cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
empty nest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empty nests
Etymology: From birds whose offspring leave the nest when they reach maturity.
Senses: examples: text: One woman with a full-on and demanding career e-mailed me to say ‘This empty nest thing is no joke. I didn't realise it would hit me so hard. It is day three of my daughter being gone and I have to resist the urge to weep every time I go past her room.’
ref: 2011, Celia Dodd, The Empty Nest: Your Changing Family, Your New Direction, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Yet an “empty nest” can cause confusing emotions for parents. While this juncture can bring on sadness and loneliness, it can also signal newfound freedom and fulfillment.
ref: 2014, Lisa O. Engelhardt, Empty Nest Therapy, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: As Dodd wrote in ‘The Empty Nest,’ “To me, it was glaringly obvious that parting from a child who has been the centre of your life for twenty-odd years is a really big deal. Yet while new parents are bombarded with advice, empty nest parents are left to muddle through what is arguably the most challenging phase of parenting.”
ref: 2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN:
glosses: A home or a family where the children have grown up and moved away.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see empty, nest.
Derived terms: empty nester
empty nesting
empty nest syndrome
Related terms: leave the nest
Apostle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apostles
Etymology: A proprialization of apostle.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: Disciple#Noun
glosses: Any of the group of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to preach and spread the Gospel.
glosses: A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve-seat Mormon administrative council.
Derived terms: Apostle Islands
Apostles' Creed
Related terms: apostleship
Apostle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A proprialization of apostle.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Απόστολος (Apóstolos). A rare transcription; usually transliterated as Apostolos.
pettifog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛt.iˌfɒɡ/
Forms: form: pettifogs
form: pettifogging
form: pettifogged
form: pettifogged
Etymology: Back-formation from pettifogger.
Senses: examples: text: Don't pettifog or we will soon grow weary.
text: [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
ref: 1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick.
examples: He is a common barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.
glosses: To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way.
Synonyms: squabble
Derived terms: pettifogulize
Related terms: pettifogger
statewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stāt-wīdʹ
ipa: /steɪtˈwaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology: From state + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.
ref: 1933, "Negro Education in Georgia", The Crisis, volume 40 (W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, ed.), page 180
text: The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.
ref: 2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 670:
text: Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.
ref: 2007, Robin Judd, Contested Rituals, Cornell University Press,, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
examples: text: But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?
ref: 1941, Simon Kuznets, National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938, volume 1, page 51:
text: All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.
ref: 1993, Zdzisław Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97:
text: Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.
ref: 2007, Josep M. Colomer, Great Empires, Small Nations, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
Synonyms: sense: Extending throughout a subdivision of a federal union
word: cantonwide
sense: Extending throughout a subdivision of a federal union
word: provincewide
sense: Extending throughout a sovereign state
word: countrywide
sense: Extending throughout a sovereign state
word: national
sense: Extending throughout a sovereign state
word: nationwide
statewide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: stāt-wīdʹ
ipa: /steɪtˈwaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology: From state + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.
ref: 2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 554:
text: After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.
ref: 2005, Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, University of California Press,, →ISBN, page 280:
text: The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.
ref: 2011, Marc J. Roberts, Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: Throughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).
examples: text: Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.
ref: 2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, “Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations”, in Timothy J. Sinclair, editor, Global Governance, volume II, Routledge, →ISBN, page 166:
text: In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.
ref: 2005, Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 216:
text: The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.
ref: 2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: Throughout a sovereign state; nationwide.
Synonyms: sense: Throughout a subdivision of a federal union
word: provincewide
sense: Throughout a sovereign state
word: countrywide
sense: Throughout a sovereign state
word: nationally
sense: Throughout a sovereign state
word: nationwide
statewide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stāt-wīdʹ
ipa: /steɪtˈwaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: statewides
Etymology: From state + -wide.
Senses: glosses: An agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).
murder-suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murder-suicides
Senses: examples: text: Pladl, pictured, ended up killing his daughter, his baby and himself in a triple murder-suicide[.]
ref: 2018 November 26, Emma Parry, “Woman who fell in love with her brother tells how she’s on a mission to legalise INCEST, allow family members to marry and even have babies together”, in The Sun:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: A murder in which the killer subsequently commits suicide.
Synonyms: word: MS
mesmerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mesmerize
murder-suicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder-suicide
channel surf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: channel surfs
form: channel surfing
form: channel surfed
form: channel surfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of channel-surf.
minikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minikins
Etymology: From Middle Dutch minnekijn (“darling, beloved”), from minne (“love”) (cf. minnesinger) and the diminutive suffix -kijn.
Senses: glosses: A young person, especially a young woman.
glosses: A small or insignificant person, thing or amount.
glosses: A little pin.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The size of type smaller than brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
Synonyms: sense: type size
word: excelsior
minikin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minikin
form: most minikin
Etymology: From Middle Dutch minnekijn (“darling, beloved”), from minne (“love”) (cf. minnesinger) and the diminutive suffix -kijn.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive or miniature.
minikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minikins
Etymology: From Miniken, a 16th-century English form of the place name Munich, a German city where such strings were produced and from which they were imported. Miniken is derived from then-contemporary German Münichen.
Senses: glosses: The treble string of a lute.
Derived terms: minikin gut
experience is the best teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Latin ūsus magister est optimus, from Prō Rabīriō Postumō by Cicerō about Gāius Rabīrius Postumus.
Senses: glosses: Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.
wikipedia: Cicero
Gaius Rabirius Postumus
Related terms: experience is the mother of wisdom
practice makes perfect
school of hard knocks
Ut est rērum omnium magister ūsus
lorimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lorimers
Etymology: From Old French lormier, loremier, from Latin loranum (“bridle”), lorum (“thong, the rein of a bridle”).
Senses: glosses: A person who makes the bits and other metal parts of a horse's bridle, and other small metal pieces.
loosebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looseboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loose box.
holometabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + metabolic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or undergoing holometabolism
Synonyms: holometabolous
leatwright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leatwrights
Etymology: From leat + wright.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at constructing leats.
lemniscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛmˈnɪ.skəs/
rhymes: -ɪskəs
Forms: form: lemniscuses
form: lemnisci
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) + -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
glosses: A woollen fillet attached to the back of crowns, diadems, etc.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ribbon of fibers, especially of cerebral white nerve fibers.
Derived terms: medial lemniscus
Related terms: lemniscata
school of hard knocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schools of hard knocks
Senses: examples: text: Trained, however, in the school of hard knocks, he now had learned the theory of success, and from that time on has had it.
ref: 1870, The Men Who Advertise: An Account of Successful Advertisers, New York: Rowell, page 161:
text: Did Vietnam's school of hard knocks teach Americans to do peacemaking and state building right?
ref: 2000 April 26, Walter A. McDougall, “Who Were We in Vietnam?”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2008:
synonyms: university of hard knocks
university of life
university of the streets
glosses: The source of an education consisting of real-world experiences, especially adverse experiences.
Related terms: experience is the best teacher
learn from experience
learn the hard way
lentiscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lentiscus. Doublet of lentisk.
Senses: glosses: The mastic-tree (Pistacia lentiscus).
Synonyms: lentisk
Formosan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Formosa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The great Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier, also spent some time at Öita, and Otomo, its lord, was the first Daimio to embrace Christianity. Still farther south, and in line with these, stretches the chain of the Liuchiu islands, the westernmost of the group lying within 50 miles of the Formosan coast.
ref: 1905, Archibald Little, “The Island Empire: Japan”, in The Far East, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 283:
text: A patrolman shot and killed a Formosan black bear in self defense last night, after it turned on the man who saw it attacking a dog in Hualien County’s Jhuosi Township (卓溪).[…]
Jhuosi Township Mayor Huang Pin-lun (黃品綸) announced news of the bear’s capture this morning and expressed apologies to the villagers for the fear and disruption caused by the recent bear sightings.[…]
The Hualien branch has been working with the Formosan Wild Sound Conservation Science Center since 2020 to monitor Formosan black bears in Jhuosi Township, branch Director Huang Chun-tse (黃群策) said.
ref: 2025 April 22, Hua Meng-ching, Hollie Younger, “Formosan black bear shot and killed in Hualien”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025, Taiwan News, page 2:
glosses: Of or relating to Formosa or people of Formosa.
Derived terms: Formosan termite
Formosan wood mouse
Formosan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Formosans
Etymology: From Formosa + -an.
Senses: examples: text: From his base at Amoy the Emperor Kanghi dispatched a fleet of 600 junks against Formosa. In two naval battles, on July 1 and 7, 1683, they defeated the Formosans, and occupied Penghu, one of the Pescadores Islands, forming the key of Taiwan.
ref: 1926, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, volume 1, Clarendon Press, page 48:
glosses: An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Formosa.
Formosans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Formosan
ex parte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ex parte ("from [one] part").
Senses: examples: text: The judge issued a temporary ex parte injunction.
text: She was dismissive of an ex parte application for an order excluding a husband from the matrimonial home.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 54:
text: The judge on an ex parte basis, granted Mr McGlinchey permission to bring both of his actions against the respondents.
ref: 2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in The Irish Times, page 4:
topics: law
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a proceeding where one of the involved parties is not present.
examples: text: I wish merely to caution you against the whole tone of L'Etoile's suggestion, by calling your attention to its ex parte character at the outset.
ref: 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:
glosses: Concerning only one side of a matter; one-sided.
ex parte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin ex parte ("from [one] part").
Senses: examples: text: Grand juries are conducted ex parte; neither the suspect nor his attorney may attend.
topics: law
glosses: In the manner of a proceeding where one of the involved parties is not (or sometimes may not be) present.
holometabolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From holo- + metabolism.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The complete metamorphosis of an insect
Related terms: holometabolic
holometabolous
continental United States
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: continental US
glosses: The portion of the United States which is located on the North American continent; the United States exclusive of Hawaii and other overseas territories.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: conterminous United States
contiguous United States
contiguous 48
lower 48
glosses: The largest portion of the United States which is not separated by any ocean or non-U.S. land; the United States exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, and other overseas territories.
Synonyms: lower 48
contiguous 48
contiguous United States
continental US
CONUS
knockit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockits
Senses: glosses: A small loaf of bread; a snack
Synonyms: nacket
knaveship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knaveships
Etymology: From knave + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a knave (used mockingly)
glosses: A quantity of corn or flour due to a miller's servant from each batch in a thirlage mill
jackanape
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəneɪp/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəˌneɪp/
Forms: form: more jackanape
form: most jackanape
Etymology: Back-formation from jackanapes.
Senses: examples: text: I will teach a scurvy jackanape priest to meddle or make.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
jackanape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəneɪp/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəˌneɪp/
Forms: form: jackanapes
Etymology: Back-formation from jackanapes.
Senses: examples: text: Can Iack an Ape be merry vvhen his clog is at his heele.
ref: 1637, William Camden; Iohn [i.e., John] Philipot, “Certaine Proverbs, Poemes, or Posies, Epigrams, Rythmes, and Epitaphs of the English Nation in Former Times, and Some of this Present Age. [Proverbs.]”, in Remaines Concerning Britaine: […], 5th edition, London: […] Thomas Harper, for John Waterson, […], →OCLC, page 294:
text: Now, she hath favoured, doth favour, and will favour, this jack-an-ape,—for what good part about him I know not, save that as one noble lady will love a messan dog, and another a screaming popinjay, and a third a Barbary ape, so doth it please our noble dame to set her affections upon this stray elf of a page, […]
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: Who were the aristocracy, to give themselves airs? Jackanapes!
ref: 1926 August, John Galsworthy, “Soames Keeps His Eyes Open”, in The Silver Spoon, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of jackanapes.
focus groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focus group
jackanapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəneɪps/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒækəˌneɪps/
Etymology: From jackanape + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: glosses: plural of jackanape
focus-group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focus-groups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of focus group.
focus-group
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: focus-groups
form: focus-grouping
form: focus-grouped
form: focus-grouped
Senses: glosses: To subject ideas to review by a focus group in order to determine the viability of those ideas.
focus-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of focus-group (alternative spelling of focus groups).
focus-groups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of focus-group
hatchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæt͡ʃmənt/
Forms: form: hatchments
Etymology: From Middle French hachement, a modification of Old French acesmement (“adornment”) (related to Italian accismare); not, as is often claimed, an alteration of achievement.
Senses: examples: text: No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 275, column 1:
text: Having passed through Gaunt Square into Great Gaunt Street, the carriage at length stopped at a tall gloomy house between two other tall gloomy houses, each with a hatchment over the middle drawing-room window; as is the custom of houses in Great Gaunt Street, in which gloomy locality death seems to reign perpetual.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Immediately the Railway Executive received the news, the former London & North Eastern Railway special rolling stock was prepared, including the saloon always used as a hearse coach, which was painted black and decorated each side with hatchments of the Royal Arms.
ref: 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie[…]
ref: 2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 141:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A display of the arms, supporters, crests, motto, etc of a deceased person, placed within a black lozenge and hung on a wall
focus-grouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of focus-group
focus-grouped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of focus-group
genethliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈnɛθ.li.æk/
Etymology: From Latin genethliacus, from Ancient Greek γενεθλιακός (genethliakós, “belonging to a birthday”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the casting of horoscopes at a person's birth
Derived terms: genethliacal
genethliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈnɛθ.li.æk/
Forms: form: genethliacs
Etymology: From Latin genethliacus, from Ancient Greek γενεθλιακός (genethliakós, “belonging to a birthday”).
Senses: examples: text: The follie of our genethliaks, or nativiti-casters.
ref: 1584, Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft:
glosses: A person who casts horoscopes.
glosses: A birthday poem.
gambade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambades
Etymology: Borrowed from French gambade.
Senses: glosses: The leap of a horse.
examples: text: He made his hawke to fly, […]
And in the holy place
She mutyd there a chase
Upon my corporas face.
Such sacrificium laudis
He made with suche gambawdis.
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47, 61–65:
english: He made his hawk to fly, […]
And in the holy place (altar)
She dropped a fall of dung there
Upon my communion cloth’s face.
Such a sacrifice of praise
He made with such pranks.
translation: He made his hawk to fly, […]
And in the holy place (altar)
She dropped a fall of dung there
Upon my communion cloth’s face.
Such a sacrifice of praise
He made with such pranks.
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text: How strange and yet how good it was to thread those narrow passages once more! Their suffocating constriction and padded, ladderlike steps summoned up a thousand memories of gambades and trysts: coursing the white wolves, scourging the prisoners of the antechamber, reencountering Oringa.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 243–244:
glosses: A prank or frolic.
Synonyms: gambado
get about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets about
form: getting about
form: got about
form: got about
form: gotten about
Senses: examples: text: I can't get about so much since I hurt my hip.
text: The first walk I took when I grew stronger and was able to get about was up to Aunt Jane's, notwithstanding she had never so much as been to ask after me all these days.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To be mobile, physically active.
examples: text: If this story gets about then I'm finished.
synonyms: get out
glosses: To become widely known; to be leaked to the public or a wider audience.
examples: text: That's the third party Brenda's been to this week. She certainly gets about.
glosses: To visit a variety of different places.
construes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹuːz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of construe
construing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹuːɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of construe
construing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈstɹuːɪŋ/
Forms: form: construings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who construes.
galletting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galetting
form: galleting
form: garetting
form: garretting
form: garreting
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The insertion of flint fillets into the joints of masonry.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The resulting joint.
galletting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: galetting
form: galleting
form: garetting
form: garretting
form: garreting
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: present participle and gerund of gallet
rainier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rainy: more rainy
rainiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rainy: most rainy
frier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fryer.
frier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friers
Senses: examples: text: Franciscans , of their founders of Embryo's and idiots , eremites and friers
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, 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: Obsolete form of friar.
snowier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snowy: more snowy
snowiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snowy: most snowy
foxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fox
foxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxings
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: measles
mealiness
glosses: The discoloration of printed material with brown marks.
glosses: A band of material joining the upper of a shoe to the sole.
examples: text: "Here, wake up!" cried Silas. "None of your foxin'! Wake up! D'ye hear?" He shook him roughly by the shoulder, but the boy still slumbered on.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Crafty or wily behavior.
glosses: Pretending to be asleep or unconscious.
feeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fee
feeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The hiring of servants for a fee
Derived terms: feeing market
Barbados cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barbados cherries
Senses: glosses: acerola
acerola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æ.səˈɹəʊ.lə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: acerolas
Etymology: From Spanish acerola. Doublet of azarole.
Senses: glosses: Any tree of species Malpighia glabra, of the West Indies and northern South America.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
get at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets at
form: getting at
form: got at
form: got at
form: gotten at
Senses: examples: text: I have a lot of money in my trust fund. I just can't get at it.
glosses: To manage to gain access to.
examples: text: We need to get at the root cause of all this.
glosses: To understand or ascertain by investigation.
examples: text: I don't understand. What are you getting at?
synonyms: drive at
glosses: To mean, signify, imply.
examples: text: He's a bit disheartened. The newspapers have been getting at him again.
text: My cat was badly injured after the neighbour's dog got at her.
glosses: To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother.
examples: text: That was a ridiculous verdict. I think the jury was got at.
glosses: To persuade by intimidation; to tamper with; to corrupt.
examples: text: Stop procrastinating on your work and get at it!
synonyms: have at
get on
glosses: To begin working on or dealing with.
examples: text: I've got some things to do for about an hour. After that, get at me.
glosses: To contact someone.
glosses: To tease (someone).
Derived terms: getatable
ungetatable
epidemiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epidemiology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: With verve and clarity, he details mathematical epidemiological models, the life cycle of the malaria-causing Plasmodium and the relation between transmission and virulence.
ref: 2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:
glosses: Of or pertaining to epidemiology.
Synonyms: epidemiologic
Derived terms: clinicoepidemiological
ecoepidemiological
epidemiological curve
epidemiologically
geoepidemiological
immunoepidemiological
macroepidemiological
microepidemiological
neuroepidemiological
palaeoepidemiological
paleoepidemiological
pharmacoepidemiological
seroepidemiological
mapmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mapmakers
Etymology: From map + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes maps.
Synonyms: cartographer
marlinespike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlinespikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
marlinspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlinspikes
form: marlin spike
form: marlinespike
form: marline spike
form: marlingspike
form: marling spike
Etymology: From marline + spike.
Senses: examples: text: […] the afterguard, of whom they have but a sorry opinion, chiefly landsmen, never going aloft except to reef or furl the mainsail and in no wise competent to handle a marlinspike or turn in a dead-eye, say.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: There was / that interval of moonless calm filled only / with the water's and the rigging's usual sounds, / then sudden movement, blows and snarling cries / and they had fallen on us with machete / and marlinspike.
ref: 1962, Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage”, in David Lehman, editor, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, Oxford University Press, published 2006, page 585:
glosses: A tool, consisting of a pointed metal spike, used to manipulate the strands of rope or cable when knotting and splicing.
marlingspike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marlingspikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
marquisette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marquisettes
Etymology: Diminutive of French marquise
Senses: glosses: A sheer cotton fabric used for mosquito nets and curtains
mass-market
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mass-market
form: most mass-market
Senses: examples: text: Whether Glass will ever become a mass-market product, and smartglasses take off, is still unclear. Google is hedging its bets, however, with its new Android Wear and smartwatch initiative which is expected to be shown off at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco later this week.
ref: 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of a product, produced in large numbers, and designed to appeal to many different people.
Related terms: mass market
materialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: materializations
form: materialisation
Etymology: From material + -ization and materialize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: "But I went under nicely and I am glad there were some fine materializations."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187:
text: The Triadic Ballet was an antiballet: Schlemmer's model of theater was not influenced by the physical techniques and spatial perspective of ballet, but by the materialization of abstract principles of space and movement in the total mask of the costume.
ref: 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance, page 291:
glosses: The conversion of something into a physical form.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The conversion of energy into mass.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The creation of a temporary table containing the results of a database query.
Derived terms: dematerialization
matzot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matzo
matzoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matzo
maxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /makˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmæk.səˌlɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
rhymes: -æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: maxillar
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the jaw or jawbone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Of or pertaining to the maxillae of an arthropod.
Derived terms: admaxillary
antennomaxillary
articulomaxillary
bimaxillary
circummaxillary
coronomaxillary
craniomaxillary
dentomaxillary
ethmomaxillary
external maxillary artery
faciomaxillary
frontomaxillary
inframaxillary
intermaxillary
internal maxillary artery
intramaxillary
jugomaxillary
labiomaxillary
mandibulomaxillary
maxillary artery
maxillary nerve
maxillary palp
maxillary sinus
maxillary vein
nasomaxillary
odontomaxillary
orbitomaxillary
oromaxillary
palatomaxillary
paramaxillary
pharyngomaxillary
postmaxillary
premaxillary
premaxillomaxillary
promaxillary
pseudomaxillary
pterygomaxillary
retromaxillary
rhinomaxillary
septomaxillary
sphenomaxillary
stylomaxillary
submaxillary
supermaxillary
supramaxillary
temporomaxillary
tympanomaxillary
zygomaticomaxillary
zygomaxillary
maxillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /makˈsɪl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈmæk.səˌlɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
rhymes: -æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: maxillaries
form: maxillar
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: In the RODENTIA the interorbital space is still larger, by reason of the size of the intermaxillary bones throwing the maxillary backwards and to the sides, where they form the inner orbitar wall, in which the palate bones occupy only a small space. The anterior wall is formed by a process of the maxillary, which contributes to form the zygomatic arch, while the malar is suspended in the middle between the process and that of the temporal bone.
ref: 1842, Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 5:
text: Neoplastic localisations in the maxillaries can be distinguished between primitive tumour lesions with osteomedullary origin (osteoma, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, myeloma, etc.) and secondary neoplasms of the maxillaries such as the hematogenous metastasis or the tumours which affect the maxillaries for their adjacency, for example, the lesions in the oral cavity and the salivary glands.
ref: 2014, Ignazio Pandolfo, Silvio Mazziotti, Orthopantomography, page 148:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of maxilla.
examples: text: A tendon extends from the inner surface of the dentary to the postero-lateral surface of the maxillary near the ball and socket joint.
ref: 1928, Edna May Keeler, A Comparative Study of the Muscles Controlling the Maxillary Tentacles of the Siluridae, page 42:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tooth growing from the upper jawbone.
semiskilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-skilled
Etymology: From semi- + skilled.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: low-skilled
text: Semiskilled workers are cheaper than skilled workers but more productive than unskilled drudges.
text: The greater job security of skilled workers compared with semiskilled and unskilled workers was clearly evident during the 1960–61 recession.
ref: 1961, Occupational Outlook Handbook, page 336:
text: “Scientific” management principles recognized the significant role of machines in better and more efficient production systems. Specifically, semiskilled workers using machines could produce more than the skilled workers in small craft shops.
ref: 2008, Jon M. Werner, Randy L. DeSimone, Human Resource Development, →ISBN, page 6:
coordinate_terms: word: unskilled
word: ;
word: skilled
word: low-skilled
word: semiskilled
word: semi-skilled
qualifier: jobs; or the people who do them; jobs; or the people who do them
glosses: Requiring, or having, only minimal levels of training.
raw_tags: of tasks
Related terms: specialist
trained
semiprivate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + private.
Senses: examples: text: Since there were few semiprivate sociopetal spaces or other facilities that could promote the formation of a social order, the informal social networks found in lower class neighborhoods didn’t develop.
ref: 1978, Paul A[llan] Bell, Jeffrey D[avid] Fisher, Ross J[ohn] Loomis, “Environmental Solutions to Urban Problems”, in Environmental Psychology, Philadelphia, Pa.; London; Toronto, Ont.: W[alter] B[urns] Saunders Company, →ISBN, chapter 8 (The City), page 304:
glosses: More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that is shared by two patients in contradistinction to a ward containing many patients.
self-worth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-worths
Etymology: From self- + worth.
Senses: examples: text: Recognizing one's self-worth is a necessary step to respecting the worth of others.
text: Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people.
ref: 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:
glosses: The value one assigns to oneself or one's abilities in self assessment.
self-styled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + styled.
Senses: examples: text: This self-styled king of the hill must prove himself before the title has any worth.
text: “A more heartfelt word, notwithstanding its playfulness,” said the elder lady, “than some of those self-styled patriots, that come here to give us laws, would pronounce, I have no doubt.”
ref: 1847, Emily Chubbuck, Allen Lucas, the Self-made Man, page 152:
text: Partial results showed Hollande – a former Socialist party leader, rural MP and self-styled Mr Normal – with a clear lead at more than 28%, compared with Sarkozy on 27%.
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
text: If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: self-proclaimed
self-appointed
self-professed
self-ordained
soi-disant
wannabe
tryhard
glosses: Claimed by the recipient, as a title one gave to oneself.
overfurnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + furnished.
Senses: glosses: pretentiously or ostentatiously decorated.
glosses: cluttered
medicine cabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicine cabinets
Senses: glosses: A cupboard where drugs and medical paraphernalia are stored.
glosses: A cupboard in the bathroom that contains toiletries and other items; a bathroom cabinet.
Synonyms: sense: cupboard for drugs
word: medicine chest
medicine cabinets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medicine cabinet
humplock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humplocks
Senses: glosses: hillock
hillfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hillforts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hill-fort.
hill-fort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill-forts
form: hill fort
form: hillfort
Senses: glosses: A prehistoric fortification constructed on a hill.
heugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heughs
form: heuch
Etymology: From Old English hōh (“promontory”). The southern form is hoe.
Senses: glosses: A steep crag or cliff, especially one overlooking a river
glosses: A glen with steep, overhanging sides; a cleugh
glosses: The face of a quarry or mine
heritour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heritours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of heritor.
heritor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heritors
form: heretor
form: heritour
Etymology: From Middle English heriter, from Anglo-Norman heriter, Old French heritier, earlier eretier, eritier, from Late Latin hērēditārium (from the adjective hērēditārius (“hereditary”)), which took the place of hērēs (“heir”). In the 16th century conformed to agent nouns in -our, -or. By surface analysis, herit + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
examples: text: The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
"To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
Coordinate terms: heritress
heritrix
Derived terms: coheritor
headrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headraces
form: head-race
Etymology: From head + race.
Senses: glosses: The part of a millrace that brings water to the millwheel.
glosses: A time trial in the sport of rowing.
millwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millwheels
form: mill wheel
Etymology: From Middle English milnewhel, from Old English mylenhwēol (“millwheel”), equivalent to mill + wheel.
Senses: glosses: A water wheel used to power a watermill.
hauch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hauchs
Senses: glosses: A cough or gasp
hamesucken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamesuckens
form: haimsucken
Etymology: From Old English hám-sócn, literally "home-seeking, an attack upon a house; also the fine exacted for this". Compare German Heimsuchung.
Senses: coordinate_terms: stouthrief
glosses: An assault on a person in his own home, having broken in for that purpose.
cornage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornages
Etymology: From Latin cornū (“horn”).
Senses: glosses: A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
topics: law
glosses: An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
Related terms: headage
hornblower
cothouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cothouses
form: cote-house
form: cot-house
Etymology: From cot + house.
Senses: examples: text: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A small cottage, especially one that was the home of a cottar.