cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bowler hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowler hats
form: bowler hatting
form: bowler hatted
form: bowler hatted
Etymology: From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bowler hat out (“eject someone from an organization”).
synonyms: word: bowler hat out
extra: eject someone from an organization
Related terms: hat trick
local derby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local derbies
Senses: examples: text: Peterbough United have been playing at Lincoln, in something of a local derby. EMR has put on a six-car Class 158 as an additional train, to take 'Posh' fans home (Posh is the team's nickname, by the way).
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 58:
synonyms: derby
glosses: A sports match between local rival teams.
demolition derby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demolition derbies
Senses: glosses: A motorsport event in which drivers compete by intentionally ramming their vehicles into each other in an enclosed arena.
Related terms: banger racing
roller derby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller derbies
Senses: glosses: A sport based on teams of rollerskaters who race round a track, jamming and blocking each other.
screenname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screennames
Etymology: From screen + name.
Senses: examples: text: Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).
ref: 2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc.
Synonyms: screen name
camera flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camera flashes
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A device that produces a short flash of light to help illuminate a scene, mostly for night-time or indoors photography, to make the picture brighter.
artiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtiːst/
Forms: form: artistes
Etymology: Borrowed from French artiste. Doublet of artist.
Senses: glosses: A public performer, especially of song or dance.
glosses: Any person with artistic skill, such as a hairdresser or a cook.
brochette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊˈʃɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: brochettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French brochette, diminutive of broche (“spit”).
Senses: glosses: A small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled.
coordinate_terms: kebab
alambre
glosses: Food cooked on such a device.
Derived terms: en brochette
photoautotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photoautotroph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a photoautotroph or to photoautotrophism
Chardonnay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɑː(ɹ)dəˈneɪ/
Forms: form: Chardonnays
form: chardonnay
Etymology: French, believed to be named after the village of Chardonnay in the Mâconnais region of France, where Pouilly-Fuissé is currently produced; it is possible that the variety was first bred there
The place name Chardonnay is from Late Latin Cardonnacum, from Latin carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”), a name from the Roman period describing the surrounding area.
Senses: glosses: A green-skinned grape variety used to make a white wine.
glosses: A variety of wine made from this grape.
Derived terms: word: Chardonnayish
word: Chard
word: Chardonnay socialism
word: Chardonnay socialist
english: anything but Chardonnay
translation: anything but Chardonnay
word: ABC
embarcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embarcations
Senses: examples: text: […]the army completing its embarcation upon the subsequent day
ref: 1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of embarkation.
fertilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fertilisations
Etymology: From the French; equivalent to fertilise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fertilization.
Derived terms: biofertilisation
cross-fertilisation
postfertilisation
self-fertilisation
grandeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.djʊə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.djɜː/
other: /æ/
other: [ɑ]
ipa: /ˈɡɹan.d͡ʒə(ː)/
ipa: /ˈɡɹan.d͡ʒɔː/
ipa: /ˈɡɹan.d͡ʒɜː/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.d͡ʒʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.d(j)ʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.d(j)ɚ/
homophone: grander (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: grandeurs
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Senses: examples: text: I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then,
And donn’d a visionary crown ——
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
text: So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 44:
text: In a tightly choreographed ceremony filled with imperial grandeur, Xi and Putin then walked towards each other and met in the middle, smiling as they shook hands.
ref: 2023 March 21, Pjotr Sauer, “Putin’s two-day charm offensive with Xi underlines who’s boss”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
glosses: Nobility (state of being noble).
glosses: Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Related terms: delusion of grandeur
folie de grandeur
Hiroshima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/
ipa: /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/
ipa: /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/
ipa: /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
examples: text: A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
ref: 1945 August 6, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in VT2008-9-2 President Truman Announces Bombing of Hiroshima, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 23630, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2021:
text: This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put together. It’s the assembly point for the dawning of the atomic age.
ref: 2020 August 6, Brad Lendon, “Hiroshima after 75 years: Walking the path of the atomic bomb”, in CNN:
text: Kishida told the executives, including those from Micron Technology Inc (MU), Intel Corp (INTC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM) (TSMC), that stabilizing supply chains would be a topic of discussion at the G7 talks in the western city of Hiroshima.
ref: 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:
glosses: The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
examples: text: VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
ref: 2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures:
glosses: The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
Hiroshima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪ(ə)ˈɹɒʃɪmə/
ipa: /hɪ(ə)ɹəˈʃiːmə/
ipa: /hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/
ipa: /hɪɹoʊˈʃiːmə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).
Senses: examples: text: Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.
ref: 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: A catastrophe.
maître d'hôtel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maîtres d'hôtel
form: maitre d'hotel
form: maître d'hotel
Etymology: Borrowed from French maître d'hôtel.
Senses: examples: text: After the first course, the maître d'hôtel came in, holding a silver dish, on which were two fish, which I did not recognise.
ref: 1866, Alexandre Dumas, Memoires of a Maître D'armes; Or, Eighteen Months at St. Petersburg, page 106:
text: She had previously appointed a maître d’hôtel and a number of domestics.
ref: 1895 August, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XCI, number DXLIII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, [book I], part II, chapter X, page 464, column 2:
text: [Henri] Soulé had decided to keep the Pavillon open, after a fashion, by closing down the salle and serving meals only in the bar and the nouvelle salle, with the help of the non-striking members of his staff—two maîtres d’hôtel, twenty-two chefs and cooks, the cashier, the hat-check girl, and a pantryman.
ref: 1953 March 28, Joseph Wechsberg, “Profiles: The Ambassador in the Sanctuary”, in The New Yorker, volume XXIX, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:
text: The staff for both cuisine and office were hired and fired by the maître d'hôtel.
ref: 2011, Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789, page 102:
glosses: Synonym of maître d' (“headwaiter”).
synonyms: word: maître d'
extra: headwaiter
Derived terms: word: maître d'
naïveté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑˌiːvˈteɪ/
ipa: /nɑˌiːvəˈteɪ/
Forms: form: naïvetés
form: naivete
form: naïvete
form: naiveté
form: naïvety
Etymology: Borrowed from French naïveté. See also nativity.
Senses: examples: text: “You see, I do not know how to pick out any particular part of the diary.” Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said with unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naïveté of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!”
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
text: Maybe Mr. “Buckley” should know to be more skeptical about what’s dished out to him by popular culture. But apart from that, it’s hard to see how it’s his fault. He simply accepted what the most widely available and accessible sources of information claimed was true. For his naïveté, he was systematically misled and bamboozled.
ref: 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: In poring over these vile and well-preserved folders full of antisemitica in the Foreign Ministry archives, one senses a naïveté, even earnestness among Sugihara's generation.
ref: 2019, Hillel Levine, In Search of Sugihara:
synonyms: naiveness
naivety
glosses: Lack of sophistication, experience, judgement or worldliness; artlessness; gullibility; credulity.
Related terms: naïve
photoautotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoautotrophs
Etymology: From photo- (from the combining form φωτω- (phōtō-) of Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”)) + autotroph, from auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy
Derived terms: photoautotrophic
picophotoautotroph
Related terms: photosynthesis
grille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: grill
Forms: form: grilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French grille.
Senses: examples: text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening", "grating on the front of a vehicle", and "window divider")
Derived terms: grilled
grillework
nudiustertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /n(j)ʊdi.əsˈtɜʃɪən/
Etymology: From Latin nū̆diū̆stertiānus (“taking place the day before yesterday”), from nudius tertius. Coined by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652) in The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (1647).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen I heare a nugiperous Gentledame inquire vvhat dreſſe the Queen is in this vveek: vvhat the nudiuſtertian faſhion of the Court; I meane the very nevveſt: vvith egge to be in it in all haſte, vvhat ever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.
ref: 1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
text: One of the best Chocolate gateau^([sic – meaning gateaux]) I have ever had! And I just had it nudiustertian afternoon.
ref: 2015 April 14, “Jet”, “Jamaica Blue”, in Brewtiful Coffee (blog), archived from the original on 10 Apr 2016:
text: Nudiustertian – adjective Definition: Want a new way to mention something that happened on Wednesday – the day before yesterday? Here you go. Example: “I shared some corned beef hash that nudiustertian morning.”
ref: 2015 August 21, “Jaffe Morning Briefing”, in NJTV, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015:
qualifier: modern uses probably humorous
glosses: Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.
wikipedia: Little, Brown and Company
Nathaniel Ward
Coordinate terms: hesternal
hodiernal
crastinal
Related terms: word: ereyesterday
word: overmorrow
word: last night
word: today
word: tomorrow
word: tomorrow night
word: tonight
word: yesterday
parti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːti/
ipa: /pɑɹˈtiː/
Forms: form: partis
Etymology: From French parti.
Senses: glosses: The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an architectural design.
examples: text: ...Hastily arranging her necessities, her wishes, her fears, and her desires, she thus began to address the dear friend she alike dreaded, despised, and persevered in attaching to herself and her measures:—
"Bring any one you deem a desirable parti, of course, but allow me to observe, dear Lady Penrhyn, that——"
"Yes! I see, that they must be really crême a la crême....
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 224:
text: We met some time ago a man that would just do for you, if you were not already engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent parti, being handsome, well off, and of good birth.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Chapter 5”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: “My temper is sweet, and my character without blemish. In fine, Miss Dobson, I am a most desirable parti.”
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: Someone (especially a man) who is considered to be a good choice for marriage, because of wealth, status etc.
Related terms: mi-parti
particoloured
parti pris
meatball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meatballs
Etymology: From meat + ball.
Senses: examples: text: Meatballs was on the menu for lunch.
text: Meatballs may contain ground meat mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes, rice, and liquid. The meat mixture is often shaped, browned. and simmered in a sauce for 30 to 45 minutes over low heat or in a 350° F. oven. During cooking the meat is basted with the sauce occasionally. Meatballs also may be fried in a pan or in deep fat.
ref: 1894, Yearbook of Agriculture:
text: 1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101.
I prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce.
glosses: A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
glosses: A stupid person; a meathead.
examples: text: And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.
ref: 2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.
examples: text: During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.
ref: 1961, Approach, volume 7:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An optical landing system.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: kebab
hamburger
bento
glosses: A menu icon of three horizontal dots.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of meatball flag.
Derived terms: beetball
meatball flag
meatball surgery
meatbally
neatball
Related terms: patty
rissole
Iamblichus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ī-ămʹblĭk-əs
ipa: /aɪˈæmblɪkəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Iamblichus, from Koine Greek Ἰάμβλιχος (Iámblikhos), from Aramaic ימלכו (Yamlīḵū), perhaps originally a causative form of the verb מלך (mlk, “to rule”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Koine Greek, of historical usage.
glosses: A male given name from Koine Greek, of historical usage.
Iamblichus (c. 245 – c. 325), a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher.
Derived terms: Iamblichean
calendaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calendarium
silly mid on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly mid ons
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position, on the leg side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position
Related terms: silly mid off
silly point
silly mid off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a fielding position, on the off side, forward of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position
Related terms: silly mid on
silly point
silly point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly points
Senses: examples: text: He didn't like fielding near silly point.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position, on the off side, square of the batsman's wicket, and very near the batsman; a fielder in this position.
Related terms: silly mid off
silly mid on
ecdysiast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/
Forms: form: ecdysiasts
Etymology: Coined by H. L. Mencken from ecdysis (“moulting”) (on the model of enthusiast etc.).
Senses: examples: text: I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 79:
text: However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: "Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man... has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don't wear feathers and molt them off... What does he know about stripping?"
ref: 2004, Chrysti the Wordsmith, Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins, Farcountry Press, page 107:
glosses: An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
Synonyms: sense: dancer who removes their clothes
word: exotic dancer
sense: dancer who removes their clothes
word: stripper
Related terms: ecdysis
ecdysone
striptease
applejack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applejacks
Etymology: From apple + jack, referring to the increase in alcohol concentration due to freeze distillation.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
pullulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌl.jʊ.leɪt/
Forms: form: pullulates
form: pullulating
form: pullulated
form: pullulated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pullulātus, perfect passive participle of pullulō (“sprout forth”), from pullulus (“a young animal, a sprout”), diminutive of pullus.
Senses: glosses: To multiply rapidly.
glosses: To germinate.
examples: text: I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly. Last night it was pullulating with women.
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 1, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego), page 22:
glosses: To teem with; to be filled (with).
Derived terms: pullulation
Related terms: pullet
poultry
repullulate
all clear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all clears
Etymology: all + clear
Senses: glosses: a signal that danger, such as an air raid, is over; usually a siren at a single pitch
glosses: permission to proceed after obstacles have been removed
antilogarithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilogarithms
Etymology: From anti- + logarithm.
Senses: examples: text: If x is the logarithm of y, then y is the antilogarithm of x.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: antilog
antonyms: logarithm
glosses: The number of which a given number is the logarithm (to a given base).
Derived terms: common antilogarithm
Related terms: word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
antilog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antilogs
Etymology: Shortening; see log (“logarithm”), equivalent to anti- + log.
Senses: examples: text: Then the desired y path can be obtained by taking the antilog of #92;lny […]
ref: 2005, Alpha C. Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, page 484:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An antilogarithm.
Derived terms: common antilog
rubber match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubber matches
Etymology: See rubber
Senses: examples: text: The Red Sox, having lost the opener and won the second game, lost the rubber match against the Twins.
glosses: A sporting event at the end of a series in which the opponents are tied in terms of events won and lost.
Related terms: rubber game
candour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candours
Senses: glosses: British and Canada standard spelling of candor.
Derived terms: uncandour
eorl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eorls
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English eorl. Doublet of earl and jarl.
Senses: glosses: An Anglo-Saxon of noble rank; a nobleman ranking above a thane; alderman.
breezily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiː.zɪ.li/
ipa: /ˈbɹi.zə.li/
ipa: /ˈbɹiː.zə.li/
ipa: [ˈbɹɪi.zə.li]
ipa: /ˈbɹiːz.li/
ipa: [ˈbɹɪiz.li]
Forms: form: more breezily
form: most breezily
Etymology: From breezy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He swings breezily into the title song.
text: After fighting “The Good Fight” for streaming, the producers of “The Good Wife” indulge in a more CBS-friendly spinoff with “Elsbeth,” which breezily takes Carrie Preston’s quirky title character and turns her into a modern version of “Columbo.”
ref: 2024 February 29, Brian Lowry, “‘Elsbeth’ turns Carrie Preston’s ‘The Good Wife’ role into a breezy good time”, in CNN:
glosses: In a breezy manner.
breezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːzi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: breezier
form: breeziest
form: breezey
Etymology: From breeze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them.
ref: 2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN:
glosses: With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy.
examples: text: It used to be so easy living here with you / You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do / Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool
ref: 1971, Carole King, “It's Too Late”, in Toni Stern (lyrics), Tapestry, performed by Carole King, Ode Records:
text: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
text: “Let Them All Talk” is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads – Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest – as they banter their way across the Atlantic.
ref: 2020 December 10, Brian Lowry, “‘Let Them All Talk’ takes a breezy boat trip with Meryl Streep and company”, in CNN:
glosses: With a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner.
Derived terms: breezily
breeziness
easy-breezy
unbreezy
breezy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːzi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: breezies
form: breezey
Etymology: From breeze + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then you got the Heartless Hustlas. This narcissist doesn't give a damn about anybody including himself. He usually messes with gutter breezies that he can manipulate 'cause she aint got nothin' goin' for herself no way.
ref: 2009, Randria Godbolt, Submissive, page 19:
text: 2018, Clifford "Spud" Johnson, Won't Stop
I know you haven't brought any of these breezies to the place where I'll be staying, Cotton?
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A young woman.
dayum
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdæ̙jəm]
ipa: [ˈdeəjəm]
Forms: form: dayum!
form: dayumn
Etymology: Respelling of damn to reflect emphatic stress and a Southern US or African American Vernacular drawl, in which the vowel is broken into gliding vowels.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, man, did you see her?! Dayum! She was hella fine!
text: 'Cause girl, you got me like dayum, baby, dayum, baby, dayum
ref: 2012, “Dayum, Baby”, in Here's to the Good Times, performed by Florida Georgia Line ft. Sarah Buxton:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of damn, representing Southern US English.
Jammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jammers
Etymology: From jam + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A growing percentage of "Jammers" are visiting from international territories, and global growth of the Animal Jam property will be a strong focus for Smart Bomb Interactive in 2013.
ref: 2013 March 19, “Smart Bomb Interactive Celebrates Record Growth”, in Business Wire, →OCLC:
text: So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. […] Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers.
ref: 2014, Katherine Noll, “Welcome to Animal Jam!”, in Animal Jam: Official Insider’s Guide, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 5:
ref: 2014 September 10, Shilpa Chakravorty, “Animal Jam Codes 2014: Earn Gems & a Diamond All At Once With Jammer Codes!”, in BREATHEcast, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2025:
text: This Is Animal Jam, which has recently hit magazine racks across the country, is filled with insider tips, a Jammer name generator, games and puzzles and fun facts about the natural world.
ref: 2018 summer, “DCT Media launch This is^([sic]) Animal Jam magazine”, in Total Licensing, Wadhurst, East Sussex, →OCLC, page 131, column 1:
text: Only as an actual adult did I realize how bizarre one particular user-created facet of the game was: an obsession with “adopting” other Jammers, or being “adopted” oneself. […] It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.
ref: 2022 September 30, Miranda Wollen, “Are You There, God? It’s Me, iluvcupcakes29545.”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLV, number 2, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page B4, columns 2 and 5:
synonyms: Animal Jammer
glosses: A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).
Morgen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Morgens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Morgen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
morgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morgen
form: morgens
Etymology: From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.
Senses: examples: text: ‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’
ref: 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 68:
glosses: A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare.
Abendstern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abendsterns
Senses: glosses: A surname.
alternate angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the internal angles made by two (parallel) lines with a third, on opposite sides of it.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: the internal angles made by two (parallel) lines with a third, on opposite sides of it.
If the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, intersecting at points G and H, then the angles AGH, GHD, are called alternate angles (as also are the angles BGH and GHC).
If the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, intersecting at points G and H, then the angles AGH, GHD, are called alternate angles (as also are the angles BGH and GHC).
votator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: votators
Etymology: Coined as a brand name by the Girdler Company in 1936. Perhaps related to rotate?
Senses: examples: text: The Company produces dough products which are extruded from a machine called a votator. Hot cooking oil, along with flour and other ingredients, is pumped into the votator by a pressure pump.
ref: 1985, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 303:
text: In the following paragraphs, the general principle of votator margarine processing (about 80% fat) is described.
ref: 1994, Frank D. Gunstone, John L. Harwood, Fred B. Padley, The Lipid Handbook, Second Edition, page 291:
text: The required proportions of fat and aqueous phases may be continuously stirred in a premix tank to create a loose emulsion suitable for pumping into the votator line.
ref: 2017, Ullmann's Food and Feed, 3 Volume Set, volume 2, page 836:
text: Margarine manufacture involves preparation of the water-in-fat emulsion, crystallization of the fat phase, and finally plasticizing in scraped surface heat exchangers (votators).
ref: 2017, Casimir C. Akoh, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition:
glosses: A machine that cools and kneads liquid margarine etc., preparatory to packaging.
Related terms: votation
votated
Domesday Book
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Doomsday Book
Etymology: From Middle English Domesdei. According to Dialogus de Scaccario (circa 1180): Hic liber ab indigenis ‘Domesdei’ nuncupatur, id est dies iudicii per metaphoram. Sicut enim districti et terribilis examinis illius nouissimi sententia nulla tergiuersationis arte ualet eludi, sic cum orta fuerit in regno contentio de hiis rebus que illic annotantur, cum uentum fuerit ad librum, sententia eius infatuari non potest uel impune declinari: its decisions were final, as those on doomsday.
Senses: glosses: The Book of Winchester; the principal record of the Domesday survey of England carried out in 1086 for William the Conqueror, comprising of two volumes: the Great Domesday Book and the Little Domesday Book.
Synonyms: Book of Winchester
Exchequer Domesday
Liber de Wintonia
Derived terms: Domesday
Domesday circuit
Domesday survey
Exon Domesday
Great Domesday Book
Little Domesday Book
Winton Domesday
Related terms: Boldon Book
Domesday Book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Domesday Books
form: Doomsday Book
Etymology: From Middle English Domesdei. According to Dialogus de Scaccario (circa 1180): Hic liber ab indigenis ‘Domesdei’ nuncupatur, id est dies iudicii per metaphoram. Sicut enim districti et terribilis examinis illius nouissimi sententia nulla tergiuersationis arte ualet eludi, sic cum orta fuerit in regno contentio de hiis rebus que illic annotantur, cum uentum fuerit ad librum, sententia eius infatuari non potest uel impune declinari: its decisions were final, as those on doomsday.
Senses: glosses: One of the volumes of the Domesday Book.
glosses: A record of any other Norman survey.
black-headed gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-headed gulls
Senses: glosses: A small gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, which breeds in much of Europe and Asia, and also in coastal eastern Canada.
practised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more practised
form: most practised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of practiced.
Derived terms: practisedly
practised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of practise
Derived terms: well-practised
exchanged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exchange
dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏpʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
enpr: drŏpʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop
dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drŏpʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
enpr: drŏpʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: droppings
Etymology: By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.
ref: 1821, Henry Hunt, A peep into a prison, page 193:
glosses: Something dropped; a droplet.
examples: a rabbit dropping
glosses: A piece of animal excrement; dung.
examples: text: At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 36
glosses: The act of something that drops or falls.
Derived terms: aitch-dropping
bird dropping spider
crotch-dropping
crotch dropping
cunt dropping
dropping in
g-dropping
h-dropping
pigeon dropping
r-dropping
ring-dropping
shopdropping
turkey dropping
yod-dropping
yod dropping
Related terms: spoor
procured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈkjʊəd/
ipa: /pɹəˈkjɔːd/
ipa: /pɹəˈkjʊɹd/
ipa: /pɹəˈkjɝd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of procure
crowned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crown
crowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: synonyms: coronate
coronated
incoronate
incoronated
glosses: Wearing a crown.
glosses: Having a particular crown (top part of the head)
raw_tags: in combinations
examples: text: Put case, he saith, all other medicines faile, by the helpe of God this alone will doe it, and tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Preparatiues and purgers”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1:
text: After having cloy'd his puny stomach, he sneaks away privily, in a Stage-Coach, to his house in the Country; there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady, and darts into the Royal Arch, his contagious, loathsome Sperm, which is innocently receiv'd, and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception.
ref: 1699, Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses., London, Sect. III, p. 96:
text: More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act: for that's a vapour, a bubble!
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq. Saturday, May 20.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Their crowned truths
ref: 1836, Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Visionary: Canto III, v. cclxxxii.:
text: That the crownèd truth advances.
ref: 1895, Ellen Maria Huntington Gates, The Treasures of Kurium:
glosses: Great, supreme; completed; excessive.
Derived terms: African crowned eagle
black crowned crane
black-crowned night heron
crowned crane
crowned dens syndrome
crowned eagle
crowned pigeon
crowned republic
crowned seahorse
golden-crowned spadebill
golden-crowned warbler
grey crowned crane
low-crowned seahorse
purple-crowned fairywren
red-crowned crane
rose-crowned fruit-dove
rufous-crowned bee-eater
rufous-crowned sparrow
uncrowned
white-crowned plover
white-crowned shrike
white-crowned sparrow
yellow-crowned
yellow-crowned bishop
embraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹeɪst/
ipa: /ɛmˈbɹeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrace
contrived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrive
contrived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪvd/
Forms: form: more contrived
form: most contrived
Senses: glosses: Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
glosses: Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
Synonyms: staged
Derived terms: contrivedly
contrivedness
uncontrived
impressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of impression
impressions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impression
incidents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.sɪ.dənts/
homophone: incidence (some accents)
Senses: glosses: plural of incident
deserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɜːvd/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝvd/
Forms: form: more deserved
form: most deserved
Senses: examples: text: But though he thus abstained from power, his eldest son, the present Lord Morpeth, as Secretary for Ireland at a critical period, acquired a higher reputation and a more deserved popularity than any statesman who ever held that office.
ref: 1846, William Cooke Taylor, The National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages, Chiefly of the Nineteenth Century, page 34:
text: When the victim fails or refuses, the punishment is perceived as being more deserved.
ref: 1992, Scott Daniel Corey, Strength of the Pack: Revolution and Threat Management, page 36:
text: For example, Van Dijk et al. (2005) showed that individuals who were seen to be responsible for their own misfortune evoked more schadenfreude and less sympathy than individuals who were not held responsible for their misfortunes, and that these effects were mediated by the perceived deservingness of the misfortune (i.e., misfortunes for which a target was held responsible were seen as more deserved and in turn elicited more schadenfreude and less sympathy).
ref: 2014, Wilco W. van Dijk, Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, Schadenfreude, page 234:
antonyms: undeserved
glosses: fair; merited.
Derived terms: deservedly
deservedness
deserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɜːvd/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deserve
Derived terms: ill-deserved
undeserved
well-deserved
borrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏrʹōd
ipa: /ˈbɒɹəʊd/
enpr: bärʹōd
ipa: /ˈbɑɹoʊd/
enpr: bôrʹōd
ipa: /ˈbɔɹoʊd/
Senses: examples: text: The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrowed robes?
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: simple past and past participle of borrow
Derived terms: borrowed light
borrowed time
nonborrowed
unborrowed
carved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹvd/
ipa: /kɑːvd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vd
homophone: calved stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carve
carved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹvd/
ipa: /kɑːvd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vd
homophone: calved stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more carved
form: most carved
Senses: examples: text: a carved ivory statue of the Virgin Mary
glosses: Of an object, made by carving.
Derived terms: handcarved
uncarved
water-carved
wind-carved
Related terms: carved in stone
struggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹʌɡl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of struggle
subdued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈdud/
ipa: /səbˈdjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more subdued
form: most subdued
form: subdood
Senses: examples: text: He is subdued after the disagreement last night.
text: I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
ref: 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:
glosses: Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive.
examples: text: The colour scheme used for this room is subdued.
glosses: Not glaring in color; soft and light in tone.
glosses: Reduced in intensity or strength; toned down.
subdued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səbˈdud/
ipa: /səbˈdjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: subdood
Senses: examples: text: He subdued the dog yesterday.
glosses: simple past and past participle of subdue
robbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏbd
ipa: /ɹɑbd/
enpr: rŏbd
ipa: /ɹɒbd/
rhymes: -ɑbd
rhymes: -ɒbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rob
ascended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛndɪd/
rhymes: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ascend
complained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of complain
traced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trace
child-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child-bearings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of childbearing.
child-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of childbearing.
praised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of praise
disciples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪpl̩z/
Senses: glosses: plural of disciple
sacrifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹɪfaɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrifice
sacrifices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsækɹɪfaɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sacrifice
examining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmɪnɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: It could be serious, my head needs urgent examining.
glosses: present participle and gerund of examine
Derived terms: examining justice
examining magistrate
examining room
examining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmɪnɪŋ/
Forms: form: more examining
form: most examining
Senses: examples: text: How shall we be sure that we have justly quitted REASON, as too high and dangerous, too aspiring or presumptive; if thro' Fear of any kind, or submitting to mere Command we quit our very examining Thought, and in the moment stop short, so as to put an end to further Thinking on the matter?
ref: 1732, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, page 299:
text: Those however on whom he wanted to pass, were not of either a very examining strain, or very nice discernment: Besides that, he had such a glow of freshness, health, and vigor, so rare among the parboiled people of quality, as somewhat counterbalanced any suspicion the discordance of his looks from his dress might have created.
ref: 1765, John Cleland, The Surprises of Love, Exemplified in the Romance of a Day, page 7:
text: He was, as a little girl I know once said of a playfellow, "a very examining boy."
ref: 1874, Dinah Maria Craik Mulock, The Little Lame Prince:
text: Sarell picked a fern-branch and sat in a meditative fashion, her feet drawn up a little under her and her knees elevated upon which she rested her wrists, while she slowly and carefully drew the separate green fronds through her fingers; turning and scrutinizing them in a very examining way , yet with an unmistakable air of the examination being only illustrative ; the real analysis and deliberation going on within her.
ref: 1881, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Odd, Or Even?, page 159:
text: However, Mrs Avely had her eyes fixed upon Elinor in a very examining sort of way.
ref: 2021, Rosalie Oaks, The Sapphire Library:
glosses: Tending to examine or engaged in close examination; studiously observant.
Derived terms: examiningly
unexamining
examining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmɪnɪŋ/
Forms: form: examinings
Senses: examples: text: The auditing of the accounts, when the defendant was present, was nothing more than the examinings of the footings of the bookkeeper.
ref: 1866, Thomas Belknap, testimony, in Gillian & Gillian v. Clark, Supreme Court, County of New York (page 111)
glosses: examination