cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
the whole nine yards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Dave Wilton summarises the findings of Bonnie Taylor-Blake and others:
:The phrase doesn’t have one particular origin, nor does it represent one particular metaphor. Instead, it seems to have evolved from a sense of yard meaning a vague quantity of something. Later, the words full or whole were attached to it, and even later it was quantified by the numbers six and nine, with the whole nine yards eventually winning out and becoming the canonical form. Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the American Midwest, in particular to the region around the Kentucky–Indiana border, before breaking out into general American parlance in the middle of the twentieth century. …
:So regardless of what someone else has told you, the whole nine yards does not refer to the length of a belt of WWII machine-gun ammunition, the amount of material needed to make a Scottish kilt or a sari, the number of spars on a sailing ship, the amount of concrete a cement mixer holds, or anything else.
Senses: examples: text: Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?
ref: 2007, Thomas Mchenry, Along the Rails: A Juror's Journey, page 85:
text: WWE went the whole nine yards, from making Tshirts with the slogan to having announcers mention his new handle approximately every four seconds anytime he was on-screen.
ref: 2007, R. D. Reynolds, The Wrestlecrap Book of Lists!, page 18:
text: Colleen had gone the whole nine yards, dressing up as a fortune teller, complete with huge gold earrings and a headscarf, which she'd plucked from her normal accessory box, she told Bronte.
ref: 2012, Susan Stephens, Working with the Enemy, page 164:
glosses: All the way; with everything done completely or thoroughly.
the whole nine yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Dave Wilton summarises the findings of Bonnie Taylor-Blake and others:
:The phrase doesn’t have one particular origin, nor does it represent one particular metaphor. Instead, it seems to have evolved from a sense of yard meaning a vague quantity of something. Later, the words full or whole were attached to it, and even later it was quantified by the numbers six and nine, with the whole nine yards eventually winning out and becoming the canonical form. Use of the full phrase was for a long time restricted to the American Midwest, in particular to the region around the Kentucky–Indiana border, before breaking out into general American parlance in the middle of the twentieth century. …
:So regardless of what someone else has told you, the whole nine yards does not refer to the length of a belt of WWII machine-gun ammunition, the amount of material needed to make a Scottish kilt or a sari, the number of spars on a sailing ship, the amount of concrete a cement mixer holds, or anything else.
Senses: examples: text: While there Roscoe went fishing and has a big story to tell, but we refuse to stand while he unloads. He will catch some unsuspecting individual some of these days and give him the whole nine yards.
ref: 1908 June 4, The Mitchell Commercial, Lawrence County, Indiana, retrieved 14 Aug 2018, page 3, col.5:
text: "I had a good job, a nice little house, the whole nine yards," she said.
ref: 2002, Mary Losure, Our Way Or the Highway: Inside the Minnehaha Free State, page 161:
text: No, to her credit she kept right on going the whole time, telling me how she was from Mongolia, how she was an art student, how she was having an exhibition — the whole nine yards.
ref: 2009, Jason Barbacovi, Me and Chairman Mao, page 101:
text: Mario asked me to explain to him the whole nine yards so I decided to start off on a good note.
ref: 2009, Reynaldo Laureano, Politics Vs. Prejudice in the Highway Patrol, page 46:
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
qualifier: And
glosses: everything; often used, like etc., to finish out a list.
balls to the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: balls-to-the-wall
form: balls to the walls
form: balls-to-the-walls
Etymology: First attested in the 1960s in the context of aviation, in reference to ball-shaped grips on an aircraft's engine controls (typically throttle, prop pitch and fuel mixture). Pushing these "balls to the wall" would put the aircraft at maximum thrust. Analogous to pedal to the metal. Not related to the term balls-out, which refers to a ball governor on a steam engine. Neither balls-out nor balls to the wall is connected with the vulgar sense of balls (“testicles”) except via folk etymology.
Senses: examples: text: I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond.
ref: 2006, Michael D. Brown, Testimony before the US Senate Homeland Security Committee:
text: “I always go balls to the wall,” founding Ape Gordon Goner tells Rolling Stone over Zoom.
ref: 2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, quoting Gordon Goner, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone:
text: “Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
synonyms: all out
glosses: With maximum effort or commitment.
glosses: Full throttle; (at) maximum speed.
Related terms: go to the wall
pedal to the metal
package holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: package holidays
Senses: glosses: A holiday that consists of transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a vendor known as a tour operator.
Synonyms: holiday package
package tour
package vacation
vacation package
non-negative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonnegative
Etymology: From non- + negative.
Senses: examples: text: a non-negative self-evaluation
glosses: Not negative.
examples: text: Distances are non-negative.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an element of a partially ordered ring, either positive or zero; not negative; greater than or equal to zero.
examples: For all x∈D, f(x)>0
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function, functional, etc. which has non-negative values over a particular domain D.
Related terms: nonpositive
nonvanishing
nonzero
zero hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero hours
Senses: examples: text: I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive.
ref: 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: Zero hour was forty-five minutes after midnight.Two companies were to attack on a 600-yard front […].
ref: 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, 1972 paperback edition, London: Faber, page 339:
text: She packed my bags last night, pre-flight / Zero hour 9 a.m. / And I'm gonna be high / As a kite by then
ref: 1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John:
glosses: Synonym of H-hour.
synonyms: word: H-hour
Related terms: D-Day
X-Day
zero-hour contract
zero-rated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Subject to no value-added tax when sold (but in which the supplier can still recover VAT attributable to it).
zero-rated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zero-rate
aleph-zero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aleph-null.
aleph-null
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its mathematical symbol ℵ₀, from א, aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The first of the transfinite cardinal numbers; corresponds to the number of natural numbers.
Synonyms: sense: first transfinite cardinal number
word: aleph-naught
sense: first transfinite cardinal number
word: aleph-nought
sense: first transfinite cardinal number
word: aleph-zero
sense: first transfinite cardinal number
word: ℵ₀
Related terms: aleph-one
sub-zero
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + zero.
Senses: examples: text: Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.
ref: 2021 February 24, “Network News: NR takes pride in track teams as effects of Storm Darcy repelled...”, in RAIL, number 925, page 13:
glosses: below 0°C; freezing cold
raw_tags: of a temperature
glosses: below 0°F (−18°C)
raw_tags: of a temperature
consistently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪstəntli/
Forms: form: more consistently
form: most consistently
Etymology: From consistent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thus from October 1 the French National Railways made a number of changes in their services and consistently in the direction of higher speeds.
ref: 1961 November, “More accelerations in the French winter timetables”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:
topics: manner
glosses: In a consistent manner.
qualifier: frequency
glosses: constantly; always.
Synonyms: topics: manner
word: invariably
word: uniformly
sense: frequency
word: continually
word: incessantly
Condere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish, borne by an Ulster warrior renowned for his eloquence in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
Celtchar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Celtchair
form: Celtar
form: Keltchar
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A leading figure in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology: an Ulster warrior described as tall, grey, and ugly, and who wields a spear called Luír Cheltchair, and who killed Blaí Briugu after the latter slept with his wife Brig Bretach.
Luír Cheltchair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The spear wielded by Celtchar. Its lust for blood is so great that it has to be dipped in a cauldron of poison to control it.
Brig Bretach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the wife of Celtchar. Her husband Celtchar killed Blaí Briugu for sleeping with her as Blaí Briugu was required to do so by the latter's geas.
Blaí Briugu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a wealthy Ulster warrior who kept a hostel. He was killed by Celtchar for sleeping with the latter's wife Brig Bretach.
Ferdiad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Irish mythology, Cúchulainn's best friend and foster-brother.
BHCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of busy-hour call attempts.
iwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːwɑːn/
Forms: form: iwans
form: aiwan
form: ivan
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِيوَان (ʔīwān), from Classical Persian اَیْوَان (aywān, “porch”); see there for more. Doublet of apadana.
Senses: glosses: A large, vaulted chamber with a monumental arched opening on one side.
Related terms: liwan
apadana
-mancy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -mantīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā, “divination”).
Senses: glosses: Divination.
topics: fantasy
glosses: Variety of magic, especially that controlling or related to a specific element, substance, or theme.
Derived terms: sense: suffixes derived from -mancy
word: -mance: to carry out a specified form of magic
sense: suffixes derived from -mancy
word: divination
sense: suffixes derived from -mancy
word: -mancer: a person who employs a specified form of magic
sense: suffixes derived from -mancy
word: -mantic: of
sense: suffixes derived from -mancy
word: pertaining to a specified form of magic
word: acultomancy
word: aëromancy
word: ailuromancy
word: alectoromancy
word: alectryomancy
word: aleuromancy
word: alomancy
word: alphitomancy
word: ambulomancy
word: anthracomancy
word: anthropomancy
word: arithmancy
word: arithmomancy
word: astragalomancy
word: athermancy
word: austromancy
word: axinomancy
word: belomancy
word: bibliomancy
word: botanomancy
word: brizomancy
word: capnomancy
word: carnomancy
word: cartomancy
word: catoptromancy
word: ceraunomancy
word: ceromancy
word: chaomancy
word: chartomancy
word: cheiromancy
word: chiromancy
word: cleromancy
word: coscinomancy
word: criomancy
word: crithomancy
word: crystallomancy
word: dactyliomancy
word: dactylomancy
word: daphnomancy
word: diathermancy
word: electro-thermancy
word: enoptomancy
word: felidomancy
word: floromancy
word: gastromancy
word: geomancy
word: gyromancy
word: halomancy
word: hematomancy
word: hemomancy
word: hieromancy
word: hydromancy
word: ichthyomancy
word: labiomancy
word: lecanomancy
word: lithomancy
word: meteoromancy
word: metopomancy
word: molybdomancy
word: myomancy
word: narcomancy
word: necromancy
word: nomancy
word: omphalomancy
word: oneiromancy
word: onomancy
word: onomomancy
word: onychomancy
word: ophiomancy
word: ornithomancy
word: padomancy
word: pedomancy
word: pegomancy
word: phyllomancy
word: priapomancy
word: pseudomancy
word: psychomancy
word: pyromancy
word: rabdomancy
word: rhabdomancy
word: rhapsodomancy
word: scapulimancy
word: scatomancy
word: sciomancy
word: scyphomancy
word: sideromancy
word: spodomancy
word: stichomancy
word: stigonomancy
word: tasseomancy
word: technomancy
word: tephramancy
word: theomancy
word: topomancy
word: tyromancy
word: uranomancy
word: xenomancy
sub-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭb
ipa: /sʌb/
Etymology: From Latin sub (“under”). Doublet of hypo-.
Senses: examples: text: subterranean
text: submarine
text: Contrarily, the prefix “sub-” doesn’t change meaning so much as it provides specificity, as seen in the difference between “title” and “subtitle.”
ref: 2020 March 14, Lindsay del Valle, “36 Spanish Prefixes That Will Increase Your Vocabulary Times 100!”, in Homeschool Spanish Academy:
glosses: Under, beneath.
examples: text: subplot
glosses: Subsidiary, secondary.
examples: text: subconical
text: subequatorial
glosses: Almost, nearly.
Synonyms: sense: under
word: under-
sense: under
word: hypo-
sense: under
word: infra-
sense: almost
word: pene-
sense: almost
word: quasi-
variable tandem repeat locus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any DNA sequence that exists in multiple copies strung together in various tandem lengths.
trendwhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendwhores
Etymology: From trend + whore.
Senses: glosses: One who is a conformist; one who follows trends too much.
Necronomicon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkən/
ipa: /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɒmɪkɒn/
ipa: /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkən/
ipa: /ˌnɛkɹəˈnɑmɪkɑn/
Forms: form: the Necronomicon
Etymology: Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek as if formed from a compound of νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + νόμος (nómos, “law”) + εἰκών (eikṓn, “image”), literally “an image of the law of the dead”. Coined by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Senses: examples: text: So matters went till that night when Williams brought home the infamous Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ... he had always wondered why men paled when they spoke of it. The old bookseller had told him that only five copies were known to have survived the shocked edicts of the priests and lawgivers against it and that all of these were locked up with frightened care by custodians who had ventured to begin a reading of the hateful black-letter.
ref: c. 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, The Descendant:
text: The container was a set of ceramic rune-stones and their accompanying manual. The book was The Necronomicon.
ref: 2002, Calpernia Sarah Addams, Mark 947: A Life Shaped by God, Gender and Force of Will, page 81:
text: 2004, Stephen Prince, The Horror Film, page 172,
Death Scenes is introduced and narrated by the famous occultist and leader of the Church of Satan, Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey, who describes the film in his wandering introduction as "a road map featuring the many avenues by which we encounter death . . . a brutally graphic collection of horrid indiscretions, a true necronomicon." "What mysterious force draws us to such a dark, challenging subject?" inquires LaVey in his sardonic monotone.
synonyms: Kitab al-Azif
glosses: A fictional grimoire of arcane and forbidden knowledge whose contents can drive a person mad.
wikipedia: Arkham House
H. P. Lovecraft
Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft V (1934–1937)
Related terms: grimoire
Lovecraftian
-nomicon
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Forms: form: fraises
form: fraising
form: fraised
form: fraised
Etymology: From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”).
Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.
Senses: glosses: To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
Related terms: fraist
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Forms: form: fraises
Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.
Senses: glosses: A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
glosses: A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
examples: text: Among the most conspicuous is the pelerine collar, made of black velvet, and forming a fraise round the throat. The fraise is lined with such light-colored silks as pink and blue, and the pelerine is piped with silk of the same color.
ref: 1874, Peterson's Magazine - Volume 65, page 90:
glosses: An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
glosses: A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
glosses: A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
Derived terms: fraised
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Forms: form: fraises
form: fraising
form: fraised
form: fraised
Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: to fraise a battaion is to line or cover it every way with bayonets
ref: 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Forms: form: fraises
Etymology: See froise.
Senses: examples: text: Take a fraise and one udder or two (according to their size) of the veal, blanch and let them cool, mince them ; hash some mushrooms, shalots, parsley, and truffle;
ref: 1827, Antoine B. Beauvilliers, The Art of French Cookery, page 103:
text: It is related of Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough, that no one could cook a fraise, as it was then called, for the great duke but herself.
ref: 1855, Alexis Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People:
glosses: Alternative form of froise (“kind of pancake or omelette”).
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Forms: form: fraises
Etymology: Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier [Term?], from Latin frāga.
Senses: examples: text: The surname of Bernard is derived from the ancestor carrying, for his device, Argent, a bear rampant sable muzzled or; the name of Frazer from the bearing of fraises or strawberry leaves; and many other instances might be adduced ...
ref: 1846, William Newton (Patent Agent), A Display of Heraldry, page 352
text: Az. a fraise arg. between three garbs or, all within a bordure engrailed of the second. George Cumming (1790)
ref: 1893, Sir James Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland, page 112:
text: The Emperor also gave the family three fraises, or stalked strawberries, for their coat of arms.
ref: 2015, Howard Belton, A History of the World in Five Menus:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A stylized strawberry with leaves.
fraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: frays
homophone: phrase
Senses: glosses: Commotion.
proposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊzəl/
ipa: /pɹəˈpəʊzəl/
Forms: form: proposals
Etymology: From propose + -al.
Senses: examples: text: proposals for the construction of a new building
synonyms: word: overture
word: proffer
word: proposition
word: plot
word: blueprint
word: design
word: plan
word: plot
word: project
word: proposal
word: scheme
glosses: Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
A scheme or design.
examples: text: to make proposals for a treaty of peace
text: "That's about the size of it," I said. "Now, if it is a fair question, what was your side proposing to shed?" / I had him, there. He saw he had made a blunder, so he hastened to explain it away. He said he had spoken jestingly. Then he added that he and his principal would enjoy axes, and indeed prefer them, but such weapons were barred by the French code, and so I must change my proposal.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter VIII, in A Tramp Abroad:
synonyms: overture
proffer
proposition
glosses: Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
The terms or conditions proposed.
examples: December 22 2016, Simon Parkin in the Irish Times Basement idea to blockbuster: The story of Fifa, the video game
Lewis, who had been sent to London to set up EA's European office, wrote a proposal for a lavish, high-tech football...
synonyms: overture
proffer
proposition
glosses: Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
The document on which such a thing is written.
examples: text: October 25 2013, Guardian Express Kim Kardashian Says a Prenup Is the Only Way to Marry
Kanye may have been love stricken when Kim accepted his proposal to marry him but Kim has always supported the idea of a prenup.
text: You could open his collected works almost anywhere and shut your eyes and dab down your finger on some red-hot passage. A proposal of marriage is a thing which it is rather difficult to bring neatly into the ordinary run of conversation. It wants leading up to.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 4, in Three Men and a Maid:
text: ‘Louisa, my dear, you are the subject of a proposal of marriage that has been made to me.’ Again he waited, and again she answered not one word. This so far surprised him, as to induce him gently to repeat, ‘a proposal of marriage, my dear.’ To which she returned, without any visible emotion whatever:
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XV”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: overture
proffer
proposition
glosses: Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
The act of asking someone to be one's spouse; an offer of marriage.
topics: law
synonyms: overture
proffer
proposition
tender
glosses: Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance.
The offer by a party of what they have in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
Derived terms: counterproposal
modest proposal
promposal
request for proposal
Related terms: proposition
crackwhore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackwhores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crack whore.
geotextile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geotextiles
Etymology: From geo- + textile.
Senses: examples: text: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore.
ref: 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
text: The design also included geotextile lining of the trench in which the drainage pipe was buried.
ref: 2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Carillion changed the design of Carmont's drains”, in RAIL, number 953, page 9:
glosses: Any strong, permeable fabric used in earthworks for any of a number of purposes, including separation of soil layers, filtering, reinforcing, erosion protection and protection of drainage pipes from clogging.
bookcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bookcross
bookcrossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookcrossings
Senses: glosses: The practice of leaving a book in a public location to be found and read by others, who then do the same.
juniper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒunɪpə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒunɪpɚ/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒunɪ̈pɚ]
Forms: form: junipers
Etymology: From Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper-tree”).
Senses: examples: text: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:
text: Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper [translating genévriers], ilex, yellow and white asphodel.
ref: 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:
text: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion, →OL:
glosses: Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
glosses: One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.
examples: text: […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^([sic]), take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.
ref: 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter, page 106:
glosses: Gin.
Derived terms: alligator juniper
Ashe juniper
Bermuda juniper
checkerbark juniper
Chinese juniper
common juniper
foetid juniper
gum juniper
juniper berry
juniper bush
juniper bush katydid
Juniper Green
juniperin
juniper juice
juniper lactone
juniperlike
juniper oil
juniper tar
juniper titmouse
juniper-wood
juniper wood
juniper worm
junipery
one-seed juniper
oneseed juniper
pale juniper webworm
Pfitzer juniper
Pfitzer's juniper
red juniper
stinking juniper
Utah juniper
western prickly juniper
Related terms: Juniperites
jostle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒs.əl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑ.səl/
rhymes: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: jostles
Etymology: Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxtā (“next to”), from iungō (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust + -le.
Senses: examples: 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,
I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]
glosses: The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
examples: 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,
For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.
glosses: The action of a jostling crowd.
jitterbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)bʌɡ/
Forms: form: jitterbugs
Etymology: From jitter + bug, after the 1934 Cab Calloway song Jitter Bug.
Senses: glosses: A nervous or jittery person.
qualifier: jazz
glosses: A jazz musician or aficionado.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An uptempo jazz or swing dance which embellishes on the two-step pattern and frequently incorporates acrobatic style swing steps.
glosses: Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”).
synonyms: word: diddley bow
extra: type of stringed instrument
Synonyms: sense: jazz musician
word: jazzbo
sense: jazz musician
word: jazzman
sense: jazz musician
word: jazzperson
sense: nervous or jittery person
word: bundle of nerves
word: nervous wreck
word: worrywart
word: worrier
jitterbug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪtə(ɹ)bʌɡ/
Forms: form: jitterbugs
form: jitterbugging
form: jitterbugged
form: jitterbugged
Etymology: From jitter + bug, after the 1934 Cab Calloway song Jitter Bug.
Senses: glosses: To dance the jitterbug.
Derived terms: jitterbugger
jargonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jargonizations
form: jargonisation
Etymology: From jargonize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The incorporation of jargon into a text or language.
glosses: That which has been translated into jargon.
whim-wham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whim-whams
form: whimwham
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from North Germanic (compare Old Norse hvima (“to let the eyes wander”), Norwegian kvima (“to flutter”)), but in any case ultimately sound-symbolic/a fanciful reduplication (compare flim-flam).
Senses: examples: text: They′ll pull ye all to pieces for your Whim-whams,
Your Garters and your Gloves,
ref: 1640, John Fletcher, James Shirley, “The Night Walker, or The Little Thief”, in The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, volume 2, published 1750, page 101:
glosses: A whimsical object; a trinket.
examples: 1807 April 18, “Anthony Evergreen” (Washington Irving), Salmagundi, or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, No. VIII, 1834, The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume, page 35,
And trust me, gentlefolk, his are the whim-whams of a courteous gentleman full of most excellent qualities ; honourable in his disposition, independent in his sentiments, and of unbounded good-nature, as may be seen through all his works.
glosses: A whim or fancy.
examples: text: But that wasn't what gave him the whim-whams so bad here. In the clearing, no more than ten feet away, stood a little stone cherub atop a fancy grave marker maybe three feet high.
ref: 2009, Derryl Murphy, William Shunn, Cast a Cold Eye:
glosses: A state of nervous anxiety.
Derived terms: whim-wham for a goose's bridle
Monty Python
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnti ˈpaɪθən/
ipa: /ˈmɑnti ˈpaɪθɑn/
Senses: glosses: A former British comedy troupe known for surreal and absurd comedy.
Derived terms: Python
Pythonesque
Californian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Californian
form: most Californian
Etymology: From California + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Californian ant-cricket, Myrmecophila formicarum Scudder occurs in practically every nest.
ref: 1911 February 24, William M. Mann, “Notes on the guests of somee Californian ants”, in Psyche, volume 18, page 28:
glosses: Of or relating to California.
Derived terms: Californian anchovy
Californian stop
Californian white sage
Californian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Californians
Etymology: From California + -an.
Senses: examples: text: And almost five million Californians voted Republican.
ref: 2015 November 9, “Why The Electoral College Ruins Democracy” (00:02:13 from the start), in Adam Ruins Everything (television production), spoken by himself (Adam Conover), truTV, via truTV:
text: In fact, it's often somewhat disparagingly called "Boz Angeles" for the many Californians and celebrities that have come to town, as well as its perceived "fanciness" in relation to the rest of the state.
ref: 2020 March 5, Sophie-Claire Hoeller, “I spent 3 days in Bozeman, Montana, aka 'Boz Angeles.' Here's what surprised me most about one of the fastest-growing cities in the US.”, in Insider:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of California in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Related terms: Californio
rising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪzɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rise
rising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: risings
Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Rebellion.
examples: text: the risings and fallings of a thermometer
text: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
ref: 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies:
glosses: The act of something that rises.
examples: text: salt rising
text: milk rising
glosses: A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
Derived terms: dead rising
Easter Rising
rising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪzɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Going up, physically or in quantity, rate, etc.
examples: text: A student in the rising Senior Freshman Class, who may not have passed the preceding Michaelmas Examination, will be allowed to join the School and attend Lectures during Michaelmas Term, for which he will receive credit, on condition that he passes the ensuing Hilary Examination with the Senior Freshman Class.
ref: 1850, The Dublin University Calendar, Trinity College Dublin, page 117:
text: Residential colleges at Princeton are “really central to your identity on campus,” especially as a freshman, Ms. Chaffers, who is a rising junior, said in an interview on Saturday.
ref: 2020 June 27, Bryan Pietsch, “Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School”, in The New York Times, retrieved 27 Jun 2020:
glosses: Planned or destined to advance to an academic grade in the near future, after having completed the previous grade; soon-to-be.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: rousant
surgerant
glosses: Having its wings raised (either addorsed or sometimes displayed), standing on the tips of its feet as if about to take flight, typically depicted in profile.
raw_tags: of a bird
Derived terms: Rising Sun
rising tone
Related terms: rise
rising
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪzɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rise + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse.
ref: 1894, Justin Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac:
glosses: More than; exceeding; upwards of.
bump
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bʌm̥p]
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Etymology: From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Senses: glosses: Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bʌm̥p]
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: bumps
Etymology: From Early Modern English; onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
bump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bʌm̥p]
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: bumps
form: bumping
form: bumped
form: bumped
Etymology: From Early Modern English; onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
jolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒlt/
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊlt/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊlt/
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: jolts
form: jolting
form: jolted
form: jolted
Etymology: Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
glosses: To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
glosses: To knock sharply
examples: text: I jolted her out of complacency.
glosses: To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
examples: text: Her untimely death jolted us all.
glosses: To shock emotionally.
examples: text: The car jolted along the stony path.
glosses: To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
Derived terms: jolter
jolthead
jolt head nail
jolting
joltless
joltproof
jolty
jounce
overjolt
rejolt
jolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒlt/
ipa: /d͡ʒəʊlt/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊlt/
rhymes: -ɒlt
rhymes: -əʊlt
Forms: form: jolts
Etymology: Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Timing your first coffee for mid-morning allows the caffeine to work its magic right as your body’s natural energy starts to wane. Instead of a jolt, you get a smooth, effective lift that carries you through the late morning and into the afternoon.
ref: 2025 August 22, “The Perfect Caffeine Kick: When is the Best Time to Drink Coffee for Energy?”, in Mochas & Javas:
glosses: An act of jolting.
glosses: A surprise or shock.
examples: text: Just sit down and look around for a while. Notice your cell, John. Take a good look at it, because it is going to be your home for the next ten years. Sure! You have just gotten a ten-year "jolt," John; so settle down and be a good prisoner.
ref: 1949, American Journal of Correction, page 24:
text: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work.
ref: 1958, Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side, page 312:
text: After three "jolts" in prison, three separate periods of incarceration, Braly decided to try his hand at writing.
ref: 1994, Eric Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement, page 30:
text: "How long did she do after I left the joint" / "About a year or so. They wanted to parole her. […]" Mae wrinkled her forehead. “It's hard to figure out, sometimes.” Again she frowned heavily. “I don't give a damn myself—I'm a thief, and nothing they can ever do will hurt me. But Mrs. Loring, now, she was different. That jolt did hurt her bad. […]"
ref: 1998, H. Bruce Franklin, editor, Prison Writing in 20th-Century America:
glosses: A long prison sentence.
glosses: A narcotic injection.
Coordinate terms: sense: prison sentence
word: bit
collision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: collisions
Etymology: From Middle French collision, from Late Latin collīsiō, from Latin collīdere, past participle collīsus (“to dash together”); see collide. cf. allision.
Senses: examples: text: He has retired due to the collision.
text: At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
ref: 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
glosses: An instance of colliding.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. In a collision, physical contact of two bodies is not necessary.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
glosses: Clipping of naming collision.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: Clipping of collision detection; tangibility.
Hyponyms: hash collision
naming collision
Coordinate terms: allision
Derived terms: anticollision
collisional
collision attack
collision bulkhead
collision course
collision detection
collisionless
collision mat
collision theory
collision time
COLREGS
Coulomb collision
deep inelastic collision
elastic collision
head-on collision
intercollision
multicollision
naming collision
noncollision
on a collision course
postcollision
precollision
rear-end collision
recollision
supercollision
Related terms: collide
Feldenkrais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Introduced by Moshé Feldenkrais (1904–1984).
Senses: glosses: A somatic educational system designed to reduce pain or limitations in movement, to improve physical function, and to promote general well-being by increasing students' awareness of themselves and by expanding students' movement repertoire.
Synonyms: Feldenkrais Method
haggard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
enpr: hăg-ərd'
ipa: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more haggard
form: most haggard
Etymology: From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))
Senses: examples: text: Pale and haggard faces.
text: A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
text: The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.
text: Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:
text: Then there was a pale, care-wrinkled woman, not old, but haggard, and already with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a brute—probably, a drunken brute—of a husband, and at least nine children.
ref: 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight
ref: 1976, Joni Mitchell, “Black Crow”, in Hejira:
text: By the end of two weeks there isn't a county in England where he hasn't pledged his holiness six different ways — which is not to deny that intermittently he has visions of himself as a haggard apostle of the life renounced, converting beautiful women and millionaires to Christian poverty.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
synonyms: raddled
worn-out
glosses: Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
examples: text: a haggard or refractory hawk
glosses: Wild or untamed
raw_tags: of an animal
Derived terms: haggardly
haggardness
haggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
enpr: hăg-ərd'
ipa: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: haggards
Etymology: From Middle French haggard, from Old French faulcon hagard (“wild falcon”) ( > French hagard (“dazed”)), from Middle High German hag (“coppice”) ( > archaic German Hag (“hedge, grove”)). Akin to Frankish *hagia ( > French haie (“hedge”))
Senses: examples: text: No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggards of the rock.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A hunting bird captured as an adult.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
examples: text: I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: A fierce, intractable creature.
examples: text: In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day
ref: 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:
glosses: A hag.
haggard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡ.əd/
enpr: hăg-ərd'
ipa: /ˈhæɡ.ɚd/
rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: haggards
Etymology: From Old Norse heygarðr (“hay-yard”).
Senses: examples: He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.