cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
canvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænvəs/
ipa: /ˈkænvæs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkanvɑs/
homophone: canvass
Forms: form: canvases
form: canvasses
form: canvass
Etymology: From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
Senses: examples: text: The term canvas is very widely used, as well to denote the coarse fabrics employed for kitchen use, as for strainers, and wraps for meat, as for the best quality of ordinary table and shirting linen.
ref: 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 556:
glosses: A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.
qualifier: painting
glosses: A piece of canvas cloth stretched across a frame on which one may paint.
glosses: A mesh of loosely woven cotton strands or molded plastic to be decorated with needlepoint, cross-stitch, rug hooking, or other crafts.
examples: text: The author takes rural midwestern life as a canvas for a series of tightly woven character studies
glosses: A basis for creative work.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A region on which graphics can be rendered.
examples: text: The double desire of being able to overtake a weaker flying enemy, or to escape when pursued by a stronger, has induced the owners to overmast their cruisers, and to spread too much canvass; and the great number of men, many of them not seamen, who being upon deck when a ship heels suddenly are huddled down to leeward, and increase by their weight the effect of the wind.
ref: 1785 August, Benjamin Franklin, “On Improvements in Navigation”, in Jared Sparks, editor, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, […], volume III, London: […] [Abraham John Valpy] for Henry Colburn, […], published 1818, →OCLC, part IV (Philosophical Subjects), page 525:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Sails in general.
examples: text: He spent the night under canvas.
glosses: A tent.
glosses: A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; especially one to show a poet the measure of the verses he is to make.
glosses: Athletic shoes.
Derived terms: blank canvas
canvasback
canvasboard
canvasful
canvasless
canvaslike
canvasman
canvassy
Canvastown
canvaswork
empty canvas
Java canvas
new canvas
noncanvas
on the canvas
under canvas
value proposition canvas
canvas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænvəs/
ipa: /ˈkænvæs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkanvɑs/
homophone: canvass
Forms: form: canvases
form: canvasing
form: canvased
form: canvased
Etymology: From Middle English canevas, from Anglo-Norman, from Old Northern French canevas (compare Old French chanevas, chenevas) from a root derived from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Compare French canevas, resulting from a blend of the Old French and a Picard dialect word, itself from Old Northern French. Doublet of cannabis and hemp.
Senses: glosses: To cover (an area or object) with canvas.
Derived terms: canvassable
recanvas
canvas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænvəs/
ipa: /ˈkænvæs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkanvɑs/
homophone: canvass
Forms: form: canvases
form: canvasing
form: canvased
form: canvased
Etymology: A variant of canvass.
Senses: examples: text: And with the aunſwere here vpon eftſoones in hand they go, / The doubtfull wordes wherof they ſcan and canuas to and fro.
ref: 1567, Ovid, “The First Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 7, recto:
text: But nowe the Meſſenger that was thus ſent to the Lorde Hume [Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home], comming to him declared in what caſe hys houſe and people ſtoode, who beeing (as was ſuppoſed) not ſo farre off, but that he might heare howe luſtily the Engliſhe Canons did canuas and batter his Humiſhe Caſtell Walles, did nowe agree to meete the Marshall maiſter Drurie [William Drury] two myles diſtant from the ſayde Caſtell, and there to common further with him in that matter.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “Queene Elizabeth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 1844–1845:
text: Thou that giu'ſt VVhores Indulgences to ſinne, / Ile canuas thee in thy broad Cardinalls Hat, / If thou proceed in this thy inſolence.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 99, column 1:
text: [T]he nature of man, created after the Image of God, I mean, his Reaſonable nature, hath ſuch an agreement and liking to all that is ſubſtantially and really good, (ſuch are all the Commands of the Natural and Chriſtian Law) that it ſtill canvaſeth on that ſide, and ſolicites the will to embrace the good, and prefer it before the pleaſurable evil; […]
ref: a. 1661 (date written), H[enry] Hammond, “Sect IV. Of the Holy Catholick Church.”, in A Practical Catechism […], 7th edition, London: […] J. F. for R[ichard] Royston, […], published 1662, →OCLC, book V, page 354:
text: [H]e endeavoured by his Agents to be choſe a Burgeſs for the Univerſity of Oxon, to ſerve in that Parliament vvhich began at VVeſtm[inster] 25 Apr. 1660, as at one or tvvo places beſides, vvhere he had canvas'd for votes; […]
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], “WILLIAM LENTHALL”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 204:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of canvass.
canvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænvəs/
ipa: /ˈkænvæs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkanvɑs/
homophone: canvass
Forms: form: canvases
Etymology: A variant of canvass.
Senses: examples: text: […] I haue learned this faſhion of Sᵗ. Hierome the Oracle of Antiquitie, vvho vvas vvont to entertaine his Paula, and Euſtochium, Marcella, Principia, Hedibia, and other deuout Ladies, vvith learned canuaſes of the deep pointes of Diuinity.
ref: 1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle IIII. To My Lady Honoria Hay. Discoursing of the Necessity of Baptisme; and the Estate of Those which Necessarily Want It.”, in Epistles […], volume III, London: […] [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, […], →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 54–55:
text: It is a wonder to ſee how ſlauiſhly theſe kinde of [ambitious] men will ſubiect themſelues, vvhen they are about a canvas, to euery inferiour perſon, vvhat paines they vvill take, runne, ride, caſt, plot & countermine, proteſt & ſvveare, vow, promiſe, vvhat labours vndergoe, earely vp, dovvne late; […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambitions, Causes”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 11, page 100:
text: But vvhy ſhouldſt thou take thy Canvas ſo to heart? It may bee thou art not fit. But as a childe that vveares his fathers ſhooes, hat, headpeece, breſtplate, or breeches; or holds his ſpeare, but is nether able to vveild the one, or vveare the other; ſo vvouldſt thou doe by ſuch an office or Magiſtracy, thou art vnfit.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Against Repulse, Abuses, Iniuries, Contempts, Disgraces, Contumelies, Slanders, Scoffes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 7, page 287:
text: And now I'll tell thee, I have promis'd him / As much as marriage comes to, and I lose / My honour, if my don receive the canvas.
ref: 1626 (first performance; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Brothers”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 206:
text: I know well enough that the biſhoprics and cures, under kingly and ſeignoral patronage, as now they are in England, and as they have been lately in France, are ſometimes acquired by unworthy methods; but the other mode of eccleſiaſtical canvas ſubjects them infinitely more ſurely and more generally to all the evil arts of low ambition, which, operating on and through greater numbers, will produce miſchief in proportion.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 219:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of canvass.
cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːt/
enpr: kärt
ipa: /kɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: carts
Etymology: From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Senses: examples: text: The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
text: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: wagon
glosses: A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.
glosses: A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
glosses: A shopping cart.
Hyponyms: applecart
baggage cart
bullock cart
bullock-cart
crash cart
golfcart
grocery cart
handcart
horsecart
luggage cart
luncheon cart
mailcart
minecart
palkee-garry
postcart
pushcart
shopping cart
teacart
Derived terms: applecart
apple cart
apple-cart
ass cart
baggage cart
bankrupt cart
bascart
bell cart
billy cart
bullock cart
cartable
cartage
cart away
cartbote
carter
cartful
cart horse
carthorse
carthouse
cartless
cartlike
cartload
cartmaker
cartmaking
cartman
cart off
cart path
cartpole
cart road
cartroad
cartshed
cart stall
cart tart
cartway
cartwheel
cartwhip
chapel cart
cold meat cart
crash cart
dandy cart
deadcart
ding dong cart
dogcart
dog cart
dumpcart
dump cart
dump-cart
dustcart
dust cart
fire cart
food cart
go-cart
golf cart
governess-cart
granny cart
grocery cart
halal cart
handcart
hand cart
hand-cart
haycart
honey cart
horse and cart
horsecart
luggage cart
mailcart
mancart
man-cart
minecart
night cart
night-cart
oxcart
pick-to-cart
pie cart
postcart
pushcart
put the cart before the horse
shifter cart
shopping cart
sling cart
spring cart
tax cart
T-cart
teacart
tea cart
tipcart
trundle cart
uncart
undercart
upset the apple cart
village cart
Whitechapel cart
cart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːt/
enpr: kärt
ipa: /kɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: carts
form: carting
form: carted
form: carted
Etymology: From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
Senses: examples: text: "You had better cart in your crops! To-morrow it'll be snowing!"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 259:
glosses: To carry or convey in a cart.
examples: text: I've been carting these things around all day.
glosses: To carry goods.
examples: text: On August 4, 1927, Della was carted away to the Norwalk State Hospital, suffering from acute myocarditis
ref: 2001, Donald Spoto, chapter 2, in Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, page 18:
text: Africans themselves practised slavery and an organised trade carted off African slaves to Middle Eastern countries while Europeans were still huddling in caves.
ref: 2012, Lindsay Rae, Ashley Clements, Sarah Marland, World Poverty for Dummies, →ISBN:
text: Everything was carted off to the dump by Buddy.
ref: 2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
examples: text: She to intrigues was ev'n hard hearted: She chuckled when a bawd was carted
ref: 1708, Matthew Prior, Paulo Purganti and His Wife:
glosses: To expose in a cart by way of punishment.
cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːt/
enpr: kärt
ipa: /kɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: carts
Etymology: Clipping of cartridge.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
examples: text: My Final Fantasy cart on the NES is still alive and kicking.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
examples: text: Elysse got sober before entering college but soon found that seemingly everyone on her dorm floor habitually used weed. ¶ "Not only carts," she said, referring to the cannabis cartridges used in vape pens, "but bongs, pipes, bowls — absolutely everything."
ref: 2022 June 23, Christina Caron, quoting Elysse, “Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2023:
text: Vapes are a relatively new innovation, and at this point, the process of feeding cannabis oil to a heat source creates a few challenges for devices like disposable carts to overcome.
ref: 2023 March 17, Danielle Guercio, “How to Unclog a Vape Pen”, in Lifehacker, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2023:
glosses: A cartridge containing cannabis oil used in vape pens.
Derived terms: multicart
chest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛst/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: chests
form: chesting
form: chested
form: chested
form: chist
Etymology: From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ċest, ċist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “chest, box, basket, hamper”).
Senses: examples: text: Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
ref: 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
glosses: To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
glosses: To deposit in a chest.
glosses: To place in a coffin.
examples: text: Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.
ref: 2025 August 2, @ulxma, X:
glosses: To handle, deal with.
Derived terms: chest down
chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛst/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: chests
Etymology: From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ċēast, ċēas (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian kāse (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German kōsa (“speech, story, account”).
Senses: glosses: Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
chief
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: chiefer
form: more chief
form: chiefest
form: most chief
Etymology: From Middle English cheef, chef, from Old French chef, chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
Doublet of cape (“point of land”), capo, caput, and chef through Latin (possibly also related to cape (“sleeveless garment”) and cap (“head covering”) from Latin cappa); doublet of head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.
Senses: examples: text: Negligence was the chief cause of the disaster.
text: […] But when we find that they [volcanoes] are but few in Number, and the chiefeſt of thoſe too near the torrid Zone, and from their Tops to iſſue forth, now clear Fire, then thick, black Smoke, and ſometimes little or nothing at all; we muſt conclude, that they are only particular Fires, probably of the Sun’s kindling at firſt, and ſince continued by the caſual and incidental Applications of that Pabulum, which thoſe Part of the Earth adminiſter to them.
ref: 1727, Tobias Swinden, “The Improbability of Hell Fire’s Being in, or about the Center of the Earth”, in An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell. […] With a Supplement, wherein the Notions of A[rch]b[isho]p [John] Tillotson, Dr. Lupton, and Others, as to the Eternity of Hell Torments, are Impartially Represented. And the Rev. Mr. Wall’s Sentiments of this Learned Work, 2nd edition, London: Printed by H. P. for Tho[mas] Astley, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC, pages 98–99:
text: Researchers found that one of the chief effects of drinking was to reduce people's ability to monitor their own behavior.
ref: 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Primary; principal.
examples: text: 'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'
ref: 2006, James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack, page 324:
glosses: Intimate, friendly.
chief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: chiefs
form: chiefing
form: chiefed
form: chiefed
Etymology: From Middle English cheef, chef, from Old French chef, chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Proto-Italic *kaput, from Proto-Indo-European *káput.
Doublet of cape (“point of land”), capo, caput, and chef through Latin (possibly also related to cape (“sleeveless garment”) and cap (“head covering”) from Latin cappa); doublet of head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.
Senses: glosses: To smoke cannabis.
Related terms: chef
countable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩]
rhymes: -aʊntəbəl
Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
Senses: antonyms: word: uncountable
word: countless
word: numberless
word: innumerable
word: countable
word: numerable
glosses: Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: uncountable
infinite#Adjective
hypernyms: finite#Adjective
countably infinite
glosses: Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
raw_tags: of a set
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: uncountable
infinite#Adjective
uncountable
non-denumerable
hypernyms: finite#Adjective
countably infinite
glosses: Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
synonyms: denumerable
raw_tags: of a set
examples: text: In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 112:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: count#Adjective
antonyms: uncountable
noncount#Adjective
non-count#Adjective
glosses: Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
raw_tags: of a noun
Derived terms: axiom of countable choice
countability
countable additivity
countableness
countable noun
countable set
countably
noncountable
second-countable
subcountable
uncountable
Related terms: countability
countable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰãʊ̯̃n.(ɾ)ə.bɫ̩]
rhymes: -aʊntəbəl
Forms: form: countables
Etymology: From Middle English countable, equivalent to count (“to enumerate”) + -able.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: count noun
countable noun
antonyms: uncountable#Noun
mass noun
noncount noun
non-count noun
uncountable noun
glosses: A noun that is countable.
Related terms: denumerability
enumerability
mass noun
plurale tantum
universal grinder
universal packager
universal sorter
natural numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural number
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
Synonyms: english: positive integers
translation: positive integers
word: counting numbers
english: either sense
translation: either sense
word: whole numbers
word: ℕ
Related terms: set
natural number
inductive definition
natural number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive integer {1, 2, 3, ...}.
examples: text: A careful derivation of the arithmetic properties of the natural numbers #92;mathbb#123;N#125;, using induction, was done by G. Peano (1858–1932). It is a lot of fun, but we will not pursue any of it here.
ref: 2007, Mark Bridger, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 3:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A non-negative integer {0, 1, 2, ...}.
Related terms: counting number
integer
natural numbers
number
whole number
light globe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light globes
Senses: examples: text: There are the offset producers[:] those that plant the trees, prevent trees from being removed, provide efficient light globes or reduce emissions.
ref: 2008 February 22, Ruth Williams, Mathew Murphy, “How green was my valley, but beware of the planet-friendly sales pitch”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
glosses: A light bulb.
synonyms: plasma globe
glosses: A nearly evacuated glass globe containing ionized gas (plasma), which produces lightning-like patterns when touched.
grub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌb/
ipa: /ɡɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: grubs
form: grob
Etymology: From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).
Senses: synonyms: larva
glosses: An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
examples: text: pub grub
text: "The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298:
synonyms: word: aliment
word: bait
word: belly-timber
word: chow
word: comestibles
word: cuisine
word: eatables
word: eats
word: edibles
word: feed
raw_tags: for domesticated animals
word: fodder
raw_tags: for domesticated animals
word: foodstuffs
word: food
word: grub
word: kai
word: meals
word: meat
word: munchable
word: nibbles
word: nosebag
word: nosh
word: nourishment
word: om nom nom
word: provender
word: provisions
word: rations
word: scran
word: stodge
word: sustenance
word: tiffin
word: tucker
word: tuck
word: viands
word: victuals
word: vittles
glosses: Food.
glosses: A dirty person.
glosses: A despicable person; a lowlife.
examples: text: John Romane, a short clownish grub, would bear the whole carcase of an ox, yet never tugged with him.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A short, thick man; a dwarf.
Derived terms: bardee grub
bardi grub
bardy grub
canegrub
cattle grub
curl grub
grass grub
grub and bub
grubber
grubbery
grubble
grubby
grub hoe
grubhouse
grubless
grublike
grubling
grub out
grub-saw
grub screw
grubstake
grub-stake
grub up
grubwork
grubworm
pub grub
Tasmanian grass grub
witchety grub
Related terms: caterpillar
maggot
worm
grub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌb/
ipa: /ɡɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: grubs
form: grubbing
form: grubbed
form: grubbed
form: grob
Etymology: From Middle English grubben, grobben, from Old English *grubbian, from Proto-West Germanic *grubb-, from Proto-Germanic *grubb- (compare Middle Dutch grobben (“to scrape, scramble, grab”), Old High German grubilōn (“to dig, search”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”)), from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”) (see *grabaną).
The noun sense of "larva" is from Middle English grub, grubbe, grobbe, crubbe and may derive from the notion of "digging insect" from the verb above, or from the uncertainly related Middle English grub (“dwarfish fellow”). Compare West Frisian krobbe (“beetle”). The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1659, and has been linked with birds eating grubs or with bub (“drink”).
Senses: glosses: To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
examples: text: to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge
text: They do not attempt to grub up the root of sin.
ref: 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:
text: Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
glosses: To supply with food.
examples: text: “[…] John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know.”
“Of course we must, my darling.”
“He has been grubbing and grubbing at school,” said Bella, looking at her father’s hand and lightly slapping it, “till he’s not fit to be seen. O what a grubby child!”
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “Concerning the Mendicant’s Bride”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the fourth (A Turning), page 202:
glosses: To eat.
Derived terms: grub along
Related terms: grade-grub
grave
groove
penchant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒnʃɒn/
ipa: [ˈpɑ̃ʃɑ̃]
ipa: /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/
rhymes: -ɒnʃɒn
rhymes: -ɛntʃənt
Forms: form: penchants
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
Senses: examples: text: He has a penchant for fine wine.
text: Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 264:
text: THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.
ref: 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 640:
text: 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
text: Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
ref: 2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:
glosses: Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game resembling bezique.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Synonyms: desire
predilection
bless you
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛs juː/
ipa: /ˈblɛʃ(j)uː/
Forms: form: bless you !
Etymology: Short for God bless you, from Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you.
Senses: glosses: Short for (may) God bless you: said as a short prayer for the recipient.
synonyms: gesundheit
glosses: Said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite remark.
examples: text: ‘What’s that?’ said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding.
 ‘Bouillabaisse,’ said Hermione.
 ‘Bless you,’ said Ron.
 ‘It’s French,’ said Hermione. ‘I had it on holiday, summer before last, it’s very nice.’
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Goblet of Fire”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: Used to express non-understanding of someone who has just used an unusual or foreign word or phrase (as if to imply that it sounds like a sneeze).
put together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts together
form: putting together
form: put together
form: put together
Senses: examples: text: If you try to put together the model kit yourself, be careful not to break any of the pieces.
text: We'll need to put together a plan if we want to get this project finished.
text: Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To assemble, construct, build, or formulate.
examples: text: They were drunk and slow and she was quick to her boot and quick with the blade and she had sliced one across the arm and the other across the cheek before either could put together what was happening.
ref: 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 40, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 206:
glosses: To gather one's thoughts and come to conclusions.
Derived terms: put one's hands together
put two and two together
put heads together
put together
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Alaska has more land than Texas and Oklahoma put together.
glosses: In total.
examples: text: Today, Bessy is still unmarried but she is well put together. She has bought two new cars since the divorce, she now owns her home, two of her children have college degrees, one is certified in medical assisting, […]
ref: 2011, Sondra Busby, Understanding Life and Its Challenges, →ISBN:
text: I had the impression that she is well put together and has good ego-strength. She is aware of her tendency to be overly self-critical, is working on it and making some progress.
ref: 1954, Annette Marie Garrett, Learning Through Supervision, page 78:
glosses: Stable and sound psychologically and hence in other respects; competent and responsible.
raw_tags: with an adjective indicating degree
clue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluː/
ipa: /kljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: clew
homophone: clou
homophone: CLU
Forms: form: clues
form: clew
Etymology: Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clewe, from Old English clīewen (“ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn, from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“ball, bale”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to amass, conglomerate; clump, ball, bale”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew.
Senses: examples: text: she had even had in the past a small smug conviction that in the domestic labyrinth she always kept the clue.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
glosses: A strand of yarn etc. as used to guide one through a labyrinth; something which points the way, a guide.
examples: text: Give me a clue because the question is too vague.
text: Black tracks on the magneto, a hairline crack in the flywheel casing, pitted points or a spitless exhaust — all are clues to potential conkouts
ref: 1965, Popular Mechanics, volume 123, number 3, page 140:
glosses: Information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion.
examples: text: The detectives were looking for some clues at the scene of the crime.
glosses: An object or a kind of indication which may be used as evidence.
examples: text: I had little clue that I was being carefully monitored by the CCTV.
glosses: Insight or understanding ("to have a clue [about]" or "to have clue". See have a clue, clue stick)
Synonyms: sense: information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion
word: hint
sense: information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion
word: indication
sense: information which may lead one to a certain point or conclusion
word: suggestion
word: signature
sense: understanding
word: idea
Derived terms: word: cluebat
word: cluebie
word: Cluedo
word: clueful
word: clueless
word: cluelike
word: cluey
word: microclue
word: no clue
word: unclue
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: clue-by-four
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: clue card
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: cluestick
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: clue stick
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: context clue
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: get a clue
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: have a clue
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: not have a clue
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: what was your first clue
Related terms: evidence
red herring
clue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluː/
ipa: /kljuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: clew
homophone: clou
homophone: CLU
Forms: form: clues
form: cluing
form: clueing
form: clued
form: clued
form: clew
Etymology: Variant of clew (“a ball of thread or yarn”), from Middle English clewe, from Old English clīewen (“ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *kliuwīn, from Proto-Germanic *kliuwīną, *klewô (“ball, bale”), from Proto-Indo-European *glew- (“to amass, conglomerate; clump, ball, bale”). Sense evolution with reference to the one which the mythical Theseus used to guide him out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. More at clew.
Senses: examples: text: The crossword compiler wasn't sure how to clue the word "should".
glosses: To provide with a clue.
examples: text: Smith, clue Jones in on what's been happening.
text: I stared into my mind for some image to clue me what to say but I saw only blackness there.
ref: 2014, John Macgregor, The Antibiography of Ian Mcnulty:
glosses: To provide someone with information which they lack (often used with "in" or "up").
examples: text: If the lee-side of the sail were clued up, the risk would be small compared with what it would be were the sheet nearly aft and the whole sail full of wind on starting the tack.
ref: 1864, John McNeill Boyd, A Manual for Naval Cadets, page 444:
glosses: Alternative form of clew.
Derived terms: clue in
clue up
clued up
responsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒnsəbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈspɒnsəbl̩]
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɑnsəbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈspɑnsəbl̩]
Forms: form: more responsible
form: most responsible
Etymology: From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondere. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. By surface analysis, response + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Parents are responsible for their child's behaviour.
glosses: Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
raw_tags: followed by "for"
examples: text: Who is responsible for this mess?
text: […]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
raw_tags: followed by "for"
glosses: Answerable to (a superior).
raw_tags: followed by "to"
examples: text: She has a responsible position in the firm.
glosses: Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
raw_tags: of a job or position
examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: Having good judgment in decision-making.
examples: text: He looks like a responsible guy.
glosses: Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
glosses: Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
Derived terms: co-responsible
eco-responsible
irresponsibility
irresponsible
responsibility
responsibleness
responsible trading
responsibly
Related terms: irresponsible
respond
response
responsibility
responsibleness
responsibly
responsible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒnsəbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈspɒnsəbl̩]
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɑnsəbəl/
ipa: [ɹɪˈspɑnsəbl̩]
Forms: form: responsibles
Etymology: From Middle French responsable, from Old French responsable, responsible, formed from the root of Latin responsus, from respondere. The spelling of the English word is taken from the Old French variant responsible. By surface analysis, response + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: Were this not so, long since would we have traced directly home the responsibility for the war on Freedom in the Philippines. Long since, would we have hanged the responsibles as traitors to our country.
ref: 1899, The Harlequin, volume 1, page 12:
glosses: The individual who bears the responsibility for something.
examples: text: […] first appeared on August Bank Holiday, 1901, at Grand Theatre, Llandudno, playing "responsibles" with Edward Compton; […]
ref: 1907, The Green Room Book; Or, Who's Who on the Stage, page 9:
text: 'Well, the Cardinal is the heavy part, isn't it?' 'I know.' 'Then,' said I, 'you'd better go'; and one of the Responsibles took it on, and was perfect on the night.
ref: 1926, Arthur Machen, Dreads and Drolls:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: An actor taking on the lesser roles in repertory theatre.
unidentified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnaɪˈdɛntɪfaɪd/
Etymology: From un- + identified.
Senses: examples: text: The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
ref: 2023 February 12, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Edward Wong, “What’s Going On Up There? Theories but No Answers in Shootdowns of Mystery Craft.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: identified
glosses: Not identified; having an unknown or unnamed identity.
Derived terms: unidentified aerial phenomenon
unidentified flying object
unidentified submarine object
unidentified submerged object
uncomfortable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈkʌm.fə.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ʌnˈkʌmf.tɚ.bl̩/
Forms: form: more uncomfortable
form: most uncomfortable
Etymology: From un- + comfortable.
Senses: examples: text: The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
text: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years. Inside there were uncomfortable seats covered with a cane-like material.
ref: 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:
glosses: Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
glosses: Experiencing discomfort.
examples: text: Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
glosses: Uneasy or anxious.
glosses: Put off or disgusted.
Synonyms: ill at ease
Derived terms: uncomfortableness
uncomfortably
insistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪstəns/
Forms: form: insistences
Etymology: From Middle English insistence, derived from Old French insister (“to insist”). Compare Middle French insistance. Morphologically insist + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: He made gourd-rattles (known in ever so many parts of the world) in which he rattled dried seeds or small pebbles with a most beguiling and rain-like insistence[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:
text: The extreme depth of these channels, and the insistence of the Board of Trade on a headway of 150 ft. for the unrestricted passage of large ships, necessitated a high bridge with two main spans, and a central pier on Inchgarvie.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 147:
glosses: The state of being insistent.
glosses: An urgent demand.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.
Derived terms: overinsistence
uninsistence
Related terms: insist
blame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: blām
ipa: /bleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: From Middle English blame, borrowed from Old French blame, blasme, produced from the verb blasmer, which in turn is derived from Late Latin blastēmāre, variant of blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blaspheme. Displaced native Old English tǣling (“blame”) and tǣlan (“to blame”).
Senses: examples: text: Blame came from all directions.
glosses: Censure.
examples: text: The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
glosses: Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
examples: text: They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
glosses: Responsibility for something meriting censure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
Derived terms: blameful
blame game
blameless
blameshift
blamesmanship
blamestorm
blameworthy
blamey
put the blame on
Related terms: fault
blame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: blām
ipa: /bleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Etymology: From Middle English blamen, borrowed from Old French blasmer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre (“to reproach, to revile”), from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Compare blaspheme, a doublet. Overtook common use from the native wite (“to blame, accuse, reproach, suspect”) (from Middle English wīten, from Old English wītan).
Senses: examples: text: "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
text: “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Star-splitter.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: euphemism of damn (intensifier)