cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
assistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪstənt/
Forms: form: assistants
form: assistaunt
Etymology: From Middle English assistent, from Middle French assistant, from assister. By surface analysis, assist + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
glosses: A person who assists or helps someone else.
glosses: Sales assistant.
synonyms: wizard
glosses: A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Derived terms: assistant chief constable
assistant field cornet
assistantly
assistant-manage
assistant manager
assistant professor
assistant referee
assistantship
assistant stage manager
butler's assistant
certified nursing assistant
education assistant
lab assistant
laboratory assistant
language assistant
legal assistant
library assistant
nurse assistant
nurse's assistant
nurse-assistant
nurses' assistant
nursing assistant
personal assistant
personal digital assistant
physician assistant
physician's assistant
physician-assistant
physicians' assistant
referee assistant
research assistant
shop assistant
teaching assistant
underassistant
video assistant referee
virtual assistant
voice assistant
Related terms: assist
assistance
thirsty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: thûrs′tē
ipa: /ˈθɝs.ti/
ipa: /ˈθɜːs.ti/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sti
Forms: form: thirstier
form: thirstiest
form: thursty
Etymology: From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-Germanic *þurstugaz. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
Senses: examples: text: After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.
text: Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’
ref: 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 151:
glosses: Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.
examples: text: After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.
text: Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.
glosses: Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.
examples: text: Marching is thirsty work.
text: I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
text: Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.
ref: 2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, →ISBN:
glosses: Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
examples: text: thirsty for knowledge
text: thirsty for attention
text: After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.
synonyms: athirst
glosses: Craving something immaterial.
examples: text: This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him.
text: The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.
ref: 2016 August 26, Spencer Kornhaber, “Britney Spears Finds Grace in the Hook-Up on 'Glory'”, in The Atlantic:
text: Nin was reviled throughout her life and afterward for writing candidly about her desires — something few women are allowed to do without being branded an open wound — and was only recently divested of her status as one of the thirstiest women of the 20th century.
ref: 2017 April 4, Carina Chocano, “It’s Easy to Be Called ‘Thirsty’ on Social Media. What About on Capitol Hill?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: athirst
horny
glosses: Craving something immaterial.
Craving or desiring sex.
Synonyms: word: adry
word: athirst
word: drouthy
word: droughty
word: dry
word: parched
word: thirstful
word: thirsty
word: unslaked
Hypernyms: word: appetited
word: desirous
Hyponyms: word: dry as a dead dingo's donger
word: gasping
word: hydropic
word: hydropical
Derived terms: bloodthirsty
I'm thirsty
thirsty work
thungry
Related terms: word: thirst
word: thirst trap
word: hungry
word: I'm thirsty
word: spit cotton
word: spit feathers
word: craving
word: drunk
thirsty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thûrs′tē
ipa: /ˈθɝs.ti/
ipa: /ˈθɜːs.ti/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sti
Forms: form: thirsties
form: thursty
Etymology: From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-Germanic *þurstugaz. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.
Senses: examples: text: The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.
ref: 1919, The Mines Magazine, page 99:
text: A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.
ref: 2004, Sura College of Competition, Junior Knowledge Book, page 107:
text: Another way to limit the use of thirsty plants […] Here small beds of flowers, azaleas, and other "thirsties" could be grown satisfactorily.
ref: 1990, George Waters, The Pacific Horticulture Book of Western Gardening, David R Godine Pub, page 18
text: You are like a stream of water to a thirsty in a desert.
ref: 2018, Pijush Kanti Mukherjee, CoMa Chose Life:
text: Young Duchess watched the two accomplices, she seemed a thirsty who tastes clear and fresh water after having longed for it: for a moment she preserves an expression that expresses disbelief, as if she had discovered a completely new .
ref: 2019, Alessia Ferrari Dream, A medieval Saga:
glosses: One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).
examples: text: There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."
ref: 1948, Esther Warner, New Song in a Strange Land, page 36:
text: The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!
ref: 2012, Joyce Bethwane, You Are Not Your Own, page 58:
text: Afterwards Marguerite declared herself super-hungry, and also thirsty. 'Not super-thirsty, Regular thirsty. Let's say a thirsty that has worked out, learned martial arts and designed its own bat-suit. But definitely super-hunggry.
ref: 2017, Adam Roberts, The Real-Town Murders:
glosses: Thirst.
dressing table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing tables
form: dressing-table
Senses: glosses: A low table or chest of drawers with a mirror at which one sits while dressing, applying makeup or similar tasks.
wikipedia: Charles Plumet
Synonyms: toilet table
vanity
living room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/
Forms: form: living rooms
form: livingroom
form: living-room
Etymology: Doublet of Lebensraum.
Senses: examples: text: We relax in the living room.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
synonyms: drawing room
foreroom
front room
lounge
parlour
sitting room
zitkamer
lounge
lounge room
glosses: A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities.
examples: text: But in the quest for ‘lebensraum’ — the Nazi quest for living room for the German people — he was to find to his ultimate cost the Russians were made of sterner stuff than he had envisaged.
ref: 2011, John Jackson, chapter 10, in Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory, South Yorkshire, England: Pen & Sword Books Limited, →ISBN, page 58:
synonyms: Lebensraum
living space
glosses: Land intended for settlers.
Coordinate terms: bedsit
great room
salon
Derived terms: living-dining room
living-roomful
living room group
living-roomy
pope's living room
front room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front rooms
form: frontroom
form: front-room
Senses: examples: text: She did not knock at the door, which stood open, but, somewhat to Fermi's amazement, walked at once into the front room, which was plainly the room of state.
ref: 1880, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 7, in Louisiana:
text: He found the door open, and in the front room, which is bare of furniture, discovered the body of a gentleman, well dressed, and having cards in his pocket bearing the name of ‘Enoch J. Drebber, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.‘
ref: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in A Study in Scarlet:
text: The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties.
ref: 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 1, in Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography:
text: She had a whole floor of everlasting flowers spread to dry in her front room.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Loyalty”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
synonyms: foreroom
antonyms: backroom
back room
coordinate_terms: anteroom
antechamber
;
parlor
sitting room
drawing room
;
front porch
glosses: A room in the front of a house; especially, a living room in such position that is used for entertaining guests or for special occasions.
Related terms: front office
front of house
front of the house
armchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/
Forms: form: armchairs
form: arm-chair
Etymology: From arm + chair.
Senses: examples: text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 184:
text: [W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.
ref: 1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which a House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 2:
hypernyms: chair
furniture
meronyms: arm
coordinate_terms: couch
sofa
glosses: A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
examples: text: Evaluating possible etymologies requires a significant amount of knowledge about the speakers' lived reality […] for instance, the semantic connection between some species of plant and its use in traditional medicine may be fully transparent to a native speaker, but harder to understand from the perspective of a linguist's armchair.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 44:
glosses: A position removed from that which one is
Derived terms: armchair copy
armchair critic
armchair criticism
armchair general
armchair hawk
armchair linguistics
armchair psychologist
armchair psychology
armchair quarterback
armchair strategist
armchair tick
armchair traveller
armchair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/
Forms: form: arm-chair
Etymology: From arm + chair.
Senses: examples: text: armchair travels
text: These days I'm an armchair detective.
text: Armchair tourists who are used to travelling the globe with Google Earth can now use the same technology to crawl all over the masterpieces in one of the world's most famous galleries: the Prado.
ref: 2009 January 13, Giles Tremlett, “Google Earth brings masterpieces from Prado museum direct to armchair art lovers”, in The Guardian:
text: My point here is not that these new armchair soldiers are to be criticized for failing in their moral responsibilities. My point is rather that while drones are to be applauded for keeping these soldiers out of harm’s way physically, we would do well to remember that they do not keep them out of harm’s way morally or psychologically.
ref: 2013 March 17, John Kaag, “Drones, Ethics and the Armchair Soldier”, in New York Times Opinionator:
text: E-petitions have turned us all into armchair activists, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
ref: 2015 April 11, Bridget Christie, “We’re a nation of armchair activists – what’s wrong with that?”, in The Guardian:
text: Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning [title]
ref: 2018 October 9, Michael Schwirtz, Ellen Barry, “Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
examples: text: He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog.
text: After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.
text: If and when Ms. Cheney decides to marry, it will be interesting to see who offers best wishes, who offers armchair psychoanalysis, and who minds his own business.
ref: 2005 April 17, Patrick D. Healy, “Gay Republicans Soldier On, One Skirmish at a Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Judith Collins, who is New Zealand's first female defence minister, said she was appalled to see a "deeply concerning misogynistic narrative" online from "armchair admirals, people who will never have to make decisions which mean life or death for their subordinates".
ref: 2024 November 10, “New Zealand defence minister says a navy ship didn't sink because its captain was a woman”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.
untidy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtaɪdi/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: untidier
form: untidiest
Etymology: From un- + tidy.
Senses: examples: text: I have never seen such an untidy bedroom!
glosses: Sloppy.
examples: text: His finances were in an untidy state when he died.
text: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Disorganized.
Synonyms: disorderly
slovenly
untidy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtaɪdi/
rhymes: -aɪdi
Forms: form: untidies
form: untidying
form: untidied
form: untidied
Etymology: From un- + tidy.
Senses: examples: text: Before she closed each drawer she rummaged her hands through the clothes, untidying them just enough to feel comfortable.
ref: 2014, Jennie Shortridge, Love Water Memory, page 116:
glosses: To make untidy, to make a mess
favourite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: more favourite
form: most favourite
form: favouritemost
form: favouritest
form: favorite
Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.
Senses: examples: text: This is my favourite day!
text: I saw a hilariously funny movie with all of my favourite comedians in it.
text: The Nanny is one of Pippa's favourite shows, but tonight the pleasure of mindlessly blobbing out in her usual Sunday-laid-back-luxury style...
ref: 2004, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose:
text: Then there are the characters Rudd describes as “the full-on buffoons”, such as reporter Brian Fantana in Anchorman, who gives names to his testicles and – still my favourite Rudd performance – Andy the obnoxious summer camp counsellor in cult 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, which is being revived on Netflix this summer, in which Rudd will co-star alongside original cast members including Poehler and Bradley Cooper.
ref: 2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: least favorite
unfavourite
unfavorite
glosses: Most-liked. (In other words, [person]'s favorite [noun] = the [noun] that [person] likes the most.)
examples: text: What joy has this dog in miſchief!—More than I can have in the completion of my moſt favourite purpoſes!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter VII. Mr. Lovelace. In Continuation.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume V, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 87:
qualifier: high-register or archaic
glosses: Liked, cherished.
favourite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: favourites
form: favorite
Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher's favourite always went first.
antonyms: unfavourite
unfavorite
glosses: A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.
synonyms: top dog
darling
glosses: A person who is preferred or trusted above all others.
examples: text: You were my favourite to win the spelling competition.
text: She's the favourite, she'll probably be elected.
text: Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2016:
glosses: A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.
glosses: A bookmark on a web browser or website.
examples: text: the Favourites hang loose upon the Temples with a languishing Lock in the middle
ref: 1701, George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair:
glosses: A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of Charles II.
Derived terms: favicon
favouritemost
favouritest
favouritism
hot favourite
unbackable favourite
Related terms: favor
favorable
favour
favourite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: favourites
form: favouriting
form: favourited
form: favourited
form: favorite
Etymology: Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.
Senses: glosses: To favour.
glosses: To bookmark.
antonyms: unfavourite
unfavorite
glosses: To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
Derived terms: fave
downcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/
Forms: form: downcasts
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: a downcast dyke
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
antonyms: upcast
upthrow
glosses: Synonym of downthrow (“a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault”).
synonyms: word: downthrow
extra: a depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault
downcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/
Forms: form: downcasts
Etymology: From Middle English downcast (“misfortune”), adoun-cast (“destruction, overthrow”), from adoun (“downward”) + cast (“a throw, a cast”) (from Old Norse kast (“a throw”), from kasten (“to cast, throw”)), from Middle English casten adoun: see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“act of throwing”, noun).
Senses: examples: text: [C]ome lets be ſad my girles, / That dovvne caſt of thine eye Olimpias, / Shovves a faind ſorrovv; […]
ref: c. 1608–1611 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher], The Maides Tragedy. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Francis Constable […], published 1619, →OCLC, Act II, signature E, recto:
text: I ſavv the reſpectful Dovvncaſt of his Eye, vvhen you catcht him gazing at you during the Muſick: He, I vvarrant, vvas ſurpriz'd, as if he had been taken ſtealing your VVatch. O! the undiſſembled Guilty Look!
ref: 1722, Richard Steele, The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], published 1723, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 37:
text: And at every such aid, there was a smile to pay; not to mention the downcast of eyes sometimes, and sometimes their uplifting with a soft, sweet light, and the fluttering of lashes in the fresh wind from the sea, and the murmuring of lips, more pink and melodious than any clear Pacific shell.
ref: 1884, [Richard Doddridge Blackmore], “On the Rocks”, in The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: An act of looking downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty; hence (uncountable, archaic), dejection, melancholy.
glosses: An act, or the situation, of being cast or thrown to the ground.
glosses: A defeat, an overthrow; also, an act of destruction or ruin.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: upcast
glosses: A cast (“change of expression of a data type”) from supertype to subtype.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A ventilating shaft down which air passes in circulating through a mine.
downcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/
ipa: /daʊnˈkɑːst/
ipa: /-ˈkæst/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈkæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
ipa: /ˈdaʊnkɑːst/
ipa: /-kæst/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌkæst/
Forms: form: downcasts
form: downcasting
form: downcast
form: downcast
form: downcasted
form: downcasted
Etymology: From Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“to cast or throw (something) downwards; to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”): see etymology 1. The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“to throw”, verb).
Senses: glosses: To turn (the eyes) downwards, usually as a sign of discouragement, sadness, etc., or sometimes modesty.
examples: text: For there shall come a mightier blast, / There shall be a darker day; / And the stars, from heaven down-cast, / Like red leaves be swept away!
ref: 1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Midnight Mass for the Dying Year”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 30:
glosses: To cast or throw (something) downwards; also, to drop or lower (something).
glosses: To demolish or tear down (a building, etc.).
synonyms: cast down
glosses: To make (someone) feel despondent or discouraged; to discourage, to sadden.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: upcast
glosses: To cast (“change the expression of”) (a data type) from supertype to subtype.
glosses: To reproach or upbraid (someone); also, to taunt (someone).
synonyms: cast down
glosses: To depose or overthrow (a leader, an institution, etc.); also (sometimes reflexive), to bring down (oneself or someone) from an exalted position; to humble.
Derived terms: word: downcasting
Related terms: cast down
r-value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: r-values
Etymology: Short for resistance value.
Senses: glosses: A measure of thermal resistance used in domestic insulation.
Derived terms: aged R-value
terrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɝbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛɚbəl/
homophone: tearable (with /ə/ and merry-Mary merger)
Forms: form: terribler
form: more terrible
form: terriblest
form: most terrible
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terreō (“I frighten, terrify, alarm; I deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter. By surface analysis, terror + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: The witch laid a terrible curse on him.
text: People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
glosses: Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
examples: text: […]and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: "He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 96:
glosses: Formidable, powerful.
examples: text: He paid a terrible price for his life of drinking.
text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
examples: text: The food was terrible, but it was free.
text: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Unpleasant; disagreeable.
examples: text: Whatever he thinks, he is a terrible driver.
text: The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Very bad; lousy.
Derived terms: a mind is a terrible thing to waste
something terrible
terrible infant
terrible lizard
terrible twos
terribly
Related terms: terrific
terrify
terrifying
terror
terrorist
terrorize
terrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɝbəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛɚbəl/
homophone: tearable (with /ə/ and merry-Mary merger)
Forms: form: more terrible
form: most terrible
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English terrible, from Old French terrible, from Latin terribilis (“frightful”), from terreō (“I frighten, terrify, alarm; I deter by terror, scare (away)”). Compare terror, deter. By surface analysis, terror + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh, terrible bad, sir, terrible deep the snow is,’ said the hedgehog.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Ware: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 59:
glosses: In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully.
biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪskɪt/
ipa: /ˈbis.kwɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɪskɛʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ʊʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɪʈ/
Forms: form: biscuits
form: biscuiting
form: biscuited
form: biscuited
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, from Old French bescuit (French biscuit); doublet of biscotto.
Senses: glosses: To fire (pottery) in a kiln, without a ceramic glaze.
glosses: To take part in the sport of tubing, riding down a river on an inner tube.
butcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə/
ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: butchers
Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.
Senses: examples: text: He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in 'The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
examples: text: Butcher of an innocent child.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
synonyms: carnager
mayhemist
glosses: A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
glosses: A look.
raw_tags: from butcher's hook
glosses: A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
topics: card-games
games
coordinate_terms: bitch
glosses: A king playing card.
Synonyms: flesher
slayer
Derived terms: butcherbird
butcher bird
butcher block
butcher blue
butcher boy
butcherdom
butcherer
butcheress
butcher knife
butcherless
butcherlike
butcherly
butcherous
butcher paper
butcher's
butcher's apron
butcher's bill
butcher's block
butcher's broom
butcher's hook
butcher shop
butchershop
butcher's knife
butcher's mourning
butcher's paper
butcher's steak
butcher's stripes
butcher stripes
butcher's thumb
fit as a butcher's dog
horse butcher
news butcher
outbutcher
Piccadilly butcher
pig butcher
pork butcher
slink butcher
butcher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə/
ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: butchers
form: butchering
form: butchered
form: butchered
Etymology: From Middle English bocher, boucher, from Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), from Frankish *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“male goat, male deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“buck, ram”). See also English buck.
Senses: synonyms: kill
slaughter
glosses: To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
examples: text: He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
ref: 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 121:
glosses: To work as a butcher.
synonyms: massacre
slay
glosses: To kill brutally.
examples: text: The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
synonyms: murder
glosses: To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
examples: text: I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
synonyms: debase
bastardize
glosses: To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
butcher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ə/
ipa: /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/
rhymes: -ʊtʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: From butch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).
ref: 2003, Alisa Solomon, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theatre and Gender, page 170:
glosses: comparative form of butch: more butch
assist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: assists
form: assisting
form: assisted
form: assisted
Etymology: From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: This book will assist you in getting your life in order.
text: Tutor feedback assists the learning process.
text: The referee seemed well placed to award the goal, but video evidence suggested the protests were well founded and the incident only strengthens the case of those lobbying for technology to assist officials.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To help.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
examples: text: A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
glosses: To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
examples: text: I assisted with pleasure at the representation of several tragedies and comedies.
ref: 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin, published 1990, page 138:
text: To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
ref: 1967, The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church, revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8
glosses: To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
Synonyms: word: assist
word: chip in
word: help
word: help out
word: muck in
word: pitch in
Derived terms: assister
assistive
assistor
coassist
electroassisted
fan-assisted oven
medication-assisted treatment
nonassisted
overassist
photoassisted
unassisted
Related terms: assistant
assistance
assist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: assists
Etymology: From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
glosses: A helpful action or an act of giving.
examples: text: Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.
ref: 2016 January 1, David Hytner, “Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The act of helping another player score points or goals
A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
examples: text: He had two assists in the game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of helping another player score points or goals
A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
Derived terms: aim assist
assistful
assistless
gravitational assist
gravity assist
power assist
roadside assist
touch assist
video assist
windy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.di/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: windier
form: windiest
Etymology: From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a long and windy night.
text: “Everybody is interested in extremes – the hottest, the wettest, the windiest – so creating a database of professionally verified records is useful in that fact alone,” says Randall Cerveny from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
ref: 2017 June 15, Hiufu Wong, “11 extreme weather records”, in CNN:
text: Humid, windy days with low pressure make pain worse in those with long-term health conditions, according to new research.
ref: 2019 October 24, Jack Guy, “Humid, windy days worse for pain, says new study”, in CNN:
text: […] Higher windier locations can some times provide a relief from these insects during the growing season.”
ref: 2021 August 12, Katie Hunt, “Mammoths were the original ‘ice road truckers,’ traveling vast distances across the Arctic”, in CNN:
related: word: wimdy
synonyms: blowy
blustery
breezy
antonyms: calm
windless
glosses: Accompanied by wind.
examples: text: They shagged in a windy bus shelter.
glosses: Unsheltered and open to the wind.
examples: text: They made windy promises they would not keep.
glosses: Empty and lacking substance.
examples: text: I am not come hither to contend with the King of Witchland in windy railing, but to match my strength against his, sinew against sinew.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
synonyms: word: circumlocutory
word: diffuse
word: periphrastic
word: palaverous
word: pleonastic
word: prolix
word: rigmarole
word: sesquipedalian
word: verbose
word: wordy
glosses: Long-winded; orally verbose.
examples: text: The Tex-Mex meal had made them somewhat windy.
synonyms: word: farty
word: flatulent
word: windy
word: gassy
word: breezy
word: curmurring
glosses: Flatulent.
examples: text: The thing is he’s not windy, he’s a perfectly good soldier, no more than reasonably afraid of rifle and machine-gun bullets, shells, grenades.
ref: 1995, Pat Barker, The Ghost Road, Penguin, published 2014, The Regeneration Trilogy, page 848:
glosses: Nervous, frightened.
windy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.di/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: windies
Etymology: From Middle English windy, from Old English windiġ (“windy”), from Proto-Germanic *windigaz (“windy”), equivalent to wind + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiendich (“windy”), West Frisian winich (“windy”), Dutch winderig (“windy”), German Low German windig (“windy”), German windig (“windy”), Swedish vindig (“windy”), Icelandic vindugur (“windy”).
Senses: glosses: A fart.
windy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn.di/
rhymes: -ɪndi
ipa: /ˈwaɪndi/
ipa: /ˈwɪn.di/
rhymes: -ɪndi
Forms: form: windier
form: windiest
Etymology: From wind (“to curve, bend”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
raw_tags: of a path etc
Derived terms: windiness
windy pasty
housework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌwɝk/
Etymology: From house + work. Cognate with Dutch huiswerk (“homework”).
Senses: examples: text: In the preindustrial era the burden of housework fell on the shoulders of every inhabitant of the house: men, women, and children all devoted their energies and time to work in the home and on the farms, because most Americans were involved with at least some of their own food production.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking
glosses: homework
Related terms: inwork
quarterdeck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterdecks
form: quarter-deck
form: quarter deck
Etymology: From quarter + deck.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The aft part of the upper deck of a ship; normally reserved for officers
artillery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈtɪləɹi/
ipa: /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/
Forms: form: artilleries
Etymology: From Middle English artillerie, from Old French artillerie (“collection of military engines, crossbows, lances etc.”), from artillier (“to equip, provide with contraptions”), alteration of atiller (“to arrange, adjust, put on clothes or, especially, pieces of armour”) (influenced by art), itself from Vulgar Latin *apticlō < **apticulō, from Latin aptō (“to make capable”).
Senses: glosses: Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
glosses: An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
glosses: Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
examples: text: And Ionathan gaue his artillery vnto his ladde, and said vnto him, Goe, cary them to the citie.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 20:40:
english: And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city. (American Standard Version)
translation: And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city. (American Standard Version)
text: The old walls […] were surely strong enough to keep out men without battering-rams, balistas, or artillery of any kind. [Footnote] Artillery is here used in its old English meaning for any kind of warlike engine. Cf. I Sam. XX. 40.
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 24, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 330:
glosses: Weapons, especially siege engines.
glosses: One or more guns.
Derived terms: antiartillery
artillerist
artillery fern
artillery fungus
artillery game
artillery loop
artilleryman
artillery mold
artillery plant
artillery tube
artillery wheel
artillerywoman
counterartillery
field artillery
heavy artillery
horse artillery
nonartillery
nuclear artillery
rocket artillery
tube artillery
queasy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiː.zi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: queasier
form: queasiest
form: queazy
form: queezy
form: queesy
Etymology: From Middle English coysy, possibly from Old Norse kveisa (“boil”) ( > Norwegian kveise/kvise), perhaps influenced by Anglo-Norman queisier, from Old French coisier (“to wound, hurt, make uneasy”).
Senses: examples: text: She was in the middle of a gigantic breakfast of coffee and piles of toast, eggs and bacon and a tall glass of milk. It made him queasy to see all that food.
ref: 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: Experiencing or causing nausea or uneasiness, often characterized by an unsettled stomach.
glosses: Easily troubled; squeamish.
Derived terms: queasily
queasiness
Related terms: nauseous
nauseated
gunnery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌn.əɹ.i/
Forms: form: gunneries
Etymology: From gun + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery— / When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,—
ref: 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the very pattern of a modern major-general”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact.
examples: text: Originally, doubtless, that petty officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword, or cutlass. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery, making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent, and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased [...]
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter VII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 244:
glosses: The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.
examples: text: Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.
ref: 1920, Wilfred Owen, “Exposure”, in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, page 18:
text: The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions.
ref: 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, chapter 5, in Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, page 438:
text: Basically, the problem was actually the British had too many ships! The Grand Fleet wasn't half bad with its gunnery, but there was so many battleships throwing fire at the battlecruisers and battleships of the High Seas Fleet that it was actually very difficult to tell "Is that splash from us? Is that splash from that ship? Is that splash from a ship in another division? We don't know!", so a lot of incorrect estimates and measures were taken, which lead to an awful lot of waterspouts going up, but not anywhere near the number of hits that you would otherwise expect[…]
ref: 2021 May 2, Drachinifel, 3:59:19 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 144, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
glosses: The firing of guns.
glosses: A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use.
Derived terms: gunnery range
gunnery sergeant
master gunnery sergeant
Related terms: artillery
Zionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: Zionisms
Etymology: From Zion + -ism, calqued in analogy to German Zionismus, coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890.
Senses: examples: text: These investigations indicate that although a large proportion of American Jews call themselves Zionists, their meanings of Zionism are closer to what some investigators have called pro-Israelism. According to the still common Israeli definition of a Zionist as one who views the Diaspora negatively and considers the settlement of Jews in Israel as essential, the vast majority of American Jews would not be considered Zionists.
ref: 1996, Gal Allon, Allon Gal, Jerold S. Auerbach, Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews, page 151:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of a Jewish state in the region of Palestine.
glosses: A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa and most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism.
glosses: A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events.
Synonyms: Herzlianism
Derived terms: African Zionism
anti-zionism
anti-Zionism
antizionism
Black Zionism
Christian Zionism
Cultural Zionism
General Zionism
Green Zionism
Jewish Zionism
Labor Zionism
Labour Zionism
Liberal Zionism
Muslim Zionism
non-Zionism
prozionism
pro-zionism
pro-Zionism
Religious Zionism
Revisionist Zionism
Secular Zionism
Related terms: antizionist
anti-Zionist
non-Zionist
pro-Zionist
prozionist
Sion
Zio-Christian
Ziochristian
ziofascism
ziofascist
Zion
Zionazi
Zionazism
Zionification
zionify
Zionisation
Zionise
zionist
Zionist
Zionistan
Zionistic
Zionistical
Zionistically
Zionization
Zionize