cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: ciao
Forms: form: chows
Etymology: Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to pick up some chow for dinner.
text: Donlon says, "Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show."
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Food, especially snacks.
glosses: Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
examples: text: ‘I'd try and grapple with him myself, only I've got my chow in my room, you know, and he goes for pigs wherever he finds them.’
ref: 1914, Saki, ‘The Lull’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
text: While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him.
ref: 1988 March 4, Jane Weinberg, “First Person: Me and Georgia O'Keeffe”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A Chow Chow.
examples: text: These were the creatures Nawnim had been amazed to see about him on the day of his arrival. When he inquired about them, Anna told him they were Japs an' Chows.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 74:
text: ‘Now look here old man if you should ever bump into an interesting Chow from over the river – one with access, follow me? – just you remember High Haven!’
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 11:
glosses: A Chinese person.
Derived terms: bunny chow
chow call
chow down
chow gun
chow hall
chowhound
chowline
chowtime
midnight chow
chow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: ciao
Forms: form: chows
form: chowing
form: chowed
form: chowed
Etymology: Shortened from chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow. Compare Macanese chau-cháu. See also English chow fun, chow mein, etc.
Senses: glosses: To eat.
chow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: ciao
Forms: form: chows
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 州 (zhōu).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
chow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: ciao
Forms: form: chows
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
Senses: topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: sequence
glosses: A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: chii
glosses: A call for forming such a run using a discarded tile.
Coordinate terms: kong
pung
chow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: ciao
Forms: form: chows
form: chowing
form: chowed
form: chowed
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Chinese 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”), influenced by the “food” sense of Etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: […] while the adversary on his right will repeatedly bury in the discard the very tiles he wishes to chow but can't.
ref: 2007, Eleanor Noss Whitney, A Mah Jong Handbook: How to Play, Score, and Win, page 154:
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: chii
glosses: To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
Related terms: chin chow
chow fun
chow mein
forthcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/
ipa: /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/
Forms: form: forthcomings
Etymology: The adjective is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“approaching (adjective)”); or from Middle English forth commyng, *forthcominge, present participle of forth-comen (“to come forth; to appear, issue”), from Old English forþcuman, forþ-cuman (“to come forth, come forward”) (present participle *forþcumende), from forþ- (“forth; forward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + cuman (“to come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”)). Compare Dutch voortkomend (“coming forth, originating from (verb)”), German fortkommend (“getting away; progressing (verb)”).
The noun is derived from forth (“forwards”) + coming (“arrival”).
Senses: glosses: An act of coming forth.
examples: text: The reader, has had presented to him things not belonging to time or mortality, but awful realities issuing out from eternity, the audible forthcomings of a present living God.
ref: 1831, Archibald Mackerrell, “Appendix”, in An Apology for the Gift of Tongues and Interpretation, at Present Manifested in the Church of Christ […] and the Words of a Vision of Prophecy Given to the Church in A.D. 1830, Greenock, Renfrewshire: W. Johnston, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Something that is yet to come.
forthcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːθˈkʌmɪŋ/
ipa: /fɔɹθˈkʌmɪŋ/
Etymology: From forthcome + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forthcome
memory chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory chips
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.
heteronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: heteronomies
Etymology: From hetero- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: The political subjection of a community to the rule of another power or to an external law.
glosses: The state of being beholden to external influences.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of being heteronomous.
Derived terms: heteronomous
lively
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪv.li/
Forms: form: livelies
form: lifely
Etymology: From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike.
Senses: examples: text: Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Term of address.
lively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪv.li/
Forms: form: more lively
form: most lively
Etymology: From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Vigorously.
glosses: Vibrantly, vividly.
examples: text: Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: the Painter Protogenes […] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, […] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture […].
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220-1
glosses: In a lifelike manner.
Derived terms: step lively
inner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈɪnə/
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈɪnɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɪnnə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inners
Etymology: From Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.
Senses: glosses: An inner part.
glosses: A duvet, excluding the cover.
glosses: A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who supports remaining in the European Union.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
Related terms: breaker-inner
sit-inner
swim-inner
granulocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From granulocyte + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormally low concentration of granulocytes in the blood, which reduces the body's resistance to many infections.
Related terms: granulocytopenic
hophead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopheads
Etymology: From hop + -head.
Senses: examples: text: For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep. Not for the hophead. Sedatives don't touch it; he can't rest; he can't even sleep.
ref: 1939, Walton Hall Smith, Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the Servant of Man, page 193:
text: “Oed,” looking at her puzzled, “you don't get addicted. It's not like you're some hophead. You take it because it's good. […]
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Why should we all go around on tiptoe forever pretending the kid's not a hophead?
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, Knopf:
glosses: A drug addict.
glosses: A beer enthusiast or homebrewer, with emphasis on 'hoppier' types of beer (i.e. brewed with more hops, like IPAs).
MLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of multi-level marketing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of multi-level model or multi-level modeling.
glosses: Initialism of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Derived terms: sense: multi-level marketing
word: MLMer
sense: multi-level marketing
word: MLMish
MLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MLMs
form: MLM
Senses: examples: text: [In] the responses from participants above, it can be noted how these particular Christian MLM bring their daily experiences in their approach to the Bible. […], refusing to be addressed as men who have sex with other men (MSM) but opting to be known as men who love other men […] Second, Christian MLM also underline the need for the churches in Zambia to contextualize biblical texts […]
ref: 2016, Ezra Chitando, Adriaan van Klinken, Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: Achillean
glosses: Initialism of man who loves men.
MLM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Muslim Lives Matter.
homogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogenates
Senses: glosses: Any material obtained by homogenization
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The slurry of tissues and cells which results when cell structure has been mechanically disrupted.
Related terms: homogenize
aviatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.vi.eɪ.tɹɪks/
Forms: form: aviatrices
form: aviatrixes
Etymology: From aviator + -trix.
Senses: examples: text: “... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected.
ref: 1969, William Dana Orcutt, Celebrities Off Parade: Pen-and-ink Portrait Sketches, →ISBN, page 111:
text: The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut
ref: 1987, Pat Browne, Heroines of Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Hariet Quimby, a writer for Leslie's Weekly, in 1911 became the first American aviatrix and won international accalim in 1912 as the first woman to pilot a plan across the English Channel.
ref: 2001, Roger E. Bilstein, Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, →ISBN, page 22:
text: In 1929 she turned an ide that she ‘stole’ from her son into a screenplay, Wings in the Dark, featuring a protagonist based on Ameria Earhart, the famous aviatrix with whom Shipman was acquainted...
ref: 2002, Deena Mandrell, Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction, →ISBN, page 307:
text: 2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia
From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.
glosses: A female aviator.
Synonyms: aviatress
aviatrice
pilotess
Hypernyms: word: aviator
word: flier
word: flyer
word: pilot
Coordinate terms: word: aviator
jobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Etymology: Blend of job + hobby.
Senses: examples: text: Photography is my friend's jobby.
glosses: A job that is also a hobby: a dream job or passion project; or, a side hustle.
examples: text: Baking takes up so much of her time, it's practically a jobby.
glosses: A hobby pursued with job-like earnestness and dedication.
glosses: Alternative spelling of jobbie.
Related terms: jobby job
kamao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An extinct bird of Hawaii, Myadestes myadestinus.
multi-level marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sales system under which the salesperson receives a commission on his or her own sales and a smaller commission on the sales from each person he or she convinces to become a salesperson.
Synonyms: MLM
network marketing
pyramid selling
referral marketing
Related terms: direct selling
pyramid seller
stria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: striae
form: striæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”).
Senses: glosses: A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
topics: architecture
glosses: One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.
glosses: A stretch mark.
Derived terms: stria vascularis
terminal stria
Wickham's stria
Wickham stria
Related terms: strial
striae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.iː/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪaɪ
Senses: glosses: plural of stria
striation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striations
Etymology: From striate + -ion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed by repeated twinning or cleaving of crystals.
examples: text: The energy raised the temperature of the snow a couple of degrees, and the friction carved striations high in the icy sides of the canyon walls.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
glosses: The action of marking with a stria.
glosses: The result of being marked with a stria.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: a parallel series of small grooves, channels, or impressions typically within a metal roof panel used to help reduce the potential for oil-canning.
uguisubari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uguisubari
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鶯張り (uguisubari).
Senses: glosses: A wooden floor specifically designed to creak or "chirp" at the slightest pressure, thus warning the inhabitants of any surreptitious approach.
Synonyms: nightingale floor
kamagraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967.
Senses: examples: text: Kamagraphy, as the new technique is called, enables the printer to reproduce both the colour and the three-dimensional characteristics of the brush-stroke
ref: 1967, Art International, volume 11, page 94:
text: Here is what we have learned about kamagraphy (the process is only valid for canvases about to be painted and not for the reproduction of those which already exist).
ref: 1993, René Magritte, David Sylvester, Sarah Whitfield, Oil paintings, objects and bronzes, 1949-1967, page 435:
glosses: A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process.
collector's edition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collector's editions
Senses: glosses: A release of a product containing additional features or items than the regular retail version.
-ment
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: ⠰⠞
Etymology: From Middle English -ment, from Old French -ment, from Latin -mentum.
Senses: glosses: Attached to a verb to form a noun meaning the action denoted by the verb or its result.
Synonyms: -tion
-ing
Related terms: -ent
irrationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrationalists
Etymology: From irrational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is irrational in their beliefs or ideas.
glosses: A follower of irrationalism.
Related terms: irrationalism
irrationalistic
disfigurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈfɪɡ.jɚ.mənt/
Forms: form: disfigurements
Etymology: From disfigure + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
synonyms: defacement
deformity
disfiguration
glosses: The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured.
law of diminishing marginal utility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laws of diminishing marginal utility
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The theory that as the quantity of a good or service consumed increases, the additional satisfaction (marginal utility) gained from each additional unit decreases, reflecting a general decline in utility for each successive unit consumed.
cross-reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-references
Etymology: From cross- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: Hobson-Jobson (1903) contains 2467 dictionary entries, of which 31 are merely cross-references to other entries.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 490:
glosses: A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work.
cross-reference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-references
form: cross-referencing
form: cross-referenced
form: cross-referenced
Etymology: From cross- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: This index, which is cross-referenced, will enable references on any subject to be found easily.
ref: 1951 January, “Notes and News: A Comprehensive Index”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
glosses: To provide something with a cross-reference.
glosses: To compare two or more sources of information.
orthopnoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔrˈθɒpniə/
/ɔrˈθɑpniə/
/ɔrθəpˈniːə/
Forms: form: orthopnoeas
form: orthopnoeae
form: orthopnea
form: orthopnœa
Etymology: From ortho- + -pnoea, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόπνοια (orthópnoia, “breathing only in an upright posture”), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath”).
Senses: glosses: Shortness of breath when lying flat, causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair.
Derived terms: orthopnoeic
Related terms: dyspnoea
even money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bet which offers odds of 1 to 1.
examples: text: It's even money that it will rain today.
glosses: By extension, an event that is somewhat likely to happen, but far from inevitable.
Synonyms: evens
evs
orthopraxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːθəˌpɹæksi/
ipa: /ˈoɹθəˌpɹæksi/
Forms: form: orthopraxies
Etymology: A modern, nineteenth century derivation mimicking that of Ancient Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía), using the stems of ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, deed; conduct, practice”), and the English suffix -y creating abstract nouns.
Senses: examples: text: At times, the powerful forces for change threaten traditional values, and religious communities may hold tightly to an orthopraxy in order to maintain traditional values. At other times, orthopraxy evolves along with community acceptance of new realities and values, as in the loosening of regulations on drinking and card playing among American Methodists in the mid-twentieth century or the changes in Catholicism following Vatican II. An earlier example of this is the acceptance of married clergy among Pure Land Buddhists in Japan[.]
ref: 2005, Encyclopedia of Religion, page 6919:
glosses: Correctness of practice or action in regard to religion and especially religious ritual, particularly in juxtaposition to "correct doctrine", or "correct belief" (that is, "orthodoxy").
glosses: Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis on the latter, often in Latin American liberation theology, contrasting with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
Synonyms: orthopraxis
Derived terms: orthopraxic
orthopractic
orthopsychiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + psychiatry.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: branch of psychiatry concerned with the prevention of mental illness, especially in the young
orthopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopters
Etymology: From ortho- + -pter.
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Orthoptera
glosses: Synonym of ornithopter.
synonyms: word: ornithopter
lanista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanistas
form: lanisti
Etymology: From Latin lanista.
Senses: glosses: The trainer or manager of a team of gladiators.
Isaac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪzək/
ipa: /ˈaɪzæk/
Forms: form: Isaacs
Etymology: From Middle English Ysaac, from Latin Isaac, from Ancient Greek Ἰσαάκ (Isaák), from Hebrew יצחק (Yiṣḥāq, literally “he laughs, he will laugh”). Explained in Genesis as referring to his mother Sarah’s laughing when she was told she would have a son at her old age. The verb is masculine, however, perhaps due to its use as a boy’s name.
Senses: examples: text: And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:4, column 1:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A local government area in central Queensland, Australia, named after the Isaac River; in full, Isaac Region.
Derived terms: word: Isaacite
english: from Cornish
translation: from Cornish
word: Port Isaac
pestle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: pestles
Etymology: From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.
Senses: examples: text: She then sat down by the fire, and carefully separated the stone from the pulp, which she burnt; and her next task was to extract the kernel, which she did by means of a heavy pestle and the hearth. The kernels were next crushed together, and placed to simmer over the furnace.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 327:
glosses: A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
examples: text: […]whether the chopping-knife or their pestles were the better weapons
ref: 1611, George Chapman, May-Day:
glosses: A constable's or bailiff's staff; so called from its shape.
examples: text: a pestle of pork
glosses: The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig.
Coordinate terms: muddler
Derived terms: knight of the pestle
micropestle
mortar and pestle
pestle and mortar
pestle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: pestles
form: pestling
form: pestled
form: pestled
Etymology: From Middle English pestel, pestell, from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum, from pīnsō (“pound, beat”). Doublet of pistil and pistillum.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Next time, boy, that you use that mortar for garlic, I will personally knock out your brain, place it in the said mortar, pestle it to a fine paste and give it to Dick Purser for feeding the dogs.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 47:
glosses: To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle.
Related terms: pesto
pistil
metallic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtæl.ɪk/
ipa: /mɪˈtæl.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛʈælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Forms: form: metallics
form: metallick
Etymology: From Latin metallicus, from metallum (“metal”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon). Equivalent to metal + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”
ref: 2007 May 24, Karin Nelson, “Keeping Time in Cool Comfort”, in New York Times:
glosses: A metallic color.
reconcile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹekənsɑel/
ipa: /ˈɹekənsaɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹekənsɑe̯l]
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɒnsaɪl/
Forms: form: reconciles
form: reconciling
form: reconciled
form: reconciled
form: reconciliate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.
Senses: examples: text: to reconcile people who have quarrelled
text: to wait until others have reconciled
glosses: To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.
examples: text: to reconcile differences
text: Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear,
 Consider'd singly, or beheld too near,
 Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place,
 Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
text: The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§2015”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make things compatible or consistent.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
Derived terms: reconcilability
reconcilable
reconciliation
Related terms: conciliate
recreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/
Forms: form: recreates
form: recreating
form: recreated
form: recreated
Etymology: From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
Senses: examples: text: Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
text: These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.
ref: 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues:
text: Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:
glosses: To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
examples: text: In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 3:
text: St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To enjoy or entertain oneself.
examples: text: Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.
ref: 2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156:
glosses: To take recreation.
Synonyms: sense: refresh
word: encourage
sense: refresh
word: enliven
sense: refresh
word: refresh
sense: amuse
word: amuse
sense: amuse
word: delight
sense: amuse
word: enjoy
Related terms: recreation
recreate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/
ipa: /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/
Forms: form: recreates
form: recreating
form: recreated
form: recreated
form: re-create
Etymology: From re- + create.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of re-create.
slobber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slobbers
Etymology: From Middle English sloberen, borrowed from Middle Dutch slobberen (> Modern Dutch slobberen (“to slobber”)), related to West Frisian slobberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slobber”). Doublet of slabber and slaver. Compare also German schlabbern (“to slobber”). Not related to English slob.
Senses: examples: text: There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
glosses: Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
examples: text: I looked about me in the slobber of rain, and found that I was in the middle of an irregular quadrangle, three sides of which were bordered by buildings of five or six storeys, newish, and furnished with small, not inelegant windows.
ref: 1891, Belgravia: A London Magazine, page 22:
text: "Yon good slobber of rain fixed us nicely."
ref: 2014 March 27, Alan Garner, Thursbitch: From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker, Random House, →ISBN, page 93:
text: […] treading through the slobber of rain that evoked a past like morsels of unsavoury eternity, slid the motor-car showily tossing up wings of water. 'Hoi, Mag!' It was her fiancé, ruddy with twenty-five-year-old enthusiasm and grinning like an[…]
ref: 1963, Harry P. Heseltine, Australian Idiom: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose and Poetry, page 171:
glosses: A dribbly shower (of rain).
glosses: Muddy or marshy land; mire.
glosses: A jellyfish.
examples: slobber grass, slobber hay
glosses: Attributive form of slobbers; causing or relating to the veterinary medical condition slobbers.
Derived terms: slobber knocker
slobbery
gallows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæloʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæləs/
rhymes: (UK) -æləʊz
rhymes: (US) -æloʊz
rhymes: (now dialectal) -æləs
Forms: form: gallows
form: gallowses
Etymology: From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: gibbet
text: No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
ref: 1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London, page 37:
coordinate_terms: cross
crucifix
;
scaffold
glosses: A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
examples: text: Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. / You'll ne'er be friends with him: a' kill'd your sister.
ref: 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
glosses: A wretch who deserves to be hanged.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The rest for the tympan when raised.
examples: text: The last pair of "gallowses" made by Mr. Gratacap was an order from Mr. Brokaw, the clothier.
ref: 1882, George William Sheldon, The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York, page 67:
glosses: Suspenders; braces.
examples: text: Lit by the moonlight through the window, he can see a FIGURE in the hospital bed alone in the room, and under a transparent oxygen tent. […] Tubes hang from a steel gallows beside the bed, and run to his nose and mouth.
ref: 1971, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (screenplay, third draft)
glosses: Any contrivance with posts and crossbeam for suspending objects.
glosses: The main frame of a beam engine.
Synonyms: sense: wooden framework used for hanging
word: gallows tree
sense: wooden framework used for hanging
word: gallow tree
sense: wooden framework used for hanging
word: hanging tree
sense: wooden framework used for hanging
word: gibbet
word: crook
word: gallows
word: nubbing cheat
word: Tyburn tree
Hypernyms: word: ravenstone
Meronyms: word: drop
word: halter
word: hangman's noose
word: noose
word: rope
word: scaffold
word: transom
Derived terms: gallous
gallows bird
gallows-bird
gallows-bitts
gallows frame
gallows god
gallows humor
gallows humour
gallowsmaker
gallowsness
gallowsward
Middlesex gallows
scapegallows
Tyburn gallows
Related terms: word: gallows tree
word: hanging tree
word: die by hanging
word: gallows bird
word: hangworthy
word: kill by hanging
gallows
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæloʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæləs/
rhymes: (UK) -æləʊz
rhymes: (US) -æloʊz
rhymes: (now dialectal) -æləs
Etymology: From Middle English galwes, galewes, plural of galwe, galowe, from Old English galga, gealga, from Proto-West Germanic *galgō, from Proto-Germanic *galgô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“long switch, rod, shaft, pole, perch”). The plural construction probably refers to the vertical and horizontal beams.
Compare West Frisian galge, Dutch galg, German Galgen, Danish galge, Icelandic gálgi.
For the pronunciation /ˈɡæləs/, compare bellows, bodice.
Senses: examples: text: They've got a gallows bad reputation, but you know what a place the beach is for talking.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
glosses: Utterly; very.
gallows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæloʊz/
ipa: /ˈɡæləs/
rhymes: (UK) -æləʊz
rhymes: (US) -æloʊz
rhymes: (now dialectal) -æləs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gallow
litigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtɪɡeɪt/
Forms: form: litigates
form: litigating
form: litigated
form: litigated
Etymology: First attested in 1606; borrowed from Latin lītigātus, perfect passive participle of lītigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līs (“a lawsuit”, oblique stem in līt-) + -igō (denominative verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Ain't got no place to lay your head / Somebody came and took your bed / Don't worry, be happy / The landlord say your rent is late / He may have to litigate
ref: 1988, “Don't Worry, Be Happy”, in Bobby McFerrin (lyrics), Simple Pleasures, performed by Bobby McFerrin:
glosses: To go to law; to carry on a lawsuit.
raw_tags: construed with on
glosses: To contest in law.
examples: text: you can't keep litigating this same point!
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: To dispute; to fight over.
Derived terms: litigable
litigation
litigative
litigatory
nonlitigating
outlitigate
overlitigate
relitigate
unlitigated
defame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: defames
form: defaming
form: defamed
form: defamed
Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).
Senses: examples: text: My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
examples: Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
glosses: To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
examples: to defame somebody
glosses: To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
Synonyms: word: assassinate
word: asperse
word: backbite
word: badmouth
word: belibel
word: belittle
word: besmirch
word: blaze
word: blemish
word: blot
word: calumniate
word: calumny
word: cloud
word: cut down
word: defame
word: demonize
word: denigrate
word: derogate
word: detract
word: discredit
word: disgrace
word: disparage
word: diss
word: forgab
word: infamize
word: lampoon
word: libel
word: malign
word: monster
word: reproach
word: revile
word: scandal
word: shit-talk
word: slag
word: slander
word: spatter
word: speak ill of
word: stab
word: talk shit
word: talk shite
word: talk trash
word: torch
word: traduce
word: trash-talk
word: vilify
word: vilipend
word: vituperate
Hypernyms: word: degrade
word: deride
word: offend
Hyponyms: word: blot one's copy book
word: debase
word: dig up dirt
word: dish the dirt
word: dirty
word: gossip
word: tar
word: tar and feather
Derived terms: defamingly
defamous
undefamed
Related terms: word: defamatory
word: defamation
word: demean
word: shame
word: tattle
defame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: defames
Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).
Senses: examples: text: And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
glosses: Disgrace, dishonour.
glosses: Defamation; slander, libel.
defame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Synonym of defamed.
synonyms: word: defamed
annunciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnʌnsɪeɪt/
homophone: enunciate
Forms: form: annunciates
form: annunciating
form: annunciated
form: annunciated
Etymology: From annunciātus, Medieval Latin alternative spelling of annuntiātus, past participle of Latin annūntiāre. Doublet of announce.
Senses: glosses: To announce.
Derived terms: annunciation
annunciatory
annunciative
Related terms: annunciator
announce
announcement
annunciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: annunciations
Etymology: From Middle English annunciacion, annunciation, from Latin annuntiātiō and Old French anonciacion.
Senses: examples: text: "Not in the least; I saw it was an abbreviation from the first annunciation of the marriage, as communicated by the earl of Rotheles; here it is."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 217:
glosses: The act of annunciating.
Derived terms: annunciation lily
the Annunciation
defiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/
ipa: /dɪˈfaɪənt/
rhymes: -aɪənt
Forms: form: more defiant
form: most defiant
Etymology: Borrowed from French défiant, from the verb défier. Doublet of diffident. By surface analysis, def(i) + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![…]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Defying.
examples: text: But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in The New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
text: Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
ref: 2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN:
glosses: Boldly resisting opposition.
Synonyms: dareful
rebellious
recalcitrant
truculent
Derived terms: defiantly
defiantness
nondefiant
oppositional defiant disorder
undefiant
Related terms: defiance
defiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ənt/
ipa: /dɪˈfaɪənt/
rhymes: -aɪənt
Forms: form: defiants
Etymology: Borrowed from French défiant, from the verb défier. Doublet of diffident. By surface analysis, def(i) + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Countries condemning South Africa, Portugal and Rhodesia still find it necessary to trade with these defiants against so-called world opinion.
ref: 1966, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa (issues 2262-2303)
text: Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.
ref: John Michael Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (page 48)
glosses: One who defies opposition.
deficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭfĭʹshənsĭ
ipa: /dɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Forms: form: deficiencies
Etymology: From deficient + -cy. Compare Latin dēficientia.
Senses: examples: text: The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Inadequacy or incompleteness.
examples: text: One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as a phenomenon specific to the sciences. … In fact, the disparity applies to the whole grove. Another report from 2006, by the American Association of University Professors, found the same ratio in the faculties of arts, humanities and social science, too.
ref: 2013 August 31, “Promotion and self-promotion”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8851:
glosses: An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
Synonyms: lack
lackingness
want
Derived terms: acquired immune deficiency syndrome
ARSA deficiency
arylsulfatase A deficiency
bideficiency
boron deficiency
curve deficiency
deficiency disease
deficiency letter
gay-related immune deficiency
haplodeficiency
hematodeficiency
hyperdeficiency
immune deficiency
immunodeficiency
indeficiency
iron deficiency
magnetic field deficiency syndrome
ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
phosphodeficiency
pseudodeficiency
deficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪʃənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more deficient
form: most deficient
Etymology: From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
Senses: examples: text: They were deficient in social skills.
glosses: Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
examples: text: Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.
ref: 1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens (part 1)
glosses: Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper divisors (or aliquot sum) s(n)<n.
Derived terms: bideficient
biodeficient
deficiently
deficientness
deficient number
haplodeficient
hyperdeficient
immunodeficient
indeficient
mental deficient
multideficient
nondeficient
phosphodeficient
pseudodeficient
rank-deficient
self-deficient
undeficient
Related terms: defect
defection
defective
defector
deficiency
deficit
deficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪʃənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: deficients
Etymology: From Latin deficiens, present participle of deficere (“to lack, fail, be wanting”); see defect.
Senses: examples: text: This was justified by the rationale that mental deficients, by definition, are not able to succeed in society.
ref: 2004, Steven Noll, James Trent, Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader, page 316:
glosses: A person who is deficient.
saunter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔntɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɔːntə/
ipa: /ˈsɑntɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: saunters
form: sauntering
form: sauntered
form: sauntered
Etymology: Etymology unclear. Attested in the sense “to stroll” from the 1660s; noun sense “a stroll” attested 1828. Likely from earlier term meaning “to muse”, late 15th century, from late Middle English santren, of unknown origin. Competing theories exist:
* From Anglo-Norman sauntrer (mid 14th century), from Middle French s'aventurer (“to take risks”); however this is considered unlikely by the OED. Compare Middle English aunter (“adventure”).
* Of Germanic origin, with proposed cognates including German schlendern, Dutch slenteren, Danish slentre, Swedish släntra, and Icelandic slentur, all meaning “to stroll”.
* From Old French sentier (“path”). In this case, santren would reflect earlier *sa(u)nteren, *senteren /sa(u̯)nˈteːrən/, /sɛnˈteːrən/, with Late Middle English stress shift and concomitant vowel reduction.
Various fanciful folk etymologies have also been given.
Senses: examples: text: One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
ref: 1858-1880, David Masson, The Life Of John Milton: 1649-1654
text: Meanwhile the young ladies sauntered along—before or behind, as the case might be—in the company of the young business-man and that of another youth who had come out independently on the trolley.
ref: 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:
text: And, after all, they were once very close, doesn’t Lewis still have the keys to his apartment, you know the way you let someone keep the keys after you’ve broken up, only a little because you hope the person might just saunter in, drunk or high, late some evening, […]
ref: 1986 November 24, Susan Sontag, “The Way We Live Now”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: amble
stroll
ramble
wander
glosses: To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.