cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
encyclopædial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From encyclopædia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: One day Faraday was discovered by one of his master’s clients poring over an encyclopædial article on electricity, and attempting some rude experiments with a few old bottles.
ref: 1879, author uncertain, The Old Cross, page 360:
glosses: Dated spelling of encyclopaedial.
foregear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregears
form: fore-gear
form: fore gear
Etymology: From Middle English foregere. By surface analysis, fore- + gear.
Senses: glosses: Armour for the front of the body.
glosses: A harness for the front horses of a team.
glosses: Any gear located in a front or forward position.
y'are
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /jɑː(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: Of if ye ſhould, y’are never the nearer : For I’ll not own it to ye.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 122:
glosses: Contraction of ye are.
examples: text: "Well I don't know what y'are bein' so gloomy about Jacob [for]," insisted Hendrick. "Neither of us had the means o' keepin' body and soul together for very long. Now there'll be an income at the cottage as will keep us both."
ref: 2005 03, Ronan Scanlan, The Mayor of Castlebridge: An Irish Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Classic, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 123:
text: "Y'are a right chance taker today, eh? I've a mind to clean the washhouse, but I'm thinkin' I'd not like the filth in there, are ya hearin' me now, gal?"
ref: 2024 June 4, Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 272:
text: [Dorothy:] I'm a little insulted we didn't get any sort of reaction from her. [Sal:] Yare bein' a little less gay than usual.
ref: 2025 July 23, David M. Willis, “Take stock”, in Dumbing of Age:
glosses: Contraction of you are.
y'ad
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /jæd/
Senses: examples: text: If you preſs it further, they’ll tell you preſently, here have been ſuch and ſuch Counts and Marquiſes, that found no fault with this Wine : If you don’t like it, y’ad beſt mend your ſelf elſewhere.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 59:
glosses: Contraction of ye had.
y'ave
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /jæv/
/jəv/
Senses: examples: text: HOPES guilty, FORTUNES crackt, and th’ ILLS y’ave done.
ref: 1662, anonymous author, Rump, page 3:
glosses: Contraction of ye have.
Trojan moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trojan moon
cann't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: can + -n't
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of can't.
y'ere
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɜː(ɹ)/
ipa: /jə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: Pardon me, Sir, my Bluntneſs muſt go on ;
By barb’rous Fears and Counſels y’ere undone.
ref: 1702, Charles Sedley, The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart, page 6:
text: Rivers adorn the Earth ; the Fiſh, the Seas ;
Flowers and Graſs, the Meadows ; Fruit and Trees ;
The Starts, the Fields of Air thro’ which they ride ;
And Woman all the Works of God beſide ;
Yet baſe detracting Envy won’t allow
They ſhould adorn themſelves ; then pray, Sir, now
Produce ſome reaſons why y’ere ſo ſevere ;
For envious as you are, you know they’re Fair.
ref: 1709, Robert Gould, A Satyr against the Pride, Luſt, and Inconſtancy, &c. of Woman, page 8:
glosses: Contraction of ye were.
odometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odometre
for't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)t/
Senses: examples: text: I am woe for't, Sir.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17:
text: And what’s your Reaſon for’t ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 140:
glosses: Contraction of for it.
pedometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedometre
was't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /wɒzt/
Senses: examples: text: Was’t not enough, when thou, prophane Diſeaſe,
Did’ſt on this Glorious Temple ſeize ?
Was’t not enough, like a wild Zealot, there
All the rich outward Ornaments to tear,
Deface the innocent pride of beauteous Images ?
Was’t not enough thus rudely to defile,
ref: 1700, Abraham Cowley, The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley, page #29
roman: But thou muſt quite deſtroy the goodly Pile ?
glosses: Contraction of was it.
by't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: bīt
ipa: /baɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: bight
homophone: bite
homophone: byte
Senses: examples: text: Well, and how came you by’t ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 252:
glosses: Contraction of by it.
as't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /æzt/
Senses: examples: text: All Volumes of this Subject here are ſet
As’t were contracted in an Alphabet.
ref: 1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page 26:
text: Paradiſe, it had ſo much of the Lily, as’t had nothing of the Roſe ; yet there were iſtius modi paſſiones, quæ ordinatur ad bonum.
ref: 1669, Nathanael Culverwel, An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, page 102:
glosses: Contraction of as it.
at's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /æts/
ipa: /əts/
Senses: examples: text: This Diſh would have cheared up the heart of the old Evangelical Monk Hilarian, with a hundred more of his Fellows at’s heel : But Paul and Anthony would have liv’d a whole Month upon’t.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 93:
glosses: Contraction of at his.
into't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈɪntuːt/
Senses: examples: text: Why would not Providence let us go out of the World as ſmoothly as we came into’t ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 155:
glosses: Contraction of into it.
to't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʊt/
Senses: examples: text: In ſhort ; if you would know what was done in my Tent, I can tell ye ; but for the Hiſtory of the Battle, I can ſay nothing to’t.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 51:
glosses: Contraction of to it.
may't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /meɪt/
Senses: examples: text: How long may’t be, ſince we Four were in Penſion together at Paris ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261:
glosses: Contraction of may it.
5 o'clock shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 5 o'clock shadow
call't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːlt/
Senses: examples: text: To call’t a Map doth but a part implie,
’Tis the whole Globe of Martyrologie.
ref: 1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page 26:
glosses: Contraction of call it.
see't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːt/
Senses: examples: text: May a body ſee’t a little ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 14:
glosses: Contraction of see it.
do't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /duːt/
Senses: examples: text: If I ſend ’em to my Son, their Anſwer is, if you’ll but ſay the word, I’m ſure he’ll do’t.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 15:
glosses: Contraction of do it.
does't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /dʌzt/
Senses: examples: text: But what does’t value while he lies out ?
ref: 1680, Matthew Stevenson, The Wits Paraphras’d, page 30:
glosses: Contraction of does it.
before't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /bɪˈfɔː(ɹ)t/
Senses: examples: text: In Fine, it Continued ſo till this Preſent Year 1708. that, King Lewis having got a Third Blow at the Battel of Audenard, the Confederate Generals thereupon March’d ſtraight to it, Inveſted it on the Second of Auguſt, Open’d Trenches the Tenth, Begun to Batter it the Fifteenth, and are ſtill Lying before’t.
ref: 1708, John MacGregory, The Geography and Hiſtory of Life, page 39:
glosses: Contraction of before it.
after't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæftɚt/
ipa: /ˈɑːftət/
Senses: examples: text: I do, ſays he, God ſend us good luck after’t.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 2:
glosses: Contraction of after it.
has't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæzt/
ipa: /(h)əzt/
Senses: examples: text: This learned Athens never could declare,
Nor Ariſtole’s Schole when he taught there:
Apollo in Parnaßus reads not love,
Like one that has’t by inſtinct from above;
He ſpeaks but coldly, has no voice of fire,
As thoſe whom Love himſelf deigns to inſpire,
Nor can his elevated Fancy riſe
Equal to th’ height of thy grand myſteries.
ref: 1685, H.W., Miscellany Poems and Translations by Oxford Hands, page 182:
glosses: Contraction of has it.
have't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /hævt/
ipa: /(h)əvt/
Senses: examples: text: Although they ſemme us onely to affect,
’Tis their Content, not ours, they moſt reſpect :
They for their own ends cunningly can feigne,
And though they have’t by nature, yet they’ll ſtrain :
Snre if on earth, by wiles gain’d might be bliſſe,
Staight that I were a woman I would wiſh.
ref: 1640, George Herbert, Witts Recreations, page 97:
text: Yet ’cause the Rout will have’t perform’d by you,
And long to see done what they dare not Doe.
ref: 1662, anonymous author, Rump, page 73:
text: Then other whiles for outer Soles they raiſe,
Such poor thin Hides by their unlawful ways,
Which they well know, for ſuch uſe are not fit,
Theſe Crafts they uſe more Money for to get,
Than lawful ways can compaſs them, or bring :
And thus we ſee Money’s the only thing
At which all Trades and Myſteries do look,
And are reſolv’d to have’t by Hook or Crook.
ref: 1698, L. Menton, William Coward, Matthew Prior, John Oldham, Money Maſters all Things, page 75:
glosses: Contraction of have it.
phenol formaldehyde resin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenol formaldehyde resins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of thermosetting plastics made by reaction of a phenol with formaldehyde
Related terms: bakelite
how't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /haʊt/
Senses: examples: text: How ſoul and ſpright be ſevered we ſee,
But how’t works by it ſelf is not yet ſhown;
I mean without this ſprights aſſiſtencie,
Though not quite by its ſelf.
ref: 1642, Henry More, A Christiano‐Platonicall diſplay of Life, page 122:
text: All that behold it cannot but be aſtoniſh’d to conſider how’t was poſſible that Torments ſhould be repreſented to us on a Flower.
ref: 1706, François Gentil, Louis Liger, Le Jardinier Solitaire, pages 374–375:
glosses: Contraction of how it.
if't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ɪft/
Forms: form: if’t
Senses: examples: text: Yes, yes ; they put on all my Fineries, let down my Hair, and dreſs’d me, juſt as if’t had been for my Wedding.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 121:
glosses: Contraction of if it.
goods trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goods train
freight trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freight train
shall's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ʃæls/
Senses: examples: text: What ſhall’s do ?
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 124:
glosses: Contraction of shall us.
in's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ɪnz/
Senses: examples: text: Let Theophilus ſpeak to that point ; for he’s never without Greek in’s Mouth.
ref: 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 65:
glosses: Contraction of in his.
polyepoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyepoxides
Etymology: From poly- + epoxide.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of thermosetting resins made by polymerization of epoxides.
Synonyms: epoxy
potentiometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potentiometre
psychrometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psychrometre
th'are
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ðɑː(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: If they be foule th’are odious, and if faire,
Th’are like rich veſſel ful of poyſnous drugs,
Or like black ſerpents arm’d with golden ſcales,
For my owne part,they ſhall not trouble me.
ref: 1608, Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lvcrece, page 79:
glosses: Contraction of they are.
Related terms: they're
unto't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈʌntuːt/
Senses: examples: text: On ev’ry ſide from this old Caſtle down,
Is perfect Cliff, except towards the Town,
Where the aſcent is ſteep ; but in the Rock,
Forc’d by the pond’rous Hammers conqu’ring ſtroak,
A winding way from the rough Mountains foot
Was made the only Avenue unto’t.
ref: 1683, Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake, page 66:
glosses: Contraction of unto it.
view't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈvjuːt/
Senses: examples: text: Piſgah’s too farre to ſee the Holy‐Land,
Stand here on Calvary, and view’t at hand
ref: 1651, Samuel Clarke, A Generall Martyrologie, page 26:
glosses: Contraction of view it.
with't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪθt/
Senses: examples: text: Whether in Death breath’d out into the Air
She mix confus’dly with’t, and periſh there ;
Or thro’ vaſt Shades and horrid Silence go
To viſit brimſtone Caves, and Pools below ;
Or into Beaſts retires.
ref: 1715, Titus Lucretius Carus, T. Lucretius Carus, Of the Nature of Things, page 18:
glosses: Contraction of with it.
psychologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkəˈlɑd͡ʒɪk/
Etymology: From psychology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Although it is usually difficult to find the person responsible for printers' errors, the psychologic mechanisms underlying them are the same as in other mistakes.
ref: 1914, Sigmund Freud, chapter VI, in A. A. Brill, transl., The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, New York: Macmillan:
text: "[…] Ay, there is a mystery; but, to use a Scriptural phrase, it is 'a mystery of iniquity,' a matter for psychologic theologians to discuss. But what has a military court to do with it? […]"
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to psychology.
Synonyms: psychological
get with the programme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets with the programme
form: getting with the programme
form: got with the programme
form: got with the programme
Senses: glosses: British form of get with the program.
encyclopædiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopædiac
form: most encyclopædiac
Senses: examples: text: Albert the Great was the first professor of encyclopædiac knowledge.
ref: 1917, Shane Leslie, The Celt and the World, page 128:
glosses: Archaic form of encyclopediac.
Derived terms: encyclopædiacal
encyclopaediac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encyclopaediac
form: most encyclopaediac
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encyclopediac.
Derived terms: encyclopaediacal
abilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbi.jə/
ipa: /əˈbi.ə/
Forms: form: abillas
Etymology: From American Spanish [Term?].
Senses: glosses: An oily seed, from the South American plant Fevillea trilobata, used to make candles.
raw_tags: of Latin America
abillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abilla
abilo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.biˈloʊ/
ipa: /ˈæ.biˌloʊ/
Forms: form: abilos
form: abilao
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog abilo (“Garuga abilo”).
Senses: glosses: Bogo; a Philippine fruit tree, Garuga floribunda, from the family Burseraceae.
abilos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abilo
abilao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bəˌlaʊ/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈlaʊ/
Forms: form: abilaos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abilo.
abilaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abilao
ab inconvenienti
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɪn.kənˌvi.niˈɛn.ti/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɪn.kənˌvi.niˈɛn.taɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ab inconvenientī.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: From inconvenience or hardship.
ab init
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ab initio.
abio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + bio- (“life”).
Senses: glosses: Without life.
wear too many hats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears too many hats
form: wearing too many hats
form: wore too many hats
form: worn too many hats
Senses: examples: text: She is asked to be a comedienne, dancer, stunt woman, singer and dramatic actress — and the truth is that she is trying to wear too many hats.
ref: 1963 August 10, Cameron Dewar, “Too Many Hats for 'Jennie'”, in Billboard:
glosses: To try to fill more roles at once than is realistically possible.
Related terms: wear many hats
wear two hats
have one's fingers in many pies
have too many irons in the fire
jack of all trades
spread oneself thin
string to one's bow
sphygmomanometres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphygmomanometre
buckets down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bucket down
bucketing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bucket down
bucketed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bucket down
abiotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˌbaɪ.əˈtɹɑ.fɪk/
ipa: /ˈeɪˌbaɪ.əˌtɹɑ.fɪk/
Forms: form: more abiotrophic
form: most abiotrophic
Etymology: From abiotrophy + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or involving abiotrophy; relating to or involving the functional loss of an organ or cells not due to an injury.
abiotrophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abiotrophy
diarrhœas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the loss of water is very great (cholera, infant diarrhœas), there is an increase of potassium salts and phosphates in the urine.
ref: 1919, Heinrich Bechhold, Jesse Godfrey Moritz Bullowa, Colloids in Biology and Medicine, page 222:
glosses: plural of diarrhœa
Abipón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bəˌpɑn/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈpɑn/
Forms: form: Abipón
form: Abipones
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish abipón of American Indian origin.
Senses: topics: anthropology
ethnography
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of an extinct people of Argentina and Paraguay.
Abipón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.bəˌpɑn/
ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈpɑn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish abipón of American Indian origin.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Abipón people, of Guaicuruan origin.
Abitibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abitibi
treely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treely
form: most treely
Etymology: From tree + -ly. Compare treelike.
Senses: examples: text: She also believes that this demon is so competent at deceiving us that we are deceived when and only when we firmly believe that we are appeared to in a treely sort of way.
ref: 1990, Michael D. Beaty, Alvin Plantinga, Christian theism and the problems of philosophy:
text: Suppose I believe that I do not see a tree, or I believe that the relevant sensory event, the seeing of a treely kind, is not taking place.
ref: 2000, Bruce Marshall, Trinity and Truth:
text: A fair bit and well worth it Some time soon after sunset in the mistyrious ^([sic]) way of the water in the treeliest of seasons we met and come morning our two bodies pools quiescent now seeking not to be and to the swaying of those trees green ..
ref: 2000, Rob McLennan, Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets:
glosses: Of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a tree or trees; arboreal.
Related terms: foresty
treeiness
œconomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: œconomises
form: œconomising
form: œconomised
form: œconomised
Senses: examples: text: Far from endeavouring to deſtroy the paſſions, the inviſible movers of our being, we regard them as precious gifts that we ſhould carefully œconomiſe.
ref: 1795, W. Hooper, Memoirs of the Year Two Thoſand Five Hundred, page 296:
glosses: Obsolete form of economize.
Abipones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.bəˈpoʊn.iz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Abipón
mulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulet
muscine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscine
form: most muscine
Etymology: Musca + -ine
Senses: examples: text: One can see by the description of the ovum and this account of early blastoderm formation that the egg of Glossina is intermediate between the typical muscine ovum with its thick periplasm and the very thin peripheral cytoplasmic layer of Melophagus, […]
ref: 1951, Harold Raymond Hagan, Embryology of the viviparous insects:
text: […] in these respects spinthera is unlike any other muscine larva so far described.
ref: 1985, Peter Skidmore, The Biology of the Muscidae of the World, page 205:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Muscidae family of flies.
muscine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muscine
form: most muscine
Etymology: Irregularly formed from translingual Mus (“genus of mice”) + -ine. See murine
Senses: examples: text: If true, there is something peculiarly interesting in these periodical visitations—or, I should, perhaps, rather say migrations—of mice, for I was informed that these muscine armies come from the interior, or from that direction, towards the sea, which they boldly enter, and are consequently drowned and their bodies cast on the shore "by thousands."
ref: 1870, Henry Reeks, "Notes on the Zoology of Newfoundland" in The Zoologist (2nd series, vol. 5, March 1870), page 2042
text: My friend explained to me that every evening two little mice came out from behind the skirting-board in his dining-room, and sang for their supper of cheese, biscuit, and other muscine delicacies, which he took care to place on the carpet for them always at the same hour.
ref: 1878 November, Henry Lee, “Singing Mice”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 14, page 102:
text: The goal isn't simply to generate offspring, but rather to produce successful offspring, and if you're a mouse, success is best achieved by living fast, loving hard, and dying young […] If you're an elephant, success requires a very different reproductive style. And if you're a human being, you are more elephantine than muscine.
ref: 2009, David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton, How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories, page 185:
glosses: Murine; of, pertaining to, resembling, or being a mouse.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to a mouse
word: mouselike
sense: of or pertaining to a mouse
word: mousy
sense: of or pertaining to a mouse
word: murine
Related terms: murine
Mus
soufflage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French soufflage (“blowing”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
synonyms: sifflage
glosses: The surrealist technique of blowing liquid paint to inspire or reveal an image.
English Carriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of English Carrier
sinny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪni/
rhymes: -ɪni
homophone: cine
Forms: form: sinnier
form: more sinny
form: sinniest
form: most sinny
Etymology: From sin + -y; or perhaps continuing Middle English synny, from Old English synniġ (“guilty, punishable, criminal; sinful”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnīg, *sundīg (“sinful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian sändich (“sinful”), West Frisian sûndich (“sinful”), Dutch zondig (“sinful”), German Low German sündig, sünnig (“sinful”), German sündig (“sinful”), Swedish syndig (“sinful”), Faroese syndigur (“sinful”), Icelandic syndugur (“sinful”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] kick against Olive Oil Trust, they almost went to jail for their crimes, so they hurry around to Judge Landis face and was comforted to know that taking rebates from Harriman was sinnier than taking silverware from a Soldiers' Home.
ref: 1909, Wallace Irwin, Letters of a Japanese schoolboy ("Hashimura Togo"):
text: "That was a sinny-sin-sin! [...]
ref: 1974, Gerald G. Griffin, The silent misery: why marriages fail:
text: So, should I return to that childhood state When my life was not very sinny? No, I lived a Catholic hell back then, Where living was devoid of the fun kind of sin, And though I'll be sent to the all-faith Hell, In the mean time, [...]
ref: 2007, D. B. Clark, The Curse of Humorous Verse:
text: I confess to quickly scanning the papal list, looking for the sin of homosexuality. It was not there! Maybe it is understood. It was like being dropped from the big annual Papal Magazine "Sinniest Sins Alive" special double issue.
ref: 2009, Kate Clinton, I Told You So:
text: [...] of all of the sins that are drummed into the brains of the Uptight Sin-filled Abstainers, the sin of oral sex may be the sinniest (a wonderful new word).
ref: 2010, Washington Weaver, The Alliterating Philosopher: Philosophy Can Be Phun:
text: Still and tall he stands with such grace for such a man as he. I love his collar and his hair – a lion and his mane, did I dare tell – sinny, sinny, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin,” (this was a peppy song in my head).
ref: 2011, Ann Palmer, Ann of 1,000 Lives: Author Ann Palmer Relives Her Own Past Lives:
text: Our starry droog Kubrick the sinny veck has, my brothers, like brought forth from his like bounty and all that cal this kniggiwig, which is like all real horrorshow lomticks from his Great Masterpiece which would make any fine upstanding young malchick smeck from his yarbles and keeshkas.
ref: 1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page xviii:
glosses: Characterised by or characteristic of sin; sinful; guilty of sin; wicked.
sinnier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sinny: more sinny
sinniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of sinny: most sinny
abjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌd͡ʒɛ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌæbˈd͡ʒɛ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more abjective
form: most abjective
Etymology: From abject + -ive. From Middle English abjecten, from the adjective abject, of Latin origin.
Senses: glosses: Tending to make abject.
abjoints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abjoint
abjointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abjoint
abjointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abjoint
unGoogleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unGoogleable
form: most unGoogleable
Senses: examples: text: "We don't know his real first name. He's unGoogleable," Veronica said.
ref: 2010, Kristen Tracy, A Field Guide for Heartbreakers, Hyperion, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ungoogleable.
ungoogleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnˈɡuːɡələbəl/
[ˌʌnˈɡuːɡɫ̩əbɫ̩]
Forms: form: more ungoogleable
form: most ungoogleable
form: ungooglable
form: unGoogleable
Etymology: From un- + googleable.
Senses: examples: text: The ungoogleable rockers admit that plans for a physical release of Chariot are still very much up in the air, […]
ref: 2010 April 7, Celina Murphy, “Don't Feel Like Danson”, in Hot Press:
glosses: Incapable of being found on the Web, especially through the search engine Google.
Related terms: googlewhack
Googleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Googleable
form: most Googleable
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of googleable.
tachymetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tachymetre
telemetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telemetre
voltmetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltmetre
unconcession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconcessions
Etymology: From un- + concession.
Senses: examples: text: In 2000, after Gore's unconcession, he demanded a recount of several Florida counties, although other states still had outstanding final tallies that could have affected the election
ref: 2004, Grant Barrett, The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The retraction of a prior concession
unconcessions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unconcession
butyrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyrometer
unconcede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unconcedes
form: unconceding
form: unconceded
form: unconceded
Etymology: From un- + concede.
Senses: examples: text: Sensing a lifeline, Mr Gore ordered Mr Daley to phone Don Evans, his counterpart in Austin, and warn him that the Vice-President was about to "unconcede".
ref: 2000 November 9, Toby Harnden, Ben Fenton, “One amazing night on the rollercoaster”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: To retract a prior concession.
profilometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profilometer
tribometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribometer
turgometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turgometer
varmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varmeter
volumometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volumometer
aræometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aræometer
da da
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: da das
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dada.
ma ma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ma mas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mama.
da das
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of da da
ma mas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ma ma
brony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹoʊni/
ipa: /ˈbɹəʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: bronies
Etymology: Blend of bro + pony, the earliest documented use dates to October 25th, 2010 on the 4chan image boards.
Senses: examples: text: But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."
ref: 2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's, →ISSN:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, typically an adult male.
Coordinate terms: word: bronydom
english: female fan
translation: female fan
word: pegasister
word: MLP fan
word: pony fan
word: clop
word: clopper
Derived terms: bronyism
bronyspeak
bronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brony
United Statesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: United Statesmen
Etymology: United States + man, influenced by demonyms of the form Dutchman, Frenchman and by the word statesman.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
United Statesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of United Statesman
Rāma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑːmə/
Forms: form: Rama
form: Ram
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit राम (rāma).
Senses: glosses: A mythological king of Ayodhya in ancient India, considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu and a lila-avatara described in Bhagavata Purana; one of the most worshipped Hindu deities.
Related terms: Ramayana
Jai Shri Ram
overcolour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcolours
form: overcolouring
form: overcoloured
form: overcoloured
form: overcolor
Etymology: From over- + colour.
Senses: examples: text: But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.
ref: 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
text: He was seized after a minute, face to face with his actual comrade, with the impulse to overcolour.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, 3rd part, page 78:
text: He never sought to gain or augment the confidence of his followers by concealing facts, minimising difficulties, or overcolouring expectations.
ref: 1922, Ronald McNeill, Ulster's Stand For Union:
glosses: To exaggerate.
overcolour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcolours
form: overcolor
Etymology: From over- + colour.
Senses: qualifier: painting
glosses: Colour that is superimposed on another previously applied to obtain a different gradation, or a particular transparency effect.
overflooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overflood
overflood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈflʌd/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌflʌd/
Forms: form: overfloods
form: overflooding
form: overflooded
form: overflooded
Etymology: From over- + flood.
Senses: examples: text: On the 28th of March, the river overflooded the high pier along the Main, and rising higher and higher, began to come into the gates and alleys.
ref: 1846, J. Bayard Taylor, Views a-foot:
text: Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad.
ref: 1669, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete:
glosses: To flood.
examples: text: Francis is of the race of mystics, for no intermediary comes between God and his soul; but his mysticism is that of Jesus leading his disciples to the Tabor of contemplation; but when, overflooded with joy, they long to build tabernacles that they may remain on the heights and satiate themselves with the raptures of ecstasy, "Fools," he says to them, "ye know not what ye ask," and directing their gaze to the crowds wandering like sheep having no shepherd, he leads them back to the plain, to the midst of those who moan, who suffer, who blaspheme.
ref: 1919, Louise Seymour Houghton, Life of St. Francis of Assisi:
text: He may be entirely fascinated by the actions on the stage and yet his mind may be overflooded with other ideas.
ref: 1916, Hugo Muensterberg, The Photoplay:
text: Then Jerusalem was all begirt and overflooded with song.
ref: 1904, Irving Bacheller, Vergilius:
text: The Negroes have been so industrious for the last decade that they have overflooded the cotton markets of the world, and consequently so reduced the price of this staple that the landlords are not disposed to feed hirelings through the winter, and the colored people, who have been fed from the stores under the mortgage system, getting all their food on time at two prices, and paying for the same in cotton in the fall at half price, find themselves in the end in debt and greatly discouraged.
ref: 1897, Various, Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading:
glosses: To flood or fill completely; to overflow.
overflood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈflʌd/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌflʌd/
Forms: form: overfloods
Etymology: From over- + flood.
Senses: glosses: A flood; an excess or superabundance.
overabundantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From overabundant + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: excessively
plethorically
glosses: In an overabundant manner.
Lakshmana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Laxmana
form: Lakhan
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit लक्ष्मण (lakṣmaṇa).
Senses: glosses: The younger brother of Rāma, an avatar of Shesha.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used mostly in India.
Kausalya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कौसल्या (kausalyā).
Senses: glosses: The eldest wife of King Dasharatha; queen of Ayodhya and the mother of Rāma; a character in Ramayana
glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit, of chiefly Indian usage.
Xavi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Xavier.
Santi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsænti/
Senses: glosses: A male or female given name from Latin.
Ayodhya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit अयोध्या (ayodhyā).
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India, on the bank of the Sarayu river.
glosses: A legendary city, the ancient capital of Kosala kingdom, and birthplace of the Hindu deity Rāma.
Related terms: roman: à-yút-tá-yaa
word: อยุธยา
word: Ayutthaya
word: Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Kostas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Κώστας (Kóstas), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κώστας (Kóstas).
Ioannis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Ιωάννης (Ioánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Giannis.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).
Kyriakos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Κυριάκος (Kyriákos), a male given name used in (modern) Greece meaning "lord of the lords," from κύριος (kýrios, “lord”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κυριάκος (Kyriákos).
Grigoris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Γρηγόρης (Grigóris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Gregory.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Γρηγόρης (Grigóris).
Avraam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Αβραάμ (Avraám), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Abraham.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Αβραάμ (Avraám).
Michalis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Μιχάλης (Michális), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Michael.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Μιχάλης (Michális).
Dimitris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Δημήτρης (Dimítris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Demetrius.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Δημήτρης (Dimítris).
Dimitris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dimitri + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Dimitri
Vasilis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Βασίλης (Vasílis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλης (Vasílis).
Theofanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Θεοφάνης (Theofánis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Θεοφάνης (Theofánis).
Sotiris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sotirios
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Σωτήρης (Sotíris), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σωτήρης (Sotíris).
Sokratis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Σωκράτης (Sokrátis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Socrates.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σωκράτης (Sokrátis).
Giannis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yannis
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Γιάννης (Giánnis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of John.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Γιάννης (Giánnis).
Konstantina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Konstadina
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína), a female given name used in Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína).
Kalomoira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Καλομοίρα (Kalomoíra), a female given name used in modern Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Καλομοίρα (Kalomoíra).
Vasilikas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Βασιλικάσ (Vasilikás), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Βασιλικάσ (Vasilikás).
Dimitra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Δήμητρα (Dímitra), a female given name used in modern Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Δήμητρα (Dímitra).
Styliani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Στυλιανή (Stylianí), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Στυλιανή (Stylianí).
Evanthia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Euanthia
Etymology: From Greek Ευανθία (Evanthía) and Latin Evanthia, from Ancient Greek Εὐανθία (Euanthía, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + άνθος (ánthos, “blossom”) + -ία (-ía, “-ia: forming feminine abstract nouns”)). Cognate with Euanthe.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Aydin: a city in southwestern Turkey.
glosses: A female given name from Greek.
Eleni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Ελένη (Eléni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Helen, Ellen, Helena, and Elena.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Ελένη (Eléni).
Eirini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Ειρήνη (Eiríni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Irene.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Ειρήνη (Eiríni).
Spyridon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Greek Σπυρίδων (Spyrídon, a male given name).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Greek.
Savva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Σάββα (Sávva), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Σάββα (Sávva).
Vasilios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vasileios
form: Vassileios
form: Vassilios
Etymology: From a transliteration of Modern Greek Βασίλειος (Vasíleios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece, which in turn derives from Ancient Greek Βασίλειος (Basíleios), from βασίλειος (basíleios, “of the king, kingly, royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king”). Doublet of Basil. See Basil for more details.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Βασίλειος (Vasíleios), equivalent to Basil.
Related terms: sense: familiar form
word: Vasilis
sense: familiar form
roman: Vasílis
word: Βασίλης
sense: diminutive form
english: also a family name
translation: also a family name
word: Vasilakis
sense: diminutive form
roman: Vasilákis
word: Βασιλάκης
word: Vasiliki
roman: Vasilikí
word: Βασιλική
Panagiotis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panayiotis
form: Panayotis
form: Panaiotis
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis), a male given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis).
Athanasios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Αθανάσιος (Athanásios), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. From α- (a-, “absence of”) + θάνατος m (thánatos, “death”). Doublet of Athanasius.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Αθανάσιος (Athanásios).
Related terms: Athanasius
Ekaterini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Αικατερίνη (Aikateríni), a female given name used in (modern) Greece. Doublet of Catherine.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Αικατερίνη (Aikateríni).
Konstadinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Konstantinos
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos), a male given name used in Greece. Doublet of Constantine.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos).
Kalliopi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópi), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Καλλιόπη (Kalliópi).
put through the mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts through the mangle
form: putting through the mangle
form: put through the mangle
form: put through the mangle
Senses: examples: text: A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of put through the wringer.
synonyms: word: put through the wringer
Laxmana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lakshmana.
double-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-breaks
form: double break
Senses: examples: text: In the seventh game of the deciding set, one backhand came in at a thundering 99mph – this was followed by a lightening forehand return from Nadal's next serve to make it 30-love. A double-break would have left Nadal with no out-clause, but he clung on to pull the score back to 4-3.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: In a set, an advantage equivalent to two breaks of serve.
ground-stroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-strokes
Senses: examples: text: This set – the set of Rosol's life – was studded with aces and menacing ground-strokes that left Nadal an impotent spectator often muttering to himself and at the umpire regarding a perceived misdemeanour by his opponent.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of groundstroke.
ice-calm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ice + calm.
Senses: glosses: Extremely calm
ice-calm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + calm.
Senses: examples: text: There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Extreme calm, utter calmness
Angada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अङ्गदः (aṅgadaḥ).
Senses: glosses: Son of Vali, King of Kishkindha in Ramayana.
glosses: One of the two sons of Satrughna, younger brother or Rāma in Ramayana.
Ashwamedha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ashvamedha.