cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
64th note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 64th notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note whose duration is one sixty-fourth that of a whole note.
beasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beastings
Etymology: From beast + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The imposition of arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
beasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beast
plug-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
Forms: form: plugin
Etymology: Deverbal from plug in.
Senses: glosses: Designed to be plugged into an electrical power outlet or circuit.
glosses: Able to be extended with further components in a modular fashion.
Related terms: plug-in hybrid
plug-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
Forms: form: plug-ins
form: plugin
Etymology: Deverbal from plug in.
Senses: glosses: Anything that plugs into something.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.
synonyms: PEV
glosses: An electric vehicle that can be recharged from an external power source.
examples: text: They take your best bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and boil it up with Satsuma peel and bits of stick, resulting in a hot sour wine and every room of the house smelling like a festive Airwick Plug-in has exploded, with the added bonus that all your best pans are now ruined. Cheers!
ref: 2013, Rob Temple, Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves One Rainy Day at a Time, page 141:
text: But unlike other Glade products with the aroma being released simply by spraying it or by opening the container, this new product the "Glade Plug-In" required that the product actually be plugged into an electrical socket in order for the aroma and fragrance to get released into the air, with the slogan for its product being "Plug it in, plug it in".
ref: 2015, Sheldon Malone, Changing the Way You Think: One-Year Devotional Unlocking the Mind with the Word of God:
text: Plus, I expect a Febreze plug-in would smell like heaven to me right now.
ref: 2017, Poppy Dolan, The Bluebell Bunting Society:
text: I quickly picked up the dirty laundry that was scattered all around, opened the window, sprayed the room down with Febreze, changed the plug-in, and called it good.
ref: 2021, Lori A. Bonnevier,MSW,LCSW, You Don't Have to Crush Your Ex: Hints, Hacks, and Hell-No's to Win Your Custody Evaluation:
glosses: An air freshener that can be charged by connecting it to the mains power supply.
Synonyms: add-in
add-on
snap-in
Hypernyms: software component
Related terms: drop-in
uta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cutaneous leishmaniasis
uta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utas
form: uta
Etymology: From Japanese うた.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Japanese poem.
Related terms: uta monogatari
non-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-words
form: nonword
Etymology: From non- + word.
Senses: examples: text: This linguistics textbook, like many others, precedes nonwords with an asterisk; for example, *narbletome.
text: […] trashola prose features regular dollops of sub-literate laziness (including non-words like "arousement" and "assertation").
ref: 1986, Daniel G. Marowski, Contemporary Literary Criticism, page 382:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: word#Noun
glosses: Any sequence of sounds or letters which is not considered to be a word, whether through an accidental gap (for example, phextapher-styphren) or through a systematic gap (for example, fssstpklyitnbkdv).
examples: text: In their glossary, they were using a convention where the words were in blue font and the abbreviations and other nonwords were in purple font.
text: All this was revealing and encouraged our work to proceed with a less lofty aim than initially, but with a more practical one, namely, to inform authors, reviewers, and especially desk or copyeditors about the recommendations in different areas of biology and to imbue these persons with the need for some rules and guidelines on the use of "nonwords" in science. Clearly, authors and editors are free to use symbols and abbreviations of their choice as long as they are defined and conform to basic rules of scientific nomenclature in their fields.
ref: 1999, Arnošt Kotyk, “Introduction”, in Quantities, Symbols, Units, and Abbreviations in the Life Sciences: A Guide for Authors and Editors, Humana Press, →ISBN:
antonyms: word#Noun
glosses: Any term that is not among the words of a language as those have often traditionally been defined by nonlinguists (for example, having syllables, and having come from centuries-old predecessor words): thus, an abbreviation, acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, number written in digits (Arabic numerals 0 to 9), or logographic symbol.
Related terms: nonce word
plugin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈplʌɡ.ɪn/
Forms: form: plugins
Senses: examples: text: For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform.
ref: 2019, Marc Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
text: A nulled or a cracked plugin is basically a hacked version of a paid plugin that offers its premium functionalities for free.
ref: 2020, Tejas Mayekar, Destroyed In Seconds: 10 Mistakes That Will Destroy Your Website, page 6:
glosses: Alternative spelling of plug-in.
Derived terms: pluginization
back-comb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back-combs
form: back-combing
form: back-combed
form: back-combed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backcomb.
backcomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backcombs
form: backcombing
form: backcombed
form: backcombed
form: back-comb
Etymology: From back + comb.
Senses: examples: text: Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
synonyms: tease
glosses: To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
backcomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcombs
form: back-comb
Etymology: From back + comb.
Senses: examples: text: You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway
ref: 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
glosses: The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
examples: text: There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.
ref: 1876, Lex, Remarkable Criminal Trials in Bengal:
text: A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation.
ref: 1912, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, volume 39, issues 1-6, page 252:
text: Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear.
ref: 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC:
glosses: A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
back-cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-cloths
Senses: examples: text: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: Alternative spelling of backcloth.
backcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcloths
Etymology: From back + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places - trading places - with names like Gran’ Bassam, Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:
glosses: The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
19th hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 19th holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nineteenth hole.
backchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.t͡ʃæt/
Forms: form: backchats
form: back chat
form: back-chat
Etymology: From back + chat.
Senses: examples: text: Old Pete would have had some smart gay backchat to deal with an awkward moment like this.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 6, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Cheeky or impertinent responses, especially to criticism.
Synonyms: word: backtalk
backchat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.t͡ʃæt/
Forms: form: backchats
form: backchatting
form: backchatted
form: backchatted
form: back chat
form: back-chat
Etymology: From back + chat.
Senses: examples: text: Peter was sent to detention for backchatting the teacher.
glosses: To respond in a disputative, often sarcastic manner.
Synonyms: sense: disputatively or sarcastically respond
word: answer back
sense: disputatively or sarcastically respond
word: mouth off
sense: disputatively or sarcastically respond
word: sass
ideological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.diː.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌɑe.diː.əˈlɔd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌaɪ.diː.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ə.kəl/
ipa: [ˌɑe̯.diː.əˈlɔ̟d͡ʒ.ə.kəl]
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: more ideological
form: most ideological
Etymology: From ideology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: There are economists from all over the ideological spectrum.
text: ideological fervor
text: Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
ref: 2009, Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, “Forward”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew O'Hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page 4:
text: She also noted that the administration, in a letter in April, “specifically conditioned funding on agreeing to its ten terms, only one of which related to antisemitism, while six related to ideological and pedagogical concerns, including who may lead and teach at Harvard, who may be admitted, and what may be taught.”
ref: 2025 September 3, Dan Mangan, “Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration”, in CNBC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to one or more ideologies.
glosses: Irrational; supported by misinformation and social reinforcement, as opposed to credible evidence.
raw_tags: of a claim or idea
examples: text: The most ruthless leaders in history were often ideological ones with utopian visions.
text: The regime, ideological in governance, continued its socialist agenda despite market backlash.
text: ideological trade policy
topics: government
politics
glosses: Characterized by strict, uncompromising adherence to a particular political ideology, rather than what’s necessarily considered popular or practical.
Derived terms: anti-ideological
interideological
nonideological
politico-ideological
postideological
socio-ideological
unideological
Related terms: ideologically
ideology
transideological
colourization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourizations
Senses: glosses: Canada standard spelling of colorization.
colourisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colourisations
form: colorisation
form: colorization
form: colourization
Etymology: From colour + -isation.
Senses: glosses: UK standard spelling of colorization.
colorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: colorizations
form: colorisation
form: colourisation
form: colourization
Etymology: From color + -ization.
Senses: glosses: An electronic process that adds color to black and white movies.
Derived terms: decolorization
recolorization
Related terms: colorize
colourise
colourize
colorized
colourised
colourized
chemo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /kimoʊ/
ipa: /kɛmoʊ/
Etymology: Back-formation from compounds built on New Latin chēmicus (“pertaining to alchemy or chemistry”) and chēmia (“chemistry”), ultimately of Ancient Greek origin.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or using chemicals or chemistry.
Related terms: chemi-
severance tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severance taxes
Senses: glosses: A state tax on the extraction of nonrenewable natural resources (such as minerals, petroleum, or natural gas) that will be used in another state.
Shadow Cabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shadow Cabinets
Etymology: See shadow government.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: shadow government
text: Meronym: shadow minister
text: In April, Sir Keir Starmer replaced Corbyn as Labour leader and set about creating his own shadow cabinet.
ref: 2020 June 17, Jim McMahon tells Richard Clinnick, “Stepping out of the shadows”, in Rail, page 39:
glosses: A senior group of opposition politicians who shadow the members of the government.
Related terms: Leader of the Opposition
proximity fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximity fuses
form: proximity fuze
Senses: glosses: A fuse that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it.
Related terms: proximity mine
ampallang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampallangs
Senses: synonyms: palang
glosses: A male genital piercing in which a barbell passes through the head of the penis horizontally. It may be transurethral or placed above the urethra.
apadravya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apadravyas
Etymology: From Sanskrit अपद्रव्य (apadravya), a generic name for a penile extension device as used in Kama Sutra.
Senses: glosses: A glans penis piercing where jewellery passes vertically through the urethra.
Derived terms: halfadravya
shaft apadravya
chemi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemo-.
Derived terms: chemiluminescence
chemisorb
chemisorption
chemist
chemistry
chemiluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemiluminescences
form: chemoluminescence
form: chemiluminesence
Etymology: From chemi- + luminescence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
Derived terms: biochemiluminescence
electrochemiluminescence
immunochemiluminescence
sonochemiluminescence
Related terms: bioluminescence
chemoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoluminescences
Etymology: From chemo- + luminescence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The emission of light as the result of a chemical reaction.
Synonyms: chemiluminescence
Derived terms: electrochemoluminescence
Related terms: chemoluminescent
bioluminescence
impetuosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impetuosities
Etymology: From English impetuous + -ity, from Middle French impétuosité, from Old French.
Senses: examples: text: She had however another motive, beside her obedience, to accompany the old gentleman in the chase; for by her presence she hoped in some measure to restrain his impetuosity, and to prevent him from so frequently exposing his neck to the utmost hazard.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
glosses: The quality of making rash or arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive or forceful manner.
examples: text: Again his lordship began his long and deliberate perusal, while Henrietta watched the slow motion of his eyes with a degree of impetuosity she could scarcely repress.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Request Refused”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: The condition or quality of being impetuous, impatient; fury; violence.
Synonyms: impetuousness
Related terms: impetuous
impetuously
impetuousness
bioluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ̯oʊ̯ˌluməˈnɛsəns/
Forms: form: bioluminescences
Etymology: From bio- + luminescence.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The emission of light by a living organism (such as a firefly).
Derived terms: autobioluminescence
Related terms: bioluminescently
bioluminescent
bioluminesce
biofluorescence
chemoluminescence
luciferase
impetuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impetuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being impetuous; making arbitrary decisions.
glosses: The result of being impetuous; arbitrary decisions.
Synonyms: impetuosity
beefaroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of beef + macaroni
Senses: glosses: a baked dish of macaroni, ground beef, cheese and tomato sauce
Related terms: word: pasta bake
have one's name on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's name on
form: having one's name on
form: had one's name on
form: had one's name on
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, one's, name, on.
examples: text: That new bartender has got my name on her. Hands off!
glosses: To be reserved for someone.
examples: text: That bullet had my name on it.
synonyms: have one's name all over
have one's name written all over
glosses: To be one's destiny or in one's destiny.
hands off
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hands off !
form: hands-off
Senses: glosses: Refrain from touching; refrain from initiating any physical contact.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Cut off a hand: decreed by old admiralty law as punishment for pulling a knife during a fight with a shipmate.
hands off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hands off
form: most hands off
form: hands-off
Senses: examples: text: a hands-off policy
antonyms: hands-on
glosses: Tending not to interfere with the decisions and actions of other people (employees, subjects, etc.).
Related terms: handless
hands down
hands-free
unhand
hands off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands-off
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hand off
dontcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊnt͡ʃə/
Forms: form: don'tcha
form: don't cha
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of don't you; don't + -cha.
Senses: examples: text: Dontcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
ref: 2005, Pussycat Dolls, Don't Cha:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of don't you.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
clippety-cloppety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: The sound a horse makes when walking on a hard surface in horseshoes
Synonyms: clippety-clop
clippity-clop
clippity-cloppity
clip-clop
cloppety
cloppety-clop
cloppity-clop
cloppity
pff
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /p͡fː/
ipa: [p͡ɸː]
ipa: [ʙ̥͡ɸː]
Forms: form: pf
form: pfff
form: pfft
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: glosses: An expression of annoyance or disappointment.
examples: text: My doctor advised me to drink less. Pff, if only it were so easy.
glosses: A dismissive response to a ridiculous comment.
glosses: The sound made whilst blowing a raspberry.
glosses: The sound of stifled laughter.
agogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agogic
form: most agogic
Etymology: Apparently from German Agoge (“tempo”), from Ancient Greek ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, “carrying, leading, reduplicated formation; tempo”), + -ic, after German agogisch. By surface analysis, agoge + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: On most early instruments, changes were made only at agogic pauses, caesuras, repeats or between sections.
ref: 1974, Margery Halford, “Piano or Harpsichord?”, in François Couperin, translated by Margery Halford, L’Art de toucher le Clavecin (The Art of Playing the Harpsichord), 2nd edition, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., published 2008, →ISBN, “Expression and Style” section, page 24:
text: 6F is the longest-held cadence sonority (it has the most agogic emphasis), and ends very conclusively with the V₇-I-V₇-V-I chord progression.
ref: 1978, Rhenda Ronfeldt Pease, An Analytical Study of Twentieth-Century Cadential Techniques, Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, →OCLC, page 153:
text: Obviously, extended melodies should end on the strongest and most agogic melodic cadence.
ref: 1997, David Cope, “Extended Melodic Lines”, in Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, New York, N.Y.: Schirmer Books, →ISBN, chapter 3 (New Roles of Melody), page 32:
text: Timpanists need to be particularly aware of agogic accents because they often swallow up the smaller notes that precede them.
ref: 2010, Steven L[aurence] Schweizer, “Musical Interpretation and the Timpanist”, in Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Accentuating a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
agogic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agogics
Etymology: Apparently from German Agoge (“tempo”), from Ancient Greek ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, “carrying, leading, reduplicated formation; tempo”), + -ic, after German agogisch. By surface analysis, agoge + -ic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An accent that accentuates a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
Latonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name or originating as a coinage, a blend of the female name prefix La- + Tonia.
Related terms: Latonya
LaTonya
wading bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wading birds
Etymology: From wading + bird.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wading, bird.
synonyms: wader
glosses: Any of various long-legged birds, of the order Ciconiiformes, such as cranes, herons, or storks, that wade in shallow water in search of food.
permaculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permacultures
Etymology: Blend of permanent + agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. For a long time Bill Mollison claimed to have copyrighted the word; this was never the case, as copyright law is not applicable to single words.
Senses: examples: text: in a world where there are competing ends for the use of natural resources, and particularly energy forms, the aim of permaculture is to create productive systems which are ecologically sound and ecologically viable, provide for their own […]
ref: 2007, Derek Thomas, Architecture and the Urban Environment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Any system of sustainable agriculture that renews natural resources and enriches local ecosystems.
glosses: The design, installation and maintenance of indefinitely sustainable human communities set in balanced ecologies, both urban and rural.
Derived terms: permacultural
permaculturalist
permaculturist
wagtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagtails
Etymology: From a partial suppletion of Middle English wagstert (literally “wag-tail”), equivalent to wag + tail.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small passerine birds, principally of genus Motacilla, of the Old World, notable for their long tails.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Ellipsis of wagtail platy.
Hyponyms: word: African wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla aguimp
word: African pied wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla capensis
word: Cape wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla citreola
word: citrine wagtail
alt: Motacilla flava and M. tschutschensis, syn. Budytes spp.
word: field wagtail
taxonomic: Dendronanthus indicus
word: forest wagtail
taxonomic: Dendronanthus indicus
alt: syn. Nemoricola indica
word: garden wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla cinerea
word: grey wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla grandis
word: Japanese wagtail
word: Madagascar wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla flaviventris
word: Madagascan wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla samveasnae
word: Mekong wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla clara
word: mountain wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla alba yarrellii
word: pied wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla alba yarrellii
word: wagtail flycatcher
taxonomic: Motacilla alba yarrellii
word: water wagtail
word: white-browed wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis
taxonomic: Motacilla alba alba
word: white wagtail
word: willie wagtail
taxonomic: Rhipidura leucophrys
word: willy wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla cinerea
word: winter wagtail
taxonomic: Motacilla cinerea
alt: syn. Calobates sulphurea
word: wood wagtail
alt: Motacilla flava and M. tschutschensis
word: yellow wagtail
Derived terms: wagtail-tyrant
Related terms: oriole
permanence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜɹmənəns/
ipa: /ˈpɜmənəns/
Forms: form: permanences
Etymology: From Middle English permanence, permanens, from Middle French permanence, from Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permaneō (“I remain; last”).
Senses: examples: text: To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
ref: 1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 7, page 5, columns 6–7:
text: Transport Scotland acknowledges that the permanence of the new fares regime could be the clincher in persuading people to "travel more often and make long-term choices with certainty, helping people to leave the car at home".
ref: 2025 September 17, Conrad Landin, “Decarbonising Scottish transport”, in RAIL, number 1044, page 39:
glosses: The state of being permanent.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The reciprocal of magnetic inductance.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: perdurance
word: remanence
word: continuance
word: permanence
word: permanency
word: permansion
word: remanency
Hypernyms: word: lastingness
Hyponyms: word: durability
word: durableness
word: unfadingness
Derived terms: object permanence
semipermanence
Related terms: impermanence
permanent
bring it weak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings it weak
form: bringing it weak
form: brought it weak
form: brought it weak
Senses: examples: text: Unwilling to try his hardest, Jason instead chose to bring it weak at the gym, and didn't even break a sweat.
glosses: To fail to accomplish an accomplishable task or to make an attempt at less than maximum effort; to "half-ass" or "fake the funk".
teary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈtɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈtɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈtiɹi/
ipa: /ˈtiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈtiɹe/
ipa: /ˈtiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈtɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: tearier
form: teariest
Etymology: From Middle English tery; equivalent to tear + -y.
Senses: examples: text: No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.
glosses: Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.
examples: text: Wade looked into his girlfriend's teary eyes.
glosses: Of eyes, filled with tears.
Synonyms: sense: eyes
word: tear-filled
sense: eyes
word: wet
Derived terms: teary-eyed
survivorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivorships
Etymology: From survivor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data.
ref: 2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The state of being a survivor.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
topics: law
glosses: A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.
Derived terms: presumption of survivorship
survivorship bias
Related terms: sense: legal right
word: tenancy
saltpeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltpeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saltpetre.
saltpeter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saltpeters
form: saltpetering
form: saltpetered
form: saltpetered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saltpetre.
wryneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪnɛk/
Forms: form: wrynecks
Etymology: From wry + neck.
Senses: glosses: Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: torticollis
glosses: A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles.
Synonyms: mackerel bird
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Jynx torquilla
word: Eurasian wryneck
taxonomic: Jynx ruficollis
word: red-throated wryneck
wigeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪdʒən/
ipa: /ˈwɪdʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪdʒən
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪn
Forms: form: wigeons
form: widgeon
Etymology: Early 16th century. Probably from Middle French vigeon, from Old French vigeon, vingeon (“wigeon”), from Old French vignier (“to whine or shout”) + -on (“noun suffix”).
Senses: glosses: Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks.
glosses: A fool.
Derived terms: American wigeon Mareca americana
Chiloe wigeon Mareca sibilatrix
Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope
southern wigeon
woodcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊd.kɒk/
Forms: form: woodcock
form: woodcocks
Etymology: From Middle English wodecocke, wode-koc, wodekok, from Old English wudecocc, wuducoc, equivalent to wood + cock.
Senses: examples: text: "[A]h, that was the woodcock and the goatsucker - yes, yes! it sounds strange to him, that hasn't heard him[.]"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 286:
text: The woodcook is not only a culinary delight but it is reputed to increase seminal fluid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 251:
glosses: Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
examples: text: If I loved you not, I would laugh at you, and see you / Run your neck into the noose, and cry, "A woodcock!"
ref: c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i:
text: "Now will that silly woodcock make such a report of what I have said to his chosen friend," observed Sir Robert to his companion when my Lord Cobham was out of hearing[…]
ref: 1838, Nathan Drake, Belletristical Works, volume 1, page 215:
glosses: A simpleton.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scolopax mira
word: Amami woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax minor
word: American woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax bukidnonensis
word: Bukidnon woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax rusticola
word: Eurasian woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax saturata
word: Javan woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax rochussenii
word: Moluccan woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax rosenbergii
word: New Guinea woodcock
word: Scotch woodcock
taxonomic: Scolopax celebensis
word: Sulawesi woodcock
Related terms: roding
the patrolling flight pattern of the woodcock
extender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extenders
Etymology: From extend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The public has learned to accept the services of physician extenders as a substitute for a qualified medical doctor, but the medical profession itself will, I daresay, continue to erect substantial barriers to any policy or effort that directly affects income.
ref: 1983 June 2, “'PHYSICIAN EXTENDERS' READY TO FILL A GAP THAT DIDN'T DEVELOP”, in The New York Times:
text: [Marc Jacobs] is a colonialist, an extender of brands, and in very good shape.
ref: 2010 November 10, John Caramanica, “Monopoly by Marc Jacobs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who extends.
examples: text: “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.
ref: 2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Any of various substances designed to extend any of several properties of a material.
glosses: Any of various components designed to extend the length of a device.
examples: text: Soy protein is used as a meat extender.
glosses: Any substance added to food to bulk it out, with a higher protein content than a filler.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A runner, or quick-draw.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phrase that extends an expression to include further members of a set, e.g. "and stuff", "or something".
Derived terms: DOS extender
physician extender
range extender
telextender
payday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪdeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪdeɪ
Forms: form: paydays
form: pay day
Etymology: From pay + day.
Senses: glosses: The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.
Derived terms: payday loan
pavlova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: păv-lō′və
ipa: /pævˈləʊvə/
ipa: /pɛvˈlɐʉvə/
ipa: /pævˈləʉvə/
ipa: /pævˈloʊvə/
enpr: päv-lō′və
enpr: păv′lə-və
ipa: /pɑvˈloʊvə/
ipa: /ˈpævləvə/
rhymes: -əʊvə
rhymes: -ævləvə
Forms: form: pavlovas
form: Pavlova
Etymology: From the surname Pavlova, from Russian Па́влова (Pávlova), feminine form of Па́влов (Pávlov), named after Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1881–1931). Australia/New Zealand from circa 1930. Both nations lay claim to origination of the dish and the name. According to research undertaken by the Oxford English Dictionary, however, the earliest known attestation for the term is from New Zealand in 1927.
Senses: examples: text: The pavlova — rich in whipped cream and ice-cream — is a wonderful dessert that should appeal to anyone with a sweet tooth.
ref: 2002, Vijeya Rajendra, Sundran Rajendra, Cultures of the World: Australia, page 128:
text: For a successful pavlova you′ll need a spotlessly clean, dry stainless steel or glass bowl.
ref: 2006, Murdoch Books Pty Limited, Lust: Food for Lovers, page 205:
text: Pavlova, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, is still just about the most popular party dessert in Australia.
ref: 2011, Margaret Fulton, Suzanne Gibbs, Margaret Fulton Favourites, page 194:
text: Perhaps you lied in the emergency room about eating an entire pavlova and acted like you didn’t know what was wrong with you? If so, make amends by only ever eating a couple of slices of pavlova in one sitting from now on.
ref: 2012, Maeve Higgins, “Baby dressed as sushi”, in We Have a Good Time … Don’t We? A Regular Human Girl Decides, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.
ref: 2021 April 14, David Astle, “Lamington wars: claiming an Australian invention really takes the cake”, in The Age:
glosses: A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream.
Derived terms: word: pav
pavé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æveɪ
-eɪ
Forms: form: pavés
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).
Senses: glosses: A paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts).
examples: text: And most recently, Lauren Sánchez Bezos flaunted a massive oval diamond set in a thin pavé band at her wedding in June.
ref: 2025 August 12, Sadiba Hasan, “Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez Are Engaged. All Eyes Are on the Ring.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: A setting of gemstones such that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
glosses: Any of various food items having a rectangular shape.
Derived terms: nymph of the pavé
pavé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æveɪ
-eɪ
Forms: form: pavés
form: pavéing
form: pavéed
form: pavéed
form: pavéd
form: pavéd
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pavé (“pavement”).
Senses: glosses: To arrange gemstones in jewellery so that no metal is visible, especially when the stones are set very close together.
pav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: pavs
Etymology: Contraction of pavilion.
Senses: examples: text: “It′s no good hanging around here. I vote we nip round to the back of the pav,” Jennings suggested. “We might be able to see Mr Findlater and wave to him through the window.”
They scurried round to the rear of the building where a row of windows overlooked a deserted part of the cricket ground.
ref: 1954, Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings, page 80:
text: Up goes the finger and the Dodo snaps to attention, rams the bat under his arm (subaltern with swagger stick) and retreats to the pav with a slowness intended as silent comment on a poor decision.
ref: 2000, Aidan Higgins, The Whole Hog, unnumbered page:
text: One of the most enjoyable drinking experiences in town can be had on a pleasant summer′s day on the balcony of the Pav, the cricket pavilion overlooking Trinity′s playing fields.
ref: 2008, Fionn Davenport, Dublin City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 166:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of pavilion.
pav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: pavs
Etymology: Contraction of pavlova. Australian from 1966.
Senses: examples: text: Bert Sachse experimented for a month to create the perfect pav.
ref: 2003, Stephen Downes, Advanced Australian Fare: How Australian Cooking Became the World′s Best, page 6:
text: I′m totally biased but I think this is the best pav in the world. It also does nothing to clear up the argument that the pav is in fact from New Zealand and not Australia.
ref: 2011, Neil Perry, Rockpool Bar & Grill: Desserts, unnumbered page:
text: Pavlova, named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, is still just about the most popular party dessert in Australia.[…]The following recipe was given to me by a churchgoer who won acclaim for her ‘pavs’ and made at least five a week for members of the congregation.
ref: 2011, Margaret Fulton, Suzanne Gibbs, Margaret Fulton Favourites, page 194:
glosses: Clipping of pavlova.
pav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: pavs
Senses: glosses: An Indian-style bread roll.
Related terms: vada pav
pav bhaji
plotz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑts/
ipa: /ˈplɒts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Forms: form: plotzes
form: plotzing
form: plotzed
form: plotzed
Etymology: From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).
Senses: glosses: To flop down wearily.
glosses: To faint.
glosses: To fall down dead.
harmonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹmənaɪz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mənaɪz
Forms: form: harmonizes
form: harmonizing
form: harmonized
form: harmonized
form: harmonise
Etymology: From French harmoniser. By surface analysis, harmony + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This explanation of the clan totem harmonizes with the supposed effect of killing one of the totem species.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 220:
text: Late-night disruptions from the previous club repeatedly plagued the neighborhood. Mindful of this experience, we have been anxious to facilitate a new use for the building which would harmonize with the residential character of the area.
ref: 1986 February 15, John Cronin, “More To It Than Homophobia”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 5:
glosses: To be in harmonious agreement.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play or sing in harmony.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To provide parts to.
glosses: To bring things into harmony, or to make things compatible; to reconcile; juggle.
glosses: To provide the harmony for a melody.
Derived terms: disharmonize
harmonizability
harmonizable
harmonization
harmonizer
harmonizingly
reharmonize
unharmonized
Related terms: harmonization
Timothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪməθi/
Etymology: From Middle French Timothée, from Latin Tīmotheus, from Ancient Greek Τῑμόθεος (Tīmótheos), from τῑμάω (tīmáō, “I honour”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Tim.
glosses: Either of two books in the New Testament (1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) which are epistles to Timothy.
examples: text: Unto Timothie my own sonne in the Faith: Grace, mercie, and peace from God our Father, and Iesus Christ our Lord.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:2:
text: In a letter to his disciple Timothy, Paul expresses a prohibition against women teaching men, but we know, and he knew, that Timothy was instructed by his mother and grandmother.
ref: 2014, Jimmy Carter, “The Bible and Gender Equality”, in A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25:
glosses: A companion of Paul mentioned in the Bible.
examples: text: The name Timothy was an inspiration of Cherry's own. - - - "Now then, TIMOTHY!" and this she said with a rapid forte crescendo movement which made her mother laugh and also with a jerk which spilt the milk on the little one's forehead. "Well, mother," says Cherry gaily, "I've christened him at all events." And Timothy being a distinctive name, and a scriptural one, it was retained as the appellative of this mite,
ref: 1867, William Brighty Rands, Shoemakers' Village, Strahan, published 1871, pages 89–90:
text: O Timothy Tim / Has ten pink toes, / And ten pink toes / Has Timothy Tim.
ref: 1932 A. A. Milne, The Christopher Robin Verses: Cradle Song
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin, also borne by early Christian saints.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States; named for early postmaster Timothy Stephens.
glosses: A rare English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname from Irish, a rare adopted anglicization for Mac Tomaltaigh (“son of Tomaltach”) (Tumulty).
Derived terms: Tim
Timmy
Related terms: word: Timotheus
word: Timaeus
word: Timeus
sense: female given names
word: Tamsin
sense: female given names
word: Thomasina
word: Timmis
word: Timms
word: Timpson
word: Tims
word: Timson
timothy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪməθi/
rhymes: -ɪməθi
Forms: form: timothies
form: Timothy
Etymology: Named after Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.
Senses: glosses: Phleum pratense, timothy-grass, native to Europe, but introduced widely and naturalized in US.
glosses: Phleum alpinum, mountain timothy, native to North America.
glosses: Other species of genus Phleum.
Synonyms: catstail
timothy-grass
Timothy-grass
timothy grass
Timothy grass
Derived terms: word: alpine timothy
taxonomic: Phleum alpinum
word: mountain timothy
taxonomic: Phleum pratense
alt: herd's-grass
word: timothy-grass
word: timothy hay
geochronometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geochronometries
Etymology: From geo- + chrono- + -metry.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the science of the measurement of the age of rocks etc. based on the radioactive decay of naturally occurring isotopes
geodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + dynamics.
Senses: glosses: the branch of geophysics that studies the deformation processes of planetary mantle and crust, and the resulting earthquakes and volcanism
Derived terms: biogeodynamics
telegeodynamics
geodynamo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌd͡ʒiːə(ʊ)ˈdʌɪnəməʊ/
/d͡ʒɪəˈdʌɪnəməʊ/
Forms: form: geodynamos
Etymology: From geo- + dynamo.
Senses: glosses: the mechanism responsible for the generation of the Earth's magnetic field caused by convection and conduction currents in the fluid core
geomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + magnetism.
Senses: glosses: The magnetism of the Earth.
glosses: The science that studies the magnetism of the Earth.
Related terms: geomagnetic
paleomagnetism
geomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomorphologies
Etymology: From geo- + morphology.
Senses: glosses: The study of landforms, their classification, origin, development, and history.
Derived terms: biogeomorphology
dendrogeomorphology
ecogeomorphology
exogeomorphology
hydrogeomorphology
paleogeomorphology
photogeomorphology
Related terms: geomorphologic
geomorphological
geomorphologist
Viktor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Ви́ктор (Víktor).
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ві́ктор (Víktor)
Krum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jewish and German surname, variant of Krumm.
Senses: glosses: An American surname.
seer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsiːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: sere
homophone: sear
homophone: sihr
Forms: form: seers
form: see-er
form: seeër
Etymology: From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: "But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 185:
glosses: One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
examples: text: As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation.
ref: 1924, Arthur Eustace Morgan, Tendencies of Modern English Drama, page 140:
glosses: One who sees something; an eyewitness.
Derived terms: seeress
seer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsiːə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːə(ɹ)
homophone: cere
homophone: sere
homophone: sear
homophone: sihr
Forms: form: seers
Etymology: See sihr.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sihr.