cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
station sedan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station sedans
Senses: examples: text: 1948, American Machinist, Volume 92, Issues 1-5, page 72,
July 11, 1946, the first station wagon went into production. It has the familiar Jeep “front-end look” with radiator grid, bonnet, front fenders, cowl, dash, windshield assembly and door assemblies identical with those in panel delivery, 2- and 4-wheel drive trucks and the new station sedan.
text: 1949 April 18, Advertisement, Life, page 120,
The ‘Jeep’ Station Sedan combines the luxurious riding ease of a sedan with the spaciousness of a station-wagon.
text: He noticed somebody come running around the corner and to the side of the station sedan nearer to the kerb, and get in.
ref: 1975, South Australian Supreme Court, The South Australian State Reports, volume 12, page 405:
text: 1993, Paul B. Kidd, Never to Be Released, 2001, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page,
Police throughout Australia were alerted to keep a lookout for a white or cream 1973–74 Holden Kingswood station sedan.
glosses: A station wagon.
photoaffinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + affinity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the photoexcitation of a molecular entity (normally associated with a biomolecule) in order to attach a label
Derived terms: photoaffinity labelling
photoaffinity labelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of photoaffinity labeling.
photoaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoageing
Etymology: From photo- + aging.
Senses: synonyms: dermatoheliosis
glosses: The damaging effect of prolonged exposure to sunlight on the skin, especially wrinkling, discoloration and susceptibility to cancer
Derived terms: antiphotoaging
writhy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more writhy
form: most writhy
Etymology: From writhe + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.
ref: 1743, Robert Blair, The Grave:
text: When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.
ref: 2003, Richard Rooke, Ready to Dance and Other Poems:
text: Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.
ref: 2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome:
glosses: Characterized by or prone to writhing.
aeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛːˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: aerations
form: aëration
Senses: examples: text: The Mekydro transmission employs a single converter and a four-speed mechanical gearbox, which has the advantage of cheapness and simplicity for the same number of gear changes, and does away with the necessity for constantly emptying and filling converters, which tends to harm the oil by aeration.
ref: 1960 January, “The Swindon Type "4" diesel-hydraulic units”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 41–42:
glosses: The process by which air is circulated through or mixed with a substance such as soil or a liquid.
glosses: By extension, a process in which other gases (such as carbon dioxide or nitrogen or argon) are circulated through or mixed with a substance (usually liquid), sometimes with the consequence of increasing the transfer of air into the same liquid at the surface due to the induced circulation.
Derived terms: aerational
aeration zone
bioaeration
deaeration
hyperaeration
hypoaeration
microaeration
overaeration
reaeration
subaeriallyaeration zone
Related terms: aerate
aerated
ball-breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball-breakers
form: ballbreaker
Etymology: From ball + breaker.
Senses: examples: text: My slave-driving boss expects me to work over the weekend. What a ball-breaker!
glosses: A person or task which is excessively demanding or punishing.
Synonyms: ball-buster
taskmaster
aerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerators
Etymology: From aerate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: faucet aerator
antonyms: deaerator
glosses: A device which mixes air with a substance, particularly soil or a liquid.
glosses: A device used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
glosses: A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungi and insects.
Derived terms: faucet aerator
top aerator
Related terms: aerate
aeration
aerially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aerially
form: most aerially
Etymology: From aerial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aerial manner.
examples: text: Some months later it was determined that the infection resisted containment measures so easily because it was transmitted aerially.
glosses: Via the air, as in aerial transmission of diseases.
Derived terms: subaerially
aerobically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aerobically
form: most aerobically
Etymology: From aerobic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aerobic manner.
Derived terms: microaerobically
semiaerobically
aerodynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aerodynamically
form: most aerodynamically
Etymology: From aerodynamic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aerodynamic manner, in a manner which reduces drag.
examples: text: Aerodynamically, your ideas will never get off the ground.
text: Additionally, Saturday was when we would trek to Cherry Hill at the edges of Garfield and Lodi to fly our free-flight models. If the planes were not aerodynamically correct, they would crash.
ref: 1992 June 21, “The Breadboard Ornithopter”, in The New York Times:
glosses: From the perspective of aerodynamics.
Related terms: aerodynamics
aestheticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs′-thĕ′-tĭ-sĭ′-zəm
ipa: /ˌæsˈθɛ.tɪˌsɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: aestheticisms
form: æstheticism
form: estheticism
Etymology: From aesthetic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He went over his canvases with disgust and anger, unable to see virtue in any one of them. Even his sacred Oyster Girl went back on him. The creature of a vitiated æstheticism, he could only suppose that conceit had played an abominable trick on his eyesight.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.
ref: 1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:
glosses: A doctrine which holds aesthetics or beauty as the highest ideal or most basic standard.
Related terms: aesthete
aesthetics
social democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social democracies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A moderate political philosophy or ideology that aims to achieve socialist (socialistic) goals within a democratic society and a liberal democracy such as by means of a strong welfare state and regulation of private industry.
glosses: A society based on this ideology.
Related terms: social democrat
social democratic
social-democratically
democratic socialism
flintstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flintstones
Etymology: From Middle English flynt ston; equivalent to flint + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The very poor will sometimes adorn the graves of those they love with oystershells, or flintstones, or small plaster busts, or tiles […]
ref: 1858, Ecclesiological Society, The Ecclesiologist:
text: At times when there was inadequate sunlight to focus through the lens, the king struck flintstones to ignite the flame in the same way.
ref: 1991, Damrong Rajanubhab Damrongrāchānuphāp, Journey through Burma in 1936:
text: They stacked flintstones in a way that permitted night winds to pass around them and cool them so they collected moisture.
ref: 1964, United States Dept. of Agriculture, Yearbook of Agriculture:
glosses: A piece of flint.
Related terms: flint
Flintstonian
albinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælbəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: albinisms
Etymology: From albino + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: albinoism
glosses: Congenital lack of melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); the condition of being albino.
Derived terms: pseudoalbinism
Tietz albinism-deafness syndrome
Related terms: albinistic
albino
albinotic
axanthism
leucism
vitiligo
democratic socialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratic socialisms
Senses: glosses: A left-wing ideology that aims to introduce democracy into the workforce, i.e. worker cooperatives, and ensure public provision of basic human needs.
glosses: Any form of socialism based on democratic principles and institutions.
Related terms: democratic socialist
social democracy
alkalinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalinities
Etymology: From alkaline + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.
Synonyms: basicity
Derived terms: peralkalinity
residual alkalinity
alewives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alewife
anarchistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌanəˈkɪstɪk/
enpr: ăn'ər-kĭsʹtĭk
ipa: /ˌænəɹˈkɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more anarchistic
form: most anarchistic
Etymology: From anarchist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: One of the commonest objections to Communism is that men are not good enough to live under a Communist state of things. They would not submit to a compulsory Communism, but they are not yet ripe for free, Anarchistic Communism. […]
ref: June 1888, Peter Kropotkin, “Are We Good Enough?”, in Freedom Press, volume 2, number 21:
text: I don't feel that discouraging people from exploring where they will is in line with anarchistic thought.
ref: 1985 February 9, Beth Walsh, “Monogamy A Radical Choice”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 4:
synonyms: anarchistical
anarchical
anarchic
glosses: Of or relating to anarchism or anarchy.
examples: text: With the exception of the leader's boppish title tune, the album is filled with anarchistic jazz reduxes of Nichols, Ellington, Kurt Weill, and Cole Porter.
ref: 2004, Todd S. Jenkins, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, page 234:
glosses: Anarchic; chaotic or free-spirited.
Derived terms: anarchistically
wussy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝osʹi
ipa: /ˈwʊsi/
rhymes: -ʊsi
Forms: form: wussier
form: wussiest
Etymology: 1960s: probably an alteration of pussy, perhaps a blend of wimp and pussy, or short for pussy-wussy (reduplication of pussy). Compare later wuss.
Senses: examples: text: There was enough food for a soccer team and we were going to grill it. Our meatfest included no girly utensils, no wussy plates. Just our hands, mouths, and incisors.
ref: 2013, L. A. Campbell, Cartboy and the Time Capsule, page 112:
glosses: Weak or timid.
Derived terms: wussily
wussiness
wussy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝osʹi
ipa: /ˈwʊsi/
rhymes: -ʊsi
Forms: form: wussies
Etymology: 1960s: probably an alteration of pussy, perhaps a blend of wimp and pussy, or short for pussy-wussy (reduplication of pussy). Compare later wuss.
Senses: glosses: A wuss; a person who refuses to perform a particular task due to an unreasonable fear.
Synonyms: sissy
pussy
weakling
milksop
coward
write-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: write-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from write in. So called because anybody wishing to vote for such a candidate must explicitly write the candidate's name on the ballot.
Senses: examples: text: He won a write-in campaign for Youngstown school board in 2015; he joined the Green Party last year.
ref: 2019 February 19, Jeremy Pelzer, “Youngstown School Board member Dario Hunter seeks Green Party presidential nomination”, in cleveland.com, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2019:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A candidate whose name is not listed on the ballot.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A vote made for a candidate of this kind.
examples: text: NaNoWriMo also provides free resources and curriculum globally to over 80,000 students and educators in 2,000 classrooms. In addition a host of volunteers provide write-ins and events in 500 regions.
ref: 2015 February 19, Roy Baldwin, Mauveine, Creative Gateway:
text: If you have come to a point where you just don't know where to go next in the story, going to a write-in can be a huge help.
ref: 2017 August 13, HowExpert, Nicole Thomas, NaNoWriMo 101: A Quick Guide on How to Write a Novel in 30 Days During National Novel Writing Mont, HowExpert, →ISBN, page 22:
text: I do not think podcasting helps sell books, except for perhaps some of my non-fiction, but that boost is very slight. It does direct listeners to my author services (retreats and weekly write-ins), so in that way, I see some profit from it.
ref: 2020 March 6, Joanna Penn, Audio For Authors: Audiobooks, Podcasting, And Voice Technologies, The Creative Penn, →ISBN:
glosses: A social event for authors, at which they meet up to work on their writing together.
examples: text: Normally, when the first clue is a write-in, I think I am in for an easy time, but not here: there is enough misdirection to keep most of us on our toes, and the bottom half remained nearly empty for far too long.
ref: 2019 July 9, PeterO, “Guardian Cryptic 27,868 by Pasquale”, in Fifteensquared:
text: Elsewhere there was a capital that crops up every now and then and which I never remember, and much that will have been a write-in for regular solvers.
ref: 2024 November 13, “i Cryptic Crossword 4297 by Tees”, in idothei:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A clue or puzzle that is so easy that the answer is immediately obvious.
wafer-thin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Very thin, as thin as a wafer.
examples: text: The President is struggling to maintain his government with only a wafer-thin majority in the lower house.
glosses: Extremely marginal or tenuous.
Derived terms: wafer-thin mint
inhumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: inhumations
Etymology: From inhume + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
ref: 1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2010:
text: Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
ref: 2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 Sep 2010:
glosses: The act of burial.
glosses: The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Arenation.
Synonyms: burial
entombment
interment
Derived terms: inhumationist
waffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wafflers
Etymology: From waffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently.
glosses: One who waffles or rambles; a vague, unfocused speaker or writer.
glosses: A waffle iron.
Synonyms: tergiversator
vacillator
willow in the wind
wardroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardrooms
Etymology: From ward + room.
Senses: examples: text: There were only about a dozen officers in the great wardroom, six of them in the khaki gabardine working uniform of the U.S. Navy.
ref: 1957, Neville Shute, chapter 1, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow & Co:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain.
examples: text: The captain rarely referred to his wardroom for advice, and this resulted in their discontent.
text: […] it having also reached the ears of the Ward-room that the work contained reflections somewhat derogatory to the dignity of the officers, the volume was seized by the master-at-arms, armed with a warrant from the Captain.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in White-Jacket, New York: Harper, published 1855, page 56:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The commissioned officers of a ship, excluding the captain.
Related terms: gunroom
light-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more light-hearted
form: lighter-hearted
form: most light-hearted
form: lightest-hearted
Senses: examples: text: Musicals are lighter-hearted than operas – West Side Story, for example, has a very sad ending, but it also has America and Gee, Officer Krupke.
ref: 2011 May 3, “Notes and queries”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016:
text: And I didn’t think I would ever write things like infanticide, which you see in Morrison’s novels. I thought I was writing away from that to something lighter-hearted, but I kept getting pulled back.
ref: 2018 April 15, John Williams, quoting Nafissa Thompson-Spires, “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Disarming Humor in ‘Heads of the Colored People’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2018:
text: Even the lightest-hearted of the nominees bears the shadow of suspense.
ref: 2020 January 31, Michael Ordoña, “Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Tragedies, near-tragedies and soccer-loving kids”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2020:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lighthearted.
Derived terms: light-heartedly
light-heartedness
aerogels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerogel
hellcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlˌkæt/
Forms: form: hellcats
Etymology: From hell + cat.
Senses: glosses: A witch.
glosses: A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman.
examples: text: The hellfire abilities were reserved for special kinds of demons. Hellcats, demon princes, and—you guessed it—hellhounds. / Of the three, Vanessa would prefer to not deal with the hellhounds. Unlike hellcats and demon princes, they had the worst attitude, and they usually traveled in small groupings.
ref: 2017, Nia Rose, Spellbound & Hellhounds (Coven Chronicles; 1), Poisoned Apple Publishing, L.L.C., →ISBN, page 9:
text: The Scourge was still a new concept to Logan, but hey, hellhounds and hellcats had to come from somewhere. / “Okay, so what does the ritual entail?” Esme asked. “If you need stuff for it, I’ve probably got it.” / “We’re going to need a Seal of Solomon drawn in blood,” Ceri said.
ref: 2020, Andrea Speed, Darlings of New Midnight, DSP Publications, →ISBN:
text: “These hellcats…they’re not the cute, fluffy kind that Caim and Seth played fetch with. They’e bigger and louder. Like dragons with lion heads.” / That was the second mention of hellcats that looked like lions.
ref: 2021, Angela Roquet, Life After Death (Return to Limbo City: A Lana Harvey, Reapers Inc. Spin-Off; 1), Violent Siren Press, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
coordinate_terms: hellhound
glosses: A demonic cat of hell.
Synonyms: sense: witch
word: magician
sense: spiteful woman
word: shrew
hellbroth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellbroths
Etymology: From hell + broth.
Senses: glosses: A brew used in black magic.
bedewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedewed
form: most bedewed
Etymology: From be- + dew + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: “What makes you think that?” I asked, handkerchiefing my upper slopes, which had become considerably bedewed. I didn't like this line of talk at all.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
glosses: Covered with or as if with dew.
Synonyms: word: dewy
word: rorid
word: bedewed
word: roric
word: rory
word: roscid
Hypernyms: word: wet
Derived terms: unbedewed
bedewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From be- + dew + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedew
witling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witlings
Etymology: From wit + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]
ref: 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221:
glosses: A person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty.
examples: text: "But the witlings of the bunch were those two swaggering there in the popular conception of western dress...."
ref: 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:
text: "...only a witling would call a man with my conceit a liar."
ref: 1955, Rex Stout, Immune to Murder:
glosses: A person with very little wit.
displaced person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜːsn̩/
ipa: /dɪsˌpleɪst ˈpɜɹs(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sən
Forms: form: displaced persons
form: displaced people
Etymology: From displaced + person.
Senses: synonyms: DP
hyponyms: internally displaced person
glosses: A refugee, especially of war or of forced migration.
changeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From change + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Lest men grow weary down on the great Worlds through gazing always at a changeless sky I will paint my pictures in the sky. And I will paint them twice in every day for so long as days shall be.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: unchanging
Synonyms: word: constant
word: changeless
word: equal
word: nonchanging
word: static
word: stationary
word: unaltering
word: unchanging
word: unvarying
Hypernyms: word: steady
Derived terms: changelessly
changelessness
Related terms: word: immutable
niceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪsnɪs/
Forms: form: nicenesses
Etymology: From nice + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Silliness; folly.
examples: text: He was a good Citizen, of an honest-gentle nature, as are commonly fat and burly men; for so was he: But to speake truely of him, full of ambitious vanitie and remisse nicenesse [translating mollesse].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Effeminacy; indulgence in soft living or luxuriousness.
examples: text: Methinks a young create of niceness should be less ready to write to one man, when she is designed to be another's.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Shyness; reserve.
glosses: Fastidiousness; fine sensitivity.
glosses: Pleasantness, especially of behaviour or personality; agreeableness.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
Derived terms: underniceness
woobie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊbi/
rhymes: -ʊbi
Forms: form: woobies
Etymology: From the 1983 film Mr. Mom, in which it is a child's word for his security blanket; perhaps from a childish diminutive of *woob (compare plushie, from plush), an alternative pronunciation of wub, from wuv, a baby talk form of love (cf. luv).
Senses: glosses: Any object, typically a blanket, garment or stuffed animal, that is used simply for its comforting characteristics; a security blanket.
glosses: Term of endearment.
examples: text: The conflicted portrayal of the character reaches its zenith during the sixth episode where Logan’s relationship with his abusive and morally despicable father solidifies his character into the woobie.
ref: 2006, Afşar Yegin, "Fan-Textual Television: Narrative Structure, Vituality And Fandon In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel And Veronica Mars, thesis submitted to Istanbul Bilgi University, page 109
text: In some instances, this characterisation then becomes part of a hurt/comfort fan narrative where the pleasure at the woobie's pain is transmuted into relief at their eventual recovery.
ref: 2018, Anna Blackwell, Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and Remediation, page 109:
text: But the post also rejects Patroclus as woobie, drawing attention to his amorous complicity in Achilles's crimes.
ref: 2022, K. R. Moore, The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality, unnumbered page:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fictional character, often morally grey or a villain, subjected to constant stress and angst, so as to create pathos within the narrative and increase the reader/viewer's emotional attachment to them.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A poncho liner.
Derived terms: topics: lifestyle
word: woobification
topics: lifestyle
word: woobify
Related terms: english: male morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans
translation: male morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans
word: baby girl
english: any morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans
translation: any morally-ambiguous character romanticised by fans
word: Draco in Leather Pants
english: endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character
translation: endearingly pathetic villain or morally-ambiguous character
word: poor little meow meow
woobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woobie
vesture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vestures
Etymology: From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Senses: examples: text: His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.
ref: 1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine:
glosses: A covering of, or like, clothing.
vesture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vestures
form: vesturing
form: vestured
form: vestured
Etymology: From Middle English vesture (noun) and vesturen (verb), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French vesteüre, from Vulgar Latin vestītūra (“clothing”), from Latin vestītus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe”), from vestis (“garment”).
Senses: glosses: To clothe.
Related terms: invest
vest
vestibule
vestment
guarantor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæɹəntə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡæɹəntɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: guarantors
Senses: glosses: A person or company that provides a guarantee.
Synonyms: guaranteer
surety
Derived terms: coguarantor
guarantorship
hyperboreal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperboreal
form: most hyperboreal
Etymology: By surface analysis, hyper- + boreal
Senses: glosses: hyperborean
photoalidade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoalidades
Etymology: From photo- + alidade.
Senses: glosses: A surveying instrument used to plot lines and measure directions between terrestrial features from photographs
Related terms: alidade
photogrammetry
photobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + biology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the effects of light on living organisms, and on biological processes
Related terms: photobiologist
photobiological
photobiologically
circadian rhythm
photomorphogenesis
photosynthesis
photobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobionts
Etymology: From photo- + -biont.
Senses: examples: text: It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.
ref: 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
hypernyms: symbiont
coordinate_terms: mycobiont
glosses: A photosynthetic symbiont, especially those in symbiosis with fungi in lichen.
photosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photosynthetic
form: most photosynthetic
Etymology: From photo- + synthetic.
Senses: examples: text: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.
Derived terms: nonphotosynthetic
photosynthetically
photobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photobiotic
form: most photobiotic
Etymology: From photo- + biotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Dependent on light for life and growth.
Derived terms: nonphotobiotic
photobleach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photobleaches
form: photobleaching
form: photobleached
form: photobleached
Etymology: From photo- + bleach.
Senses: glosses: To become less absorbent, reflective or fluorescent upon exposure to light.
Derived terms: photobleachable
photobleaching
photobleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photobleach
photobleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The destruction of a photochemical fluorescence by high-intensity light
waggon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggons
Senses: examples: text: We go on like one of those country waggons, creaking along in the old ruts […]
ref: 1880s, A. L. O. E., The Wondrous Sickle, and Other Stories, London: Gall & Inglis, →OCLC:
text: The first waggon was loaded, and moved a few yards along the quay, and the second took its place. There was an order and swiftness over the work that told of a careful preparation. The third waggon took the place of the second and the work of loading it went even faster. Then, at a shout from the Grocer, the loaders threw off their slings, took every man of them a cudgel from beneath his smock, and formed themselves as a guard about the waggons that went away quickly along the quay on their way inland.
ref: 1922 February, H. Harrison, “Plot and Counterplot: A Tale of the Smuggling Canker in the Days Following the Battle of Waterloo”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XLV, part 4, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 262, column 1:
text: The waggons are deep and square; wider at the top than at the bottom, and are fast at all sides. The bottom has hinges, and can be let down to discharge the coals, of which these waggons contain about three bolls each.
ref: 1944 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “An Ancient Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 274, text from early 19th century:
text: It was five miles or more from Maggot's lane to the Ferry. The hobbits wrapped themselves up, but their ears were strained for any sound above the creak of the wheels and the slow clop of the ponies' hoofs. The waggon seemed slower than a snail to Frodo.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “A Short Cut to Mushrooms”, in The Fellowship of the Ring, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 105; republished Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, →ISBN:
text: On the sixteenth-century farm all the heavy hauling of lime or marl for the fields, gravel for the lanes, timber for the fences and 'coals or other necessary fuel fetched far off' had to be done as far as possible in the summer while the roads were still dry and firm. […] About the end of October the prudent farmer, like Best of Elmswell near Driffield, laid up his waggon, and sent his corn to market during the winter months on a string of eight pack-horses, tied head to tail, with a couple of men to 'guide the pokes'.
ref: 1967, J. Crofts, “The Weather”, in Packhorse, Waggon and Post: Land Carriage and Communications under the Tudors and Stuarts (Studies in Social History), London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, →ISBN; reprinted as Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2007, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wagon.
Derived terms: battle waggon
waggoner
waggon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waggons
form: waggoning
form: waggoned
form: waggoned
Senses: examples: text: The ore is firſt waggoned to the river, a quarter of a mile, then laden on board of canoes, and carried acroſs the river, which is there about 200 yards wide, and then again taken into waggons and carried to he furnace.
ref: 1781–1782, Thomas Jefferson, “Query VI. A Notice of the Mines and Other Subterraneous Riches; Its Trees, Plants, Fruits, &c.”, in Notes on the State of Virginia. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], published 1787, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wagon.
wain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Wayne
homophone: wane
Forms: form: wains
form: wayn
Etymology: From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn.
Senses: examples: text: "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
text: Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out.
ref: 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:
glosses: A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
Derived terms: Charles' Wain
Conestoga wain
hay wain
wainwright
wain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Wayne
homophone: wane
Forms: form: wains
form: waining
form: wained
form: wained
Etymology: From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian wein, Dutch wagen, German Wagen, Danish vogn, Norwegian vogn, Swedish vagn.
Senses: glosses: To carry.
wain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Wayne
homophone: wane
Forms: form: wains
form: waining
form: wained
form: wained
Senses: examples: text: As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/urbanfarm15108.aspx
ref: 2008, "From Mowtown to ‘Growtown’? Detroit’s urban farming catches the eye of the BBC", modelD
glosses: Misspelling of wane.
wain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Wayne
homophone: wane
ipa: /ˈwiː(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈweɪ(ə)n/
ipa: [weːn]
ipa: /weɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: Wayne
homophone: wane
Forms: form: wains
Etymology: From wee one.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wean.
Related terms: wean
whing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whings
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: "Whing, whing," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh:
glosses: A high-pitched ringing sound.
whing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whings
form: whinging
form: whinged
form: whinged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To move with great force or speed.
whing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whings
Etymology: See wing.
Senses: examples: text: The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
ref: 1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe herball or historie of plantes:
text: Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?
ref: 1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
ref: 1791, letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, vol. 4 (1896)
text: When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
ref: 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
roman: An’ shakin ther whings, thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wing.
expressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressionisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French expressionnisme, equivalent to expression + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences.
glosses: A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music.
Derived terms: Abstract Expressionism
abstract expressionism
neo-expressionism
Techspressionism
Related terms: expressionist
expressionistic
water level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water levels
Senses: examples: text: There is one feature of interest: at Rendsburg after a not too-easily graded ascent from the plain by means of an embankment, the train crosses the Kiel Canal by a double-track steel bridge 138 ft. above water-level, with, on a clear day, magnificent views over the countryside, and then loops round right, descending to canal level and, parallel with the canal, crossing under the bridge over which it passed a few minutes previously.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:
glosses: The level of a body of water, especially when measured above a datum line.
glosses: The level of the water table below ground.
glosses: The waterline of a ship.
examples: text: A water level indicator of the float type is provided.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: (Relating to) an instrument to show the level by means of the surface of water in a trough, or in upright tubes connected by a pipe.
examples: text: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:
glosses: Of a route that follows a riverbank or shoreline.
Derived terms: english: adjectival form
translation: adjectival form
word: water-level
water table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water tables
Senses: examples: text: The heavy rain, combined with the high-water table in the flat Fenland landscape, made for difficult working conditions which was already threatening NR's preparedness for the nine-day blockade in September.
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Stephen, “Preparing for the big push at Werrington”, in Rail, page 57:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: phreatic surface
hypernyms: table
glosses: The level, underground, below which the ground is saturated with water.
topics: architecture
glosses: A molding or other projection in the wall of a building to throw off rainwater.
datum line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datum lines
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A line which serves as a reference or base for the measurement of other quantities.
Related terms: datum circle
datum plane
datum point
datum surface
subservience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subserviences
form: subserviency
Etymology: From subservi(ent) + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: But bureaucracy, the lack of an obvious champion and the reluctance of the DfT to commit to anything because of its subservience to the Treasury all make life difficult for the group.
ref: 2021 October 20, Christian Wolmar, “A stern test for Government's 'Levelling up' agenda”, in RAIL, number 942, page 45:
glosses: The state of being subservient.
cleanhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Further, he was singularly cleanhanded, as Ottoman officials go. Even those who declared that he took bribes in his youth admitted that he refused them in his old age —“unless they were very big,” they added.
ref: 1922, Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind: Life in Eastern Kurdistan, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of clean-handed.
Derived terms: cleanhandedly
cleanhandedness
clean-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clean-handed
form: most clean-handed
form: cleanhanded
Senses: examples: text: And how there was clearly no escape, no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.
ref: 2014, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister, →ISBN:
glosses: Innocent and candid; free from corruption.
Derived terms: clean-handedly
clean-handedness
crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.ɪts/
enpr: krĭkˈ .ĭts
rhymes: -ɪkɪts
Etymology: Sense 2 is derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet.
Senses: glosses: plural of cricket.
examples: text: to hear crickets
text: Since then, I've received no response. Not a word. Just… crickets.
text: We asked for an explanation, but all we got was crickets.
text: "We have one exclusive one block from Bee on Fifth and Seventy-third. Prewar. White-glove. Top-notch." His Queen's English posh London accent made it sound extra-fabulous. […] / "Do you maybe have any listings that are less? Like ... four million less?" I asked, semi-blushing. / "Four million or less? Sure!" / "No, no, no," I said. "Not four million or less. Four million less than five point three million, i.e., something in the one-to-one-and-a-half range." / "Oh." / Crickets.
ref: 2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN:
text: Maria Chapelle-Nadal, a Democratic state senator, said she feared that the commission's findings would be announced with great fanfare, "but then we're just going to hear crickets, crickets, crickets."
ref: 2015 September 14, Monica Davey, “Panel studying racial divide in Missouri presents a blunt picture of inequity [print version: 'Report blunt on race inequity', International New York Times, 15 September 2015, page 7]”, in The New York Times:
text: Stopping a group of teenage boys at a museum [in Bangladesh] devoted to the 1971 war, I asked them which American leaders had played an important role in the conflict. Henry A. Kissinger? They looked at me with blank faces. Richard M. Nixon? Crickets.
ref: 2016 June 27, Ellen Barry, “To U.S. in ’70s, a dissenting diplomat. To Bangladesh, ‘a true friend.’ [print version: 'A dissenter remembered: Diplomat pushed U.S. to condemn Pakistan’s 1971 assault on Dhaka', International New York Times, 29 June 2016, page 2]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases: absolute silence where meaningful sound is expected; lack of response; no communication.
Related terms: stridulation
crickets
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪk.ɪts/
enpr: krĭkˈ .ĭts
rhymes: -ɪkɪts
Etymology: See Jiminy Cricket.
Senses: examples: text: Seraphina. You have more money, Betsy, than you will know how to spend; all your own. / Betsy. Oh, gracious! Won't I have as much dinner as I can eat every day! / Mrs. Green. Yes, my love, you can have everything you wish for. / Betsy. Oh, crickets!
ref: 1859, S[arah] Annie Frost, “Misfortune”, in Parlor Charades and Proverbs: Intended for the Parlor or Saloon, and Requiring No Expensive Apparatus of Scenery or Properties for Their Performance, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, page 39:
text: "Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you. […]"
ref: 1902, George Ade, “The Fable of the Long-range Lover, the Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk”, in The Girl Proposition. A Bunch of He and She Fables, New York, N.Y.: R. H. Russell, OCLC 776243245; republished Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1969, OCLC 695700303, page 9
text: In the early hours of the morning, Arabelia was deep in thought as she looked over several scrolls. She worried she would never find any word of the missing snow globe even with all the fairies helping her to read. Everyone was getting very tired. / "Oh crickets! I need some rest!" Aurora said. / "Go on ahead, Aurora. But before you take a nap, can you put this scroll back up on the shelf?" Arabelia asked. Aurora responded with a light snoring sound.
ref: 2014, Patricia Arnold, chapter 3, in Brooke and the Fairy Merry Christmas (The Magical Murphy Farm; 5), [s.l.]: Marquette Press:
glosses: Expressing mild annoyance or surprise.
Derived terms: holy crickets
Jerusalem crickets
jiminy crickets
forestay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestays
form: forstay
Etymology: From Middle English forstay, forstey, vorstey, equivalent to fore- + stay (“a stay, rope”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: headstay
glosses: A stay that extends from the top of the foremast to the bow or bowsprit of a sailing ship
Coordinate terms: backstay
Derived terms: forestaysail
forestay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forestays
form: forestaying
form: forestayed
form: forestayed
form: forstay
Etymology: From Middle English forstay, forstey, vorstey, equivalent to fore- + stay (“a stay, rope”).
Senses: examples: text: Anna decided not to press that subject and forestayed her mind to change tack.
ref: 2008, Alfred Fox, Anna's Story: Basset Mead:
glosses: To stay beforehand; secure or fasten with or as with a forestay.
forestay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forestays
form: forestaying
form: forestayed
form: forestayed
form: forstay
Etymology: From fore- + stay (“to hold off, postpone, delay”).
Senses: examples: text: It is reasonable to suppose that further research into the complex bio-chemistry of the blood will result in more satisfactory substitutes for plasma than are now available and thereby death may be more easily forestayed.
ref: 1954, Osteopathic Magazine - Volumes 41-42 - Page 75
text: [...] in our capital construction plan, we might not plan the manufacture of equipment according to storage, thus delaying the sale of our manufactured equipment and forestaying return on investment by equipment manufacturing agencies.
ref: 1965, United States Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on People's Republic of China:
glosses: To stay, delay, postpone, or hinder beforehand; forestall; prevent.