cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Senses: glosses: plural of bud
buds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌdz/
rhymes: -ʌdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bud
noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose
glosses: plural of nos
noses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nose
musicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musician
hemorrhoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛm(ə)ɹɔɪdz/
Forms: form: haemorrhoids
Senses: glosses: plural of hemorrhoid
immersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immersed
form: most immersed
Senses: glosses: Under the surface of a liquid; sunk.
examples: text: ON THE NARROW GAUGE. By P. B. Whitehouse. Nelson 30s. [...] In an introductory note Mr. Whitehouse disarms any criticism from narrow-gauge aficionados as immersed in the subject as himself by pointing out that his book has no pretensions to the status of a new narrow-gauge textbook; [...].
ref: 1964 July, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
glosses: Deeply involved.
examples: text: Sori in the axils of lamina branches, partly immersed; involucre bell- or trumpet-shaped, or obconical, usually 2-lipped; receptacle generally exserted.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lowered or sunken relative to a reference surface.
Derived terms: nonimmersed
unimmersed
immersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immerse
recited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recite
rented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛn(t)ɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rent
injected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inject
trampled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trample
disused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsˈjuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disuse
disused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsˈjuːzd/
rhymes: -uːzd
Senses: examples: text: But as time & experience do reforme euery thing that is amisse, so this bitter poeme called the old Comedy, being disused and taken away, the new Comedy came in place, more ciuill and pleasant a great deale and not touching any man by name, but in a certain generalitie glancing at euery abuse,
ref: 1589, George Puttenham, chapter 14, in The Arte of English Poesie:
text: In Scotland the custom, now disused in England, of inviting the relations of the deceased to the interment is universally retained.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], “Chapter 37”, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: And now Love sang: but his was such a song,
So meshed with half-remembrance hard to free,
As souls disused in death’s sterility
May sing when the new birthday tarries long.
ref: 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Willowwood”, in The House of Life, Stanza 2:
text: The breath that stirred his lips he soon resigned
To windy chaos, and we only find
The garnered husks of his disusèd words.
ref: 1894, George Santayana, “On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy”, in Sonnets and Other Verses, New York: Duffield & Co., published 1906, page 55:
text: The tables, for instance, were to be covered with baize, but when the patron found that baize was expensive he bought instead disused army blankets, smelling incorrigibly of sweat.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: It was to assist in the filling-in of the tunnel on the disused Patricroft-Clifton Junction line, which was the scene of a disaster in 1953 when part, below some houses in Swinton, caved in.
ref: 1955 June, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 439:
text: […] the disused, wrecked Byzantine churches that brooded, forlorn, lovely, ravished and apostate ghosts, about the hills and shores of that lost empire.
ref: 1956, Rose Macaulay, chapter 9, in The Towers of Trebizond, New York: New York Review Books, published 2003, page 72:
text: All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken.
ref: 1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, New York: Knopf, page 172:
text: The old station buildings and train shed at Redcar Central were taken out of use around 30 years ago and became a business centre, but are currently disused. Redcar & Cleveland Council has plans to improve the station, including better passenger facilities and retail units.
ref: 2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption:
glosses: No longer in use.
Synonyms: antiquated
defunct
outdated
obsolete
plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plate
plated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: Covered with plates or scales.
glosses: Having a coating of metal.
examples: text: a plated meal
glosses: Served on a plate.
Derived terms: armor-plated
armour-plated
chrome-plated
chromium-plated
electroplated
gold plated
gold-plated
nickel-plated
plated lizard
preplated
silver-plated
unplated
Related terms: metalclad
applauded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of applaud
implored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of implore
tormented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of torment
tormented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tormented
form: most tormented
Senses: glosses: Miserable or anguished, especially with anxiety or guilt.
glosses: Damned; accursed.
appeased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appease
sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtəd/
rhymes: -aɪtəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sight
sighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪtəd/
rhymes: -aɪtəd
Senses: examples: text: blind and partially sighted people
glosses: Having vision, not blind.
examples: text: an iron-sighted pistol
text: a sharp-sighted bird of prey
glosses: Having a particular kind of sight.
Synonyms: sense: not blind
word: seeing
Derived terms: clear-sighted
dim-sighted
farsighted
far-sighted
half-sighted
high-sighted
long-sighted
narrow-sighted
nearsighted
near-sighted
near sighted
quick-sighted
second-sighted
sharpsighted
shortsighted
short-sighted
weak-sighted
condensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condense
condensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condensed
form: most condensed
Senses: examples: a condensed typeface
glosses: Highly concentrated, or packed into a small space.
Synonyms: compact
compressed
concentrated
Derived terms: condensed air
condensed formula
condensedly
condensed matter
condensed matter physicist
condensed matter physics
condensed milk
condensedness
condensed soup
decondensed
extracondensed
hypercondensed
noncondensed
overcondensed
pericondensed
precondensed
semicondensed
supercondensed
ultracondensed
uncondensed
undercondensed
mused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muse
expended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expend
expended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expended
form: most expended
Senses: synonyms: word: effete
word: low
word: consumed
word: depleted
word: done up
word: effete
word: exhausted
word: expended
word: gone
word: finished
word: forworn
word: low
word: spent
word: used up
glosses: Spent; used up; exhausted.
rowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /roːd/
rhymes: -aʊd
homophone: road
homophone: rode
homophone: Rhode (all not in Scotland)
Etymology: From row (verb) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of row
rowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊd/
ipa: /roːd/
rhymes: -aʊd
homophone: road
homophone: rode
homophone: Rhode (all not in Scotland)
Etymology: From row (“line of objects or entries”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a twelve-rowed ear of corn
glosses: Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.
punched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌnt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ʌntʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punch
yelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yell
cheated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪd/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃiɾɨd]
rhymes: -iːtɪd
Forms: form: more cheated
form: most cheated
Senses: glosses: Having been tricked or deceived.
examples: text: The people feel cheated by the government's decision.
glosses: Having been defrauded.
Derived terms: uncheated
cheated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪd/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃiɾɨd]
rhymes: -iːtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cheat
envied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnvid/
Forms: form: envyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envy
envied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnvid/
Forms: form: more envied
form: most envied
form: envyed
Senses: examples: text: She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the clown, so philosophically funny, despite the cruel ringmaster's whip cuts.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
glosses: That is the object of envy.
Derived terms: unenvied
envied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnvid/
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
ipa: /ˈɛnvid/
Forms: form: envyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of envie
protracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protract
protracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protracted
form: most protracted
Senses: examples: text: a protracted and bitter dispute
text: ... inheritance of protracted misery ...
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 5, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: The gleefully sadistic killer pushes Jaime into a fight, telling him that he slept with Cersei, and after a protracted struggle, even sinks his blade into Jaime’s side. But it turns out that a metal hand can be valuable in battle, after all, and Jaime uses it to help sink his own sword into Euron’s stomach
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
synonyms: word: long-drawn-out
word: abiding
word: chronic
word: continuate
word: diuturnal
word: durable
word: durative
word: enduring
word: extending
word: hard-wearing
word: lasting
word: long-drawn-out
word: long-lasting
word: longevous
word: longsome
word: perdurable
word: persistent
word: prolonged
word: protracted
glosses: Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
knotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒtɪd/
ipa: /ˈnɑtɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Forms: form: more knotted
form: most knotted
Etymology: From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.
Senses: examples: text: These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
glosses: Full of knots; knotty.
glosses: Tied in knots.
glosses: Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
examples: text: Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
glosses: Having the shape or form of a knot.
Derived terms: beknotted
butterfly-knotted
get knotted
knottedness
knotted pile
knotted wrack
pseudoknotted
knotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒtɪd/
ipa: /ˈnɑtɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From Middle English knotted, iknotted, from the past participle of the verb knotten.
Senses: examples: text: He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.
text: Her macrame basket hangers are so well knotted.
glosses: simple past and past participle of knot
indented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indented
form: most indented
Etymology: From indent + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part V, page 352:
text: The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]
ref: 1958, Graham Greene, chapter 2, in Our Man in Havana, part 4, New York: Pocket Books, published 1974, page 143,:
synonyms: word: erose
word: serrated
word: dentate
word: dented
word: dentilated
word: erose
word: gimped
word: gnawed
word: indented
word: jagged
word: jaggy
word: nicked
word: notched
word: notchy
word: saw-toothed
word: serrate
word: serrated
word: serriform
word: toothed
glosses: Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.
examples: text: a heavily indented coastline
text: Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd / In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve / Address'd his way, not with indented wave, / Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 494-497:
glosses: Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.
examples: text: an indented border or ordinary
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
examples: text: an indented servant
glosses: Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Notched along the margin with a different colour, like the feathers of some birds.
Coordinate terms: topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: dancetté
Derived terms: indentedly
indentedness
indented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From indent + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of indent
roasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊstɪd/
Forms: form: more roasted
form: most roasted
form: rosted
Senses: examples: text: The pleasant aroma arising from roasted coffee beans during grinding is as attractive as the aroma of fresh brewed coffee for coffee flavored prepared foods.
ref: 2003, Kathryn D. Deibler, Jeannine Delwiche, Handbook of Flavor Characterization: Sensory Analysis, Chemistry, and Physiology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 204:
synonyms: roast
glosses: Cooked by roasting.
roasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊstɪd/
Forms: form: rosted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roast
compounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compounded
form: most compounded
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis exceeding evident in natural philosophy that all the operations of the creatures are the immediate influence of the divine being; and that the method of influence is most simple, constant, and unvaried in the meanest and simplest beings, and more evident, compounded, and various and according to less simple rules in beings that are more perfect and compounded—and that in proportion as they are more or less perfect. 'Tis most simple in inanimate beings, less so in plants, more compounded still in the more-perfect plants, more evident in animals than in them, and most so in the most-perfect animal and most-compounded and least of all bound to constant laws—in man.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Edwards, Harvey G. Townsend, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, page 259:
text: He made a distinction between mixts and more compounded substances, and between the ultimate principles and more proximate, compounded principles.
ref: 2023, Matthew Daniel Eddy, Ursula Klein, A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century:
glosses: Compound; composite; resulting from the interaction and combination of multiple parts.
Derived terms: compoundedness
noncompounded
uncompounded
compounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compound
embodied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embody
embodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: After all, in embodied work, we are trying to feel the physical experience of being ourselves, something visceral, not abstract or other.
ref: 2022 September 27, Karden Rabin, Trauma Research Foundation:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: experienced, mediated via the physical body (typically in contrast to mental experience)
Derived terms: embrained
organizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: organising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of organize
organizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organizings
form: organising
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is organized.
straining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strain
straining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strainings
Senses: examples: text: sundry violent gaspings and strainings
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
examples: text: Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.
ref: 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64:
glosses: filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
Related terms: anti-G straining maneuver
gnat-straining
straining beam
straining piece
designing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of design
designing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more designing
form: most designing
Senses: examples: a designing man
glosses: artful; scheming
Derived terms: designingly
undesigning
designing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designings
Senses: examples: text: Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?
ref: 1829, Richard Carlile, The Lion:
glosses: A process of design.
blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈblɑkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of block
blocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɒkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈblɑkɪŋ/
Forms: form: blockings
Senses: examples: text: blocking of major opposition sites
text: Miss H.'s voice was clear and intelligible, although it alternated between vocal blockings and extreme vocal hurry, every clause being jetted out suddenly, and rapidly decaying into aphonia.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
glosses: The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
glosses: Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
examples: text: Examine your matrix map, and make sure that no three keystrokes form a rectangle with a fourth keystroke that will cause you problems. This prevents both ghosting and blocking.
ref: 2011, John St. Clair, Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine, page 218:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
examples: text: Blocking is an annoying effect in image compression using JPEG especially at low bit-rates.
ref: 2017, Sekine Asadi Amiri, Hamid Hassanpour, Image compression using JPEG with reduced blocking effects via adaptive down-sampling and self-learning image sparse representation, →DOI, page 1:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
Derived terms: absolute blocking
adblocking
antiblocking
bed blocking
blocking and tackling
blocking unit
geo-blocking
immunoblocking
neuroblocking
thought blocking
renting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛntɪŋ/
Etymology: rent + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rent
renting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛntɪŋ/
Forms: form: rentings
Etymology: rent + -ing
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is rented; a rental.
bulging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌldʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bulge
bulging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌldʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: bulgings
Senses: examples: text: Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays.
ref: 1969, Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings:
glosses: The shape or motion of something that bulges.
foaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: present participle and gerund of foam
foaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foamings
Senses: examples: text: After three foamings, a steady state is reached.
ref: 1946, Stanford University. Dept. of Chemistry, Contributions, volume 17, page 1599:
glosses: A process that forms foam.
Derived terms: antifoaming
foaming agent
foamingly
nonfoaming
unfoaming
blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪndɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blind
blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪndɪŋ
Forms: form: more blinding
form: most blinding
Etymology: By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
examples: text: blinding tears;  blinding snow
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
glosses: Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
examples: text: “How’s it going?” “Blinding, mate.”
glosses: Brilliant; marvellous.
Derived terms: blindingness
nonblinding
blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪndɪŋ
Forms: form: more blinding
form: most blinding
Etymology: By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: certain 'details' of 'scientifically realized socialism' became blinding obvious
ref: 1983, Régis Debray, Critique of Political Reason, page 6:
text: He made the basket on his second attempt, after an exchange of moves so blinding fast that Derek could barely distinguish them.
ref: 1997, Steven Barnes, Blood Brothers, page 190:
text: I was in a nightmare, and everything was blinding bright, inky black, blinding bright; and fading, and fading
ref: 2003, Sally Prue, The Devil's Toenail, page 139:
text: It's the blinding obvious fact that American football is the real-life equivalent of Quidditch. Or maybe Fireball - the game invented by Joey and Chandler
ref: 2005 February 8, “The greatest show on earth”, in Guardian Unlimited:
text: WHILST IT'S blinding obvious that converged networks are the way to go, it's also apparent that C21 [21st Century] networks won't get rapidly rolled out
ref: 2006 November 28, “Converged networks lack adequate business tools”, in Inquirer:
text: Roger Yates, chief executive officer of Henderson Group Plc in London, which oversees about $125 billion said Greenspan's remarks were "blinding obvious".
ref: 2007 May 24, “US Note Yields Near 4-Month High Before Durable Goods Report”, in Bloomberg:
glosses: To an extreme degree; blindingly.
blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪndɪŋ
Forms: form: blindings
Etymology: By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of causing blindness.
glosses: A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
glosses: A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
Related terms: effing and blinding
rotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rot
rotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rottings
Etymology: From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
ref: 1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire, page 214:
glosses: The process by which something rots.
examples: text: From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.
ref: c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum:
glosses: Material that has rotted.
Derived terms: bed rotting
Related terms: rottingness
wringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wryngynge; equivalent to wring + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wring
wringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wringings
Etymology: From Middle English wryngynge; equivalent to wring + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is wrung.
Derived terms: hand wringing
burrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burrow
burrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burrowings
Senses: examples: text: These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils[…]
ref: 1825, Thomas Thomson, Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy:
glosses: The act or result of making a burrow.
Derived terms: burrowing junction
nonburrowing
semiburrowing
terminal burrowing
tanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: present participle and gerund of tan
tanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Forms: form: tannings
Senses: glosses: The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.
glosses: The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
glosses: A spanking.
Derived terms: spray tanning
tanning bed
tanning butter
tanning parlor
tanning salon
Related terms: tan someone's hide
investing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of invest
investing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being invested; an investment.
Derived terms: eco-investing
green investing
growth investing
value investing
crowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English crowninge, crounende, equivalent to crown + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crown
crowning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: more crowning
form: most crowning
Etymology: From Middle English crowninge, crounende, equivalent to crown + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It seems that now [the Devil] was driving Alison hard. She had been remiss of late — fewer souls sent to hell, less zeal in quenching the Spirit, and, above all, the crowning offense that her bairn had communicated in Christ's kirk.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Friday night’s crowning victory at The Hawthorns was the 25th in 30 league matches since Antonio Conte’s decisive re-gearing of his team in September, the tactical switches that have coaxed such a thrilling run from this team of bolt-ons and upcycled squad players, most notably Victor Moses, who was dredged out of the laundry bin in the autumn to become a key part of the title surge.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:
text: Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:
glosses: Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity.
glosses: Located on the top or summit.
Derived terms: crowning achievement
crowning glory
crowning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: crownings
Etymology: From Middle English crouninge, crounynge, coroning, coronyng, equivalent to crown + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart.
glosses: A coronation.
examples: text: There were outflankings and crownings of hills by numbers of thirteen and seventeen men, that made one hold one's breath.
ref: 1860, Fraser's Magazine, volume 61, page 711:
glosses: The act of one who crowns (in various senses).
examples: text: When your baby’s head remains visible without slipping back in, it is known as crowning.
ref: 2012 April, Baby Crowning, American Pregnancy Association:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: The stage of vaginal childbirth when the infant's head remains consistently visible at the vulva.
betraying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more betraying
form: most betraying
Etymology: From betray + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That betrays
Derived terms: betrayingly
unbetraying
betraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From betray + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of betray
betraying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betrayings
Etymology: From Middle English betraying, bytrayenge, betraȝyng, equivalent to betray + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: betrayal
winking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wink
winking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winkings
Senses: examples: text: I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
ref: 1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828, page 153:
text: […] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 7, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 201:
glosses: The act of someone who winks.
Derived terms: jaw winking
like winking
quick as winking
winking monkey
spitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: spittings
Senses: examples: text: Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.
ref: 1837, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31, page 44:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: expectoration
synonyms: sprouting
glosses: An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
Derived terms: spitting box
spitting mad
spitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spit
pronouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pronounce
pronouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronouncings
Senses: glosses: An utterance; a pronouncement.
purchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of purchase
purchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purchasings
Senses: examples: text: As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us […]
ref: 1936, James Arthur Fulton, Our economic nationalism: its purpose and importance, page 84:
glosses: An act or process of making a purchase.
topics: business
government
glosses: A complex, organized process in large organizations for obtaining goods that may include identification of requirements, approvals, supplier management, negotiation, receipt of goods, and payment.
glosses: A part of an organization that manages such processes
Synonyms: sense: complex process
word: procurement
Derived terms: purchasing agent
purchasing power
sowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
homophone: sewing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sow
sowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
homophone: sewing
Forms: form: sowings
Senses: examples: text: annual sowings of wheat
glosses: The act or process by which something is sown.
tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tippings
Etymology: From tip + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
examples: text: Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
ref: 2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd:
glosses: The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
glosses: The dumping of rubbish.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
examples: text: Cats fan Mr Burke received a handsome trophy from Balmoral Grove for his feat but is no stranger to cleaning up, having won the tipping at The Break three years in a row and also done well at The National Hotel.
ref: 2016 September 16, Danny Lannen, “Grovedale nursing home footy tips king taking it one season at a time”, in The Geelong Advertiser:
glosses: A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
Derived terms: cow tipping
fly-tipping
table-tipping
tipping element
tipping point
Related terms: tipper
footy tipping
tipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tip + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tip
thrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrust
thrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrustings
Senses: glosses: The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
glosses: The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
glosses: The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
crowding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crowd
crowding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊdɪŋ
Forms: form: crowdings
Senses: examples: text: To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]
ref: 1832, Thomas Carlyle, “Boswell's Life of Johnson”, in Fraser's Magazine:
glosses: The act by which somebody is crowded.
Derived terms: anticrowding
crowdingly
gasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gasp
gasping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaspings
Senses: examples: text: sundry violent gaspings and strainings
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The act by which one gasps.
Derived terms: gasping disease
gasping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Any chance of a cup of tea? I'm gasping.
ref: 2011, Kate Ellis, The Armada Boy: Number 2 in series, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Very thirsty, especially for tea
Derived terms: gaspingly
appointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appoint
concealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsiːlɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsilɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: concealings
Etymology: From conceal + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of conceal: an act of concealment.
examples: text: Standing half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them; […]
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book V. Misgivings and Preparatives.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section V, page 142:
glosses: Material, etc., that conceals something.
concealing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsiːlɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsilɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Etymology: From conceal + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conceal
Derived terms: concealingly
framing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frame
framing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: framings
Senses: examples: text: wooden framing
text: steel framing
text: The framing of the photograph was excellent.
glosses: The placing of a picture, etc. in a frame.
glosses: The placing of something in context.
glosses: Framework or the building thereof.
Derived terms: framing chisel
framing device
framing effect
framing hammer
framing square
picture framing
satellite-framing
timber framing
underframing
verb-framing
itching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English ecchinge, ȝitchinge, ʒicchinde, ʒichande (also unassibilated as yckyng), from Old English ġiċċende (“itching”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjandi, present participle of *jukkjan (“to itch”), equivalent to itch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of itch
Derived terms: itchingly
itching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: itchings
Etymology: From Middle English icchynge, ichynge, ycchenge, yecchyng, ʒicchunge (also unassibilated as ʒykynge), equivalent to itch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.
ref: 1856, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, page 71:
synonyms: pruritus
glosses: A sensation that itches.
Derived terms: itching powder
Related terms: pruritic
protruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protrude
bubbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bubble
Derived terms: bubblingly
bubbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubblings
Senses: examples: text: The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.
ref: 1908, Frederick Niven, The Lost Cabin Mine:
glosses: The action or motion of something that bubbles.
pausing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pause
pausing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pausings
Senses: examples: text: And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
ref: c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service:
glosses: A pause.
puzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of puzzle
puzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puzzling
form: most puzzling
Senses: examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
Synonyms: knotty
puzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puzzlings
Senses: glosses: Time spent pondering something confusing.
slanting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæntɪŋ/
rhymes: -æntɪŋ
Forms: form: more slanting
form: most slanting
Senses: glosses: Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
slanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæntɪŋ/
rhymes: -æntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slant
slanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæntɪŋ/
rhymes: -æntɪŋ
Forms: form: slantings
Senses: examples: text: The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.
glosses: The state or quality of being slanted.
dipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dip