cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
schoolgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: schoolgirls
form: schoolgirling
form: schoolgirled
form: schoolgirled
Etymology: Compound of school + girl.
Senses: examples: text: Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.
ref: 2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 57:
text: She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.
ref: 2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001, page 121:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To restrain in a schoolgirl pin.
willingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlɪŋli/
Forms: form: more willingly
form: most willingly
Etymology: From Middle English willyngly, wyllyngly (“intentionally, deliverately; freely, gladly”), from Old English willendlīċe (“diligently”), equivalent to willing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Now this is a process of the mind or thought, of which I would willingly know the foundation.
ref: 1748, [David Hume], chapter 29, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: In the first place, although many people wanted nationalisation and it became the will of Parliament, there were many other people who did not want it, have never willingly accepted it, and never will.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
Synonyms: gladly
happily
willingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/
Forms: form: willingnesses
Etymology: From willing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All it takes is a willingness to learn.
text: "[…]and as Mr. H., with his long purse and his willingness to receive hints, is no bad card in the game, he has been brought up to Abbotsford for a week; his taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going. […]"
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.
ref: 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN:
glosses: The state of being willing
Synonyms: goodwill
schoolboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: schoolboys
Etymology: Compound of school + boy.
Senses: hypernyms: schoolchild
pupil
student
coordinate_terms: schoolgirl
glosses: A boy attending school.
Derived terms: schoolboydom
schoolboyhood
schoolboyish
schoolboyism
schoolboy knot
schoolboy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/
Etymology: Compound of school + boy.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a schoolboy, especially being cheeky, clumsy and socially unaware.
Derived terms: schoolboy error
willpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlˌpaʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪlˌpaʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: willpowers
form: will power
form: will-power
Etymology: From will + power.
Senses: examples: text: "A remarkable woman, gentlemen," said he, "a very noteworthy woman. I had prided myself that my willpower was the most powerful in the country--I had never met any to match it--but I do not mind admitting that, for firmness and tenacity, this lady is my equal. ...
ref: 1900, Grant Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hilda Wade:
glosses: The unwavering strength of will to carry out one's wishes.
Related terms: self-control
fighting spirit
wince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪns/
rhymes: -ɪns
Forms: form: winces
Etymology: From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir (compare Old French guenchir), from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (“to flex, bend”). See also German winken.
Senses: glosses: A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
glosses: A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment at will.
wince
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪns/
rhymes: -ɪns
Forms: form: winces
form: wincing
form: winced
form: winced
Etymology: From Middle English wyncen, from Anglo-Norman winchir (compare Old French guenchir), from Frankish *wankjan, related to *winkijan (“to flex, bend”). See also German winken.
Senses: examples: text: I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:
glosses: To flinch as if in pain or distress.
glosses: To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
examples: text: A horse winces.
glosses: To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.
Related terms: cringe
windcheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windcheaters
Etymology: From wind + cheater.
Senses: glosses: A heavy weatherproof jacket
Synonyms: windbreaker
Related terms: anorak
parka
anorak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəɹæk/
Forms: form: anoraks
Etymology: * Borrowed from Greenlandic annoraaq.
* (person with obsessive interest): Originally referring to train spotters (because they would wear anoraks while looking out for trains).
Senses: examples: text: Don't ever use the hood on your anorak; and, if you do, for heaven's sake don't pull the string tight so that you peep out like a little baby in a siren suit.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
glosses: A heavy weatherproof jacket with an attached hood; a parka or windcheater.
examples: text: He has described himself as the uber-geek, an anorak's anorak, a standard bearer for fellow Star Trekkies everywhere, and his air of bland, amiable bafflement has served him remarkably well in a string of TV and film roles.
ref: 2007 February 15, Maev Kennedy, “I used to say he was England's answer to John Cusack. Now I think he's England's answer to Jack Lemmon”, in The Guardian:
hyponyms: geek
nerd
otaku
glosses: A person with an unusual or obsessive interest in a niche subject, especially trains.
Derived terms: anoraked
anorakish
anoraky
Related terms: rivet counter
trainspotter
train spotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train spotters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trainspotter.
train spotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trainspotting
Senses: glosses: The hobby of collecting the numbers and names of locomotives seen at railway stations and other vantage points.
Related terms: trainspotter
planespotting
railfan
gunzel
anorak
winder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winders
Etymology: From Middle English wynder; equivalent to wind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Two types of leguminous crops combine most of the above mentioned favourable characteristics, the vines (creepers or winders, fig. 23) and the bushes (fig. 22).
ref: 1984, J. G. Ohler, K. H. Reichelderfer, Gerald A. Carlson, Economic Guidelines for Crop Pest Control, volumes 57-60, page 165:
glosses: A winding plant.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An engine that raises and lowers the cages in a mine.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The person who operates such an engine.
glosses: A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.
glosses: A spool around which something is wound.
synonyms: stem
glosses: A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
glosses: One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).
Derived terms: coil winder
stem-winder
winder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈwɪndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winders
Etymology: From wind + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house again," he said.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
winder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈwɪndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winders
form: windering
form: windered
form: windered
Etymology: Related to winnow.
Senses: glosses: To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
winder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈwɪndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winders
Etymology: Related to winnow.
Senses: glosses: A winnowing fan.
winder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndɚ/
rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈwɪndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: winders
Senses: examples: text: That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters […]
ref: 1868, Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False:
text: Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of window.
winding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndɪŋ
Forms: form: windings
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“act of exposing something to the wind, airing, ventilating; act of winnowing (?)”), from winden, wynden (“to expose (something) to the air or wind, ventilate; to cause (someone) to be out of breath; to winnow (wheat); of an animal: to catch the scent of (someone or something)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs).
The adjective is derived from the verb.
The English word is analysable as wind (“to blow air through (a wind instrument or horn) to make a sound; to cause (someone) to become breathless; to winnow (food grain), etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: gerund of wind
The act of winnowing (“subjecting food grain to a current of air to separate the grain from the chaff”).
examples: text: Novv their opinions of the end of the vvorld, of Paradiſe, and of hell; exceede the vanity of dreames, and all old vviues fables. They ſay, that at the vvinding of a horne not only all fleſh ſhall die, but the Angels themſelues: & that the earth vvith earthquakes ſhall be kneaded together like a lumpe of dough, for forty daies ſo continuing.
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 58:
text: [W]e savv a Fox run by the Foot of our Mount into an adjacent Thicket. A fevv Minutes after, vve heard a confuſed Noiſe of the opening of Hounds, the vvinding of Horns, and the roaring of Country Squires.
ref: 1732, George Berkeley, “The Fifth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section I, pages 266–267:
text: Not a man or woman in the town but has heard stories of apparitions in the forest, or about the old castle. Sometimes it is a pack of hounds that sweep along, and the whoops and hollos of the huntsman, and the winding of horns and the galloping of horse, […]
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 247:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: gerund of wind
The act of blowing air through a wind instrument or (chiefly) a horn to make a sound.
winding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndɪŋ
Forms: form: more winding
form: most winding
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“act of exposing something to the wind, airing, ventilating; act of winnowing (?)”), from winden, wynden (“to expose (something) to the air or wind, ventilate; to cause (someone) to be out of breath; to winnow (wheat); of an animal: to catch the scent of (someone or something)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs).
The adjective is derived from the verb.
The English word is analysable as wind (“to blow air through (a wind instrument or horn) to make a sound; to cause (someone) to become breathless; to winnow (food grain), etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).
Senses: glosses: Causing one to be breathless or out of breath.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a horn or wind instrument: blown to make a sound.
winding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndɪŋ
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“act of exposing something to the wind, airing, ventilating; act of winnowing (?)”), from winden, wynden (“to expose (something) to the air or wind, ventilate; to cause (someone) to be out of breath; to winnow (wheat); of an animal: to catch the scent of (someone or something)”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs).
The adjective is derived from the verb.
The English word is analysable as wind (“to blow air through (a wind instrument or horn) to make a sound; to cause (someone) to become breathless; to winnow (food grain), etc.”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wind
winding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndɪŋ
ipa: /ˈwaɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪndɪŋ
ipa: /ˈwɪndɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndɪŋ
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English winding, windinge, wyndynge (“directional change, curve, turn; bend of the leg at the knee; meandering course of a river; act of turning and twisting; twisting of things (especially thread) together; wrapping of a cloth around something; wattling of a structure; wattle(s); ornamentation with interwoven patterns; hoisting of something”) [and other forms], and then partly:
* from winden, wynden (“to go, move; to move forcefully or suddenly; to direct, guide, lead; to go along a meandering or twisting course; to move in a circular pattern, revolve, turn; to move restlessly, toss and turn; to wriggle free; to move with a turning or twisting motion, bend, turn, twist; to form or mould (something) in one’s hands; to mix together; to cover; to clothe, dress; to wrap (a baby, a corpse, etc.); to encircle, surround; to bind; to interlace; to winch; (figurative) to conceal, disguise; to embroil, involve”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerund nouns, and the present participle forms of verbs).; and
* from Old English windung (“woven object”), from windan (“to twist, wind; to circle, curl, eddy, spiral”) (from Proto-Germanic *windaną (“to wind; to wrap”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + -ung (suffix forming nouns denoting a verbal action or something involved in a verbal action).
The adjective is derived from the verb.
The English word is analysable as wind (“to turn coils of (a cord, etc.) around something; to encircle, enfold, entwist, wrap; to travel in a way that is not straight”) + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives and verbs, and nouns denoting an action or the embodiment of an action).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wind
helical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈhiː.lɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more helical
form: most helical
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a helix.
Derived terms: bihelical
extrahelical
helically
helical pile
helical scan
helislab
hemihelical
heptahelical
hexahelical
interhelical
intrahelical
isohelical
nonhelical
pseudohelical
quasihelical
superhelical
tetrahelical
trihelical
Windex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trade name, derived from window.
Senses: glosses: A window cleaner containing detergent and ammonia.
Synonyms: sense: window cleaner
word: Windolene
Windex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Windexes
form: Windexing
form: Windexed
form: Windexed
Etymology: From a trade name, derived from window.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, Bharati Mukherjee, “Visitors” in Darkness, Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada, p. 164,
But if change has come into her life as Mrs Sailen Kumar, it has seeped in so gradually that she can’t fix it with one admiring stare when she Windexes toothpaste flecks off the bathroom mirror.
text: Back on the twenty-third floor, he found Nguyet Windexing the kitchen window with what appeared to be the last of the paper towels.
ref: 1987, Armistead Maupin, “Descent into Heaven”, in Significant Others, New York: Harper & Row, page 11:
text: Often the ground glared back as would a freshly Windexed mirror, so that when he fell, breaking what the doctor termed a “coccyx,” seven years of bad luck became part of the bargain.
ref: 1995, John Keene, “Theses, Antitheses, A Welter of Theories,”, in Annotations, New York: New Directions, page 56:
glosses: To clean (a glass surface) using a cleaning product of this kind.
Windex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Windexes
Etymology: From a brand of mast-top wind indicator for sailing boats, derived from wind.
Senses: topics: nautical
sailing
transport
glosses: An arrow-shaped indicator of wind direction installed in mast-top.
windpump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windpumps
Etymology: From wind + pump.
Senses: glosses: A structure somewhat like a windmill for pumping water, either for drainage or for irrigation
window box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window boxes
form: windowbox
Senses: examples: text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
glosses: A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
glosses: One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.
Synonyms: flower box
herb box
planter
windowbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of window box.
lucubration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lucubrations
Etymology: From the Latin lūcubrātiō (“nighttime study”), from lūcubrō (“work by artificial light”), from lūx (“light”). Compare luculent.
Senses: examples: text: The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
ref: 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, “chapter III”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night.
examples: text: With his own ghostly voice, he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him,—who might reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor,—to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: There is General Blair. True, his lucubrations on negro supremacy are ludicrous enough, but it will not do to speak lightly of his ability. There is power in his organization.
ref: 1868, Carl Schurz, The Road to Peace — a Solid, Durable Peace:
text: 'You have been good enough to allude to me in one of your recent lucubrations,' he said, shaking the paper at me.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
glosses: The product of such study; often, writings.
window cleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window cleaners
form: window-cleaner
Senses: synonyms: window washer
hypernyms: cleaner
glosses: A person whose job is to clean windows.
examples: Near-synonym: cleaning fluid
hypernyms: cleaner
cleaning agent
glosses: A product, such as Windex, used to clean windows.
chemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kem'ĭst
ipa: /ˈkɛmɪst/
Forms: form: chemists
form: chimist
form: chymist
Etymology: First attested 1562, borrowed from French chimiste, from Medieval Latin chimista, from earlier alchimista (literally “alchemist”), from Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from article al- + Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “fluid”), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “I pour”). As a synonym for pharmacy, a metonymous use of the proprietor to stand for their shop.
Senses: examples: text: It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60:
text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
glosses: A person who specializes in the science of chemistry, especially at a professional level.
qualifier: Ghana
glosses: Synonym of pharmacist.
synonyms: word: pharmacist
glosses: Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.
synonyms: word: pharmacy
extra: especially as a standalone shop or general store
glosses: An alchemist.
Derived terms: chemistical
chemist shop
cosmochemist
glycochemist
histochemist
immunochemist
inorganic chemist
nonchemist
organic chemist
petrochemist
physicochemist
physiochemist
phytochemist
protochemist
psychochemist
sonochemist
Related terms: chemistry
alchemist
window-dressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window-dressings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of window dressing.
window frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: window frames
form: windowframe
form: window-frame
Senses: glosses: The wooden, aluminium or PVC etc. framework around a window
reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈeɪ.d͡ʒənt/
text: English (Canada)
Forms: form: reagents
form: reägent
Etymology: Possibly from Latin reagō. Compare with Norwegian Bokmål reagens. The sequence of act → action → agent → agency shows morphologic and semantic parallel, and apparent cognate relation, with react → reaction → reagent → reagency.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.
Derived terms: affinity reagent
Benedict's reagent
Brady's reagent
Edman's reagent
Ehrlich's reagent
Fenton's reagent
Froehde reagent
Gilman reagent
Grignard reagent
Kagan's reagent
Karl Fischer reagent
Kovac's reagent
Liebermann reagent
Marquis reagent
Mayer's reagent
Melzer's reagent
Molisch's reagent
Sanger's reagent
Schweizer's reagent
Tollens' reagent
van Urk reagent
Related terms: reagency
windowpane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndəʊˌpeɪn/
ipa: /ˈwɪndoʊˌpeɪn/
Forms: form: windowpanes
form: window pane
Etymology: From window + pane.
Senses: glosses: A piece of glass filling a window or a section of a window
examples: text: Another form is called a windowpane. Windowpanes are small thin squares of gelatin treated with LSD that look like little pieces of plastic.
ref: 2004, Mary M. Jensen, Introduction to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, page 94:
text: When you place a windowpane of LSD on your tongue and watch the world transform into a Salvador Dalí landscape of radiant colors, shimmering geometric shapes, and morphing phantasmagoria while your sense of self dissolves—
ref: 2011, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, Sandra Blakeslee, Sleights of Mind:
glosses: A gelatin base tab with LSD.
Derived terms: windowpane acid
windowpaned
windowpane oyster
windowpane tweed
windowpaning
window-shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: window-shops
form: window-shopping
form: window-shopped
form: window-shopped
Etymology: Back-formation from window-shopping.
Senses: glosses: To engage in window-shopping; to browse the windows of shops with no intention of buying anything.
Derived terms: window-shopper
Related terms: window-shopping
windowsill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɪndəˌsɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɪndoʊˌsɪl/
Forms: form: windowsills
form: window sill
form: window-sill
Etymology: From window + sill.
Senses: examples: text: An upscale version of this tried and true method of providing windowsill humidity is the use of plastic 'egg crating' instead of gravel.
ref: 1991, Bob Gordon, Orchid Seedling Care: With Special Emphasis on Water Quality:
text: You could tell summer was coming because people were drinking on the street, searching for spaces on the windowsills of the pub to balance their beerglasses.
ref: 2001, Christopher Fowler, The Devil in Me, page 12:
text: north-facing rooms: These rooms receive the least light if you live up north, so choose plants that can endure low-light conditions and keep them directly on the windowsill. Some suggestions include pothos, philodendrons, arrowheads, Chinese evergreens, peace lilies and zamioculcas (or “ZZ”).
ref: 2015, Nathan Williams, The Kinfolk Home: Interiors for Slow Living, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 277:
text: The most unreliable joints are in connections between the wall with ceilings and roofing, esconson of windows, places under the windowsills, exits to the balcony or veranda...
ref: 2017, Irina Maltseva, Aleksandr Elokhov, Konstantin Tkachuk, Kseniia Maltceva, “Design without thermal bridges”, in 9th International Scientific Conference Building Defects:
topics: architecture
glosses: The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.
windscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/
Forms: form: windscreens
Etymology: From wind + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Oh no! A vandal has just smashed our windscreen! Susan, can you go and call the insurance company?
synonyms: word: windshield
glosses: A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front of a vehicle in order to protect its occupants from the wind and weather.
glosses: A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.
examples: text: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
ref: 1951 October, “Models Assist Rolling Stock Design”, in Railway Magazine, page 647:
glosses: A draught screen at the side of a passenger train doorway.
Derived terms: windscreen phenomenon
windscreen washer
windscreen wiper
Related terms: car glass
windscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪn(d).skɹiːn/
Forms: form: windscreens
form: windscreening
form: windscreened
form: windscreened
Etymology: From wind + screen.
Senses: glosses: To install a windscreen on.
windshield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windshields
Etymology: From wind + shield.
Senses: examples: text: The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing.
text: For example, when trailers containing new automobiles were first piggybacked two areas of potential damage became evident: (1) diesel locomotive exhaust left a film of oil on the new autos; and (2) auto windshields could be scarred or cracked by the metal-tipped "tell-tales" which warn men atop trains of oncoming bridges or tunnels.
ref: 1960 November 24, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:
text: I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a face back. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.
ref: 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Pat, 34:52 from the start, in Penn Radio:
text: The new report said 413 million yuan spent on train windshields was wasted when design specifications were changed in March 2011, three months before the line opened.[…]
It found that Beichen district government in Tianjin had 340 million yuan in its own accounts instead of being paid promptly in compensation for land procured for the railway.
ref: 2012 March 19, Zhou Xin, Nick Edwards, “China audit details fraud, waste at Beijing-Shanghai railway”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, sourced from BEIJING (Reuters), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2024, World:
text: Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
ref: 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement weather.
glosses: A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A lightweight aerodynamic fairing mounted on the nose of an armor-piercing shell to reduce drag and increase range.
Synonyms: word: windscreen
Derived terms: windshield bias
windshield phenomenon
windshield time
windshield washer
windshield wiper
windshield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: windshields
form: windshielding
form: windshielded
form: windshielded
Etymology: From wind + shield.
Senses: glosses: To install a windshield on.
cruiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹu.zɚ/
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cruisers
Etymology: From cruise + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.
raw_tags: in the days of sail
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.
topics: government
literature
media
military
nautical
politics
publishing
science-fiction
transport
war
glosses: A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.
A starship of comparable role
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A miniature aircraft carrier carrying VTOL aircraft.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: cruise ship
glosses: A passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ship's amenities are considered an essential part of the experience.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of several yachts designed for cruising.
glosses: One who attends cruises.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: beach cruiser
glosses: A bicycle designed for low-speed, recreational use, usually characterized by balloon tires, upright seating, a single-speed drivetrain and expressive styling.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A police patrol vehicle.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Vindula.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any dragonfly of the family Macromiidae; a macromiid.
examples: text: I'm up on the eleventh floor and I'm watching the cruisers below / He's down on the street and he's trying hard to pull sister Flo
ref: 1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory:
glosses: One who cruises at bars and neighborhoods seeking sex.
Hyponyms: sense: fast warship
word: armed merchant cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: armored cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: auxiliary cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: battlecruiser
sense: fast warship
word: heavy cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: large cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: large light cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: light cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: protected cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: supercruiser
sense: fast warship
word: torpedo cruiser
sense: fast warship
word: unprotected cruiser
Derived terms: Aegis class cruiser
Aegis cruiser
armoured cruiser
auxiliary cruiser
aviation cruiser
battle cruiser
booze cruiser
cabin cruiser
cabin-cruiser
cruiser-killer
cruiser stern
cruiser submarine
cruiser tank
cruiserweight
gentleman's cruiser
land cruiser
loser cruiser
motor cruiser
starcruiser
streamcruiser
super cruiser
super-cruiser
windscreen wiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windscreen wipers
form: windscreen-wiper
Senses: qualifier: automobiles
glosses: A device used to clear rain and dirt from a windscreen; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade; a windshield wiper.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exercise where the back is parallel to the ground (lying on it or hanging via the arms from a pull-up bar) and the legs are perpendicular to the floor so that the lower torso with the legs is rotated to target the Musculus obliquus externus abdominis, the Musculus quadratus lumborum and the Musculus rectus abdominis.
Synonyms: word: windshield wiper
shaft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːft/
ipa: /ʃæft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
Forms: form: shafts
form: shafting
form: shafted
form: shafted
Etymology: From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German German Schaft, Swedish skaft.
In Early Modern English, shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's “shaft” was composed of its tip, stale, and fletching. Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former stale and lost its original meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
text: Who can I trust after repeatedly being shafted
ref: 1992, “Crackers And Cheese”, performed by Eminem:
synonyms: word: abuse
word: counterfeit
word: deceive
word: dissemble
word: dissimulate
word: feign
word: jiff
word: overreach
word: put on
word: spoof
word: sham
word: trick
glosses: To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
glosses: To equip with a shaft.
examples: text: Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
text: Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 252:
text: Well at least I can get it up. No wonder Mary's going out of her head. Stuck with you sponging off her and not even a decent shafting for her trouble.
ref: 2018, Sarah Phelps, 23:00, in Ordeal by Innocence, episode 2, spoken by Mickey Argyle (Christian Cooke):
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
jealous
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛləs/
rhymes: -ɛləs
Forms: form: jealouses
form: jealousing
form: jealoused
form: jealoused
form: iealous
Etymology: First attested in 1382. From Middle English jelous, gelous, gelus, from Old French jalous, from Late Latin zelosus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”). Doublet of zealous.
Senses: examples: text: If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
ref: 2005, Andrew Lansdown, The Dispossessed, page 11:
text: Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
ref: 2014, Desmond Ihenze, Secrets for Ladies, page 198:
text: But another part of me is jealousing because Xifeng is looking at Ify like she is special, almost like she is wanting to call her daughter, and I am wanting Xifeng all to myself.
ref: 2020, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebel Sisters, page 285:
glosses: To harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.
examples: text: […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.
ref: 2013, Thalia Anthony, Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.
windshield wiper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windshield wipers
form: windshield-wiper
Senses: examples: text: Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
qualifier: automobiles
glosses: a device used to clear rain and dirt from a windshield; normally a pivoting arm with a rubber blade.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exercise where the back is parallel to the ground (lying on it or hanging via the arms from a pull-up bar) and the legs are perpendicular to the floor so that the lower torso with the legs is rotated to target the Musculus obliquus externus abdominis, the Musculus quadratus lumborum and the Musculus rectus abdominis.
Synonyms: word: windscreen wiper
cruising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, cruise + -ing.
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: present participle and gerund of cruise
schoolchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school children
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolchild
golly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: gollies
Etymology: Euphemism for God, dating from the 18th century. Possibly a compaction of “God′s body”.
Senses: examples: text: Golly! That was a long trip to California.
text: “Golly! What would dad say if I did marry him?”
ref: 1898, The Overland Monthly, page 511:
text: “By golly, I don′t see how you done that without seein′ it happen,” exclaimed Slim, looking very dazed and mystified.
ref: 1906, B. M. Bower, Chip of the Flying U, page 88:
text: “Got anybody else staying at the old snake pit?” “Five inmates in all.” “Five?” I resumed my tongue-clicking. “Golly! Uncle Tom must be frothing at the mouth a bit,” I said, for I knew the old buster's distaste for guests in the home. Even a single weekender is sometimes enough to make him drain the bitter cup.
[...]
 “Bertie! Your manner is strange.” “Your manner would be strange if you'd been sitting on the floor of Wilbert Cream's sleeping apartment with a chair round your neck, and Ma Cream had come in.” “Golly! Did she?” “In person.”
[...]
 “And after I had seethed for a bit I rose from my chair, took pen in hand and wrote Bobbie a stinker.” “Oh, gosh!” “I put my whole soul into it.” “Oh, golly!”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I, VIII, and X:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: by golly
by guess or by golly
golliwog
golly gee
golly gosh
good golly
golly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: gollies
Etymology: From golliwog.
Senses: examples: text: 1985, New Society, Volumes 71-72, page 4,
There are pictures of the original “gollywogg” (thus spelt) from Florence Upton′s 19th century children′s books; there are examples of anti-semitic Edwardian gollies with huge noses, and all sorts of other curiosities.
text: The Golliwog Squad was also making itself busy in Worthing, Sussex. Police said they were treating as a matter of ‘priority’ a complaint about gollies being displayed in a local store. Owner John Scadgell faced charges under Section 2 of the Public Order Act, which makes it an offence to exhibit anything which could be considered threatening, abusive or insulting.
ref: 2007, Richard Littlejohn, Littlejohn′s Britain, page 162:
glosses: Abbreviation of golliwog:.
A type of black rag doll.
examples: text: “Bloody gollies!” muttered David Bromhead, provoked by the assault into bitter xenophobia.
ref: 2005, Richard Snailham, The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968, page 217:
text: […]poked fun at the American “fashion” of “political correctness” and reassured viewers that gollies and black minstrel shows are just good, old-fashioned, innocent fun.
ref: 2008, Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis, page 137:
glosses: Abbreviation of golliwog:.
Any dark-skinned person.
golly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: gollies
Etymology: Nonstandard diminutive of galosh.
Senses: glosses: A galosh.
golly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: gollies
form: gollying
form: gollied
form: gollied
Etymology: Possibly from Goliath.
Senses: examples: text: When he saw what was happening he threw down his bag, gollied up some phlegm, and spat into the sand.
ref: 2010, Marion Houldsworth, The Morning Side of the Hill: Growing Up in Townsville in World War II, revised edition, page 113:
qualifier: juvenile
glosses: To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.
golly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒli/
rhymes: -ɒli
Forms: form: gollies
Etymology: Possibly from Goliath.
Senses: qualifier: juvenile
glosses: Chewing gum.
examples: text: hack up a golly
text: They had to have a spitting competition. They had to hack gollies at each other′s heads.[…](Abraham 1999, 53)
ref: 2011, Douglas Booth, Surfing: The Ultimate Guide, page 10:
qualifier: juvenile
glosses: Saliva or phlegm.
Derived terms: golly pot
shambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmbəlz/
rhymes: -æmbəlz
Forms: form: shambles
Etymology: From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).
Senses: examples: text: Considering my life's in shambles right now, couldn't you at least take the blame?
ref: 1989 March 15, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes:
glosses: A scene of great disorder or ruin.
examples: text: This bedroom is a shambles.
glosses: A great mess or clutter.
glosses: A scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation.
glosses: A slaughterhouse.
examples: text: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 10:25:
text: As to our City of Dublin, Shambles may be appointed for this purpoſe, in the moſt convenient parts of it, and Butchers vve may be aſſured vvill not be vvanting, […]
ref: 1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […] S[arah] Harding, […], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A butcher's shop.
Derived terms: fish shambles
omnishambles
shambolic
shambolism
shambly
shambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmbəlz/
rhymes: -æmbəlz
Etymology: From Middle English schamels, plural of schamel, from Old English sċeamol, sċamul (“bench, stool”), from Proto-West Germanic *skamul, *skamil (“stool, bench”), from Vulgar Latin scamellum, from Latin scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shamble