cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈtiːɡz/
Forms: form: fatigue
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: CB
jankers
glosses: Menial duties, especially as punishment.
examples: text: He looked up, met gray eyes ringed with paintstick. She was wearing faded French orbital fatigues and new white sneakers.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Ross: … why do you have to wear underwear tonight?
Joey: It's a rented tux, 'kay? I'm not gonna go commando in another man's fatigues.
ref: 1996, Friends (TV series), "The One Where No One's Ready" [3.02], Act 2, approx. 12 minutes (of 23)
text: The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
ref: 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
coordinate_terms: khakis
camos
blues
glosses: Military clothing worn when doing menial tasks.
Derived terms: battle fatigues
combat fatigues
fatigues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈtiːɡz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fatigue
RTD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ready-to-drink.
RTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RTDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of real-time detection.
glosses: Initialism of research and technological development.
glosses: Initialism of resonant-tunneling diode.
glosses: Initialism of resistance temperature device/detector.
glosses: Abbreviation of retard.
glosses: Initialism of round-trip delay.
examples: text: RTDs cover a multitude of sips, including: “hard” or “spiked” teas, coffees, kombuchas and seltzers; […]. And although the sector was birthed in the ’30s by drinks like Campari Soda, and boomed in the ’90s with Bacardi Breezer and Smirnoff Ice, RTDs are now at a point of seemingly unsustainable saturation.
ref: 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Initialism of ready-to-drink.
SVM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SVMs
Senses: qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of support vector machine.
laborious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɔːɹiəs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more laborious
form: most laborious
form: labourious
form: laborous
form: labourous
Etymology: From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus. By surface analysis, labor + -ious
Senses: examples: text: Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC, page 7:
text: The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to another.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
glosses: Mentally difficult; painstaking.
examples: text: All, with united Force, combine to drive / The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 129, lines 241–242:
glosses: Industrious.
Synonyms: sense: requiring effort
word: painstaking
sense: requiring effort
word: toilsome
sense: requiring effort
word: worksome
Derived terms: laboriosity
laboriously
laboriousness
nonlaborious
ultralaborious
unlaborious
Related terms: labor
labour
CDK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cyclin-dependent kinase.
bedbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedbound
form: most bedbound
Etymology: From bed + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.
ref: 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:
synonyms: bedridden
bedfast
glosses: Unable to leave one's bed for some reason.
bedfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedfast
form: most bedfast
form: bed-fast
Etymology: From bed + fast.
Senses: examples: text: 1796, Robert Burns, letter written to Mr. Cunningham, 7 July, 1796, in The Prose Works of Robert Burns; Containing his Letters and Correspondence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819, p. 278 https://books.google.ca/books?id=gzYBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
For these eight or ten months I have been ailing, sometimes bedfast and sometimes not; but these last three months I have been tortured with an excruciating rheumatism, which has reduced me to nearly the last stage.
text: 1948, Robert Heinlein, Space Cadet (1948), from the edition reissued in 1975 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC: p. 118, lines 13 through 15.
"She had been a very active woman... Now she was bed-fast and had been for three years."
text: 1976, Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra (1975), translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Dalkey Archive, 2003, p. 592,
"It is a place of bed-fast people, Señor, where all those who tire of life, or of whom life has tired, exhausted old men, disillusioned youths, dishonored families, take to their beds and pledge never to arise until death carries them off feet-first. […] "
text: From then on Joachim assumed a permanently horizontal position, and Hans Castorp wrote to Luise Ziemssen about it—wrote to her from his splendid lounge chair that he must now add to his earlier occasional reports the news that Joachim was bedfast […]
ref: 1996, Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods, The Magic Mountain, New York: Vintage, published 1924, Part 6, pp. 523-4:
synonyms: bedbound
bedridden
glosses: Unable to leave one's bed, especially because of illness, weakness or obesity.
bedfast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedfasts
form: bed-fast
form: bed fast
Etymology: From bed + fast.
Senses: glosses: A joint or hook that attaches a bedrail to a headboard or footboard.
glosses: One who is bedfast.
proximate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔk.sɪ.mət/
Etymology: From Late Latin proximatus, past participle of proximare (“to draw near, approach”), from Latin proximus (“nearest”), superlative of prope (“near”).
Senses: examples: text: And writing a Theory of the Deluge here, as we do, we were to exhibit a Series of causes whereby it might be made intelligible, or to shew^([sic]) the proximate Natural Causes of it; […]
ref: 1681, Thomas Burnet, “The Deluge and Dissolution of the Earth”, in The Theory of the Earth, 3rd edition, London: R. N[orton], translation of Telluris Theoria Sacra, published 1697, page 73:
text: […] the basis of a reformed constitution was laid, by the appointment of a grand council, consisting of all such citizens as could prove that their proximate ancestors had shared in the offices or honours of the state.
ref: 1857, John Scandrett Harford, The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti, 2nd edition, London: Longman & Roberts, published 1858, page 154:
text: The proposed changes recognize that adequate off-street parking is an important, and often challenging, issue in many residential neighborhoods, and attempt to balance the need for off-street parking with appropriate limitations, especially in areas visible from the street or proximate to neighboring properties.
ref: 2019 March 11, Nick Kotsopoulos, quoting John Kelly, “Worcester plan aims to stop owners from paving front lawns”, in Worcester Telegram:
glosses: Close or closest; adjacent.
topics: law
glosses: Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation.
glosses: About to take place; impending.
Synonyms: sense: close
word: near
word: nigh
word: near
sense: about to take place
word: imminent
word: in the offing
word: pending
word: impending
Derived terms: proximate cause
proximate principle
proximately
proximate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑk.sə.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑk.sɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈpɹɔk.sɪ.mət/
Forms: form: proximates
Etymology: From Late Latin proximatus, past participle of proximare (“to draw near, approach”), from Latin proximus (“nearest”), superlative of prope (“near”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical marker that distinguishes a relatively salient referent in a given context from a relatively non-salient (obviative) one.
Related terms: approximate
approximation
approximator
proximity
obviative
sss
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "Sss," said the snake.
ref: 2017, Brian Fox, The Hollow Rasping of an American Nightmare, page 420:
glosses: The hiss of a snake or other reptile.
mooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: mooches
form: mouch
Etymology: From Middle English moochen, mouchen (“to pretend poverty”), from Old French muchier, mucier, mucer (“to skulk, hide, conceal”), from Frankish *mukkjan (“to hide, conceal oneself”), from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną, *mūkōną (“to hide, ambush”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewgʰ- (“swindler, thief”).
Cognate with Old High German mūhhōn (“to store, cache, plunder”), Middle High German muchen, mucken (“to hide, stash”), Middle English müchen, michen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”). More at mitch.
Alternate etymology derives mooch from Middle English mucchen (“to hoard, be stingy”, literally “to hide coins in one's nightcap”), from Middle English mucche (“nightcap”), from Middle Dutch mutse (“cap, nightcap”), from Medieval Latin almucia (“nightcap”), of unknown origin, possibly Arabic. More at mutch, amice.
Senses: examples: text: Jack wouldn't be arriving for another ten minutes, so I had a mooch around the garden.
text: At the secondary school where I normally work as a librarian, I take key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”. We undull our senses.
ref: 2020 April 20, Nicola Chester, “Country diary: a nature mooch undulls the children’s senses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An aimless stroll.
examples: text: "No! I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time! I'm going to London for a few days."
ref: 2000 July 8, “Dulcie Domum: London calling”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
glosses: One who mooches; a moocher.
mooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: mooches
Etymology: Clipping of Scaramucci.
Senses: examples: text: If we take Scaramucci’s 10-day figure to be the standard of measurement — one “mooch” — then Pruitt survived an amazing 50.3 mooches, even while enduring more than a dozen scandals, any one of which would have doomed a lesser man.
ref: 2018 July 6, Dana Milbank, The Washington Post:
text: Scaramucci, who jokingly measures time in mooches, a unit equal to approximately 11 days, said he doesn’t necessarily like the version of himself he often sees on screen, but feels director Andrew J. Moscato was accurate.
ref: 2018 October 27, John Carucci, “Anthony Scaramucci defends Trump, but doesn't always agree”, in Associated Press (press release)-:
text: I understand it's her job. But I would point out to people that Stephanie has lasted way more “Mooches” than me.
ref: 2019 August 29, Peter Nicholas, “Anthony Scaramucci Wants You to Believe Him This Time”, in The Atlantic:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of Scaramucci (“unit of time”).
synonyms: word: Scaramucci
extra: unit of time
punished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌnɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punish
punished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌnɪʃt/
Forms: form: more punished
form: most punished
Senses: glosses: That has been the object of punishment.
Derived terms: underpunished
unpunished
duly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdʒuːli/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈdjuːli/
ipa: /ˈduli/
ipa: /ˈdʒʉːli/
ipa: /ˈdjʉːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: more duly
form: most duly
form: duely
Etymology: From Middle English duely, dewly, dulyche, dueliche, duweliche (“rightly, properly”), equivalent to due + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The citizen's concern was duly noted in the meeting minutes.
text: Walcott's display deserved a goal and it duly arrived after 55 minutes. As he had done throughout, the forward ran straight at Chelsea's defence, riding two challenges and even falling before firing an emphatic shot past Cech.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
text: Their first-half display was nowhere near good enough and they were duly punished by Beerensteyn's ruthlessness, with Wiegman also paying for some questionable team selections.
ref: 2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; suitably; properly.
examples: text: The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: Regularly; at the proper time.
Derived terms: duly noted
unduly
bills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of bill
bills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bill
guarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdɪd/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guard
guarded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdɪd/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːdɪd/
Forms: form: more guarded
form: most guarded
Senses: examples: text: guarded outlook
text: guarded optimism
text: The employees reacted with guarded optimism to the new agreement reached by their trade union.
glosses: Cautious; restrained.
examples: text: guarded prognosis
text: prognosis is guarded
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Cautious; restrained.
A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
raw_tags: of prognosis
glosses: Watched over; supervised.
examples: text: On the helmet , which is of gold, affrontee, guarded with perpendicular bars, and adorned with a mantled gules, doubled, or, is this crest.
ref: 1819, Thomas George Lomax, A Short Account of the City and Close of Lichfield: To which is Added A Short Account of the Cathedral ..., page 31:
text: On a chapeau gules, guarded ermine, a gurnet (fish) urinant proper.
ref: 1866, John Edwin Cussans, The Grammar of Heraldry, page 84:
text: Sable, an eagle displayed argent, crowned with an electoral bonnet gules, guarded argent (or ermine).
ref: 1893, Notes and Queries, page 129:
text: Or, three swords in fess palewise azure, guarded vert, hilted gules; unidentified. Fouquet suggests that this is the device of the fictional king of Monteini, but notes that it might be the device of the fictional king of Bicheny.
ref: 2015 12, Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson, Arthurian Literature XXXII, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 160:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
Derived terms: guardedly
guardedness
guarded rights
nonguarded
unguarded
instructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instruct
Derived terms: instructedness
noninstructed
uninstructed
marching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: märʹchĭng
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of march
marching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: märʹchĭng
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Forms: form: marchings
Senses: examples: text: A pianoforte is desirable, to lead the singing, and accompany the plays, gymnastics, frequent marchings, and dancing, when that is taught,—which it should be.
ref: 1862, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862:
text: But of the marchings and retreatings of these Six-thousand no Xenophon exists. Nothing, but an inarticulate hum, of cursing and sooty frenzy, surviving dubious in the memory of ages!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: All steps and marchings executed from a halt, except right step, begin with the left foot.
ref: 1917, War Department, Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry:
glosses: Action described by the verb "to march".
marching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: märʹchĭng
ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɑːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: a marching band
glosses: That marches.
examples: text: [T]he occasional trees, the stone-heaps, the marching fences, the stumps, the saplings, the cows, and the feeding sheep.
ref: 1961, Colin Thiele, The Sun on the Stubble, Melbourne: Rigby Limited, page 61:
glosses: Placed or situated in a line or lines, reminiscent or evocative of marching soldiers.
Derived terms: english: marching powder, Colombian marching powder, Peruvian marching powder
translation: marching powder, Colombian marching powder, Peruvian marching powder
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: file marching
word: heavy marching order
word: marching ants
word: marching band
word: marching cubes
word: marching girl
word: marching malady
word: marching money
word: marching music
word: marching order
word: marching orders
word: marching-past
word: marching regiment
word: ray marching
word: unmarching
lowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊɚd/
ipa: /ˈləʊəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lower
glittering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glitter
glittering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more glittering
form: most glittering
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:
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:
glosses: Brightly sparkling.
examples: text: Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 85:
text: There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
glosses: Valuable, desirable.
Synonyms: aglitter
Derived terms: glittering generality
glitteringly
unglittering
glittering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: glitterings
Senses: examples: text: Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
glosses: The appearance of something that glitters.
adv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of adverb.
glosses: Abbreviation of advanced.
glosses: Abbreviation of adventure.
topics: business
glosses: Abbreviation of advertisement.
topics: business
glosses: Abbreviation of advertising.
treasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of treasure.
treasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛʒəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of treasure.
chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of chain
chains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chain
awaiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈweɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of await
tossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒst/
ipa: /tɔst/
ipa: /tɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss
governed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəvɚnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of govern
Derived terms: governed state
nongoverned
ungoverned
protested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prə.tĕstʹĭd
ipa: /pɹəˈtɛstɪd/
ipa: /ˈprəʊtɛstɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of protest
recollect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: recollects
form: recollecting
form: recollected
form: recollected
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).
Senses: examples: text: I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.
text: I recollect taking a very poor view of the apparently inadequate cabs of the Stirling engines, as compared with those of the Brighton; there were even to be seen at this time a number of the completely cabless Cudworths.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:
glosses: To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
Related terms: collect
recollection
recollect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
enpr: rē-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/
enpr: rē-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹiːkəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
enpr: rĕ-kə-lĕktʹ
ipa: /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: recollects
form: recollecting
form: recollected
form: recollected
form: re-collect
Etymology: From re- + collect.
Senses: glosses: To collect (things) together again.
examples: text: The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.
ref: 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain, page 52:
glosses: To compose oneself.
rows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: roes
homophone: rose
Senses: glosses: plural of row
rows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: roes
homophone: rose
ipa: /ɹaʊz/
rhymes: -aʊz
homophone: rouse
ipa: /ɹoʊz/
ipa: /ɹəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: roes
homophone: rose
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of row
grasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæspt/
ipa: /ɡɹɑːspt/
rhymes: -æspt
rhymes: -ɑːspt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grasp
Derived terms: ungrasped
Vancouver Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after English explorer George Vancouver.
Senses: examples: text: The inlets and coves and little islands are on their starboard side, and just beyond them rises the immensity of Vancouver Island, its forests ascending into mountains whose summits are lost in low cloud.
ref: 2022, Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, Picador, pages 22-23:
text: The hereditary chiefs of the Liǧʷiłdaxʷ nations on Vancouver Island have sent a scathing letter to the mayor and council of Campbell River, B.C., regarding their remarks on a proposal to restore the Indigenous names of three geographical areas.
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: A large island off the southwest coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Derived terms: Vancouver Islander
leptodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leptodactylous
form: most leptodactylous
Etymology: From lepto- + dactyl + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having fine, slender toes or fingers.
suitheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American occultists David Michael Cunningham and Traeonna A. R. Wagener, from Latin sui (“of oneself”) and theism.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in suitheism we have the belief that not only do gods exist, but that we are divine as well.
ref: 2008, Diana L. Paxson, Trance-Portation: Learning to Navigate the Inner World, page 187:
glosses: The belief that one is a god.
Derived terms: suitheistic
Related terms: autotheism
occultism
pantheism
double-barrelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: double-barrel
Etymology: From double- + barrelled.
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.
examples: text: Alexander Taylor, a native of Stonehaven who in the later forties went to Edinburgh, where he enjoyed a double-barrelled reputation as a rhymester and as an astronomer.
ref: 1972, Alexander Keith, A thousand years of Aberdeen:
text: Order-maintenance crackdowns are not an alternative but rather an addition to the severe penalties that dominate criminal justice […] What we are left with today is a system of severe punishments for major offenders and severe treatments for minor offenders and ordinary citizens, especially minorities, a double-barreled approach with significant effects on large numbers of our citizenry.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
text: Skilling came to Enron with a double-barrelled reputation: on the one hand he was known to be a cold man with a taste for macho showing-off (Enron employees nicknamed him 'Darth Vader'). On the other hand he was said to be a genius ...
ref: 2011, Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson, Scandal!: An Explosive Exposé of the Affairs, Corruption and Power Struggles of the Rich and Famous, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: Twofold, having a double purpose or nature.
examples: text: Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 488:
synonyms: hyphenated
glosses: Having two separate parts, often adjoined by a hyphen (or sometimes a space).
raw_tags: of names
examples: text: When the sheriff arrested [Lucy Hicks Anderson] one night, her double-barrelled reputation paid off—Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: He had scheduled a huge dinner party, which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy In gaol.
ref: 1945 November 6, “She trafficked in sin and souffle”, in Townsville Daily Bulletin, Queensland, Australia:
text: Range Rover ran an ad campaign referring to grouse shooting with the line: “There’s only one car for the double-barrelled.”
ref: 2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Forceful, powerful (like a double-barrelled shotgun).
Related terms: double-barrelled shotgun
long-barrelled
triple-barrelled
tupara
double-barreled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-barrelled.
olifant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olifants
Etymology: From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.
Senses: examples: text: And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 35, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 479:
glosses: An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
examples: text: She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
ref: 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
glosses: An elephant.
kolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊləʊ/
ipa: /ˈkoʊloʊ/
Forms: form: kolos
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kolo and Slovene kolo, from Proto-Slavic *kolo (“wheel”).
Senses: examples: 1942: As we came to this promenade … we heard the throbbing of a drum that announces a kolo, a communal dance. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 660)
glosses: A national folk dance common in regions pertaining to South Slavic people, performed in a circle.
glosses: A mixed grain dish from East Africa
Montezuma's revenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒn.təˈzuː.məz ɹɪˈvɛndʒ/
ipa: /ˌmɔ.ɾ̃əˈzu.məz ɹəˈvɛndʒ/
ipa: /- ɹɪˈvɛndʒ/
ipa: /- ɹiˈvɛndʒ/
ipa: [ˌmɔ.nəˈzu.məz -]
Forms: form: Moctezuma’s revenge
Etymology: Named for Montezuma or Moctezuma II (c. 1466 – 1520), the last Aztec ruler before the empire was conquered by the Spanish. The condition is seen as “retribution” for the massacres and enslavement of the Aztec people by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés on August 13, 1521.
Senses: examples: text: Montezuma's Revenge, everybody knows, is the persistent intestinal illness that spoils the good humour of tourists in the tropics. Could there be a Montezuma's Revenge of the soul? There could. We caught it.
ref: 1994, John-Claude Guillebaud, “Montezuma’s Revenge”, in John Simmons, transl., Return to Vietnam, London; New York, N.Y.: Verso Books, →ISBN, page 112:
text: There's a lot of flu bugs floating around. I think it is commendable that he thought enough of his fellow senators to keep his diseases to himself. I don't know what he had, but I suspect it was Montezuma's Revenge. (Mexico is the only country in the world where the expression "Royal Flush" has nothing to do with playing cards.)
ref: 1999, Jim Foster, “Picking on Senator Going Too Far”, in I Hate to Complain, but …: A Collection of Humorous Something-or-others, Toronto, Ont.; Headington, Oxford; Tonawanda, N.Y.: Hounslow Press, Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 19:
text: President Jimmy Carter arrived in Mexico City for a state visit on February 14, 1979, and proceeded to recall for his hosts a previous encounter with Mexican culture, decades earlier as a naval officer, in which he had contracted what he described as "Montezuma's revenge." This indelicate reference to tourist's diarrhea became something of an international incident; Mexican Preident José López Portillo insisted that his country be treated with respect, while the local press denounced the remark as a "typical Yankee slur."
ref: 2004, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, “From “Montezuma’s Revenge” to “Mexican Truffles”: Culinary Tourism across the Rio Grande”, in Lucy M. Long, editor, Culinary Tourism (Material Worlds), Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 76:
text: We warily sipped the lemonade, knowingly flirting with the tourist stomach disorder known here as Moctezuma's revenge.
ref: 2010, George Ann Huck, Jann E. Freed, Women of Yucatán: Thirty Who Dare to Change Their World, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 18:
text: When we were together in Mexico in the early seventies, she came down with a bad case of Moctezuma's revenge, complaining that she'd never been sick to her stomach before.
ref: 2014, M. I. Lastman, “Answers”, in Rocky Mountain Locust: Opus I, Trio: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, part 1 (Jim), page 32:
synonyms: Aztec two-step
hypernyms: traveler's diarrhea
coordinate_terms: Pharaoh's revenge
glosses: Diarrhea experienced by tourists after drinking water or eating food in Mexico as a result of a microorganism to which native Mexicans are immune.
wikipedia: Hernán Cortés
Moctezuma II
Related terms: Bali belly
Delhi belly
ludi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ludus
MOTAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Mystery of Time and Space.
MOTAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of member of the appropriate sex.
Related terms: MOTOS
MOTSS
MOTOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.təʊz/
Forms: form: MOTOS
Etymology: First coined by Alfred Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, and later employed by Masters and Johnson and the 1970 U.S. Census forms.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of member of the opposite sex.
wikipedia: Alfred Kinsey
Kinsey Institute
Masters and Johnson
U.S. Census
Related terms: MOTSS
MOTAS
pano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panos
Etymology: Clipping of panoramic.
Senses: examples: text: It sounds hard on paper, but it's simple to do in person, and because it takes so little time, you'll wind up shooting more panos, which is a good thing.
ref: 2012, Scott Kelby, Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Boxed Set:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A panoramic image.
pano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of paneosteitis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: paneosteitis
MOTSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOTSS
Etymology: First coined by Alfred Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute, and later employed by Masters and Johnson and the 1970 U.S. Census forms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of member of the same sex.
wikipedia: Alfred Kinsey
Kinsey Institute
Masters and Johnson
U.S. Census
Related terms: MOTOS
MOTAS
motsser
frosk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frosks
Etymology: From Middle English frosk, from Old English frosc, frox (“frog”) and Old Norse froskr (“frog”); both from Proto-Germanic *fruskaz, *fruþskaz (“frog”), from Proto-Indo-European *prew- (“to jump, hop”). Doublet of frosh.
Senses: glosses: A frog.
south-south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
south-south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
south-south-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
coruscation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒɹəsˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: coruscations
form: corruscation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coruscātiōnem, coruscātiō (“glitter, flash”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]n the dusky galleries, duskier with unwashed heads, is a strange 'coruscation,'—of impromptu billhooks.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: The one, as a brilliant coruscation playing in a summer sky, might enchant the fancy and ensure the suffrage of a moment; the other, as a lovely constellation, though less vivid, yet from its undeviating steadfastness never failed to leave upon the observer impressions more truly gratifying, solid, and lasting.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 6,
All of these things—the rubbed amber, the magnets, the crystal radio, the clock dials with their tireless coruscations—gave me a sense of invisible rays and forces, a sense that beneath the familiar, visible world of colors and appearances there lay a dark, hidden world of mysterious laws and phenomena.
glosses: A sudden display of brilliance; a flashing of light; a sparkle.
Related terms: coruscate
chariot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæɹiət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiət/
Forms: form: chariots
Etymology: From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).
Senses: examples: text: The warriors rode into battle on a horse-drawn chariot.
synonyms: word: car
glosses: A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.
glosses: A light (four-wheeled) carriage used for ceremonial or pleasure purposes.
topics: board-games
games
xiangqi
glosses: The rook piece.
Hyponyms: sense: 2-horse
word: biga
sense: 3-horse
word: triga
sense: 4-horse
word: quadriga
Derived terms: charioter
chariotlike
chariotry
scythed chariot
unchariot
uncharioted
your chariot awaits
Related terms: word: aurigal
word: charret
word: charrette
sense: driver
word: charioteer
chariot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæɹɪət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæɹiət/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiət/
Forms: form: chariots
form: charioting
form: charioted
form: charioted
Etymology: From Middle English chariot, from Old French chariot, from char (“cart”), from Latin carrus (“wagon”). Displaced native Old English hrædwæġn (literally “fast wagon”).
Senses: glosses: To convey by, or as if by, chariot.
glosses: To ride in a chariot.
Wada test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wada tests
Etymology: Named after Canadian neurologist and epileptologist Juhn Atsushi Wada.
Senses: glosses: a test used to establish which cerebral functions are localised to which hemisphere
ARC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARCs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: examples: text: “One of them came up to me in a signing line and asked for a blurb,” says Jen. “Can you believe it? Title I’ve never heard of, from some small press I’ve never heard of, and she comes up to me with a bound ARC, beaming, like of course I’m going to say yes.”
ref: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 90:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Acronym of advance reader's copy, a copy of a book given to a reviewer free in advance for review purposes.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of AIDS-related complex.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Acronym of automatic reference counting.
Derived terms: unarc
ARC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Red Cross.
ARC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish ARC.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: The Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia).
ARC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spanish ARC.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: ship's prefix for warships of the navy of Colombia.
sings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭngz
ipa: /sɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sing
sings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭngz
ipa: /sɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of sing
snapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæpt/
rhymes: -æpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snap
judging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: more judging
form: most judging
Senses: glosses: judgmental
Derived terms: judgingly
nonjudging
unjudging
judging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of judge
glosses: present participle and gerund of judg
judging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: judgings
Senses: examples: text: It is the contrasts between blind and self-evident judgings and between blind and correct affective attitudes which provide Brentano with the beginnings of an account of the dynamics of the mind which involves more than merely causal claims.
ref: 2004, Dale Jacquette, The Cambridge Companion to Brentano, page 75:
glosses: The act of making a judgment.
thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thēvz
ipa: /θiːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: plural of thief
thieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thēvz
ipa: /θiːvz/
rhymes: -iːvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thieve
steals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: steels
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steal
steals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːlz/
rhymes: -iːlz
homophone: steels
Senses: examples: text: He has 25 steals this year.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The number of stolen bases by a baserunner.
confided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈfaɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confide
reared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɹd/
ipa: /ɹɪəd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rear
statesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtsmən/
/-mɛn/
Senses: glosses: plural of statesman
dispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɝst/
ipa: /dɪˈspɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: more dispersed
form: most dispersed
Senses: examples: text: One other problem studied relates to the potential impact of human waste disposal from dispersed road recreation -- a matter of concern to many managers we've talked to .
ref: 1976, John C. Hendee, Mack L. Hogans, Russell W. Koch, Dispersed Recreation on Three Forest Road Systems in Washington and Oregon, page 19:
text: Practised in the context of a social movement, dispersed leadership has opened opportunities for women to adopt feminalist styles of leadership that invite and increase the participation of women as a group, while it has also provided the means to advance feminist agendas.
ref: 2009, John Kane, Haig Patapan, Paul 't Hart, Dispersed Democratic Leadership, page 56:
text: On the contrary, a very dispersed and scarce one such as gold, will have a low exergy value but a very high extraction cost.
ref: 2014, Antonio Valero Capilla, Alicia Valero Capilla, Thanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources, page 281:
glosses: Spread out in space and/or time; not concentrated.
Derived terms: bidispersed
dispersedly
dispersedness
equidispersed
geodispersed
heterodispersed
hyperdispersed
indispersed
interdispersed
nanodispersed
nondispersed
polydispersed
ultradispersed
underdispersed
undispersed
dispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɝst/
ipa: /dɪˈspɜːst/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disperse
richer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: comparative form of rich: more rich.
Scripture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scriptures
Etymology: From Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“I write”).
Senses: glosses: The foundational text of a given religion, or a text considered especially holy.
rejoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒoɪ.sɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejoice
rejoicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒoɪ.sɪŋ/
Forms: form: rejoicings
Senses: examples: text: There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.
text: But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!
ref: 1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned, page 286:
text: There were some unofficial local rejoicings, but none of the elaborate junketings which marked the birth of earlier railways. The company had little cash to spend on sumptuous cold collations, and the like.
ref: 1955 April, R. K. Kirkland, “The Staines Branch, Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 227:
glosses: An act of showing joy.
consecrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnsəkɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsəkɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consecrate
commissioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪʃənɚz/
ipa: /kəˈmɪʃənəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of commissioner
stumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmbl̩d/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stumble
ascribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈskɹaɪbd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ascribe
ensuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃʊɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈʃɝɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪŋ
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensure