cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tingle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: tingles
Etymology: From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.
Senses: glosses: A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
examples: text: Their every chime, ring, and tingle sings with joy and makes wonderful music as they dance with the swirling winds of nature.
ref: 2010, Joseph J. Mazzella, Walking the Path of Love, page 223:
text: The tingle of a wind chime drifted to her on the ocean breeze.
ref: 2014, Ally Blake, Marriage Make-Over:
text: The tingle of bells is crisp, cutting the Tibetan air with a clarity that feels like blue porcelain cracking against the endless chime of bells.
ref: 2017, Laurence Brahm, Searching for Shangri-La, page 52:
glosses: A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
tingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: tingles
form: tingling
form: tingled
form: tingled
Etymology: cognate with the Middle High German zingel
Senses: examples: text: Tingle the middle down by placing a tingle at the toe, and a couple at the joints.
ref: 2016, A Classic Guide to Making and Repairing Vintage Shoes and Boots:
glosses: To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
examples: text: If damage is localised then you may easily tingle it over and a perfectly good sound job may be made with a tingle.
ref: 1956, World Fishing - Volume 5, page 54:
text: To put her on the other tack while we tingle a started butt would lose us twenty-four hours at least, maybe more.
ref: 2018, Denys Arthur Rayner, The Long Fight:
glosses: To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that needs to be watertight.
examples: text: If there is much length of line it will require tingling up to keep it from sagging. To tingle a line it is best to have a plumbing place at that point were the tingle is to be fixed so as to ensure the work beging kept true.
ref: 1915 February, “British Method of Laying Bricks”, in Building Age, volume 37, page 68:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
tingling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinglings
Senses: glosses: A tingling sensation; pins and needles.
tingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tingle
pins and needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sensations caused by the loss of this nerve vary from numbness or "pins and needles" to severe pain.
ref: 1990, S. DelPin Failla, V. Fox, Ask the O.R. (number 6), volume 90, The American Journal of Nursing, page 18:
synonyms: word: paresthesia
english: the sensation
translation: the sensation
word: asleep
english: said of the limb itself
translation: said of the limb itself
word: dead
glosses: A tingling or prickling sensation, felt in a limb when a nerve compression is relieved and in other situations.
Derived terms: on pins and needles
Related terms: obdormition
tinkerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋk.ɚ.ɚ/
Forms: form: tinkerers
Etymology: From tinker + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Part of why both books dragged on so long is that Mr. Talese, who once worked for The New York Times, is a perfectionist, an obsessive tinkerer and rewriter, and also a famously meticulous reporter and researcher who spurns devices like composite characters and faked identities.
ref: 2009 April 16, Charles McGrath, “Sex and Crime, the Updates: Gay Talese Is Back on the Beat”, in The New York Times:
text: Make magazine, which celebrates “your right to tweak, hack and bend any technology to your own will,” has joined with the New York Hall of Science to gather more than 500 of the craftiest inventors, artists, technology enthusiasts, tinkerers and hobbyists to share their expertise.
ref: 2011 September 15, Rachel Lee Harris, “The World Maker Faire in Queens Draws Inventors”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Agent noun of tinker; one who tinkers with things.
glosses: A meddler.
tinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinklings
Senses: examples: text: The merry piano tinklings were gone.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 591:
glosses: A tinkle; a tinkling sound.
glosses: The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
glosses: The action of the verb to tinkle
tinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.
text: American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
ref: 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Paul's Letter to American Christians”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: That tinkles.
glosses: That works as a tinker
tinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tinkle
tin plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tin plates
form: tinplate
Senses: glosses: A thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans etc.
Related terms: word: tin-plate
tinplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinplates
Etymology: From tin + plate.
Senses: examples: text: [...] 4,000 tons of slabs will be sent to the R.T.B. works at Ebbw Vale and a further 8,000 a week will be rolled at the new R.T.B. Newport Works and returned to the Steel Co. of Wales at Trostre and Llangyfelach in coil form for processing into tinplate.
ref: 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tin plate.
tinplate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tinplates
form: tinplating
form: tinplated
form: tinplated
Etymology: From tin + plate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tin-plate.
tin-plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tin-plates
form: tin-plating
form: tin-plated
form: tin-plated
Senses: glosses: To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating.
Related terms: tin-plating
tin-plating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of applying a protective layer of tin, especially to steel sheet.
tin-plating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tin-plate
tin pyrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the mineral stannite
stannite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stannites
Senses: glosses: a dark-gray lustrous mineral, a mixed sulfide of copper, iron, and tin, Cu₂FeSnS₄, used as an ore of tin
Synonyms: tin pyrites
bell-metal ore
Derived terms: plumbostannite
potassium stannite
stannite of potash
stannoidite
tire gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire gauges
form: tire gage
form: tyre gauge
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the pressure of vehicle tires.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A type of crack pipe, with its innards removed.
Synonyms: tire-pressure gauge
tyre gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyre gauges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tire gauge.
Synonyms: tyre-pressure gauge
tyre-pressure gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyre-pressure gauges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tire-pressure gauge.
tire-pressure gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire-pressure gauges
form: tyre-pressure gauge
Senses: glosses: A tire gauge.
tyre-pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyre-pressures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tire-pressure.
respite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛsˌpaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.pɪt/
Forms: form: respites
form: respiting
form: respited
form: respited
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French respit (“rest”), from Latin respectus. Doublet of respect.
Senses: glosses: To delay or postpone (an event).
glosses: To allow (a person) extra time to fulfil some obligation.
tire-pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tire-pressures
form: tyre-pressure
Senses: glosses: the pressure of the air in a vehicle tire
Related terms: tire gauge
tissue culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tissue cultures
Senses: glosses: the process or technique of propagating tissue (either cells or plants) in a culture medium
glosses: the culture of tissue grown by this process
Related terms: plant tissue culture
titbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titbits
Senses: examples: text: But our particular friends were the rats, that dwelt by the stream. They were long and black. We brought them such titbits from our ordinary as rinds of cheese, and morsels of gristle, and we brought them also bird's eggs, and frogs, and fledgelings.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of tidbit.
titillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titillations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tītillātiō, tītillātiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: there feeling, and most gently indeed, squeezing those tender globular reservoirs; the magic touch took instant effect, quicken'd, and brought on upon the spur the symptoms of that sweet agony, the melting moment of dissolution, when pleasure dies by pleasure, and the mysterious engine of it overcomes the titillation it has rais'd in those parts, by plying them with the stream of a warm liquid that is itself the highest of all titillations
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: A pleasurable or sexually exciting sensation.
glosses: The process or outcome of titillating.
Related terms: titillate
title deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title deeds
Etymology: From title + deed.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A deed or similar document by which the title to property is conveyed between parties.
Related terms: abstract of title
title page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: title pages
form: title-page
form: titlepage
Senses: glosses: The page, near the front of a book, that gives its title and, normally, its author and publisher.
tittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪt.əl/
Forms: form: tittles
Etymology: From Middle English tytle, titel, titele, from Anglo-Norman titil, titule and Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, title, titlo, and titulus.
Senses: examples: text: The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
ref: 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks')
text: The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
ref: 1965, P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible:
text: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles")
ref: 1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii
text: A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.
ref: 2008, Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
examples: text: I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off in a dry year, and which it is proper to expose foremost when the weather-glass is fallen to much rain.
ref: 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub:
glosses: A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
Derived terms: jot and tittle
tittle-tattler
tittle-tattling
to a tittle
Related terms: iota
tilde
titer
titre
title
titlo
titulus
tittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪt.əl/
Forms: form: tittles
form: tittling
form: tittled
form: tittled
Etymology: From Middle English titillen, tytyllen, perhaps variants of Middle English tutelen (“to whisper, chatter”), from tutel (“mouth”), from Old English *tūtel, *tȳtel, related to Old Frisian tūte (“mouth”). Compare Middle English touten (“to jut out, project, protrude”), Middle English toute (“projection, mound, hill”), Middle Dutch tûte (whence modern Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle, nose, point, peak, summit”)), Old Norse túta (“a teat-like prominence”), Danish tude (“spout”).
Senses: glosses: To chatter.
Related terms: tattle
tittle-tattle
tittle-tattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tittle-tattles
Etymology: Reduplication of tattle.
Senses: examples: text: Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
ref: 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter XI.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC, page 114:
text: She has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: And, when rumours about him surfaced in the form of insinuating magazine articles demanding to know why he hadn’t found a wife yet, his wily agent Henry Willson made sure that none of them stuck, even if it meant leaking tittle-tattle about other clients instead.
ref: 2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Petty, idle gossip.
examples: text: If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
ref: 1777, The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, volume 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, edition of The Tatler n° 268 (1710) by Richard Steele, page 324:
glosses: An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
tittle-tattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tittle-tattles
form: tittle-tattling
form: tittle-tattled
form: tittle-tattled
Etymology: Reduplication of tattle.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: To engage in gossip.
glosses: To spread gossip.
barfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːflaɪ/
enpr: bärflī
ipa: /bɑɹflaɪ/
Forms: form: barflies
form: bar fly
Etymology: From bar + fly.
Senses: glosses: A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
glosses: A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
Synonyms: drunkard
Hypernyms: customer
patron
Related terms: barfly jumping
bar star
prop up the bar
pachuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈt͡ʃuːkəʊ/
Forms: form: pachucos
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish pachuco (“flashily dressed”).
Senses: examples: text: Now they saw that Terry was Mexican, a Pachuco wildcat; and that her boy was worse than that.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: I moved farther and farther into the Chicano community. I took Spanish in school and found willing tutors among my friends, who taught me a real-life version of the standard textbook language. I began to dress and comb my hair in the pachuco style of the day. I acquired the social customs and mannerisms of those around me.
ref: 1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 15:
text: They asked him if he was a pachuco. He said all the pachucos he knew of lived in El Paso. He told em he didn’t know any Mexican pachucos.
ref: 1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain:
hypernyms: Chicano#Noun
Mexican American#Noun
Mexamerican#Noun
<
American#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A Mexican American, especially a juvenile delinquent in the Los Angeles area.
examples: text: Like the zoot suit, the Pachuco caló was adopted by a large part of the Chicano youth who did not, in essence, identify themselves as Pachucos.
ref: 1974, Linda Fine Katz, The Evolution of the Pachuco Language and Culture, Los Angeles: University of California, page 41:
glosses: An argot spoken by that group, sometimes known as caló.
Derived terms: chuke
pakeha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pakehas
form: pakeha
Senses: examples: text: i.e. they'll spend the first four hours enthusiastic as can be, then get bored, want some kai, go down to the local fish and chip shop & bottle store & spend the rest of the episode telling drunken stories of how they used to steal from the "pakeha that owned the store on the corner" and about days spent down at the social welfare office.
ref: 2008, RK, “Maori TV”, in nz.general (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha.
palilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: palilogies
form: palillogy
Etymology: From Late Latin palilogia (“palilogy”), from Ancient Greek παλιλογία (palilogía, “palilogy”), from πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -λογία (-logía, “pertaining to speech, discourse”) or -λόγος (-lógos, “word, speech”).
Senses: glosses: Emphatic repetition of a word or phrase.
palillogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: palillogies
Etymology: From Late Latin palillogia (“palillogy”), from Ancient Greek παλιλλογία (palillogía, “palillogy”), from πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -λογία (-logía, “pertaining to speech, discourse”) or -λόγος (-lógos, “word, speech”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palilogy.
hooded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊdɪd/
Etymology: From hood + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a hood.
glosses: Covered with a hood.
glosses: Shaped like a hood.
synonyms: helmeted
glosses: Having a crest or similar elastic skin or muscle or bone in the neck or behind-the-head area.
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: Having a single, unbroken line of colour from the full head down to the spine and possibly towards the tail.
raw_tags: of a fancy rat
examples: text: A hooded anorak.
glosses: Fitted with a hood.
raw_tags: of clothing
glosses: Having thick, drooping eyelids.
raw_tags: of eyes
glosses: Uncircumcised.
Derived terms: black-hooded antshrike
Gould's hooded snake
grey-hooded attila
grey-hooded bunting
hooded crane
hooded crow
hooded grebe
hooded gull
hooded justice
hooded merganser
hoodedness
hooded oriole
hooded parrot
hooded pitohui
hooded seal
hooded sheldrake
hooded skunk
hooded snake
hooded spirits
hooded sweatshirt
hooded tickspider
hooded tinamou
hooded tops
hooded violet
hooded vulture
hooded warbler
hooded wheatear
nonhooded
Sennett's hooded oriole
hooded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʊdɪd/
Etymology: From hood + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hood
quizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪzɪz/
rhymes: -ɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of quiz
quizzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪzɪz/
rhymes: -ɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quiz
palliard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælɪəd/
ipa: /ˈpælɪɑːd/
ipa: /ˈpæljɚd/
Forms: form: palliards
form: paillard
Etymology: From Middle English payllart (1484), Middle French paillard, from Middle French paille (“straw”).
Senses: examples: text: A most luxurious and effeminate Palliard he was.
ref: 1614, Walter Raleigh, Hist. World, II, page 476:
text: They all knew him. A palliard, some said on Henley Street, a wild rogue.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
glosses: A beggar or vagrant, especially a professional one; (earlier especially) a lecher.
Related terms: word: palliardise
word: palliardry
word: palliardy
word: palliardize
palliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælɪˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: palliations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.
examples: text: The strong hand of the law is around your life and your wealth, but he who takes from you all that renders them valuable, the chances are, that his offence will find palliation and excuse; nay, that the laughers will be on his side.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 235:
glosses: Extenuation; mitigation.
Derrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
homophone: Derek
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Derek.
glosses: A surname.
pallium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.li.əm/
rhymes: -æliəm
Forms: form: pallia
form: palliums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.
Senses: glosses: A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
examples: text: Tut, tut, I have absolved thee: dost thou scorn me, / Because I had my Canterbury pallium / From one whom they dispoped?
ref: 1877, Alfred Tennyson, Harold: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 76:
text: Gregory sent Augustine a special liturgical stole, the pallium, a piece of official ecclesiastical dress borrowed from the garments worn by imperial officials.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 339:
text: Wynfrith, an Anglo-Saxon monk later known as St Boniface, who was the first archbishop of Mainz and a key figure in the Empire's church history, was given cloth that had lain across St Peter's tomb as his pallium in 752.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 23:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A woolen liturgical vestment resembling a collar and worn over the chasuble in the Western Christian liturgical tradition, conferred on archbishops by the Pope, equivalent to the Eastern Christian omophorion.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mantle of a mollusc.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cerebral cortex.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A presumed gelatinous envelope of diatoms.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
Derived terms: archipallium
entopallium
hyperpallium
mesopallium
neopallium
nidopallium
paleopallium
pallial
subpallium
Related terms: palliate
palliation
palliative
paraclete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹəkliːt/
Forms: form: paracletes
Etymology: See Paraclete.
Senses: examples: text: He passed a block of bright posters. One of them extolled domestic gas: a smiling toy paraclete called Mr Therm presided over a sort of warm Holy Family.
ref: 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:
glosses: An advocate or helper.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Paraclete, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.
Derived terms: paracletic
plagiarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈplæɪd͡ʒəɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: plagiarisms
Etymology: From plagiary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.
text: Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research.
glosses: Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.
examples: text: The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.
glosses: Text or other work resulting from this act.
glosses: The instance of plagiarism.
Derived terms: AIgiarism
antiplagiarism
autoplagiarism
cyberplagiarism
mosaic plagiarism
patchwork plagiarism
plagiarhythm
self-plagiarism
Related terms: microplagiarism
plagiarist
plagiarize
snowshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnoʊʃu/
Forms: form: snowshoes
form: snow shoe
Etymology: From snow + shoe.
Senses: glosses: A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.
glosses: Synonym of mukluk
synonyms: word: mukluk
Synonyms: word: web
Derived terms: Snowshoe
Snow Shoe
snowshoed
snowshoe evil
snowshoe foot
snowshoe hammer
snowshoe hare
snowshoeing
snowshoer
snowshoe rabbit
snowshoe spam
snowshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnoʊʃu/
Forms: form: snowshoes
form: snowshoeing
form: snowshoed
form: snowshoed
form: snow shoe
Etymology: From snow + shoe.
Senses: glosses: To travel using snowshoes.
skill set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skill sets
form: skillset
Senses: glosses: A set of skills.
examples: text: But after the Scottish Parliament gained reponsibility for the ScotRail franchise, it decided in 2015 to separate what is now known as the Caledonian Sleeper services from the overall contract in the belief that a different skill set was needed to promote the trains.
ref: 2020 July 1, Industry Insider, “An overnight success?”, in Rail, page 61:
glosses: The skills needed to accomplish a specified task or perform a given function.
Hypernyms: set
propre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propre
form: most propre
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of proper.
Related terms: amour propre
Shatneresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Shatneresque
form: most Shatneresque
Etymology: From Shatner + -esque.
Senses: glosses: In the style of William Shatner, particularly in overacting or singing
Related terms: Shatnerian
two-four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuˈfɔɹ/
Forms: form: two-fours
form: two four
form: 2-4
form: 24
Etymology: From the two digits used to form the number twenty-four, decimal 24, in place notation.
Senses: examples: text: Happy and me chip in together and buy a two-four of Labatt's plus a couple of bags of potato chips.
ref: 1980, Sundogs: Stories from Saskatchewan, page 85:
text: “Winston, Maxine and I are going to the beer store to buy a two four, would you mind staying here with baby until I get back?”
ref: 2007, Michell Downey, Beauty and the Beast Within, page 233:
glosses: A case of twenty-four bottles or cans of beer.
stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stôrz
ipa: /stɔɹz/
enpr: stôz
ipa: /stɔːz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: stōrz
ipa: /sto(ː)ɹz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /stoəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of store
stores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stôrz
ipa: /stɔɹz/
enpr: stôz
ipa: /stɔːz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: stōrz
ipa: /sto(ː)ɹz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /stoəz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of store
get after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets after
form: getting after
form: got after
form: got after
form: gotten after
Senses: examples: text: He's wasting time at university not getting after his degree.
text: If you want to win, you've got to get after it.
glosses: To move into action in pursuit of something.
examples: text: These murders are an indication of a swing to the right in this country, and also of the economic situation. Americans get after minorities during economic hard times: Blacks, Jews, Catholics. It's our turn because we've been the most vocal lately.
ref: 1980 August 16, Fran Koski, “Fourth Gay Man Murdered Here”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 6:
text: The defensive line needs to get after the quarterback.
text: Do you think the girl's going to ask you out? Get after her!
glosses: To move into action in attempt to catch or defeat another.
examples: text: Parents get after their children to do homework for the best.
glosses: To attempt to convince another to move into action.
Related terms: go after
get away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets away
form: getting away
form: got away
form: got away
form: gotten away
Etymology: get + away
Senses: examples: text: Get away from the edge of the cliff!
text: Get away from me!
glosses: To move away (from).
examples: text: Surround the bank! Don't let the robber get away!
text: I almost caught the critter, but it got away from me.
glosses: To avoid capture; to escape; to flee (from).
raw_tags: with 'from' when used with an object
examples: text: This place is really getting me down. I need to get away for a while.
text: Next weekend we're hoping to get away to the seaside.
glosses: To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday.
raw_tags: with 'to' when used with an object
examples: text: The train got away exactly on time.
text: I couldn't get away sooner because my new well was coming in at Coyote Hills and I had to see about it.
ref: 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films:
text: In 1965, all Coventry's banks closed at noon on Christmas Eve for the first time, to "enable bank staff to get away at a reasonable time".
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:
glosses: To start moving; to depart.
examples: text: I can't cope any more. Things are getting away from me.
glosses: To slip from one's control.
Derived terms: word: get-away
word: getaway
word: getaway
word: get-away
word: get away with
get away
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: get + away
Senses: examples: text: You bought that for twenty pounds? Get away!
glosses: Expressing disbelief.
Related terms: get away with you
black market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black markets
form: black-market
Etymology: Ca. 1930, probably a calque of German Schwarzmarkt, which is attested from the 1910s. Compare Schwärzer (“smuggler”, 18th c.).
Senses: examples: text: Peace and order will not be tolerated. Start saving your cash for the black market, folks, you're gonna need it.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “THE FANATICS WILL WIN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, page 135:
text: In District 12, a dirt-poor coal-mining community that looks like a Dorothea Lange photograph, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) quietly rebels against the system by hunting game in a forbidden area with her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and trading it on the black market.
ref: 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
text: Increasing numbers of people are turning to a growing black market for food to supplement their diets as prices rocket, experts have said.
ref: 2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “Britons increasingly turning to food black market, experts say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Trade that is in violation of restrictions, rationing, or price controls.
examples: text: associational black market
glosses: The people who engage in such trade, or that sector of the economy.
Derived terms: black marketeer
Related terms: black economy
unctuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋkt͡ʃuəsnəs/
Etymology: From unctuous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, chapter 94, in Moby Dick:
text: Only Mr. Radbolt's unctuousness—surely it would have smoothed the stormiest waves—saved the social situation.
ref: 1919, Anthony Hope, chapter 17, in The Secret of the Tower:
synonyms: unctuosity
glosses: The state or characteristic of being unctuous.
black-market
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Traded on the black market.
glosses: Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
black-market
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: black-markets
form: black-marketing
form: black-marketed
form: black-marketed
Senses: examples: text: He black-marketed as a sideline.
glosses: To participate in a black market.
examples: text: He made his living black-marketing goods intended only for tourists.
glosses: To sell in a black market.
get-away
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from get away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of getaway.
get-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: get-aways
Etymology: Deverbal from get away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of getaway.
to date
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: to-date
Etymology: to + date
Senses: examples: text: To date, they have sold only 500 copies of the book.
text: HONAN HYDROELECTRIC POWER—To date Wu-chih County has built 101 small hydroelectric power stations with a total capacity of 6,118 kw.
ref: 1977 November 28 [1977 October 18], “Briefs”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 404, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Until now; until the present time.
Synonyms: erenow
so far
thus far
hitherto
coerced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coerce, being forced
Derived terms: noncoerced
uncoerced
to the fore
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: With flankers Mamuka Gorgodze and Shalva Sutiashvili to the fore, Georgia came swarming back, dominating England at the breakdown.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In, into, or towards a prominent position.
to the last
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: To the end, or until death.
Related terms: to the last man
to the point
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: His letter was short and to the point.
text: But, more to the point, we should be asking whether this requirement is even necessary in the first place.
text: Furthermore, to Alice's point, it would be best to get input from the marketing team before finalizing this.
text: Jonathan Ross is shown congratulating her on being “common” and his identifying the elephant in the room is to the point, although the film doesn’t press the point of how that voice just surged up.
ref: 2015 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Amy review – a harrowing account of Winehouse's tragic destiny”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Going for broke, the BRB said that Edinburgh-Aberdeen and Hull-Doncaster-Leeds should be considered [for electrification], along with Plymouth-Penzance and Crewe-Holyhead, all to be in place by 2001. Norman Fowler's reply was short and to the point: Sorry, no.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 29:
synonyms: on point
pithy
antonyms: beside the point
glosses: Relevant or pertinent; succinct; specific. (The article "the" may be replaced by a possessive form denoting whose point is being acknowledged.)
examples: text: confident to the point of imperiousness
coordinate_terms: to an extent
to a degree
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, point.
Derived terms: get to the point
Related terms: english: to a degree
translation: to a degree
word: up to a point
whir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜː/
ipa: /wɝ/
ipa: /ʍɪr/
ipa: /wøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: were (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whirs
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly, the time-keeper struck three bells, and the deeper notes of the bell forrard, answered them. I gave a start. It seemed to me that they had been struck close to my elbow. There was something unaccountably strange in the air that night. Then, even as the Second Mate answered the look-out's "All's well," there came the sharp whir and rattle of running gear, on the port side of the mainmast.
ref: 1909, William Hope Hodgson, The Ghost Pirates:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whirr.
whir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜː/
ipa: /wɝ/
ipa: /ʍɪr/
ipa: /wøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: were (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whirs
form: whirring
form: whirred
form: whirred
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whirr.
nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of noun
nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of noun
reverently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reverently
form: most reverently
Etymology: From Middle English reverently, equivalent to reverent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a reverent manner.
assessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assess
assessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈsɛsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: Action of the verb to assess; assessment.
arbitrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbitrators
form: arbitratour
Etymology: From Middle English arbitrator, from Late Latin arbitrātor, from arbitror.
Senses: glosses: A person to whom the authority to settle or judge a dispute is delegated.
Synonyms: arbiter
Derived terms: arbitratorship
coarbitrator
Related terms: arbitrate
arbitration
enfeoffment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈfɛfmənt/
Forms: form: enfeoffments
Etymology: From enfeoff + -ment.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act or process of transferring possession and ownership of an estate in land.
topics: law
glosses: The property or estate so transferred.
topics: law
glosses: The instrument or deed by which one obtains such property or estate.
Synonyms: feoffment
excrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
ipa: /ɪkˈskɹɛsəns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: excrescences
Etymology: From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).
Senses: examples: text: I have again and again intimated that I desire the hair to be arranged closely, modestly, plainly. Miss Temple, that girl’s hair must be cut off entirely; I will send a barber to-morrow: and I see others who have far too much of the excrescence—that tall girl, tell her to turn round.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself.
ref: 1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 219:
text: Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
ref: 1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XXXIII, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part III (Wiltshire), page 336:
text: It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
examples: text: Being bussum buddies, the two friends often communicated with mere exchange of psychic forces, verbal communication having been rendered unnecessary excrescence.
ref: 1982 December 11, Andrea Loewenstein, “The Joys of Community or Holiday-itis Strikes Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 12:
glosses: A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: vyanjanabhakti
antonyms: svarabhakti
anaptyxis
hypernyms: epenthesis
glosses: The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
Hyponyms: word: linking consonant
Derived terms: superexcrescence
Related terms: word: excrescency
word: excrescent
word: intervocalic
episcopacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈpɪskəpəsi/
Forms: form: episcopacies
Etymology: From episcopa(te) + -cy and/or episcopa(l) + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: Further religious division occurred during the post-Restoration decades in the reign of Charles II, when strenuous and violent efforts were made by the Government to impose an episcopacy on the Scottish Church.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 16:
glosses: The office of bishop and the governance of a church (a religious denomination) by bishops.
glosses: Bishops collectively: Synonym of episcopate.
Synonyms: bishopdom
bishophood
bishopric
Derived terms: archiepiscopacy
monepiscopacy
Related terms: Congregationalism
congregationalism
bregma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bregmata
form: bregmas
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βρέγμα (brégma, “top of the head”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: sinciput
glosses: The anatomical structure on the skull where the coronal suture and sagittal suture meet.
Related terms: bregmatic
bregmoid
passel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: passels
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of parcel.
Senses: examples: text: That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely.
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
text: A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
glosses: An indeterminately large quantity or group.
pragma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹæɡmə/
Forms: form: pragmas
form: pragmata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”). In the technical senses perhaps a back-formation from pragmatic or a clipping of pragmat used earlier in ALGOL.
Senses: examples: text: This pragma stops the compiler from generating those warnings we don't care about.
text: […]users may also want to disable functionality such as function inlining via either a compiler command line option or compiler pragma, depending on the build tools system and functionality supported.
ref: 2012, Robert Oshana, DSP for Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 218:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: pragmat
glosses: A compiler directive; data embedded in source code by programmers to indicate some intention to a compiler.
examples: text: It is not possible to specify a pragma for a specific recipient; however, any pragma directive not relevant to a recipient should be ignored by that recipient.
ref: 1996 May 24, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:
glosses: In early versions of HTTP, a general header that specifies some implementation-specific directive, to any recipient, and may specify that the HTTP response should not be cached.
examples: text: At any given minute, we must choose between habitual action and thoughtful action, between Dogma and Pragma.
ref: 1939, Jacques Barzun, Of Human Freedom, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 129:
text: "If it is practical, a pragma, it is a thing and not a theory."
ref: 1961 April 24, R. A. Lafferty, “All the People”, in Galaxy Science Fiction:
text: Other speakers railed against “neo-liberal dogma”; but a dogma is a belief that you hold regardless of evidence. No one comes to economic liberalism through dogma. In theory, a planned economy might work better than one left to arrange itself; in practice, it never does. Classical liberalism, far from being a dogma, is a pragma.
ref: 2023 May 20, Daniel Hannan, “The Conservative coalition is falling apart. Too many Tories have given up on freedom”, in The Telegraph, →ISSN:
glosses: A practical thing or action, as opposed to theory or belief (dogma).
fundu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: wonderful, brilliant
glosses: intelligent
Related terms: funda