cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: soundʹĭng
ipa: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: soundings
Etymology: From sound (“examine with the instrument called a sound, or by auscultation or percussion”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Soundings showed wide variations in depths of water, and from the dredgings of the bottom came new types of sediment […]
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, Oceans and Oceanography, page 189:
text: Morning sounding at Chatham showed dry adiabatic lapse rate all the way to 700 mb this morning […]
ref: 2020 June 25, National Weather Service Boston 9:52 AM forecast discussion
glosses: A test made with a probe or sonde.
examples: text: The sailor took a sounding every five minutes
glosses: A measured depth of water.
examples: text: We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas; Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England
ref: a. 1840, Spanish Ladies (naval song, chorus)
glosses: Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom.
glosses: The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
glosses: The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.(See urethral sounding).
Derived terms: sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: co-sounding
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: echo sounding
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: high-sounding
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: radio sounding
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding balloon
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding board
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding-board
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding line
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding machine
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding rocket
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding rod
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding stone
sense: from all etymologies, all parts of speech (probably needs sorting)
word: sounding-stone
retired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪəd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪəɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more retired
form: most retired
Etymology: From retire + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I lead a retired lifestyle.
glosses: Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet.
examples: text: The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral.
ref: 1910, ‘Saki’, “The Saint and the Goblin”, in Reginald in Russia:
glosses: Of a place, far from civilization, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded.
examples: text: The retired workers are a major expense due to their pensions.
text: Although he is now freed from responsibility for the '390s', they are still fixtures of everyday life for the retired Hertfordshire resident living alongside the WCML. "If you stand on the end of the Up Fast platform at Berkhamsted, watching it go round that corner - the sharpest curve it takes anywhere - you just think, 'wow!'
ref: 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, in RAIL, number 966, page 37:
glosses: Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. (of people)
examples: text: Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.
glosses: No longer in use or production.
Derived terms: retired husband syndrome
retired list
semiretired
unretired
retired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪəd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtaɪəɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From retire + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retire
retiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: I don't really know him well, since he's so shy and retiring.
text: My uncle, as I can remember, was retiring in his disposition, scarcely ever visiting any one and not more frequently receiving any visitors.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 10:
text: Lester was in the thick of social and commercial affairs; he walked in paths to which Jennie's retiring soul had never aspired.
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LX, in Jennie Gerhardt:
glosses: introverted, liking privacy and seclusion.
Derived terms: retiring room
retiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Today is the party for our retiring co-workers.
glosses: present participle and gerund of retire
retiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: retirings
Senses: examples: text: One day of those his retirings ^([sic]), giving out that he was sick, his father Antigonus came on the sudden to visit him, and met a fair dainty youth coming out of his chamber.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: retirement
municipality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjʊˌnɪsɪˈpælɪti/
Forms: form: municipalities
Etymology: Borrowed from French municipalité (Edmund Burke), from municipal + -ité, from Latin municipalis, from municipium (“free city, township”), from municeps (“citizen of a free city or township”), from mūnus (“duty, service”) + -ceps (“taker, catcher”). Equivalent to municipal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
examples: text: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The governing body of such a district.
topics: government
politics
glosses: In the Philippines and in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, second-level administrative divisions that may house one or more cities or towns whose head of government may be called mayors or, in Mexico, municipal presidents.
Derived terms: county-level municipality
ecomunicipality
federal municipality
prefecture-level municipality
province-level municipality
regional municipality
specialized municipality
state-level municipality
submunicipality
supermunicipality
Related terms: municipal
munificence
munificent
remunerate
remuneration
executive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛkjətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛɡzɪˈkjuʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɡju/
Forms: form: more executive
form: most executive
form: exe.
form: exec.
form: execu.
Etymology: From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus, from Latin exsequi, from ex- ‘out’ + sequi ‘follow’.
Senses: glosses: Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
examples: text: executive act
text: an executive officer
text: executive government
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
examples: text: She works in an office with an executive bathroom.
glosses: Exclusive.
executive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛkjətɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛɡzɪˈkjuʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɡju/
Forms: form: executives
form: exe.
form: exec.
form: execu.
Etymology: From Middle French executif, from Latin executivus, from Latin exsequi, from ex- ‘out’ + sequi ‘follow’.
Senses: examples: text: In May, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, acknowledged that A.I. companies would use up all viable data on the internet. […] Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had invested in A.I. for years — but suddenly found himself behind when OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022. He immediately pushed to match and exceed ChatGPT, calling executives and engineers at all hours of the night to push them to develop a rival chatbot, said three current and former employees, who were not authorized to discuss confidential conversations.
ref: 2024 April 6, Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, Nico Grant, “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2024:
glosses: A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
glosses: The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
examples: 1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles
The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
Derived terms: account executive
chief executive
chief executive officer
CEO
compact executive car
corporate executive
dysexecutive
executive agreement
executive ball clicker
executive box
executive branch
executive class
executive committee
executive contour
executive control
executive decision
executive director
executive ego function
executive fallout
executive function
executively
executive mansion
executiveness
executive officer
executive order
executive privilege
executive produce
executive-produce
executive producer
executiveship
executive summary
executive toy
flexecutive
non-executive
nonexecutive
roynish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roynish
form: most roynish
form: roinish
Etymology: French rogneux, from rogne (“scab, mange, itch”).
Senses: glosses: Mangy; scabby.
examples: text: My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft
Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 629-30:
text: Their voices had a roynish sound that grated on Covenant's nerves—he had too many horrid memories of urviles—but he suppressed his discomfort
ref: 1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Mean, paltry, vulgar or troublesome.
Synonyms: sense: scabby
word: reef
word: scald
word: scabby
sense: mean, paltry
word: contemptible
word: miserable
word: trashy
word: despicable
paltry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒltɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɔːltɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɔltɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɑltɹi/
ipa: /ˈpoːltɹi/
homophone: poultry (UK)
Forms: form: paltrier
form: paltriest
form: paultry
form: paultrie
form: palterey
Etymology: From Middle Low German paltrig (“ragged, rubbishy, worthless”), from palter, palte (“cloth, rag, shred”), from Old Saxon *paltro, *palto (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (“scrap, rag, patch”). Of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *polto- (“cloth”), see also Proto-Slavic *poltьno (“linen”).
Cognate with Low German palterig (“ragged, torn”), dialectal German palterig (“paltry”). Compare also Low German palte (“rag”), West Frisian palt (“rag”), Saterland Frisian Palte (“strip; band; tape”), dialectal German Palter (“rag”), Danish pjalt (“rag, tatter”), Swedish palta (“rag”). See also palterly and pelting.
Senses: examples: text: This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
text: She made some paltry excuse and left.
text: There are a great many languages, like Eskimo and Nootka and, aside from paltry exceptions, the Semitic languages, that cannot compound radical elements.
ref: 1921, Edward Sapir, Language: An introduction to the study of speech:
synonyms: insignificant
unimportant
petty
trivial
beggarly
glosses: Trashy, trivial, of little value.
examples: text: Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
text: Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
text: As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,
Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.
Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
text: Meanwhile, the trade deal has left Britain’s fishing communities screaming betrayal, unhappy with their paltry gains and facing expensive barriers to export what they have caught.
ref: 2022 July 8, Daniel Boffey, “Collapsing public support suggests Brexit is anything but done”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: meager
worthless
pitiful
trifling
glosses: Of little monetary worth.
examples: text: a paltry coward
text: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, / A tattered coat upon a stick"
ref: 1928, William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium:
glosses: Despicable; contemptibly unimportant.
Derived terms: paltrily
paltriness
unpaltry
furore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjʊəˈɹɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˈfjʊəɹɚ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: furores
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian furore, from Latin furor. Doublet of furor.
Senses: examples: text: “Despite the current furore over hacking, which is only a modern term for bugging, eavesdropping, signals intercept, listening-in, tapping, monitoring, there has never been guaranteed privacy since the earliest optical telegraphs to today’s internet,” Packer says. “There never was and never will be privacy.”
ref: 2015 July 15, Thomas McMullan, “The world's first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of furor.
backlog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.lɒɡ/
Forms: form: backlogs
Etymology: From back + log. 1680s; originally a large log at the back of a fire. Figurative sense from 1880s, meaning "something stored up for later use". Possibly influenced by logbook as well.
Senses: examples: text: While she was preparing my breakfast, I chopped off a backlog and put it on the fire,[…]
ref: 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, “Ch. V”, in A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier:
text: He threw it on the fire for a back-log, first scraping the live coals and ashes to a heap for his damper.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 31:
glosses: A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
glosses: A reserve source or supply.
examples: text: He went to work on Saturday to try to work through the backlog of papers on his desk.
text: Kyle purchased a new one despite having a backlog of video games that he hasn't played.
text: With much of the building unrenovated since it was built in the 19th century, there is a significant backlog of repairs estimated to be in excess of £1bn.
ref: 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 45:
glosses: An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
glosses: A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
backlog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.lɒɡ/
Forms: form: backlogs
form: backlogging
form: backlogged
form: backlogged
Etymology: From back + log. 1680s; originally a large log at the back of a fire. Figurative sense from 1880s, meaning "something stored up for later use". Possibly influenced by logbook as well.
Senses: glosses: To acquire something as a backlog, or to become a backlog
tropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɑpɪkəl
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɔp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ə.kəl/
ipa: [ˈtɹɔ̟p.ə.kəl]
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -əʊpɪkəl
Forms: form: more tropical
form: most tropical
form: trop.
Etymology: From tropic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
examples: text: We've had a lot of tropical nights this summer.
text: My favorite tropical fruits are pineapples and coconuts.
text: Whale sharks are found in all the tropical waters of the world. As with many tropical species, an occasional stray wanders into colder waters.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: From, or similar to, a hot, humid climate.
examples: text: But we, by the real spiritual presence of Christ, do understand Christ to be present, as the Spirit of God is present in the hearts of the faithful, by blessing and grace; and this is all which we mean besides the tropical and figurative presence.
ref: 1653 (indicated as 1654), Jeremy Taylor, “The Real Presence and Spiritual of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, Proved against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. Section I. State of the Question.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume IX, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, paragraph 8, page 429:
text: The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Pertaining to, involving, or of the nature of a trope or tropes; figurative, metaphorical.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to tropical geometry.
Derived terms: Afrotropical
amphitropical
antitropical
boreotropical
circumtropical
extratropical
ex-tropical cyclone
intertropical
intratropical
isotropical
juxtatropical
neotropical
non-tropical
non-tropical sprue
palaeotropical
paleotropical
pantropical
paratropical
post-tropical
semitropical
sub-tropical
subtropical
supertropical
tropical almond
tropical arc
tropical astrology
tropical cyclone
tropical depression
tropical dial
tropical disease
tropical disturbance
tropical fish
tropical fruit
tropical house
tropicalist
tropicality
tropicalization
tropicalize
tropically
tropical milkweed
tropical month
tropicalness
tropical rainforest
tropical reed
tropical rock
tropical splenomegaly syndrome
tropical sprue
tropical storm
tropical sweet potato
tropical theileriosis
tropical ulcer
tropical warehouse moth
tropical wave
tropical yam
tropical year
troppo
ultratropical
untropical
tropical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɒpɪkəl
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɑpɪkəl
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɔp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ə.kəl/
ipa: [ˈtɹɔ̟p.ə.kəl]
ipa: /ˈtɹəʊ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹɒp.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -əʊpɪkəl
Forms: form: tropicals
form: trop.
Etymology: From tropic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The potato, as a mountain tropical plant, is capable of growing in cooler weather than any other tropical except the Nasturtian.
ref: 1856, “The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 12, page 275:
glosses: A tropical plant.
true north
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: True North
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: At a given point, the direction in which the geographic North Pole of the earth lies.
glosses: A correct course or right direction.
Related terms: grid north
magnetic north
true bearing
Rennes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
homophone: wren
Etymology: From French Rennes, from Old French Resnes, Rednes, from Latin Rēdonēs. Doublet of Redones.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; the capital city of the region of Brittany.
Geneva Convention
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Geneva Convention
form: Geneva Conventions
Senses: qualifier: international law
glosses: Any of four international treaties that define the required treatment for prisoners of war by their captors.
Warsaw Convention
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Warsaw Convention
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: international law
glosses: An international treaty (full title: Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, Signed at Warsaw on 12 October 1929) signed in Warsaw in 1929, covering international air travel, including such topics as ticketing, cargo and liability.
Related terms: Warsaw Pact
harridan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.dən/
ipa: /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.dən/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.dən/
Forms: form: harridans
Etymology: Perhaps a modification of French haridelle (“old horse, nag”).
Senses: examples: text: Why is that tattling old harridan, Peggy O'Dowd, to make free with my name at her d—d supper-table, and advertise my engagement over the three kingdoms?
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 37:
synonyms: word: battle axe
word: bitch
word: brim
word: brimstone
word: cat
word: crow
word: dragon
word: faggot
word: fishwife
word: harpy
word: harridan
word: hellcat
word: jade
word: nag
word: nudnik
word: scold
word: she-devil
word: shrew
word: termagant
word: virago
word: vixen
word: witch
glosses: A vicious and scolding woman, especially an older one.
installation art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Chasca's ring is unique. It appears to be, for lack of a better term, a massive piece of alien "installation art." The rings are made of small pieces of synthetic material, and are almost invisible from space. From the ground, they catch and scatter the light of Matano in picturesque ways. It is not known who created the ring or when.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chasca planetary description:
glosses: A genre of art which incorporates any media, including the physical features of the site, to create a conceptual experience in a particular environment.
conceptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛp.tjʊəl/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃʊəl/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃu.əl/
ipa: /kənˈsep.t͡ʃʉ.əl/
Forms: form: more conceptual
form: most conceptual
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin conceptuālis, from Latin conceptus, perfect passive participle of concipiō (“take hold of; conceive”); see concept and -al.
Senses: examples: text: The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception.
examples: text: We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
glosses: Existing only in the imagination.
glosses: Of or relating to conceptualism.
Synonyms: sense: of a concept
word: ideal
sense: of a concept
word: notional
sense: imaginary
word: ideal
sense: imaginary
word: imaginary
sense: imaginary
word: notional
Derived terms: aconceptual
anticonceptual
biconceptual
conceptual analysis
conceptual art
conceptual definition
conceptual engineering
conceptual fallacy
conceptual graph
conceptual inverse
conceptualism
conceptualist
conceptuality
conceptualization
conceptualize
conceptually
conceptual metaphor
conceptual network
conceptual physics
conceptual schema
metaconceptual
multiconceptual
neoconceptual
nonconceptual
periconceptual
photoconceptual
postconceptual
preconceptual
subconceptual
uniconceptual
Related terms: concept
conceptualism
conceptual art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: anti-object art
post-object art
glosses: A genre of art in which the transmission of ideas is more important than the creation of an art object
heterocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having atoms of two or more different elements in at least one of its rings.
raw_tags: of a cyclic compound
examples: text: Other highly effective heterocyclic substituents were pyrazinyl and quinoxalyl.
ref: 1951, Apollonia Frances Olson, Helen G. Tibbitts, A Study of Head Nurse Activities in a General Hospital, 1950, page 163:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having one or more atoms other than carbon in at least one of its rings.
raw_tags: of a cyclic compound
Synonyms: word: heterocyclical
topics: organic-chemistry
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: carboheterocyclic
Derived terms: heterocyclically
nitroheterocyclic
non-heterocyclic
nonheterocyclic
polyheterocyclic
Related terms: heterocycle
heterocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterocyclics
Etymology: From hetero- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocycle
Related terms: alkaloid
anthocyanin
azole
dioxin
flavone
furan
purine
pyran
pyridine
pyrimidine
pyrrole
quinoline
thiazole
thiophene
cyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.klɪk/
ipa: /ˈsɪk.lɪk/
ipa: /ˈsɑɪ.klɪk/
Forms: form: more cyclic
form: most cyclic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). Possibly from cycle + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The weather had a cyclic pattern of rain and sun.
text: Our recent article on the York-Knaresborough-Harrogate branch mentioned that the diesel multiple-units covering the passenger service did so in the course of complicated cyclic diagrams.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: N.E. cyclic m.u. workings”, in Trains Illustrated, page 136:
glosses: Characterized by, or moving in cycles, or happening at regular intervals; cyclical
examples: text: Benzene and cyclohexane are both cyclic compounds.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having chains of atoms arranged in a ring.
raw_tags: of a compound
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having parts arranged in a whorl.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being generated by only one element.
raw_tags: of a group
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be inscribed in a circle.
raw_tags: of a polygon
examples: text: On it came, closer and closer, and as it did so it became clear that the pilot, if he was alive, had terminal intentions. Though the torpedo somehow missed, the plane itself did not. To those watching helplessly from other stations, the ship's antiaircraft gunners, in their final moments, were an inspiration: eyes focused through iron sights on the plane as it sped at them, weapons hot, going cyclic, hunched down and never flinching until the Betty struck high on the mainmast, killing them all.
ref: 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17 Dec 2022, page 256:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Firing at its full cyclic rate.
raw_tags: of an automatic weapon
Synonyms: sense: happening at regular intervals
word: periodic
word: periodic
Derived terms: alicyclic
allocyclic
anticyclic
autocyclic
azacyclic
benzocyclic
bicyclic
carbocyclic
cocyclic
concyclic
constacyclic
cyclical
cyclically
cyclic chorus
cyclic group
cyclic-inscriptable
cyclicism
cyclicity
cyclicly
cyclic module
cyclic nucleotide
cyclic number
cyclic poet
cyclic quadrilateral
cyclic rate
cyclic redundancy check
cyclic vomiting syndrome
decacyclic
demicyclic
dicyclic
diskcyclic
electrocyclic
endocyclic
eucyclic
exocyclic
geocyclic
heptacyclic
heterocyclic
hexacyclic
holocyclic
homocyclic
hypercyclic
intracyclic
isocyclic
macrocyclic
mesocyclic
metacyclic
monocyclic
multicyclic
negacyclic
noncyclic
octacyclic
oligocyclic
ovulocyclic
oxacyclic
pancyclic
pentacyclic
pericyclic
photocyclic
pluricyclic
polycyclic
procyclic
pseudocyclic
quasicyclic
semicyclic
supercyclic
tetracyclic
tricyclic
unicyclic
cyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.klɪk/
ipa: /ˈsɪk.lɪk/
ipa: /ˈsɑɪ.klɪk/
Forms: form: cyclics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυκλικός (kuklikós). Possibly from cycle + -ic.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's main rotor disk.
-ier
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -y + -er.
Senses: examples: dicey → dicier; clayey → clayier; gluey → gluier; happy → happier; scary → scarier; tomatoey → tomatoier
glosses: spelling of the suffix sequence -y followed by -er, or of any word ending in -(e)y suffixed with -er.
Related terms: -ied
-iest
-ier
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from French -ier, doublet of -eer, -yer, -ary, and -ar.
Senses: examples: clothier, perfumier
glosses: Forming nouns denoting occupations, particularly with words from French.
furan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjʊə.ɹæn/
ipa: /ˈfjʊɹ.æn/
Forms: form: furans
Etymology: From furfural + -an.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₄O.
Derived terms: agarofuran
anthrafuran
arabinofuran
arylfuran
benzofuran
bifuran
butylfuran
carbofuran
ceftiofur
difuran
dimethylfuran
eriobofuran
furanic
furanochromone
furanoflavonoid
furanoid
furanoindoline
furanone
furanose
furanosteroid
furanoxide
furanyl
furanyne
furbucillin
furocoumarin
furofuran
furoic
furoin
furyl
fuzlocillin
galactofuran
halofuran
isofuran
menthofuran
methanofuran
methylfuran
methyl furan
mulberrofuran
naphthofuran
neurofuran
nifuran
nitrofuran
novofuran
orafuran
otofuran
parfuran
phenylfuran
polyfuran
pyrufuran
rosefuran
selenofuran
shikonofuran
tetrahydrofuran
thiofuran
trifuran
Related terms: pyran
pyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɹəʊl/
Forms: form: pyrroles
Etymology: From German Pyrrol, corresponding to Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “reddish, fiery”) + -ole.
Senses: examples: text: The way the red crystals absorbed light suggested that the molecule might contain a porphyrin-like structure, a flat ring made up of four smaller rings called pyrroles […].
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₅N.
Synonyms: azole
Derived terms: acylpyrrole
arylpyrrole
benzylpyrrole
bipyrrole
cryptopyrrole
dipyrrole
fluoropyrrole
kryptopyrrole
oligopyrrole
phenylpyrrole
polypyrrole
pyrrolic
pyrroline
pyrrolobenzodiazepine
tetrapyrrole
vinylpyrrole
thiophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiophenes
Etymology: From thio- + phene ("benzene").
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms and a sulfur atom; especially the simplest one, C₄H₄S.
Derived terms: articaine
benzodithiophene
benzonaphthothiophene
benzothiophene
bithiophene
butylthiophene
cefalotin
cefoxitin
chlorothiophene
dibenzothiophene
dihydrothiophene
dioxythiophene
hexylthiophene
oligothiophene
pentathiophene
polythiophene
quinquethiophene
sexithiophene
terthiophene
tetrahydrothiophene
thiophenic
ticarcillin
tiemonium
tioconazole
pyridine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: / ˈpɪrɪˌdin/
Forms: form: pyridines
Etymology: From German Pyridin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₅H₅N.
Derived terms: acetylpyridine
acylpyridine
aminopyridine
atevirdine
bipyridine
borapyridine
bromopyridine
cefaloridine
chloropyridine
clopidogrel
cyanopyridine
delavirdine
dihydropyridine
dimethylpyridine
dipyridil
dipyridine
disopyramide
fluoropyridine
furopyridine
iodopyridine
methylpyridine
nalidixic acid
naphthylvinylpyridine
nitropyridine
nonabine
pentafluoropyridine
picoplatin
pirbuterol
polypyridine
pralidoxime
pyridinediyl
pyridinic
pyridinium
pyridinyl
pyridostigmine
pyridyl
sulfapyridine
terpyridine
tetrahydropyridine
trimethylpyridine
zolpidem
thiazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiazoles
Etymology: thio- + azole
Senses: examples: text: Many heterocyclic bodies prepared synthetically have been manufactured upon a technical scale, because of their coloring and therapeutic properties. This is true of the dyes of [...] the thiazole-group, and also of the important febrifuges, [...]
ref: 1891, Victor von Richter, translated by Edgar F. Smith, edited by Prof. R. Anschütz, Victor von Richter's Organic Chemistry; or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds, 3rd American edition, from the 8th German edition, volume II, Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., translation of original in German, published 1899, →OCLC, page 443:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of three carbon atoms, a sulphur and a nitrogen atom; especially the simplest one, C₃H₃SN
Hyponyms: abafungin
aminothiazole
amiphenazole
amthamine
aztreonam
benzothiazole
brecanavir
carumonam
cefcapene
cefdaloxime
cefditoren
cefmatilen
cefmenoxime
cefotaxime
cefotiam
ceftibuten
ceftiofur
ceftizoxime
ceftriaxone
clomethiazole
clothianidin
dasatinib
epothilone
famotidine
fentiazac
isavuconazole
isothiazole
meloxicam
niridazole
nitazoxanide
nizatidine
phthalylsulfathiazole
ritonavir
succinylsulfathiazole
sulfathiazole
tenonitrozole
thiabendazole
thiamine
Derived terms: bithiazole
quinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪnəliːn/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: quinolines
form: chinoline
Etymology: From quinine (“Cinchona bark”) + -oline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a benzene ring fused with a pyridine ring; especially the simplest such compound, C₉H₇N.
Derived terms: aminoquinoline
benzoquinoline
benzoquinolone
bisquinoline
cefquinome
chloroquinoline
cyanoquinoline
decahydroquinoline
diarylquinoline
dihydroquinoline
diiodohydroxyquinoline
fluoroquinoline
haloquinoline
hydroxychloroquinoline
hydroxyquinoline
iodochlorohydroxyquinoline
iodoquinol
iodoquinoline
isoquinoline
nitroquinoline
oxyquinoline
phenanthroline
praziquantel
pyrroloquinoline
-quine
quinil
quinolinate
quinolinemethanethiol
quinolinemethanol
quinoline yellow
quinolinic
quinolinium
quinolinone
quinolinyl
quinolone
quintiofos
saquinavir
pyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈɹɪ.mɪˌdiːn/
ipa: /pɪˈɹɪ.mɪˌdiːn/
Forms: form: pyrimidines
Etymology: First attested in 1885. From German Pyrimidin, from German Pyridin (“pyridine”), with the insertion of -mi- from amidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diazine in which the two nitrogen atoms are in the meta- positions; it is the basis of three of the bases found in DNA and RNA: thymine, uracil and cytosine
Hypernyms: diazine
Derived terms: alkylpyrimidine
aminopyrimidine
anilinopyrimidine
antipyrimidine
azidopyrimidine
azolopyrimidine
cyclopyrimidine
diaminopyrimidine
dihydropyrimidine
fluoropyrimidine
formamidopyrimidine
furopyrimidine
homopyrimidine
oligopyrimidine
pentapyrimidine
polypyrimidine
primidone
pyrantel
pyrazolopyrimidine
pyridopyrimidine
pyrimethamine
pyrimidinedione
pyrimidinergic
pyrimidinic
pyrimidinone
pyrimidinyl
sildenafil
tetrazolopyrimidine
thiopyrimidine
trimethoprim
pyran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrans
Etymology: pyre + -an
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms, an oxygen atom and two double bonds; especially the simplest one, C₅H₆O.
Derived terms: pyranic
pyranoflavonol
pyranose
Related terms: pyre
pyrite
pyrex
furan
Dougal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːɡl̩/
rhymes: -uːɡəl
Forms: form: Dougals
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Dùghall, from Old Irish dubgall (“Dane, black-haired foreigner”), synchronically from dubh (“black”) + gall (“stranger”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Derived terms: MacDougall
matura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maturas
Senses: glosses: A final exam that young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education in certain European countries.
Related terms: A-levels
Leaving Certificate
fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuː.ʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: fusions
form: fusioning
form: fusioned
form: fusioned
Etymology: First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.
Senses: glosses: To combine; to fuse.
melting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Forms: form: more melting
form: most melting
Senses: glosses: Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
examples: text: What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 125:
glosses: Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
examples: text: And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:
glosses: That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
melting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of melt
Derived terms: meltingly
meltingness
unmelting
melting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Forms: form: meltings
Senses: examples: text: Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref: 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
glosses: The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
glosses: The act of softening or mitigating.
Derived terms: meltingness
premelting
unmelting
melting out
discerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜːn.iŋ/
ipa: /dɪˈsɝn.iŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discern
discerning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜːn.iŋ/
ipa: /dɪˈsɝn.iŋ/
Forms: form: more discerning
form: most discerning
Senses: examples: text: The discerning customer will appreciate our new range of quality clothing.
text: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, [...]
ref: 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Of keen insight or selective judgement; perceptive.
Derived terms: discerningly
discerningness
nondiscerning
undiscerning
Related terms: discern
discerning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɜːn.iŋ/
ipa: /dɪˈsɝn.iŋ/
Forms: form: discernings
Senses: examples: text: Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], line 224:
glosses: discernment
boiling point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: boiling points
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The temperature at which a liquid boils, with the vapor pressure equal to the given external pressure.
examples: text: Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The state of being heated, with high aggression.
Derived terms: boiling-point elevation
Related terms: word: boil over
word: freezing point
word: melting point
word: triple point
melting point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melting points
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: m.p.
glosses: The temperature at which the solid and liquid phases of a substance are in equilibrium; it is relatively insensitive to changes in pressure.
glosses: A climactic situation where things go wrong or become dangerous; a crisis or meltdown.
Related terms: boiling point
freezing point
triple point
nuclear fusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear fusions
Senses: examples: text: The emergence of this new large-scale lab-based astrophysics was an unanticipated side effect of a much broader, more fraught, and now quite in-the-news scientific journey: the quest for nuclear fusion.
ref: 2023 January 3, Adam Frank, “The Universe Is More in Our Hands Than Ever Before”, in The Atlantic:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The combining of the nuclei of atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bombs explode.
Hyponyms: cold fusion
hot fusion
five-for
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-fors
Senses: examples: text: He has taken 87 five-fors in his test carrer.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The feat of a bowler taking five wickets in one innings
Related terms: ten-for
spindel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1568, William Turner quoted by Richard Mabey in "Flora Britannica", London, 1996, p244.
I haue sene this tree oft tymes in England and in moste plentye betwene Ware and Barkwaye, yet for al that I coulde neuer learne an Englishe name for it: the Duche men call it in Netherlande Spilboome that is Spindel tree, because they vse to make Spindels of it in that countrey and me thinke it may be so wel named in English.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of spindle.
Certain species of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
examples: 1568, William Turner quoted by Richard Mabey in "Flora Britannica", London, 1996, p244.
I haue sene this tree oft tymes in England and in moste plentye betwene Ware and Barkwaye, yet for al that I coulde neuer learne an Englishe name for it: the Duche men call it in Netherlande Spilboome that is Spindel tree, because they vse to make Spindels of it in that countrey and me thinke it may be so wel named in English.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
spinning
sports
glosses: Obsolete spelling of spindle.
The rod made from the above used in the spinning of wool and other natural fibres.
follow on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows on
form: following on
form: followed on
form: followed on
form: follow-on
Senses: examples: text: The new film follows on from the storyline of the original 1970s release.
glosses: To follow in sequence; to come next.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings.
raw_tags: of a team
Synonyms: sense: follow in sequence
word: come after
word: succeed
Derived terms: word: follow-on
Related terms: word: follow through
word: follow up
follow on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follow ons
form: follow-on
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of follow-on.
footwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/
Forms: form: footworks
Etymology: From foot + work.
Senses: examples: text: The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
text: Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
examples: text: In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident.
ref: 2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
Related terms: legwork
fourth slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth slips
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding position to the off side of the third slip.
French cut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Sliced lengthwise, making strips long and thin (e.g. French cut green beans, French [cut] fries). cf. julienne.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Designed to reveal the thigh, usually of women's underpants.
French cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French cuts
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: Chinese cut
Harrow drive
glosses: A batsman's shot in which the ball deflects off the inside edge of the bat and travels fine down the leg side behind the batsman and often travels to the boundary.
full toss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full tosses
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: full bunger
glosses: A ball that does not bounce on the pitch before reaching the batsman.