cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outpour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹpô
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯tpɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: out-pôʹ
ipa: /aʊ̯tˈpɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: outʹpôr
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯tpɔɹ/
enpr: out-pôrʹ
ipa: /aʊ̯tˈpɔɹ/
Forms: form: outpours
Etymology: From out- + pour.
Senses: glosses: The act of pouring out.
outpour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹpô
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯tpɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: out-pôʹ
ipa: /aʊ̯tˈpɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: outʹpôr
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯tpɔɹ/
enpr: out-pôrʹ
ipa: /aʊ̯tˈpɔɹ/
Forms: form: outpours
form: outpouring
form: outpoured
form: outpoured
Etymology: From out- + pour.
Senses: examples: text: But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only / That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:
text: I unsealed the vial mystical, / I outpoured the liquid thing, / And while the smoke came wreathing out, / I stood unshuddering.
ref: 1914, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A True Dream:
glosses: To pour out.
Derived terms: outpourer
dirges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirge
prin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preen.
prin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prins
form: prinning
form: prinned
form: prinned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preen.
brought about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring about
quibbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪblɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quibble
quibbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪblɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Forms: form: quibblings
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly he perceived that he was sure of God. Not perhaps of the God of Nicaea, but what did these poor little quibblings and definitions of the theologians matter?
ref: 1917, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 5, in The Soul of a Bishop:
glosses: petty argument
chur
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʌr/
ipa: /t͡ʃøː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜ˧˥/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: churr
homophone: chirr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: chair (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Modified from cheers.
Senses: examples: text: "Chur," Sir Howard [Morrison] hooted. "Chur doy, chur", which, translated, means something along the lines of: "Well done, mate".
ref: 2009 September 24, Julie Jacobson (interviewer), “Sir Howard Morrison Interview”, in The Dominion Post (reproduced on Stuff.co.nz), Wellington, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2013:
text: K[evin] L[ambert]: Got 2 mates; dum as fuk; do nethin 4 me; can drive truks; fly planes, got kidz 2. / T[uhoe] L[ambert]: Cher cuz. Da dumber da better.
ref: [2012 March 24, “A Nation Divided: Inside the Urewera Four Trial”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2017:
text: Meanwhile, on the crap-to-chur scale, Tron [i.e., Hamilton, New Zealand] weather is explained without any need for isobars or weather systems – who knew rain and snow down south was so simple?
ref: [2015 September 9, Max Christoffersen, “We Like Waikato Civil Defence’s Stick Girl Tracey”, in Stuff.co.nz, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025:
text: Does Mr [Peter] Thiel (chur, bro, by the way!) gain citizenship because the minister judged it “in the public interest because of exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian or other nature relating to the applicant”?
ref: 2017 January 25, Toby Manhire, “New Zealand Citizen Peter Thiel – 5 Awkward Questions and 10 Peculiar Facts”, in The Spinoff, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2017:
text: [Stan] Walker's closing address is probably closer to the show's reality: "More whānau … chur!"
ref: 2017 November 8, Calum Henderson, “Jacinda Ardern and Stan Walker trace their heritage”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2018:
text: If someone’s made me some food, and it tastes really nice, when someone puts it in front of me, I’d say ‘Oh chur’. […] You always say it with a smile on your face. Every time you hear it, it pretty much gives you a smile, so, chur.
ref: 2018 October 18, “KJ Apa Explains ‘Chur’, ‘Yarn’ and ‘Bugger All’ in New Video”, in Stuff.co.nz, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2018:
glosses: A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!.
examples: text: Never a dull moment much love to you axe as well. Chur my cuz. [On hearing of the death of Norm Berryman.]
ref: 2015 June 23, Brendon Egan, quoting Slade McFarland, “Norman Berryman Emotional Tribute by John Akurangi”, in Stuff.co.nz, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025:
glosses: A parting salutation: bye, see you later.
Synonyms: sense: thanks
word: thank you
sense: parting salutation
word: goodbye
chur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʌr/
ipa: /t͡ʃøː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜ˧˥/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: churr
homophone: chirr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: chair (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: churs
Etymology: From Hindustani چر / चर (car, “ford; island, shoal”).
Senses: examples: text: The plaintiff sues to get possession of a piece of chur land. In the plaint, the case which seems to be made is, that the land is a re-formation upon the site of a former chur which at one time belonged to those through whom the plaintiff claims, but which was subsequently washed away. […] The first issue fixed by the Moonsiff, as stated in his judgment, is, "whether the chur in dispute is the contiguous accretion to the re-formed lands of Chur Bandaparah and was held in possession by the plaintiff, and his co-sharers."
ref: 1869 July 30, Justice A. J. Macpherson, “Rashmonee Dassee and others (Defendants) Appellants, versus Bhubonath Bhuttacharjee (Plaintiff) Respondent”, in D[avid] Sutherland, editor, The Weekly Reporter, Appellate High Court. …, volume XII, Calcutta: Published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co., and printed by the Bengal Printing Company Limited, published 1870, →OCLC, page 253, column 1:
text: This was a suit brought to recover possession of 12,000 beegahs of land. The land in question is a chur in the river Megna, a large navigable and tidal river. The particular portion of the river where the chur is situate is called the Gogra. […] They [the defendants] do not now attempt to make out a title to the chur; but they assert that it has been ever since its formation in their possession.
ref: 1870 November 19, Justice Markby, “Nabin Kishor Roy (defendant) v. Jages Prasad Gangopadhya and others (plaintiffs).”, in The Madras Revenue Register, volume V, number 6, Madras: [s.n.], published 15 June 1871, →OCLC, page 211, column 1:
text: Some time before 1847 the river threw up in its main and navigable channel certain islands or churs, of which it is only necessary to specify two, viz., Chur Durmeean and Chur Dukhin. […] [F]or the purposes of this litigation, it must be assumed that the churs in question were the property of the Government, and were duly granted to and settled with the respondents. […] Before the end of 1852 the river had swept away the whole of Chur Durmeean, but had formed another low chur in the vicinity of its site.
ref: 1872 May 25, Sir James W. Colville, Sir Robert Phillimore, Sir Montague E. Smith, “Nogender Chunder Ghose and another, versus Mahomed Esoff, the Collector of Chittagong, and others”, in D[avid] Sutherland, editor, The Weekly Reporter, Appellate High Court. …, volume XVIII, Calcutta: Published by Thacker, Spink, and Co., published 1873, →OCLC, page 114, column 1:
glosses: An island or shoal in a river.
Coordinate terms: ait
eyot
holm
chur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʌr/
ipa: /t͡ʃøː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜ˧˥/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: churr
homophone: chirr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: chair (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese chur (coe²).
Senses: glosses: Overwhelming; demanding; intense.
chur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɜː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɝ/
ipa: /t͡ʃʌr/
ipa: /t͡ʃøː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɜ˧˥/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /t͡ʃɛː/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: churr
homophone: chirr (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: chair (fair–fur merger)
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese chur (coe²).
Senses: glosses: To do something overwhelming, demanding, or intense.
Bolly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒli
Senses: examples: text: The DB5 makes a brief reappearance in GoldenEye, this time with a refrigerated glove box for a bottle of Bolly
ref: 2002, Paul Simpson, The Rough Guide to James Bond, page 211:
text: ... popped the cork from a bottle of Bolly.
ref: 2005, Jane Wenham-Jones, One Glass Is Never Enough, page 295:
text: "Can I order a bottle of Bolly?" "Of course you can, love. Give them a bell. I won't be a mo."
ref: 2006, Ambrosia, Greek Girls Don't Cry, page 48:
glosses: Bollinger champagne
vicinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ/
Forms: form: vicinages
Etymology: From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source vīcīnus (“neighbor”).
Senses: examples: text: She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?
ref: 1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4:
text: It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.
ref: 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, London: Smith, Elder, and Co. Cornhill, page 263:
glosses: A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
glosses: The people of a neighbourhood.
examples: text: In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, page 7:
glosses: The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
topics: law
glosses: The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
topics: law
glosses: A geographical division of the New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court
Related terms: vicinity
vicinal
fistfights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fistfight
fistfights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fistfight
fistfighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fistfight
fistfought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fistfight
juvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːvi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒyːvi/
rhymes: -uːvi
Forms: form: juvies
form: juvy
form: juvey
Etymology: From juvenile + -ie with elision; morphologically analogous to bougie = bourgeoisie + -ie/-y.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of juvenile hall (youth detention centre).
synonyms: word: juvenile hall
extra: youth detention centre
glosses: A minor (youth); especially, synonym of juvenile delinquent.
floor plan lending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Also known as wholesale lending, a form of retail goods inventory financing in which each loan advance is made against a specific piece of collateral.
imbecilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imbecilic
form: most imbecilic
Etymology: From imbecile + -ic.
Senses: glosses: like or as an imbecile; so senseless as to be laughable; absurd, foolish, stupid, idiotic.
Derived terms: imbecilically
net-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of net + fundraising
Senses: glosses: Fundraising, soliciting and gathering resources through or with the use of the internet.
glosses: Conducting marketing, advocacy, community organization and other awareness or consensus-building campaigns, through the internet.
Synonyms: networking
social networking
tepees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tepee
Jerusalemite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jerusalem + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Jerusalem.
Synonyms: word: Hierosolymitan
word: Hierosolymite
Derived terms: Jerusalemite Orthodox Church
New Jerusalemite
Jerusalemite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jerusalemites
Etymology: From Jerusalem + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: I say this because, according to the old Jerusalemites, the building blocks of the world and its inhabitants were formed of the alphabet at the back of God's tongue when He pronounced the world […].
ref: 2011, Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, From the Mouth of a Whale, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13:
text: Thousands of Jerusalemites gathered on the battl4ements to gawp at this show, admiring 'the beauty of their armour and admirable order of the men.'
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem:
glosses: A native or resident of Jerusalem.
glosses: A residual mineral of the sands of Jerusalem, as with Trinitite.
Synonyms: english: used in Arab countries
translation: used in Arab countries
word: Qudsi
english: used by Palestinians
translation: used by Palestinians
word: Maqdisi
word: Hierosolymitan
word: Hierosolymite
Hyponyms: East Jerusalemite
West Jerusalemite
dissipating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dissipate
zigzagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zigzag
zigzagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I walked down the zigzagging path.
glosses: winding, twisting, turning or sinuous
zigzagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zigzaggings
Senses: examples: the many zigzaggings of the staircase
glosses: The movement or layout of something that zigzags.
flatbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatbed
flatbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flatbed
outruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outrun
outruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrun
outrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outrun
hoofbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoofbeats
Etymology: From hoof + beat.
Senses: examples: text: at the hoof-beats of fate
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: The sound of a hoof striking the ground.
hoofbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoofbeat
retches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retch
retching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retch
retching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retchings
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Green, aged 33 years, had been six weeks pregnant, and suffered exceedingly from retchings in consequence.
ref: 1839, The Lancet, volume 1, page 786:
glosses: The act of one who retches.
retched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retch
pastureland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasturelands
Etymology: From pasture + land.
Senses: examples: text: "[The steppe's] eastern borderlands had marched from the mid-eleventh century with the pasturelands of a people known to the Latins and Byzantines as the Cumans"
ref: 1990, Peter Jackson, David Morgan, editors, The mission of Friar William of Rubruck (Second Series; No. 173), The Hakluyt Society, →ISBN, page 9:
synonyms: pasturage
hypernyms: acreage
land
ground
coordinate_terms: arable#Noun
cropland
woodlot
woodland
glosses: Land used for pasture, on which livestock can graze.
Related terms: pasturable
pasturelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastureland
knee-highs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knee-high
outdrink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdrinks
form: outdrinking
form: outdrank
form: outdrunk
Etymology: From Middle English outdrinken (“to drink more than”), equivalent to out- + drink.
Senses: glosses: To drink more than (someone else).
ground-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Situated on the ground floor
ground-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground-floors
Senses: examples: text: They were shewn into a back sitting-room on the ground-floor, where a certain air of elegant untidiness denoted the lady-like superiority of Mrs. Smallwood.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 68:
text: One day that he had been writing a letter in Mr. Smalls' rooms, which were on the ground-floor, Verdant congratulated himself that his own rooms were on the third floor, and were thus removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window to "chaff" him; but he soon discovered that rooms upstairs had also objectionable points in their private character, and were not altogether such eligible apartments as he had at first anticipated.
ref: 1853, Cuthbert Bede [pseudonym; Edward Bradley], “Mr. Verdant Green’s Sports and Pastimes”, in The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, London: Nathaniel Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 104:
text: The fact, however, of the porte-cochère taking up so much of the ground-floor is often most ingeniously compensated by making the space to the right or left of the doorway, as the case may be, into an excellent shop.
ref: 1883 June 9, “Portes-Cochères”, in George Godwin, editor, The Builder: An Illustrated Weekly Magazine for the Architect, Engineer, Archæologist, Constructor, Sanitary Reformer, and Art-lover, volume XLIV, number 2105, Great Queen St. London, W.C.: Wyman & Sons, →OCLC, page 763, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of ground floor.
ground floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground floors
form: ground-floor
form: groundfloor
Senses: examples: text: The rite of the certification of death and placement in the coffin took place on Monday evening at 8:00 PM in the chapel on the ground floor of the late Pope's residence in the Casa Santa Marta.
ref: 2025 April 21, Devin Watkins, “Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88”, in Vatican News:
synonyms: first floor
glosses: The floor of a building closest to ground level.
examples: text: We are the exclusive marketing agents for three excellent condominium developments which can get you in on the ground floor of a truly fine winter/summer resort experience.
ref: 1981, Texas Monthly, volume 9, number 7, page 171:
glosses: The initial stage of a project.
first floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first floors
Senses: glosses: The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor
glosses: The floor of a building one above the ground floor
zitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zittier
form: zittiest
Etymology: From zit + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by zits; pimply.
iced-over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iced-over
form: most iced-over
Senses: glosses: Covered with a layer of ice.
Synonyms: ice-covered
creek bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creek beds
form: creekbed
Etymology: From creek + bed.
Senses: hypernyms: streambed
<
bed
<
site#Noun
place#Noun
location#Noun
coordinate_terms: riverbed
;
lakebed#Noun
;
seabed#Noun
oceanbed#Noun
glosses: The bed of a creek.
coordinate_terms: arroyo#Noun
glosses: The dry channel that was formerly the path of a stream.
inlining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inline
inlining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlinings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An instance of in-line expansion.
der-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːbɹeɪn/
Forms: form: der-brains
form: derr-brain
form: durbrain
form: dur-brain
form: durr-brain
form: duh-brain
Senses: glosses: A fool.
Andre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːndɹeɪ/
/ˈɑːndɹi/
/ˈɑːndɹə/
/ˈɒn-/
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, an anglicized form of André.
Brice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: Bryce
form: Briz
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from the Celtic languages, a variant of Bryce.
glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred from the surname.
glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from French transferred from the surname.
glosses: A surname.
A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Bryce.
glosses: A surname.
A French surname, a variant of Brisson.
glosses: A placename
A village in Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
Bryce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages, variant of Brice.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
flodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flode
Claud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Clauds
Etymology: Variant of Claude.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Klaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, Alcoa (AA)CEO Klaus Kleinfeld has also dropped plans to attend, but the company will participate, said spokeswoman Monica Orbe.
ref: 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Claus.
Elsinore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlsɪnɔː/
ipa: /ˌɛlsɪˈnɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈɛlsəˌnɔɹ/
Etymology: From Danish Helsingør, perhaps a derivation of hals (“narrow strait”, literally “throat; neck”), from Old Norse hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kólsos. Compare also Helsinki and Helsingborg.
Senses: synonyms: Helsingør
glosses: A city in northern Zealand, Denmark. Its Kronborg Castle served as the setting for William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
glosses: A neighbourhood in north Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in Arran-Elderslie municipality, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: Former name of Lake Elsinore, California (the settlement was renamed in 1972).
glosses: A town in Sevier County, Utah, United States.
Derived terms: Lake Elsinore
Collin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Collins
Etymology: A spelling variant of Colin.
Senses: examples: text: By asking the community to let Collin continue to live there before he turns 19, the HOA would “ignore one of the community’s most fundamental restrictions,” according to the letter from the association’s attorney.
ref: 2020 January 16, Scottie Andrew, “An orphaned teen is being forced out of his grandparents’ senior community because he’s too young”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Colin.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, historically in Dumfriesshire (OS grid ref NY0276).
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Collin County.
Derived terms: Collin County
Corey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɔ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkoː.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: Cory
form: Cory
form: Kory
form: Korey
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old Norse from the Old Norse given name Kóri, itself perhaps from Old Irish Cuire, from cuire (“troop, host, company”), from Proto-Celtic *koryos (“army, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“army”).
glosses: A surname from Irish, a variant anglicization of Ó Comhraidhe (Curry).
examples: text: Miss Carroll's popularity doesn't end with her on-screen performances in the show which co-stars young Marc Copage as her precocious six-year-old son, Corey Baker, whose father Capt. Baker was killed in Vietnam.
ref: 1968 October 17, Jet, volume 35, number 2, page 61:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
examples: text: "I'm Millicent Banning and —" she pushed Corey forward "— this is my daughter Catherine, but we all call her Corey."
ref: 1996, Barbara Bretton, Guilty Pleasures, Mira Books, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Cori.
Sohc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Single Over Head Camshaft, the system of opening and closing both inlet and exhaust valves on four stroke internal combustion engines.
Devin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛvɪn/
rhymes: -ɛvɪn
Etymology: * As an Irish, English, and French surname, spelling variant of Devine. Also see Devon.
* Also as a French surname, from devin (“fortuneteller”).
* As a Russian surname, from дева (deva, “maiden”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish. An Anglicisation of Irish Ó Damháin (“(descendant of a person named) Fawn”).
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, or a variant of Devon.
glosses: A female given name.
Dillon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪlən/
rhymes: -ɪlən
homophone: Dylan
Etymology: From the Irish surname, from Breton Leon and Norman Léon, named after Sir Henry de Leon of the Viscounty of Léon. Related to the surname Lyon. Unrelated to the name Dylan, although the homophony may result in the two being considered variant spellings of the same name.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish of Irish origin.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A municipality of Colorado, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city, the county seat of Beaverhead County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city, the county seat of Dillon County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Dillon County
Dominic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒm.ɪˌnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪnɪk
Forms: form: Dominick
Etymology: From Late Latin Dominicus, derived from Dominus (“Lord”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, best known for the Spanish saint who founded the Dominican order.
Derived terms: St Dominic
Related terms: dominical
Dominican
Duane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dwayne
Etymology: Anglicized form of the Irish name Dubhán (from Primitive Irish ᚇᚑᚃᚐᚌᚅᚔ (dovagni)), from dubh (“black, dark”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Dwayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Duane.
Dwight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: Probably from a Middle English female name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, the feminine form of Dionysius.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
examples: text: During a recent appearance on “The Last Laugh” podcast, the actor, who played Dwight Schrute on the hit NBC comedy, talked about how cringey parts of the series could be.
ref: 2025 September 12, Lisa Respers France, “Rainn Wilson says ‘The Office’ was ‘based around clueless, insensitive, racist, sexist people’”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Livingston County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A village in Livingston County and Grundy County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A city in Morris County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A former village in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Huron County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A city in Richland County, North Dakota.
Derived terms: Dwight-Lloyd
witchhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchhunts
Senses: examples: text: Gerassi discussed the parallels between the witchhunt directed against gay men in Boise during the 1950s and the recent arrests of twelve men charged with sex offenses in Revere.
ref: 1978 April 1, “Author Gerassi Speaks on the Parallels Between Boise and Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of witch-hunt.
witchhunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witchhunt
realignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːjəˈlaɪnmənt/
rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: realignments
Etymology: From re- + alignment.
Senses: examples: text: London Transport announce that a contract worth nearly £1.2 million has been let for civil engineering work entailed in the realignment of the Circle and Metropolitan Lines and the Widened Lines between Moorgate and Aldersgate stations.
ref: 1963 October, “L.T. Circle to be diverted”, in Modern Railways, page 262:
text: To enable high-speed running to be maximised on the Western specifically, some signals were re-spaced, while track realignments at seven sites between Acton, Box Tunnel and Bristol Parkway enabled line speeds to be raised.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “The need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 51:
glosses: The act of realigning or something realigned.
Derived terms: gender realignment surgery
Related terms: readjustment
recalibration
chemist's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of chemist's shop, in the British use of chemist as a synonym for pharmacist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pharmacy, especially when run as a small standalone general store.
synonyms: word: pharmacy
extra: especially when run as a small standalone general store
horseflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-flesh
Etymology: From horse + flesh.
Senses: examples: text: Do they take to the cooking of horseflesh in ragoûts, emincés, and cheval à la mode without a tinge of disgust?
ref: 1870 December 10, “The Ombibus Dinner”, in Charles Dickens, Jun., editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume V, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], published 1871, page 43, column 1:
glosses: The flesh of a horse; horsemeat.
examples: text: He is a good judge of horseflesh.
glosses: Horses collectively, with reference to driving, riding, or racing.
glosses: Bahama mahogany, wood from species Lysiloma sabicu and Lysiloma latisiliquum.
Derived terms: horseflesh ore
horseflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horseflesh
form: most horseflesh
form: horse-flesh
Etymology: From horse + flesh.
Senses: glosses: Of the colour of horseflesh; of a peculiar reddish-brown hue.
extern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌstɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: externs
Etymology: From Middle French externe or its etymon Latin externus.
Senses: glosses: A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
glosses: A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
A day-scholar.
glosses: Outward form or part; exterior.
extern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌstɜː(ɹ)n/
Etymology: From Middle French externe or its etymon Latin externus.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, / But seeming so, for my particular end, / For when my outward action doth demonstrate / The native act and figure of my heart / In complement extern, 'tis not long after / But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XIV, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: External; outward; not inherent
Derived terms: externment
extern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkˌstɜː(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: externs
Etymology: Short for external; used as a keyword in these programming languages.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open().
ref: 1995, Martin L. Rinehart, Learn C++ Today!, page 552:
text: This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained.
ref: 2018, Brian Beuken, The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
8-track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 8-tracks
Senses: glosses: A form of magnetic tape technology for audio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
glosses: A cartridge for an 8-track player.
cast away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts away
form: casting away
form: cast away
form: cast away
Senses: examples: text: She cast away her bridal dress along with other reminders of the marriage.
glosses: To discard.
examples: text: The mutineers cast away the ship's officers in the longboat.
text: Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.
ref: 1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To abandon or maroon.
examples: text: If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.
ref: 1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
Synonyms: sense: discard
word: at discard
Derived terms: castaway
Related terms: cast aside
cast down
chase plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chase planes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: cameraship
glosses: An aircraft that flies alongside another, to advise or photograph it while experimental flights are being carried out.
8-tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 8-track
true up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trues up
form: trueing up
form: truing up
form: trued up
form: trued up
Senses: examples: text: He trued up his faceplate before doing the next setup.
text: He trued up the brake discs and installed new pads.
glosses: To make something true, equal, or correct, as for example by turning and facing a part on a lathe.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make a wheel level, balanced or even by adjusting the spokes; to true a wheel; ideally, to make it perfectly circular in relation to the hub with no left or right bulges nor 'flat spots'.
Derived terms: word: true-up
tweens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of tween
tantalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tantalises
form: tantalising
form: tantalised
form: tantalised
Etymology: From Tantalus + -ise, see tantalize.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of tantalize.
shuns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌnz/
rhymes: -ʌnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shun
horse's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horses' asses
Senses: examples: text: At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass.
glosses: A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole.
examples: text: That is one horse's ass of a paint job.
glosses: A thing or person which is visually unappealing.
Derived terms: there are more horses' asses than horses
unlikeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlikeable
form: most unlikeable
Etymology: From un- + likeable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unlikable.
jubilarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuː.bɪˈlɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒu.bəˈlɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: jubilarians
Etymology: From jubilee + -arian.
Senses: glosses: A person celebrating a jubilee or other special anniversary.
Wiccans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiccan
competencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competency
actant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actants
Etymology: Simultaneously coined in English and French by Bruno Latour from action + -ant
Senses: glosses: That which acts; a source of action or activity.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the participants, such as the subject or object, in a grammatical clause.
Derived terms: actantial
aevum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvəm/
ipa: /ˈaɪ-/
ipa: /ˈivəm/
ipa: /ˈaɪ-/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aevum (“temporal mode of existence between time and eternity”). Doublet of aeviternity and aye.
Senses: synonyms: aeviternity
qualifier: Scholastic philosophy
glosses: The temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging).
big break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big breaks
Senses: examples: text: The East London Line gained a connection to the Jubilee Line Extension when a new station was added at Canada Water in 1999, but its big break came in 2010, when it was incorporated into the London Overground, a network that rehabilitates some dowdy and obscure suburban lines (most particularly the old North London Railway) to create an orbital railway for the capital.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 93:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A breakthrough, especially the first big hit of a previously unknown performer or performers in the entertainment industry.
bi-partisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bipartisan.
Eskimo roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eskimo rolls
Senses: examples: text: Did you see that instructor do an Eskimo roll in this freezing water?
synonyms: kayak roll
qualifier: kayaking
glosses: The act of turning one's kayak from an upright position, laterally 360 degrees (going underwater and coming back up) while still moving forward.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The act of rolling under one's surfboard to dive through a wave, when heading out from shore.
head down, bum up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: head down, ass up
form: head down, arse up
Etymology: From an assumed position of strenuous work. Compare nose to the grindstone.
Senses: examples: text: Hadn't heard a thing. Hard at work, head down, bum up.
ref: 2007 April 6, Gold Coast Bulletin, "Call of Sea Sirens"
glosses: Hard at work; preparing oneself to work hard.
Synonyms: nose to the grindstone
crumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumbers
Etymology: From crumb + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A player who waits around a marking contest aiming to get the ball if it falls down to the ground (because the opposing players leaping for it have spoiled each other's efforts).
glosses: A small, usually metal, tool designed to remove crumbs from a tablecloth.
maître d'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪtɹə ˈdiː/
ipa: /ˌmeɪtɹə ˈdi/
ipa: /ˌmeɪtɚ ˈdi/
Forms: form: maître d's
Etymology: Clipping of maître d'hôtel, derived from French maître d'hôtel.
Senses: glosses: A headwaiter.
Derived terms: maître d' butter
boundary umpire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundary umpires
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A match official who decides when the ball has over the boundary line (out of bounds), and whether it was on the full from a kick. (Under the rules as of 2007, a free kick results from on the full, or a throw-in otherwise.)
goal umpire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal umpires
Senses: qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A match official who decides when the ball passes between the goal posts (or behind posts) and the score then to be awarded (goal or behind).
bordures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordure
der-brains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of der-brain
outdrinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outdrink
outdrinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outdrink
outdrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of outdrink
squidgier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of squidgy: more squidgy
squidgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of squidgy: most squidgy
zittier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of zitty: more zitty
Memorial Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Memorial Day weekend is among the busiest for travel in the United States and the unofficial start of summer; a day for cookouts, beach trips and auto races. But how did Memorial Day, held on the last Monday of May in honor of America’s war dead, begin?
ref: 2024 May 25, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “The Tangled Roots of Memorial Day and Why It’s Celebrated”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: Decoration Day
glosses: A federal holiday honoring fallen soldiers, sailors, and other servicemen observed on the last Monday in May.
glosses: A provincial holiday held in July 1 in Newfoundland and Labrador commemorating the fallen members of the Newfoundland Regiment during the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel in World War I.
glosses: Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day, a Chinese holiday.
synonyms: word: Tomb Sweeping Day
extra: a Chinese holiday
jury-rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jury-rig
jury-rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jury-rig
jury-rigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jury-rig
colatitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colatitudes
Etymology: From co- + latitude.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The complement, in spherical coordinates, of a latitude (the difference between a latitude and 90°).
clitellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: clitella
Etymology: From New Latin clitellum, from Latin clītella (singular noun), clītellae (“packsaddle”, plurale tantum).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A glandular swelling in the epidermis of some annelid worms; it secretes a viscous fluid in which the eggs are deposited.
Synonyms: word: saddle
word: clitellus
baggage claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggage claims
Senses: glosses: The designated location for receiving checked luggage, such as the baggage carousels at an airport.
Synonyms: word: baggage reclaim
ginsenoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginsenosides
Etymology: From ginsen(g) + -oside.
Senses: glosses: Any of several triterpenoid saponins found in ginseng and related plants that may be responsible for the plants' reported effects
Derived terms: ginsenosidase
notoginsenoside
slowcoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowcoaches
Etymology: From slow + coach.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, you slowcoaches at the back! Get a move on!
text: They were both very quiet, respectable people; one of them paid the bill and went out; the other, who seemed a slower coach altogether, was some minutes longer getting his things together.
ref: 1911, Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Blue Cross
synonyms: word: plodder
word: sluggard
word: slowpoke
glosses: A person, especially a child, who moves slowly.
glosses: A person who is slow on the uptake; one who does not comprehend new ideas quickly.