cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whatcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtʃə/
ipa: /ˈwɒtʃjə/
ipa: /ˈwʌt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈwʌt͡ʃjə/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒtʃə
rhymes: (US) -ʌtʃə
homophone: watcher
homophone: wotcher (UK, non-rhotic)
Forms: form: watcha
form: wotcha
form: wotcher
form: whatchya
form: whutcha
Etymology: From what + -cha.
Senses: examples: text: Whatcha doin'?
text: Whatcha talking 'bout?
text: Whatcha sayin'?
text: There were plenty of ostentatiously noisy walkouts during the last half of Eric De Kuyper's Naughty Boys (Netherlands), which is understandable. On the other hand, I loved the film and found it continually fascinating, so whatcha gonna do?
ref: 1986 February 1, Nicholas Deutsch, “7th Annual New York Gay Film Festival”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 8:
glosses: Contraction of what are you.
examples: text: Whatcha been up to?
glosses: Contraction of what have you.
examples: text: Whatcha think?
text: Whatcha got there?
text: Whatcha wanna do now?
glosses: Contraction of what do you.
examples: text: Do whatcha gotta do!
text: 'Tain't whatcha do, it's the way thatcha do it.
glosses: Contraction of what you.
yardage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardages
Etymology: From yard + -age.
Senses: glosses: An amount or length measured in yards.
glosses: The use of a yard, or the fee charged for it.
examples: text: Aiyuk a junior college transfer excels in grabbing yardage after the catch. No, like, really excels. In mid-October, according a story by The Athletic, Aiyuk was averaging more yards after the catch (13.6) than Jerry Jeudy was averaging per catch
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Territory.
Derived terms: yardage book
yardman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑɹdmən/
Forms: form: yardmen
Etymology: From yard + -man.
Senses: glosses: A worker in any of several types of yard, as:
A worker in a railyard.
hypernyms: yardperson
coordinate_terms: yardmaster
examples: text: I asked the grizzled rustic who appeared to be in sole occupation of the farm buildings, and who was, in fact, the yardman, if he knew whereabouts I should find the [hunting] party. He said something I did not understand, but I followed his pointing arm. […] The yardman, with his lantern, was helping to back ponies into traps. Motor-engines murmured. […]
ref: 1930, Adrian Bell, Corduroy, Faber and Faber:
glosses: A worker in any of several types of yard, as:
A farm worker assigned to the farmyard of a large farm, working at hostler duties (harnessing and hitching teams), loading and unloading wagons, feeding, and so on.
glosses: A worker in any of several types of yard, as:
A laborer hired to do outdoor work.
Ahriman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ariman
form: Ahirman
form: Ahrimen
form: Ahrimanes
Etymology: Derived from Classical Persian اَهْرِمَن (ahriman) or Iranian Persian اَهْریمَن (ahriman), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭧𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭩 (ʾḥlmny /⁠ahreman⁠/), from Avestan 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aŋra.maⁱniiu), compound of 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀 (aŋra, “destruction, destructive”) and 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (maⁱniiu, “spirit, mind, essence, emanation etc.”). Definable through the antithetical 𐬀𐬨𐬆𐬱𐬀⸱𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬌𐬎 (aməša.maⁱniiu, “bounteous spirit”). Doublet of Angra Mainyu.
Senses: examples: text: [A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
ref: 1879, Viktor Rydberg, “The Magic of the People and the Struggle of the Church against It”, in August Hjalmar Edgren, transl., The Magic of the Middle Ages: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 201:
topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The hypostasis of chaos, destruction, evil.
Derived terms: Ahrimanian
Ahrimanic
Related terms: Angra Mainyu
Arimanes
Arimanius
yawner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawners
Etymology: From yawn + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who yawns.
yawner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yawners
Etymology: From yawn (noun) + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: examples: text: The game's over, and the Bills are winners in a 9-6 yawner that saw no touchdowns and sent the nation to bed early.
ref: 1997 October 21, Mark Coatney, “Football: The Big Sleep”, in Time:
topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Something unexciting or boring, as a book, sporting event, or performance.
year-round
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all-year-round
form: year-around
Senses: examples: This is a year-round business, so we can't afford holidays.
glosses: Operating or continuing throughout the year.
year-round
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They live year-round in Florida.
glosses: Continuing throughout the year.
yellowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellownesses
Etymology: From Middle English ȝalownes; equivalent to yellow + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] at least there would be no harm in getting a few bottles of “stuff” from him, since if these proved useless it would still be possible to return to the Purifying Pills, which kept you alive, if they did not remove the yellowness.
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, London: William Blackwood & Sons, Volume III, Book V, Chapter 45, p. 25:
text: 1924, Herbert Jenkins, The Bindles on the Rocks, London: Herbert Jenkins, Chapter VI, Part II,
[…] lemonade of a yellowness sufficient to convince the most inveterate pessimist of the presence of the lemon.
glosses: The state, quality, or degree of being yellow in colour.
glosses: Cowardice.
examples: text: My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to deal with poison; I will possess him with yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous: that is my true humour.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: The vndiscreet carriage of some lasciuious gallant […] by his often frequenting of an house, and bold vnseemly gestures, may make a breach, and by his ouer familiarity, if he be inclined to yellownesse, colour him quite out.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 2, page 680:
glosses: Jealousy.
yellowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛloʊ.i/
Forms: form: yellowier
form: yellowiest
Etymology: From yellow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Let the daisy, yellow-hearted,
With its white leaves starry-parted,
And the cowslips, yellowy pale,
Serve her as a flowery veil—
ref: 1816, John Hamilton Reynolds, “The Fairies”, in The Naiad: a Tale, with Other Poems, London: Taylor & Hessey, page 62:
text: […] the worn-out antiquity of Sulaco, so characteristic with its stuccoed houses and barred windows, with the great yellowy-white walls of abandoned convents behind the rows of sombre green cypresses […]
ref: 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 1, Chapter Eight:
text: I start the truck, drive west along the highway built on the dry bed of the Teays. There’s wide bottoms, and the hills on either side have yellowy billows the sun can’t burn off.
ref: 1977, Breece D’J Pancake, “Trilobites”, in The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, page 24:
glosses: Somewhat yellow; yellowish.
yeomanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjoʊmənɹi/
Forms: form: yeomanries
Etymology: From Middle English ȝemanry, yemandry, yema[n]ri, yemanrye, yomandrye, yomanry; equivalent to yeoman + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
glosses: A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
glosses: A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
Related terms: yeoman
yeshiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈʃiː.və/
Forms: form: yeshivas
form: yeshivot
form: yeshiba
form: yeshibah
form: yeshivah
form: eshiba
form: eshiva
Etymology: From Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, “meeting”).
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.
ref: 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.
ref: 2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5
text: Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.
ref: 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:
topics: education
glosses: An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
Coordinate terms: cheder
Derived terms: rosh yeshiva
Yeshiva English
Yeshivish
yes-man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛs mæn/
Forms: form: yes-men
form: yes man
Etymology: From yes + man.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yes man.
yipe
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: yipe!
Senses: glosses: Used to express surprise, fear, or dismay.
Related terms: yipes
yippee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjɪˈpi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: yipee
form: yippie
Etymology: Of imitative origin. Perhaps an extension and modification of hip (interjection). Compare Dutch joepie (“yippee”).
Senses: examples: text: You'll understand, though, if I don't jump up and down and yell "Yippee!"
ref: 1994, Frasier, episode 2.05:
text: While they are not saying “yippee, look what AI can do” (in fact, some say they are trying to highlight risks), by publishing in scientific journals, they are risking lending credibility to the very idea of using AI in problematic, physiognomic ways.
ref: 2022 May 20, Trenton W. Ford, “Is your face gay? Conservative? Criminal? AI researchers are asking the wrong questions”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
synonyms: whee
whoopee
yay
yeah
yippee ki-yay
glosses: Used to express excitement or joy.
Derived terms: yippee ki-yay
yippee skippy
shipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpmənt/
Forms: form: shipments
Etymology: From ship + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.
text: The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday.
ref: 2024 May 7, Oren Liebermann, “US paused shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over potential use in Rafah incursion”, in CNN:
text: The de minimis exemption, as it’s known, allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the United States duty-free, often more or less skipping time-consuming inspections and paperwork.
ref: 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
examples: text: Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.
glosses: The act of transporting goods.
Derived terms: preshipment
yodeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yodelers
form: yodeller
Etymology: From yodel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sings so that their voice fluctuates rapidly between their normal chest voice and a falsetto, one who yodels.
yoo-hoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Choir! Choir! Yoo-hoo! Choir, gather around, I have great news.
ref: 2003, The Fighting Temptations (movie)
glosses: Alternative form of yoohoo.
youthfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːθfəli/
Forms: form: more youthfully
form: most youthfully
Etymology: From youthful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, it would be wonderful if, in the face of inevitable fate, all people could live youthfully and vitally until the end.
ref: 1980, Daisaku Ikeda, Yasushi Inoue, Letters of Four Seasons, Harper & Row, page 76:
glosses: In a youthful manner.
Synonyms: word: juvenilely
word: spruntly
word: youngly
word: youthfully
Hypernyms: word: newly
Hyponyms: word: boyishly
word: girlishly
Related terms: word: young
word: child
word: youngling
yow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yows
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yowe.
yow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Yow! I dropped it on my toe!
glosses: Expression of pain; ouch.
examples: text: You've been divorced four times? Yow!
glosses: Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
Synonyms: ouch
youch
yuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːˈæn/
ipa: /ˈwæn/
ipa: /juˈɑn/
ipa: /ˈwɑn/
ipa: /ˈjuən/
homophone: won
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: yuan
form: yuans
form: yüan
Etymology: From Mandarin 院 (yuàn).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: One of the five branches of the government of the Republic of China.
Derived terms: Control Yuan
Examination Yuan
Executive Yuan
Judical Yuan
Legislative Yuan
yuk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
homophone: yuck
rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology: Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.
Senses: glosses: An exuberant laugh.
yuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
homophone: yuck
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yuks
Etymology: Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.
Senses: examples: text: The latest yuk from Congress is called the balanced-budget amendment. It could wind up making slumps deeper and recoveries more difficult — and that's no joke.
ref: 1992, Alan S. Blinder, Business Week, numbers 3268-3272:
glosses: Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
yuk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
homophone: yuck
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: yuks
form: yukking
form: yukked
form: yukked
Etymology: Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.
Senses: glosses: To laugh exuberantly.
Derived terms: yuk it up
Related terms: yuck
hyuk
yuk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʌk/
homophone: yuck
rhymes: -ʌk
Senses: examples: text: Yuk! Egg on my face! With my usual wait 'til it's history GCN reading habits, I opened my April Fools issue and began to read the election year news; it did not occur to this avid reader that anything was being spoofed until the second paragraph.
ref: 1988 May 7, Nancy M. Gill, “I Don't Always Agree, But I Appreciate GCN”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Alternative spelling of yuck (disgust)
intern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
Forms: form: interns
form: interne
Etymology: From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
Senses: glosses: A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
intern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
Forms: form: interns
form: interning
form: interned
form: interned
form: interne
Etymology: From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
text: That description was of a camp at the Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco, one of several centers in California where Japanese and Japanese-American residents (Issei and Nisei) were held before being interned in areas remote from the West Coast.
ref: 1989 October 15, Vivien Raynor, “Interned Artists, Devoid of Grievance”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Cuba could take pride in its health system. It could, that is, if it weren't for the way it treats those who test positive [for HIV], whether sick or not, interning them in an isolation that has no medical justification, that is against all scientific direction and is a frontal assault on all human rights.
ref: 1989 December 10, Herbert Daniel, “An Open Letter To Fidel Castro”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:
glosses: To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
examples: text: The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
glosses: To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
qualifier: especially a neutral state
raw_tags: of a state
examples: text: Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.
ref: 2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook, page 81:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To internalize.
Derived terms: internable
internee
internment
reintern
skintern
uninterned
intern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
Forms: form: more intern
form: most intern
form: interne
Etymology: From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: Man was made after Gods image, which must be understood of the intern graces of the Soule
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Internal.
intern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
ipa: /ˈɪntɝn/
ipa: /ˈɪntɜːn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
Forms: form: interns
form: interne
Etymology: From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Students know that working as an intern can provide contacts and all-important experience in their chosen fields. And last year, 26 percent of graduates hired by companies had worked as interns, compared with 9 percent the year before.
ref: 1994 November 6, William Goss, “Interning For Pleasure And Profit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
glosses: A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.
Coordinate terms: resident
trainee
Derived terms: internship
skintern
intern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
ipa: /ˈɪntɝn/
ipa: /ˈɪntɜːn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝn/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːn/
Forms: form: interns
form: interning
form: interned
form: interned
form: interne
Etymology: From French interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), from inter (“between”); compare Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.
glosses: To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
honda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒndə/
ipa: /ˈhɑndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
Forms: form: hondas
Etymology: Probably from Spanish honda, fonda (“sling”), from Latin funda (“hand-sling”); or from Spanish hondón (“eye of a needle”), from hondo (“bottom; deep, profound”) (from Latin fundus (“bottom, lowest part”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”)) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Senses: glosses: A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
glosses: A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.
Derived terms: honda knot
Mithraism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Translation (1903) of French mithriacisme, as used in 1899 by Franz Cumont as shorthand for "mystères de Mithra". Cumont was convinced that Mithraism was "Roman Mazdaism", hence his (and earlier) treatments of Latin Mithras and Avestan Mithra as synonyms, and the continuing de-inflection of the Latin name (vocative) as French Mithra.
Senses: examples: text: It has left many monuments of itself here in Britain. At Rome the worship was extremely popular, and it may almost be said to have been a matter of chance whether Mithraism should overwhelm Christianity, or whether the younger religion by adopting many of the rites of the older one should establish itself (as it did) in the face of the latter.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 41:
text: "Confirmation is mithraism. So is baptism, only it was blood instead of water. As to the sacrificial meal..." Mason put his fingers in his ears.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: An astrology-based, middle-platonic mystery religion of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire that claimed to have been founded by Zoroaster, admitted only men, and was especially popular among the Roman military.
Mithras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Mithras. Doublet of Mehr, mitre, and Mitra.
Senses: glosses: A Roman god, cult figure of the 2nd-to-4th-century Roman mystery religion known as the "Mysteries of Mithras", or Mithraism.
Derived terms: Mithrasmas
Related terms: Mithra
Mithraic
Mithratic
Mitra
facultative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæ.kəl.tə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈfæ.kəlˌteɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more facultative
form: most facultative
Etymology: From French facultatif. By surface analysis, faculty + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
examples: text: But does the penny fare end here, said Mr. Nixon, at a merely facultative stop? Surely it ends rather at the station.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: The policy would be a “facultative” policy, whereby the insurers would first have assessed the risk involved in the particular shipment and decided to accept it.
ref: 2020, Jonathan Mance et al., editors, Insurance Disputes, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 584:
synonyms: word: discretionary
word: elective
word: facultative
word: free
word: noncompulsory
word: nonmandatory
word: nonobligate
word: nonobligatory
word: nonrequired
word: nonrequisite
word: optional
word: optionary
word: unrequired
word: volitional
word: voluntary
antonyms: word: dispensable
word: gratuitous
word: inessential
word: needless
word: optional
word: unnecessary
word: unneeded
glosses: Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
glosses: That grants permission or power to do something.
examples: text: facultative feeder
text: This hypothesis might be supported by the evidence that there are varieties of pathogenic fungi of which parasitism is in varying degrees, between obligate parasitic and facultative parasitic. The facultative parasite, which usually lives as a saprophyte but under some conditions can parasitize on a plant, seems to be a pathogen with the lowest parasitic adaptation.
ref: 1993, Hachiro Oku, Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Control, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: obligate
glosses: Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
examples: text: For then it is seen, as before, that it is the points outside the two sheets which are facultative, and not the points between the surface and the touching plane.
ref: 1866, George Salmon, Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, and Co., page 197:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: At which a given function is positive.
raw_tags: of a point
Derived terms: facultatively
facultativeness
facultativity
nonfacultative
isomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈsɒməˌɹeɪz/
ipa: /aɪˈsɑməˌɹeɪs/
Forms: form: isomerases
Etymology: From isomer + -ase.
Senses: glosses: Any enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of one isomeric form of a chemical compound to another.
Derived terms: cycloisomerase
glucose-6-phosphate isomerase
peptidylprolyl isomerase
phosphoglucoisomerase
phosphoglucose isomerase
phosphoglucoseisomerase
phosphoisomerase
phosphoriboisomerase
photoisomerase
topoisomerase
triosephosphateisomerase
sluiceway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluiceways
Etymology: From sluice + way.
Senses: glosses: A man-made channel designed to redirect excess water.
Related terms: sluice
sluice gate
sluice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːs/
ipa: /ˈslʉs/
ipa: /sljuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: sluices
Etymology: From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.
Senses: glosses: An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
glosses: A water gate or floodgate.
examples: text: At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
ref: 1693, Will[iam] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], London: […] Peter Buck, […], →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 45:
text: Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.
ref: 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason:
text: This home familiarity […] opens the sluices of sensibility.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
glosses: The stream flowing through a floodgate.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
Coordinate terms: dam
lock
weir
Derived terms: Seaton Sluice
sluice gate
sluice valve
sluiceway
saltless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salt + -less.
Senses: glosses: free of salt
glosses: insipid; tasteless
sanguinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanguinities
Etymology: From sanguine + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.
saraband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarabands
Senses: examples: text: She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab.
ref: 1822, Walter Scott, “Peveril of the Peak”, in Waverley Novels:
glosses: Alternative form of sarabande.
Macedon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Macedone, from Middle French Macédoine.
Senses: glosses: Ancient Macedonia.
glosses: Other places:
A town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: Other places:
A town, and hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wayne County, New York, United States.
glosses: Other places:
An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, United States.
Derived terms: Macedon Ranges
Mount Macedon
Macedonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macedonian
Molossia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Μολοσσῐ́ᾱ (Molossĭ́ā).
Senses: glosses: A region of ancient Epirus, the territory of the Molossians.
examples: text: X # 2 25 WESTARCTICAN DOLLARS Copper-Nickel, 39 mm. Ruler: Grand Duke Travis I Obv: Arms Rev: Crown and rearing horse on quartered flag background Rev. Legend: Treaty of Friendship between Westarctica and Molossia Edge: Reeded
ref: 2011, George S. Cuhaj, Thomas Michael, editors, Unusual World Coins (companion volume to the Standard Catalog of World Coins), 6th edition, Krause Publications:
text: The micronation of Molossia in Nevada opened its own railroad line in March 2000.
ref: 2014, Kathy Ceceri, Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture with 25 Projects, Nomad Press, →ISBN:
text: The most well known micronation in the United States is Molossia—no, I didn’t make this up—located in Dayton, Nevada.
ref: 2018, Joseph Pisenti, Answers to Questions You’ve Never Asked: Explaining the What If in Science, Geography and the Absurd, Mango Publishing Group, →ISBN:
text: In August 2021, Williams visited the Republic of Molossia, an 11.3-acre micronation in Nevada that declared independence from the United States of America in 1998, where he was given a personal tour by “His Excellency President Kevin Baugh.” He learned about the Republic of Molossia’s ongoing “war” with now-defunct East Germany, how the local currency (the “valora”) is backed by chocolate chip cookie dough instead of gold, and had his passport stamped and his photo taken on the “border” with the United States.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
synonyms: Republic of Molossia
glosses: A micronation claiming sovereignty over 1.28 acres of land near Dayton, Nevada.
Derived terms: Molossian
Molossians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molossian
Molossian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Molossians
Etymology: From Molossia + -n.
Senses: glosses: A member of the ancient Epirote ethnos which Olympias came from.
examples: text: But meanwhile a new grating was opened, and into the arena rushed, with mad speed and barking, whole packs of dogs,—gigantic, yellow Molossians from the Peloponnesus, pied dogs from the Pyrenees, and wolf-like hounds from Hibernia, purposely famished; their sides were lank, and their eyes bloodshot.
ref: 1896, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter LV, in Jeremiah Curtin, transl., “Quo Vadis.” A Narrative of the Time of Nero., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 432:
text: The hounds were Indian, Cretan or Locrian; there were also Molossians (mastiffs) and Spartans (big greyhounds).
ref: 1975, Roger Longrigg, The History of Foxhunting, page 14:
text: One constituent spent an hour educating me on the history of pit bulls: the Molossians, the Mastiffs; the Greeks, Romans, Brits, Tibetans, and Germans; the crossbreeds. A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries. Regardless, they were again and again attacking other dogs and people.
ref: 2012, Michael Bryant, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope, Viking:
text: He loved dogs, indulged by Antius’ kennel composed of Neapolitan mastiffs and molossians, original Roman war dogs.
ref: 2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, in The End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 194:
synonyms: Molossian dog
Molossian hound
Molossus
glosses: A breed of large dog of classical antiquity native to Epirus, resembling a mastiff and used as a hunting dog and guard dog.
Molossian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Molossian
form: most Molossian
Etymology: From Molossia + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Molossia or Molossians.
Olympias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπιάς (Olumpiás).
Senses: glosses: Epirote queen who was the mother of Alexander the Great.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.
Related terms: Alexander
Epirote
Epirus
Macedon
Macedonian
Molossia
Molossian
Molossians
Philip
Alexandros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), a male given name used in (modern) Greece. Cognate with English Alexander.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Αλέξανδρος (Aléxandros).
blends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: plural of blend
blends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blend
paediatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pediatrics.
Derived terms: odontopaediatrics
telepaediatrics
Related terms: paediatric
pædiatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of paediatrics.
Related terms: pædiatric
petrol station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrol stations
Senses: synonyms: word: petrol filling station
word: filling station
word: gas station
word: filling station
word: fuel provider
word: fuel station
word: fuel supplier
word: fueling station
word: fuelling station
word: garage
word: gas bar
word: gas station
word: gasoline stand
word: gasoline station
word: motor station
word: petrol filling station
word: petrol pump
word: petrol garage
word: petrol station
word: service station
word: servo
word: vehicle station
glosses: A facility selling fuel for motor vehicles.
bichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bichlorides
Etymology: From bi- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dichloride.
Derived terms: bichloride of mercury
mercury bichloride
palladio-bichloride
perchloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perchlorides
Etymology: From per- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
Derived terms: mercury perchloride
hypochlorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + chlorous.
Senses: examples: text: This lack of shelf stability is the biggest reason hypochlorous acid sprays never became a staple of the cleaning-products aisle. […] For decades hypochlorous acid lingered in the background, used as a disinfectant in specific industrial and commercial contexts that could justify a pricey, on-site manufacturing process to create products on demand. But COVID accelerated the need for different methods of disinfection that would be safe, effective and easy to use in a wide range of environments.
ref: 2025 May 1, Jen Schwartz, “The magic molecule”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 5, pages 54-55:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or derived from chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.
Derived terms: hypochlorous acid
fluoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Etymology: From fluoro- + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, obtained from or containing fluorine.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hydrofluoric.
Derived terms: fluoric acid
hydrofluoric
hypofluoric
nonfluoric
perfluoric acid
silicofluoric
zircofluoric acid
Related terms: fluorous
hypofluorous
nonfluorous
hydrofluoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + fluoric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing hydrogen and fluorine.
Synonyms: fluohydric
Derived terms: hydrofluoric acid
mercuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mercury + -ic, partly after French mercurique.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Specifically (of a compound), containing mercury with an oxidation number of 2.
examples: text: I was the least mercuric, the most sedentary of the three, and my poor eyesight made me an indifferent athlete, though I fenced well and even got my blue for it.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 326:
glosses: Mercurial (of people).
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to or derived from mercury
word: mercurous
sense: containing mercury(II)
word: hydrargyric
Derived terms: mercurammonium
mercuric acid
mercuric chloride
mercuric nitrate
mercurico-
mercuric oxide
mercuric sulfide
mercuric sulphide
methylmercuric
organomercuric
phenylmercuric
potassio-mercuric
Related terms: mercurous
mercurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mercury + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a compound, containing mercury with an oxidation number of 1.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to or derived from mercury
word: mercuric
sense: containing mercury(I)
word: hydrargyrous
Derived terms: mercurous chloride
mercurous fluoride
mercurous iodide
mercurous nitrate
mercurous oxide
mercurous sulfide
mercurous sulphide
Related terms: mercuric
phosphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphor + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: An old man to whom a few drops of phosphoric ether had been administered experienced repeated and imperious venereal wants.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5).
examples: text: I refer to the light in the tail of a glow-worm […] first, that it is phosphoric; secondly, that its use is to attract the male insect.
ref: 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology, section XIX:
text: [T]he gulf beneath blended in the darkness, till but one atmosphere seemed both above and below, sometimes illumined by flashes of phosphoric light—meteors that might have suited sea or sky, and, broken by two or three ridges of foam, seen in obscurity, like lines of snow.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 197–198:
glosses: Pertaining to a phosphor; phosphorescent.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to phosphorus
word: phosphorous
sense: resembling phosphorus
word: phosphorous
Derived terms: difluorophosphoric
glycerophosphoric
hypophosphoric
metaphosphoric
orthophosphoric
paraphosphoric
phosphoric acid
phosphoric chloride
polyphosphoric
pyrophosphoric
sulphophosphoric
Related terms: phosphorous
nothing ventured, nothing gained
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Attested since 1546 in a book of English proverbs by John Heywood (see quotation below). Perhaps translated from or influenced by French Qui onques rien n'enprist riens n'achieva (“One who never undertook anything never gained anything”). Though a translation, a similar phrase of "Nothing ventured, nothing have." appears in Sir George Dasent's translation of the Icelandic text "The Saga of the Burnt Njal" (events occurring between 960 and 1020 A.D.), suggesting it may have gone back much further.
However, certain translations of Herodotus 7.9 include "if nothing is ventured in life, then nothing is gained". Suggesting either the phrase or something similar stretches to even before 960AD.
Senses: examples: text: Noght vēter noght haue spare to speke spare to spede
ref: 1546, John Heywood, A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue compacte in a matter concernyng two maner of mariages, The fyrste parte. The leuenth chapiter:
english: Nothing venture, nothing have; spare to speak, spare success
translation: Nothing venture, nothing have; spare to speak, spare success
text: Her husband was one of those unfortunate men, called speculators. He believed that to gain thousands, thousands must be put in jeopardy—“nothing ventured, nothing gained,” was his rule, and he practiced it to perfection.
ref: 1842, E.S.J., “Julia Dayton: Or the power of truth over error”, in Universalist Union, page 609:
text: Do not allow the danger of making a mistake to inhibit your initiative to the point of “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” It is much healthier to expect to make mistakes, take a few good risks now and then, and take your medicine when you lose.
ref: 1944, W. Julian King, The Unwritten Laws of Engineering, page 22:
glosses: If one takes no risks, one will not gain any benefits.
wikipedia: French language
Njáls saga
Synonyms: no pain, no gain
the benefit outweighs the cost
wimple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪmpəl/
rhymes: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: wimples
Etymology: From Middle English wympel, wimpel, from Old English wimpel (“veil, an article of women's dress; a covering for the neck, a cloak, a hood”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (“wimple, scarf, veil”). Cognate with Scots wympill (“wimple”), Dutch wimpel (“streamer, pennant”), German Wimpel (“pennant”), Swedish vimpel (“pennant, banner”), Icelandic vimpill (“hood, cowl”).
Senses: examples: text: There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 54:
text: Even the unprecedented detail of the Urbanist regulations is still not sufficient to enable us to envisage with accuracy the appearance of the wimple or the other items that went to make up the habit.
ref: 1999, Cordelia Warr, “Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages”, in Amy De La Haye, editor, Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning, and Identity, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
glosses: A fold or pleat in cloth.
glosses: A ripple, as on the surface of water.
glosses: A curve or bend.
glosses: A flag or streamer.
wimple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪmpəl/
rhymes: -ɪmpəl
Forms: form: wimples
form: wimpling
form: wimpled
form: wimpled
Etymology: From Middle English wimplen (“to cover, conceal; to fold, drape”).
Senses: examples: text: this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To cover with a wimple.
examples: text: IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
glosses: To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
examples: text: The wind wimples the surface of water.
glosses: To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
examples: text: Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.
ref: 1920, George Allan England, The Flying Legion:
text: She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell
ref: 1836, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
glosses: To flutter.
whippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: whippets
Etymology: Probably from whip (“to move quickly”) + -et.
Senses: glosses: A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing.
whippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: whippets
form: whippit
Etymology: From whipped cream, since "whippits" are typically sold in the United States for use in making whipped cream.
Senses: examples: text: I was smoking hash from under glasses, sniffing glue, doing whippets, popping speed, smoking pot, dropping acid, and occasionally shooting dope.
ref: 2004, Sandra P. Riggin, Forbidden Memories: A Journey of Healing, →ISBN:
synonyms: nang
glosses: A cartridge of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), used as a recreational inhalant drug.
wetlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their hike in the wetlands took them all the way across the marsh but gave them dozens of mosquito bites.
glosses: plural of wetland (“An area or region that is characteristically saturated; a marsh”)
Yoshida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yoshidas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 吉田 (Yoshida).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
hachek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacheks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of háček.
ebb tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebb tides
Senses: glosses: The period between high tide and the next low tide in which the sea is receding.
Related terms: ebb and flow
flood tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flood tides
Senses: examples: text: Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The 120-ton double-track bridge-ramp of the Harwich-Zebrugge ^([sic]) train ferry was seriously damaged when the ferry Essex was lifted on the flood tide to an abnormal height, but was fully restored on March 5.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 303:
glosses: The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore
examples: text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
text: After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.
ref: 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
glosses: The highest point of something; a climax.
hacek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haceks
form: hacky
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of háček.
fiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He was fiddling while Rome burned.
glosses: present participle and gerund of fiddle