cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lumbago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌləm-/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: lumbagos
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], chapter VII, in The Norwich Victims, London: Arcturus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, →OL, section 2:
text: We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. [...] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances.
ref: 1953, Gilbert Ryle, “Dilemma VII: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1954 (1987 printing), →ISBN, page 105:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: low back pain
word: LBP
glosses: Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An episode of such backache.
Related terms: lumbaginous
pain
lumbago
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌmˈbeɪɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˌlʌmˈbeɪˌɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌləm-/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: lumbagos
form: lumbagoing
form: lumbagoed
form: lumbagoed
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To affect (someone) with lumbago.
special needs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The school has introduced provisions for pupils with special needs.
glosses: Needs for special care, services or accommodations for disabilities.
Related terms: short bus
ride the short bus
pull out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls out
form: pulling out
form: pulled out
form: pulled out
Senses: examples: text: I need to pull the splinter out of my hand.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out.
examples: text: The troops pulled out of the conflict.
text: The mayor pulled out of the race for Senate after numerous opinion polls had him polling at less than 10 percent.
text: The racehorse pulled out of the Stakes with a hurt foot.
text: Pulling out of Paris would cause serious diplomatic damage.
ref: 2017 May 31, Todd Stern, “Leaving the Paris Agreement Would Be Indefensible”, in The Atlantic:
text: There is still time to find a buyer and for them to stabilise the operation, especially if the deal were done by 31 May – when the club’s special licence to carry on is due to expire. There remain plenty of interested parties, who can only see Chelsea’s price dropping as sponsors pull out or consider their associations; as revenue streams are hit.
ref: 2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
examples: text: After releasing its bomb, the plane pulled out of its dive.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
examples: text: Shortly before you ejaculate, you can pull out and use your hand (or hers) to push yourself over the edge. Some of my patients claim this is a more natural method of birth control[…]
ref: 2006, David J. Clayton, The Healthy Guide to Unhealthy Living: How to Survive Your Bad Habits, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:
text: She'd long since caught the knack of moving with him, and closed her arms and legs around him. “You'll fly with me, Tiberius? Take the last fence with me?” He'd meant to pull out. Coitus interruptus was a term even the scholars failing their Latin knew before they left public school.
ref: 2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:
glosses: To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
examples: text: He pulled his gun out before she had a chance to scream.
synonyms: whip out
draw
glosses: To remove something from a container.
examples: text: When joining a road, you should check for traffic before pulling out.
glosses: To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.
glosses: To draw out or lengthen.
Derived terms: word: pull-out
word: pullout
word: pull out all the stops
backbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more backbreaking
form: most backbreaking
form: back-breaking
Etymology: From back + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.
ref: 1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
text: Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 110:
glosses: Of work, very physically tiring.
Derived terms: backbreakingly
lessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛsɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lessors
form: lessour
Etymology: From Middle English lessour, from Anglo-Norman lessour.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: landlord
word: lease provider
word: leaser
antonyms: lessee
tenant
glosses: The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.
Derived terms: colessor
sub-lessor
revolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-vōltʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɒlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: revolts
form: revolting
form: revolted
form: revolted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: revolt
form: revolt
form: revolted
form: revolt
form: revoltest
form: revolted
form: revoltedst
form: revolts
form: revolteth
form: revolted
form: revolt
form: revolted
form: revolt
form: revolted
form: revolt
form: -
form: revolting
form: revolted
Etymology: Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus).
Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).
Senses: examples: text: The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
text: Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18, column 1:
glosses: To rebel, particularly against authority.
examples: text: Your brother revolts me!
text: I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
ref: 1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 118:
text: 1870, John Morley, Condorcet (published in the Fortnightly Review
To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
glosses: To repel greatly.
examples: text: The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
glosses: To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.
examples: text: The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 567:
glosses: To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
examples: text: And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.
ref: 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XII. On the Same [Tetrachordon].”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
ref: 1886, John Morley, The Life of Turgot:
glosses: To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
revolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-vōltʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvəʊlt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɒlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: revolts
Etymology: Borrowed from French révolter, from Italian rivoltare, itself either from ri- with the verb voltare, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *revoltāre < *revolvitāre, for *revolūtāre, frequentative of Latin revolvō (“roll back”) (through its past participle revolūtus).
Compare typologically Russian переворо́т (perevorót) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ).
Senses: examples: text: — It's a revolt?
— No, Sire, it's a revolution...
synonyms: armed revolt
insurrection
rebellion
glosses: An act of revolting.
Derived terms: December revolt
Related terms: revolting
slippery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪpəɹi/
ipa: /ˈslɪpɹi/
Forms: form: slipperier
form: more slippery
form: slipperiest
form: most slippery
Etymology: From Middle English slipperie, an extended form ( + -y) of Middle English slipper, sliper (“slippery”), from Old English slipor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”), equivalent to slip + -er. Compare also Middle English slibbri, slubbri (“slippery”) borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slibberich (“slippery”). Cognate with German schlüpfrig (“slippery”), Danish slibrig (“slippery”), Swedish slipprig (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: Oily substances render things slippery.
text: The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:
glosses: Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
examples: text: a slippery person
text: a slippery promise
glosses: Evasive; difficult to pin down.
examples: text: Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, / The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], line 84:
glosses: Liable to slip; not standing firm.
examples: text: He looking down
With scorn or pity on the slippery state
Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate.
ref: 1641 (first performance), [John Denham], The Sophy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1667, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
examples: text: My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess –
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 273:
glosses: Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
Synonyms: sense: of a surface
word: greasy
sense: of a surface
word: slick
sense: of a surface
word: slimy
sense: of a surface
word: slippy
sense: of a surface
word: wet
sense: of a surface
word: slithery
word: glibbery
word: glidder
word: gliddery
word: lubric
word: lubricious
word: lubricous
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: slabbery
word: slape
word: slidder
word: sliddery
word: slidey
word: slidy
word: slippery
word: slippery as an eel
Hypernyms: word: smooth
word: wet
Hyponyms: word: rain-slickened
word: water-slickened
word: sloppery
Derived terms: slippery as an eel
slippery dick
slippery dip
slippery elm
slippery jack
slippery nipple
Slippery Sam
slippery sequence
slippery slide
slippery slope
Related terms: slip
phenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛnˈɒlədʒi/
ipa: /fəˈnɒlədʒi/
ipa: /fiˈnɒlədʒi/
homophone: phonology (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: phænology
Etymology: From pheno- + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena.
Derived terms: phenologist
Related terms: microphenology
phenological
phenophase
phenoseason
back-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more back-breaking
form: most back-breaking
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backbreaking.
back number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back numbers
Senses: examples: text: Because of war conditions and rigid paper control, it is now impossible for us to keep supplies of recent back numbers.
ref: 1941 December, “Back Numbers of "The Railway Magazine"”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
glosses: A back issue of a magazine, etc.
glosses: Anything considered old-fashioned.
Synonyms: sense: magazine
word: back issue
sense: something considered old-fashioned
word: has-been
suppress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹɛs/
ipa: /səˈpɹes/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: suppresses
form: suppressing
form: suppressed
form: suppressed
Etymology: From Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprimō (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + premō (“press”).
Senses: examples: text: Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
synonyms: abolish
clamp down
eliminate
bury
glosses: To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
examples: text: I struggled to suppress my smile.
synonyms: word: curtail
word: stifle
word: behedge
word: guard
word: bind
word: chasten
word: check
word: contain
word: vanquish
word: cork
word: curb
word: bury
word: curtail
word: dampen
word: hamshackle
word: hold back
word: hold down
word: limit
word: repress
word: restrain
word: restrict
word: shackle
word: stay
word: stifle
word: stop
word: straiten
word: subdue
word: suppress
word: throttle
word: underbring
word: withhold
word: withstrain
glosses: To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
examples: text: He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
examples: text: The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
glosses: To prevent publication.
examples: text: The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
text: Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.
synonyms: clamp off
dam
stanch
stem
glosses: To stop a flow or stream.
topics: law
glosses: To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
glosses: To hold in place, to keep low.
Derived terms: suppressable
suppression
suppressor
granular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more granular
form: most granular
Etymology: From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire.
Senses: examples: text: a granular substance
glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains.
examples: text: It has a granular structure
text: This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture...
ref: 1790, Abraham Mills, Some Strata in Ireland and Scotland, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 80
glosses: Grainy.
examples: text: This should allow for a more granular degree of control
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Refined or precise.
Synonyms: word: granulous
word: corpuscular
word: globular
word: grainy
word: granular
word: granulary
word: granuliform
word: granulose
word: particulate
Hypernyms: word: solid
Hyponyms: word: arenaceous
word: arenarious
word: arenic
word: areniferous
word: arenose
word: branlike
word: branny
word: dustlike
word: dusty
word: farinaceous
word: flourlike
word: floury
word: furfuraceous
word: gritsome
word: gritty
word: mealy
word: pityroid
word: powderlike
word: powdery
word: powderous
word: pulverulent
word: sabulous
word: sandlike
word: sandy
word: sporous
word: tophaceous
word: coarse-grained
word: fine-grained
word: comminuted
word: crushed
word: ground
word: ground down
word: milled
word: triturated
word: pulverized
word: equigranular
topics: petrology
geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: extragranular
word: hypergranular
word: interparticulate
word: intragranular
word: microgranular
word: microparticulate
word: monogranular
word: nanogranular
word: nanoparticulate
word: quasiparticulate
word: subgranular
word: transgranular
Coordinate terms: word: particulate
Derived terms: agranular
dysgranular
equigranular
extragranular
fibrogranular
granular cell tumor
granular cheese
granularisation
granularise
granularity
granularization
granularize
granularly
hypergranular
infragranular
intergranular
intragranular
juxtagranular
macrogranular
mesogranular
microgranular
monogranular
multigranular
nanogranular
nongranular
perigranular
polygranular
pregranular
reticulogranular
semigranular
subgranular
supergranular
supragranular
transgranular
Related terms: word: coarse-grained
word: fine-grained
word: grain
word: granulate
word: granulation
word: granule
word: crumbly
word: insubstantial
word: coarse
word: fine
weaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wean
weaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: weanings
Senses: glosses: The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment.
Derived terms: weaning brash
openness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opennesses
Etymology: From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).
Senses: examples: text: Francis riled conservative cardinals with his compassion for migrants and refugees, openness towards LGBTQ+ Catholics and demands for action on the climate crisis.
ref: 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
glosses: The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
examples: text: "Instead of openness, there was the cunning tactics of cover-up and a complete failure by General De Chastelain to deal with the vital numerics of decommissioning," said Ian Paisley, 79, the Protestant preacher who heads the Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland's largest party.
ref: 2005 September 27, Brian Lavery, “I.R.A. Destroys What It Says Were the Last of Its Weapons”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
topics: computing
education
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.
topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.
Synonyms: sense: accommodating attitude or opinion
word: open-mindedness
sense: accommodating attitude or opinion
word: approachability
Hahn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑn/
rhymes: -ɑn
Forms: form: Hahns
form: Han
Etymology: From Korean 한(韓) (han). Cognate with English Han (from Mandarin).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Hahn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑn/
rhymes: -ɑn
rhymes: -ɑn
ipa: /hɑn/
rhymes: -ɑn
Forms: form: Hahns
Etymology: From German Hahn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Hahnville
Hahn echo
quiesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwiˈɛs/
ipa: /kwaɪˈɛs/
Forms: form: quiesces
form: quiescing
form: quiesced
form: quiesced
Etymology: From Latin quiēscō ("I rest, repose, become quiet").
Senses: glosses: To become quiet or quieter.
glosses: To make temporarily inactive or disabled.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To pause or reduce the activity of (a device or application), for example to prepare it for backups or other maintenance.
Derived terms: quiescent
quiesce time
unquiesce
Related terms: quiet
malpractice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malpractices
Etymology: From mal- + practice.
Senses: glosses: The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
examples: text: When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.
ref: 2007, Stephen Prosser, To Be a Servant-Leader:
text: A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.
ref: 2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic:
text: “It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist.
ref: 2025 April 19, Michael S. Schmidt, Michael C. Bender, quoting May Mailman, “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
swirling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
ref: 1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
glosses: that swirls
swirling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Forms: form: swirlings
Senses: glosses: A pattern or motion that swirls.
swirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swirl
loiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈlɔɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɔɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loiters
Etymology: From Middle English loitren, from Middle Dutch loteren ("to shake, wag, wobble"; > modern Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle, ramble”)), ultimately connected with a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bend, stoop, cower, shrink from, decline”), see lout. Cognate with Dutch leuteren (“to dawdle”), Alemannic German lottern (“to wobble”), German Lotterbube (“rascal”). More at lout, little.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, Sir, we just got up in the morning and had a loiter and a pipe on the green; then we got our breakfasts; […]
ref: 1865, Edward Spooner, Parson and People, page 125:
glosses: A standing or strolling about without any aim or purpose.
kapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəʊ/
Forms: form: kapos
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kapo, see there for further etymology. Doublet of corporal and capo.
Senses: glosses: A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
glosses: Jewish people who are perceived to be insufficiently supportive of the State of Israel, Zionism, or the larger Jewish community.
koro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly from Makasar garring koro' (lit. koro illness, "shrinking of the toilet", Matthes 1859), Buginese, or Malay. See "Koro § Etymology and geographical background" at Wikipedia for a full discussion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.
koro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koros
Etymology: From Maori koro (“grandfather”).
Senses: glosses: A Maori male elder.
unemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unemotional
form: most unemotional
Etymology: From un- + emotional.
Senses: examples: text: an unemotional person
synonyms: word: clinical
word: dispassionate
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
antonyms: passionate
glosses: Showing little or no feeling.
examples: text: On a side note, I would like to also point out that when Mike was asked about what to do about a losing position, he replied that the trader must analyze the situation and make an unemotional decision.
ref: 2007, Mark Whistler, Trade With Passion and Purpose, page 54:
synonyms: clinical
objective
glosses: Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.
Forelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Forelles
Etymology: From German Forelle (“trout”), because of its speckled coloration.
Senses: glosses: A pear cultivar
brown trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown trout
Senses: examples: text: Some brown trout live to be twenty years old. Browns are canny, the most wary of trout.
ref: 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 67:
synonyms: brown
brownie
glosses: A nonmigratory freshwater trout of species Salmo trutta, with dark spotted skin, native to Europe and Asia.
rainbow trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbow trout
form: rainbow trouts
Senses: glosses: A trout of the species Oncorhynchus mykiss, that has black spots and a pink streak running along the body.
glosses: The fish as food.
Synonyms: sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: rainbow
sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: hardhead
sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: redband trout
sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: salmon trout
sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: silver trout
sense: Oncorhynchus mykiss
word: steelhead
brook trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brook trout
form: brook trouts
Senses: glosses: A fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis.
glosses: A fish of the subspecies Salmo trutta fario, the brown trout.
Synonyms: sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: eastern brook trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: brook charr
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: speckled trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: squaretail
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: mud trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: coaster trout
sense: Salvelinus fontinalis
word: coaster
Evan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.vən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Etymology: Anglicization of Welsh Ifan, ultimately from Latin Jōhannēs, variant of Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (yōḥānān, yokhanán, literally “God is gracious”). Doublet of Giovanni, Ian, Ivan, Jack, Jean, Johan, Johann, Johannes, John, Sean, Shane, Shaun, and Shawn.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh Ifan, equivalent to English John.
glosses: A surname, a variant of Evans.
Derived terms: Evans
Evanston
Evanton
Related terms: Ian
Ivan
Jon
Sean
Evan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.vən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Senses: glosses: A city in Minnesota, United States; named for the first postmaster's wife, Eva.
self-control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹoʊl/
ipa: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹəʊl/
Forms: form: self-controls
Etymology: From self- + control.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: willpower
text: A review of addiction research, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, suggests mindful meditation strengthens self-control in smokers, even among those smokers who haven’t set an intention to quit.
ref: 2015 July 31, Liza Lucas, “How to beat smoking, other bad habits with better self-control”, in CNN:
synonyms: self-command
self-discipline
self-mastery
self-regulation
antonyms: undisciplinedness
coordinate_terms: self-awareness
self-criticism
glosses: The ability to control one's desires and impulses.
self-control
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹoʊl/
ipa: /ˌsɛlf kənˈtɹəʊl/
Forms: form: self-controls
form: self-controlling
form: self-controlled
form: self-controlled
Etymology: From self- + control.
Senses: glosses: To control oneself or itself.
Related terms: count to ten
elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ɪ.fənts/
ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.fənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of elephant
witnessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪtnəst/
/ˈwɪtnɪst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of witness
communicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of communicate
speeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of speech
speeches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speech
tuxedo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭksē'dō
ipa: /tʌkˈsidoʊ/
ipa: /tʌkˈsiːdəʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: tuxedos
form: tuxedoes
Etymology: From Tuxedo Park, New York, USA, where the fashion is often said to have originated, the village in turn likely from an Eastern Algonquian language (Munsee), from Lenape, tucsedo or p'tuxseepu, ("crooked water" or "crooked river").
Senses: examples: text: He wore a tuxedo for his sister's wedding.
text: His mom bought a tuxedo for him.
glosses: A typically black formal jacket worn by men.
glosses: The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.
glosses: Ellipsis of tuxedo cat.
Synonyms: sense: formal jacket
word: dinner jacket
sense: formal suit
word: black tie
sense: formal suit
word: tux
sense: formal suit
word: penguin suit
Derived terms: tux
tuxedo cat
tuxedo shirt
Canadian tuxedo
Texan tuxedo
Related terms: smoking jacket
très
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /treɪ/
ipa: /trɛs/
Etymology: Borrowed from French très. Attested in English from the 19th century. Doublet of trans.
Senses: examples: text: My view is that a fraternity is nothing more than a très snob clique or caucus, but I may be wrong.
ref: 1947 January 1, Hod., “An Innocent at Large”, in Punch, volume 212, page 16, column 2:
text: He must look très sexy in a towel, I thought with a smile, très sexy indeed.
ref: 1983, Donna Steinberg, I Lost it All in Montreal, page 30:
text: I seemed to have shot up a few more inches over the last year and some of my jeans were stopping short of my ankles. Très uncool.
ref: 2002, Cathy Hopkins, White Lies and Barefaced Truths (Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise), page 212:
text: We have this très cool apartment, and all of the money, and Foo almost has his master’s in bio-nerdism or whatever, and I only have to go home like twice a week so the mother unit still thinks I am living there.
ref: 2010, Christopher Moore, Bite Me: A Love Story, page 17:
text: Dim lighting plus backrub equals très romantic, and a massage candle kills two lovebirds (Thank you, we’ll be here all week) with one stone.
ref: 2015, Cosmo’s Let’s Get Naked, page 223:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Very, to superior degree.
raw_tags: before English adjective
Related terms: très chic
très gauche
arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.əʊz/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈæɹ.oʊz/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.oʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of arrow
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Short darts feathered at the ends.
arrows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.əʊz/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈæɹ.oʊz/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.oʊz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arrow
Prussia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹʌ.ʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɹʊ.ʃɐ/
rhymes: -ʌʃə
Etymology: From New Latin Prūssia, a Latinization used by Peter of Dusburg of a Baltic (Old Prussian, or perhaps Lithuanian or Latvian) autonym. The Proto-Indo-European source of the name is unclear; more at Prussia. Compare the Proto-Balto-Slavic *prus-sk-, whose cognates include Proto-Slavic *prъskati (“to splutter, to splash”), Sanskrit प्रुष्णोति (pruṣṇóti, “to sprinkle”), and thus signifying "watery land".
The Middle English designation for the region, Pruce, derives from the same Latinization and is the source of the terms pruce and spruce.
Senses: glosses: A geographical area on the Baltic coast of Northeast Europe.
glosses: A former duchy, kingdom and (after German unification in 1871) a province of Germany, existing in various forms from 1525 to 1947 in parts of modern Germany, Poland and Russia; it originated from the historical region of Prussia and expanded over time through conquest.
examples: text: Sometimes referred to as the “Prussia of Africa,” Rwanda insists on enormous self-discipline from every citizen.
ref: 2010, Stephen Kinzer, A Thousand Hills — Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It:
glosses: A country known for exceptional military professionalism in her region. Historically used for Bulgaria as the "Prussia of the Balkans".
glosses: A township in Adair County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: Former name of Leader, Saskatchewan, changed due to anti-German sentiment in WWI.
Derived terms: Prussian
Related terms: East Prussia
Royal Prussia
West Prussia
darker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: därkʹər
ipa: /ˈdɑɹkɚ/
enpr: därkʹər
ipa: /ˈdɑːkə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dark: more dark
happily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpɪli/
ipa: /ˈhæpəli/
homophone: aptly (in some h-dropping accents)
Forms: form: more happily
form: happilier
form: most happily
form: happiliest
Etymology: From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
text: And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 311:
text: Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.
ref: 2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62:
synonyms: cheerfully
joyously
glosses: In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
examples: text: Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
examples: text: I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
synonyms: gladly
glosses: With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
examples: text: And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
synonyms: haply
glosses: By chance; perhaps.
Synonyms: word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
Derived terms: happily ever after
Related terms: word: happiness
word: happy
word: gladden
heartily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtɪli/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtɪli/
Forms: form: more heartily
form: most heartily
Etymology: From Middle English hertely, herteliche, heorteliche, from Old English ġeheortlīċe (“whole-heartedly, vigorously”), equivalent to hearty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: eat heartily
text: greet someone heartily
text: Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 166:
glosses: In a hearty manner.
Synonyms: with a will
agood
Derived terms: hale and heartily
struggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌɡl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɹʌɡlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of struggle
struggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌɡl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɹʌɡlɪŋ/
Forms: form: strugglings
Senses: examples: text: All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.
ref: 1848, Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion:
glosses: The act of one who struggles.
cenacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cenacles
Etymology: From Middle English cenacle, from Old French cenacle (modern French cénacle), from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”).
Senses: examples: text: With Mary in the cenacle waiting for the Holy Spirit In the Acts of the Apostles after listing the names of the eleven apostles, Luke continued with these words, so precious to Christians: […]
ref: 1992, Raniero Cantalamessa, Mary: Mirror of the Church, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place).
examples: text: I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
synonyms: circle
clique
glosses: A small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc).
passively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæs.ɪv.li/
Etymology: From passive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.
ref: 2000, Brian D. Wisenden, “Scents of Danger”, in Animal Signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication, page 369:
text: Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.
ref: 2007, Klaus Dieter Budras et al., Anatomy of the Dog, page 188:
text: For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
ref: 2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, ““Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t”, in Big Think:
glosses: In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
examples: text: Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.
ref: 1997, Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor, Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, page 218:
text: They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.
ref: 1998, Wallace Collins, Dragon Fire, page 9:
glosses: In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.
examples: text: Statements phrased in an active voice, with a few outcome-oriented goals, improve school performance more than those stated passively with either multiple goals or goals focused on processes or behaviors.
ref: 2008, Timothy J. Conlan, Alice M. Rivlin, Paul L. Posner, Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-first Century, page 214:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the passive voice; having a passive construction.
Synonyms: sense: in a passive manner
word: automatically
sense: in a passive manner
word: mindlessly
sense: in an acquiescent manner
word: resignedly
sense: in an acquiescent manner
word: submissively
Related terms: passive
passiveness
passivisation
passivization
passivise
passivize
passivity
taphonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæˈfɒnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: taphonomies
Etymology: From tapho- + -nomy. From Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”).
Senses: examples: text: These characteristics are also applicable in forensic taphonomy. In contrast to our approach here, Buikstra and Ubelaker place "premortem and perimortem fractures, wounds, and abrasions" (p. 106) in the chapter on paleopathology, thus separating perimortem trauma from taphonomy.
ref: 2002, Marcella H. Sorg, William D. Haglund, “1: Advancing Forensic Taphonomy: Purpose, Theory, and Process”, in William D. Haglund, Marcella H. Sorg, editors, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy, CRC Press, page 11:
text: Whilst there is some credit in distinguishing between taphonomies for thick-shelled forms and thin-shelled forms in shallower facies, these forms occur in both phacopids and homalonotids.
ref: 2005, Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Volume 62, Museums Board of Victoria, page 10:
text: Some cases may have an innocent explanation based in taphonomy, the processes by which bodies are preserved over long spans of time.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 4:
glosses: The study of the fate of the remains of organisms after they die, especially the study of fossilization.
Derived terms: histotaphonomy
isotaphonomy
macrotaphonomy
microtaphonomy
Related terms: taphonomic
taphonomist
taphotype
taphozone
taphology
take the reins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the reins
form: taking the reins
form: took the reins
form: taken the reins
Senses: examples: text: a general election campaign focused on whether the pro-military camp should remain in power or pro-democracy opposition groups should take the reins.
ref: 2023 May 14, Nikkei staff writers, “Thailand election latest: Opposition Move Forward, Pheu Thai coy on coalition”, in Nikkei, archived from the original on 14 May 2023:
glosses: Synonym of take control.
synonyms: word: take control
Coordinate terms: hold the reins
triple double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple doubles
Senses: examples: text: Yes, the Knicks had fallen prey to the habitual wizardry of the Thunder star Russell Westbrook, who had 27 points, 18 rebounds and 14 assists, his third straight triple-double and his eighth in 19 games this season.
ref: 2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The achievement of a two-digit number of any three of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.
Related terms: double double
quadruple double
triple single
quadruple double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The achievement of a two-digit number of any four of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game.
Related terms: double double
triple double
testate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin testātus (“testified”), perfect passive participle of testor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”), from testis (“witness”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: having left a legally valid last will and testament (of one who has died).
testate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testates
Etymology: From Latin testātus (“testified”), perfect passive participle of testor (“I am witness, testify, attest; I make a will”), from testis (“witness”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: one who has left a valid will and testament
testate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From test + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: High frequency of species with acrostomy, eg species of the genera Euglypha, Assulina and Nebela, supports the conclusion that humidity is a major structuring force for testate amoebae at TH III.
ref: 2010, Valentyna Krashevska, Mark Maraun, Stefan Scheu, “Micro-and macroscale changes in density and diversity of testate amoebae of tropical montane rain forests of Southern Ecuador”, in Acta Protozoologica, volume 49, number 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: testacean
testaceous
glosses: Having a test (external calciferous shell or endoskeleton)
quintuple double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintuple doubles
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The achievement of a two-digit number of all five of points scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, and steals in a single game.
Related terms: double double
triple double
quadruple double