cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
play with fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays with fire
form: playing with fire
form: played with fire
form: played with fire
Senses: examples: text: I'm telling you, if you sign that paper, you're playing with fire.
text: Play with fire and you get burned.
text: Long predicted by climate models, stratospheric cooling is a result of the Earth’s atmosphere attempting to maintain its energy "balance." Much more work will need to be performed before this troubling surprise is fully understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this "planetary experiment" that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice as well. As Robert Frost wrote, "Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice." Either one, he added, "would suffice."
ref: 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 310–311:
text: Uganda’s hardline President Yoweri Museveni has warned citizens planning anti-corruption protests Tuesday that they are “playing with fire.”
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
glosses: To put oneself in a precarious situation with a high risk of getting harmed, particularly emotionally or financially.
Related terms: ask for it
ask for trouble
SWAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɒt/
ipa: /swɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: swat
Forms: form: SWATs
form: S.W.A.T.
Senses: examples: text: After Trump won the 2024 election and rumors of a cost-cutting-and-efficiency SWAT team began to swirl, Dudek asked people he knew at big tech companies for introductions to potential DOGE members.
ref: 2025 September 8, Eli Hager, “The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security”, in ProPublica:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Acronym of special weapons and tactics, the area of expertise of police officers trained and equipped to neutralize armed or entrenched criminals.
examples: text: "This situation is out of control. We need a SWAT," the policeman said.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A SWAT team.
Derived terms: word: swat
April fool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: April fools
Senses: examples: text: APRIL FOOL, Any one imposed on, or sent on a bootless errand on the first of April, on which day it is the custom among the lower people, children, and servants, by dropping empty papers carefully doubled up, sending persons on absurd messages, and such like contrivances, to impose on every one they can, and then to salute them with the title of April-fool.
ref: 1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,, page 4:
coordinate_terms: May gosling
glosses: A person subjected to a practical joke on April Fools' Day.
examples: text: The best April fool ever perpetrated was 1 April 1698 and made a laughing stock of the gentry of London, great numbers of whom turned up in their carriages and finery at the Tower of London to 'see the lions being washed' as instructed on their gilt-edged invitation cards.
ref: 2012, Benedict le Vay, Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Britain, page 14:
glosses: A practical joke played on April Fools' Day.
Synonyms: word: gowk
Derived terms: April-fool
April fooler
April Fooler
April-fooling
April Fools' Day
dingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: dingles
Etymology: From Middle English dingle (“a deep hollow; dell”), from Old English *dyngel, a diminutive of Old English dung (“dungeon; pit”), equivalent to dung + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian Dongel (“hollow tooth, cavity”), English dimble (“a dingle, glen, retired place”).
Related to dungeon.
Senses: examples: text: Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Chapter 4”, in The Two Towers, Book III:
glosses: A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
dingle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: more dingle
form: most dingle
Senses: examples: text: Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.
ref: 1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40:
text: Indeed, on a dingle day in the Antarctic your optimism soars about what you can do. After three days of blustery weather we woke up to […]
ref: 1989, Nautical Quarterly, volume 45, page 24:
text: On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice.
ref: 2004, John Kelly, Due South: An Antarctic Journal, page 53:
antonyms: mank
manky
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Having good weather.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dingle-dangle
word: dingle stick
BMW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German BMW.
Senses: examples: text: So BMW has conjured a tweener — a roomier hatchback on platform shoes, with standard all-wheel drive — to attract customers who crave the 3 Series’ performance but need more utility to close the deal.
ref: 2014 February 21, Lawrence Ulrich, “Get Your $50,000 Hatchback Here”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2014:
glosses: A manufacturer of motor vehicles (Bayerische Motoren-Werke (Bavarian Motor Works)).
BMW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BMWs
Etymology: Borrowed from German BMW.
Senses: glosses: A motor car manufactured by this company
glosses: A motorcycle manufactured by this company
Synonyms: sense: car
word: beamer
sense: car
word: beemer
sense: car
word: bimmer
BMW
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: BMWs
form: BMWing
form: BMWed
form: BMWed
Etymology: Borrowed from German BMW.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bitch, moan, and whine.
BMW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of biodegradable municipal waste.
GM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GMs
Senses: synonyms: dungeon master
DM
storyteller
ST
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of game master or game moderator.
glosses: Initialism of general manager.
glosses: Initialism of genital mutilation.
glosses: Initialism of genetic modification.
examples: text: Indeed, because of the paucity of literature on GM youth and the important distinctions between GM and SM youth, ...
ref: 2018, Peter M. Monti, Suzanne M. Colby, Tracy O'Leary Tevyaw, Brief Interventions for Adolescent Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Guilford Publications, →ISBN, page 306:
hypernyms: SGM
GSM
coordinate_terms: SM
glosses: Initialism of gender minority.
glosses: Initialism of George Medal.
examples: text: The report notes that the minimum GM curves in the stability booklet were generated based on the minimum GM required to meet intact stability criteria in 46 CFR 170.170. However, for vessels required to meet both damage and intact stability requirements, such as El Faro, the higher of intact or damage stability minimum GM must be reflected in the minimum GM curves.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.12.10 Postaccident Analysis of Stability, Structures, and Sinking”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 152:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: Metacentric height, a measure of a ship's static stability in roll.
glosses: Initialism of gold master.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Initialism of Grandmaster or grandmaster.
glosses: Initialism of gang member.
GM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: G.M., of course, is on board, as is Ford Motor, which has made a major investment with the electric truck maker Rivian, […]
ref: 2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times:
text: “There were golden years for GM in China, but those are over, and they’ll never have a comeback story,” said Michael Dunne, an auto industry consultant who has been involved in Western automakers’ efforts in China since the 1990s, including GM’s entry into the market.
ref: 2024 December 17, Chris Isidore, “The retreat from the world’s largest auto market has begun”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of General Motors, an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.
Related terms: GMC
GM
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: GMs
form: GMing
form: GMed
form: GMed
Senses: synonyms: DM
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To act as a game master or game moderator; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
GM
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Tearing a page out of Monsanto's own playbook, the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), an advocacy group whose mandate is to represent the public's interest in the patent system, filed suit (PDF) on behalf of 60 organic farmers, small farm organizations, and seed businesses this week against the litigious agrichemical and genetically modified (GM) seed giant.
ref: 2011 March 30, Barry Estabrook, “Echoing Big Agribusiness, Farmers Sue Monsanto”, in The Atlantic:
text: As one of the largest producers of genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country, Monsanto has been vilified by activists who describe GM products as 'frankenfood.'
ref: 2016 April 18, Cristina Alesci, “Monsanto CEO frustrated over 'polarized' GMO debate”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of genetically modified.
Derived terms: GMO
GM
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: related: word: gm
glosses: Initialism of good morning.
Tommy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑmi/
ipa: /ˈtɒmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Etymology: From Tom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The Tory hard right is in the ascendancy, and a fascist street movement – led by convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson – represents a growing threat.
ref: 2018 July 18, Owen Jones, “The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
qualifier: uncommon relative to the male given name
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.
Derived terms: Texas Tommy
Tommy Atkins
Tommy come tickle me
Tommy John surgery
Tommy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑmi/
ipa: /ˈtɒmi/
rhymes: -ɒmi
Forms: form: Tommies
Etymology: From Tom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Tommy:
text: And every night now he played pontoon, that game of the Tommies, with Mrs Bolton, gambling with sixpences.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: Meanwhile the Tommies had discovered several large tins of ham in the captured lorry. 'That,' said the big Nazi, 'is for our tea.' 'No,' said a Tommy sergeant-major. 'That's for our tea. For you, chummy, we've kept a nice bit of bull.'
ref: 1949, Stephen Peter Llewellyn, Journey Towards Christmas, page 142:
text: He liked the Germans better than he did the French; but for all that, if he went down the back streets of a night, it was with three or four British Tommies, in case the Jerries weren't as friendly as they made out.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 129:
glosses: Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins, a typical private in the British army; a British soldier.
examples: text: May was in New Zealand when war broke out, and immediately left for France, where she worked in a military hospital in a converted high school in Marseilles. Writing home, she said that the French officers were said to be 'fussy' so she was glad to be nursing the Tommies (meaning French rank and file): 'they are brave and good, and patient, and such grateful patients. They are helpful to each other, and take such an interest in their fellow sufferers.'
ref: 2017, Janet Tolerton, Make Her Praises Heard Afar: New Zealand Women Overseas in World War One, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Any common soldier; a member of the rank and file.
examples: text: Here, here, here again! Coquettes, flirts, harlots, adultereſſes, tulips, pinks, roſes, lilies, violets, wormwood, fennel, and hemlock! Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural! Tommies, Tommies, Tommies! Women kiſſing women; doating, languiſhing, dying, pining, crying, caterwauling, for each other! Ha, ha, ha! O the madneſs of this age!
ref: 1777, [Anon.], “Number XVII. A faſhionable, diſgraceful Paſſion expoſed.”, in The Laughing Philosopher, Dublin: Printed for James Williams, →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: A lesbian.
Synonyms: sense: British soldier
word: Tommy Atkins
wreck of the Hesperus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Senses: examples: text: She looked like the wreck of the Hesperus when she got caught in the rain.
glosses: Used in similes to describe the appearance of an untidy or bedraggled person.
wikipedia: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
taqwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːkwə/
ipa: /ˈtɑːkwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑːkwə
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تَقْوَى (taqwā).
Senses: examples: text: It involves abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations from dawn to sunset, in the hopes that it will lead to greater "taqwa", or consciousness of God.
ref: 2020 April 20, Sami Rahman, “Ramadan 2020: The health benefits of fasting”, in Al Jazeera:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The care taken by a person to obey the commands of Allah.
Derived terms: taqwacore
bedraggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d/
Etymology: From bedraggle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedraggle.
implied consent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The man was unconscious, but the paramedics had his implied consent to treat him.
glosses: The assumed agreement that a person would approve a course of action if asked, when that person is not presently able to be asked.
examples: text: Traveling by air gives security officials implied consent to search your bags.
glosses: Consent given by virtue of another arrangement.
herring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪŋ
Forms: form: herrings
form: herring
Etymology: From Middle English hering, from Old English hǣring, from Proto-West Germanic *hāring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”) + -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”), Bavarian Haring (“herring”). Late Latin haringus (whence French hareng, etc.) is borrowed from Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
glosses: Fish in the family Clupeidae.
hypernyms: fish
<
animal
<
creature#Noun
glosses: Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Clupea harengus
word: Atlantic herring
taxonomic: Clupea harengus membras
word: Baltic herring
word: Bismarck herring
word: cucumber herring
word: dead as a herring
taxonomic: Clupea harengus
word: English herring
word: European herring gull
word: herringbone
word: herring-bone
word: herring cale
word: herringer
word: herring gull
word: herring-gutted
word: herringlike
word: herring pond
word: herring worm
english: Pristigasteridae
translation: Pristigasteridae
word: longfin herring
word: matjes herring
word: oxeye herring
taxonomic: Clupea pallasii
word: Pacific herring
word: pickle-herring
word: Picton herring
word: red herring
word: red herring prospectus
word: rock herring
alt: Dussumieriidae
word: round herring
alt: Opisthonema
word: thread herring
word: white herring
english: Chirocentridae
translation: Chirocentridae
word: wolf herring
Related terms: buckling
kipper
stockfish
acrimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈækɹɪməni/
ipa: /ˈækɹɪmoʊni/
Forms: form: acrimonies
Etymology: From Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia (“sharpness, pungency”).
Senses: examples: text: Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
text: In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].
ref: 1826, Mary Shelley, chapter 12, in The Last Man:
text: In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.
ref: 1955 February, Michael Robbins, “A Railway Treaty: The Brighton and South Eastern Agreement of 1848”, in Railway Magazine, page 98:
text: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was prepared to play a game of patience to land Virgil van Dijk after his initial move to sign the Netherlands captain from Southampton in the summer of 2017 ended in acrimony.
ref: 2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A sharp and bitter hatred.
Synonyms: animosity
bitterness
enmity
hatred
opposition
Related terms: acrimonious
deadpan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdpæn/
Forms: form: more deadpan
form: most deadpan
form: dead-pan
form: dead pan
Etymology: From dead + pan (“face”).
Senses: examples: text: a deadpan face or look
text: deadpan behaviour or speech
glosses: Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
examples: text: The comedian remained deadpan.
glosses: Having such a face or look.
Synonyms: poker-faced
deadpan
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdpæn/
Forms: form: more deadpan
form: most deadpan
form: dead-pan
form: dead pan
Etymology: From dead + pan (“face”).
Senses: examples: text: A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.
ref: 2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain, page 46:
glosses: In a deadpan manner.
deadpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdpæn/
Forms: form: dead-pan
form: dead pan
Etymology: From dead + pan (“face”).
Senses: examples: text: MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
ref: 2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan:
glosses: A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
Synonyms: deadpan comedy
deadpan humour
deadpan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdpæn/
Forms: form: deadpans
form: deadpanning
form: deadpanned
form: deadpanned
form: dead-pan
form: dead pan
Etymology: From dead + pan (“face”).
Senses: examples: text: Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496:
glosses: To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
Derived terms: deadpanner
Eurozone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Eurozone
form: eurozone
Etymology: From euro + zone.
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the European Union member states whose official currency is the euro.
Synonyms: euro area
breathalyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛθəlaɪzɚ/
Forms: form: breathalyzers
form: breathalyser
Etymology: Blend of breath + analyzer. Originally a trademark of Smith & Wesson.
Senses: examples: text: During the three day class we took one day of classroom study followed by one day of operating the breathalyzer and one day of drinking. Yes, I said drinking. […] I hated it but I got it down long enough to take the breathalyzer test. I blew a .11 on the model 900A Breathalyzer.
ref: 2012, G. Douglas Ward, Memories of a Small-Town Cop, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.
wikipedia: Smith & Wesson
dying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dyeing
Etymology: From die + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
text: a dying fire
text: The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
glosses: Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
examples: text: In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
text: The dieselisation of this line has not been, as is sometimes the case, a means of reviving a dying branch, but an improving hand to a healthy service.
ref: 1957 April 24, P. J. Norris, “The Watford-St. Albans Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 281:
text: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
ref: 2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34:
glosses: Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
examples: text: His dying words were of his mother.
text: until my dying day
text: his dying bed
glosses: Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
Derived terms: dying breed
dying declaration
dying gasp
dyingly
dyingness
dying pig
dying quail
dying seconds
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
never-dying
nondying
to one's dying day
undying
until one's dying day
with one's dying breath
dying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dyeing
Forms: form: dyings
Etymology: From die + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: “I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying,” he said. “You've got to approach your dying the way you live your life—with curiosity, with hope, with fascination, with courage and with the help of your friends.”
ref: 1995 November 26, Laura Mansnerus, quoting Timothy Leary, “At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
Derived terms: assisted dying
dying room
Great Dying
dying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dyeing
Etymology: From die + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of die
dying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
homophone: dyeing
Etymology: From dye + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dye
opener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.pən.ə/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.pən.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈəʉ.pən.ə/
ipa: /ˈəʉp.nə/
Etymology: From open + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The letter y is also used for the slightly opener non-fricative sound heard in English year.
ref: 1913 October, Edwin H. Tuttle, “Notes on Romanic Speech-History”, in The Modern Language Review, volume 8, number 4, page 484:
text: Lower-middle-class speakers in New York showed a strong tendency to report themselves as using [æː] in the word pass, although as objectively observed they tended to use the pronunciation with [ɛːə]. And in the most formal style (word lists) they produced on average an opener quality than the upper-middle-class speakers – an example of Labov-hypercorrection.
ref: 1982, J. C. Wells, Accents of English: Volume 3: Beyond the British Isles, page 512:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: comparative form of open: more open
Coordinate terms: backer
fronter
closer
rounder
open-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-handed
form: most open-handed
form: openhanded
Etymology: From open + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Hitters use the open-handed tip to try to softly place the ball over the blockers or into other open areas of the opponent's court.
ref: 2007, American Sport Education Program, Coaching Youth Volleyball, →ISBN:
text: Visual gaze toward the mother was present with the children's earliest gestures, but only in those cases where the gesture was itself directed toward the mother, such as extending objects toward the mother or open-handed reaching or pointing toward objects held by the mother.
ref: 2012, Virginia Volterra, Carol J. Erting, From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children, →ISBN:
text: And there were other words that stung his ears like hail: 'Slut! Bitch! Whore!' each accompanied by a noise: the open-handed slap that sounded like the tearing ofcalico, the dull thud followed by a gasp as a bunched fist slammed into yielding flesh, the reedy shriek and the gurgling sob -- and eventually the whistling breaths as Jessie climbed the stairs and shouted until she made herself heard that if they didn't stop their racket right this minute then she'd be calling the bobbies.
ref: 2014, Kathleen Conlon, Different Ways of Dancing, →ISBN:
glosses: Done with the hand open rather than clenched
examples: text: 'No, no,' said the undertaker; 'not an open-handed gentleman in general, by any means. There you mistake him; but an afflicted gentleman, an affectionate gentleman, who knows what it is in the power of money to do, in giving him relief, and in testifying his love and veneration for the departed.'
ref: 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:
text: "I'll do the old gorilla the justice to say that he is open-handed with money."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: Liberal and generous.
examples: text: Despite Gustavus' open-handed dealing, many princes of Europe did not trust him.
ref: 2012, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Gustavus Adolphus, →ISBN:
glosses: Frank, honest, and tolerant.
examples: text: She sat there for more than three hours, as sheet after sheet became covered with her open-handed writing.
ref: 2011, Faith Mortimer, The Assassins' Village:
glosses: Characterized by looseness and fullness.
Derived terms: open-handedly
open-handedness
open-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more open-handed
form: most open-handed
form: openhanded
Etymology: From open + handed.
Senses: examples: text: Winding their way to the land of snow and ice they saw approaching a band of warriors covered with emblems of peace,and, leaving their stony weapons in care of the younger braves, they walked open-handed to meet the strangers.
ref: 1884, Owahyah, Birch Bark Legends of Niagara, →ISBN:
text: Open-handed, he walked steadily down the slope, stepping over the crumpled bodies on the blood-damp grass.
ref: 2014, Ian Ross, War at the Edge of the World, →ISBN:
text: She had brought her hand across to lie open-handed on his chest.
ref: 2001, Vincent O'Sullivan, Let the River Stand, →ISBN:
glosses: With an open hand or hands.
examples: text: The money here was given open-handed, and Parliament was not to be informed what was to be done with it.
ref: 1876, Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, page 28:
glosses: Generously.
open-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: openhanded
Etymology: From open + handed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of open-hand
open-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-hearted
form: most open-hearted
form: openhearted
Etymology: From open + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: I myself consider the interviews to be of good quality, most of them even very extensive and openhearted. Openhearted, yes, but not on everything. It is a positivist naivete to take what people say as simple truth.
ref: 2007, Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Frank and candidly straightforward
examples: text: Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience.
ref: 2011, Stella Duffy, chapter 10, in Singling Out The Couples, →ISBN:
glosses: Generous and kind
examples: text: Whether or not you feel that open-hearted love toward your newborn from the very beginning, one of the best ways to cultivate it and further deepen it is simply by paying attention.
ref: 2009, Tracy Gaudet, Paula Spencer, Body, Soul, and Baby: A Doctor's Guide to the Complete Pregnancy Experience from Preconception to Postpartum, →ISBN, page 429:
text: Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to be in an open-hearted relationship with the present moment, recognizing that the world with which we are entangled is always uncertain and changing.
ref: 2013, Elina Penttinen, Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, →ISBN:
glosses: Emotionally receptive
Derived terms: open-heartedly
open-heartedness
open-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open-mouthed
form: most open-mouthed
Senses: synonyms: catching flies
glosses: With the mouth open.
synonyms: agape
catching flies
glosses: Gaping in surprise, wonder or astonishment.
examples: text: Againe, what is it that makes men to be open mouthed, in decla∣ring and censuring our faults[…]?
ref: 1606, William Perkins, The whole treatise of the cases of conscience […] , page 624:
text: A politician who has been open-mouthed against extravagant expenditure is in no way called upon to object to expenditure which, even if increased, has ceased to be extravagant.
ref: 1870, William Rathbone Greg, Political Problems for Our Age and Country, page 185:
text: Men must be found who will not manifest anything but a Christ-like spirit when opposed by talkative, open-mouthed men who put light for darkness and darkness for light.
ref: 1894 October 23, E. [Ellen] G. White, “Truth to be Rescued from Error”, in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, volume 71, number 42, page 657:
glosses: Talkative; eager to speak.
opera glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opera glass
opera glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: One or more pairs of small low-powered binoculars for use by members of the audience at a theatrical performance.
Related terms: lorgnette
lorgnon
opera glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opera glasses
Senses: examples: text: Talbot," I said, " you have an opera glass. Let me have it." "An opera glass ! — no ! — what do you suppose I would be doing with an opera glass ?
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Spectacles:
text: To the north and east of Shaula and Lesuth, the twin stars in the uplifted sting, are two beautiful star clusters, about four degrees apart, known as 6 M. and 7 M. which can be very well seen with an opera glass.
ref: 1914, John Robert Kippax, The Call of the Stars, page 93:
glosses: A pair of small low-powered binoculars for use at a theatrical performance.
opera house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑp.ɹə ˌhaʊ̯s/
Forms: form: opera houses
Senses: synonyms: opera
glosses: A theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging opera.
operatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒp.əˈɹæt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˈæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌɑ.pɚˈæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /ˌɔp.əˈɹæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌɔp.əˈɹæɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: more operatic
form: most operatic
Etymology: From opera + -ic, probably influenced by dramatic.
Senses: examples: text: The politician's address was so flamboyant as to be operatic.
text: She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the desk to write Charles some operatic note of farewell.
ref: 2009, Jane Pattison, Charles and Diantha, page 327:
glosses: Of, related to, or typical of opera.
Derived terms: horse-operatic
nonoperatic
operatically
poperatic
semioperatic
soap-operatic
soap operatic
space-operatic
unoperatic
operetta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒpəˈɹɛtə/
Forms: form: operettas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian operetta.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue.
Derived terms: operetta house
operettic
operettist
poperetta
lie-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lie-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from lie in.
Senses: examples: text: Since I didn't have to go to work, I decided to have a lie-in.
text: ‘But the only thing I need now is a taxi and a bed to lie in.’ ‘Yeah, go on home, Frankie. Sleep it off, have a lie-in, forget the bloody woman. […]’
ref: 2009, K. O. Dahl, The Fourth Man: A Thriller, Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A period spent lying in bed for longer than usual after one has woken up.
Related terms: lie in
duvet day
lie-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lie-ins
Etymology: From lie + -in, modelled after sit-in, etc.
Senses: synonyms: die-in
coordinate_terms: sit-in
bed-in
glosses: A form of protest where a group of people lie down in a public area.
metrosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being metrosexual
Related terms: metrosexual
sexuality
opinionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /əˈpən.jə.næɪ.təd/
ipa: [əˈpən.jə.næɪ.ɾəd]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opinionate
opinionated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/
ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈpɪn.jə.neɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.tɪd/
ipa: [əˈpɪn.jə.næɪ.ɾɪd]
ipa: /əˈpən.jə.næɪ.təd/
ipa: [əˈpən.jə.næɪ.ɾəd]
Forms: form: more opinionated
form: most opinionated
Senses: examples: text: Her dad is so opinionated that when he's around it is hard to simply relax and have a light conversation.
antonyms: unopinionated
glosses: Having very strong opinions.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Her dad is so opinionated that the others' preferences were overridden and no one had any fun on the outing.
glosses: Holding to one's own opinion obstinately and unreasonably.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: His essay was opinionated, which was a problem because the assignment had been to write a factual analysis.
glosses: Infused with opinions rather than wholly objective.
raw_tags: of statements or content
examples: text: an opinionated framework
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Enforcing one particular approach instead of offering options and flexibility.
Derived terms: nonopinionated
opinionatedly
opinionatedness
overopinionated
self-opinionated
opportune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒ.pəˈt͡ʃ(j)uːn/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˈt͡ʃuːn/
ipa: /-tjuːn/
Forms: form: more opportune
form: most opportune
Etymology: From Old French opportun, from Latin opportunus.
Senses: examples: text: This would be an opportune spot for a picnic.
text: I staggered to an opportune wall and continued to wail from the deepest, hurtingest, sweetest little abandoned place I could imagine. Finally, I dragged my weary body to my seat and finished my conversation with God.
ref: 2005, Michael Weinberger, A Message from Jakie, page 150:
glosses: Suitable for some particular purpose.
examples: text: The opportune arrival of the bus cut short the boring conversation.
text: Sam Tyler: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
ref: 2007 February 20, Chris Chibnall, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 2:
glosses: At a convenient or advantageous time.
Synonyms: sense: suitable
word: appropriate
word: proper
word: suitable
sense: convenient time
word: seasonable
word: timesome
word: timely
Derived terms: opportuneless
opportunism
opportunist
unopportune
Related terms: opportunity
opportuneness
opportunist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/
Forms: form: opportunists
Etymology: From French opportuniste, equivalent to opportune + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
Synonyms: chancer
Related terms: opportune
opportunism
opportunistic
opportunity
oppress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: oppresses
form: oppressing
form: oppressed
form: oppressed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: oppress
form: oppress
form: oppressed
form: oppress
form: oppressest
form: oppressed
form: oppressedst
form: oppresses
form: oppresseth
form: oppressed
form: oppress
form: oppressed
form: oppress
form: oppressed
form: oppress
form: -
form: oppressing
form: oppressed
Etymology: From Middle English oppressen, from Old French oppresser, from Medieval Latin oppressare (“to press against, oppress”), frequentative of Latin opprimere, past participle oppressus (“to press against, press together, oppress”), from ob (“against”) + premere, past participle pressus (“to press”); see press.
Senses: examples: text: The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
synonyms: suppress
glosses: To keep down by unjust force.
examples: text: We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
synonyms: word: begloom
word: get down
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To make sad or gloomy.
examples: text: Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: depress
downbear
squash
glosses: Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
synonyms: outrage
violate
vitiate
glosses: To sexually violate; to rape.
Derived terms: oppressee
oppressor
reoppress
Related terms: oppression
oppressive
oppression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɛʃən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: oppressions
Etymology: From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressiō (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprimō; see oppress.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: "Tibet challenges the conscience of the world," I told the audience at a gathering outside the town's main temple. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."
ref: 2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 95–96:
glosses: The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
examples: text: Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
text: We're choosing to use "anti-Jewishness" [rather than "anti-Semitism"] in recognition of the separate experiences and different oppressions of other peoples who also claim the name of "Semite."
ref: 1986 February 15, GCN staff, “Our Movement Is No Place for Jew-hating”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 4:
glosses: The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
examples: text: Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
text: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A feeling of being oppressed.
Derived terms: antioppression
downpression
nonoppression
oppressional
oppressionist
Oppression Olympics
silence is oppression
triple oppression
Related terms: oppress
oppressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppressors
form: oppressour
Etymology: From Middle English oppressour, from Old French opressor and Latin oppressor; equivalent to oppress + -or.
Senses: examples: text: And in respect of the great necessity there is, my darling, for more employments being within the reach of Woman than our civilisation has as yet assigned to her, don’t fly at the unfortunate men, even those men who are at first sight in your way, as if they were the natural oppressors of your sex […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
text: All members of society are hurt by the dynamic of oppressor versus oppressed (McIntosh, 1988).
ref: 2006, Lisa V. Blitz, Mary Pender Greene, Racism and Racial Identity:
glosses: Someone who oppresses another or others.
Coordinate terms: liberator
Derived terms: downpressor
lysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪsɪn/
rhymes: -aɪsɪn
Forms: form: lysins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis) + -in.
Senses: glosses: any substance or antibody that can cause the destruction (by lysis) of blood cells, bacteria etc
Derived terms: antilysin
arachnolysin
autolysin
cytolysin
endolysin
hemolysin
hepatolysin
heterolysin
homolysin
insulysin
isolysin
neurolysin
perfringolysin
pseudolysin
streptolysin
thermolysin
vibriolysin
ricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪsɪn
rhymes: -aɪsən
ipa: /ˈɹaɪsɪn/
Etymology: From Latin ricinus.
Senses: examples: text: It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye.
ref: 2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
toxicology
glosses: An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.
optic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˈɑp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒptɪk
Forms: form: optick
form: optique
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French optique or Medieval Latin opticus, from Ancient Greek ὀπτῐκός (optĭkós, “of or for sight”), from ὀπτός (optós, “visible”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
Derived terms: acoustooptic
acousto-optic effect
biooptic
electrooptic
entoptic
fiberoptic
fibre optic
fluoroptic
holoptic
hyperoptic
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
magnetooptic
monoptic
optical
optic axis
optic chiasm
optic chiasma
optic cup
optic disc
optic disk
optic foramen
opticist
optic nerve
optic neuritis
optico-
optic yellow
panoptic
paroptic
perioptic
piezooptic
plenoptic
postoptic
preoptic
stereoptic
suboptic
supraoptic
optic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.tɪk/
ipa: /ˈɑp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɒptɪk
Forms: form: optics
form: optick
form: optique
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French optique or Medieval Latin opticus, from Ancient Greek ὀπτῐκός (optĭkós, “of or for sight”), from ὀπτός (optós, “visible”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
ref: 1734, Alexander Pope, Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Cobham:
text: how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know[…]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, “Canto 1”, in Don Juan, section 46:
text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter 8, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An eye.
examples: text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, →DOI, page 270:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
examples: text: They were neatly lined up on three shelves between the optics of martini, vodka, whisky and gin.
ref: 2014, M. P. Wright, Heartman:
text: They pulled up two bar stools and looked around the room as the barman relieved the whisky optic of its contents.
ref: 2018, Denise Mina, Exile:
qualifier: trademark in UK
glosses: A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
Derived terms: optic stand
optical illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical illusions
Senses: examples: text: Each show spans over 180 minutes, including 40-plus songs from at least nine albums; there are 16 costume changes, pyrotechnics, an optical illusion in which she appears to dive into the stage and swim, and not one but two cottagecore worlds, which feature an abundance of moss.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
glosses: An image that is visually deceptive or misleading.
Hypernyms: optical delusion