cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rough-hew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rough-hews
form: rough-hewing
form: rough-hewed
form: rough-hewn
Etymology: From rough + hew.
Senses: examples: text: Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.
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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: It seems to me, then, that one must either be a ‘marinist’ […], or be a sub-äerialist, and believe that in Pre-Permian times the sea rough-hewed a block of country which the atmosphere has ever since been carving into its now complex and beautiful form.
ref: 1870, J. Clifton Ward, Geological Magazine, VII.67:
text: Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.
ref: 1915, George Wharton James, The Lake of the Sky:
glosses: To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface.
rough-hewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A huge piece of rough-hewn Shap granite stands in the centre of the village as a memorial to Adam Sedgwick.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:
glosses: Hewn roughly without a neat finish.
Related terms: rough-hew
roughhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌf.haʊs/
ipa: /ˈɹʌf.haʊz/
Forms: form: rough house
form: rough-house
Etymology: From rough + house.
Senses: glosses: rowdy behaviour
roughhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌf.haʊs/
ipa: /ˈɹʌf.haʊz/
Forms: form: roughhouses
form: roughhousing
form: roughhoused
form: roughhoused
form: rough house
form: rough-house
Etymology: From rough + house.
Senses: examples: text: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
glosses: To behave rowdily or violently.
To play roughly (with physical roughness).
synonyms: horseplay#Verb
examples: text: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing, until the police drove by.
glosses: To behave rowdily or violently.
To commit physical assault.
examples: text: Out in the street, some delinquents were roughhousing a victim, until the police drove by.
synonyms: rough up
work over
glosses: To treat (someone or something) roughly or violently.
roundelay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndɪˌleɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹaʊndəˌleɪ/
Forms: form: roundelays
form: rondelay
Etymology: From Middle French rondelet, diminutive of Old French rondel (French: rondeau). Ending -lay either from lay (“ballad or sung poem”), or from virelay.
Senses: examples: text: It fell upon a holly eve,
Hey ho, hollidaye!
When holly fathers wont to shrieve,
Now gynneth this roundelay.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: When merry milkmaids click the latch
And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch
Twice or thrice his roundelay,
Twice or thrice his roundelay;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.
ref: 1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, Song - The Owl:
text: "Ay, fool," said Tristram, "but 'tis eating dry
To dance without a catch, a roundelay
To dance to." Then he twangled on his harp,
And while he twangled little Dagonet stood
Quiet as any water-sodden log
Stay'd in the wandering warble of a brook;[…]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: For then the little birds do sing their sweetest song, all joining in one joyous medley, whereof one may scarce tell one note from another, so multitudinous is that pretty roundelay;[…]
ref: 1903, Howard Pyle, “Chapter First”, in The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part II, page 61:
text: "Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals.
glosses: A dance in a circle.
glosses: Anything having a round form; a roundel.
Related terms: rondeau
roundel
in-line skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-line skates
form: inline skate
Senses: glosses: A rollerblade: a roller skate with all wheels aligned in a single row along the sole for greater speed and maneuverability.
Coordinate terms: quad skate
Related terms: in-line skater
in-line skating
inline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in-line.
inline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inlines
form: inlining
form: inlined
form: inlined
Senses: examples: text: Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
ref: 2000, Dov Bulka, David Mayhew, Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques, page 149:
text: Because functions that contain references to this cannot be inlined, the Compiler's ability to devirtualize prototype methods is even more important in terms of reducing the size of compiled code. By devirtualizing methods and removing references to this, more methods become functions that are candidates for inlining.
ref: 2010, Michael Bolin, Closure: The Definitive Guide:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
coordinate_terms: outline
glosses: To optimize using in-line expansion.
Derived terms: inlinable
inline engine
inline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlines
Senses: examples: text: Bold and italic tags are inline elements.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
qualifier: Cascading Style Sheets
glosses: An element that occurs within the flow of the text.
Derived terms: inlineable
inliner
camelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camelias
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of camellia.
flox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔks/
ipa: /flɒks/
homophone: flocks
homophone: phlox
Forms: form: floxes
form: floxing
form: floxed
form: floxed
Etymology: Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"
Senses: examples: text: In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.
ref: 2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.
ref: 2007, Curt D. Sigmund, David E. Stec, “Genetic Manipulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Using Cre-loxP-Recombinase”, in Donna H. Wang, editor, Angiotensin Protocols, →ISBN, page 62:
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP".
Derived terms: deflox
Related terms: english: floxed
translation: floxed
word: Quinolone antibiotic on Wikipedia. for the nickname for severe reactions to quinolone antibiotics.
flox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔks/
ipa: /flɒks/
homophone: flocks
homophone: phlox
Etymology: Blend of fluorine + liquid oxygen
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Flox.
flox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔks/
ipa: /flɒks/
homophone: flocks
homophone: phlox
Forms: form: floxes
form: floxing
form: floxed
form: floxed
Etymology: Blend of fluorine + liquid oxygen
Senses: examples: text: It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.
ref: 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences, page 94:
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
Related terms: lox
flox silk
backgrounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backgrounders
Etymology: From background + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: One of the President's aides gave us a ten-minute backgrounder on the dairy industry before the meeting.
glosses: A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
examples: text: […] backgrounders paint static background scenes, and then the animation components are layered on top […]
ref: 1996, Ron Goldberg, Multimedia Producer's Bible, page 284:
glosses: A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
glosses: A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
ballsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔlzi/
enpr: bôl'zē
Forms: form: ballsier
form: ballsiest
Etymology: From balls (“courage”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: On a movie like this, I don’t mind doing [the scene] as written, but I do do a lot of improv. I’m sort of a rapid-fire ballsy talker, and so I bring that to the character whenever it’s appropriate to the scene. That never makes it in.
ref: 2016 June 2, Melena Ryzik, “Megan Fox on ‘Ninja Turtles’ and Female Stereotypes in Film”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tough and courageous; having balls.
Derived terms: ballsily
ballsiness
bait-and-switch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Despite Healy's argument that the Liberty Fund would go to worthwhile causes, many felt the Red Cross had deliberately misled donors by using September 11th in a bait-and-switch ploy.
ref: 2001 November 14, Jessica Reaves, “Red Faces at the Red Cross”, in Time:
text: The FTC commissioner, Rohit Chopra, called AT&T’s actions a “massive fraud”. “AT&T’s bait-and-switch scam is a good window into the many harms that result from dominant companies operating without the discipline of meaningful competition,” Chopra said in a statement.
ref: 2019 November 5, Rohit Chopra, quotee, “'Bait-and-switch scam': AT&T fined $60m over data throttling allegations”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Relating to use of bait and switch (offering one attractive exchange initially, but not honoring the offer) in business, politics, and elsewhere.
bait-and-switch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bait-and-switches
form: bait-and-switching
form: bait-and-switched
form: bait-and-switched
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most baffling and frustrating feature of the mortgage mess is that, to my knowledge, the House Financial Services Committee never held public hearings in which bait-and-switched homeowners testified as to how their mortgage payments doubled in just a few years[…]
ref: 2009, Jane White, America, Welcome to the Poorhouse […] , FT Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: To my surprise, even shock, both of them spent the entire trip sputtering and whining—about being bait-and-switched when their employee-ownership shares of United Airlines had been evaporated by its recent bankruptcy, […]
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To exploit using bait and switch.
baldfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baldfaced
form: most baldfaced
Etymology: From bald + faced.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the organization has groundlessly denounced Elon Musk, a powerful libertarian voice, as an antisemite in a baldfaced effort to drain his social network, X, of advertising revenue. Yet, when now-Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) came to the defense of his uncle for antisemitic remarks he made in the ’90s, the organization refused to condemn him.
ref: 2024 February 16, Mike Howell, “Partnership With ADL Compromises FBI’s Integrity and Fairness”, in The Daily Signal:
glosses: Alternative form of bald-faced.
so and so
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: so and sos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of so-and-so.
bandbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandboxes
form: band-box
Etymology: From band + box.
Senses: examples: text: There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.
ref: 1836, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country, page 6:
text: On the evening of Easter Sunday the gypsies of Southern Europe take a wooden vessel like a band-box, which rests cradle-wise on two cross pieces of wood.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 208:
hypernyms: box
glosses: A box of lightweight construction (e.g. cardboard, thin wood) for carrying hats or other apparel items.
glosses: A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.
Derived terms: bandboxical
bandboxy
bandmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandmasters
Etymology: From band + master.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The conductor of a musical ensemble, especially a brass or military band.
bandolier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbændəˈlɪɹ/
ipa: /ˌbændəˈlɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bandoliers
form: bandoleer
form: bandelier
form: bandileer
Etymology: From earlier form bandollier, from Middle French bandoulliere, from Catalan bandolera, feminine derivative of bandoler (“member of a band of men”), from Catalan bàndol (“band, faction, party”), from Old Spanish bando.
Senses: examples: text: The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him[…]; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.
 “None better to face peril or adversity with, but a change is coming, and one cannot always wear the bandolier,” he said.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 32, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: We had each bandoliers of cartridges.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: […] with the casual but combative look of the urban photographer, black T-shirt and baseball boots, twenty-pocketed waistcoat and bandolier of film.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: An ammunition belt, worn over the shoulder, having loops or pockets for cartridges.
Derived terms: bandolier bag
bandoliered
bandolierwise
bandsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandsmen
Etymology: From band + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: If the reader finds a certain monotony in the words chosen by the translator I hope he will realize that the bandsman has to operate within the limits of his instrument.
ref: 1973, Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, translation of original by Jaroslav Hašek, Translator's introduction, page xxi:
text: It was military bandsmen, their uniform coats unbuttoned, who supplied the merry tune, from a clarinet, a tuba, a fife.
ref: 2005, E. L. Doctorow, The March, New York: Random House, Part One, p. 28:
text: ‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars[.]
ref: 2025 October 21, Donna Ferguson, “London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
war
glosses: A player in a musical band, especially a military or brass band.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A labourer (loader) working with a band of men.
bankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bankable
form: most bankable
Etymology: From bank + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a bankable check
glosses: Acceptable to a bank.
examples: text: a bankable film star
text: The literary life evidently suits [Laura] Conrad, who for five years has lived in a fabulous truth-illusion netherworld as MTV’s most bankable reality-and-tabloid personality.
ref: 2009 July 15, Virginia Heffernan, “Bibliovision”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Three of them—Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich—had contracts with Fox News that paid them handsomely to say outrageous and thus bankable things on a regular basis.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Alter, chapter 14, in The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Certain to bring profit and success, especially in the entertainment industry.
glosses: Reliable.
Derived terms: bankability
nonbankable
unbankable
bankbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋkˌbʊk/
Forms: form: bankbooks
form: bank-book
form: bank book
Etymology: From bank + book.
Senses: examples: text: Her folks, they said, our lives together
#*: Sure was gonna be rough
#*: They never did like Mama's homemade dress
#*: Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, Tangled Up in Blue:
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: wealth
Related terms: chequebook
savings book
bantamweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæntəmˌweɪt/
Forms: form: bantamweights
Etymology: From bantam + weight.
Senses: topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A weight class in boxing and other sports, intermediate between flyweight and featherweight. In boxing it ranges from 112 to 118 pounds (51 to 54 kg).
glosses: A boxer or other competitor of this weight.
barberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹbɛɹi/
Forms: form: barberries
Etymology: From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis (on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs)), influenced by berie (“berry”). Doublet of berberis and related to Berber.
Senses: examples: text: BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.
ref: 1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:
synonyms: berberis
glosses: Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
glosses: The edible fruit of these shrubs.
Derived terms: California barberry
common barberry
creeping barberry
holly barberry
holly-leaved barberry
Japanese barberry
Magellan barberry
barhop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barhops
form: barhopping
form: barhopped
form: barhopped
Etymology: From bar (“drinking establishment”) + hop (“move rapidly between locations”).
Senses: examples: text: If you came in thinking masculinity was inherently hostile to women, you were very likely to pick up hostility from this professor—not because it was there, but because the guylike behaviors of liking sports, barhopping, watching action movies, talking about cars, and such were all deeply ingrained in him […]
ref: 2009, David Ellis Dickerson, House of Cards:
glosses: To drink at a number of bars during a single day or evening.
barbarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: barbarizes
form: barbarizing
form: barbarized
form: barbarized
Senses: glosses: To cause to become savage or uncultured.
examples: text: The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
ref: 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
glosses: To become savage or uncultured.
examples: text: The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
ref: [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
glosses: To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
Derived terms: barbarization
debarbarize
rebarbarize
unbarbarize
barroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: barrooms
form: bar room
Etymology: From bar + room.
Senses: examples: text: Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
ref: 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
synonyms: taproom
glosses: A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
Derived terms: barroom brawl
baronage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbæɹənɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: baronages
Etymology: From Middle English barnage, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) barnage, from baron + -age, with the loss of a syllable.
Senses: examples: text: the baronage of the kingdom
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: barons or nobles collectively
glosses: an annotated list of barons or peers
glosses: barony, the dignity or rank of a baron
glosses: barony, the land which gives title to a baron
baronetcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baronetcies
Etymology: From baronet + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The rank of a baronet.
Synonyms: baronetship
baronial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹəʊnɪəɫ/
rhymes: -əʊniəl
Forms: form: more baronial
form: most baronial
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to a baron or barons.
glosses: Suitable for a baron.
glosses: Impressive in appearance; stately; imposing
Derived terms: baronially
nonbaronial
Scottish Baronial
semibaronial
Related terms: comital
ducal
kingly
margravial
noble
princely
regal
royal
vicontiel
viscomital
basketwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketworks
form: basket work
form: basket-work
Etymology: From basket + -work.
Senses: examples: text: 1671, John Burbury, A Relation of the Journey of the Right Honourable My Lord Henry Howard from London to Vienna, and thence to Constantinople, London: T. Collins et al., p. 172,
The Village Walls resemble those in Hungary, but are something worse, being only long Stakes thrust into the Ground, and crossed through like Basket-work, and so dawbed all over on both sides with Mud and Dirt.
text: [T]he smoke, having no means to escape but through a hole in the roof, eddied round the rafters of the cottage, and hung in sable folds at the height of about five feet from the floor. The space beneath was kept pretty clear, by innumerable currents of air which rushed towards the fire from the broken pannel of basket-work which served as a door, [...]
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony.
ref: 1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter II, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part III, page 126:
text: Once again he leaned forward, his hands grasping the basket-work rim of his chair.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 50, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
synonyms: wicker
wickerwork
glosses: Material woven in the style of a basket.
examples: text: In one of his letters to Mrs [Madge] Kendal, Joseph [Merrick] mentioned that he hoped one day to be able to learn basket work. She promptly arranged for an instructor to teach him the craft.
ref: 1980, Michael Howell, Peter Ford, chapter 9, in The True History of the Elephant Man, Penguin, page 123:
synonyms: basketry
basket weaving
glosses: The craft of making such material.
basswood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæswʊd/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -æswʊd
Forms: form: basswoods
Etymology: From bass (“fibrous inner bark”) + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood.
bathhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: bathhouses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).
Senses: examples: text: […] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
ref: 2009, Rona Sharon, Royal Blood:
text: The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.
ref: 2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:
glosses: A building with baths for communal use.
glosses: A building where swimmers can change clothes.
glosses: A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
Derived terms: Bathhouse Barry
battledore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.təl.dɔː/
ipa: /ˈbæ.tɫ̩.dɔː/
ipa: /ˈbæ.tɫ̩.dɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: battledores
form: battledoor
Etymology: From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).
Senses: glosses: A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.
examples: text: Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.
ref: 1797, George Staunton, “Cochin-china”, in An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; […] In Two Volumes, […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge] Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 339:
text: There were nights when it seemed to me that our position could be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed with battledores, for that matter.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: The racket used in this game.
examples: text: You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.
ref: 1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface:
glosses: A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
examples: text: There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.
ref: 1563, John Foxe, chapter 21, in The Book of Martyrs:
text: The laundry process of the time [1665] consisted of boiling textiles with lye or soap and then beating them with a battledore, a rustic version of a cricket bat.
ref: 2018 October 25, Matthew Taub, “Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool”, in Atlas Obscura:
glosses: A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them.
Derived terms: know B from a battledore
know a B from a battledore
battlefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlefronts
Etymology: From battle + front.
Senses: glosses: The region or line along which opposing armies engage in combat.
glosses: The area in which opponents or opposing ideas meet.
clothier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊðiə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: clothiers
Etymology: From Middle English clother; equivalent to cloth + -ier; the word was later remodelled on words such as hotelier.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I think she should come out of black. Let me help dress her. I know the Italian clothiers.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 33:
synonyms: draper
glosses: A person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.
bayberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayberries
Etymology: From bay + berry.
Senses: examples: text: It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
examples: text: The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern).
ref: 2002, James Fralish, Scott Franklin, Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests, Myricaceae (Bayberry or Wax-Myrtle Family), page 230:
glosses: The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.
Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.
examples: text: [T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:
glosses: The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).
glosses: West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.
Synonyms: sense: Morella cerifera
word: wax myrtle
sense: species in the family Myricaceae
word: candleberry
sense: species in the family Myricaceae
word: wax myrtle
Derived terms: taxonomic: Nageia nagi
word: Asian bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica cerifera
word: bayberry tallow
taxonomic: Myrica cerifera
word: bayberry waxtree
taxonomic: Salix myricoides
word: bayberry willow
taxonomic: Myrica californica
word: California bayberry
taxonomic: Morella rubra
alt: syn. Myrica rubra
word: Chinese bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica faya
word: faya bayberry
taxonomic: Morella rubra
word: Japanese bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica pensylvanica
word: northern bayberry
taxonomic: Morella rubra
word: red bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica inodora
word: scentless bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica hartwegii
word: Sierra bayberry
taxonomic: Myrica cerifera
word: southern bayberry
wax myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wax myrtles
Senses: glosses: An evergreen bayberry, especially Morella cerifera (syn. Myrica cerifera) of the southern U.S., the wax covering its nutlets being used for making scented candles.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Myrica californica
word: California wax myrtle
beachwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beach + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
beading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bead
beading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: beadings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A decorative, ornamental molding often used to conceal a joint.
qualifier: craft
glosses: beadwork
examples: the beading of a brand of whisky
glosses: The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors.
glosses: A Samburu ceremony in which a father gives a necklace to his daughter.
beady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiː.di/
ipa: /ˈbi.di/
rhymes: -iːdi
Forms: form: beadier
form: more beady
form: beadiest
form: most beady
Etymology: From bead + -y.
Senses: examples: text: seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.
ref: 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
glosses: Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
examples: text: Cracked eggs, dead birds, scream as they fight for life / I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
ref: 1996, Radiohead, “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”, in The Bends:
glosses: Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look)
glosses: Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
examples: text: beady liquor
glosses: Characterized by beads.
Derived terms: beadily
beadiness
beady eye
Related terms: beady-eyed
beadies
beanstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beanstalks
Etymology: From bean + stalk.
Senses: glosses: The stem of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing and tall.
glosses: A tall, slim person.
examples: text: If we don't build a Beanstalk, somebody else will—and once one is working, the number of rocket launches will drop to zero. That's the source of more than half our income.
ref: 1979, Charles Sheffield, The Web Between the Worlds:
text: I have never liked riding the Beanstalk. My distaste was full-blown even before the disaster to the Quito Skyhook. A cable that goes up into the sky with nothing to hold it up smells too much of magic.
ref: 1982, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, Friday, page 1:
text: Space elevators proposed for the Earth require novel high-strength materials and a substantial counterweight for their implementation. The problem becomes easier for Mars. There is no available "counterweight" for a synchronous "beanstalk" but Phobos proves a substantial anchor in non-synchronous orbit. A tether extending 1456 km from Phobos could release objects into an orbit just entering the Martian atmosphere, providing a launch and recovery device for Mars Excursion Modules. Extending the "beanstalk" to a length of 5832 km would place the end at the fringes of the Martian atmosphere.
ref: 2005 May 24, Bob Parkinson, “Partial Beanstalks for Mars Exploration”, in Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, volume 58, number 05/06, page 197:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A space elevator.
bearish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bearish
form: most bearish
Etymology: From bear + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.
examples: text: At the start of the year, Bridgewater turned bearish on U.S. bonds and built up a short position.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
raw_tags: of the price of financial instruments
examples: text: The Germans were downcast because of Eastern Europe and Helmut Schmidt's decline, the Arabs were depressed because of oil and Iraq, the French were bearish because of their government; only the British seemed a little upbeat, but that was before the Falkland Islands incident.
ref: 2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market: Barton's Market Chronicles from the Morgan Stanley Years, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: Pessimistic about the future.
Derived terms: bearishly
bearishness
unbearish
beat-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beat-up
form: most beat-up
Senses: glosses: Worn out by overuse; in a state of disrepair
raw_tags: of an object
beat-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat-ups
Senses: examples: 2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section
“It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up."
2009, Michael Cook, 'Is Britain’s stem cell crisis a beat-up?', BioEdge
Few areas of science journalism are more susceptible to frothy beat-ups than stem cell research.
glosses: An artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media.
beautician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bjuːˈtɪ(t)ʃən/
Forms: form: beauticians
Etymology: Blend of beauty + technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s.
Senses: synonyms: aesthetician
beauty specialist
cosmetician
cosmetologist
glosses: Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.
wikipedia: Cleveland, Ohio
Derived terms: loctician
Related terms: beautiful
beautifully
beauty
gynoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪˌnɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: gynoids
Etymology: From gyno- + android.
Senses: examples: text: She was obviously a skillful surgeon. She expertly cleaned and sterilized the gaping holes in the gynoid’s chest and back.
ref: 2000, Thomas J. Sanders, God's Fire, Trafford Publishing, page 58:
text: Purchased as sex toys, the gynoids are programmed to love and sexually serve male humans; the aberrant violence of one particular model, called "Hadaly," is a mystery to the company that manufactures them. They should not be able to kill humans, nor should they have any desire to commit suicide, since they should have no real sense of self.⁴⁴ Batõ and his new partner, Togusa (who was Kusanagi's partner in the previous film), spend the rest of the film trying to discover how the gynoids have acquired their faulty programming—is it the work of a terrorist hacker, for example, targeting prominent men?
ref: 2006, Sharalyn Orbagh, “5: Frankenstein and the Cyborg Metropolis: The Evolution of Body and City in Science Fiction Narratives”, in Steven T. Brown, editor, Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation, Springer, page 99:
text: She is embodied as a bright blue feminized robot, much like the mechanized gynoids in the classic film Metropolis (1928).
ref: 2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, New York University Press, page 82:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An android (humanoid robot) in female form.
Synonyms: fembot
robotess
Hypernyms: android
gynoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪˌnɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Senses: examples: text: a gynoid fat distribution
antonyms: android
glosses: Gynaecoid.
examples: text: The work intensity and duration was identical in android and gynoid obese women in this study, making it unlikely that energy expenditure in the training program was different in these two groups.
ref: 1987, Richard J. Wurtman, Judith J. Wurtman, Human Obesity, New York Academy of Sciences, page 71:
text: 2008, Sharon Plowman, Denise Smith, Exercise Physiology for Health, Fitness, and Performance, Benjamin Cummings, Wolters Kluwer, 2nd Edition, page 219,
Alpha-receptors predominate in the lower body and are thus more abundant in the gynoid pattern.
text: As a result, measured ratios of estrogen to testosterone in women predict their ratios of gynoid fat to android fat (Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b; Kirchengast et al., 1997). As should also be expected, women with higher ratios of gynoid to android fat are more fertile than their counterparts with lower ratios (Kirchengast et al., 1997; Singh, 1993, 1995, 2002a,b).
ref: 2008, Randy Thornhill, Steven W. Gangestad, The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality, Oxford University Press, page 114:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or following the distribution pattern of the type of body fat, more prevalent in women, that forms around the hips, breasts and thighs and is relatively rich in the long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which are important in the development of foetuses.
Derived terms: english: gluteofemoral pattern, pear pattern
translation: gluteofemoral pattern, pear pattern
word: gynoid pattern
bedpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedposts
Etymology: From bed + post.
Senses: glosses: Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead.
Derived terms: between you and me and the bedpost
in the twinkling of a bedpost
notch in one's bedpost
notch on one's bedpost
notch on the bedpost
roundhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: roundhouses
form: round house
Etymology: From round + house.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he gentlemen in the coffee room insisted upon the watch being called, or a constable. With considerable difficulty the two heroes were carried off to the round-house, and there lodged for the night.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 137
hypernyms: jailhouse
coordinate_terms: big house
glosses: A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: wheelhouse
pilothouse
glosses: The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: head
glosses: A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
examples: text: Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
ref: 1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: Archaeologists working on HS2 in Birmingham have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse at Curzon Street station.
ref: 2020 March 25, “Network News: HS2 work uncovers oldest roundhouse”, in Rail, page 16:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable.
examples: text: A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 66:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: wheelhouse
glosses: A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
glosses: A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
Derived terms: Atlantic roundhouse
roundhouse kick
Related terms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: engine shed
roundhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊndˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: roundhouses
form: roundhousing
form: roundhoused
form: roundhoused
form: round house
Etymology: From round + house.
Senses: examples: text: We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and got roundhoused by the insurgent hook.
ref: 2008 March 16, Nathaniel Fick, “Worries Over Being ‘Slimed’”, in New York Times:
text: I'm on my feet and my fist is roundhousing and I feel flesh. I hit again, and teeth crack under my fist. I hear voices and they're shouting and a light burns into my face.
ref: 2009, Diane Tullson, Riley Park, page 18:
glosses: To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
roundish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roundish
form: most roundish
Etymology: From round + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Leaflets 9-11, roundish, of a firm texture, the lowest pair smaller than the rest, glaucous.
ref: 1820, John Lindley, Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical History of Roses, page 42:
text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: Somewhat round.
roundly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roundly
form: most roundly
Etymology: From Middle English roundly, roundely, roundliche, equivalent to round + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Circularly.
examples: text: Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: When, over in the east, General Valentine Baker led his force of four thousand irregulars against Osman Digna, he was roundly thrashed.
ref: 1974, Richard Garrett, General Gordon, page 203:
text: A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now this shy South African with Asperger’s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcame personal tragedy, bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
text: Weak management and a small team of civil servants who were out of their depth have been roundly blamed for the £4 billion overspend on London's Elizabeth line (Crossrail) and its opening four years late in May 2022.
ref: 2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “Network News: Weak bosses and staff blamed for Crossrail overspend”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 20:
glosses: Utterly or thoroughly.
examples: text: Moko, a name given by sportsmen to pheasants killed by mistake during September, before the pheasant-shooting comes in. They pull out their tails, and roundly assert that they are no pheasants at all, but mokos.
ref: 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
glosses: Boldly; openly.
glosses: Briskly.
glosses: Generally.
Synonyms: completely
deeply
firmly
fully
perfectly
soundly
thoroughly
totally
roundness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundnesses
Etymology: From Middle English roundnesse, equivalent to round + -ness.
Senses: topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quality or degree of being round.
The degree of accuracy to which a manufactured object intended to be round fulfills that requirement; it is measured by parameters such as TIR (total indicator reading).
coordinate_terms: flatness
sphericity
examples: text: I gazed at her arm. Where was its wonderful roundness and beauty? It was getting thin and angular.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or degree of being round.
Synonym of rotundity.
synonyms: word: rotundity
round-shouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more round-shouldered
form: most round-shouldered
Senses: glosses: Having a rounded upper back, and shoulders that bend forward.
roundtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundtables
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of round table.