cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transhipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhipments
Senses: examples: text: The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to another.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
text: As a general principle, refrain from requiring a certificate of nonmanipulation for products originating in an LDC but shipped across other countries unless there are concerns regarding transhipment, manipulation, or fraudulent documentation; […]
ref: 2022, Stefano Inama, Rules of Origin in International Trade, page 74:
glosses: Alternative spelling of transshipment.
transshipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transshipments
Etymology: From trans- + shipment.
Senses: examples: text: Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years.
ref: 2025 October 1, Gareth Dennis, “The future: a new role for a new British Rail: 2030s”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 30:
synonyms: transloading
glosses: The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
examples: text: Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments.
ref: 2009 March 3, Lydia Polgreen, “Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau’s President After Death of Army Chief, Diplomats Say”, in The New York Times:
text: Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.
ref: 2025 April 24, “Reciprocal Tariff Calculations”, in Office of the United States Trade Representative:
glosses: The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
Derived terms: transshipment point
transhumanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transhumanizes
form: transhumanizing
form: transhumanized
form: transhumanized
Etymology: From trans- + human + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to elevate beyond humanity; to make godlike.
transiliency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transiliencies
Senses: examples: text: An unadvised transiliency.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: transilience
transire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transires
Etymology: From Latin trānseō (“I pass, go across”).
Senses: glosses: A permit given to a coasting vessel by a customs house.
transitorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transitory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With regard to similes of this kind, it will readily occur to the reader that when a resembling subject is once properly introduced in a simile, the mind is transitorily amused with the new object, and is not dissatisfied with the slight interruption.
ref: 1762, Henry Home Kames, Elements of Criticism, published 1819, page 147:
text: All parts of the experienced world are experienced transitorily. They appear and disappear.
ref: 1960, William Leonard Hoerber, A Scientific Foundation of Philosophy, page 76:
text: Most transitorily poor households are substantially better off than chronically poor households.
ref: 2001, Neil McCulloch, L[eonard] Alan Winters, Xavier Cirera, Trade Liberalization and Poverty: A Handbook, page 149:
text: It is not a permanent space: it transitorily colonizes public urban space, overlapping and somehow replacing it.
ref: 2008, Frank Eckardt, Media and urban space: understanding, investigating and approaching mediacity, page 17:
topics: manner
qualifier: degree
glosses: In a transitory way.
Synonyms: fleetingly
temporarily
transiently
transitoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transitory + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Nor certainly is Pindar blind to the more pathetic aspects of humanity—its transitoriness, its sorrows, its ignorance, its moral frailty[…]
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 12, page 198:
text: The transitoriness perhaps makes viral content the most representative form of culture in the twenty-first century: […]
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: The state or quality of being transitory.
Synonyms: ephemerality
impermanence
transiency
transience
translatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more translatable
form: most translatable
Etymology: From translate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being translated into another language.
examples: text: Her political skills were easily translatable to the marketing sector.
glosses: Capable of being transferred from one context or environment to another.
Derived terms: non-translatable
Related terms: translatability
translatableness
translated
translating
translation
translator
translatitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tralatitious.
translatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translatorships
Etymology: From translator + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The two offices were bestowed on me by Government, and with the Persian Translatorship gave me an income of ten guineas a day.
ref: 1872, Charles Phillip Brown, Literary life of Charles Philip Brown (By Himself), page 23:
glosses: The role or office of a translator.
psychophylaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + phylaxis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Mental hygiene; the development of healthy emotions, attitudes and behavior.
translatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more translatory
form: most translatory
Etymology: From translate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: That translates or transfers.
translucency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translucencies
Etymology: From translucent + -ency.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being translucent
Synonyms: semitransparency
translucence
Derived terms: nuchal translucency scan
transship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: transships
form: transshipping
form: transshipped
form: transshipped
form: tranship
form: trans-ship
Etymology: From trans- + ship.
Senses: synonyms: transload
glosses: To transfer something from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.
glosses: To be transferred from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.
raw_tags: of goods
Derived terms: transshipment
micronations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micronation
Faraday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Faradays
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ó Fearadaigh.
Senses: examples: text: Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
ref: 2024 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Meet Me in the Eternal City”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
Derived terms: Faradayan
Faraday bag
Faraday cage
Faraday dark space
Faraday pointer
Faraday rotation
Faraday tensor
Related terms: Michael Faraday
English chemist and physicist
Fahrvergnügen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fahrvergnugen
form: fahrvergnügen
form: Fahrvergnuegen
form: fahrvergnuegen
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from German Fahrvergnügen, from fahren (“to drive”) + Vergnügen (“pleasure”); popularized in the US by Volkswagen advertisements in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: During an intense pillow fight with one of the girls, one of the students shouts out: “Hit him for the bad Audi the Germans have sold me!” The rest of the group laughs and another student adds, “Hit him also for the VW Fahrvergnügen!”
ref: 2013, Michael Wigge, How to Travel the World for Free: One Man, 150 Days, Eleven Countries, No Money!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Driving pleasure, especially with regard to Volkswagen vehicles.
faraday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faradays
Etymology: From Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately −96,487 coulombs.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: See teth.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”).
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetracycline.
Senses: examples: text: I was on oral tet for months after I was first dx backn in '88. All I got from it was a very, very nasty and upset GI track. I had to stop it.
ref: 1996 May 1, phyllis....@den.mmc.com, “Re: Tetracycline”, in sci.med.diseases.lyme (Usenet):
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of tetracycline.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetralogy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The tetralogy of Fallot.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.
Derived terms: blue tet
pink tet
tet spell
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetraploid.
Senses: examples: text: Tets are 44-chromosome conversions from 22-chromosome diploids, created by elaborate means involving colchicine, a chemical found naturally in crocuses. Only a tet can pollinate a tet, but some tets can pollinate themselves.
ref: 2017, Susan Brownmiller, “Daylily Dreams”, in My City Highrise Garden, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetrahedron or tetrahedral.
Senses: topics: engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of tetrahedron or tetrahedral.
Senses: topics: engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Tetrahedral.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetradrachm.
Senses: examples: text: I've bought a couple of Greek tets that must have been dipped because all the toning is off them. They're white, but otherwise nice. Other tets I've bought have been cleaned as well but have more gray and other coloring and therefore look better.
ref: 2001 July 4, Reid Goldsborough, “Re: Language, numismatics, and curating”, in rec.collecting.coins (Usenet):
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: Clipping of tetradrachm.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetra.
Senses: examples: text: All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine.
There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.
ref: 1998 January 24, LASP, “Dead tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc (Usenet):
glosses: A tetra (freshwater fish).
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: Clipping of tetanus.
Senses: examples: text: “It's a tet shot,” Roddy told him, relieved. A tetanus injection was the usual thing for a cut or puncture wound on a horse.
ref: 1971, Adelaide Leitch, The Blue Roan, New York, NY: Henry Z. Walck, →ISBN, page 94:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of tetanus.
tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tets
Etymology: See teat.
Senses: examples: text: The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.
ref: [1780?], Nicholas Coxe, The Huntſman. Containing the Best Methods of Sport, for Courſing with Greyhounds, and Hunting All Kinds of Chases in England, […] , London: J. Dixwell, page 50:
glosses: Obsolete form of teat.
Related terms: carbon tet
met tet
silicon tet
zeroed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zero. Cf. also zeroized.
zeroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zero
zeroing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeroings
Senses: glosses: The act, or the result of zeroing
zeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero
zeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.
Synonyms: zeros
zeroes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zero
Jacobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacobuses
Senses: glosses: A former English gold coin from the Jacobite period.
mirthlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mirthlessly
form: most mirthlessly
Etymology: From mirthless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Miriam laughed again, but mirthlessly, to hear him thus mix her up with women in a general way.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 7”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: And presently he grew conscious that the gods had played a very good practical joke on him, and he laughed at himself mirthlessly.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 79”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a mirthless manner; sadly.
cryptodepression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɪptəʊdɪˈpɹɛʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɹiptoʊdəˈpɹɛʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: cryptodepressions
Etymology: From crypto- (“hidden”) + depression (“area lower in topography than its surroundings”).
Senses: examples: text: When the bottom of the lake lies below mean sea level, it is said to occupy a cryptodepression, the depth of which is the depth below sea level of the deepest point of the basin.
ref: 1957, G[eorge] Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology, volumes I (Geography, Physics, and Chemistry), New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 165:
text: The lake's elevation above sea level is 74.01 meters (242.8 feet) which makes its depth of cryptodepression to be 170 meters (558 feet).
ref: 1975 March, Robert V. Thomann, Dominick M. DeToro, Richard P. Winfield, Donald J. O’Connor, “Section IV: Lake Ontario – Background”, in Mathematical Modeling of Phytoplankton in Lake Ontario: 1. Model Development and Verification (Ecological Research Series; EPA-660/3-75-005), Corvallis, Or.: National Environmental Research Center, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, →OCLC, page 8:
text: The greater volume of the lake [Lake Susupe] occupies a cryptodepression (that portion which lies below sea level). Based upon a surface elevation of +2.5 ft determined on 20 December 1978 by Juan C. Tenorio and Associates' surveyors, the depth of the cryptodepression is -1.4m (4.7 ft) below sea level.
ref: 1979 June, “Appendix A: Problem Identification”, in A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Providing Flood Control Improvements to the Susupe Chalan Kanoa Area, Island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Draft Detailed Report and Environmental Statement, Fort Shafter [Honolulu], Hi.: U.S. Army Engineer District, Honolulu, →OCLC, page A-10:
text: At present there are three major closed systems (Awash R. – Afar drainage, northern rift lakes, southern rift lakes), numerous crater lakes with seepage-in and -out, and two cryptodepressions with marine inputs.
ref: 1988, R. B. Wood, J. F. Talling, “Chemical and Algal Relationships in a Salinity Series of Ethiopian Inland Waters”, in Hydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences, volume 158, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29; reprinted in J. M. Melack, editor, Saline Lakes: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes, Held at Nairobi, Kenya, August 1985 (Developments in Hydrobiology; 44), Dordrecht: Dr. W. Junk Publishers, 1988, →DOI, →ISBN, abstract, page 29:
text: The maximum depth of some lakes is below current sea level. Such lakes are called cryptodepressions. Well-known cases of tectonic lakes include Lake Baikal and the Caspian Sea. Some glacial lakes in Norway, Scotland and England are also cryptodepressions.
ref: [2012, José Galizia Tundisi, Takako Matsumura-Tundisi, “The Origin of Lakes”, in Limnology, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, section 3.3.10 (Average Slope (α)), page 49:
topics: biology
ecology
geography
geology
limnology
natural-sciences
glosses: The portion of a lake which lies below sea level.
notional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ˈnoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: more notional
form: most notional
Etymology: From notion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal
text: The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
text: He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
examples: text: This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
glosses: Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
glosses: Stubborn.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
examples: text: Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.
ref: 2009 March 11, “Gold inches up on bargain hunt, ETF hits record”, in Ninemsn:
text: Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.
ref: 2009 March 3, “Harvard Accepts Higher Debt Costs as Bankers Profit”, in Bloomberg:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
examples: text: She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.
ref: 1995, Walter D. Edmonds, In the Hands of the Senecas, page 137:
glosses: Full of ideas or imaginings.
Synonyms: sense: of a notion
word: conceptual
sense: of a notion
word: ideal
sense: being a notion
word: conceptual
sense: being a notion
word: ideal
sense: being a notion
word: imaginary
Derived terms: nonnotional
notional amount
notionalist
notionality
notionally
notionalness
notional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊʃənəl/
ipa: /ˈnoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: notionals
Etymology: From notion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
ref: 2012, Joseph C. Goulden, Peter Earnest, The Dictionary of Espionage: Spyspeak Into English, page 157:
glosses: A fake company used as a front in espionage.
single union agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single union agreements
Senses: glosses: An agreement between an employer and a union such that the union will represent all the workers at a particular workplace.
tacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: tax
Senses: glosses: plural of tack
tacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: tax
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tack
tacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tack
backpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From backpack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backpack
backpacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From backpack + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
ref: 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN:
glosses: hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
glosses: low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
Derived terms: begpacking
bikepacking
flashpacking
currency overlay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The separation of currency risk outsourcing costs from asset allocation and security selection costs.
Sherman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: Shermans
Etymology: Sense 1: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a sheep-shearer.
glosses: An American surname from German derived from the German Schuermann.
glosses: An Ashkenazic Jewish occupational surname for a tailor.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Sherman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Etymology: Sense 1: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A village in Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Kansas.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Kentucky.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Wexford County, Michigan.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in McLeod County, Minnesota.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Lee County, Pontotoc County and Union County, Mississippi.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in St. Louis County, Missouri.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, New Mexico.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town and village in Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A minor town in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A city, the county seat of Grayson County, Texas.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A ghost town in Lincoln County, Washington.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Dunn County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A ghost town in Albany County, Wyoming.
glosses: Any of a number of places in the United States of America:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Sherman Township.
Derived terms: Sherman County
Shermanesque
Shermanite
Sherman necktie
Sherman statement
Sherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)mən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən
Forms: form: Shermans
Etymology: Sense 1: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man.
Senses: glosses: A Sherman tank, main Allied battle tank in World War II.
examples: text: A lot of photographers nominated the printers, who promptly pulled a Sherman. Granted, some printers, typically of the smaller variety or those who had existing departments, answered their party's call. More did not.
ref: 2006, Dan Margulis, Professional Photoshop:
glosses: An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.
twinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From twin + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twin
twinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinnings
Etymology: From twin + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of producing twins.
glosses: The act of giving birth to twins.
glosses: The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of twin crystals.
glosses: A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
topics: transport
glosses: The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
Derived terms: crystal twinning
polysynthetic twinning
town twinning
twinning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twin + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: biparous
glosses: Producing two offspring from one pregnancy.
Related terms: gemination
twining
fits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of fit
fits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fit
constructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of construct
constructing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructings
Senses: examples: text: Only the construction of wood and canvas castles, temples, and the like would require some time: and not as much as might be thought, given both London's fixed structures - such as conduits, and the Cross in Cheapside - upon which and around which structures could be erected, and London's practice in the frequent necessary constructings of such pageants.
ref: 2002, Anne Lancashire, London Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558:
glosses: An act of construction.
claimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kleɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of claim
Derived terms: ISIL-claimed
nonclaimed
unclaimed
chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚz/
Etymology: From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).
Senses: glosses: plural of chamber
chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbəz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚz/
Etymology: From chamber + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber
bursting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/
Forms: form: more bursting
form: most bursting
Senses: examples: text: I was bursting to tell him the secret.
glosses: Very eager (to do something).
examples: text: Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.
text: The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.
glosses: Urgently needing to urinate.
raw_tags: followed by "to go to..."
examples: text: The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.
text: Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion.
glosses: So full (with something) as almost to erupt.
Synonyms: busting
Derived terms: burstingly
nonbursting
outbursting
superbursting
upbursting
bursting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burst
Derived terms: bursting point
bursting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɜːstɪŋ/
Forms: form: burstings
Senses: examples: text: the burstings of balloons
text: The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot.
ref: 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55:
text: Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
ref: 1953 April, “Devastation in Holland”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
glosses: The act by which something bursts.
Derived terms: bursting pressure
beams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
Senses: glosses: plural of beam
beams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beam
adapted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdæptɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adapt
adapted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdæptɪd/
Forms: form: more adapted
form: most adapted
Senses: examples: text: That movie was an adapted novel.
glosses: Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.
Derived terms: adaptedness
coadapted
dark-adapted
ill-adapted
maladapted
neuroadapted
nonadapted
pathoadapted
photoadapted
preadapted
thermoadapted
unadapted
well-adapted
wrongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒŋz/
enpr: rŏngz
ipa: /ɹɔŋz/
ipa: /ɹɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of wrong
wrongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒŋz/
enpr: rŏngz
ipa: /ɹɔŋz/
ipa: /ɹɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrong
worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wûrmz
ipa: /wɝmz/
ipa: /wɜːmz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mz
Senses: glosses: plural of worm
worms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wûrmz
ipa: /wɝmz/
ipa: /wɜːmz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of worm
washed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒʃt/
ipa: /wɑʃt/
note: found from rural Washington as far east as Pittsburgh and as far south as St. Louis and some rural speakers in Texas
ipa: /wɔɹʃt/
rhymes: -ɒʃt
rhymes: -ɑʃt
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wash
washed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒʃt/
ipa: /wɑʃt/
note: found from rural Washington as far east as Pittsburgh and as far south as St. Louis and some rural speakers in Texas
ipa: /wɔɹʃt/
rhymes: -ɒʃt
rhymes: -ɑʃt
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃt
Forms: form: more washed
form: most washed
Senses: examples: text: my goat washed
glosses: Clipping of washed up.
whipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: more whipped
form: most whipped
Senses: examples: text: whipped cream
glosses: Of food: prepared by whipping or beating.
examples: text: He knew he was whipped when he turned down a football game so they could shop for linens.
synonyms: cowed
henpecked
under the thumb
glosses: Ellipsis of pussywhipped.
examples: text: Look, hon ... you're totally whipped. I'll see if riding in the car puts [our baby] to sleep.
ref: 2003 April 8, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
synonyms: word: weary
word: whacked
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Very tired; worn out; exhausted.
Derived terms: whipped butter
whipped cream
whipped potatoes
whipped vote
whipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whip
vibrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: coordinate_terms: humming
oscillating
reciprocating
rotating
glosses: That vibrates.
vibrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vibrate
unyielding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːldɪŋ
Forms: form: more unyielding
form: most unyielding
Etymology: From un- + yielding.
Senses: examples: text: unyielding pressure
text: unyielding support
text: I refer rather to the central position the creed of unyiedling will holds in the North.
ref: 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 18:
synonyms: word: adamant
word: ardent
word: bent on
word: bloody-minded
word: bullheaded
word: certain
word: chronic
word: confirmed
word: determined
word: diehard
word: dogged
word: hard-hearted
word: hard-nosed
word: hardheaded
word: headstrong
word: immovable
word: incalcitrant
word: inflexible
word: irrefragable
word: insistent
word: intractable
word: intransigent
word: intrepid
word: inveterate
word: mulish
word: obdurate
word: obstinate
word: obstreperous
word: peevish
word: peremptory
word: persistent
word: pertinacious
word: pigheaded
word: recalcitrant
word: refractory
word: resolute
word: resolved
word: rigid
word: self-willed
word: stalwart
word: staunch
word: steadfast
word: steady
word: stubborn
word: stubborn as a mule
word: sullen
word: tenacious
word: terminal
word: thran
word: thwart
word: tough
word: truculent
word: unbending
word: uncompromising
word: unyielding
word: vehement
word: wilful
word: willful
glosses: Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.
Derived terms: unyieldingly
unyieldingness
unprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprotected
form: most unprotected
Etymology: From un- + protected.
Senses: examples: text: The dread of leaving his daughter deſolate and unprotected in a ſtrange country, had been ſo great, that he had denied himſelf even the few comforts he could have obtained, becauſe he deſired to reſerve the little money he had left to ſend her back to Warſaw, […]
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter II, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 45:
text: A well-gilt top to a book is a great preventive against damage by dust, while to leave books with rough tops and unprotected is sure to produce stains and dirty margins.
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 35:
text: Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected
From enemies that whisper to the blood;
The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected;
The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:
text: The level crossings at Stretton and at the point where the A.L.R. crosses the main road south of Stretton are provided with gates; other crossings are unprotected, save for cattle-guards.
ref: 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:
glosses: Not protected; lacking defence or protection; exposed.
Synonyms: improtected
Derived terms: unprotected sex
unprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unprotect + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unprotect
touches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of touch
touches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of touch
storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔɹmz/
ipa: /stɔːmz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mz
Senses: glosses: plural of storm
storms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɔɹmz/
ipa: /stɔːmz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of storm
sporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sport
sporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: more sporting
form: most sporting
Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He got a job in a sporting goods store.
glosses: Pertaining to sports
examples: text: Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
glosses: Exhibiting sportsmanship.
examples: text: It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
glosses: Fair, generous; game.
examples: text: New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
ref: 2015, Michael Pierson, “Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans”, in Slap, Andrew L., Towers, Frank, editors, Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era, University of Chicago Press, page 137:
glosses: Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
Derived terms: sporting chance
sporting clays
sporting door
sporting girl
sporting goods
sporting house
sporting lady
sportingly
sportingness
sporting woman
sporting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈspoətɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
Forms: form: sportings
Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
ref: c. 1675, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
glosses: The act of taking part in a sport.
sticking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stick
sticking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: stickings
Senses: examples: text: Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.
ref: 1997, Gary Cook, Teaching percussion, page 72:
glosses: A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
examples: text: six ounces of clods and stickings boiled
ref: 1823, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers: 1780-1849, volume 5, page 48:
glosses: Coarse, bruised, or damaged meat sold to the makers of sausages, pies, etc.
Related terms: high-sticking
pig-sticking
sticking place
sticking-place
sticking plaster
sticking point
sticking-point
sickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sicken
sickening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
Forms: form: more sickening
form: most sickening
Etymology: By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.
Senses: examples: sickening cruelty
sickening toxic fumes
glosses: Causing sickness or disgust.
examples: text: Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.
ref: 2014, The Infamous Todd Kachinski Kottmeier, Drag King Guide: So You Want to Be a Male Impersonator, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 188:
text: Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
ref: 2016, Juackie Huba, Shelly Stewart Kronbergs, Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen, Berret-Koehler, →ISBN:
text: Back with the seventh season next March 2nd, RuPaul’s Drag Race promises to gather fans and followers in front of the computer to watch the new competition to crown the most sickening queen.
ref: 2017, Mayka Castellando, Heitor Leal Machado, “‘Please come to Brazil!’ The practices of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Brazilian fandom”, in Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas, editors, RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Springer, →ISBN, page 172:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Amazing, fantastic.
Related terms: loathsome
disgusting
abominable
detestable
hateful
sickening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
Forms: form: sickenings
Etymology: By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.
ref: 2010, Greg A. Marley, Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares:
glosses: The act of making somebody sick.
devious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.əs/
rhymes: -iːviəs
Forms: form: more devious
form: most devious
Etymology: 1590s, "out of the common or direct way," from Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”), from de via, from de (“off”) (see de-) + via (“way, road”). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; the figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related to deviously, deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."
Senses: glosses: Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
examples: text: The wandering Arab never sets his tent
Within her walls; the Shepherd eyes afar
Her evil towers, and devious drives his flock.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
text: Keeping close in to the shore, they discovered, after two hours run, a fresh stream which burst in a cascade from the mountains, and swept its devious course through the jungle, until it poured its tribute into the waters of the Strait.
ref: 1839, Frederick Marryat, The Phantom Ship:
text: We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Epilogue”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.
Derived terms: devious lick
deviously
deviousness
undevious
fertilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)tɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: fertilizes
form: fertilizing
form: fertilized
form: fertilized
form: fertilise
Etymology: From French fertiliser; equivalent to fertile + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
examples: text: to fertilize one's imagination
text: He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.
ref: 2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos [print version: 12 August 2014, p. R8]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: To make more creative or intellectually productive.
glosses: To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
Derived terms: biofertilize
cross-fertilize
defertilize
fertigation
fertilizable
fertilization
fertilizer
fertilizin
misfertilize
nonfertilized
overfertilize
postfertilized
refertilize
underfertilize
unfertilized
fertilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fertilize
fertilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fertilize
fertilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fertilize
detestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛstəbl̩/
Forms: form: more detestable
form: most detestable
Etymology: From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest + -able.
Senses: glosses: Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
Derived terms: detestableness
detestably
undetestable
Related terms: detest
detestability
hateful
abominable
loathsome
horrid