cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Apeliotes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀπηλιώτης (Apēliṓtēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the Greek god of the south east winds. Apeliotes is often depicted wearing gumboots and carrying fruit.
make short work of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes short work of
form: making short work of
form: made short work of
form: made short work of
Senses: examples: text: A good electric screwdriver will make short work of the disassembly process.
text: [...] a cab ride in one of the Birmingham Type 2 diesels over the Mallaig extension demonstrated what short work—and what a transformation of the engineman's lot—these machines make of the gradients by comparison with their steam predecessors.
ref: 1962 September, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—1”, in Modern Railways, page 164:
glosses: To do (a task) quicker or easier.
examples: text: "There was desperate characters here, but the vigilantes made short work of 'em."
ref: 1897, Maynard Barbour, chapter 26, in The Award of Justice:
text: You impertinent ruffian! You impertinent ruffian! I'll make short work of you!
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 111:
text: With what you have learned from your drivers' education course so far, you should be able to make short work of an enemy aircraft.
ref: 2021 March 19, Bosnian Ape Society, 5:23 from the start, in Is Your Car Safe From Supermaneuverable Air-Defense Fighter Aircraft?, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022:
text: I arrange some of my things and sit back, making short work of the chocolate bars supplied to passengers.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 42:
glosses: To deal with or overcome (someone or something) quickly and without difficulty.
Synonyms: make light work of
make quick work of
make mincemeat of
Related terms: short shrift
invalid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
Forms: form: more invalid
form: most invalid
Etymology: From in- + valid.
Senses: examples: text: Your argument is invalid because it uses circular reasoning.
text: This invalid contract cannot be legally enforced.
glosses: Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
Synonyms: nonvalid
disallowed
Derived terms: invalidity
invalidly
invalidness
invalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
enpr: ĭn'və-lĭd
ipa: /ˈɪn.və.lɪd/
enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
Forms: form: invalids
Etymology: From Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).
Senses: glosses: Any person with a disability or illness.
glosses: A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.
glosses: A disabled member of the armed forces; one unfit for active duty due to injury.
Derived terms: fabulous invalid
invalid carriage
invalid chair
invalidhood
invalidish
invalidism
invalid stout
invalid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
enpr: ĭn'və-lĭd
ipa: /ˈɪn.və.lɪd/
enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
Etymology: From Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: Invalidism therefore referred to a lack of power as well as a tendency toward illness. It is for this reason that I choose to discuss the invalid woman rather than just the ill one.
ref: 2000, Diane Price Herndl, Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Suffering from disability or illness.
glosses: Intended for use by an invalid.
invalid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
enpr: ĭn'və-lĭd
ipa: /ˈɪn.və.lɪd/
enpr: ĭn-vă'lĭd
ipa: /ɪnˈvæl.ɪd/
Forms: form: invalids
form: invaliding
form: invalided
form: invalided
Etymology: From Middle French invalide, from Latin invalidus (“infirm, weak”), from in- (“not”) + validus (“strong”).
Senses: examples: text: He was invalided home after the car crash.
text: Blackadder: Right, Baldrick, this is an old trick I picked up in the Sudan. We tell HQ that I’ve gone insane, and I’ll be invalided back to Blighty before you can say "wibble" — a poor, gormless idiot.
ref: 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, “Goodbyeee”, in Blackadder Goes Forth:
text: The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly. Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel. In the middle of all this, one Ensign Isoroku Yamamoto loses two fingers to the remains of an explosion. If he'd lost a third, he would've been invalided out of military service. Thus, by the retention of a single digit would there be rather large consequences a few decades later on down the line.
ref: 2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 26:33 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
glosses: To make invalid or affect with disease.
Derived terms: invalid out
elaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlæbəɹət/
Forms: form: more elaborate
form: most elaborate
Etymology: 1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.
Senses: examples: text: After reading a long, elaborate description, I was impressed but no wiser.
glosses: Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
examples: text: I stared for hours at the elaborate pattern in the rug.
text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
Derived terms: elaborately
elaborateness
elaboration
inelaborate
overelaborate
superelaborate
unelaborate
elaborate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlæbəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: elaborates
form: elaborating
form: elaborated
form: elaborated
Etymology: 1575, from Late Latin ēlabōrātus (“worked out”), past participle of ēlabōrō (“to work out”), from ē- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.
Senses: examples: text: […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
ref: 1871, “Bismarck”, in All the Year Round, volume 5, page 129:
text: The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.
ref: 2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi:
synonyms: work out
glosses: Тo develop in detail or complexity.
examples: text: What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?
text: Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
glosses: To expand/enlarge in detail.
raw_tags: followed by the prepositions on or upon
Derived terms: elaborated sap
elaborater
elaboration
elaborator
convulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvʌlsɪv/
Forms: form: more convulsive
form: most convulsive
Etymology: From French convulsif.
Senses: examples: text: He scarcely appeared to heed what was doing on the stage; perhaps Norboume was the only one who noticed the convulsive movement of the bitten lip, or the slight shudder which shook him at any unexpected sound.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Night”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: Marked by or having the nature of convulsions.
glosses: Having or producing convulsions.
Derived terms: anticonvulsive
convulsively
convulsiveness
electroconvulsive
nonconvulsive
photoconvulsive
postconvulsive
proconvulsive
subconvulsive
Related terms: chemoconvulsive
convulsant
convulse
convulsion
BOGOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒɡ.ɒf/
Forms: form: BOGOFs
form: bogof
form: BOGOFF
Senses: examples: 2002, "Nothing to be Smug About", Alex Brummer, London Evening Standard, 13 November.
At the Big Food Group, the new team headed by Bill Grimsey was quick to discover that turning the company around might be more difficult than it thought because of double counting of revenues as a result of bogof (buy one, get one free) promotions
glosses: Abbreviation of buy one, get one free (“a retail promotion in which consumers may purchase two items for the usual price of one”).
glosses: An item promoted in this way.
Synonyms: sense: promotion
word: 2 for 1
sense: promotion
word: BOGO
sense: promotion
word: buy one, get one
sense: promotion
word: buy one, get one free
sense: promotion
word: two for the price of one
Related terms: bog off
thoughtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːtləs/
ipa: /ˈθɔːtlɪs/
enpr: thôt’ləs
enpr: thôt’lĭs
ipa: /ˈθɔtləs/
ipa: /ˈθɔtlɪs/
enpr: thät’ləs
enpr: thät’lĭs
ipa: /ˈθɑtləs/
ipa: /ˈθɑtlɪs/
rhymes: -ɔːtləs
Forms: form: more thoughtless
form: most thoughtless
Etymology: From thought + -less.
Senses: synonyms: careless
mindless
glosses: Marked by or showing lack of due thought or care.
examples: text: A thoughtless remark.
glosses: Inconsiderate, inattentive.
examples: text: The debate turned into thoughtless bickering.
text: In thoughtless and breathless fear I rushed forward to avoid this host of demons, but while flying thus still more frightful and distorted shapes appeared, and I fancied I felt their hands clutching me.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 281:
glosses: Lacking thought or consideration.
Coordinate terms: short-sighted
Derived terms: thoughtlessly
thoughtlessness
immensurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immensurable
form: most immensurable
Etymology: From Middle English immensurable, from Old French, from Latin immēnsūrābilis, from im- (“not”) (variant form of in-) + mēnsūra (“measure”) + -bilis (“able”).
Senses: glosses: unmeasurable, immeasurable; not able to be measured, therefore connoting extremely large
Derived terms: immensurableness
unmeasurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈmɛʒəɹəbəl/
/ʌnˈmɛʒɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more unmeasurable
form: most unmeasurable
Etymology: From un- + measurable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be measured; immeasurable.
Synonyms: immensurable
Related terms: measurable
measure
meter
house warming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house warmings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of housewarming.
tightass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightasses
form: tight-arse
Etymology: Back-formation from tight-assed; equivalent to tight + ass.
Senses: glosses: Someone who does not know how to have fun, or who is so worried about insignificant things as to ruin any fun that anyone around them may be having.
glosses: Someone who is stingy, or who is tight with money.
Synonyms: sense: person worried about insignificant things
word: jitterbug
word: nervous wreck
word: worrywart
word: worrier
ob-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin ob-.
Senses: glosses: Against; facing; a combining prefix found in verbs of Latin origin.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a reversed shape.
Synonyms: sense: against
word: anti-
sense: against
word: counter-
sense: against
word: contra-
sense: against
word: dys-
ob-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of obligatory.
Senses: examples: text: ObGoth: Uh, well, it's like this you see, <searches in random file o' obgoth things> anyone out there got the new CoX album on Tess? If so which album is it *most* like?
ref: 1998, Haydn Black, “lesbian goths”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
text: Aren't Newcastle's chairman Sunderland supporters? (From the way they acted?) Erm...obspeccy? Tynesoft, eh? What happened to them?
ref: 1998, Peter Thomas, “FAQ: more info request”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
text: ObLinux: SAP were giving away a free development environment for use with RedHat v6.1 recently, a distinctly non-free complete system has been available for a while. This offers another example of a commercial application where the vendors now have sufficient confidence in Linux to release a port (even if it is distribution-specific).
ref: 2000, Dan Glover, “Introduction to Linux article for commentary”, in alt.linux (Usenet):
glosses: Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.
air-cooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Cooled by air (such as an engine, rather than by other means such as water).
Related terms: air
air-conditioning
cool
water-cooled
karat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karats
Senses: synonyms: kt
glosses: Alternative spelling of carat.
sizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: sizzles
form: sizzling
form: sizzled
form: sizzled
Etymology: Probably a derivative of Middle English sissen (“to hiss; buzz; hum”), equivalent to siss + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The sausages were sizzling on the barbecue.
glosses: To make the sound of water boiling on a hot surface.
examples: text: I sizzled the bacon for a few minutes in the pan.
glosses: To cook (something) in a manner which causes that sound.
examples: text: The song sizzled with energy.
glosses: To be exciting or dazzling.
Derived terms: sizzler
sizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪzəl/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: sizzles
Etymology: Probably a derivative of Middle English sissen (“to hiss; buzz; hum”), equivalent to siss + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We heard the sizzle of the onions hitting the pan.
glosses: The sound of water boiling on a hot surface.
examples: text: Give them a sizzle for a few more minutes before serving.
glosses: The process of being cooked which involves that sound.
examples: text: Her performance had a lot of sizzle.
glosses: Zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.
glosses: Ellipsis of sizzle reel.
Derived terms: all sizzle and no steak
sausage sizzle
sizzle cymbal
sizzle reel
sizzle steak
field day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field days
Etymology: Some postulate the idiomatic usage is derived from the "parade day" military use. A parade is much easier than the soldiers’ usual drilling and intense exercise.
Senses: examples: text: This morning I got up, with great difficulty, at 6.30, and at 7.45 we started out for a Brigade Field Day. Did an attack from 10.30 to 2.30, but it wasn't a strenuous one for me as I was told to "become a casualty" soon after the 3000 yard assault began ….
ref: 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 621 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston ):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).
synonyms: sports day
glosses: A school day for athletic events.
glosses: A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
examples: text: They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.
text: A family of frisky squirrels was having a field day amongst the towering obstacle course of foliage.
ref: 2014, Vance Munraff, Sounds Like Paradise: a Fugitive's Tale, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 62:
coordinate_terms: field night
glosses: A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.
examples: text: The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.
text: The scandal was a field day for the press.
text: What a field day for the heat (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / A thousand people in the street (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Singing songs and a-carryin' signs (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Mostly say "Hooray for our side" (Ooo-ooo-ooo)
ref: 1966 December, Stephen Stills, “For What It's Worth”performed by Buffalo Springfield:
text: It had become a legal nightmare. All parties had retained attorneys; the community and press were having a field day.
ref: 2009, Julie Jurgens-Shimek, Autism Is a Four Letter Word: Love, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32:
text: I thought I'd been so thorough, so efficient, and so cost conscious, but look where I was now. The devil was having a field day with my head.
ref: 2012, Claudia Parker, Becoming a Mother, While Losing My Own, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 158:
text: The reporters were having a field day with our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.
ref: 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:
text: The Russian foreign ministry had a field day denouncing what it called western propaganda as a high-level lie.
ref: 2022 November 15, Patrick Wintour, “Sergei Lavrov, a fixture of Russian diplomacy facing his toughest test in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: US Coast Guard and US Marine Corps
glosses: A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.
Related terms: word: open field
Jesuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕzʹo͞oĭt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛzuɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʒuɪt/
enpr: jĕzʹ(y)o͞oĭt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛz(j)uɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʒuɪt/
Forms: form: Jesuits
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin Iēsūīta, from Latin Iēsūs + -īta.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
synonyms: Ignatian
Ignatianist
glosses: A member of the Society of Jesus.
glosses: A crafty person; an intriguer.
Derived terms: bejesuit
box the Jesuit
Jesuited
Jesuitess
Jesuitic
Jesuitical
Jesuitise
Jesuitism
Jesuitize
Jesuitocracy
Jesuitry
Jesuit's bark
Jesuits' drops
Jesuits' nuts
Jesuits' powder
Jesuits' tea
Jesuit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕzʹo͞oĭt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛzuɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʒuɪt/
enpr: jĕzʹ(y)o͞oĭt
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛz(j)uɪt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʒuɪt/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin Iēsūīta, from Latin Iēsūs + -īta.
Senses: synonyms: jesuitic
Jesuitic
jesuitical
Jesuitical
glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Society of Jesus or its members.
Society of Jesus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Society of Jesus
Senses: glosses: An order of Roman Catholic clergy, the Jesuits, having a tradition of education, theological scholarship, and missionary work; formed during the 16th century.
Related terms: Jesuit
jabalina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabalinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of javelina.
top-level domain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-level domains
form: TLD
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil, .mobi or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or any of the ccTLDs.
wikipedia: top-level domain
domain name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /də(ʊ)ˈmeɪnˌneɪm/
Forms: form: domain names
Senses: examples: text: Another potentially problematic category of domain name disputes involves domain names that correspond to more miscellaneous subjects, such as culturally and geographically significant words and phrases.
ref: 2010, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 235:
synonyms: domain
glosses: A unique, case-insensitive name that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.
Derived terms: domain name server
Domain Name System
fully qualified domain name
Related terms: DNS
Domain Name System
URL
top-level domain
zone
subdomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: subdomains
Etymology: From sub- + domain.
Senses: examples: text: As a technical subdomain of biology ecological investigations have evolved from what has been traditionally called natural history.
ref: 1971, Jacob Robert Kantor, The logic of modern science:
glosses: A domain or sphere that is part of a larger domain or sphere.
examples: text: A domain is a subdomain of another domain if it is contained within that domain. This relationship can be tested by seeing if the subdomain's name ends with the containing domain's name. For example, A.B.C.D is a subdomain of B.C.D, C.D, D, and " ".
ref: 1987 November, P. Mockapetris, Domain Concepts and Facilities, RFC1034, also known as STD0013
text: BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Copyright © 2004, 2005 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC"), Copyright © 2000-2003 Internet Software Consortium, https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains. Every subdomain is a domain and every domain except the root is also a subdomain.
text: "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat," a note on the page said.
ref: 2012 July 13, Doug Gross, “Yahoo hacked, 450,000 passwords posted online”, in CNN Business:
text: On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
ref: 2025 May 22, Anil Dash, “Important Changes are Coming to Glitch”, in Glitch:
glosses: A domain name that has been prefaced with additional parts separated with periods.
examples: text: In en.wiktionary.org, en is a subdomain.
glosses: An additional part prefaced to a domain name.
Synonyms: sense: lower-level part
word: unqualified hostname
Derived terms: subsubdomain
Related terms: second-level domain
top-level domain
hostname
jacal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈkɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: jacals
form: jacales
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli.
Senses: examples: text: The leaning jacal of dried rush-withes and corn sheaves, bound to tall saplings thrust into the earth, roofed with yellowed maguey leaves flattened and overlapping like shingles, hunched drowsy and fragrant in the warmth of noonday.
ref: 1930, Katherine Anne Porter, “María Concepción”, in The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1965, page 5:
text: A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corral where five scrubby horses with big heads stood looking solemnly at the horses passing in the road.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
text: Canning fruit and vegetables in the worst of the summer heat—hotter in the jacals than it was outside.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 84:
glosses: A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the southwestern US.
Related terms: word: shack
substring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substrings
Etymology: From sub- + string.
Senses: examples: text: The substrings of "button" include "butt", "ton", and "on".
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
substring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: substrings
form: substringing
form: substringed
form: substringed
Etymology: From sub- + string.
Senses: examples: text: If an existing character-based column is increased in size and your program does not need the extra characters, the view can be changed to force the smaller size by substringing the existing column.
ref: 2015, Nadir K. Amra, Hernando Bedoya, Tony Cairns, Modernizing IBM i Applications from the Database up to the User Interface and Everything in Between:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To extract a substring from.
examples: text: In this example, knowing that MY_SOUNDEX returns at most six characters, we are substringing the first six characters.
ref: 2010, Thomas Kyte, Expert Oracle Database Architecture: Oracle Database 9i, 10g, and 11g:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To take as a substring.
theoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɪəˈɹɛtɪkəl/
ipa: [ˌθɪə̯ˈɹɛt.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˌθi.əˈɹɛɾ.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˌθiːˈɹet.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˌθiːˈɹet.ɪ.kl̩]
Forms: form: more theoretical
form: most theoretical
Etymology: From Middle English theorothycall, probably from Latin theōrēticus + -al, from Ancient Greek θεωρητικός (theōrētikós).
Senses: examples: text: We may look upon this figure as representing in section a theoretical wing-form, or aerofoil
ref: 1907, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight, page 163:
text: Which makes the concept known as Rods From God the ultimate form of kinetic weaponry. This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit.
ref: 2025 May 12, Jeff Edwards, “Rods from God: Unleashing Orbital Kinetic Bombardment as a Theoretical Defense System”, in Mira Safety:
antonyms: practical
glosses: Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.
Derived terms: antitheoretical
atheoretical
ecotheoretical
game-theoretical
graph-theoretical
group theoretical
hypertheoretical
intertheoretical
intratheoretical
macrotheoretical
metatheoretical
microtheoretical
nontheoretical
number-theoretical
optimality theoretical
pre-theoretical
pretheoretical
psychotheoretical
queer theoretical
ring theoretical
ring-theoretical
set-theoretical
theoreticalism
theoreticality
theoretical key
theoretically
theoreticalness
theoretical oxygen demand
theoretical physicist
theoretical physics
theoretical plate
theoretical probability
theozyme
transtheoretical
untheoretical
istid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of instead.
MNLF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Moro National Liberation Front.
Related terms: MILF
occasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪʒənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of occasion
occasions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkeɪʒənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of occasion
deals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dēlz
ipa: /diːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of deal
deals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dēlz
ipa: /diːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deal
sponsored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Despite restrictions I did manage to talk a couple of colleagues into doing a sponsored walk [...]. Due to COVID-19 we had to organise this ourselves, but it went off splendidly and the three of us walked 12 miles along the Basing Canal on the River Wey and Thames. [...]."
ref: 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
glosses: simple past and past participle of sponsor
Derived terms: co-sponsored
sponcon
sponsored walk
sTLD
implemented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpləmɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of implement
painted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪn.tɪd/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.nɪd/
rhymes: -eɪntɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paint
painted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪn.tɪd/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.nɪd/
rhymes: -eɪntɪd
Senses: examples: text: Large-scale projects such as motion-picture production use huge sets with seamless painted walls, cycs, and floors—not to mention a vast array of lights.
ref: 2014, Jeff Foster, The Green Screen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: Coated with paint.
examples: text: Sometimes the spatters extend a significant distance above other painted figures.
ref: 2001, James D. Keyser, Michael Klassen, Plains Indian Rock Art, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: Depicted in paint.
examples: text: the painted desert
text: painted turtle
glosses: Colorful, as if painted.
examples: text: GET OFF THE STREET, YOU PAINTED JEZEBEL.
ref: 1985, Law of the West, Commodore 64:
glosses: Wearing makeup.
examples: text: He had his mouth close to Lily's ear, hoping that this might be interpreted as affection. He felt Lily go rigid beneath the arm he had clasped about her, but that painted smile stayed on her face.
ref: c. 1953, H. A. DeRosso, .44 (page 143)
glosses: Superficial or cosmetic, without underlying depth of feeling.
Derived terms: African painted frog
American painted lady
Australian painted snipe
electropainted
hand-painted
handpainted
Hula painted frog
nonpainted
not as black as one is painted
painted bat
painted beauty
painted berrypecker
painted bristly mouse
painted bug
painted bunting
painted buttonquail
painted cat
painted comber
painted dog
painted drop tongue
painted finch
painted firetail
painted francolin
painted frog
painted grass
painted grasshawk
painted hound
painted hunting dog
painted Jezebel
painted lady
painted mantis shrimp
paintedness
painted-on
painted partridge
painted-snipe
painted snipe
painted tree rat
painted trillium
painted turtle
painted wolf
unpainted
Related terms: finger-painted
painted by numbers
painted oneself into a corner
painted-out
painted the town red
painted with a broad brush
spray painted
rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
homophone: Rowling
Forms: form: more rolling
form: most rolling
Etymology: By surface analysis, roll + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
examples: text: on a rolling basis
text: a 90-day rolling business plan
text: rolling blackouts or brownouts
glosses: Staggered in time and space.
examples: text: The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.
ref: 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 53:
glosses: Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
examples: text: From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
text: 2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca
glosses: Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
glosses: Making a continuous sound.
examples: text: Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.
ref: 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers:
glosses: Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
hypernyms: atrophic scar
glosses: having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.
raw_tags: of an acne scar
Synonyms: sense: drunk
word: drunk
sense: staggered
word: spaced out
sense: staggered
word: chequerwise
sense: moving by turning over repeatedly
word: spinning
sense: moving by turning over repeatedly
word: tumbling
Derived terms: rolling average
rolling backup
rolling blackout
rolling block
rolling boil
rolling brownout
rolling chair
rolling cipher
rolling contact
rolling demo
Rolling Fork
rolling hitch
rolling introduction
rolling maul
rolling mill
rolling news
rolling paper
rolling pin
rolling press
rolling programme
rolling resistance
rolling scissors
rolling skin disease
rolling spider
rolling start
rolling stock
rolling stone
Rolling Stone
rolling stop
rolling takeoff
rolling the windows
skew rolling mill
rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
homophone: Rowling
Etymology: By surface analysis, roll + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roll
Synonyms: rowling
Derived terms: get the ball rolling
keep the ball rolling
rolling in dough
rolling in money
rolling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
homophone: Rowling
Forms: form: rollings
Etymology: By surface analysis, roll + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
ref: 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:
glosses: The act by which something is rolled.
topics: video-games
synonyms: flyheccing
glosses: A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.
Derived terms: cheese rolling
coal-rolling
cold rolling
egg rolling
eye-rolling
hot rolling
pill rolling
rag-rolling
tongue rolling
Related terms: hypertapping
jitterclicking
coverage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɐv.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈkav.(ə.)ɹɪdʒ/
Forms: form: coverages
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin cooperiō
Old French covrirbor.
Middle English coveren
English cover
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English coverage
From cover + -age. First attested in 1912. Compare Middle English coverage (“a charge for having or stall or booth at a fair”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
text: Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
text: The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
text: There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
text: Professionally published dictionaries do not seem to have extended coverage beyond the most frequent and salient items.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
glosses: An amount by which something or someone is covered.
examples: text: Through services using the Elizabeth line were increased from November 6, but this did not attract significant media coverage - mainly because it has been an operational success, […].
ref: 2022 November 30, Industry Insider, “Autumn Statement boost”, in RAIL, number 971, page 84:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The amount and type of attention given to an event or topic in news media or other media.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
examples: text: The primary coverage area of a station is that area throughout which the station can be received without objectionable interference from static, electrical interfering noises, or interference from other radio broadcasting stations, practically all of the time the station is in operation.
ref: 1932, T. V. O'Connor, “Standardized Communication Aids to Marine Navigation” in Standards Yearbook (U.S. Government Printing Office), 61
glosses: The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
examples: text: Mobile phone coverage is poor in some areas.
glosses: The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Defense.
Derived terms: code coverage
coverage analysis
double coverage
miscoverage
noncoverage
outkick one's coverage
overcoverage
undercoverage
emerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈmɝd͡ʒd/
ipa: /iˈmɜːd͡ʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emerge.
realized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪə.laɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɹi.(ə.)laɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɹɪə.laɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of realize
Harold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəld/
homophone: herald (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: Harolds
Etymology: From a merger of Old English Hereweald and Old English Harold (itself from Old Norse Haraldr), both from Proto-Germanic *Harjawaldaz, from *harjaz (“army”) + *waldaz (“ruler, authority”). Related to Walter, which has the elements reversed. Cognate with Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish Harald, Faroese and Icelandic Haraldur.
Senses: examples: text: For I have heard the Steers / Had land in Saxon times; and your own name / Of Harold sounds so English and so old / I am sure you must be proud of it.
ref: 1882, Alfred Tennyson, The Promise of May:
text: She called her husband Hal because no one else had ever done so and it had a dashing ring, rather out of keeping with Harold's appearance.
ref: 1984, Ruth Rendell, The Killing Doll, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A male given name from Old English or Old Norse.
Derived terms: Ewyas Harold
Harold Holt
Haroldian
Harold Wood
Harry
Staunton Harold
Related terms: Hereward
Harvard
Harold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəld/
homophone: herald (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Etymology: First performed by The Committee, a San Francisco improv group, in 1967. The name is said to have been jokingly suggested by one of the audience.
Senses: glosses: A particular format of improvised theatre, in which characters and themes are introduced and then recur in a series of connected scenes.
Eddie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: Eddy
Senses: examples: text: There's a world of difference between the name Edward, which sounds rather regal and stuffy (Edwardian) and the name Eddie, which sounds like a guy on the bus.
ref: 1994, Caroline Knapp, The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Counterpoint Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: A diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.
Derived terms: Steady Eddie
Eddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: Eddies
form: Eddy
Senses: glosses: A member of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment.
hew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: hue
homophone: Hiw
homophone: Hugh
Forms: form: hews
Etymology: From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”).
Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”). Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).
Senses: examples: text: Of whom he makes such hauocke and such hew, / That swarmes of damned soules to hell he sends
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 49:
glosses: Destruction by cutting down or hewing.
hew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: hue
homophone: Hiw
homophone: Hugh
Forms: form: hews
Etymology: See hue.
Senses: examples: text: […] while the youthful hew
Sits on thy skin like morning dew
ref: 1681, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, lines 33–34:
glosses: Hue; colour.
examples: text: He taught to imitate that Lady trew,
Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:
glosses: Shape; form.
Hmong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: Hmoob
form: Mong
form: Moob
Etymology: From White Hmong Hmoob.
Senses: glosses: A people who live predominantly in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, and (in diaspora) around the world.
Related terms: Pahawh Hmong
Hmong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: Hmoob
form: Mong
form: Moob
Etymology: From White Hmong Hmoob.
Senses: glosses: The lect spoken by these people, which is a cluster of a large number of lects which are sometimes considered dialects and sometimes separate languages.
Synonyms: english: in China
translation: in China
word: Miao
Derived terms: Hmongic
Hmong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈmʌŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑŋ/
ipa: /h(ə)ˈmɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: Hmoob
form: Mong
form: Moob
Etymology: From White Hmong Hmoob.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hmong, their culture, or their lect.
Derived terms: Hmongness
linoleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a polyunsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and two double bonds, essential for human nutrition; it is found in linseed, sunflower and other vegetable oils
Synonyms: octadecadienoic acid
Related terms: linoleate
linoleoyl
linolenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An polyunsaturated fatty acid, having 18 carbon atoms and three double bonds, essential for human nutrition; it is found in linseed and other vegetable oils
Synonyms: octadecatrienoic acid
Derived terms: alpha linolenic acid
isolinolenic acid
margaric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A saturated fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₁₅COOH, that occurs only in very small amounts in natural oils and fats
Synonyms: heptadecanoic acid
metaphosphoric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphosphoric acids
Etymology: From meta- + phosphoric acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an anhydrous form of phosphoric acid that exists as a polymeric glassy solid, (HPO₃)ₙ; used as a drying agent and in dental cement
anhydrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anhydrous
form: most anhydrous
Etymology: From an- + Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having little or no water.
examples: text: Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
ref: 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having no water of crystallization.
Derived terms: nonanhydrous
Related terms: anhydride
water of crystallization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water of crystallisation
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The water present in the crystals of the salts of certain metals; it is weakly bound by electrostatic forces and may normally be removed by heating.
Synonyms: crystallization water
water of hydration
electrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + static.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of, relating to, or produced by electrostatics or static electricity
Derived terms: electrostatically
electrostatic discharge
electrostatic energy
electrostatic force
electrostatic generator
electrostatic motor
electrostatic painting
electrostatic precipitator
electrostatic printer
electrostatics
electrostatic series
nonelectrostatic
polyelectrostatic
electrostatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + statics. Coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the branch of physics that deals with static electricity; that is, with the force exerted by an unchanging electric field upon a charged object
static electricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An electric charge that has built up on an insulated body, often due to friction.
glosses: The electric discharge from such a body.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Electrostatics.
Related terms: triboelectric effect
static cling
dust bunny
swoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: swūp
ipa: /ˈswuːp/
enpr: sūp
ipa: /ˈsuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: swoops
Etymology: From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”). Doublet of swaip. See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word.
Senses: examples: text: The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
text: One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.
ref: 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
text: The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 151:
glosses: An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
examples: text: Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
ref: 1612, John Webster, The White Devil:
glosses: A sudden act of seizing.
examples: text: Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.
ref: 2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 281:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A quick passage from one note to the next.
Related terms: one fell swoop