cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bapticostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bapticostal
form: most Bapticostal
Etymology: Blend of Baptist + Pentecostal
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the blending of Baptist and charismatic theologies, especially acceptance of the charismatic gifts.
examples: "We tend to be a little Bapticostal where I go.--Mike Huckabee, December 17, 2007.
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Baptist worship service similar to that of charismatic churches, especially in the use of high-tempo contemporary Christian music, raising of hands, and spontaneous shouts.
severable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more severable
form: most severable
Etymology: From sever + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being severed.
topics: economics
law
sciences
glosses: Capable of being separated.
Derived terms: inseverable
severability
unseverable
antilopine kangaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilopine kangaroos
Senses: glosses: A kangaroo of species Macropus antilopinus, found in northern Australia.
Synonyms: sense: Macropus antilopinus
word: antilopine wallaby
sense: Macropus antilopinus
word: antilopine wallaroo
antilopine wallaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilopine wallabies
Senses: glosses: antilopine kangaroo
antilopine wallaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilopine wallaroos
Senses: glosses: antilopine kangaroo
disturbingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disturbingly
form: most disturbingly
Etymology: From disturbing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “RIP Harambe” turned into a meme that took a disturbingly long time to go away.
ref: 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
glosses: In a disturbing manner.
disunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈjuːnɪti/
Forms: form: disunities
Etymology: From dis- + unity.
Senses: examples: text: Others support either the North or the Free State; and so where there is disunity there is dissension.
ref: 1924 September 29, “Irish Crisis”, in Time:
glosses: The lack of unity or cohesion.
Related terms: disunite
disunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disunity
diversities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diversity
dockside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docksides
Etymology: From dock + -side.
Senses: examples: text: On the other side of the road the double track admits to a complicated rail network totalling some 78 miles of dockside track that carries more express passenger traffic than any other completely unsignalled layout in the country, in addition to a huge tonnage of freight.
ref: 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 88:
text: Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
glosses: The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship.
Derived terms: docksider
secundum
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Latin secundum.
Senses: glosses: according to
Related terms: secundum artem
secundum naturam
secundum quid
docksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dockside
playfellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌfɛləʊ/
Forms: form: playfellows
Etymology: From play + fellow.
Senses: examples: text: From this time Elizabeth Lavenza became my playfellow, and, as we grew older, my friend.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 46:
text: "Linton is just six months younger than I am," […] "How delightful it will be to have him for a playfellow!"
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter V, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume II, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 101:
text: Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows—carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “The White Ape”, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC, page 59:
text: "I’ve brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: A playmate; a companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
Derived terms: playfellowship
doorsteps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorstep
dramatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dramatize
dramatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dramatize
dramatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dramatize
in focus
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field.
ref: 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Sharp and clear with no fuzziness.
raw_tags: of an image
examples: text: As he spoke the plan became in focus.
glosses: Clearly perceived.
raw_tags: of one's thoughts
Mycenaean Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Mycenaean
glosses: The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, written in Linear B script.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mycenaean Greek terms
vicissity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [vɪˈsɪs.ɨˌti]
ipa: [vaɪˈsɪs.ɨˌti]
Forms: form: vicissities
Etymology: From viciss(itous) + -ity, from Latin vicissitas. Mentioned since at least 1717, in Elisha Coles's An English Dictionary.
Senses: examples: text: While to your ears, a father does unfold / The various scenes by turns which checquer'd o'er / My life, vicissities of bliss and woe. / When our offended Maker deem'd to cheer / Offending man, with promises of love, / And reconciling mercy, tell me, Eve, / Associate dear, in fortune's every change, / …
ref: 1763, Thomas Newcomb (translating Salomon Gessner's German work to English), The Death of Abel. A Sacred Poem. Written Originally [by Salomon Gessner] in the German language, attempted in the stile of Milton by the Rev. Thomas Newcomb, page 33
text: It is well enough known that species of the lower forms of plant life, such as ferns and mosses amid the vicissities of change of situation, have spread over both hemispheres without such a departure from the central type as would constitute a distinct species; but is this true as regards higher forms, such as cycads and conifers?
ref: 1885, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, page 164:
text: Thomas Jefferson Gentry, an aspiring young lawyer, becomes a protege of Tammany, experiences all the vicissities of politics, and throws himself upon the mercies of Peggy McShane, a blue-eyed Irish lass, who heroically accepts him.
ref: 1928, Henry Louis Mencken, The American Mercury - Volume 15:
text: Seeing things thus will have their course, their appointed changes and vicissities, no contrivance or labor of men can prevent it.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Edwards, Stephen J. Stein, The "blank Bible" - Volume 24, Part 1, page 585:
glosses: A change, as of fortune.
Related terms: vicissitous
vicissitude
Atlantic Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Atlantic Time
coordinate_terms: Atlantic Daylight Time
glosses: The time of day in the time zone that encompasses the east coast of Canada, which lies on the Atlantic Ocean.
interpuncts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interpunct
charge up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: charges up
form: charging up
form: charged up
form: charged up
Senses: examples: text: You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.
glosses: To recharge, to give electrical power to something.
examples: text: The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.
glosses: To motivate, to instill someone with determination.
examples: text: The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]
ref: 2009, Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking:
glosses: To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing.
Related terms: charge down
fluff up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluffs up
form: fluffing up
form: fluffed up
form: fluffed up
Senses: examples: text: Fluff up the pillows to get the bed ready for guests.
glosses: To plump up.
examples: text: I fluffed up on that tricky ski jump.
glosses: To make a gaffe or blunder; to fuck up.
time-waster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-wasters
form: timewaster
Senses: examples: text: I showed him round the property thinking he was a prospective buyer, but in fact he was just a time-waster.
glosses: Someone who wastes their own time or the time of others.
examples: text: Email was supposed to improve business efficiency, but all too often it turns out to be a time-waster.
glosses: Something unproductive.
examples: text: This puzzle book is a good time-waster when my train is late.
glosses: Something which passes the time that may or may not be seen positively.
Related terms: waste of time
time vampire
dramatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dramatization
frenzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frenzy
dredges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dredge
dredges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dredge
dynamicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈnæm.ɪs.ɪst/
Forms: form: dynamicists
Etymology: From dynamic + -ist.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A person who studies dynamics.
dynamicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamicist
eagled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eagle
earthier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of earthy: more earthy
earthiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of earthy: most earthy
earthlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earthlike
form: most earthlike
form: Earthlike
form: earth-like
Etymology: From earth + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the Earth
raw_tags: of a planet
ecotour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotours
Etymology: From eco- + tour.
Senses: glosses: A vacation tour or package that showcases ecology (wildlife, etc.) or is ecologically friendly.
Related terms: ecotourism
ecotours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecotour
exportability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From export + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being exportable.
ectoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: more ectoplasmic
form: most ectoplasmic
Etymology: From ectoplasm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: "In this case being unable, owing to the evil conditions which you have yourself created, to build up an ectoplasmic form they wrapped the unconscious medium in an ectoplasmic covering, and sent him forth from the cabinet."
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: Kathleen wore dungarees and her gingham skirt was laundered to an ectoplasmic degree.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 232:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
parapsychology
pseudoscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or having the properties or appearance of, ectoplasm.
Derived terms: ectoplasmically
effigies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effigy
egrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egret
elbower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbowers
Etymology: From elbow + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of elbow; one who elbows.
elbowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elbower
electrochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from electrochemistry.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies or is expert in electrochemistry.
Derived terms: bioelectrochemist
electrochemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrochemist
electromagnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electromagnet
electrostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more electrostatically
form: most electrostatically
Etymology: From electrostatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in an electrostatic manner, by electrostatic means
elevations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elevation
emetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emetic
empathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more empathically
form: most empathically
Etymology: From empathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an empathic manner.
emittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emittances
Senses: glosses: The quantity of luminous flux emitted per unit area.
emittances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emittance
emporiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emporia
Senses: glosses: plural of emporium
emulsifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emulsify
enamels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamel
enamels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enamel
enameling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enamel
enameling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamelings
Senses: glosses: The art of applying enamel
enamelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enamel
enamelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enamellings
Senses: glosses: An application of enamel.
enameled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enameled
form: most enameled
Senses: examples: text: this must not be confounded with the mark of the tooth, which is entirely different; the mark being the outer, and the cavity the inner hole, and which is found in every young tooth not yet worn down to the kernel, which tooth consists merely of an enameled shell, filled during the life time of the animal with a thickish fluid , which by degrees becomes a grey matter.
ref: 1867, Louis Brandt, An Infallible Guide to Discover the Age of Horses, page 9:
text: In her bathhouse, in her old enameled bathtub, was a cowboy.
ref: 2014, Carol Grace, Wild Mustang Billionaire:
text: In rare cases, an enameled plaquette can be mechanically attached to a button of a different base material. Because the base material is what determines material classification, that button is not classified as an enamel.
ref: 2024, Karen L. Cohen, Barbara Barrans, Enamel Buttons: An Essential Resource for Collectors, page 40:
glosses: Covered or coated with enamel (any sense)
examples: text: In her essays on diary in The Novel of the Future (1968), Nin articulates her case directly, connecting diary and other subjective modes to articulation that moves beyond the "slicker, glossier, the more enameled surface”: “the surface does not contain a key to authentic experience, the truth lies in what we feel and not in what we see" .
ref: 2014, Kylie Cardell, Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary, page 25:
text: The annual revista . . . deserves the most golden, the most enameled, the most complementary adjectives.
ref: 2016, Joao Silva, Entertaining Lisbon:
text: Everyone there was better dressed than in the bars he'd visited earlier—sleeker, more enameled.
ref: 2023, Avram B. Cross, In The Line of Fire:
glosses: Glossy, colorful and sleek.
Derived terms: enameledware
enameled wire
unenameled
enameled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enamel
enamelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enamelled
form: most enamelled
Senses: examples: text: The enamelled cup, which has been designated as a chalice, was the relique of greatest interest brought to light in these explorations.
ref: 1857, Albert Way, Notices of an Enamelled Chalice and of Other Ancient Reliques, Found on the Site of Rusper Priory, page 4:
text: Queen Alexandra was there looking very beautiful but very enamelled.
ref: 1987, Encounter - Volume 70, page 15:
text: When a wall is faced with white enamelled bricks, a little yellow or pink tinting to the pointing adds much to the effect.
ref: 2015, Frank W. Macey, Specifications in Detail, page 81:
glosses: Alternative form of enameled.
Derived terms: unenamelled
enamelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: In recent issues two replies have been given to correspondents concerning the function of the diamond-shaped enamelled white plates fixed to signalposts, which are to indicate to enginemen that the section of line is track-circuited, so that action under Rule 55 of the Rule Book is unnecessary.
ref: 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: White Diamonds on Signalposts”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
glosses: simple past and past participle of enamel
Derived terms: enamelled wire
South West Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Südwestafrika, the name of the German colony before it was lost during World War I and put under South African administration.
Senses: glosses: A former German colony (before World War I) and later a South African colony (from 1915 to 1990, illegally occupied after 1966 per United Nations stipulations) in Southern Africa; modern Namibia.
Dahomey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈhəʊmi/
Etymology: From Fon dã homè (“belly of Dã; snake's belly”).
Senses: examples: text: The way other children hear tell of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks, I heard of this ‘Black Sparta’, the noble kingdom of Dahomey, fighting to hold off the French to the very end.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 360–361:
glosses: A former kingdom in West Africa, existing from c. 1600–1904 and located in the southern part of present-day Benin.
glosses: Former name of Benin: a country in West Africa; used from 1958–1975. Official name: Republic of Dahomey.
Derived terms: Dahomeyan
Rhodesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈdiːʃə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈdiːʒə/
Etymology: From Rhodes + -ia, after Cecil Rhodes, director of the British South Africa Company.
Senses: examples: text: If you did that in Rhodesia, you could be punished with many years in prison.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 158:
text: After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana.
ref: 2018 April 20, Bard Wilkinson, “Absolute monarch renames Swaziland ‘eSwatini’”, in CNN:
glosses: A former country in Southern Africa, in what is now Zimbabwe, originally called Southern Rhodesia, named after its founder, Cecil Rhodes.
glosses: A historical region of Southern Africa, the area now occupied by Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Derived terms: North-Eastern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
North-Western Rhodesia
Rhodesian
Southern Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈdiːʃə/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈdiːʒə/
Etymology: Named after G. Preston Rhodes, chairman of a colliery company.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK5680).
Rhodesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rhodesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: “Take it easy, Tahm-boo,” your boss says, her Rhodesian accent returning inexplicably.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 289:
glosses: From, pertaining, or relating to Rhodesia or its people or culture.
Derived terms: Rhodesian fever
Rhodesian man
Rhodesian redwater fever
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Rhodesian teak
Rhodesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhodesians
Etymology: From Rhodesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Six or seven steps were needed to traverse these parking spaces whose white painted boundaries accommodated the large and long vehicles of elite Rhodesians.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 30:
glosses: Someone from Rhodesia.
Gold Coast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and local government area in southeastern Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A former colony of the United Kingdom in Africa, consisting of what is now Ghana.
Related terms: Sunshine Coast
Togoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former German protectorate in Africa, in what is now Togo.
Derived terms: British Togoland
French Togoland
cast not a clout till May be out
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
Basutoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bəˈsutəʊˌlænd/
Forms: form: Basotholand
form: Basotoland
form: Basutholand
Etymology: From Basuto + -land.
Senses: glosses: A former colony of the United Kingdom in Africa, now Lesotho.
Portuguese Guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of Portugal in West Africa, now called Guinea-Bissau.
Spanish Guinea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of Spain in Central Africa, now called Equatorial Guinea.
Derived terms: Spanish Guinean
French Sudan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of France in Africa, now called Mali.
German East Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former German colony in East Africa, spread mostly over present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
Nyasaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /naɪˈæsələnd/
/ˈnjɑːsələnd/
/-ˌlænd/
Etymology: From Yao nyasa (“lake”) in reference to Lake Malawi, and the suffix -land.
Senses: examples: text: After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana.
ref: 2018 April 20, Bard Wilkinson, “Absolute monarch renames Swaziland ‘eSwatini’”, in CNN:
glosses: A former colony of the United Kingdom in Africa; modern Malawi.
Derived terms: Nyasalander
Portuguese East Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Portuguese Mozambique
glosses: A former colony of Portugal in East Africa, now called Mozambique.
Portuguese West Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Portuguese Angola
glosses: A former colony of Portugal in Africa, now called Angola.
French Somaliland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former colony of France in Africa, now called Djibouti.
houseflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of housefly
hardshell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardshell
form: most hardshell
form: hard-shell
Etymology: From hard + shell.
Senses: examples: text: His favorite seafood is hardshell crabs.
text: a hardshell guitar case
glosses: Having a tough outer shell.
examples: text: Though it was a commonly held opinion, now only hardshell Baptists oppose dancing.
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hardshell.
glosses: Rigid or uncompromising in principles, especially in religion or politics.
worriedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more worriedly
form: most worriedly
Etymology: From worried + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a worried manner.
chess master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess masters
form: chessmaster
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally skillful chess player, especially one who has won a major competition.
lins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lin
sheetrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A proprietary name (originally, and also, Sheetrock); from sheet + rock.
Senses: glosses: A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings; drywall.
Synonyms: drywall
Related terms: cement board
gypsum plaster
lath
plaster
sheetrock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sheetrocks
form: sheetrocking
form: sheetrocked
form: sheetrocked
Etymology: A proprietary name (originally, and also, Sheetrock); from sheet + rock.
Senses: glosses: To install and finish sheetrock.
Synonyms: drywall
Related terms: plaster
trapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: trap + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trap
glosses: Alternative form of trapped.
Maddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædi/
homophone: Matty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: Maddie
form: Maddi
form: Madi
form: Mady
form: Madie
Etymology: Clipping of Madeleine or Madison + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.
glosses: A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.
Maddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædi/
homophone: Matty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: the Maddy
form: Maddie
form: Maddi
form: Madi
form: Mady
form: Madie
Etymology: Clipping of Madeleine or Madison + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A student's life would simply not be complete without the near-ceremonial experience of a night of drinking at The Maddy.
ref: 2017 March 30, Jaclyn Skrobacky, “The top 10 student bars in Toronto”, in blogTO, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2023:
text: After declining an invitation from zig-zag facial hair guy to a party way the fuck in the west end and a parking lot orgy, we go through security and enter into the Maddy through a corridor.
ref: 2017 September 14, Allison Tierney, “House Party Review: University of Toronto Frat Territory”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
text: You may have spent one too many nights at the Madison Avenue Pub, more popularly known as "The Maddy," and even paid the live piano man a little something extra to play "Piano Man" by Billy Joel.
ref: [2022 July 6, Brooke Houghton, “8 Signs You Went To A University In Toronto In The Last Decade”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Toronto slang
glosses: The Madison Avenue Pub in Toronto.
Related terms: Brunny
rip to shreds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rips to shreds
form: ripping to shreds
form: ripped to shreds
form: ripped to shreds
Senses: glosses: To tear apart, so that only shreds remain.
glosses: To criticize severely; to refute.
heart of glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑːt ə ˈɡlɑːs/
ipa: /ˌhɑɹt ə ˈɡlæs/
Forms: form: hearts of glass
Etymology: By metaphor, from the notion that glass is fragile (easily broken).
Senses: examples: text: Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out, had a heart of glass
ref: 1978, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
text: You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone / Just you wait 'til I get you home
ref: 1986, “West End Girls”, in Please, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
glosses: A heart (or by extension, person) in a very fragile romantic state: one that is easily made broken-hearted.
Related terms: heartbreak
glass-hearted
heart of gold
heart of stone
rifle range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rifle ranges
Senses: glosses: A shooting range for shooting rifles.
zoöphytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoophytic.
Totten trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Totten trusts
Etymology: Derived from Matter of Totten, 179 N.Y. 112 (1904), the case decided by the Court of Appeals of New York which established the legality of this practice.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A form of trust created where one party (the settlor of the trust) places money in a bank account or security with instructions that, upon the settlor's death, whatever is in that account will pass to a named beneficiary.
Synonyms: Payable on Death account
poor man's will
tentative trust
settlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛt.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɛt.l̩.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɛt.lə/
ipa: /ˈsɛt.l̩.ə/
homophone: settler
Forms: form: settlors
Etymology: From settle + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Once the trust deed is drawn up and the asset transferred to the trustee, the settlor no longer owns the asset; his personal creditors therefore cannot seize it to satisfy their claims. […]
ref: 2020, Katharina Pistor, “2: Coding Land”, in The Code of Capital […] , Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: trustor
grantor
donor
qualifier: trust law
glosses: A person who settles property on express trust for the benefit of beneficiaries.
Hyponyms: testator
Related terms: beneficiary
trustee
settlors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of settlor
grantors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grantor
bau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bao
form: bow
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bao: Any of various types of steamed bread used in Chinese cuisine
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: dan bau
hit it and quit it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits it and quits it
form: hitting it and quitting it
form: hit it and quit it
form: hit it and quit it
Senses: examples: text: They just want to hit it and quit it. When this white man done had enough, you won't even know where he is.
ref: 1999, Connie Rose Porter, Imani All Mine, page 105:
text: You say to yourself, I'll just hit it and quit it. My girl won't know.
ref: 2003, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Some Sunday, page 264:
text: Keith is just a no good for nothing guy who likes to hit it and quit it.
ref: 2005, Letitia Anderson, Sins of the Past, page 13:
text: As far as the guys' hit-it-and-quit-it philosophy with women, after all they'd gone through, they'd finally changed their perspectives.
ref: 2005, Lexi Davis, Pretty Evil, page 365:
text: Men want to hit it and quit it. In and out. Wham bam.
ref: 2006, David Zinczenko, Men, Love & Sex: The Complete User's Guide for Women, page 127:
text: "Just a quick hit it and quit it." Mason knew she was right, but there was a time for everything, even romance.
ref: 2006, Relentless Aaron, Extra Marital Affairs, page 173:
glosses: To have a sexual encounter for physical gratification, and part company with the other partner immediately thereafter; to have a quickie one-night stand.
Related terms: word: fuck and chuck
english: or hump and dump; jump and dump
translation: or hump and dump; jump and dump
word: pump and dump
word: smash and dash
word: wham, bam, thank you ma'am
word: ridden hard and put away wet
word: screw, nut and bolt
word: ejaculate and evacuate
OHIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ.hɪp/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.hɪp/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.hɪp/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Ontario health insurance plan.
swabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swabbies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swabby.
television personality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television personalities
Senses: glosses: A person who is known to the public primarily through their appearances on television shows.
tonner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonners
Etymology: From ton + -er or tonne + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There came a welcome interruption, however, when I heard the roar of wheels and rejoiced to see my Leyland three-tonner come rolling and heaving over the grass, heaped up with tools and sections of tubing, and bearing my foreman, Peters, and a very grimy assistant in front.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: A vehicle or other object having a specified tonnage, or weighing a specified number of tons.
NSERC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnsɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, a Canadian government agency that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering.
hope against hope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hopes against hope
form: hoping against hope
form: hoped against hope
form: hoped against hope
Etymology: Likely a paraphrase of the first few words of Romans 4:18.
Senses: examples: text: Would he be in time to rescue? He hoped against hope. At least he could be revenged, and in his wrath it seemed to him that he was equal to the task of wiping out the entire population of that terrible city.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 206:
glosses: To continue to hope, even when what is hoped for seems unlikely or impossible.
potassium carbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: salt of tartar
glosses: The alkaline salt K₂CO₃, that is the major constituent of potash; it is used in the production of glass and some soaps.
potassium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.
ref: 1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: caustic potash
word: potassa
glosses: The alkaline base KOH, once known as caustic potash; it has a number of industrial uses, including the manufacture of bleach.
Hypernyms: lye
caustic potash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Potassium hydroxide.
spiral galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiral galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: whirlpool galaxy
glosses: A galaxy consisting of a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the center containing older ones.
Hypernyms: galaxy
Hyponyms: barred spiral galaxy
dwarf spiral galaxy
flocculent spiral galaxy
intermediate spiral galaxy
red spiral galaxy
superluminous spiral galaxy
Related terms: elliptical galaxy
lenticular galaxy
irregular galaxy
evapotranspirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evapotranspirators
Senses: glosses: An element, such as a tree, that contributes to evapotranspiration
glosses: Something that causes the transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration
germanium tetrahydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: germane (GeH₄)
tetrahydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahydrides
Etymology: From tetra- + hydride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydride containing four atoms of hydrogen per molecule
Derived terms: germanium tetrahydride
calcium sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calcium sulfate.
calcium sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcium sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The calcium salt of sulfuric acid, CaSO₄, the hydrates of which are known as gypsum or plaster of Paris, and the anhydrous mineral form being anhydrite.
Hyponyms: english: hydrated calcium sulfate mineral
translation: hydrated calcium sulfate mineral
word: gypsum
english: hemihydrate of calcium sulfate
translation: hemihydrate of calcium sulfate
word: plaster of Paris
english: anhydrous calcium sulfate mineral
translation: anhydrous calcium sulfate mineral
word: anhydrite
Related terms: lime
plaster
cardinal point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal points
Senses: synonyms: cardinal direction
glosses: Any of the four principal points of the compass: north, south, east and west.
Related terms: intercardinal direction
ordinal direction
corkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːkɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹkɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: corkages
Etymology: From cork + -age.
Senses: examples: text: While the Black-nebs wanted only the tea and sugar cheap, and a drap brandy at a reasonable rate, I was hand in glove wi' them; and ga'e them ben the house to meet in, free o' a charge—save the natural corkage.
ref: 1827, [Christian Isobel Johnstone], “The Exile”, in Elizabeth de Bruce. […] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC, page 224:
text: ‘Corkage’ is the peculiar vail of the superior of the establishment. You must, if you are the stranger within his gates, imbibe his very bad 18s. sherry at a charge of 36s., or his fifth-rate bottled beer, or pay the ‘corkage’ fee of 1s. 6d. per dozen on everything of your own ordering from which a cork has to be extracted, and probably also forfeit the bottles, charged, in the case of beer, at 2s. per dozen.
ref: 1873 April, “Taking the Vail”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine. An Illustrated Monthly, volume XII, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 359:
text: Five of their favorite destinations are included below and, although their wines lists are pedestrian, modest corkages are the rule.
ref: 1996, Wine Spectator, volume 21, San Diego, Calif.: The Wine Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92, column 1:
synonyms: corking fee
opening fee
glosses: A fee charged by a restaurant to serve wine that a diner has provided.
Coordinate terms: cakeage
Related terms: BYO
BYOB
aspirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: aspirers
Etymology: From aspire + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Yet as the Rapunzel-editor in her high tower, she said, she had begun to feel walled off from the legions of aspirers.
ref: 2007 October 4, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who aspires to something.
Synonyms: wannabe
Indochinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Indo-Chinese
Etymology: From Indo- + Chinese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Indochina or its culture or people.
Derived terms: Indochinese hog deer
Indochinese green magpie
Ruthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹuːˈθiː.ni.ə/
Etymology: Related to Ruthene, Ruthenian, Ruthenic, from Medieval Latin Rutheni, Ruteni, related to Russi, Ruzi as Prutheni, Pruteni is to Prussi, Pruzi (“Prussians”). Compare Rus, Russ, from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ), compare Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs).
Senses: synonyms: Carpathian Ruthenia
Zakarpattia
Subcarpathian Rus
Carpatho-Ukraine
glosses: The territory between Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Rusyns, on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia.
glosses: Lands inhabited by Ukrainians (Ruthenians) of the former Austrian Empire kingdom of Galicia (1772–1918), corresponding to parts of Western Ukraine.
synonyms: Red Ruthenia
Galicia-Volhynia
glosses: Western portions of East Slavic lands, including the principalities of Galicia-Volhynia and Kyiv, which united with Lithuania and Poland (14th c–1772), corresponding to what is now Ukraine and Belarus.
synonyms: Kievan Rus
Kievan Russia
glosses: Rus, an East Slavic medieval state (880–12th c), corresponding to what is now Ukraine and Belarus, as well as western Russia.
Derived terms: Black Ruthenia
Related terms: Rus
Russia
ruthenium
White Ruthenia
Black Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Black Ruthenia
glosses: A former principality in Eastern Europe.
Derived terms: Black Russian
Related terms: Blue Russia
Great Russia
Little Russia
New Russia
Russia
White Russia
Little Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called ‘old-fashioned’ […].
ref: 1928, Nicolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett, Old-world Landowners:
antonyms: Great Russia
glosses: The territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by Ukrainians, approximately corresponding to modern central and eastern Ukraine.
glosses: The former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine.
Related terms: Ruthenia
Little Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Little Russias
Senses: examples: text: We find that they settle in Little Italies and Little Russias, and instead of accepting the ideals of the country to which they have fled, they propagate their own traditions.
ref: 1925, Ruth Clouse, “First Affirmative”, in Edith M. Phelps, editor, University Debaters' Annual, volume 11, →OCLC, page 288:
text: The support system offered by the Relief Society was the initial draw for the émigrés to Harlem and helped establish a Little Russia in the neighborhood.
ref: 2019 April 24, Natalie K. Zelensky, Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination (Russian Music Studies), Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 30:
glosses: An ethnic enclave populated primarily by Russians or people of Russian ancestry.
British Honduras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former Crown colony of the United Kingdom in Central America, existing from 1862 to 1981; now Belize.
Related terms: British Honduran
Asura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asuras
form: asura
form: asur
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit असुर (asura). Doublet of Ahura. Compare English Æsir.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Asuri
glosses: One of the power-seeking deities involved in constant conflict with the more benevolent Devas.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of the lowest class of deities and demigods of the Kāmadhātu.
Related terms: rakshasa
cosecants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosecant
cosines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of cosine
cotangents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotangent
air kerma rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air kerma rates
Senses: synonyms: word: AKR
glosses: the air kerma per unit time.
Shani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Sanskrit शनि (Śani).
Senses: glosses: A deity in Hinduism, the personification of the planet Saturn, associated with justice, karma, and discipline.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Saturn
hammerkops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammerkop
art movement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art movements
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Any of many styles of art having an underlying philosophy or goal; many of them have names with an -ism suffix.
spaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spaids
Senses: examples: text: prick down a line eight or ten foot long, and with a Spaid cut the Turfs thereby
ref: 1665, John Rea, Flora, seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege:
glosses: Obsolete form of spade (“digging tool”).
dweomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwɪ.mə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdwɛ.mə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdwiː.mə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dweomers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English dweomer, from Old English dwimor, from Proto-Germanic *dwemrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whisk, raise dust, fume”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dwimmer.
topics: fantasy
games
glosses: The magical aura on an enchanted item; or more broadly, the aura of a magic spell having been cast while active.
Derived terms: dweomercraft
disspirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disspirits
form: disspiriting
form: disspirited
form: disspirited
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dispirit.
disspirits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disspirit; Alternative spelling of dispirits.
disspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disspirit
disspiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disspiriting
form: most disspiriting
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dispiriting.
barracudas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barracuda
disspirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dispirited.
disspirited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disspirit
dissenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissenter
dotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dot
dotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dottings
Senses: examples: text: There was little to be done about the stubborn dottings of mold on the basement wall (she blamed the aluminum siding, after all these years, which kept the house from breathing) or in a patch on the blue bathroom lino behind the toilet.
ref: 2011, Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children, page 19:
glosses: A dotted pattern; a speckling.
educations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of education
encoffined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From en- + coffin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: No corpse shall be retained in any premises, including a funeral parlour, for a period longer than 48 hours after death, unless the corpse is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin or is embalmed.
ref: 2002, Singapore Statutes, section 4, Funeral parlours, cemeteries and crematoria http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_getdata.pl?actno=2002-REVED-95&segid=933565630-001403
glosses: Enclosed in a coffin.
encoffined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From en- + coffin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encoffin
encoffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: encoffins
form: encoffining
form: encoffined
form: encoffined
Etymology: From en- + coffin.
Senses: examples: text: The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:
glosses: To place or enclose in a coffin.
Derived terms: encoffiner
encoffinment
encoffins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encoffin
encoffining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encoffin