cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wheel of Fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I was young enough not to part with hope too easily;—the vague idea I had that my turn would come,—that the ever-circling wheel of Fortune would perchance lift me up some day as it now crushed me down, kept me just wearily capable of continuing existence,—though it was merely a continuance and no more.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, chapter I, in The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wheel of Fortune (“the mythological wheel turned randomly by Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate, fortune, and luck, to determine people's fortunes which were thus unpredictable”).
dosemeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosemeters
Etymology: From dose + meter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dosimeter.
potato bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato breads
Senses: glosses: A type of bread made with potatoes, often served shallow-fried as part of a cooked breakfast, common in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Synonyms: english: in Ireland
translation: in Ireland
word: fadge
word: tatty cake
english: in Scotland
translation: in Scotland
word: tatty scone
Related terms: hash browns
soda bread
Dunbar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: dŭnbär'
ipa: /dʌnˈbɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Dunbars
form: Dynbaer
Etymology: Historically Dynbaer. From Cumbric *dyn (“fort”) + *barr (“hill-crest, summit, top”).
Senses: examples: 1965 — In reply he sent Wilfrid to his town of Dunbar under the supervision of a sheriff called Tydlin whom he knew to be more cruel. — Eddius Stephanus, Life of Wilfrid, Page 107, 12ᵗʰ century. Translated from Latin by J. F. Webb.
glosses: A town in East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6778).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Houston County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Otoe County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wise County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Marinette County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
innominate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɒmɪnət/
ipa: /ɪˈnɑmɪnət/
Forms: form: more innominate
form: most innominate
Etymology: From Latin innōminātus, from in- (“not”) + nōminātus (“named”).
Senses: examples: text: Counsel for the Defence objected to the libel, on the grounds that the offence was innominate.
ref: 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
glosses: Having no name, nameless, unnamed; anonymous.
Synonyms: unnamed § Synonyms
Derived terms: innominate artery
innominate bone
innominate vein
tracheoinnominate
innominate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɒmɪnət/
ipa: /ɪˈnɑmɪnət/
Forms: form: innominates
Etymology: From Latin innōminātus, from in- (“not”) + nōminātus (“named”).
Senses: glosses: An innominate bone.
glosses: An innominate artery.
glosses: An innominate vein.
glosses: Innominate substance.
rotula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotulas
form: rotulae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rotula. Doublet of role and roll.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The patella; the kneecap.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the five radial pieces in the dentary apparatus of the sea urchin.
Derived terms: rotular
kneepan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneepans
Etymology: From knee + pan.
Senses: examples: text: by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:
glosses: The kneecap; the patella.
arabica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹæbɪkə/
Forms: form: arabicas
Etymology: See Wikipedia at Coffea arabica § Taxonomy and § History; Europeans learned of coffee from Arab peoples.
Senses: glosses: A plant of species Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia, that yields coffee beans.
examples: text: Arabica, which has long been prized for its delicate and aromatic flavour, accounts for 70% of the global coffee market share. But it is particularly sensitive to temperature increases, which reduce its growth, flowering and fruiting and make it more susceptible to coffee pests.
ref: 2015 May 1, Sam Jones, “Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: robusta
glosses: A bean of this plant.
glosses: Coffee made from these coffee beans.
Coordinate terms: robusta
decaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːkæf/
Forms: form: more decaf
form: most decaf
Etymology: Clipping of decaffeinated.
Senses: glosses: That has caffeine removed.
decaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːkæf/
Forms: form: decafs
Etymology: Clipping of decaffeinated.
Senses: glosses: A decaffeinated coffee, tea, or soft drink.
demitasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmɪtæs/
Forms: form: demitasses
form: demi-tasse
Etymology: From French demi-tasse (literally “half cup”), from demi- (“half-”) + tasse (“cup”).
Senses: examples: text: He read old almanacs at the book-stalls on the quays, and he began to frequent another café, where more newspapers were taken and his post-prandial demi-tasse cost him a penny extra, and where he used to con the tattered sheets for curious anecdotes, freaks of nature, and strange coincidences.
ref: 1876 July, Henry James, Jr., “The American”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXXVIII, number CCXXV, Boston, Mass.: H[enry] O[scar] Houghton and Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, chapter IV, page 17, column 2:
text: A gentleman may be presented with a demitasse—a straight-sided, miniature coffee cup containing extremely strong (perhaps flavored) coffee—at the end of his dinner, most likely when dessert is served, or when chocolates are passed in the lingering time after the actual dinner is done. He may either accept or decline a demitasse.
ref: 2004, John Bridges, Bryan Curtis, A Gentleman at the Table, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A small cup of strong black coffee.
glosses: The cup in which this coffee is served.
Derived terms: demitasseful
espresso breve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian espresso and breve (“short”).
Senses: glosses: Espresso prepared with steamed half and half.
flat white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat whites
Senses: examples: text: Coffee at Adelaide airport at 2 p.m., 9 July 2006. In all innocence, I prepared to judge carefully two flat whites. The Melbourne-based franchise chain Hudsons Coffee proclaimed a ‘formidable reputation for consistently making great cups of coffee’, but its airport outlet provided no evidence of this.
ref: 2007, Michael Symons, One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia, 2nd edition, page 323:
text: ‘Two flat whites, please,’ she said to the waiting Kelly. ‘In mugs.’
ref: 2009, Michelle Douglas, The Aristocrat and the Single Mom, page 17:
text: It was during this break that Cole realised that New Zealanders had no idea how to make coffee, serving up flat whites in cups the size of cereal bowls, and suggesting they were caffe lattes.
ref: 2009, Colin McLaren, On the Run, page 57:
text: My boss orders two flat whites. I′ve got to hand it to her, there′s no pretention about a flat white.
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Martin, The Coffeeholic and the Cafe, page 111:
glosses: A type of white coffee made with espresso coffee and hot milk, similar to a small latte.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flat, white; especially, white paint that is not glossy.
Synonyms: word: flattie
Coordinate terms: cafe au lait
latte
Derived terms: word: trim flat white
english: a flat white made with low-fat milk.
translation: a flat white made with low-fat milk.
word: skinny flat white
frappuccino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹæpʊˈt͡ʃinəʊ/
ipa: /ˌfɹæpəˈt͡ʃinoʊ/
Forms: form: frappuccinos
form: frappuccini
form: Frappuccino
form: frappucino
Etymology: Blend of frappe + cappuccino.
Genericized trademark of Frappuccino.
From a Starbucks tradename (Frappuccino), from frappe (“a sort of milkshake”) and cappuccino.
Senses: examples: text: In the University of Nevada-Las Vegas arena, thousands of employees danced to a rap song about frappuccinos and cappuccinos, sampled a new roast in the largest coffee tasting in company history and watched colleagues from Jordan, China and Japan make latte art in the final round of a global barista championship.
ref: 2025 June 14, Gregory Meyer, “Starbucks hopes to achieve much needed caffeine boost by hiring more baristas”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 11:
glosses: An iced cappuccino.
wikipedia: Frappuccino
Starbucks
Synonyms: word: iced capp
word: frapp
word: frap
Hypernyms: iced coffee
Related terms: coffee
macchiato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑkiˈɑtoʊ/
ipa: /ˌmækiˈɑːtəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: macchiatos
form: macchiati
Etymology: From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”).
Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: Kadar Al-Jahani glanced around at the rich Romans and the American tourists sipping their macchiati and cappuccini, and smiled.
ref: 2004, David A Rollins, Sword of Allah, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2005, →ISBN, page 109:
text: This is a city obsessed by coffee. Sydneysiders can tell their arabica from their robusta, their macchiati from their ristretti, and have been known to follow their favourite barista from café to café.
ref: 2004, Pat Nourse, “Cafés, Bars & Pubs”, in Cath Phillips et al., editors, Time Out Sydney, 4th edition, London: Ebury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 126, column 1:
text: Janie and I are having a couple of macchiati in Carluccio’s and discussing Judith Levine’s best-seller Not Buying It – A Year Without Shopping.
ref: 2006 August 12, Rosie Millard, “Leftovers in a Lidl bag – this must be a trip to remember”, in save&spend (The Independent), London, page 6, column 1:
text: The book’s contents are for the most part the result of scribbling on napkins over numerous macchiati and espressos away from the office at different posts over the years.
ref: 2010, Vladimir Alvarado, Eduardo Manrique, “Preface”, in Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies, Burlington, Mass.: Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page vii:
text: Yellow cabs whizzed past, horns blared and people didn’t stop moving as they walked briskly down the sidewalks with their steaming cups of macchiato, mobile phones and iPods.
ref: 2014, Holly Martin, chapter 11, in One Hundred Proposals, Richard, Surrey: CARINA, Harlequin (UK) Limited, published 2015, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Senior Grits will splutter into their macchiati at the very idea that political bias is at play, pointing out that the latest list includes a former female head of the Canadian Association of Police Chiefs (Gwen Boniface) and the ex-head of the Ontario Securities Commission (Howard Wetston).
ref: 2016 November 1, John Ivison, “We have no idea who was rejected”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont., page NP2, column 5:
glosses: Espresso topped with steamed milk.
glosses: Ellipsis of latte macchiato.
Synonyms: caffè macchiato
espresso macchiato
Related terms: latte macchiato
coffee
cortado
mochaccino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mochaccinos
form: mochachino
Etymology: Blend of mocha + cappuccino.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly used only in Italy and Seattle, it includes such tongue activators as latte, lungo, cappuccino, ristretto, macchiato, mochaccino and Americano.
ref: 1995 July 19, Suzanne Hamlin, “Coffee Drinks That Are Cool and Creamy”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
glosses: The coffee drink cappuccino made with chocolate.
robusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈbʌstə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈbʌstə/
Forms: form: robustas
Etymology: From New Latin Coffea robusta, from Latin rōbusta, feminine of rōbustus (“strong”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the species Coffea canephora of coffee plants, native to Africa, cultivated widely in Brazil.
examples: text: Prices of robusta coffee (the lower-quality bean commonly used in instant coffees) rose by 20% in three days last week to their highest in more than a year.
ref: 2010 June 14, David Teather, “Coffee prices rise 20% in a week”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: arabica
conilon
glosses: Beans, ground roasted beans, or beverage from the robusta coffee bean, used primarily in instant coffee and in blends, with a high caffeine content.
Related terms: taxonomic: Coffea canephora
word: robust
short black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short blacks
Senses: examples: text: 1999, Donna Hay, Marie Claire: Food Fast, Murdoch Books, Australia, page 118,
For a real kick, add a generous teaspoon of vanilla to a strong short black—great for after dinner.
text: She took a sip and sputtered.
‘I ordered a short black. What the hell is this?’
ref: 2010, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Noah′s Law, page 42:
text: 2010, Elizabeth Martin, Elizabeth Martin, Boomerang Press, Australia, page 179,
I started the week well with my resolution of cutting back on coffee. I had my morning coffee at the Red Raisin, a short black with lunch, an iced tea for my afternoon break, then a pick-me-up before the evening rush.
glosses: A small cup or glass of espresso coffee.
Related terms: coffee
long black
long black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long blacks
Senses: examples: text: Up the hill towards the park was the coffee shop where she and Mandy had met, and where Hugh had come daily for his long blacks.
ref: 2009, Peter Yeldham, A Distant Shore, unnumbered page:
text: Once you have had your fill of nightlife, overdosed on cafe lattes or long blacks, seen a show or even cheered on a footy team, it's time to leave the city lights behind and experience Victoria′s wild side.
ref: 2010, Lindsay Brown, Justine Vaisutis, Jayne D'Arcy, Katja Gaskell, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 202:
text: Down two long blacks and you′ll visit the ladies′ room often enough to earn a VIP pass, but, despite its speedy exit, the liquid in your favourite morning caffeine boost still counts towards your hydration goal.
ref: 2011, Tiffiny Hall, Weightloss Warrior: How to Win the Battle Within, unnumbered page:
glosses: A regular-sized cup of espresso coffee without milk, being a diluted version of a short black.
Related terms: short black
flat white
Tia Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiːə məˈɹiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Etymology: Brand name, from Spanish Tía María (“Aunt Mary”).
Senses: glosses: A coffee-flavoured liqueur.
Related terms: Kahlúa
mocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə
ipa: /ˈmɒkə/
rhymes: -ɒkə
Forms: form: mochas
Etymology: From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.
Senses: synonyms: café mocha
caffè mocha
mochaccino
glosses: A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof.
examples: text: mocha fudge
glosses: A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour.
glosses: A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
glosses: A strong Arabian coffee.
glosses: Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, many European species having dark brown coloration.
glosses: An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
Derived terms: jamoke
mocha bisque
Related terms: mochaccino
mocha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə
ipa: /ˈmɒkə/
rhymes: -ɒkə
Etymology: From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), for its role as a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.
The beans often had a chocolaty flavor, hence by extension came to refer to any coffee with a chocolate flavor, or any mixture of coffee and chocolate flavors, notably coffee with chocolate syrup added.
Senses: glosses: Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
coffee royal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee royals
Senses: glosses: Coffee with added liqueur, topped with whipped cream.
Related terms: café royale
coffee-table book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee-table books
Senses: examples: text: Nonbooks are of several kinds; but their differences notwithstanding, they all share two common features: they tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons, and they are all means rather than ends. [...] Of all nonbooks, the most conspicuous example is the ‘coffee-table book’. The latter usually find their market by virtue of their decorative assets rather than from any literary or intellectual merit, or for that matter – since such works are often art books – by significantly serving important aesthetic or historical purposes.
ref: 1976, Robert Plant Armstrong, “The Qualities of a Book, the Wants of a Dissertation”, in Eleanor Harman, Ian Montagnes, editors, The Thesis and the Book, paperbound edition, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, published 2002, →ISBN, pages 19–20:
text: Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller serenade the garment [the sari] in their remarkable coffee-table book The Sari. [...] Photographs build the warp and weft of coffee-table books. Words seldom rule and even if written by well-known writers, they have to take second place to the camera's five-colour dominance.
ref: 2003, “In a Timeless Wrap: The Sari is Serenaded as a Living Entity that Defines the Dreams of the Indian Woman”, in India Today, volume 28, New Delhi: Thomson Living Media India, →OCLC, page cxlix:
glosses: Alternative form of coffee table book.
viking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vikings
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Viking.
disambiguated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disambiguate
Derived terms: undisambiguated
black bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black beans
Senses: glosses: A bean plant with black seeds.
glosses: A dried seed of a black bean plant.
glosses: A dried black seed of certain varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
glosses: A fermented soybean, used in Asian cooking.
synonyms: Moreton Bay chestnut
glosses: An Australian tree of species Castanospermum australe.
Synonyms: sense: black seed of variety of common bean
word: black turtle bean
Related terms: chestnut
disambiguate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪ.samˈbɪɡjuːeɪt/
Forms: form: disambiguates
form: disambiguating
form: disambiguated
form: disambiguated
Etymology: From dis- + ambiguate.
Senses: glosses: To remove ambiguities from; to make less ambiguous; to clarify or specify which of multiple possibilities applies – e.g., possible meanings of an ambiguous statement – or to invite or require this.
examples: text: When necessary, the Greek spelling is disambiguated by an appended phonetic transcription.
ref: 1967, Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, volume 43, page 619:
text: The dictionary's traditional “readers” have largely survived this transition, too. They find earlier and better uses of terms which computers can't (in the jargon) disambiguate—distinguish from other similar uses.
ref: 2016, John Simpson, The Word Detective, Little, Brown, published 2016, page 281:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To distinguish one word or lexical unit (from a different one which has a similar form).
Derived terms: disambiguation
disambiguator
disambiguatory
u-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: u-turns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of U-turn.
sardine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːˈdiːn/
ipa: /sɑɹˈdin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: sardines
Etymology: Borrowed from French sardine (cognate with Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardīna; from Ancient Greek σαρδίνη (sardínē).
Senses: examples: text: They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.
hypernyms: herring
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glosses: Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
examples: text: They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.
glosses: Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sardinella tawilis
word: bombon sardine
taxonomic: Sardinops sagax
word: California sardine
taxonomic: Sardinops sagax
word: Chilean sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella tawilis
word: freshwater sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella aurita
word: gilt sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella longiceps
word: Indian oil sardine
taxonomic: Engraulicypris sardella
word: Lake Malawi sardine
alt: Limnothrissa miodon
word: Lake Tanganyika sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella maderensis
word: Madeiran sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella marquesensis
word: Marguesan sardine
taxonomic: Clupea scombrina?
word: oil sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella brasilensis
word: orangespot sardine
taxonomic: Sardinops sagax
word: Pacific sardine
word: packed like sardines
alt: Dussumieria spp.
word: rainbox sardine
alt: Harengula humeralis
word: red-ear sardine
taxonomic: Engraulicypris brevianalis
word: river sardine
taxonomic: Coregonus sardinella
word: sardine cisco
word: sardinelike
word: sardinella
word: sardiner
word: sardinewise
alt: Harengula jaguana
word: scaled sardine
taxonomic: Amblygaster leogaster
word: smoothbelly sardine
taxonomic: Sardinella aurita
word: Spanish sardine
english: US: Sardina pilchardus
translation: US: Sardina pilchardus
word: true sardine
alt: Escualosa toracata
word: white sardine
sardine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːˈdiːn/
ipa: /sɑɹˈdin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: sardines
form: sardining
form: sardined
form: sardined
Etymology: Borrowed from French sardine (cognate with Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardīna; from Ancient Greek σαρδίνη (sardínē).
Senses: examples: text: No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.
ref: 1997, Peter Landesman, The raven: a novel:
glosses: to fish for sardines
examples: text: Six-foot- four McMichael (a past master at the art of sardining) not only crammed enough clothes for the trip into the mighty midget, but carried a full set of golf clubs and a banjo, as well!
ref: 1954, Tom McCahill, The modern sports car:
text: Would it be unbearably elitist to suggest that they would be more enjoyable still if the director removed a row or two of chairs, instead of sardining as many listeners as possible into the intimate music room?
ref: 1986, The New Yorker - Volumen 62:
text: There were already six members of the Nureyev family living in a room sixteen meters square, the children sardined on one mattress on the floor, their parents separated by only a curtain.
ref: 2007, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev: The Life:
glosses: to pack or cram together tightly.
sardine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːˈdiːn/
ipa: /sɑɹˈdin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: sardines
Etymology: Pliny states that its name was ultimately derived from Sardis, in Lydia, where the sard was first discovered; but probably ultimately derived from Persian sered ("yellowish-red").
Senses: glosses: carnelian.
glosses: Dark-brown sard.
sardine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːˈdiːn/
ipa: /sɑɹˈdin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: more sardine
form: most sardine
Etymology: Pliny states that its name was ultimately derived from Sardis, in Lydia, where the sard was first discovered; but probably ultimately derived from Persian sered ("yellowish-red").
Senses: examples: text: And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 4:3:
glosses: Characteristic of a sardius.
Republic of Macedonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Macedonia
Senses: glosses: Former official name of North Macedonia: a country in Southeast Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula.
Related terms: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
FYROM
Macedonia
Macedonia-Skopje
Northern Macedonia
North Macedonia
Republic of Northern Macedonia
Republic of North Macedonia
Skopje
Countries of the world
empirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more empirically
form: most empirically
Etymology: From empirical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.
antonyms: nonempirically#Adverb
unempirically#Adverb
coordinate_terms: semiempirically#Adverb
glosses: Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
examples: text: We need to test this idea empirically instead of just speculating about it.
topics: sciences
antonyms: nonempirically#Adverb
unempirically#Adverb
coordinate_terms: semiempirically#Adverb
glosses: Based on data and evidence gathered in the real world.
Derived terms: nonempirically
semiempirically
unempirically
Related terms: empiric
empiricism
epistemics
epistemology
Ockham's razor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But at many other times, journalists come up with overly convoluted explanations for Trump's behavior ("this seemingly self-destructive emotional outburst is actually a clever political strategy!") when simpler ones will suffice ("this is a self-destructive emotional outburst."). In doing so, they violate both Ockham's razor and Hanlon's razor — the latter of which can be stated as "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
ref: 2017 September 30, Nate Silver, “The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2017:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Occam's razor.
Ulsterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ulstermen
Etymology: From Ulster + -man.
Senses: glosses: Any male coming from or living in the northern Irish province of Ulster.
sulfurous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphurous acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The weak acid, H₂SO₃, present in a solution of sulfur dioxide in water; it is a reducing agent and mild bleach.
Derived terms: chlorethylsulfurous acid
chlorethylsulphurous acid
Related terms: sulfite
bisulfite
sulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlfaɪt/
Forms: form: sulfites
form: sulphite
Etymology: From sulfur + -ite (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ous”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of sulfurous acid.
Derived terms: beryllium sulfite
beryllium sulphite
bisulfite
bisulphite
cadmium sulfite
cadmium sulphite
hydrogen sulfite
hydrogen sulphite
hydrosulfite
hydrosulphite
hyposulfite
hyposulphite
potassium sulfite
pyrosulfite
pyrosulphite
sodium hydrogen sulfite
sodium hydrogen sulphite
sodium sulfite
sodium sulphite
sulfite of lime
sulphite of lime
sulfite of soda
sulphite of soda
sulfite pulp
sulphite pulp
thiosulfite
thiosulphite
bisulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisulfites
form: bisulphite
Etymology: From bi- + sulfite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent group -HSO₃, or any salt containing it.
Derived terms: bisulfited
metabisulfite
sodium bisulfite
bisulphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisulphites
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of bisulfite.
fanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: fannies
Etymology: 19th century. Ultimately from Fanny, pet form of the name Frances. Compare dick, John Thomas, mickey.
Senses: examples: text: Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.
glosses: The female genitalia.
examples: text: Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.
text: Get off your fanny and get back to work!
glosses: The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
examples: get some fanny tonight
glosses: Sexual intercourse with a woman.
examples: text: This club is full of fanny.
glosses: Women, regarded as sex objects.
Synonyms: sense: vulva or vagina
word: bearded clam
word: beaver
word: beef curtains
word: box
word: bush
word: clunge
word: cock socket
word: cooch
word: coochie
word: cooter
word: cunt
word: flange
word: flaps
word: front bottom
word: front bum
word: gash
word: hairy banjo
word: ham wallet
word: lips
word: minge
word: muff
word: pussy
word: quim
word: slit
word: snatch
word: the pink
word: twat
word: vertical smile
word: whisker biscuit
word: wizard's sleeve
word: vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
sense: buttocks
word: arse
word: ass
word: booty
word: bum
word: butt
word: hiney
word: keester
word: tush
word: tushie
word: buttocks
Derived terms: fanny about
fanny around
fanny bag
fanny batter
fanny dipper
fanny fart
fanny flaps
fanny magnet
fanny merchant
fanny pack
fanny pad
fanny rat
granny's fanny
fanny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: fannies
Etymology: The British naval slang sense derives from Fanny Adams. Tins of mutton introduced as rations were not liked by the sailors and were taken by them to contain the butchered remains of Fanny Adams who had been brutally murdered and dismembered. The tins were re-used for eating from and cooking with.
Senses: examples: text: I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.
ref: 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Mess kettle or cooking pot.
Related terms: Fanny Adams
laura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɹə/
ipa: /ˈlɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: lauras
form: laurae
form: lavra
Etymology: From the Late Latin laura, from Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra, “lane, path”).
Senses: examples: text: The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.
ref: 1864, Charles Kingsley, Lecture IX: The Monk a Civilizer: The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge, page 240:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior
examples: text: There were the cenobia, or monasteries proper, where the life was according to the lines laid down by St Basil; and there were the lauras, wherein a semi-eremitical life was followed, the monks living in separate huts within the enclosure.
ref: 1966, E. C. Butler, “Chapter XVIII: Monasticism”, in H. M. Gwatkin, J. P. Whitney, editors, The Cambridge Medieval History, volume 1, page 529:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre.
needless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdləs/
rhymes: -iːdləs
Forms: form: more needless
form: most needless
form: needles
Etymology: From Middle English needlees, nedelees, nedeles, equivalent to need + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This new project of yours will only be a needless expense.
text: […]they were needless bursts of imagination from a man who’d made such a show of unshowiness.
ref: 2009 June 1, Jon Caramanica, “Country’s King Rules With Restraint”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: needful
glosses: Not needed; unnecessary.
Derived terms: needlessness
needless to say
needless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdləs/
rhymes: -iːdləs
Forms: form: more needless
form: most needless
form: needles
Etymology: From Middle English needlees, nedelees, nedeles, equivalent to need + -less.
Senses: glosses: Needlessly, without cause.
cupcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpkeɪk/
Forms: form: cupcakes
Etymology: From cup + cake.
Senses: examples: text: But when he tasted a vanilla-frosted vanilla cupcake from the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. […] Members of Jordan’s royal family stop by the shop in jeans and sweatshirts, ordering boxes of cupcakes while their bodyguards wait outside.
ref: 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
examples: text: Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 604:
glosses: An attractive young woman.
glosses: A weak or effeminate man.
examples: text: “Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”
ref: 2010, Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match:
glosses: Term of endearment.
Synonyms: sense: small cake
word: fairy cake
sense: small cake
word: queen cake
sense: small cake
word: butterfly cake
sense: effeminate man
word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
sense: attractive young woman
word: babe
word: fox
word: stunner
word: beautiful woman
sense: term of endearment
word: cabbage
word: heartmate
word: muffin
word: sweetie
word: sweetheart
Coordinate terms: sense: small cake
word: muffin
sense: small cake
word: mug cake
Derived terms: cuckcake
cupcakery
cupcakey
cupcaking
relegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relegations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnis.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of being relegated
Moving from one division to a lower one, due to finishing the season with fewer points than others.
antonyms: promotion
glosses: The act of being relegated
demotion in a hierarchy, for example in business
antonyms: promotion
glosses: The act of being relegated
demotion of status etc.
Derived terms: relegation zone
Related terms: religation
seneschal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnʹə-shəl
ipa: /ˈsɛnəʃəl/
Forms: form: seneschals
form: seneskal
Etymology: From Middle English seneschal (recorded in English since 1393), from Old French seneschal, from Medieval Latin siniscalcus, from Frankish *siniskalk, from Proto-Germanic *siniskalkaz, from Proto-Germanic *siniz (“senior”) + *skalkaz (“servant”); latter term as in marshal. As an officer of the French crown, via French sénéchal.
Senses: examples: text: Beside stood seneschals, the appointed witnesses of the ensuing games.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 131:
text: […] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 35, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.
ref: 1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
glosses: An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.
Synonyms: sense: steward
word: steward
Derived terms: sense: office, term
word: seneschalship
sense: office, term, purview
word: seneschalty
Related terms: sense: equivalent medieval office in northern France
word: bailiff
afflict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈflɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: afflicts
form: afflicting
form: afflicted
form: afflicted
Etymology: From Middle English afflicten (attested in past participle afflicte), from Latin afflictāre (“to damage, harass, torment”), frequentative of affligere (“to dash down, overthrow”).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:11–12:
text: Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 23:27:
text: [T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 41:
synonyms: word: torment
word: torture
word: smite
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: plague
word: atray
word: cag
word: distress
word: engrieve
word: grame
word: harass
word: harrow
word: harry
word: torment
word: trouble
word: vex
word: rend
word: wring
glosses: To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
examples: text: reassembling our afflicted powers
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.
examples: text: The Argument of mine afflicted stile
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make low or humble.
Derived terms: afflictee
afflicter
afflictingly
reafflict
unafflicting
Related terms: affliction
afflictive
arbitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːbɪtɹeɪt/
Forms: form: arbitrates
form: arbitrating
form: arbitrated
form: arbitrated
Etymology: From Latin arbitratus, past participle of arbitrari (“to be a witness, act as umpire”), from arbiter (“umpire”); see arbiter.
Senses: examples: text: to arbitrate a disputed case
text: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
glosses: To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
examples: text: We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To assign an arbitrary value to, or otherwise determine arbitrarily.
Derived terms: rearbitrate
Related terms: arbiter
arbitrability
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrary
arbitration
arbitrator
atomic nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic nuclei
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A nucleus of an atom; consisting of protons and neutrons, surrounded by an electron cloud.
Synonyms: word: atomic nucleus
Hypernyms: word: composite particle
Meronyms: word: proton
word: neutron
coelacanth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.lə.kænθ/
Forms: form: coelacanths
form: cœlacanth
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.
Senses: examples: text: Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 32:
glosses: Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.
glosses: Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish, thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.
Either of the two extant species in this group; the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) or the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).
synonyms: gombessa
raw_tags: in particular
Derived terms: coelacanthid
coelacanthine
coelacanthous
displace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpleɪs/
ipa: /dɪzˈpleɪs/
ipa: /dɪsˈpleɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: displaces
form: displacing
form: displaced
form: displaced
Etymology: From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).
Senses: synonyms: outplace
glosses: To put out of place; to disarrange.
examples: text: Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state
ref: 2023 May 8, “Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state”, in BBC News:
glosses: To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
glosses: To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
examples: text: Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.
text: All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.
ref: 1950 January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
glosses: To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
glosses: To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
raw_tags: of a floating ship
examples: text: Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.
ref: 2017, Megan Garber, “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To repress.
Derived terms: displaceability
displaceable
displacement
displacer
displacive
redisplace
retrodisplace
dividend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/
Forms: form: dividends
Etymology: From Middle French dividende, from Latin dīvidendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of dīvidō (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.
Senses: examples: text: On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
ref: 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
text: Quarterly or annual dividend payments provide good income streams for investors who need cash in the short-term. And for those playing the longer game, dividends can be reinvested to buy even more shares in those same companies.
ref: 2022 September 14, Paul R. La Monica, “As markets wobble, buy the stocks that pay you back”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
examples: text: In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: A number or expression that is to be divided by another.
examples: text: His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.
text: That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.
ref: 2012, Cameron Haley, Retribution:
text: The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.
ref: 2014, Bobby Adair, Slow Burn: Dead Fire, Book 4::
text: 'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'
ref: 2016, Christina Stead, The Beauties and Furies, page 163:
text: The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.
ref: 2021 March 19, Frida Ghitis, “The GOP’s xenophobia is fueling toxic culture of hate”, in CNN:
glosses: Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)
Hyponyms: sense: finance: pro rata payment
word: regular dividend
word: special dividend
Derived terms: cum dividend
demographic dividend
dividend equalisation reserve
dividend king
dividendless
dividend queen
dividend reinvestment plan
dividend reinvestment program
dividend stripping
ex dividend
liar's dividend
pay dividends
peace dividend
predividend
splividend