cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spatha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spathas
form: spathae
Etymology: From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Doublet of spade, spathe, and epee.
Senses: glosses: A type of straight sword originating from the first-century Roman Empire. It was worn typically by cavalry officers and is a long version of the left shaped gladius.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of spathe.
synonyms: word: spathe
Related terms: spathe
spade
spatula
prenex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹi.nɛks/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praenexus (“bound up in front”), from Latin prae- (“before”) and nexus, past participle of nectō (“to bind”).
Senses: examples: text: "We say that #92;phi is universal iff it can be written in prenex form — i.e. with all quantifiers at the beginning — using only universal quantifiers."
ref: 1999, Neil Immerman, Descriptive Complexity, New York: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of a formula, having all of its quantifiers at the beginning.
Derived terms: prenex normal form
prenex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹi.nɛks/
Forms: form: prenexes
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praenexus (“bound up in front”), from Latin prae- (“before”) and nexus, past participle of nectō (“to bind”).
Senses: examples: ∀x.∃y. is the prenex of the formula ∀x.∃y.P(x,y)
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The initial part of a prenex formula where all of the formula's bound variables are bound by logical quantifiers.
curable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curable
form: most curable
Etymology: From Middle English curable, curabyll, from Old French curable. By surface analysis, cure + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being cured.
Derived terms: curableness
curably
noncurable
photocurable
radiocurable
uncurable
Related terms: curability
seamstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛm(p).stɹɪs/
ipa: /ˈsiːm(p).stɹɪs/
Forms: form: seamstresses
form: sempstress
Etymology: From seamster + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Seamſtreſs brought in her ſilver thimble, the Chamber-maid her Bodkin, the Cook his ſilver ſpoon, the Vintner his Bowl into the common Treaſury of War and they who contributed to ſo pious a work, were invited more then others in ſome Churches to come to the Holy Communion in the very time of adminiſtration; […]
ref: 1656, James Howell, Some Sober Inspections Made Into the Carriage and Consults of the Late Long-Parliament, whereby Occaſion is taken to ſpeak of Parliaments in former Times, and of Magna Charta, with ſome Reflexes upon Government in General, pages 128-129:
text: They are seamstresses, who have plied the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors, until now it is almost time for each to hem the borders of her own shroud.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Procession of Life”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
text: “If you have finished blathering about men, perhaps you won’t mind skipping over the new seamstress you’ve no doubt found?"
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 862:
glosses: A woman who sews clothes professionally.
Related terms: seamster
sempstress
sewist
seconder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seconders
Etymology: From second + -er (measurement suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I'm a post-first-weight-gain-in-ten-years, post-obsessing-about-food-every-minute-of-every-day, and life is different. It really is. I still struggle sometimes, but I can honestly say that the tapes are no longer playing. Once in a while I hear a little “commercial,” a brief ten-seconder: Are you sure you don't want to lose a little weight? Wouldn't you rather skip that high-fat meal?
ref: 2003, Constance Rhodes, Life Inside the “Thin” Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter, Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Something that lasts or takes a specified number of seconds.
examples: text: He's been the seconder on many motions, but I don't think he's ever made a motion himself.
glosses: The person who makes a second to a motion in any formal procedure, such as a parliamentary procedure.
synonyms: second
qualifier: scouting
glosses: A Cub Scout serving as a second-in-command to a sixer.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who seconds; a person who climbs after the leader
parliamentary procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parliamentary procedures
Senses: glosses: A formal procedure used by a deliberative assembly in its decision-making, to keep order.
Related terms: regular order
beccafico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beccaficos
form: beccaficoes
form: becca-fico
Etymology: From Italian beccafico.
Senses: glosses: A small bird, Sylvia hortensis, figpecker.
book-keep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: book-keeps
form: book-keeping
form: book-kept
form: book-kept
form: bookkeep
Senses: glosses: To do bookkeeping.
Synonyms: keep books
Related terms: bookkeeper
book-keeper
wipe someone's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wipes someone's eye
form: wiping someone's eye
form: wiped someone's eye
form: wiped someone's eye
Senses: glosses: To defeat; to defeat humiliatingly.
Related terms: wipe someone's nose
boorishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boorishnesses
Etymology: From boorish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: No refinement in him would now have surprised her; but neither would any outbreak of boorishness.
ref: 1888, George Gissing, chapter 8, in A Life's Morning:
text: From the first the Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 177:
text: Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening.
ref: 2009 July 31, “Nevermore With Jeffrey Combs As Edger Allan Poe Taps Every Emotion”, in Beverly Hills Courier, retrieved 17 Aug 2009:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour.
seconders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seconder
seamstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamstress
jump rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭmp rōp
ipa: /dʒʌmp ɹəʊp/
Forms: form: jump ropes
form: jumprope
form: jump-rope
Senses: glosses: (also jump-roping, jumping rope) The activity, game or exercise in which a person must jump, bounce or skip repeatedly while a length of rope is swung over and under, both ends held in the hands of the jumper, or alternately, held by two other participants.
examples: Traditional children's games include jump rope, hopscotch, or patty cake.
glosses: The length of rope, sometimes with handles, casing or other additions, used in that activity.
examples: 2001, Matt Groening, “The Cyber House Rules”, Futurama, season 3, episode 11, transcript
SALLY: One time, I did a hundred jump ropes.
glosses: A single jump in this game or activity, counted as a measure of achievement.
Synonyms: sense: the game
word: skipping
sense: the game
word: skip rope
sense: the rope
word: skipping rope
sense: single jump
word: rope-jump
jump rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭmp rōp
ipa: /dʒʌmp ɹəʊp/
Forms: form: jumps rope
form: jump ropes
form: jumping rope
form: jump roping
form: jumped rope
form: jumped rope
form: jump roped
form: jump roped
form: jumprope
form: jump-rope
Senses: glosses: To repeatedly jump over a rope, the ends of which are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is swung under the feet and over the head of the jumper; to play the game of jump rope; to exercise by jumping rope.
Synonyms: skip
skip rope
bookkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bookkeeps
form: bookkeeping
form: bookkept
form: bookkept
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of book-keep.
executes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of execute
cat-flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-flaps
Senses: examples: text: Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.
ref: 1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, →ISBN, page 137:
text: 1985, Derek Albert Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales (in his introduction to Chaucer's Miller's Tale), Routledge (UK), →ISBN, p. 182,
We could find our way blindfold about old John's house, with its cat-flap in Nicholas's bedroom-door.
text: While she's distracted, Batman and Robin make heroic, synchronised leaps off the fridge onto the lino and crash hell for leather, one after the other, through the cat-flap. The cat-flap's plastic frame collapses in pieces on the floor behind them.
ref: 2006, Robert Graham, Holy Joe, Troubador, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Alternative form of cat flap.
Related terms: doggie door
pet door
spit-and-polish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spit-and-polish
form: most spit-and-polish
Senses: glosses: paying much attention to outward appearance
cheese it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Unknown, but lexicographer Eric Partridge speculated that it may be a corruption of cease. Originally thieves' cant.
In his Vocabulary of the Flash Language, author and former convict James Hardy Vaux (1782-?) defined cheese it as synonymous with stash it and stow it, all meaning to desist or leave off.
Senses: examples: text: Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our discourse.
ref: 1811, Francis Grose, Hewson Clarke, Lexicon Balatronicum:
text: […] he holds earnest parley with some members of the upper gallery who are beguiling the time by pelting us with nut-shells, and broken pipes. Two or three 'hallos!' and 'now thens!' accompanied by a strong recommendation to 'cheese it' (i. e., act of cessation), cause these trifling annoyances to cease.
ref: 1859, George Augustus Henry Sala, “Strollers at Dumbledowndeary”, in Gaslight and Daylight, page 328:
text: The defence of Mr. Conover was so prompt and admirable that the conflict was protracted until the onlookers unselfishly gave the warning cry of "Cheese it—the cop!" The principals escaped easily by running through the nearest open doors into the communicating backyards at the rear of the houses.
ref: 1908, O. Henry, The Voice of the City, page 154:
text: Knowing that Bobbie would be on sentry-go made all the difference. Any gangster will tell you that the strain and anxiety of busting a safe are greatly diminished if you've a look-out man ready at any moment to say “Cheese it, the cops!”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: An imperative used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee
wikipedia: thieves' cant
Synonyms: punch it
desist
heads up
tempi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛmpiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of tempo
cat-flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pens are equipped with ‘pig-creeps', the porcine equivalent of cat-flaps, which allow the piglets access.
ref: 1996, James Serpell, In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-animal Relationships, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Instead, the DJ has just started a phone-in about cat-flaps.
ref: 2003, Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Dine out. In urban areas there are plenty of cat-flaps allowing access to another cat's dinner.
ref: 2005, Celia Haddon, 100 Ways for a Cat to Train Its Humans, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: plural of cat-flap
vinifera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viniferas
Senses: qualifier: winemaking
glosses: Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine.
lories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lory
BFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BFAs
Senses: examples: text: Remember, the only piece of paper less valuable than one of your paintings is a B.F.A. degree.
ref: 1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential:
glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Fine Arts.
IBMer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBMers
Etymology: From IBM + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who works for the technology company IBM.
Derived terms: IBMerese
K-hed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K-heds
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: A brief news item in a newspaper consisting of a one-line heading and a single paragraph, especially one of little interest added to fill space.
hed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heds
Etymology: Deliberately altered spelling of head, to distinguish the word as not belonging in a journalistic story. Compare lede (“lead, introduction”). Also an archaic spelling.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: The headline of a news story.
glosses: Archaic spelling of head.
Related terms: K-hed
unhed
hed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Altered spelling of had.
Senses: examples: text: He told me he had got a queer critter that had come to his garden, and to his mind it was very like a little pig—in fact, “fust off he reckoned it was one o’ his young snorkers hed got out.[…]”
ref: 1891 February, a Son of the Marshes [pseudonym; Denham Jordan], “On Surrey Hills.—II. Fin and Fur.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCIV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 275, column 2:
text: It hed seven rooms and he ruffed it all over, sides an’ all. / [“Roofed the sides?”] / Thet’s what,—kivered the hull biz with shingles clean down to the ground—an’, Jimminy Crickets! the number o’ little balc’nys, an’ gables, an’ dormant winders, an’ porches thet stuck all over it, was a caution to see.
ref: 1894 February, Ella Beecher Gittings, “A Case of Heredity”, in Overland Monthly, volume XXIII, number 134, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Publishing Company […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 1:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of had, representing dialectal English.
hed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See heed.
Senses: examples: text: They finally hed my warnings!
glosses: simple past and past participle of heed
Metsovon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Metsovo.
Dodona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊˈdəʊ.nə/
ipa: /dəˈ-/
ipa: /doʊˈdoʊ.nə/
ipa: /dəˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Latin Dōdōna, from Ancient Greek Δωδώνη (Dōdṓnē).
Senses: glosses: A town and religious shrine of ancient in Greece.
glosses: Dodoni, the present settlement at the site, in modern Greece's Ioannina prefecture.
Synonyms: word: Dodoni
Related terms: Dodonaean
Dodoni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and municipality of Ioannina regional unit, Epirus region, Greece.
Synonyms: english: ancient name
translation: ancient name
word: Dodona
Arta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The place in Greece is from Ancient Greek Άρτα (Árta). The place in Djibouti is from Arabic عرته or Somali Carta.
Senses: glosses: A regional unit in northwestern Greece that is a part of the Epirus region.
glosses: A city in Greece that serves as the capital of the Arta prefecture.
glosses: A department of Djibouti.
glosses: Acronym of Anti-Red Tape Authority.
Igoumenitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece, the capital of the Thesprotia prefecture.
Paramythia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Thesprotia prefecture.
Synonyms: Paramithia
Paramithia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Thesprotia prefecture.
Synonyms: Paramythia
muters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muter
Parga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the Preveza prefecture
Preveza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek Πρέβεζα (Prébeza), from Albanian prevëzë (“crossing”) or Italian prevesione (“provision, supply”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Epirus, Greece.
glosses: A regional unit of Epirus, Greece, around the city.
Synonyms: word: Nicopolis
word: Berenice
Kefalovryssi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrision
form: Kefalovrission
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the northern part of the Ioannina prefecture.
Kefalovrisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrision
form: Kefalovrission
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the northern part of the Ioannina prefecture.
Kefalovrissi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrision
form: Kefalovrission
Senses: glosses: A town in Greece located in the northern part of the Ioannina prefecture.
Kefalovrysion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrision
form: Kefalovrission
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Kefalovrysi.
Kefalovryssion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovrision
form: Kefalovrission
Etymology: Katharevousa spelling of Kefalovrysi
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Kefalovrysi.
Kefalovrision
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrission
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Kefalovrysi.
Kefalovrission
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kefalovrysi
form: Kefalovryssi
form: Kefalovrisi
form: Kefalovrissi
form: Kefalovrysion
form: Kefalovryssion
form: Kefalovrision
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Kefalovrysi.
châteaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæːtəʊ(z)/
ipa: /ʃæːˈtəʊ(z)/
ipa: /ʃæːˈtoʊ(z)/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: chateaux
Senses: examples: text: Few cottages, no châteaux, hardly any inhabitants, were to be seen; it seemed as if we were reaching the very end of the world.
ref: 1877 September 15, F.P. Verney, “Pictures in Holland, on and off Canvas”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume 134, number 1735:
text: Villages and woods, meadows and châteaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes.
ref: 1904, Alberto Santos-Dumont, My Airships, page 15:
text: When royalty and nobility built châteaux throughout this valley during the Renaissance, sumptuousness was uppermost in their minds.
ref: 2004, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin et al., Frommer’s Europe, page 329:
glosses: plural of château
protein phosphorylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protein phosphorylations
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binding of phosphate to proteins to form phosphoproteins.
retracted tongue root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retracted tongue roots
Senses: examples: text: The high back retracted tongue root vowel is always further back than its counterpart, rather than further forward, as is the case for the traditional lax back vowels.
ref: 1996, Peter Ladefoged, Ian Maddieson, The Sounds of the World's Languages:
text: /ʕ/ is typically realized as an epiglottal stop, gliding as a pharyngeal approximant into a following retracted-tongue-root vowel, as in [ʡˤʊ̙maː] ‘water flowing from a spout’.
ref: 2001, Barry F. Carlson, John H. Esling, Katie Fraser, “Nuuchahnulth”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 31, number 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: advanced tongue root
glosses: An articulation involving retraction of the tongue root.
survivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more survivable
form: most survivable
Etymology: From survive + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The conditions they are living in are harsh but survivable.
glosses: Able to be survived.
examples: text: In order for a weapon system to be an effective deterrent it must be highly survivable. Weapon systems based in the world's ocean waters are the most survivable systems.
ref: 1972, Naval Engineers Journal, volume 84, page 274:
text: As Desert Storm demonstrated, heavily defended targets can be successfully attacked by cruise missiles and a limited number of highly capable and survivable aircraft, leaving other targets to be attacked by less survivable aircraft. A recent CNA study reinforced this point.
ref: 1995, United States. General Accounting Office, Cruise Missiles: Proven Capability Should Affect Aircraft and Force Structure Requirements : Report to Congressional Committees, page 48:
text: “I think that what we found is that our command and control needs to be more survivable,” said Col. Robert S. McChrystal, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which is based in Vilseck, Germany, near the Czech border.
ref: 2024 April 24, Helene Cooper, quoting Robert S. McChrystal, “NATO Puts on a Show of Force in the Shadow of Russia’s War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Capable of surviving an attack, especially a nuclear strike.
Derived terms: survivability
phosphoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoproteins
Etymology: From phospho- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any protein containing bound phosphate or complexed with a phospholipid
Derived terms: glycophosphoprotein
nucleophosphoprotein
phosphoproteinomics
sialophosphoprotein
blench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: blenches
form: blenching
form: blenched
form: blenched
Etymology: From Middle English blench and blenchen, from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).
Senses: examples: text: Blench not at thy chosen lot.
ref: a. 1870, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field:
text: This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfilment.
ref: 1820, Francis Jeffrey, “Life of Curran”, in The Edinburgh Review May 1820:
text: Suddenly the great beast beat its hideous wings. […] Again it leaped into the air, and then swiftly fell down upon Éowyn, shrieking, striking with beak and claw. Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings […]
ref: 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:
text: Even a case-hardened monorailist must blench at the thought of the storm such a proposition would create.
ref: 1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:
text: "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."
ref: 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator), Jorge Louis Borges, "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255
glosses: To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
glosses: To quail.
raw_tags: of the eye
glosses: To deceive; cheat.
examples: text: Yesterday the government proclaimed no turning back, but the lords representing the likes of the disability charity Scope or Macmillan Cancer Support should make them blench.
ref: 2012 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Welfare cuts: Cameron's problem is that people are nicer than he thinks”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
glosses: To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
examples: text: Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: To fly off; to turn aside.
Derived terms: blencher
unblenched
unblenching
blench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: blenches
Etymology: From Middle English blench and blenchen, from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).
Senses: glosses: A deceit; a trick.
examples: text: These blenches gave my heart another youth.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 110”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: A sidelong glance.
blench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: blenches
form: blenching
form: blenched
form: blenched
Etymology: From Old French blanchir (“to bleach”).
Senses: examples: text: The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284:
glosses: To blanch.
Related terms: blench holding
unblenching
grandbairns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandbairn
inheritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɛrɪtəbəl/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ənˈhɛrətəbəl/
Forms: form: more inheritable
form: most inheritable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enheritable (“inheritable”), from Anglo-Norman enheritable; equivalent to inherit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: an inheritable estate or title
text: an inheritable disease
glosses: That can be inherited.
examples: text: By attainder […] the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
Derived terms: inheritableness
inheritably
noninheritable
uninheritable
getts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gett
vapulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæp.jʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈvæp.jə.leɪt/
Forms: form: vapulates
form: vapulating
form: vapulated
form: vapulated
Etymology: From Latin vāpulō.
Senses: glosses: To flog or whip; to beat or strike.
examples: text: In the preface to his Longinus, I can show you blunders for which a boy ought to vapulate.
ref: 1828, Samuel Parr, John Johnstone, The Works of Samuel Parr etc:
glosses: To be flogged, beaten etc.
gaups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gaup
fettling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fettle
fettling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fettlings
Senses: glosses: Repairing; mending; sorting.
synonyms: word: fix
glosses: A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace.
glosses: The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.
fettled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fettle
rubato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rəˈbɑ.toʊ/
Forms: form: rubatos
form: rubati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian rubato (“robbed, stolen”), since the time is "borrowed".
Senses: examples: text: The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato.
ref: 2007, Michele Weir, Jazz Piano Handbook, Alfred Music Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: tempo rubato
glosses: A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat.
rubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ルビ (rubi), from English ruby.
Senses: examples: text: "Shinjuku Sketch" demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.
ref: 2010, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, page 170:
text: Bespoke combinations of kanji can also be created, because the intended phonetic and semantic readings can be supplied by the rubi glosses.
ref: 2012, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Judy Wakabayashi, Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context, page 158:
glosses: Alternative form of ruby (“pronunciation guide for Chinese or Japanese characters”).
rubai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈbʌɪ/
ipa: /ɹuˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -ʌɪ
Forms: form: rubaiyat
form: rubais
form: ruba'i
form: rubāʿī
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رُبَاعِيّ (rubāʕiyy).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry.
yett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yetts
Senses: examples: text: They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; […]
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
text: The outer yett was closed, and a torch burned in a socket set in the gatehouse wall beside the archway. A guard stepped up, peered through the yett at Guillaume, and nodded to someone off to the side.
ref: 2015, Douglas Nicholas, Throne of Darkness, page 126:
glosses: Gate.
examples: text: [A] yett was in use along with the portcullis. At Doune we have an example of an existing yett, set about a foot behind the portcullis grooves; of course, it is impossible to say whether the two were contemporary, but it seems[…]
ref: 1888, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 318:
text: ... yett was solid . At Doune, Perthshire, dating from the latter years of the fourteenth century, the main gateway was defended by a portcullis and a yett at the entrance, and, apparently, by another yett, […]
ref: 2013 April 9, Sidney Toy, Castles: Their Construction and History, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 201:
glosses: A gate made of iron bars, used for defensive purposes in castles and other buildings, which is hinged to open like a door, rather than being raised and lowered like a portcullis.
yett
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So when the L. Chauncellor or Keeper passeth anie patent by imediate warrant, yett the fees of the Clerke of the Seale and Signett are ordered to be awnswered, and yett theie doe noething for them.
ref: 1608, “Kalenders of the Starre Chamber, extract republished 1840, J. Payne Collier (editor), Lord Bacon and the Star Chamber”, in The Egerton papers: A collection of public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of the times of Elizabeth and James I, from the original documents, page 431:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of yet.
rubasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubasses
Etymology: From Latin rubeus (“reddish”).
Senses: synonyms: Mont Blanc ruby
glosses: crystalline quartz coloured red by hematite
rubies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ruby
rubies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ruby
unprosecutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prosecutable.
Senses: examples: text: Military prosecutors said al-Kahtani would be unprosecutable because of what was done to him during interrogation.
topics: law
glosses: Not able to be successfully prosecuted.
démodé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪməʊˈdeɪ/
Forms: form: more démodé
form: most démodé
Etymology: Borrowed from French démodé.
Senses: examples: text: If, in the foregoing rapid summary, it has not always been possible to speak with uniform gravity, it is that, to-day, the main issue of Cecilia’s story has become—as the author’s own Captain Aresby would now have said—a little démodé.
ref: 1903, Henry Austin Dobson, Fanny Burney:
text: “And the Vicar's wife too. Dear, all this is weeks and weeks old; I suppose it has only just reached the Vicarage. Do let us be up-to-date. Physical culture has been quite démodé since last Thursday.”
ref: 1914, A. A. Milne, “Merely Players”, in Once a Week:
text: Leisure travel will have to rescue the railways because commuting is becoming démodé and viewed with suspicion/mistrust by modern-day employees.
ref: 2021 November 17, “Open Access: Stumbling blocks to attracting more passengers”, in RAIL, number 944, page 65:
synonyms: word: old-hat
word: passé
word: unchic
word: basic
word: cheugy
word: cringe
word: cringey
word: cringeworthy
word: dated
word: démodé
word: fossilized
word: inelegant
word: last year
word: normie
word: old
word: old-fashioned
word: old-hat
word: oldfangled
word: ossified
word: out
word: out of date
word: out of fashion
word: out of touch
word: outdated
word: outmoded
word: passé
word: rinky-dink
word: tacky
word: unchic
word: uncool
word: unfashionable
word: unhip
word: unpopular
word: unstylish
word: untrendy
glosses: Outdated, old-fashioned.
alberghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albergo
poopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poopies
Etymology: From poop + -y (“diminutive-forming suffix”).
Senses: related: word: poopie
glosses: Faeces.
Derived terms: poopyhead
poopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: poopier
form: poopiest
Etymology: Originated 1957, perhaps by shortening nincompoop or as a euphemism for shitty; see poop.
Senses: examples: text: Who can feel poopy when they wander to the room where hot soup, bread, and cereal regularly make their appearance?
ref: 2011, Jennifer Kaufeld, Homeschooling For Dummies:
glosses: Depressed, weak, or worthless.
examples: text: poopy bottom
text: poopy nappy
text: poopy toilet
glosses: Dirty with feces.
examples: text: a poopy smell
text: a poopy taste
text: a poopy color
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of feces.
Derived terms: poopily
poopiness
poopy suit
countermelody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermelodies
form: counter melody
form: counter-melody
Etymology: From counter- + melody.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a secondary or supplemental melody played simultaneously with the primary melody.
damnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdæmnəm/
Etymology: From Latin damnum.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: harm; detriment
Related terms: ad damnum
ad quod damnum
damnum absque injuria
damnous
poopie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poopie
form: most poopie
Etymology: From poop + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poopy
poopie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poopies
Etymology: From poop + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poopy.
choices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɔɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of choice
2-4-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-4-0s
Senses: examples: text: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
ref: 1955 January 24, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has two leading wheels followed by two sets of coupled driving wheels, and no trailing wheels.
2-8-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-0s
Senses: examples: text: The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a single-axle leading truck followed by four powered driving axles, and no trailing wheels. Its popular name is "Consolidation" as its appearance coincided with the consolidation of several Eastern coal railroads. The Consolidation was extremely popular, especially in the first quarter of the 20th century.
2-8-0+0-8-2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-8-0+0-8-2s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Garratt steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted in opposite directions on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler, and each engine having a 2-8-0 wheel configuration.
fretsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fretsaws
form: fret saw
Etymology: From fret + saw.
Senses: examples: text: She led Dr Grimsby out to the workshop, where Peter was at work on the marquetry table. He had the two veneers clamped together and was cutting the inlay pattern with the finest of fretsaws.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
coordinate_terms: coping saw
scroll saw
glosses: A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts.
fretsaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fretsaws
form: fretsawing
form: fretsawed
form: fretsawed
form: fretsawn
form: fret saw
Etymology: From fret + saw.
Senses: glosses: To cut with a fretsaw.
fumigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumigants
Senses: glosses: Any substance used, in the gaseous state, to fumigate or disinfect.
Derived terms: biofumigant
Related terms: fumigate
fumigation
larn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: larns
form: larnin
form: larned
form: larned
form: larnt
form: larnt
Etymology: A variant of standard English learn, possibly continuing Middle English larnen, a variant of lernen (“to learn”). Compare Scots larn. More at learn.
Senses: glosses: To learn.
examples: text: Larn yersel te taalk propa like!
text: A bump of the boot to the seat, Tom thought, would be the way to larn him.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:
qualifier: near archaic
glosses: To teach.
ozelot sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ozelot swords
Senses: glosses: A decorative plant that is a hybrid of the genus Echinodorus.
Synonyms: sense: Echinodorus hybrid
word: swordplant
bill of rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of rights
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.
categorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of categorize
vola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volae
Senses: glosses: A velum of silica in some diatoms
glosses: The hollow of the hand or foot.
Related terms: volar
WACC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /wæk/
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of weighted-average cost of capital.
weighted-average cost of capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weighted-average costs of capital
Senses: glosses: A calculation of the overall cost of capital used by an enterprise, made by totalling the cost of each source of capital used multiplied by its proportional share of the total capital used. Abbreviation: WACC.
smugly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more smugly
form: most smugly
Etymology: From smug + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was smirking smugly at us.
glosses: In a self-satisfied manner.
model solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: model solutions
Senses: glosses: An exemplary solution to an exercise provided for checking one's own solution against.
pisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of piss
pisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piss
catto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattos
Etymology: From cat + -o.
Senses: examples: text: “I leave my love of all animals, especially doggos, cattos and guinea pigs to Cade Skuse and Madison Snavely.” - Ava Colorito
ref: 2018 May 23, “Class of 2018: Senior Wills”, in FHS Press, volume X, number 9, Freedom Area Senior High School:
text: They might look pretty, but many houseplants are poisonous to your doggos and cattos.
ref: 2018 September 13, Juliette Steen, “10 common plants that are poisonous to dogs and cats”, in ABC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2021:
text: Now our social media feeds are full of heckin’ good doggos and puppers, cute kittehs and cattos.
ref: 2019 March 24, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, “When bad pets happen to good people”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 295, number 83, page K4:
text: Mila, Speedy, Mama, Karl, and more than 165 other doggos and cattos survived a storm that flooded a Humane Society in the Bahamas and they’re ready for some love.
ref: 2019 September 14, Brianna Sacks, “They Lost 113 Of Their Friends In Hurricane Dorian. Now These Dogs And Cats Are Ready For New Homes.”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2019:
text: Being a pet-friendly cafe, Craft offers delights exclusively for doggos and cattos, too.
ref: 2020 August 28, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, “Oasis in the city”, in Bangkok Post, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2022:
text: And just like the world of human Instagram influencers, there are some doggos and cattos on the ‘gram who steal hearts every time their faces appear on the screen.
ref: 2020 November 23, “Watch: Snuggling of These Insta-celeb Dogs in a Blanket will Melt Your Hearts”, in News18, Network18 Group, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2020:
text: Follow the famous doggo and catto accounts that have a strong following and presence on social media platforms.
ref: 2021 April 5, “Pupper or pupperina: Pet parents, ace thy word play!”, in HT City:
text: Chien, a stray kitten rescued by Save Animals of Love and Light (Save ALL Inc.), is such a sweet, loving catto who makes any human feel good with her “lambing.”
ref: 2022 February 20, Desiree Carlos, “Karma, dogs and cats”, in Manila Standard:
text: When a baby comes home, it is quite important for their parents to give their older child love and attention equally so that they don't feel left out. It is pretty much the exact same case with older children who also happen to be fur babies - cattos or doggos.
ref: 2022 February 24, Sohini Sengupta, “Doggo and baby share human's love in the cutest way ever. Watch”, in Hindustan Times, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2022:
glosses: A cat.
guinea pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guinea pig
doofi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: intentionally nonstandard
glosses: plural of doofus
hydrofield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrofields
Etymology: Canadian English, from hydro + field. In Canadian English, the word "hydro" can refer to any electricity, regardless of how it was generated.
Senses: glosses: A line of electricity transmission towers, usually in groups, cutting across a city.
glosses: The undeveloped land under those towers.
hydrofields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrofield
fire hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire halls
Senses: glosses: A fire station, typically one which operates a reception hall.
glosses: Such a fire station's reception hall.
fire halls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire hall
mayflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayfly
fishfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishflies
Etymology: From fish + fly.
Senses: glosses: A mayfly.
glosses: Any insect in the corydalid subfamily Chauliodinae. Unlike most dobsonflies (subfamily Corydalinae) they don't have the enlarged mandibles typical (at least in the males) of that subfamily.
fishflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishfly
joe job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joe jobs
form: Joe job
Etymology: In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.
Senses: examples: text: Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division.
ref: 2007 February 23, Chris Seibold, “February 23, 1973: Hitting the clock like a regular fella”, in Applematters.com, retrieved 25 May 2007:
glosses: An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.
Derived terms: word: joe-job
joe jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joe job
yanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yank
yanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yank
Yanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yank