cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːl/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /spɔl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /spɑl/
note: of the US
ipa: /spɒl/
ipa: /spoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: spalls
form: spawl
Etymology: From Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: My father knew Bert Le Feuvre, the foreman of Griffith's yard, and there was a little heap of spawls waiting ready every night in summer after school for me to crack.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 13:
glosses: A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
examples: text: The failure of this bearing involved spall under high load.
text: The inspection of this bridge abutment found extensive spall.
synonyms: spalling#Noun
spallation#Noun
qualifier: especially concerning ferroconcrete structures or metal objects
glosses: A process of weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate.
Derived terms: cross-spall
spall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːl/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /spɔl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /spɑl/
note: of the US
ipa: /spɒl/
ipa: /spoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: spalls
form: spalling
form: spalled
form: spalled
form: spawl
Etymology: From Middle English spalle (“a chip”) (first documented in 1440), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the Middle English verb spald (“to split”) (c.1400), from Middle Low German spalden, cognate with Old High German spaltan (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: Cobbed Ore is the ſpalled which is broke out of the ſolid large ſtones with ſledges
ref: 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining […] :
text: Drones will give an idea of the worst bits, but if it's lightly spalled then I don't know if they will necessarily see that.
ref: 2021 May 5, Paul Stephen, “Restoring the glory of Ribblehead”, in RAIL, number 930, page 39:
glosses: To break into fragments or small pieces.
examples: text: When the bearing race spalled under high load, it led to the failure of the bearing.
text: Once the concrete had spalled extensively, the bridge could no longer pass an honest inspection.
text: I know it’s fun to go to a foreign city, look around at the buildings, and make grand sweeping judgements about the relative strength of civilizations over the next thousand years. But next time you find yourself gaping at a sparkling new high-rise in Shenzhen or Chongqing or Dubai, remind yourself: “This too shall spall.”
ref: 2025 May 6, Noah Smith, “Thoughts on Sinofuturism: What does it mean for China to be "the future"? And what does that future look like?”, in Noahpinion:
glosses: To undergo weathering, aging, or other wear that involves the crumbling of the substrate.
raw_tags: of ferroconcrete structures or metal objects
glosses: To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
Related terms: spaller
spalling
spall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːl/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /spɔl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /spɑl/
note: of the US
ipa: /spɒl/
ipa: /spoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: spalls
Etymology: From Italian spalla.
Senses: examples: text: Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265:
glosses: The shoulder.
spilth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪlθ/
rhymes: -ɪlθ
Forms: form: spilths
Etymology: From spill + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English *spilþ, spild (“annihilation, destruction, ruin”).
Senses: examples: text: I tempted his blood and his flesh, / Hid in roses my mesh, / Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth— / Still he kept to his filth!
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “Instans Tyrannus”, in Men and Women, lines 19–22:
text: Like a vast spider suspended by a metal chord, a candelabrum presided over the room nine feet above the floor-boards. From its sweeping arms of iron, long stalactites of wax lowered their pale spilths drip by drip, drip by drip.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
text: Baked fish lay cooling on the table, and there was a great spilth of wine on the floor.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: Spillage; spilled material.
bespoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespoils
form: bespoiling
form: bespoiled
form: bespoiled
Senses: glosses: To spoil or pollute.
marquee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: marquees
Etymology: From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”). Ultimately cognate with marque.
Senses: glosses: A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
glosses: A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
synonyms: chase lights
chaser lights
qualifier: by generalization
glosses: Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
glosses: An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
glosses: A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
examples: text: Rectangular Marquee Tool
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: marching ants
glosses: In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
Derived terms: marqueelike
marquee player
marquee value
marquee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”). Ultimately cognate with marque.
Senses: examples: text: Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.
ref: 2012, Joe Tiller, Tiller: Not Your Average Joe, →ISBN:
text: Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.
ref: 2013, Vince Gennaro, Diamond Dollars: The Economics of Winning in Baseball, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.
ref: 2013, Kim Williams, Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost, Fashion, Design and Events, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The marquee product was his Salvador lager beer, which, he claimed in the advertising material from the first decade of the twentieth century, was Canada's most famous brew.
ref: 2014, Jordan St. John, Lost Breweries of Toronto, →ISBN:
text: But as the marquee device has grown older and its improvements have gotten more incremental, the tech giant has shifted its focus to younger products with more runway for innovation: the Apple Watch and AirPods.
ref: 2022 September 7, Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen, “Apple Extends Reach With $800 Watch, as New iPhone Inches Along”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Many of the marquee names in Democratic politics began quickly lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, but one towering presence in the party was conspicuously and purposefully absent: Barack Obama.
ref: 2024 July 22, Glenn Thrush, “Why Obama Hasn’t Endorsed Harris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Most famous; preeminent.
marquee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: marquees
form: marqueeing
form: marqueed
form: marqueed
Etymology: From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”). Ultimately cognate with marque.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
glosses: To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it.
Stagirite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstæd͡ʒɪɹʌɪt/
/ˈstæɡɪɹʌɪt/
Forms: form: Stagirites
form: Stagyrite
Etymology: From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).
Senses: glosses: Someone from Stagira.
Stagirite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstæd͡ʒɪɹʌɪt/
/ˈstæɡɪɹʌɪt/
Forms: form: Stagyrite
Etymology: From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).
Senses: examples: text: It was thus a sound insight into the thought framework of the great Stagirite that led the anti-Aristotelian writers of the Renaissance, and later preeminently Descartes and Spinoza, to attack the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of the embodiment of value in nature and the modern logical positivist opponents of metaphysics to attach the stigma of illegitimacy to all evaluative disciplines.
ref: 2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § ii, page 812:
glosses: Aristotle.
Stakhanovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈkɑːnəvaɪt/
Forms: form: Stakhanovites
form: stakhanovite
Etymology: From Stakhanov + -ite, named after Russian coal miner Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov) whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, few outstanding Stakhanovites remained at the bench for very long. Even if they stayed on the enterprise payroll, they ceased to be workers, becoming instead living icons.
ref: 1990, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941, page 183:
text: Kolkhozniki were soon attacking the Stakhanovites with abandon, beating them up, destroying their animals, even killing them.⁴⁰ For obvious reasons, collective farm management and even village authorities were often also not eager to see labor norms increased and colluded in these attacks.
ref: 1993, Stephan Merl, “III: Social Mobility in the Countryside”, in William G. Rosenberg, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, editors, Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization, page 56:
text: In mid-1936, the steel plant's deputy director, Khazanov, revealed that according to factory administration data there were 3,663 Stackhanovites at the steel plant, but according to the records of the trade union committee, there were 4,441. “In our shops,” he commented, “there are insufficiently precise criteria for determining Stakhanovites.”
ref: 1997, Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism As a Civilization, page 500:
glosses: An extremely productive or hard-working worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards; a workaholic.
Stakhanovite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈkɑːnəvaɪt/
Forms: form: more Stakhanovite
form: most Stakhanovite
form: stakhanovite
Etymology: From Stakhanov + -ite, named after Russian coal miner Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov (Aleksei Grigor’evich Stakhanov) whose prodigious output was publicised by Stalin as part of a 1935 campaign.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps he was convinced that a more Stakhanovite nation would, simply because of its absolute ethical commitment to community and service, in some way decide to take from the rich and give to the poor; […]
ref: 1982, David A. Reisman, State and welfare: Tawney, Galbraith and Adam Smith, page 115:
text: The great galvanised iron shed where the valves were made was a cacophonous and tumultuous place, full of Stakhanovite workers torturing plugs of super-heavy metal with screaming drill bits.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: You've got to work hard to be considered the most miserable part of Russia, which makes Murmansk the most Stakhanovite city in Russia.
ref: 2005, Adam Russ, 101 Places Not to Visit, page 110:
text: There was nothing more Stakhanovite than the slogan “We can do a lot! Let's complete the Five Year Plan in four!”
ref: 2013, Bill Yenne, The White Rose of Stalingrad, unnumbered page:
glosses: Pertaining to a Stakhanovite; heroically hard-working.
Related terms: Stakhanovism
udarnik
aldosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈdɒstəɹəʊn/
ipa: /ælˈdɑstəˌɹoʊn/
Forms: form: aldosterones
Etymology: From aldo- (“related to aldehydes”) + -sterone, modelled on German Aldosteron; coined in the 1950s.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: A mineralocorticoid hormone, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that regulates the balance of sodium and potassium in the body.
Derived terms: aldosteronism
aldosteronoma
antialdosterone
hyperaldosteronism
corticosteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticosteroids
Etymology: From cortico- + steroid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: Any of a group of steroid hormones, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in a large range of physiological systems.
examples: text: Wúràọlá’s first patient was a man who had not noticed any significant improvement after a regimen of corticosteroids had been prescribed for his spondylosis.
ref: 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 209:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several synthetic hormones of related structure.
Synonyms: word: corticosteroid
Hypernyms: corticoid
hormone
steroid
Hyponyms: glucocorticoid
mineralocorticoid
Derived terms: adrenocorticosteroid
corticosteroidal
corticosteroidogenesis
cortisuzol
cortivazol
hydroxycorticosteroid
noncorticosteroid
stannum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stănʹəm
ipa: /ˈstænəm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stannum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tin
stentorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /stɛnˈtɔːɹɪəs/
Forms: form: more stentorious
form: most stentorious
Etymology: From Stentor + -ious, after the herald Stentor in the Trojan War.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of stentorian.
synonyms: word: stentorian
wikipedia: Stentor
stentoriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /stɛnˈtɔːɹɪəsli/
Forms: form: more stentoriously
form: most stentoriously
Etymology: From stentorious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stentoriously the Countess snored in her lair.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: in a stentorious way.
antiseptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiseptic
figo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: figos
Senses: examples: text: A figo for the governor, and a figo for his flag.
ref: 1832, Geoffrey Crayon (Washington Irving), “The Governor and the Notary”, in Tales of the Alhambra, revised edition, published 1851:
glosses: Alternative form of fico.
antisceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisceptics
form: anti-sceptic
form: antiskeptic
Etymology: From anti- + sceptic.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the rationalistic sceptic, the rationalistic antisceptic believes he can provide an adequate justification for responsibility [....]
ref: 1995, Paul Russell, Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility, page 172:
glosses: Someone who is opposed to scepticism.
Derived terms: antisceptical
antiscepticism
antisceptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of antiseptic.
androsterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androsterones
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: steroids
glosses: An androgenic hormone, excreted in the urine, somewhat less active than testosterone.
Derived terms: epiandrosterone
isoandrosterone
androgenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more androgenic
form: most androgenic
Etymology: From androgen + -ic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being an androgen.
Derived terms: androgenic alopecia
androgenic hair
androgenicity
antiandrogenic
danazol
hyperandrogenic
hypoandrogenic
nonandrogenic
normoandrogenic
anthraquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænθɹəkwɪˈnoʊn/
ipa: /-ˈkwaɪnoʊn/
Forms: form: anthraquinones
Etymology: From anthra- + quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of this parent compound, mostly natural pigments or synthetic dyes.
Derived terms: aminoanthraquinone
anthraquinonoid
anthraquinonyl
bianthraquinone
dianthraquinone
dihydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyanthraquinone
methylanthraquinone
preanthraquinone
trihydroxymethylanthraquinone
belled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: examples: text: He rode back around the common, mustering every mob of horses except those which contained belled stock.
ref: 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 125:
glosses: Having a bell attached.
examples: text: Or, three falcons close proper, belled gules, a mullet for difference.
ref: 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 539:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having bells (especially around the neck of an animal).
examples: text: A pipe with one belled and one plain end.
glosses: Having a thicker hollow end, for example to allow pipes to plug into each other.
raw_tags: of a pipe or tube
Derived terms: belled buzzard
unbelled
belled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bell
bend sinister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bends sinister
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from the sinister chief (the viewer's top right) to the dexter base, sometimes erroneously held to indicate bastardy.
examples: text: A ‘bend sinister’ ran athwart his reputation as a priest. Men muttered that he was an infidel, a blasphemous vagabond, versed in all the damnable heresies of antiquity.
ref: 1904, Warwick Deeping, Love Among the Ruins, page 101:
text: Rumour credited his family tree with both a 50 per cent. Jewish strain and a bend sinister.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 105:
text: “I am a gentleman,” he began slowly, his back still turned, and his fingers moving busily. “Or rather, the blood of a gentleman flows through my veins.” […] “A bend sinister. Poor lad!”
ref: 2021, J. S. Emery, A Clockwork River, →ISBN:
glosses: Bastardy, (by extension) a defect or stigma.
Derived terms: per bend sinister
Related terms: bar sinister
baton sinister
in bend
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of figures: placed in a slanting direction from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
picar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picars
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A retail dealer; an intermediate dealer or broker.
bendlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bendlets
Etymology: From bend + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: cost
garter
riband
glosses: A diminutive of the bend, of the same shape, but only half the width of the bend.
de facto corporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de facto corporations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A business entity that is treated as a corporation for certain purposes despite its failure to meet all of the formal requirements imposed by law for a corporation to exist.
picadura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picaduras
Senses: glosses: A passage or track cut through foliage.
meat hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat hooks
Senses: glosses: A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
synonyms: biscuit hooks
qualifier: usu. plural
glosses: One's hands or arms.
mediacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediacies
Etymology: Blend of media + literacy
Senses: glosses: Mediation; presence of an intermediary.
mediacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediacies
Etymology: Blend of media + literacy
Senses: glosses: The facility to work with words and numbers.
glosses: The facility to work with media.
interlace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈleɪs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚ.leɪs/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈleɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: interlaces
Etymology: From Middle English entrelacen, from Anglo-Norman entrelacer, from Old French inter- + lacer (“weave”).
Senses: examples: text: Hiberno-Saxon interlace patterns
topics: arts
visual-arts
glosses: A decorative element found especially in early medieval art
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.
interlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈleɪs/
ipa: /ˈɪn.tɚ.leɪs/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈleɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: interlaces
form: interlacing
form: interlaced
form: interlaced
Etymology: From Middle English entrelacen, from Anglo-Norman entrelacer, from Old French inter- + lacer (“weave”).
Senses: examples: text: to interlace wires
text: The opportunity was also taken to remove one of the few examples of gauntleted tracks in this country, interlacing the down fast and slow lines over the bridge.
ref: 1960 November, “Talking of Trains: Selby swing bridge”, in Trains Illustrated, page 647:
synonyms: interthread
intertwine
interweave
glosses: To cross one with another.
glosses: To mingle; to blend.
examples: text: interlacing branches
glosses: To cross one another as if woven together; to intertwine; to blend intricately.
Derived terms: deinterlace
disinterlace
interlaced
interlacement
interlacer
interlacing
reinterlace
holographic will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holographic wills
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A will that is handwritten by the testator, without the usual formalities of execution.
handwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-written
Etymology: From hand + written.
Senses: examples: text: Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: Written with a person's hand, as opposed to typed.
Synonyms: longhand
Related terms: handwriting
handwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-written
Etymology: From hand + written.
Senses: glosses: past participle of handwrite
torero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toreros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish torero.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A bullfighter
Related terms: matador
picador
toreador
rima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.mə/
rhymes: -aɪmə
Forms: form: rimae
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin rīma (“a cleft, crack, fissure, chink”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.
examples: text: Look for three prominent interior craters, as well as an ancient rima falling near the shadow's edge.
ref: 2006, Tammy Plotner, Jeff Barbour, What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching, page 128:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A crack or fissure on a lunar or planetary surface; a rille.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "rima" (derived from Italian)
word: ottava rima
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "rima" (derived from Italian)
word: terza rima
kor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kors
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
Senses: examples: text: Solomon responded by committing 20,000 kors of pure oil and 20,000 kors of wheat in annual payments. A kor of oil is an ancient Hebrew unit of liquid of about 58 gallons. A kor of wheat is equal to 6.25 bushels.
ref: 2002, Don Victor Bovey, In Touch With Eternity, page 161:
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Related terms: kor kor
rost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔst/
Forms: form: rosts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roust (“strong tide or current”).
rost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔst/
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
ipa: /ɹɔst/
Forms: form: rosts
form: rosting
form: rosted
form: rosted
Senses: examples: text: 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85,
Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]
text: Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
ref: 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 138:
text: […] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.
ref: 1669, John Baptista Porta, Natural Magick, page 322:
glosses: Obsolete form of roast.
rost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔst/
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
ipa: /ɹɔst/
Forms: form: rosts
Senses: examples: text: I love no roſt, but a nut-brown toſte, and a crab layde in the fyre, / A lytle bread ſhall do me stead, much breade I not deſyre.
ref: 1575, “Gammer Gurton’s Needle”, in A Select Collection of Old Plays. […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] J. Nichols; for J. Dodsley, […], published 1780, page 20:
text: When Thraſo meets his friend, he ſweares by God, / Vnto his Chamber he ſhall welcome be: / Not that hee’le cloy him there with roſt or ſod, / Such vulgar diet with Cookes ſhops agree: / But hee’le preſent moſt kinde, exceeding franke / The beſt Tabacco, that he euer dranke.
ref: 1600, S[amuel] R[owlands], The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine. […], London: […] W. White for W. F., page 9:
text: He burneth part thereof in the fire: with part thereof he eateth fleſh: he roſteth roſt, and is ſatiſfied: yea hee warmeth himſelfe, and ſaith; Aha, I am warme, I haue ſeene the fire.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44:16, column 1:
text: If Pluto’s treaſury be golden Mynes in the bowels of the earth, this is his Kitchin, ſeated in his cellars there, or his Coalehouſe rather, where hee ſtores his fuell for his roſts.
ref: 1634, A Strange Metamorphosis of Man, Transformed into a VVildernesse. Deciphered in Characters., London: […] Thomas Harper, […] sold by Lawrence Chapman […]:
glosses: Obsolete form of roast.
rost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔst/
ipa: /ɹəʊst/
ipa: /ɹɔst/
Senses: examples: text: The secund covrse / Creme off almonds Rost coney plouers small byrds & custard
ref: 1510, “Notes from an Old City Account Book”, in The Archaeological Journal. […], volume XLIII, London: […] the Office of the [Royal Archaeological] Institute, […], published 1886, page 172:
text: After ſupper we went to reſt, and they to fiſhing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a freſh, and retayned ſufficient readie roſt for all our break-faſts.
ref: 1622, Relation or Iournall of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Setled at Plimoth in New England, by Certaine English Aduenturers Both Merchants and Others. […], London: […] [J. Dawson] for Iohn Bellamie, […], page 47:
text: Next them all ſorts of Roſt-meates, of which the greateſt firſt, as Chine of beeffe or Surloine, the Gigget or Legges of Mutton, Gooſſe, Swan, Veale, Pig, Capon, and ſuch like.
ref: 1623, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Outward and Actiue Knowledge of the Hous-wife; and of Her Skill in Cookerie; as Sallets of All Sorts, with Flesh, Fish, Sauces, Pastrie, Banqueting-stuffe, and Ordering of Great Feasts: Also Distillations, Perfumes, Conceited Secrets, and Preseruing Wine of All Sorts”, in Covntrey Contentments, or The English Husvvife. […], London: Printed by I. B. for R. Iackson, […], →OCLC, page 126:
text: […] will you take the foam of a mad dog, and put it into your pot of pottage, to poyſon half the family, that you may have the more roſt meat to your ſelves?
ref: 1649, Εικων Ἡ Πιστη [Eikōn Hē Pistē]. Or, The Faithfull Pourtraicture of a Loyall Subject, in Vindication of Εικὼν Βασιλική [Eikṑn Basilikḗ]. […], [London]: [s.n.], page 61:
glosses: Obsolete form of roast.
tej
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]
Forms: form: tej
form: tedge
form: tedje
form: tedj
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic ጠጅ (ṭäǧ, “honey wine, mead”).
Senses: examples: text: She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Amharic for “honey wine,” tej is an Ethiopian drink that kings, queens, and other royals have enjoyed for thousands of years.[…]¶ Tej is an ancient, fermented spirit mostly made from raw honey, water, and wild yeast.[…]¶ They toasted each other with the tej she brought.
ref: 2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024:
glosses: A type of honey wine or mead from Ethiopia and Eritrea typically served in a specialized glass vessel known as a berele.
radiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiative
form: most radiative
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of, relating to, or occurring through radiation
Derived terms: radiative balance
radiative cooling
radiative forcing
radiative primarism
radiative process
radiative recombination
radiative transfer
anthracene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthracenes
Etymology: Borrowed from French anthracène, coined by its co-discoverer Auguste Laurent in 1837, from Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “coal”) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (an acene containing three fused rings) obtained from coal tar; used in the manufacture of wood preservatives, insecticides and the dye alizarin; it is isomeric with phenanthrene.
wikipedia: Auguste Laurent
Hypernyms: acene
Coordinate terms: english: a 1-ring acene
translation: a 1-ring acene
word: benzene
english: a 2-ring acene
translation: a 2-ring acene
word: naphthalene
Derived terms: anthrapyrazole
benzanthracene
benzoanthracene
circumanthracene
diazaanthracene
haloanthracene
paranthracene
polyanthracene
Related terms: anthracite
phenanthrene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenanthrenes
Etymology: From phen(o)- + anthr(ac)ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbon obtained from coal tar; used in the manufacture of dyes, pharmaceuticals and explosives; it is isomeric with anthracene.
Derived terms: acephenanthrene
aminophenanthrene
diazaphenanthrene
dihydrophenanthrene
diphenanthrene
phenanthrenemethanol
phenanthrenequinone
phenanthrol
phenanthroline
phenanthryl
benzophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzophenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic ketones based on the parent compound diphenylketone (C₆H₅)₂CO; used, amongst other things, as ingredients in sunblock.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound diphenylmethanone.
Derived terms: baishouwubenzophenone
thiobenzophenone
anteflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + flexed.
Senses: glosses: Bent in an anterior (forward) direction, as the uterus.
retroflexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retroflex + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ultrasound showed that she had a retroflexed uterus.
glosses: Bent in a posterior (backwards) direction, as the uterus
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Being retroflex.
butanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butanones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple aliphatic ketone, CH₃CH₂COCH₃, prepared industrially as a solvent, for use in the manufacture of paints etc.
Synonyms: word: 2-butanone
word: ethylmethylketone
english: abbreviation: MEK
translation: abbreviation: MEK
word: methyl ethyl ketone
word: methylpropanone
Derived terms: nabumetone
methyl ethyl ketone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The industrial solvent butanone (CH₃CH₂COCH₃)
Synonyms: sense: organic compound
word: butanone
sense: organic compound
word: MEK
Related terms: english: acetone
translation: acetone
word: dimethyl ketone
housemaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
Forms: form: housemaids
form: house maid
form: house-maid
Etymology: From house + maid.
Senses: glosses: A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
glosses: A housewife.
Derived terms: underhousemaid
housemaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/
Forms: form: housemaids
form: housemaiding
form: housemaided
form: housemaided
form: house maid
form: house-maid
Etymology: From house + maid.
Senses: glosses: To be a housemaid.
glosses: To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
examples: text: Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32:
glosses: To clean, as a housemaid.
Related terms: housegirl
housemaid's knee
testamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English testamentarie, from Anglo-Norman testamentarie and Latin testāmentārius (“of or belonging to wills”).
Senses: examples: text: Although such letter shall not be interpreted as a testamentary writing, I request that my beneficiaries and executor carry out the requests made in the letter.
topics: law
glosses: of or pertaining to a will or testament
Derived terms: letter of testamentary
letters testamentary
neo-testamentary
testamentary guardian
vetero-testamentary
high water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high waters
Senses: examples: text: So as not to impede navigation the two principal spans of the bridge were designed to provide a clear headway of 157 ft. above high water for a distance of 500 ft.; [...].
ref: 1941 January, the late John Phillimore, “The Forth Bridge 1890-1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
glosses: The location of high tide on a coastal area.
examples: text: One of the requirements of the design was the provision of a clear headway of 50 ft. at high water for shipping.
ref: 1952 September, “Chepstow River Bridge Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 623:
glosses: The state of the tide when the water is at its highest.
glosses: The highest stage of a river.
Derived terms: high-water mark
party of the second part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parties of the second part
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party to a legal dispute against whom a complaint was initially raised in a court.
topics: law
glosses: The second party named in a contract, generally the party to whom a duty is initially owed, and who is obligated to perform in response to the performance of that initial duty.
party of the first part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parties of the first part
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party to a legal dispute who first raised a complaint in a court.
topics: law
glosses: The first party named in a contract, generally the party agreeing to perform a duty thereunder.
unwelcome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unwelcomer
form: unwelcomest
Etymology: From Middle English unwelcome, unwelcum; equivalent to un- + welcome.
Senses: examples: text: This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes,
Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniust,
That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land,
Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde,
Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids.
ref: 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
text: For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.
ref: 2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3:
antonyms: welcome
glosses: Not welcome.
unwelcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwelcomes
form: unwelcoming
form: unwelcomed
form: unwelcomed
Etymology: From Middle English unwelcome, unwelcum; equivalent to un- + welcome.
Senses: examples: text: Devils and angels stood side by side on one platform to unwelcome him.
ref: 1992, Selections from National Press, page 92:
text: 'You could've said so if you're unwelcoming us. We could've just leave^([sic])!' I ranted and walked back into the room, away from the balcony.
ref: 2013, Amber Lim, Different Worlds, page 303:
glosses: To treat as unwelcome.
illegality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegalities
Etymology: From French illégalité, equivalent to il- + legality or illegal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The criminal was aware of the illegality of his act.
text: In Fraenkel’s defiance of mortality and professionalism and his skill in navigating the triple state lay part of the origins of his idea of the dual state. He answered the illegality in the Nazi prerogative state with his own commitment to illegality in both the resistance and even the legal system itself.
ref: 2020, Douglas G. Morris, The Ernst Fraenkel Dilemma, page 208:
topics: law
glosses: the state of being illegal
examples: text: When sued for refusing to pay for services provided by a prostitute, the customer raised the defense of illegality.
topics: law
glosses: a defense to the validity of a contract because it was in violation of the law
stick around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks around
form: sticking around
form: stuck around
form: stuck around
Senses: examples: text: If you have any questions for the performers, stick around in the lobby after the show.
text: So if the bad boy’s proving elusive, why not try some novel, rewarding activities with a virtuous one? It might get your neurons firing. He might stick around afterwards. And even if he doesn't, you can be content in the knowledge that you and your misguided dopamine system had a good night out.
ref: 2012 May 14, Susan Carnell, “Bad Boys, Bad Brains”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Williams promised to 'stick around' to ensure that Government implements his recommendations: [...].
ref: 2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 3:
glosses: To stay; to linger; to remain.
take sitting down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes sitting down
form: taking sitting down
form: took sitting down
form: taken sitting down
Senses: examples: text: I hope he doesn't think he can get away with such a thing. I'm not going to take this sitting down.
glosses: To tolerate, accept, or acquiesce; to take no action.
raw_tags: in the negative
Synonyms: brook
put up with
acquiesce
Related terms: sit on one's hands
take a stand
sit still
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits still
form: sitting still
form: sat still
form: sat still
Senses: examples: text: The dog wouldn't sit still while I gave him a bath.
glosses: To remain motionless.
examples: text: I'm not going to sit still and let him treat me this way.
glosses: To accept, tolerate, or acquiesce.
gypsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsy
glosses: plural of gypsie
seat-of-the-pants
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seat + of + the + pants.
Senses: examples: text: The new pension-fund managers are an eclectic group, displaying a spectrum of styles and strategies. Some rely chiefly on computers and charts, while others are more likely to trust their seat-of-the-pants judgment.
ref: 1984 January 9, Charles Alexander, Frederick Ungeheuer, “The Billion-Dollar Boys”, in Time:
glosses: Done by feel, guess, or trial and error rather than by careful planning, thought or technique.
Related terms: fly by the seat of one's pants
get what's coming to one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets what's coming to one
form: getting what's coming to one
form: got what was coming to one
form: got what was coming to one
form: gotten what was coming to one
Senses: examples: text: I hope that creep gets what's coming to him, and soon!
synonyms: catch it
cop it
catch hell
get it
get what one asked for
get one's fairing
glosses: To experience the consequences of one's actions.
Related terms: have it coming
comeuppance
just deserts
you'll get yours
sneak preview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneak previews
Senses: examples: text: Their dress rehearsal will be a sneak preview of the show for theater members.
glosses: An early preview or look at something, especially not yet made public.
Related terms: sneak peek
Barney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹni/
ipa: /ˈbɑːni/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ni
Forms: form: Barneys
Etymology: From either the Old English personal name Bera (genitive singular Beran) or from Old English beren (“growing with barley”) + īeġ (“island”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A male given name.
A diminutive of the male given names Barnabas, Barnaby, Bernard, or Barnett.
glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A surname
A surname transferred from the given name
glosses: A surname
A surname from Old English
A surname from Old English [in turn from placenames] from the place name Barney, Old English "barn/barley island".
glosses: A surname
A surname from Old English
A surname from Old English
glosses: A placename:
A village in Fulmodeston parish, North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF9932).
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brooks County, Georgia.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Richland County, North Dakota.
Derived terms: Barn
Barne
Barney Rubble
Casimir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæzɪmɪɚ/
Etymology: From a Polish royal name and saint's name Kazimierz, of Slavic origin, meaning "proclamation of peace".
Senses: examples: text: - Babushka wants you to call the poor little bugger Casimir after her uncle in the Resistance. Can you imagine what would happen in any schoolyard to a kid with a name like Casimir?
ref: 1992, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea, Plume, published 1994, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A male given name from Polish.
majorette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: majorettes
Etymology: Short for drum majorette, equivalent to major + -ette. Doublet of marjoret.
Senses: glosses: A female dancer who twirls and performs stunts with a lightweight baton, whether as a solo, in a group of majorettes, or in the company of a marching band.
Derived terms: drum majorette
majoretting
Related terms: Rangerette
marching band
cheerleader
twirler
Hayhurst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English, from Hay Hurst in Lancashire
movers and shakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mover and shaker
waveguide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waveguides
Etymology: From wave + guide.
Senses: glosses: A structure which guides waves, such as electromagnetic waves, light, or sound waves.
waveguide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waveguides
form: waveguiding
form: waveguided
form: waveguided
Etymology: From wave + guide.
Senses: examples: text: The advantage of transverse magnetic polarization, however, is the possibility of exploiting surface plasmons for waveguiding.
ref: 2009 January 8, Y. Chassagneux, R. Colombelli, W. Maineult, S. Barbieri, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, S. P. Khanna, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, “Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:
glosses: To act as a waveguide for
teres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹəs/
/ˈtiːɹiːs/
Forms: form: teretes
Etymology: From Latin teres (“rounded”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A terete muscle.
Derived terms: pronator teres
skel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of skell.