cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on the warpath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Last year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report guardedly approving Birth Control. […] [M]any Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath.
ref: 1932 June 6, “Religion: Churches v. Council”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2010:
text: Boating enthusiasts, walkers and others who enjoy relaxing by canals were on the warpath last night after British Waterways announced plans to cut 180 staff.
ref: 2006 October 11, Colin Brown, “Fears grow for waterways as canal jobs are cut”, in The Independent:
text: But BBC executives say they could never have predicted the latest programme to send Chinese officials on the warpath: the corporation's far-fetched spy drama Spooks.
ref: 2010 November 11, Helen Pidd, Mark Sweney, Tania Branigan, “Taking Spooks seriously: Beijing on the warpath over BBC spy drama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Very angry or upset and eager for confrontation.
Synonyms: enraged
furious
Related terms: war footing
Carmel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.məl/
Etymology: From Hebrew כַּרְמֶל (karmél, “vineyard of El/God”).
Senses: examples: text: So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
ref: 1 Kings 18:20
glosses: A mountain range in Israel.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew from the Roman Catholic epithet of Virgin Mary at Mount Carmel.
glosses: A city, valley, and river in Monterey County, California, United States. The full name of the city is Carmel-by-the-Sea.
glosses: One name for the mission located in Monterey County, California.
glosses: The Rumsen; the Native American people of this Monterey region.
glosses: Rumsen; the language of those people.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
A city in Hamilton County, Indiana.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
A town in Putnam County, New York.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place, the county seat of Putnam County, New York.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.
glosses: Other places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place in Wales:
A hamlet in Llannerch-y-medd community, Anglesey (OS grid ref SH3882).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A small village in Llanfihangel Aberbythych community, Carmarthenshire (OS grid ref SN5816).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A village in Whitford community, Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ1676).
glosses: A place in Wales:
A small village in Llandwrog community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH4955).
glosses: A suburb of Perth, Australia.
Synonyms: sense: mission
word: San Carlos
sense: people
word: Rumsen
sense: people
word: Rumsien
sense: people
word: San Carlos
sense: people
word: Carmeleno
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Rumsen
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Rumsien
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: San Carlos
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Carmeleno
Derived terms: Carmel-by-the-Sea
Carmeleno
Carmelite
Carmel Point
Mount Carmel
Mt. Carmel
Carmeleno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Rumsen people.
Synonyms: Rumsen
Rumsien
San Carlos
Carmel
Carmeleno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Rumsen language.
Synonyms: Rumsen
Rumsien
San Carlos
Carmel
confuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confute
aval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avals
Etymology: Borrowed from French aval.
Senses: topics: business
finance
law
glosses: A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.
aval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin avus (“grandfather”).
Senses: examples: text: Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother […] Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.
ref: 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, page 299:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
Synonyms: grandparental
Hyponyms: sense: grandfather
word: grandfatherly
sense: grandfather
word: grandpaternal
sense: grandmother
word: grandmaternal
sense: grandmother
word: grandmotherly
aval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Malayalam അവൽ (aval) or Tamil அவல் (aval).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flattened rice.
synonyms: word: flattened rice
bien pensant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌbjæ̃ pɒ̃ˈsɒ̃/
Forms: form: more bien pensant
form: most bien pensant
form: bien-pensant
Etymology: Borrowed from French bien-pensant (literally “well-thinking”).
Senses: examples: text: He hopes Mr Abbott wins the election in part because it would, he says, annoy bien-pensant British journalists and Leftists who oppose the Australian's positions on things like abortion, gay marriage or climate change.
ref: 2010 August 23, Bagehot, The Economist:
text: My biggest beef is the idea that increasingly grips liberal thinkers desperate for anything radical – the concept of a universal income for all. Financially, behaviourally and organisationally bonkers, this idea is gaining traction on the bien pensant left.
ref: 2017 March 13, Will Hutton, “Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman – review”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Right-thinking, orthodox, conformist.
bien pensant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbjæ̃ pɒ̃ˈsɒ̃/
Forms: form: bien pensants
form: bien-pensant
Etymology: Borrowed from French bien-pensant (literally “well-thinking”).
Senses: glosses: A person who is bien pensant.
glosses: Someone who accepts and/or espouses a fashionable idea after it has been established and maintains it without a great amount of critical thought.
clutch initiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clutch initiations
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: lay date
cram session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cram sessions
Senses: glosses: An intense period of study, sometimes all night before a critical exam.
radicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radical
all eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Watching alertly or attentively.
glosses: Having prominent eyes.
examples: text: He was all eyes for her.
glosses: Gazing at devotedly.
raw_tags: with for
Related terms: all ears
all eyes and ears
all-seeing eye
all smiles
bulbul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlbʊl/
Forms: form: bulbuls
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Senses: glosses: Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
examples: text: The infant buds, impatient to look around them, rend their green garments and unfold their eyes; while every tree, on which the bulbul ſings, flutters with joy on the wings of their thouſand leaves.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:
text: ‘Of course, if you want something really Persian and passionate, with red wine and bulbuls in it,’ I went on to suggest; but she grabbed the book from me.
ref: 1904, Saki, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
glosses: Any of the bulbul species of the Middle East, popular in poetry; sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
Hyponyms: bristlebill
brownbul
Chinese bulbul
greenbul
leaflove
orange-spotted bulbul
pale-vented bulbul
red-whiskered bulbul
sooty-headed bulbul
straw-headed bulbul
streak-eared bulbul
yellow-vented bulbul
sanguineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanguineous
form: most sanguineous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sanguineus. Doublet of sanguine.
Senses: examples: text: [F]or swinging of incense-pans and Eighty-three Departmental Banners, we have waving of the one sanguineous Drapeau Rouge [red flag].
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 105:
glosses: Accompanied by bloodshed; bloody.
glosses: Eager for bloody violence; bloodthirsty.
glosses: Resembling or constituting blood.
Derived terms: asanguineous
mucosanguineous
serosanguineous
permastone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Originally a trade name, from perma- + stone.
Senses: glosses: Any superficial surface constructed to look like stonework, usually made of concrete or thin sheets of rock assembled over an existing surface.
ratiocinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹætiˈosəˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˌɹæʃiˈɑsəˌneɪt/
Forms: form: ratiocinates
form: ratiocinating
form: ratiocinated
form: ratiocinated
Etymology: . From Latin ratiocinor (“to reckon, argue”). First appears c. 1643 in the writings of Kenelm Digby.
Senses: examples: text: "Observe the relative position," returned the Doctor with a smile. "It is your attitude to believe through thick and thin in one man's judgment—your own. I follow the same opinion, but critically and with open eyes. Which is the more irrational—I leave it to yourself."
"Oh, my dear fellow!" cried Casimir, "[…] don't ratiocinate with me."
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 6, in The Treasure of Franchard:
glosses: To use the powers of the mind logically and methodically; to reason.
wikipedia: Kenelm Digby
Related terms: ratiocination
amphisbaena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æmfɪsˈbiːnə/
Forms: form: amphisbaenas
form: amphisbæna
Etymology: From Latin amphisbaena, from Ancient Greek ἀμφίσβαινα (amphísbaina, from ἀμφίς (amphís, “both ways”) + βαίνω (baínō, “I go”)).
Senses: examples: 1971: What do you call that animal that goes backward and forward, head at each end? —'Amphisbaena'. A kind of lizard. It doesn't exist. — Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004, p. 109)
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical serpent having a head at each end of its body, able to move in either direction.
glosses: A member of a genus of lizards, native to the Americas, having extremities which are very similar.
Derived terms: amphisbaenic
amphisbæna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æmfɪsˈbiːnə/
Forms: form: amphisbænæ
form: amphisbænas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of amphisbaena.
consecrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consecrate
devil's own
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: the devil's own
Senses: examples: text: The reason why our distressed young teacher found it the devil's own job to get the students to write was probably basically that they were not led to believe that written work was expected of them.
ref: 1973, James Watson, Liberal Studies in Further Education: An Informal Survey, page 70:
glosses: Particularly devilish; highly unpleasant or evil.
examples: text: 'The Capt'n's been ridin' the devil's own pace,' said Dalton the coachman.
ref: 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Intense.
Related terms: God's own
chimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈmɛɹɪk/
ipa: /kaɪˈmɛɹɪk/
Forms: form: more chimeric
form: most chimeric
form: chimaeric
form: chimæric
Etymology: From chimera + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawnbroached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.
ref: 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 109:
glosses: Like a chimera.
glosses: Imaginary, fanciful.
examples: text: Application of the technology for producing chimeric mice has given considerable insight into the way intestinal crypts are organized.
ref: 1997, Nicholas A. Wright, “Stem cell repertoire in the intestine”, in C. S. Potten, editor, Stem cells, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Chimeric embryos are made by injecting cells or genetic material from one species into the embryo of another.
ref: 2008 May 19, David Batty, The Guardian:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
Derived terms: allochimeric
antichimeric
chimeric antigen receptor
nonchimeric
xenochimeric
-ximab
bunny girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌni ˈɡɜː(ɹ)lz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny girl
pifferi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piffero
Tikkun Leil Shavuot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew; literally, "rectification for Shavuot Night".
Senses: glosses: A special service for the evening of Shavuot, involving the study of Jewish sources, particularly the Jewish bible and postbiblical law materials all night on the holiday of Shavuot.
Related terms: Machzor
Shavuot
Torah
Zohar
crapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crap
in broad daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn bɹɔːd ˈdeɪlaɪt/
ipa: /ɪn bɹɔd ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
ipa: /ɪn bɹɑd ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
Etymology: From in + broad daylight.
Senses: examples: text: A fireball hurtled across the southern Tucson sky in broad daylight Saturday morning.
ref: 2008 August 23, Shelley Shelton, “Streaking fireball a vivid spectacle in daytime sky”, in Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Ariz., archived from the original on 07 Sep 2008:
glosses: In ample natural illumination, during the daytime.
examples: text: 'But surely,' protested Peter half-heartedly, 'he couldn't carry on a racket like that in broad daylight and get away with it?'
ref: 1934, Leslie Charteris, “The Uncritical Publisher”, in Ian Dickerson, editor, The Saint Intervenes, London: Mulholland Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 125:
text: It's still too dangerous for the wife of a journalist who was murdered in the street in broad daylight.
ref: 2008 January 24, Brian Benntt, “When Iraqis Come to America”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: In a blatant and publicly visible manner during the day.
give off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪv ɒf/
Forms: form: gives off
form: giving off
form: gave off
form: given off
Etymology: From give and off.
Senses: examples: text: The substance was giving off smoke.
text: I left because she gave off a sense of impatience with me.
glosses: To emit; to produce and send forth; to come across in some manner.
glosses: To fuss or whine.
desto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destos
Etymology: Abbreviation of destination.
Senses: examples: When you arrive at the terminus, remember to change your desto.
glosses: a headsign; a destination sign: a moveable or electronic display mounted on a bus or other public transport vehicle to indicate its intended route and destination.
right-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: righthandedness
form: right handedness
Etymology: From right-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being right-handed.
Synonyms: dextrality
Hypernyms: ambidexterity
ambidextrousness
handedness
one-handedness
Related terms: eyedness
footedness
paddle shifter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddle shifters
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Either of a pair of paddles, fitted to the steering wheel of a high-performance motor car, allowing the gears to be changed up or down in a single movement, and without using the clutch. It is a form of sequential shifter.
Related terms: stick shifter
column shifter
floor shifter
automatic transmission
manual transmission
semi-automatic transmission
semi-manual transmission
stick shift
CVT
shift lever
clock up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clocks up
form: clocking up
form: clocked up
form: clocked up
Senses: examples: text: To become a pilot, you must clock up at least 1,000 hours flying time.
text: Only Gresley's 'A3s' and the InterCity 125s, both of which clocked up over 40 years of ECML service, can boast longer careers. But none were pushed as hard, for as long, as the Class 91s and Mk 4s have been over the past three decades.
ref: 2022 September 21, Ben Jones, “IC225s: the Electras go gliding on”, in RAIL, number 966, page 38:
glosses: To accumulate (an amount of time or experience).
examples: text: My car has clocked up over 5,000 miles in the last month
glosses: To cover (a distance) over time.
cerrados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerrado
mulish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːlɪʃ/
Forms: form: more mulish
form: most mulish
Etymology: From mule + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working."
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
Synonyms: stubborn as a mule
Derived terms: mulishly
mulishness
unmulish
fuckability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌkəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: [ˌfʌkəˈbɪlɪ̈ɾi]
ipa: [ˌfʌkɪ̈ˈbɪlɪ̈ɾi]
enpr: fŭ'kəbĭʹlĭtī
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Etymology: From fuckable + -ity; fuck + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]Movie stars gotta have two qualities—without 'em they're dead.[…]Know what they are?” Lucky nodded. She knew Abe Panther’s credo by heart. “Likability and fuckability,” she recited without hesitation.
ref: 1990, Jackie Collins, Lady Boss, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Eunice was FACing a little with three of the other Asian girls in the room, and her FUCKABILITY, I noticed with pride and a little worry, was 795, although her PERSONALITY just 500 (maybe she wasn't extro enough).
ref: 2010, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 161:
text: Facebook arose from a website developed to rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that.
ref: 2024 February 10, Cory Doctorow, “Welcome to the Enshittocene”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:
glosses: The abstract quality of being desirable as a lover, especially by virtue of being sexually attractive.
Derived terms: unfuckability
user friendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more user friendly
form: most user friendly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of user-friendly.
chemometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + metrics.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The use of mathematical statistics in the design of experiments, and the evaluation of the resulting data.
Derived terms: chemometric
chemometrician
chemostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemostats
Etymology: From chemo- + -stat.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: bioreactor
glosses: An apparatus for the continuous culture of microorganisms in a steady state.
Derived terms: microchemostat
Related terms: chemostatic
chemostasis
chemostat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chemostats
form: chemostatting
form: chemostatted
form: chemostatted
Etymology: From chemo- + -stat.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To keep the concentration of a chemical constant
chemostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemo- + stratigraphy.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study and dating of sedimentary strata by the analysis of trace elements and isotopic ratios
Derived terms: chemostratigraphic
chemostratigraphical
trace element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trace elements
Etymology: Compound of trace (“very small amount”) + element (“chemical element”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical element present in a sample in very small quantities.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: micronutrient
micromineral
microelement
antonyms: nutrient
macronutrient
electrolyte
hypernyms: nutrient
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: A chemical element in an organism’s diet that is required in very small amounts in order to maintain proper biochemical function.
my back teeth are floating
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Compare French avoir les dents du fond qui baignent, albeit with a different meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Where's the restroom? My back teeth are floating!
synonyms: my teeth are floating
glosses: I have a strong need to urinate.
Related terms: piss like a racehorse
regift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈɡɪft/
enpr: rē-gĭftʹ
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: regifts
form: regifting
form: regifted
form: regifted
form: re-gift
Etymology: From re- + gift.
Senses: examples: text: Be upfront when giving the re-gifted item.
ref: 2007, Sue Fox, Etiquette for Dummies, page 252:
text: Don't tell the person who is receiving the gift that he/she is being regifted.
ref: 2008, Jeanne Bice, The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic, page 231:
text: It's not usually acceptable to regift an item that's used rather than new. On the other hand, regifting something that's important to you and thus sharing its value with the recipient is actually quite generous and thoughtful.
ref: 2008, Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, Michael Grosvenor, Green Living For Dummies, page 125:
text: But before you do any real regifting, you need to learn the rules.
ref: 2009, Delilah Scott, Emma Troy, The Upside-Down Christmas Tree: And Other Bizarre Yuletide Tales, page 112:
glosses: To give something as a gift which the giver previously received as a gift; to give to a person something previously received as a gift.
regift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈɡɪft/
enpr: rē-gĭftʹ
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: regifts
form: re-gift
Etymology: From re- + gift.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, I'd brought a selection of consolation prizes, Christmas regifts all, and so Ritchie the stranded F-250 driver became the recipient of a very nice scented candle.
ref: 2006, Esquire, volume 145, page 144:
text: Some regifts, particularly distinctive ones, may make the rounds (see “How to Repurpose a Fruitcake,” facing page) and end up being regifted to the original giver, a situation you may find hard to explain.
ref: 2007, Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, page 374:
text: Food and drink are the most likely type of unwanted items to be passed along, accounting for 35 percent of all regifts, versus 23 percent for beauty and bath products and 18 percent for trinkets and collectibles.
ref: 2008, Jeanne Bice, The Ultimate Christmas: The Best Experts' Advice for a Memorable Season with Stories and Photos of Holiday Magic, page 233:
glosses: A gift which has been given to a second or subsequent recipient.
Coordinate terms: mathom
hand-me-down
penny for your thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛn.i fɔː jɔː ˈθɔːts/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.i fəː jəː ˈθɔːts/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.i fɔɹ jʊɹ ˈθɑts/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.i fɔɹ jʊɹ ˈθɔts/
ipa: /ˈpɛn.i fɚ jɚ ˈθɑts/
Senses: examples: text: One day, as your ladyship was playing on the harpsichord to my master, Mr Jones was sitting in the next room, and methought he looked melancholy. La! says I, Mr Jones, what's the matter? a penny for your thoughts, says I.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIV, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 106:
text: As for Harry, he sate in very deep meditation over the scene; and when Mrs. Lambert offered him a penny for his thoughts, he said, “That he thought, Young Norval, Douglas, What-d'ye-call-'em, the fellow in white satin—who looked as old as his mother—was very lucky to be able to distinguish himself so soon.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, chapter LIX, in The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
text: And she said to Gerty:
—A penny for your thoughts.
—What? replied Gerty with a smile reinforced by the whitest of teeth.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
text: “A penny for your thoughts,” said Miss Wilkinson, looking at him with a smile.
“I’m not going to tell you,” he answered.
He was thinking that he ought to kiss her there and then.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: Is there any thing else to say? My cry upon firing will be, “A penny for your thoughts.”
ref: [1973, Arthur Bremer, An Assassin's Diary, Harper's Magazine Press, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Used to inquire into the thoughts and feelings of another, especially when the person appears pensive or conflicted.
Related terms: two pennies' worth
for what it's worth
San Juan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsan ˈhwan/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish San Juan.
Senses: glosses: A province towards the northwest of Argentina.
glosses: A city, the capital of San Juan province, Argentina.
glosses: An independent city part of Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Siquijor, Central Visayas, Philippines.
glosses: The capital city of Puerto Rico.
glosses: A river in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: San Juan Capistrano
San Juan County
San Juan Hill
San Juan Mountains
brake shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brake shoes
form: brakeshoe
Senses: examples: text: The rotating action of the brake drum tends to pull one brake shoe harder into contact. This is known as self-servo action. It occurs on the brake shoe, which is after the wheel cylinder, in the direction of wheel rotation.
ref: 2014, Tom Denton, Automotive Technician Training: Entry Level 3: Introduction to Light Vehicle Technology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 224:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: brake pad
glosses: An element of a drum brake into which the friction-producing brake lining is attached.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A hard friction-producing element which is pressed against the tread of a wheel to provide braking.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A brake lining unit in a coaster brake on a bike.
regiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regive
cable terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable terminals
Senses: glosses: A fixture designed to be installed in the end of a cable or a conductor in order to facilitate the connection.
Synonyms: cable lug
Related terms: terminate
enchain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enchains
form: enchaining
form: enchained
form: enchained
Etymology: From en- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: Powerful as were his own feelings, almost tempting him to throw himself at her feet, and make a full acknowledgment of his unvaried and never-ceasing love; yet his recollections of Harcourt, and circumstances therewith connected, the certainty of his expected arrival in England, restrained his utterance, threw a sort of spell over him, enchained by a species of self-command insupportably agonizing.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 239:
text: [B]y this sign one enchained the demons of the air, the spirits of fire, the phantoms of water and ghosts of earth.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 152:
glosses: To restrain with, or as if with, chains.
glosses: To link together.
Derived terms: disenchain
enchainment
encipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enciphers
form: enciphering
form: enciphered
form: enciphered
Etymology: From en- + cipher.
Senses: synonyms: encode
encrypt
antonyms: decode
decipher
decrypt
coordinate_terms: recode
recipher
glosses: To convert plain text into cipher.
Derived terms: encipherer
encipherment
superencipher
unenciphered
encirclement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɜː(ɹ)kəlmənt/
Forms: form: encirclements
Etymology: From encircle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
examples: text: Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 9:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
Derived terms: operational encirclement
encrustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encrustations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of incrustation.
Derived terms: bioencrustation
encyst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈsɪst/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
homophone: insist
Forms: form: encysts
form: encysting
form: encysted
form: encysted
form: incyst
Etymology: From en- + cyst.
Senses: glosses: To enclose within a cyst.
examples: text: ‘Six months for the projectile to encyst before the knee can be opened safely.’
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 98:
glosses: To be enclosed within a cyst.
encystment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encystments
Etymology: From en- + cyst + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a cyst.
glosses: The process of becoming enclosed by, or as if by, a cyst.
Synonyms: encystation
endangerment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endangerments
Etymology: From endanger + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
topics: law
glosses: The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm.
Derived terms: child endangerment
reckless endangerment
endlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnd.lɪs.nəs/
ipa: /ˈɛnd.ləs.nəs/
Forms: form: endlessnesses
Etymology: From Middle English endelesnesse, from Old English endelēasnes; equivalent to endless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being endless.
Synonyms: word: eternity
word: infinity
word: perpetuity
word: endlessness
word: ceaselessness
word: deathlessness
word: eternality
word: eternalness
word: everness
word: limitlessness
word: unendingness
Hypernyms: word: continuity
word: infiniteness
word: infinitude
word: infinity
Related terms: word: circumscription
word: eternity
word: immortality
endorser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endorsers
form: endorsor
Etymology: From endorse + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who endorses
endways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more endways
form: most endways
Senses: glosses: endwise
memorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memories
Senses: examples: text: ...to accept the thankefull recognition of me and my poore children, trustyng of the continuance of your good memorie of M. Ascham...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of memory.
chromium sesquioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The chromium oxide, Cr₂O₃, manufactured from chromite and sometimes used as a pigment.
Synonyms: chrome green
viridian
pinwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinwheels
Etymology: From pin + wheel.
Senses: glosses: An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
examples: text: The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.
ref: 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, paperback edition, Penguin Books, page 125:
glosses: A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
glosses: A cogged (toothed) gear.
glosses: A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
glosses: Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tabernaemontana divaricata
word: pinwheel flower
taxonomic: Marasmius rotula
word: pinwheel mushroom
word: pinwheel sandwich
word: Wartenberg pinwheel
pinwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinwheels
form: pinwheeling
form: pinwheeled
form: pinwheeled
Etymology: From pin + wheel.
Senses: examples: text: The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g-forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.
text: Uncertainly, he stepped back, bumping into the short skirt of the seawall. He stumbled and pinwheeled his arms for balance.
ref: 2009, David Wren, The Repossession, page 226:
text: The laws of physics and chemistry transform a meadow of fine powder into a wreckage of icy chunks. Saugstad’s pinwheeling body would freeze into whatever position it was in the moment the snow stopped.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: To spin.
taloned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From talon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart.
ref: 2017, J. T. Ellison, So Close the Hand of Death:
glosses: Having talons.
Jeanette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jean + -ette or misspelling of French Jeannette, from Jeanne + -ette, q.v. Originally chiefly Scottish.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jeannette.
Derived terms: Madame Jeanette
bj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bjs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of blow job.
gm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gms
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general manager.
glosses: Initialism of group message.
glosses: Initialism of game master.
gm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: related: word: GM
glosses: Abbreviation of good morning.
ht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ht.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of height.
Derived terms: sense: height
word: hts
San Fran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæn ˌfɹæn/
Senses: examples: text: ‘In San Fran, we can be who we are. Not who we’re forced to be.’
ref: 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302:
glosses: Clipping of San Francisco.
Angrez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angrez
form: angrez
Etymology: From Hindustani انگریز / अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez), from Portuguese inglês (“Englishman”). Doublet of English.
Senses: glosses: An English person.
glosses: A white person.
Related terms: gora
firangi
Adonai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdəʊ.nʌɪ/
ipa: /ˈæ.də.nʌɪ/
ipa: /əˈdəʊ.neɪˌʌɪ/
ipa: /ˌæ.dəˈnaɪ/
ipa: /ˌæ.dəˈnaɪˌi/
ipa: /ˌæ.doʊˈneɪˌaɪ/
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾădônāy, “My Lord”); used in place of the Tetragrammaton YHWH as a name of the deity of Abrahamic religion during prayer recitation.
Senses: examples: text: This not the last empire to crumble / I bore witness to rise and fall of tribes of Adonai / And I have fallen short of a glory of God
ref: 2009, Behemoth, Alas, Lord is Upon Me:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.
Derived terms: adonist
Related terms: Adonis
head of government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads of government
form: heads of governments
Senses: glosses: The chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet; usually called Prime Minister (in a parliamentary system) or President (in a presidential system).
Hypernyms: word: ruler
Hyponyms: word: premier
word: prime minister
word: chancellor
word: taoiseach
word: chief executive
word: chief minister
word: first minister
word: deputy first minister
word: minister-president
word: deputy
Related terms: word: head of state
word: boss
word: important person
word: official
markup rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markup rates
Senses: glosses: A percentage which a trader adds to the buy-in cost of goods in order to get the selling price.
sables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbəlz/
rhymes: -eɪbəlz
Senses: glosses: plural of sable
sables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbəlz/
rhymes: -eɪbəlz
Senses: glosses: Black garments worn in mourning.
sables
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbəlz/
rhymes: -eɪbəlz
Senses: examples: text: Argent, a fesse between 3 cressauntes Sables. Sables, a sunne Argent.
ref: 1899, Thomas Abingdon, A Survey of Worcestershire, page 465:
text: […] this letter H sables and to the Creast upon the Healme on a wreathe silver & sables a Turtle-dove azure manteled gules doubled silver. Fifthly the Greke Reader the field silver & sables & perty^([sic]) per cheveron in the first these two Greke letters Α Alpha and Ω Omega sables & in the second a Cicade or Grasshoper silver […] Rob: Cooke alias Clarencieulx Roy D'Armes / The foregoing is taken from Baker's transcript of the original grant (v. Baker's MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, vol. xxvi., p. 27).
ref: 1899, The Genealogical Magazine, page 126:
text: The arms of his father, John Smith, were ratified and confirmed by Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, on March 12, 1545, and according to the description of them given in the dead, his crest was "an eagle rysing sables, holding in his right claw a pen argent, issuing thereout flames of fyer set upon a wreath argent and azure, mantelles gules, lined argent, botoned gold."
ref: 1900, Ex Libris Society (London, England), Journal, page 33:
glosses: Alternative form of sable (“heraldry: black”).
phylacteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philacteries
form: philactories
Senses: glosses: plural of phylactery
angle grinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle grinders
Senses: hypernyms: grinder
;
power tool
coordinate_terms: bench grinder
die grinder
;
wall chaser
;
grinding machine
glosses: A usually hand-held grinder which uses a pair of internal gears to place the rotational axis of the grinding or cutting wheel perpendicular to that of the driving motor.
overman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmen
Etymology: From Middle English overman (“a superior; leader; master”), equivalent to over- + man. Compare superman.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the effects of the disease, he was subsequently promoted to overman and thereafter to undermanager.
ref: 1980, Great Britain. Dept. of Health and Social Security, Reported Decisions of the Social Security Commissioner:
glosses: A person who supervises others; a supervisor, especially in a mine.
Synonyms: foreman
Derived terms: back-overman
fore-overman
overman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overmen
Etymology: Calque of German Übermensch
Senses: glosses: A person with great powers; a superman.
overman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overmans
form: overmanning
form: overmanned
form: overmanned
Etymology: From over- + man (verb).
Senses: glosses: To provide with too many personnel; overstaff.
circular saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular saws
Etymology: 1810-1820 Massachusetts
Senses: glosses: A power saw with a circular cutting blade, whose teeth rotate rapidly.
Related terms: buzz saw
hwair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hwairs
Etymology: From Gothic *𐍈𐌰𐌹𐍂 (*ƕair, “hwair, cauldron, kettle, pot”).
Senses: glosses: The letter 𐍈 (ƕ) in the Gothic alphabet.
glosses: The letter ƕ, used in modern transliteration of the Gothic letter.
totty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Senses: glosses: sexually attractive women considered collectively; usually connoting a connection with the upper class.
examples: text: The mother screamed that Ali was a posh totty who held her nose up at ordinary folk with babies.
ref: 2005, Georgina Hunter-Jones, Peckham Diamonds, Fly Fizzi Publishing, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.
ref: 2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29:
text: The doctor attended a fancy dress ball dressed as Star Trek's Dr Spock but suddenly the costume split open and his phaser found its way into some totty.
ref: 2006, Tonto Greenberg, J Bannister, The Blue Book : V. 1, Banland Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: an individual sexually attractive woman
Synonyms: talent
Related terms: hotty
totty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: more totty
form: most totty
Etymology: Compare totter.
Senses: examples: text: Then came October full of merry glee: / For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must, / Which he was treading in the wine-fats see, […]
ref: c. 1600, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book VII (Two Cantos of Mutabilitie), Canto VII:
text: I tell thee, fellow, I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's blow, or I had kept my ground under it.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Ivanhoe:
text: I ate, drank, and was invigorated; when, to add to my good luck, the Sacristan, too totty to discharge his duty of turnkey fitly, locked the door beside the staple, so that it fell ajar.
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, chapter 42, in Ivanhoe:
glosses: unsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety
totty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: toaty
form: totey
form: totie
Etymology: From tot (“small child”).
Senses: examples: text: She would meet me with a summerbag: shoes and the little black number, though it had a totey hole at the shoulder […].
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:
glosses: Tiny, wee.
milk run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk runs
Senses: glosses: A routine trip, especially one involving several stops
qualifier: logistics
glosses: The collection of mixed loads from multiple fixed sources on a regular basis.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An uneventful mission, especially a military sortie completed without incident
topics: government
politics
glosses: A campaign for a political office whose main apparent purpose is to "milk" money from supporters in order to provide a source of income for the candidate, campaign staff, and family members.
overtaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtake
overtaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtakings
Senses: examples: text: Figure 3.12 shows the number of overtakings as a function of the density of the vehicles. In general, the smaller the number of overtakings, the safer the traffic.
ref: 2007, Majid Ali Khan, Coalition Formation and Teamwork in Embodied Agents, page 61:
antonyms: word: undertaking
alt: passing a vehicle on the curbside
glosses: The act by which one thing overtakes another.
Derived terms: overtaking lane
sked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: skeds
form: sched
Etymology: Respelling of the first syllable of schedule.
Senses: examples: text: Smaller-town indies are lopping off early-week skeds with winter among us.
ref: 1989, The Film Journal, volume 92, numbers 1-6:
text: Gibbs saying that the reason HRC delayed releasing her sked was that she was “hiding” something, […]
ref: 2008 March 20, Ana Marie Cox, “Obama Conference Call”, in Times, retrieved 20150315:
glosses: A schedule.
sked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: skeds
form: skedding
form: skedded
form: skedded
form: sched
Etymology: Respelling of the first syllable of schedule.
Senses: examples: text: Plan of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense to ring in a State-wide network of 45 stations for an "educational" blackout test, was nixed by the Office of Censorship after it was okayed by the Third Service Command of the army. Skedded for Thursday (8), purpose of the broadcast was to educate public with air raid warning signals and all Pennsylvanians were urged to listen to instructions as broadcast.
ref: 1943 July 17, “Philly Kiboshes Blackout Tutoring”, in The Billboard: The World’s Foremost Amusement Weekly, volume 55, number 29, Cincinnati, Oh.: Roger S. Littleford Jr.; William D. Littleford, →OCLC, page 6, column 1:
text: Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.
ref: 1957 December 30, “NBC Breaks Wax Rule for Hope's Britain Shows”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 45, page 5:
glosses: To schedule.
sked
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: skeds
Etymology: Presumably from Scottish Gaelic sgadan.
Senses: glosses: herring
whipstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipstitches
Etymology: From whip + stitch.
Senses: glosses: A stitch that passes diagonally over an edge.
glosses: A tailor.
examples: c. 1678, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
Where sold he bargains, "whip-stitch, kiss my arse", / Promised a play and dwindled to a farce?
glosses: Anything hastily put or stitched together; a hasty composition.
glosses: A little bit, especially a small interval of time; an instant.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Half-ploughing or raftering.