of voters as they leave a voting station, used to predict the outcome of an election.
Petri dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtɹi ˌdɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɛtɹi ˌdɪʃ/
Forms: form: Petri dishes
form: petri dish
form: petri
Etymology: Named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921).
Senses: glosses: A shallow glass dish, with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria.
predict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: predicts
form: prædict
Etymology: Early 17th century, from Latin praedīcō (“to mention beforehand”) (perfect passive participle praedictus), from prae- (“before”) + dīcō (“to say”). Equivalent to Germanic forespeak, foretell, and foresay.
Senses: examples: text: Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: A prediction.
first past the post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In our two-party system, that aloofness and hostility is partly a result of a first-past-the-post electoral system that worships the wedge, with each party terrified that one issue might catch fire and swing marginal seats away from victory.
ref: 2023 August 7, Nesrine Malik, “British people are kinder and less divided than politicians give us credit for”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: FPTP
glosses: A voting system where the candidate with the most votes (a plurality) wins, without any form of preference transfer.
Synonyms: simple majority voting
plurality voting
proportional representation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A voting principle aimed at securing a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (usually political parties) obtain in elections, and the percentage of seats they receive in the elected body.
Weimar Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪmɑː(ɹ)ɹɪˈpʌblɪk/
Forms: form: the Weimar Republic
Etymology: From the name of the German city Weimar + republic.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The democratic regime of Germany from 1919 to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler in 1933.
code of conduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codes of conduct
Senses: examples: text: What use have I ever had from this religion that has been dinned into me? It gave me false ideas of the world and nature which I have had to unlearn. It gave me an unworkable code of conduct which I never tried to follow, but I got into trouble for it.
ref: 1901, Harold Fielding, The Hearts of Men:
text: In spite of the maturity of his years and of the savage rigidity of the mould that had formed him, his nature was undergoing an expansion. There was a burgeoning within him of strange feelings and unwonted impulses. His old code of conduct was changing.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter VI, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 4 (The Superior Gods):
text: That iron-bound code of conduct which rules the Anglo-Indian, in the first days of the voyage had threatened to ostracize Karamaneh and Aziz, by reason of the Eastern blood to which their brilliant but peculiar type of beauty bore witness.
ref: 1916, Sax Rohmer [pseudonym; A. H. Ward], chapter XXXII, in The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu:
text: Mr Blunkett quit after breaking the ministerial code of conduct over paid work he took while out of the Cabinet. John Hutton is to replace him.
ref: 2005 November 2, “Blunkett quits after ‘mistakes’”, in BBC News:
text: The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few prominent figures in high technology are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.
ref: 2007 April 9, Brad Stone, “Bloggers debate need for code of conduct”, in The International Herald Tribune:
text: Nodding to critics who contend that the movie industry hasn’t done enough to fight sexual harassment, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday that it would be establishing a “code of conduct” for its members.
ref: 2017 October 27, Sopan Deb, “Motion Picture Academy Moves to Institute Code of Conduct”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of rules dictating acceptable behavior and decisions in a specified environment.
Related terms: code of ethics
code of honour
etiquette
knackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knacker
knackers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knacker
Augustus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ô-gŭsʹtəs
ipa: /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/
ipa: /əˈɡʌstəs/
Etymology: From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.
Senses: examples: text: And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:
glosses: The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar
glosses: A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century.
Synonyms: sense: Emperor Augustus
word: Octavian
sense: Emperor Augustus
word: Octavius
Derived terms: August
Augusta
Augustan
Augustine
Fort Augustus
Gus
Gussie
Pax Augusta
king's pawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king's pawns
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A pawn on the E file, where the kings start the game.
inconsistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
Forms: form: more inconsistent
form: most inconsistent
Etymology: From in- + consistent.
Senses: examples: His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
antonyms: consistent
glosses: Not consistent:
Not compatible (with another thing); incompatible, discrepant, at odds.
examples: text: He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
text: He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
ref: 1862, Robert Aspland, editor, The Christian Reformer:
antonyms: consistent
glosses: Not consistent:
Lacking internal consistency; self-contradicting; not compatible with itself.
examples: text: “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.”
“Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
ref: 1848, The Columbian Magazine, volume 9, page 88:
antonyms: consistent
glosses: Not consistent:
Not consistent or coherent in thought or behavior.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: consistent
glosses: Not consistent:
Having the property that a contradiction can be derived.
Derived terms: inconsistently
inconsistentness
Related terms: inconsistency
brigand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənd/
rhymes: -ɪɡənd
Forms: form: brigands
Etymology: From Middle English brigaunt, bregaund circa 1400, from Old French brigand (“foot soldier”) attested from 1421, from Italian briga (“trouble, bother”), perhaps ultimately of Proto-Germanic or Celtic origin.
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: An outlaw or bandit.
Derived terms: brigandess
brigandish
brigandism
brigandry
Related terms: brigandage
brigandine
blackguard
mercenary
soldier of fortune
jerk
villain
burgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝɡɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈbɜːɡɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: burgages
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English burgage, from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to burg + -age.
Senses: examples: text: If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller , let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a villein if he have challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have quitted the burgage.
ref: 1907, Antiquities of Sunderland and Its Vicinity - Volumes 5-7, page 73:
text: Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.
ref: 1914, “Lonsdale Hundred (North of the Sands)”, in William Farrer, J. Brownbill, editors, Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, volume 8, Constable and Company, page 39:
glosses: A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
front teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The incisors.
Related terms: nibble
a small
quick bite taken with the front teeth
iliac artery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliac arteries
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs.
lad culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This is frequently traced back to the birth of lad culture in the mid-90s, which itself tends now to be characterised as a reaction against “feminism gone too far”.
ref: 2023 September 18, Zoe Williams, “The nasty noughties: Russell Brand and the era of sadistic tabloid misogyny”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A subculture which arose in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, centered around traditional working-class male attitudes and interests, often in rejection of the perceived strictures of feminism or the concept of the New Man.
paysite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paysites
Etymology: From pay + site.
Senses: glosses: A website that charges money for admission, especially a pornographic one.
pronatalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronatalisms
Etymology: From pro- + natal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, Bishop questioned whether the increase in lesbians now considering motherhood is a response to pressure to have childen in order to see ourselves as whole and healthy. She noted the strong tide of pro-natalism sweeping our country; for example, the current preponderance of movies about babies.
ref: 1988 February 14, Laurie Sherman, “All In A Day's Work”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 7:
text: In France the emphasis fell on pronatalism; after the crushing defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 and with the French population being outstripped by the German, health propaganda encouraged large families.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 616:
glosses: An attitude or ideology promoting child-bearing; advocacy of having children, especially from the State.
traffic island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹæfɪk ˈaɪlənd/
text: -
rhymes: -aɪlənd
Forms: form: traffic islands
Etymology: From traffic (noun) + island (noun).
Senses: topics: road
transport
synonyms: safety island
pedestrian island
pedestrian refuge
refuge
refuge island
glosses: A raised or otherwise marked area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, so as to direct the traffic flow and provide a safe place for pedestrians to wait while crossing the road.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An area where rail traffic is low.
Related terms: central reservation
median
median strip
reservation
propitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpɪʃəs/
other: /pɹoʊˈpɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more propitious
form: most propitious
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French propicius, from Latin propitius (“favorable, well-disposed, kind”). Compare French propice, Portuguese propício and Spanish propicio.
Senses: examples: text: propitious weather
synonyms: favorable
advantageous
antonyms: unpropitious
glosses: Favorable; advantageous.
examples: text: But counterrevolutions are reversible. Klein devotes much of her book to propitious signs that this can happen — indeed is happening.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times:
synonyms: auspicious
fortunate
promising
glosses: Characteristic of a good omen.
glosses: Favorably disposed towards someone.
Related terms: propitiate
propitiation
propitiously
propitiousness
conciliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkənˈsɪlieɪt/
Forms: form: conciliates
form: conciliating
form: conciliated
form: conciliated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin conciliātus, perfect passive participle of conciliō (“I unite”), from concilium (“council, meeting”).
Senses: examples: text: Frankneſs and openneſs conciliate confidence. We truſt the man who ſeems willing to truſt us.
ref: 1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VII, section IV (Of the Manner in which Different Authors have Treated of the Practical Rules of Morality), page 387:
glosses: To acquire, to procure.
examples: text: It must surely then happen, to a much greater degree, in a great nation, whose government is suddenly dissolved by the resolution of the people; and which, in taking a new form, has so many jarring interests to conciliate […].
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 324:
glosses: To reconcile (discordant theories, demands etc.); to make compatible, bring together.
examples: text: `Surely, my father,' I answered courteously, feeling certain that I should do well to conciliate this ancient Mammon of Unrighteousness.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To make calm and content, or regain the goodwill of; to placate; to propitiate.
glosses: To mediate in a dispute.
Derived terms: conciliatingly
conciliative
conciliator
conciliatory
nonconciliating
unconciliated
unconciliating
Related terms: conciliation
council
reconcile
reconciliate
helpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlplɪs/
Forms: form: more helpless
form: most helpless
Etymology: From Middle English helples, from Old English *helplēas (“helpless”) from Proto-Germanic *helpōlausaz, equivalent to help + -less. Compare Dutch hulpeloos (“helpless”), German hilflos (“helpless”), Danish hjælpeløs (“helpless”) and Swedish hjälplös (“helpless”).
Senses: examples: text: Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman
ref: 1995, Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?:
text: Rana Thanoptis: Are we good? Can I go?
Shepard: You conducted brutal experiments on helpless test subjects. You helped Saren. You don't get to live.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: FTL Drive Codex entry:
glosses: Unable to defend oneself.
examples: text: A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:
glosses: Lacking help; powerless.
glosses: Unable to act without help; needing help; feeble.
examples: a helpless urge
glosses: Uncontrollable.
examples: text: For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: From which there is no possibility of being saved.
Derived terms: helplessdesk
helplessly
helplessness
cleanup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːnʌp/
ipa: [ˈkʰliːˌnʌp]
rhymes: -iːnʌp
Forms: form: cleanups
form: clean-up
Etymology: A deverbal from clean up.
Senses: glosses: The act of cleaning or tidying something; the act of finishing something off.
examples: text: Jones will be batting cleanup in tonight's game.
text: The starting lineup for Newark consisted of Johnny Neun leading off at first base; the number two hitter was catcher Norman Kies; batting third and playing second base was Andy Cohen; at cleanup was "The People's Cherce," Dixie Walker; George Selkirk was hitting fifth and playing right field; Bob Barrett was at third base and hitting sixth; Jess Hill was the number seven batter in left field; Red Rolfe batted eighth and played shortstop; and the right-hander, George Miner, was on the mound.
ref: 1994, Ronald A. Mayer, The 1937 Newark Bears: A Baseball Legend, →ISBN, page 27:
text: There it was: McDougald at cleanup, and DiMaggio fifth.
ref: 2000, Richard Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, →ISBN, page 528:
text: I had been getting hits off Jim Palmer and had a streak going and went from hitting 8th to 7th, to 6th, 5th, and then finally McKeon put me in at cleanup.
ref: 2010, Kenneth Hogan, Batting 10th for the Yankees, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Fourth in the batting order; a cleanup hitter.
Derived terms: cleanup hitter
cleanup man
cleanup on aisle
Related terms: clean up
cleanup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːnʌp/
ipa: [ˈkʰliːˌnʌp]
rhymes: -iːnʌp
Forms: form: clean-up
Etymology: A deverbal from clean up.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of clean up.
overview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/
Forms: form: overviews
Etymology: From over- + view.
Senses: examples: text: With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
ref: 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:
glosses: A brief summary, as of a book or a presentation.
glosses: A view from above.
examples: text: Are we betray’d thus to thy over-view?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: An inspection.
Derived terms: overview effect
overview
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.vəˌvjuː/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚˌvjuː/
Forms: form: overviews
form: overviewing
form: overviewed
form: overviewed
Etymology: From over- + view.
Senses: examples: text: Gouldner, on the other hand, overviewed all of sociology as it exists in the Western world today, using Talcott Parsons as a "representative" example of its dominant mode of thought.
ref: 1976, Elizabeth A. Freidheim, Sociological Theory in Research Practice, →ISBN, page 313:
glosses: To engage in an overview; to provide a brief summary.
Derived terms: overviewable
bioinformatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪəʊˌɪnfəˈmætɪks/
ipa: /ˌbaɪoʊˌɪnfɚˈmætɪks/
Forms: form: bio-informatics
Etymology: From bio- + informatics.
Senses: examples: text: The reason, according to bioinformatics researcher Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, one of the founders of the project, is the dissolution of genetic testing biz 23andMe and the potential weaponization of genetic data by authoritarian regimes.
ref: 2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register:
topics: biology
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline to analyse biological information using computers and statistical techniques.
Hypernyms: informatics
Derived terms: glycobioinformatics
translational bioinformatics
Related terms: ecoinformatics
lock, stock and barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From the three principal parts of a flintlock. The explanation that it refers to all of a shopkeeper’s possessions—the lock to the door, the stock in trade and the items stored in barrels—is fanciful. First attested in an 1817 letter by the Scottish novelist Walter Scott (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: They want to buy the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel.
text: I do not believe I should save £100 by retaining Mrs. Redford, by the time she was raised, altered, and beautified, for, like the Highlandman’s gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel to put her into repair.
ref: 1817 October 29, Walter Scott, “To the same [Daniel Terry]”, in J[ohn] G[ibson] Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, published 1837, →OCLC, chapter III, page 59:
text: Supposing the whole Castro regime—lock, stock and barrel—were to be swept out by counter-revolutionaries as effectively as the Batista regime was cleared out[…]
ref: 1961 June, A. J. Knowles, “An Appraisal of the Cuban Revolution”, in Atlas, volume 1, number 4, page 41:
synonyms: word: absolutely
word: all-out
word: all the way
word: altogether
word: at large
word: at length
word: cap-a-pie
word: categorically
word: completely
word: detailly
word: downright
word: entirely
word: exhaustively
word: finally
word: first and last
word: flat-out
word: flat out
word: from aardvark to zymurgy
word: from A to Z
word: from head to toe
word: from soup to nuts
word: from stem to stern
word: from the rooter to the tooter
word: from top to bottom
word: from top to toe
word: fully
word: handsomely
word: heartily
word: head to foot
word: head to tail
word: head to toe
word: hook
word: line
word: and sinker
word: in detail
word: in full
word: lock
word: stock
word: and barrel
word: one hundred percent
word: out-and-out
word: out and out
word: outright
word: particularly
word: perfectly
word: plumb
word: purely
word: quite
word: right
word: root and branch
word: soundly
word: soup-to-nuts
word: straight up
word: through and through
word: top to tail
word: top to toe
word: totally
word: totes
word: to the bone
word: to the core
word: to the full
word: utterly
word: well and truly
word: whole
word: whole cloth
word: wholly
glosses: Entirely, completely.
lock, stock and barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the three principal parts of a flintlock. The explanation that it refers to all of a shopkeeper’s possessions—the lock to the door, the stock in trade and the items stored in barrels—is fanciful. First attested in an 1817 letter by the Scottish novelist Walter Scott (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: Congress are in possession of the flint, powder, gun, lock, stock and barrel, and still we exclaim with the old lady, take away the musket.
ref: 1824 April 7, Balt[imore] Morn[ing] Chron[icle], “Standing Armies”, in The Adams Centinel, volume VIII, number 22, Gettysburg, Pa.: Robert Goodloe Harper, →OCLC, page [2], column 2:
text: Well, they are men cooks; they don't think of what importance a good cup of tea is to a lady. They don't remember that it is the lock, stock, and barrel of a lady's comforts.
ref: 1872, Charles Chapman, A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer, page 27:
text: "Sinbad not only gets the keys of the city, he gets the whole lock, stock and barrel!"
ref: 1945, George F. Foley Jr., Sinbad of the coast guard, page 85:
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: The entirety of a thing, with nothing omitted.
Related terms: bag and baggage
everything but the kitchen sink
flash in the pan
full monty
go off half-cocked
hook, line and sinker
the whole nine yards
whole shebang
Loki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊki/
ipa: /ˈloʊki/
homophone: low-key stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -əʊki
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Loki, where further etymology is shown.
Senses: examples: text: There’s the Loki fly, in honor of the tortured God of Mischief, whose scientific name is “Daptolestes illusiolautus,” meaning elegant deception.
ref: 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.
hot on someone's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She left the restaurant with him hot on her heels.
text: Newcastle beat Bolton to increase the pressure on the Londoners, while Chelsea are also hot on the heels of faltering Tottenham, who have one win from their last eight games.
ref: 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
text: Hot on the heels of Network Rail remodelling King's Cross comes news of cuts to East Coast Main Line services.
ref: 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:
glosses: Close behind; pursuing or following closely.
Terran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
Etymology: From Terra + -an.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of Earth; of terrestrial origin.
Terran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
Forms: form: Terrans
Etymology: From Terra + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The magazines, in the nearby rack, were in English. And on their covers, laughing Terrans.
ref: 1966, Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last Year:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of Earth; an earthling, especially a human.
Synonyms: word: Earthican
word: Earthling
topics: science-fiction
literature
publishing
media
word: Gaian
word: Tellurian
Hypernyms: Solarian
Hyponyms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
Terran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛɹən
Etymology: From Terra + -an.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical language spoken throughout all of Earth.
Synonyms: Earthese
Related terms: Martian
Terra
Venusian
ulcus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌlkəs/
/ˈʌlkʊs/
Forms: form: ulcera
Etymology: From Latin ulcus (“sore”). Doublet of ulcer.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: A rounded, pore-like aperture at either pole of a pollen grain.
examples: text: He also likes the vapor-cauterization of Wesseli (100° C.), which does not produce an action at a distance. It also helps for deep scrophulous ulcera.
ref: 1916, Ophthalmology: Essays, Abstracts and Reviews, volume 12, page 150:
text: By the observations and experiments of numbers of clinicians and investigators it has become certain now that the central brain, particularly the hypothalamus, is of great importance for the origin of erosions and ulcera of the stomach.
ref: 1954, Jules Samuels, Endogenous Endocrinotherapy, Including the Causal Cure of Cancer: Compendium, Amsterdam: N.V. Cycloscoop, page 316:
text: V. E., ♀.born 1920 (File Nr. 27, 26 October to 8 January 1954). Gastrectomy in March 1953 because of multiple ulcera of the stomach.
ref: 1957, Experimental Medicine and Surgery, New York: Brooklyn Medical Press, page 163:
text: More than 80% of all ulcera of the stomach in humans can be found along the lesser curvature (Haftner, 1965; Kommerell & Reiferscheid, 1979) and HCI and pepsin are supposed to be related to the aetiology of the ulcera.
ref: 1988, Peter Langer, The Mammalian Herbivore Stomach: Comparative Anatomy, Function, and Evolution, Gustav Fischer Verlag, →ISBN, page 408:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ulcer.
synonyms: word: ulcer
Derived terms: ulcerate
ulculus
ulcus molle
full of hot air
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more full of hot air
form: most full of hot air
Senses: examples: text: Did the salesman tell you anything new, or was he just full of hot air?
glosses: Talking a lot, especially without saying anything of value or meaning.
Related terms: blowhard
windbag
loaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊnɚ/
homophone: loner
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loaners
Etymology: From loan + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who loans; a lender.
examples: text: I am driving a loaner while my car is in the shop.
text: It took a few days to get the prescription for wheelchair repairs approved before the parts could be ordered. In the meantime, the company I was dealing with gave me a loaner chair until mine was returned to me.
ref: 2014, Arlene Sollis, I Came — I Stayed, page 219:
glosses: Something that is given as a loan.
loner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊnɚ/
homophone: loaner
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loners
Etymology: From lone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I actually enjoy being a loner.
text: For one thing, he wanted to see if anyone was following Ricketts. The Cockney had been thrown out of SAS because he was a loner and a canteen cowboy.
ref: 1985, J. C. Winters, Berlin Fugle, page 307:
text: I remember reading an article that described three personality types – socializers, loners, and aloners.
ref: 2013, Margaux Joy DeNador, The Art of Living a Life You Love, page 158:
text: An unaspected planet bides its time and then emerges, often explosively and seemingly out of character. These potent loners are a hidden influence within the chart.
ref: 2018, Judy Hall, The Astrology Bible:
synonyms: word: solitary
word: aloner
word: anchoret
word: anchorite
word: eremite
word: hermit
word: Miller of Dee
word: monk
word: recluse
word: shut-in
word: solitary
word: sullen
coordinate_terms: aloner
misanthrope
glosses: One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.
Derived terms: lonerish
perchance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜːˈtʃɑːns/
ipa: /pəˈtʃɑːns/
ipa: /ˌpɜɹˈtʃæns/
ipa: /pəɹˈtʃæns/
ipa: [ˌpɝˈt͡ʃʰɛə̯ns]
ipa: [pɚˈt͡ʃʰɛə̯ns]
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Etymology: From Middle English parchaunce, from Old French par cheance (“by chance”).
Senses: examples: text: You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?
text: Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him[…]
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, section XVII:
text: A great black bird, Apollyon's bosom-friend, / Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned / That brushed my cap—perchance the guide I sought.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, section XXVII:
glosses: perhaps; by chance
Synonyms: by any chance
maybe
peradventure
perhaps
possibly
mayhap
trumpeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trumpetings
Senses: examples: text: […] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]
ref: 1862, Edmund Hope Verney, The Shannon's brigade in India, page 86:
glosses: action of the verb to trumpet
topics: business
mining
glosses: A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
trumpeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trumpet
buy the farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys the farm
form: buying the farm
form: bought the farm
form: bought the farm
Etymology: Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use.
Senses: examples: text: You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as if you buy it in a declared war.
ref: 1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, page 131:
text: Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!
ref: 1984, G. Harry Stine, Manna, page 221:
text: BETTY. Shoot, if I knew you was gonna buy the farm I coulda asked for everything you got in the world... How were you gonna do it? ¶ROGER (takes revolver out of briefcase). With this.
ref: 1995, Steve Allen, “Having a Good Time”, in Ann McDonough, Kent R. Brown, editors, A Grand Entrance, published 2000, →ISBN, page 212:
text: They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow.
ref: 2002, W. Barry Baird, Vietnam Journey, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.
Synonyms: buy it
buy the plot
buy the ranch
buy the big one
kick the bucket
punch one's ticket
meet your maker
Related terms: bet the farm
on the up-and-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on the up and up
Etymology: First use appears in the US c. 1863. Its exact origins are uncertain, but it is theorized to have originated in sports betting.
Senses: examples: text: Before paying any money, make sure the organization is on the up-and-up.
text: You double-cross me, you son of a bitch. I bet English gave you a sawbuck so he could take her out and give her a jump, and you sit back there collecting fifty bucks from me becuss^([sic]) I'm sap enough to think you're on the up-and-up with me.
ref: 1934, John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, published 2013, →ISBN, page 165:
text: “Which you also have to order from his Web site, I'm betting. Are you sure this doctor is on the up-and-up?” “He wrote a book, Abs. Of course he's on the up-and-up.”
ref: 2013, Kate Collins, Seed No Evil, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: above board
bona fide
glosses: Legitimate; honest; upright.
glosses: Becoming more successful; on the rise.
Related terms: on the up
by the skin of one's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: * From Job 19.20. "My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth."
Senses: examples: text: I passed the test by the skin of my teeth.
text: I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight owing to a points failure, and I make the CrossCountry Class 170 to Derby by the skin of my teeth.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 57:
synonyms: by a hair's breadth
glosses: Barely; closely; by a narrow margin; with nothing to spare.
Related terms: close shave
benjamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
Forms: form: benjamins
Etymology: From benzoin, modified by folk etymology to match the name Benjamin.
Senses: glosses: A balsamic resin from the bark of Styrax trees used in perfumes, incense, and medicine; benzoin resin.
glosses: A type of tree which produces benzoin or has similar properties; specifically, Styrax benzoin, Lindera benzoin; a Benjamin bush.
benjamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
Forms: form: benjamins
Senses: examples: text: something which is not long enough to constitute a benjamin, and too long for a dress coat or spencer
ref: 1826, The Atheneum, volume 18, page 236:
text: How the young man from Cambridge sulkily put his five great-coats in front; but was reconciled when little Miss Sharp was made to quit the carriage, and mount up beside him—when he covered her up in one of his Benjamins, and became perfectly good-humoured—
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of upper coat for men.
benjamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
Forms: form: benjamins
Etymology: From the image of Benjamin Franklin on the US $100 bill.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Benjamin: a US $100 bill.
negotiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /nɪˌɡəʊ.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /nɪˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /nəˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: negotiations
form: negociation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French négociation, or from Latin negotiatio (“the carrying on of business, a wholesale business”), from negotiari (“to carry on business”); see negotiate.
Senses: examples: text: The specifics of the contract are still under negotiation.
text: The two parties entered into negotiations about the merger.
glosses: The process of achieving agreement through discussion.
Hyponyms: english: Web
translation: Web
word: content negotiation
Derived terms: negotiationship
negotiation table
nonnegotiation
prenegotiation
pronegotiation
renegotiation
subnegotiation
Related terms: negotiable
negotiate
negotiator
otiose
arbitration
pesante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian pesante.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: heavy, ponderous
fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: fittin'
form: fittin
Etymology: By surface analysis, fit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fit
examples: text: I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
text: 'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.
ref: 1846, Lyndall Gordon, quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published 2010:
glosses: Getting ready; preparing.
Synonyms: sense: ready
english: see also going to
translation: see also going to
word: fixing to
fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more fitting
form: most fitting
form: fittin'
form: fittin
Etymology: By surface analysis, fit + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:
text: The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given a fitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
text: It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
text: And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
text: The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines. It was only fitting that the Horwich branch should have its own.
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
synonyms: condign
glosses: Appropriate; suitable.
Derived terms: fittingly
fittingness
unfitting
fitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: fittings
form: fittin'
form: fittin
Etymology: By surface analysis, fit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
glosses: The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
examples: the fittings of a church or study
glosses: A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
examples: text: Since her medication was changed, her fitting has got worse.
glosses: The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
Derived terms: word: banjo fitting
word: fitting-out
word: fitting room
word: formfitting
word: gasfitting
word: grease fitting
word: gunfitting
word: photofitting
word: pipefitting
word: shipfitting
word: shopfitting
word: steamfitting
CK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CKs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cytokeratin.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cytokine.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: CPK
glosses: Initialism of creatine kinase.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of candidate key.
CK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Calvin Klein.
Related terms: CKs
CKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Calvin Klein underwear.
tattooed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tattooed
form: most tattooed
form: tatooed
Senses: examples: text: The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin on his body.
text: A copiously tattooed young man in a blue jumpsuit sits mansplayed across from her, shackled to the rail on his side of the hallway, staring at Penny.
ref: 2024, Christina Lynch, Pony Confidential, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Having one or more tattoos.
Synonyms: word: tatted
Hyponyms: laser-tattooed
tattooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tatooed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tattoo
manned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: examples: text: At Putney Bridge the train description transmissions for eastbound trains must be originated as there is no manned signal cabin on the London Transport system beyond this point; [...].
ref: 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:
glosses: Operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted; staffed.
Derived terms: double-manned
manned maneuvering unit
multimanned
single-manned
manned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of man