cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑː.si/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -æsi
ipa: /ˈbɹɑː.si/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: brassies
Etymology: From brass + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brassie (“type of golf club”).
brassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑː.si/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -æsi
rhymes: -æsi
ipa: /ˈbɹɑː.si/
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
rhymes: -æsi
enpr: brăsʹē
ipa: /ˈbɹæs.i/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: brassies
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.
brayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪɚ/
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brayers
Etymology: From bray + -er.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.
examples: text: Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
briard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: briards
Senses: examples: text: […] effectively reduce or eliminate blindness in briards, […]
ref: 1994, James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health Annual Report, page 13:
text: ... of briards. One of the breeders at the show had a litter of puppies, and a thousand dollars later, we went home with one. Unfortunately, no one told us how protective they are.
ref: 2007 08, Randi Berger, My Recycled Pets: Diary of a Dog Addict, Danforth Book Distribution, →ISBN, page 85:
text: [they discussed the] breeding of briards. It wasn't very long before he could discuss canine matters with the best of them. On other subjects, regrettably, it took him a bit longer to make progress.
ref: 2021 October 14, Benjamin J. Cohen, Lucky Jerry: The Life of a Political Economist, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Briard
bruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bruit
bruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bruit
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Etymology: Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
Senses: examples: text: Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.
ref: 1838, Samuel Morewood, A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and Use of Inebriating Liquors, page 662:
glosses: An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
Derived terms: grub and bub
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: bubs
Etymology: Contraction of bubby.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Mr. Blanford, I esteem that there is nothing more sublime in nature than a glimpse of an English lady's bubs.’
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 631:
glosses: A woman's breast.
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: bubs
Etymology: Either a corruption of brother, a modification of bud, or a borrowing from Pennsylvania German Bub or Southern German Bub (as was spoken in various communities in America before the early 20th century), ultimately thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“close [male] relation”) and thus cognate to English boy and babe.
Other probable cognates
West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, baby, and bully, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bôve, and Icelandic bófi.
Senses: examples: text: So he changed his brusque manner, and inquired, in a tone which was intended to be extremely conciliatory :
‘ What′s your name, bub ? ’
‘ The last one, Sir ? ’ asked bub, looking up.
ref: 1857, T. B. Aldrich, What Jedd Pallfry found in the Coffin: The Knickerbocker, volume 49, page 23:
text: 1857, Clara Augusta, Mrs. Peter Dame, George R. Graham, Graham′s Illustrated Magazine, Volume 50, page 398,
Mrs. Peter filled her pocket with the cherries — “ Victoria and bub are so fond of them!” and we scrambled into the wagon.
glosses: A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
glosses: A young brother; a little boy; a familiar term of address for a small boy.
Derived terms: Sniktbub
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: bubs
Etymology: Perhaps from Northern dialectal English bab, from Middle English bab, a variant of babe (“babe, baby”).
Senses: glosses: A baby.
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: bubs
Etymology: Shortened from bubble and bubbly.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of bubble.
examples: text: You find me in da club, bottle full of bub
ref: 2003, “In da Club”, in Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent:
text: Out in the club and I'm sippin' that bub / And you're not gonna reach my telephone
ref: 2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga:
glosses: Clipping of bubbly; champagne.
bub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌb/
ipa: /bɐb/
ipa: /bʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: bubs
form: bubbing
form: bubbed
form: bubbed
Etymology: Shortened from bubble and bubbly.
Senses: examples: text: We passed on so far forth till we saw
Rude Acheron, a loathsome lake to tell,
That boils and bubs up swelth as black as hell
ref: 1563, Thomas Sackville, The Induction:
glosses: To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
bulger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulgers
Etymology: From bulge + -er.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Something that has a bulge.
A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Something that has a bulge.
A capacitor with a bulging top.
examples: text: It's certainly a bulger of a place. There are thousands an' thousands of houses, an' you can't count the sails in the bay.
ref: 1913, Joseph Altsheler, The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad:
glosses: Anything very large; a whopper.
bulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊld/
rhymes: -ʊld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bull
bulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊld/
rhymes: -ʊld
Forms: form: more bulled
form: most bulled
Senses: glosses: Swollen.
bumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: bumbles
Etymology: Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.
Senses: glosses: A confusion; a jumble.
bumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: bumbles
form: bumbling
form: bumbled
form: bumbled
Etymology: Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.
Senses: examples: text: Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.
glosses: To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
glosses: To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
Derived terms: bumble along
bumble-bee
bumblefoot
Bumblefuck
bumbleheaded
bumble puppy
bumbler
bumblesome
bumbly
Related terms: bungle
fumble
jumble
bumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: bumbles
form: bumbling
form: bumbled
form: bumbled
Etymology: * Verb: Frequentative of boom and/or bum, equivalent to bum + -le.
* Noun: From the verb.
Senses: glosses: To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
glosses: To buzz or bum.
raw_tags: of an insect
qualifier: frequently with on
glosses: To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
glosses: To grumble at; to blame.
Related terms: bumblebee
bumblebird
bumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: bumbles
Etymology: * Verb: Frequentative of boom and/or bum, equivalent to bum + -le.
* Noun: From the verb.
Senses: glosses: A bumblebee.
glosses: A Eurasian bittern.
Related terms: bumbledom
bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: bunts
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.
Senses: examples: text: The bunt of the sail was green.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
glosses: A push or shove; a butt.
examples: text: The bunt was fielded cleanly.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
examples: text: The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: The act of bunting.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
synonyms: word: pepperbrand
glosses: A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
Coordinate terms: sense: specific part of a sail
word: clew
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: sacrifice bunt
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: slash bunt
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: swinging bunt
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: squeeze
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: safety squeeze
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: suicide squeeze
Derived terms: buntline
drag bunt
English bunt
push bunt
sac bunt
bunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: bunts
form: bunting
form: bunted
form: bunted
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.
Senses: glosses: To push with the horns; to butt.
glosses: To spring or rear up.
examples: text: Jones bunted the ball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
examples: text: Jones bunted.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
examples: text: We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
ref: https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1950s/raghavendran01/
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
examples: text: The sail bunts.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To swell out.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.
glosses: To headbutt affectionately.
raw_tags: of a cat
Related terms: bunting
bunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌntɚ/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bunters
Etymology: From bunt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Glavine was a renowned bunter of the ball.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who bunts.
bunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌntɚ/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bunters
Senses: glosses: A woman who picks up rags in the streets.
glosses: A low, vulgar woman.
glosses: A female prostitute.
buret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burette.
burl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝl/
ipa: /bɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: burls
form: burr
Etymology: From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Senses: glosses: A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
glosses: Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
glosses: A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
Derived terms: burler
burlwood
burly
burl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɝl/
ipa: /bɜːl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: burls
form: burling
form: burled
form: burled
form: burr
Etymology: From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Senses: glosses: To remove the knots in cloth.
burley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
homophone: burly
homophone: Burley
homophone: Burleigh
Forms: form: burleys
Etymology: Unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.
Senses: examples: text: The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley
ref: 1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59:
glosses: A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
examples: text: Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.
ref: 2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania:
glosses: Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
Derived terms: sense: tobacco
word: red burley
sense: tobacco
word: white burley
burley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
homophone: burly
homophone: Burley
homophone: Burleigh
Senses: examples: text: Burley shows came to Times Square after vaudeville started its decline, and took over many of the darkened old theaters. The Minsky family had become synonymous with burlesque beginning in its earliest days, was hugely profitable.
ref: 2004 August 12, Vicki Gold Levi, Steven Heller, Times Square Style: Graphics from the Great White Way, Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN:
text: The Western Vaudeville Managers' Association (WVMA) and the Orpheum soon merged. [...] opined, "that the top all-around artist of today is Jim Barton, who was a burley comic, a skater, a storyteller, a dancer, a singer,[…]"
ref: 2007, Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly, Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 74:
text: It can vary anywhere from burley (burlesque) to Phi Beta Kappa. […]
ref: 2018 June 13, Brian Aldiss, Harry Harrison, Hell's Cartographers, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Burlesque.
butane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːteɪn/
rhymes: -uːteɪn
Forms: form: butanes
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
IUPAC nomenclature, from but- (“four carbon prefix”) + -ane (“alkane suffix”), the former is derived from the same stem as the foul-smelling carboxylic acid liberated in rancid butter, "butyric acid", hence cognate with butter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀, n-butane and 2-methylpropane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The n-butane isomer only.
Synonyms: E943a
Derived terms: bromobutane
butanediol
butanedione
butanethiol
butanoic
butanol
butyl
chlorobutane
cyclobutane
dibromobutane
dichlorobutane
iodobutane
isobutane
n-butane
Related terms: alkane
ethane
methane
pentane
propane
butene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butenes
Etymology: From but- + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of butylene.
Derived terms: butenoic
butenol
cyclobutene
isobutene
polybutene
butyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːtɪl/
ipa: /ˈbjuːtaɪl/
Forms: form: butyls
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
From butane + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
glosses: A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
Derived terms: aminobutyl
bromobutyl
buciclovir
bucricaine
buformin
bupivacaine
bupropion
buspirone
butanilicaine
butidrine
butopamine
butylacetate
butyl alcohol
butylamine
butylammonium
butylate
butylbenzene
butylcinnoline
butyldimethylsilyl
butylene
butylfuran
butylhydroxytoluene
butyllithium
butylmagnesium
butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane
butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane
butylparaben
butyl rubber
butylscopolamine
butylthiophene
dibutyl
dibutylstannylene
dobutamine
iodobutyl
isobutylmethylxanthine
methyl t-butyl ether
methyl tert-butyl ether
methyl tertiary butyl ether
monobutyl
secbutabarbital
t-butyl
terbutaline
tertbutyl
tert-butyl
tertiary butyl
tetrabutyl
tetrabutylammonium
tributyl
tributylphosphine
cabana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbænə/
ipa: /kəˈbɑːnə/
rhymes: -ænə
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: cabanas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cabaña and Portuguese cabana, both from Late Latin capanna. Doublet of cabane and cabin.
Senses: glosses: A cabin or hut for relaxing.
examples: text: “So what's new in the whiskey business?” one of the fat men finally says by way of welcome, and the blonde stands up, arches one foot and dips it into the pool, looking all the while at the cabana where Baby Pignatari is talking on the telephone.
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
glosses: A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.
Derived terms: cabana boy
cabana set
cabana shirt
Related terms: cabin
cache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
enpr: kăsh
enpr: kāsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
ipa: /keɪʃ/
other: /kæˈʃeɪ/
other: /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
rhymes: -æʃ
rhymes: -eɪʃ
homophone: cash
homophone: cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
ipa: /kæɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪʃ
Forms: form: caches
Etymology: From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Senses: examples: text: Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.
text: I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties
ref: 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
glosses: A store, protected or hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
glosses: A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Hyponyms: bear cache
browser cache
food cache
template cache
webcache
Derived terms: cacheability
cacheable
cache buster
cache busting
Cache County
cache language model
cacheless
cache-oblivious
cache stampede
femtocache
geocache
multicache
subcache
Tête Jaune Cache
uncache
cache
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
enpr: kăsh
enpr: kāsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
ipa: /keɪʃ/
other: /kæˈʃeɪ/
other: /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
rhymes: -æʃ
rhymes: -eɪʃ
homophone: cash
homophone: cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
ipa: /kæɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪʃ
Forms: form: caches
form: caching
form: cached
form: cached
Etymology: From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Senses: examples: text: And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
glosses: To place in a cache.
examples: text: In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but you'd still want to cache the results that rarely change.
ref: 2008, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, The Definitive Guide to Django, Apress, →ISBN, page 203:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To store data in a cache.
glosses: To participate in geocaching.
glosses: To hide or seek a geocache.
glosses: to store up, stockpile
Derived terms: precache
recache
Related terms: coagulate
cogent
squat
cache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
enpr: kăsh
enpr: kāsh
ipa: /kæʃ/
ipa: /keɪʃ/
other: /kæˈʃeɪ/
other: /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
rhymes: -æʃ
rhymes: -eɪʃ
homophone: cash
homophone: cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
ipa: /kæɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪʃ
Senses: examples: text: The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise.
ref: 2014, Nils Bubandt, Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia:
glosses: Misspelling of cachet.
Related terms: cache-sexe
caddis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædɪs/
Forms: form: caddises
Etymology: Unknown. See dialect forms caddew, caddy, cad-bait.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
Derived terms: caddisworm
caddis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædɪs/
Forms: form: caddises
Etymology: From Middle French cadis, from Old French cadaz, from Old Occitan, from Old Catalan cadirs, cadins.
Senses: glosses: A rough woolen cloth; caddice.
examples: text: Hee hath Ribbons of all the colours i’ th Rainebow; Points, more then all the Lawyers in Bohemia, can learnedly handle, though they come to him by th’ grosse: Inckles, Caddysses, Cambrickes, Lawnes:
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 293:
glosses: A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: cattie
homophone: catty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: caddies
form: caddie
Etymology: An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).
Senses: examples: text: The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.
ref: 2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107:
glosses: A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
examples: text: A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.
ref: 1990, Washingtonian, volume 25, Washington, D.C.: Washington Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
glosses: A small lidded bin for food waste.
examples: text: Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
glosses: A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
glosses: A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
Derived terms: caddy spoon
desk caddy
tea caddy
caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: cattie
homophone: catty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: caddies
Etymology: A variant of caddie (etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: Caddy, pass me my five iron.
text: As caddy I had to carry the clubs, for there are four varieties almost everyone used, and some used more. Besides doing this, the caddy has to keep score of the number of strokes used, and watch and find each ball.
ref: 1897 (date written), Paul T. B. Ward, quotee, “19th Hole: The Readers Take Over”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 19, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., published 22 July 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Then Carter Chapman picked out his putter, stepped confidently up to the ball, sighted once along the ground, and made his stroke. The ball rolled straight as a die toward the caddy who was holding the flag, and tinkled into the cup for a birdie three!
ref: 1921 March, Octavus Roy Cohen, “Follow Through”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LXXII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], →OCLC, page 370, column 1:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of caddie (“a person hired to assist a golfer by carrying their golf clubs and providing advice”).
Derived terms: caddyless
caddymaster
golf caddy
caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: /ˈkædi/
ipa: [-ɾi]
homophone: cattie
homophone: catty stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: caddies
form: caddying
form: caddied
form: caddied
Etymology: A variant of caddie (etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.
text: We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.
ref: 1897 (date written), Paul T. B. Ward, quotee, “19th Hole: The Readers Take Over”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 19, number 4, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., published 22 July 1963, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:
text: The next day the thirty-two qualifying players were paired off into sixteen sets of opponents. Charlotte was matched against a girl from California. After the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt. "Take it easy, miss," said the highly gratified Mr. Ogilvie, who was caddying for Charlotte. "You hold her in the hollow of your hand."
ref: 1917 July, George Weston, chapter VI, in The Apple-tree Girl: The Story of Little Miss Moses, who Led Herself into the Promised Land, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1918, →OCLC, page 100:
text: The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her.
ref: 1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Introducing Claude and Eustace”, in The Inimitable Jeeves, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1979, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
cadent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cadent
form: most cadent
Etymology: From the Latin cadens (“falling”), present active participle of cado (“I fall”).
Senses: examples: text: The 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses in Astrology are considered cadent houses.
glosses: Falling.
Derived terms: intercadent
cager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cagers
Etymology: From cage + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
examples: text: In 1946, Athletic Director Chandler reliquished his position as head basketball coach at the school to one of his most proficient former players, Julius Rubin. Despite the fact that Rubin had never coached a cager squad before, he became a well-liked leader for the players assembled to start the 1946-1947 season.
ref: 2007, Thomas R. Garrett, Clay Shampoe, Old Dominion University Men's Basketball:
synonyms: cagester
glosses: A basketball player, from the time when games were played in a wire mesh enclosure.
examples: text: Motorcycles can go where cars can’t. Obscure places, remote singletrack trails, off-road tracks too narrow for four wheels – on a bike, you can literally go anywhere and access places no car ever would feeling like an explorer and discovering wild spots off-limits for cagers.
ref: 2022 August 5, Eglė Gerulaitytė, “Top 10 Reasons Why We Love Riding”, in Adventure Rider:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.
cagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -eɪdʒi
Forms: form: cagier
form: cagiest
form: cagy
Etymology: Initially US colloquial, of unknown origin. A connection with the behavior of caged prisoners (wary and closed-lipped) and caged animals (wary) has been speculated. If so, by surface analysis, cage + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Samara: I will be in the shadows watching, Shepard. You will never be alone -- this I swear. But you cannot barge in with guns and allies.
Samara: Morinth is far too cagey -- she'd simply disappear. This is a subtle, delicate act. Trust me.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi):
text: But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match.
ref: 2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
glosses: Wary, careful, shrewd.
examples: text: John F Kennedy’s secret talks with Soviet intelligence, surreptitious tape recordings and “girlfriend system” create a new portrait of a cunning and cagey JFK, according to a historian who has researched a treasure trove of recently released recordings and papers of the late president.
ref: 2015 October 7, Alan Yuhas, “JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: evasive
reticent
shy
glosses: Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
Derived terms: cageyness
cagily
caginess
cahoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhuːt/
ipa: /kəˈhut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: cahoots
Etymology: For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: A company or partnership.
examples: text: Gineral Government and the ministration are going in cahoot to undermine and overrule the undertakings of the free people of Georgia.
ref: 1827 September 15, "The Wanderer", “Barney Blinn”, in Norwalk Reporter and Huron Advertiser, Norwalk, OH, page 4:
text: Nay, we feel in so pleasant a humour, at the recovery of the stolen articles, that we are really disposed to extend our forgiveness to the whole "Cahoot," the more particularly, as some of the suspected, have already "suffered in the flesh;"—[…]
ref: 1831 November 9, Natchez Gazette, Natchez, MS, page 3:
synonyms: cahoots
glosses: Chiefly preceded by in: a group of people working together, chiefly for a nefarious reason; hence, a collaboration or collusion.
examples: text: Fisk and his “cahoots” have got at cross purposes, and he has been put out of bed. Whether Fisk is rightly or wrongly out of bed is not for Congress to determine.
ref: 1869, United States Congress, Congressional Globe, page 538, column 3:
text: This particular day he set the scene by arranging with his cahoots to clean up the local operators.
ref: 1993, Mick Masson, Surviving the Dole Years: The 1930s, a Personal Story, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Intelligent and power loving Indraprabha took the advantage and agreed to become his cahoot in return of political supremacy.
ref: 2000, Suhas Chatterjee, A Socio-Economic History of South Assam, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: An accomplice, a partner.
Derived terms: cahoots
cahoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈhuːt/
ipa: /kəˈhut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: cahoots
form: cahooting
form: cahooted
form: cahooted
Etymology: For the noun, see cahoots. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: […] argument that we shouldn't be doing it, and if we do we'll fail, and if we succeed, our leaders were lying, tricking and cahooting with Halliburton?
ref: 2003 June 6, “Thinking Right: Iraq, Clintons”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
glosses: To act in partnership.
calla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælə
Forms: form: callas
Senses: glosses: A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
glosses: A calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica).
cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [kæm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: cams
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵómbʰos
Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.
Senses: glosses: A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
glosses: A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
examples: text: Cum doun t' cam' soid
ref: 1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
glosses: A ridge or mound of earth.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Derived terms: cam band
cambelt
cambox
cam out
camshaft
camwheel
heart cam
overhead cam
rock cam
twincam
twin-cam
variable cam timing
cam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [kæm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: cams
Etymology: Clipping of camera.
Senses: glosses: Camera.
qualifier: piracy
glosses: A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
Derived terms: beachcam
bibcam
birdcam
bodycam
camback
camboy
camcorder
camgirl
cammer
camming
camphone
camsite
camwhore
camwhoring
copcam
crittercam
cubcam
dashcam
dash cam
face cam
facecam
fancam
fishcam
handicam
headcam
helmetcam
holocam
hovercam
kiss cam
minicam
nanny cam
nanocam
nestcam
netcam
phonecam
recam
security cam
shakycam
skycam
SnorriCam
spycam
Steadicam
stump cam
trailcam
videocam
webcam
cam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [kæm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: cams
form: camming
form: cammed
form: cammed
Etymology: Clipping of camera.
Senses: glosses: To go on webcam with someone.
cam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [kæm]
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: more cam
form: most cam
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kam.
Related terms: slick cam
camber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm.bə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɚ/
Forms: form: cambre
Etymology: From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).
Senses: examples: text: From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 1, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 443:
glosses: A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
examples: text: Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 173:
synonyms: crossfall
glosses: The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
topics: architecture
glosses: An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The curvature of an airfoil.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
Derived terms: camber angle
camber arch
camber beam
camber-keeled
camber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm.bə/
ipa: /ˈkæm.bɚ/
Forms: form: cambers
form: cambering
form: cambered
form: cambered
form: cambre
Etymology: From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).
Senses: glosses: To curve upwards in the middle.
examples: text: Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
glosses: To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
Derived terms: recamber
canna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: cannas
Etymology: From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾱ (kắnnā, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew קָנֶה (qané), Aramaic קַנְיָא (qanyā), Classical Syriac ܩܢܝܐ (qanya), and English canon, cannon, canal, and channel. Doublet of cane and kaneh.
Senses: examples: text: A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 7:
text: Still, some of Mr. Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall.
ref: 2007 January 18, Anne Raver, “Is It Spring? Winter? What’s a Flower to Think?”, in New York Times:
synonyms: canna lily
glosses: Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
canna
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots cannae.
Senses: examples: text: I canna' change the laws of physics.
ref: 1966, “The Naked Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Scotty (James Doohan):
glosses: Contraction of can not: cannot.
canna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Forms: form: cannas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian canna. Doublet of cane and kaneh.
Senses: glosses: A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.
canna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænə/
rhymes: -ænə
Etymology: Clipping of cannabis.
Senses: examples: text: No high holiday is complete without an appropriate spread of canna-accessories—and we’re talking about more than just a glasstastic collection of pipes and bowls.
ref: 2022 April 20, Brianna Wheeler, “The Five Best Cannabis Accessories Created by Local Femme-Identifying Artisans”, in Willamette Week, volume 48, number 24, Portland, OR: City of Roses Media Company, page 17:
glosses: Clipping of cannabis.
Derived terms: cannamom
cannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkænəl/
Forms: form: cannels
Senses: examples: text: Cannel is dull black in colour while boghead is dull brownish.
ref: 2018, O. P. Gupta, Elements of Fuel & Combustion Technology, page 35:
synonyms: cannel coal
channel coal
parrot
glosses: A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
canto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæntoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
Forms: form: cantos
Etymology: From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.
Senses: glosses: One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The treble or leading melody.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The designated division of a song.
Derived terms: canto fermo
capo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪpoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəʊ/
Forms: form: capos
Etymology: Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
Senses: glosses: A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar and used to raise the pitch of all strings.
Synonyms: sense: movable bar
word: capotasto
capo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪpoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæpoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪpoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəʊ/
Forms: form: capos
form: capi
Etymology: From Italian capo (“head, chief”). Doublet of cape, caput, chef, chief, head, and Howth.
Senses: glosses: A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
glosses: A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
Related terms: capo di tutti capi
capo tasto
da capo
da capo al fine
capo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪpoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkæpoʊ/
Forms: form: capos
Senses: examples: text: […] the capo in a sub-camp in 1940. As a foreman and capo in the quarry he earned the reputation of treating Jewish[…]
ref: 2004, Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937-1945: A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition, Wallstein Verlag, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kapo.
carboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/
Forms: form: carboys
Etymology: From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
Senses: examples: text: A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
ref: 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as “A Fair Captive from the Sky”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917 October, →OCLC, page 77:
synonyms: demijohn
glosses: A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.
Related terms: tallboy
carboy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.bɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.boɪ/
Forms: form: carboys
form: carboying
form: carboyed
form: carboyed
Etymology: From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
Senses: examples: text: Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.
ref: 1936, New York (State) Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin (issues 658-679, page 14)
glosses: To bottle in a carboy.
careen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: careens
form: careening
form: careened
form: careened
Etymology: First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina.
Senses: examples: text: However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth.
ref: 1749 July, “Anſon's voyage of the world”, in The Scots Magazine, volume xi, pages 333-334:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: heel
glosses: To tilt on one side.
examples: text: They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.
ref: 1909, E. M. Forster, “Chapter I”, in The Machine Stops:
glosses: To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
glosses: To tilt or lean while in motion.
glosses: To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
examples: text: The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames...
ref: 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
text: He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.
ref: 2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2018:
glosses: To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
Derived terms: careenage
careener
careen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: careens
Etymology: First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The position of a ship laid on one side.