cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vestee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vestees
Etymology: From vest + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A dickey, especially one made to resemble a vest and be worn under a coat.
examples: text: It was difficult to tell what Yashmeen was thinking as she offered her lips. He was concentrating on not getting her vestee wet.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 914:
glosses: A woman's small vest.
examples: text: Droits réels is ambiguous, as sometimes denoting jura in rem, and sometimes jura in re (sensu stricto). This arises from the extension of jus in re to dominia, and of jus ad rem to obligationes or jura in personam.
Difficulty: Where a thing is subject to a series of rights, – is subject to a series of vested rights (descendible perhaps from present vestees), or to contingent rights to determinate parties, existing or not.#*
ref: 1885 John Austin ed Robert Campbell: Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Law 5th edition Vol 2. p.852
text: 1894 Samuel Lodge: The Home of the Champions 2nd ed.
The following extract from a private letter of the late Sir Joseph Banks is worth quoting . . . : "It matters not to the heirs . . .whether the estate is held by Knight Service or by Grand Serjeantry. . . Scrivelsby. . . is held by the proprietor with all the benefits by the common law provided for the personal advantages of proprietary of land: it may be bequeathed by will, or alienated by sale or gift; and if so alienated in prejudice of the next heir, he cannot have any claim against the vestee, unless it arises out of special bargains or agreements made and confirmed previously to the alienation."
text: All benefits to vestees, or their designees, under the Vesting Benefit Trust shall be by monthly payments, except that upon application of the vestee, or his designee, . . . the Trustees may, in their sole, absolute and unreviewable discretion, accelerate payment of the balance of the vesting benefit to which a vestee, or his designee, may be entitled.
ref: 1967 Transcript of Record Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1967 No. 69
text: . . . the Treasury regulations say that on a termination, all priority must go to the retirees first, and unless they get a hundred cents on the dollar, no vestees can get anything. . . And . . . they had cut the retirees and gave something to the vestees. . . And they gave something to people that weren't vested at all?
ref: 1972 Private Welfare and Pension Plan Study, 1972 Hearing Private Welfare & Pension Plans May 1, 1972 ST. Louis, MO. U.S. Government Printing Office Washington: 1972
topics: law
glosses: The entity or party in which something has been vested.
skift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: skifts
Etymology: From Scots skift (“light shower of rain or snow”), related to skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”) (which see for more) and skiffle.
Senses: examples: text: Last night we had a little skift of snow.
ref: 1834, record quoted in 1956, Norman E. Eliason, Tarheel Talk, page 294
text: Well, there was a little skift of snow on the ground, and I follered up a ridge of the mountain […]
ref: 1857, “A Winter in the South”, in Harper's Magazine, page 726:
text: It was quite cold that morning; just a little skift of snow. We had not gone a mile from camp before we were overtaken by a score or more of boys going home to Missouri. They had been up to the Wakarusa camp — the pro-slavery troops were ...
ref: 1915, Ed Blair, History of Johnson County, Kansas, page 61:
text: A “Skift” of Snow
LAST night we had a “skift” of snow, and it was interesting to notice the effect on the summer-born creatures of the farm. A plump young kitten that had not seen the pesky stuff before came to meet me from the stable ...
ref: 1919, Peter McArthur, The Red Cow and Her Friends, Createspace Independent Pub, page 244:
text: We just got out on the top and there was a little skift of snow a-fallin'.
ref: 1939, Coll, Hall:
text: [...] money from the Appalachian Community Development Association and from Cincinnati's Tall Stacks Festival, so I rented a car and stayed in a motel instead of sleeping on somebody's floor. There was just a little skift of snow on the ground.
ref: 2001, Cincinnati Magazine, page 80:
text: A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.
ref: 2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting, page 84:
glosses: Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
synonyms: word: skiff
extra: (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”)
skift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: skifts
form: skifting
form: skifted
form: skifted
Etymology: From Scots skift (“light shower of rain or snow”), related to skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”) (which see for more) and skiffle.
Senses: examples: text: A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth. It settled on a limb and began dressing its plumage.
ref: 1911, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Harvester, page 46:
text: […] Violent gusts of wind came in rapid succession down the sound of Kilbrannan ; and a skifting rain, flung fitfully but fiercely from the huge black clouds as they hurried along before the tempest that ...
ref: 1921, Ernest Rhys, The Haunters & the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural, page 153
text: A crest of last night's snow skifts the powerlines, lengths of it falling to clean asphalt broken and askew, shattered grammar of a landscape whose unheard mutter might explain.
ref: 1997, Southern Poetry Review, volumes 37-38, page 20:
text: THE PIGEONS SCATTERED as I walked onto the University of Washington campus, crossing the snow skifted plaza of Red Square with an important document tucked under my arm.
ref: 2013, Carlene Cross, Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith:
text: Surely a sound like this could only bring cold and skifting rain: it seemed past belief that such a lonely sound could come hurtling through the darkness on a breath as stifling as a furnace. No candle flickered in the windows of the large building ...
ref: 2019, Elizabeth Mac Donald, A Matter of Interpretation, Fairlight Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of skiff (“fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground”).
synonyms: word: skiff
extra: fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground
raw_tags: of rain or snow
examples: text: Aw could like yo to skift, afore aw […]
ref: 1867, Edwin Waugh, Owd Blanket, page 10:
text: And a man mun keep watch at t mill toft / To stiddy his mouter-dish — help him to sift it, / And see it's o' tidily done; / And gedder up offal, and heàmmward to skift it, / And hev sooins as sure as a gun.
ref: 1875, William Dickinson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 231:
text: […] teeap wed tak a reet good rin at em, heed brek t' woes wi his heead. Bet he mud rin a gae lang while afooar heed stir a steean i' oor hoose. Ya can haardly skift em [steeans] wi booarin an blastin. It's a varra lang while — a caant tell ya hoo lang — […]
ref: 1887, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 1:
text: Ay, he left me drunk t other neet, an' he came back i' a two - three minutes after sober; an' when a man gets skifted out o' liquor so speedy-like, he gets a sort o' hatred on't. Leastways, that's what I've noticed more nor once, an' […]
ref: 1900, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Shameless Wayne, page 103:
glosses: To shift; to move or remove.
Mirandese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Miranda do Douro (in the northeast corner of Portugal), its people, their culture, or their now-endangered Romance language.
Mirandese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mirandese
Senses: examples: text: Toward evening a Mirandese came in: he was a man of about fifty, a politician, bright and talkative, and so I left the carabineros to join him.
ref: 1895, Edmondo De Amicis (translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall), Spain and the Spaniards, volume 1, page 95:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Miranda do Douro in the northeastern corner of Portugal.
Mirandese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: My example is taken from the Portuguese dialect of Mirandese, more specifically Mirandese as spoken in the area of Sendim[…]
ref: 1974, R. Joe Campbell, Mark G. Goldin, Mary Clayton Wang, editors, Linguistic studies in Romance languages: Proceedings, page 41:
glosses: An endangered Romance language spoken in the northeastern corner of Portugal, principally in the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mirandese terms
jades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jade
jades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jade
Angeline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Angeline.
Senses: examples: text: Boughton had christened her, as I said, but I laid my hand on her just to bless her, and I could feel her pulse, her warmth, the damp of her hair. The Lord said, 'Their angels in Heaven always see the face of my Father in Heaven' (Matthew 18:10). That's why Boughton named her Angeline.
ref: 2009, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Angelyne
Angelina
Angelyna
Angelyn
Angelynn
Angelynne
glosses: A female given name from French.
Angeline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Angelines
Etymology: Americanized form of Italian Angelini.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
grego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪɡəʊ/
Forms: form: gregos
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Graeco (“Greek”).
Senses: examples: text: Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A type of rough jacket with a hood.
Eduard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French
cornetist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornetists
Etymology: From cornet + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The cornetist’s sombre repertoire had made her spirits drop.
ref: 2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety, Doubleday, page 85:
glosses: Someone who plays the cornet.
Related terms: english: one who plays the cornett
translation: one who plays the cornett
word: cornettist
euphoniumist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphoniumists
Etymology: From euphonium + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the euphonium
microfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfictions
form: micro-fiction
Etymology: From micro- + fiction.
Senses: glosses: Fiction that has a significantly shorter than average length.
glosses: An individual work of this type.
Related terms: drabble
flashfic
flash fiction
short short story
sudden fiction
Thea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːə/
ipa: /ˈθɛːa/
rhymes: -iːə
Etymology: Shortened from Dorothea and Theodora, ultimately from Ancient Greek θεά (theá, “goddess”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek (rather rare in English).
Dodie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
doomsday device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomsday devices
form: Doomsday Device
Etymology: Coined as Doomsday Machine by military strategist Herman Kahn.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: doomsday bomb, Dead Hand
text: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device.
ref: 1964, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, spoken by Narrator:
text: Of course, Henry M. Paulson Jr., the Treasury secretary, is calling for merging the S.E.C. with the easygoing Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in the financial equivalent of setting off a Doomsday Device.
ref: 2008 April 27, Ben Stein, “Wall Street, Run Amok”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: doomsday weapon
glosses: A hypothetical weapon (often a bomb) programmed to automatically be used in response to certain attacks, usually with very dire consequences (such as the annihilation of the world).
glosses: An extremely powerful weapon.
Related terms: doomsday event
Dr. Strangelove
extinction event
nuclear deterrent
Doomsday Device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doomsday Devices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doomsday device.
tamales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish tamales. As the plural of tamale, partly also regularly formed from tamale + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of tamal
glosses: plural of tamale
Dorotea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Västerbotten County, Lapland Region, in northern Sweden.
effortful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more effortful
form: most effortful
Etymology: From effort + -ful.
Senses: antonyms: effortless
glosses: Requiring or showing effort.
Derived terms: effortfully
effortfulness
piccoloist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piccoloists
Etymology: From piccolo + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the piccolo.
sarangist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarangists
Etymology: From sarangi + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who plays the sarangi
sousaphonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sousaphonists
Etymology: From sousaphone + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the sousaphone
tambourinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tambourinists
Etymology: From tambourine + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the tambourine
educamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From education + -ma-.
Senses: glosses: Mistaken form of education
Related terms: educamate
tubist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubists
Etymology: From tuba + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the tuba.
Synonyms: tubaist
-'s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: -’s
form: -s
form: -s-
Etymology: From Middle English -s, -es, from Old English -es (“-'s”, masculine and neuter genitive singular ending), from Proto-Germanic *-as, *-is (masculine and neuter genitive singular ending). Cognate with Dutch -s, -es (“-'s”), German -s, -es (“-'s”), Danish -s, -es (“-'s”), Swedish -s (“-'s”), Norwegian -s (“-'s”), Icelandic -s (“-'s”).
Senses: examples: text: Jane's house is bigger than Sarah's.
text: The cat bit the dog's tail. (the dog + 's)
text: The cat bit the dog with the shaggy fur's tail. (the dog with the shaggy fur + 's)
text: women's contributions to science
text: Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: A possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.
examples: text: We'll arrive at Jose and María's in time for dinner.
text: I'm going to the butcher's for a steak.
raw_tags: see s-form
text: I bought it at Tesco's. (see s-form)
text: greengrocer's
glosses: In the absence of a specified object, used to indicate “the house/place/establishment of”.
examples: text: You need a driver's license.
text: Alex can be a girl's name.
text: That's a girl's toy. (A toy intended for use by girls.) — Homographic to: That's a girl's toy. (The toy of a specific girl.)
text: people's
glosses: Indicates a purpose or a user.
examples: text: I took three weeks' holiday.
text: The rocks lay at about a mile's distance from the shore.
glosses: Used to indicate a quantity of something, especially of time.
examples: text: She got angry at my niece's trying to lie to us.
text: the doctor's help (help provided by the doctor)
text: the King's capture (event of the King being captured)
text: my father's portrait (portrait depicting my father)
text: in Dublin's fair city (in the fair city of Dublin)
glosses: Used to indicate various other kinds of relationship, such as source or origin, object of an action, subject depicted, etc.
examples: text: a friend of Sarah's
text: Have you heard this new idea of our boss's?
text: NAy, but this dotage of our Generals
Ore-flowes the meaſure: […]
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 340, column 1:
glosses: Attached to a noun or noun phrase linked to a genitive of, forming a double genitive (Compare of mine, etc.)
Synonyms: of
-'s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: s
ipa: /s/
enpr: ĭz
ipa: /ɪz/
enpr: ĭz
enpr: əz
ipa: /ɪz/
ipa: /əz/
enpr: əz
ipa: /əz/
enpr: z
ipa: /z/
homophone: -s
Forms: form: -’s
form: -s
form: -s-
Etymology: Equivalent to -s, with addition of apostrophe.
Senses: examples: text: There are four 3’s in my phone number.
text: “Banana” has three a’s and one b. (apostrophe "s" used so that the plural of “a” is not confused with the word “as”)
text: You can buy CD’s in that shop.
text: These are the do’s and don’ts. (apostrophe "s" used as “dos” may be misread)
text: 10’s; 100’s; A+’s; A.U.’s; don’t’s; s’s
glosses: Used to form the plurals of numerals, letters, some abbreviations and some nouns, usually because the omission of an apostrophe would make the meaning unclear or ambiguous.
examples: index’s
glosses: Used to form plurals of foreign words, to clarify pronunciation, such as “banana’s” or “pasta’s”.
examples: text: Apple’s 50p a pound
glosses: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.
Coordinate terms: -'d
Related terms: its
it’s
let’s
greengrocer’s apostrophe
ukulelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ukulelists
form: ukuleleist
Etymology: From ukulele + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the ukulele
intendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intendents
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intendant.
Mp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of masorah parva.
BOE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of based on experience, mentioned in job offers where compensation is to be negotiated.
glosses: Initialism of bind on equip.
BOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BOEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of basis of estimate.
glosses: Initialism of buffered oxide etch, a mixture of ammonia and hydrofluoric acid used to isotropically etch silicon oxide in microfabrication.
glosses: Initialism of board of education.
glosses: Initialism of barrel of oil equivalent, a unit of energy.
BOE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Blue Ocean Event, a hypothetical future point in time at which the Arctic Sea loses almost all of its ice.
glosses: Initialism of Boletín Oficial del Estado, the official gazette of the Spanish Government.
glosses: Initialism of Bank of England.
wash with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: washes with
form: washing with
form: washed with
form: washed with
Senses: examples: text: I: Please, I don't feel good.
WITHNAIL: That's what you would say, but that wouldn't wash with Geoff.
ref: 1987, Withnail and I (film)
glosses: To have an effect on (a person); persuade; be acceptable to.
neo-Luddites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-Luddite
principes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princeps
wormily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəː.mə.lɪ/
ipa: /ˈwɝ.mə.li/
Forms: form: more wormily
form: most wormily
Etymology: From wormy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which he crossed […]
ref: 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:
text: Susan Klein’s fat, puppy-lard face began to ripple, and slowly, wormily, […] there emerged an ordinary looking individual who might have been seen just about anywhere.
ref: Spring 1999, D. F. Lewis, Stuart Hughes, “Beyond the comfort zone”, in Roadworks, number 4, pages 16–18:
glosses: In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
bridgekeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgekeepers
Etymology: From bridge + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: She wasn't aware that she was gawking with her mouth open until the bridgekeeper extended a hand, palm up, and waited in silence.
ref: 2014, Alisha Nurse, The Return of the Key:
glosses: One who guards (or keeps) a bridge.
physical therapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical therapists
Senses: glosses: A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise.
gatekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
Forms: form: gatekeeps
form: gatekeeping
form: gatekept
form: gatekept
form: gate-keep
Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.
Senses: glosses: To control or limit access to something.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
glosses: To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
Derived terms: gatekeeper
gate-keepy
Related terms: no true Scotsman fallacy
gatekeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
Forms: form: gatekeeps
form: gate-keep
Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.
Senses: examples: text: Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind "her husband's" broad back.
ref: 1949, Laverne Gay, Wine of Ssatan a Novel of the First Crusade, page 129:
text: A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.
ref: 1969, Donald M. Hines, Dust Devils in the Great Desert:
text: Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.
ref: 1987, Maggie Osborne, Chase the Heart, page 278:
text: “At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.
ref: 2017, Jeannie Troll, A Clever Girl:
glosses: A gatekeeper.
Armin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Armin, from Latin Arminius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from German or Latin.
interferential stimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The treatment of heat-injured muscles and joints by the application of an alternating-current electrical stimulus
on wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "That prosecutor seems like a real bitch on wheels," Amanda says […].
ref: 2005, Joy Fielding, Puppet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 181:
coordinate_terms: on steroids
glosses: To a large degree, excessively.
examples: text: The order was written. In less than ten days everything was "on wheels" and the whole body of these Sioux [was] on the move to the country they had indicated, and the Secretary of the Interior says, naively, in his report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite determined to move westward, and the promise of the government in that respect was faithfully kept."
ref: 1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, chapter V, in A Century of Dishonor:
glosses: Mobile; able to be moved; especially, synonym of on the move.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, wheels. (Having wheels affixed to the bottom, and so transportable; synonym of wheeled).
Related terms: hell on wheels
hierarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierarchy
proofreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proofread
proofreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proofread
amorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorist
tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌŋd/
Etymology: From Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling a tongue.
examples: text: He's a sharp-tongued boy.
glosses: Having a particular manner of speaking.
antonyms: tongueless
glosses: Having a tongue for towing.
raw_tags: of wagons and farm implements
Derived terms: acid-tongued
blue-tongued lizard
blue-tongued skink
Cadena's long-tongued bat
close-tongued
disc-tongued frog
double-tongued
false-tongued
fiery-tongued
fork-tongued
foul-tongued
free-tongued
full-tongued
golden-tongued
honey-tongued
long-tongued
long-tongued bat
loose-tongued
lying-tongued
many-tongued
one-tongued
Pallas's long-tongued bat
Patton's long-tongued bat
quick-tongued
sharp-tongued
silver-tongued
single-tongued
slick-tongued
sly-tongued
smooth-tongued
soft-tongued
sweet-tongued
three-tongued
treble-tongued
twi-tongued
two-tongued
venomous-tongued
tongued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʌŋd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tongue
weaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaners
Etymology: From wean + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "I mean she's too young to get married," said Oscar. "Doesn't know she's alive yet—like calfing a weaner."
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, page 138:
glosses: An animal that has been recently weaned.
glosses: A device used to help wean a young animal by keeping it from suckling.
Livvy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪvi/
Etymology: Aphetic form of Olivia + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.
time-space convergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication, by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel (or send messages) between them.
man up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæn ˈʌp/
Forms: form: mans up
form: manning up
form: manned up
form: manned up
Etymology: man + up, with influence from own up, buck up.
Senses: examples: text: I was wondering when he would man up and marry that girl he knocked up.
text: You need to man up and confront your boss about her behavior.
text: Hey son, man up, okay? There will be time for tears later.
text: Or do you also have to wait for some veteran civil servant to tell you whether or not you put your pants on the right way round this morning? Honestly mate, just MAN UP.
ref: 2022 January 11, Marina Hyde, “Who’s really leading Britain – Boris Johnson or the crazy-face emoji?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: woman up
word: boss up
word: person up
glosses: To be brave or tough enough to deal with something in a manner that is considered strong or manly. (Compare man (“brace oneself, steel oneself”))
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: (Of personnel) to assemble, each person manning (attending to) his station, prepared for the departure of an aircraft, ship, etc. (Compare man (“supply with staff; take up position to operate”).)
glosses: To staff adequately; to staff up; to successfully fill all needed labor positions. (Compare man (“supply with staff”).)
raw_tags: of other personnel
examples: text: They must be athletic enough to man up on a solid number two receiver and yet be physical enough to step into the line scrimmage and tackle a running back.
ref: 2005, Allan Trimble, Coaching football successfully,, Human Kinetics, page 166:
text: He will man up on his opponent whenever his opponent has the ball.
ref: 2005, Andrew McLeod, Trevor D. Jaques, Australian football: steps to success,, page 138:
text: I had to "man up" on their rover, and every time I went for the ball he tried to hit me.
ref: 2007 Blye Frank & Kevin G. Davison, Masculinities and schooling: international practices and perspectives, Althouse Press, page 141
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To vigorously guard the opponent to whom one is assigned.
archmage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːtʃmeɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑːkmeɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹt͡ʃmeɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑːɹkmeɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: archmagi
form: archmages
form: archimage
Etymology: From arch- + mage.
Senses: topics: fantasy
synonyms: archmagus
glosses: A very powerful mage.
spellcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spellcasters
form: spell-caster
Etymology: From spell + caster.
Senses: glosses: One who casts spells; a magician; a sorcerer.
Related terms: spellcast
spellcasting
spellcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spellcaster
archmagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: archmages
glosses: plural of archmage
glosses: plural of archmagus
archmages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archmage
Related terms: archmagi
res publica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪz ˈpʊblɪkə/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin rēs pūblica. Doublet of republic.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time the Roman-barbarian regna distinguished themselves from the res publica.
ref: 1997, Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples, page 190:
text: There was no question as yet of republicanism being on the agenda, other than in the old, weak sense of a res publica or commonwealth to which both ruler and ruled owed allegiance.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 402:
glosses: The common good, as identified with the wider state; the commonwealth, the body politic.
indefatigabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indefatigability
intermittences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermittence
hepatocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatocyte
convolvuluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convolvulus
convolvuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convolvulus
galant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.
Derived terms: Galante
Related terms: rococo
perfect storms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect storm
putrescene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putrescenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of putrescine.
putrescin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putrescins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of putrescine.
putrescins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putrescin
putrescenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of putrescene
chocolate face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chocolate faces
Senses: glosses: One whose face is covered in chocolate.
examples: text: Next morning, I interview Politician who is a genuine chocolate face, no make-up
ref: 2006, Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan:
glosses: A black person.
flames out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flame out
flaming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flame out
flamed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flame out
corf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːf/
ipa: /kɔɹf/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: corves
form: corfs
Etymology: From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.
Senses: examples: text: Why, I am simple as a pony, Sir […]?– born in a Drift, a Corf for my cradle, and nought but the Back-shift for Schoolmasters there […]?
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A large basket, especially as used for coal.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
Related terms: korfball
kommos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kommoi
Etymology: Ancient Greek κομμός (kommós, “beating”), from κόπτω (kóptō, “to beat, strike”). It was used in Ancient Greek theatre.
Senses: glosses: A set of lines that alternate between an actor (or actors) and the chorus.
pig sticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig stickers
Etymology: From pig + sticker.
Senses: glosses: A specialized knife used to slaughter a pig by stabbing it in the throat.
bottomless pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomless pits
Etymology: From Revelation 9:1–12.
Senses: synonyms: abyss
glosses: A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
examples: 1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11,
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Hell.
examples: text: Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition."
ref: 1994, Donald Frederick Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe:
glosses: An endless resource or supply.
examples: 2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis
In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.
synonyms: money pit
black hole
glosses: A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
topics: video-games
glosses: An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.
rhythm guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythm guitars
Senses: glosses: A guitar in a band that provides rhythm, usually by playing chords or similar accompanying parts, to support the lead guitar.
Related terms: lead guitar
Gopala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit गोपाल (gó-pālá).
Senses: glosses: A name of the Hindu god Krishna.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India, also anglicised as Gopal.
Related terms: Govinda
Govinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
From Sanskrit गोविन्द (Govinda, “finder of cows”).
Senses: glosses: The Hindu god Krishna.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India; also transliterated as Govind.
Related terms: Gopala
preorgasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹiːɔːˈɡazmɪk/
rhymes: -æzmɪk
Forms: form: pre-orgasmic
Etymology: From pre- + orgasmic.
Senses: examples: text: This hallucinogen is also a mild stimulant and hence enhances slightly the preorgasmic sensations.
ref: 1977, Hardin Blair Jones, Sensual Drugs, page 136:
text: Pre-orgasmic build-up generally takes a longer time for the woman than it does for the man.
ref: 2003, Ma Ananda Sarita, Ecstatic Sex, page 61:
text: These types of headache are rare; orgasmic headache is about four times more frequent than preorgasmic headache.
ref: 2008, Michael J Aminoff, Neurology and General Medicine, page 666:
glosses: Happening before an orgasm.
examples: text: Although Mrs. A. reported experiencing more pleasure during sex, she was still preorgasmic.
ref: 1980, Sandra Risa Leiblum et al., Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, page 54:
text: In the past, women who did not experience orgasm were called frigid. This term is no longer used because it implies that the woman is at fault. Instead, the term preorgasmic has been substituted, since most women can be taught to become orgasmic.
ref: 1993, Rebecca J Donatelle, To Health, page 167:
text: When her therapist informed her that masturbation is the best way for preorgasmic women to learn how to have an orgasm, she was frightened.
ref: 2000, Stephanie S Covington, Awakening Your Sexuality, page 81:
glosses: Having not yet experienced an orgasm (especially of a woman).
konak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈnɑːk/
Forms: form: konaks
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 841:
glosses: A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.
baglama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baglamas
form: bağlama
Etymology: From Turkish bağlama, from bağlamak (“to tie”).
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the room, as if behind an iconastasis of song, oud, baglamas, and a kind of hammered dulcimer called a santouri were being played without a break.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 945:
glosses: A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
Synonyms: saz
Derived terms: elektro-baglama
go-devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊdɛvəl/
Forms: form: go-devils
Etymology: From go + devil.
Senses: examples: text: He had three wagonloads of go-devil squibs he wanted to sell, you know, these little oil-well torpedoes, hold about a quart of nitro each? Beautiful.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 952:
glosses: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
glosses: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered.
glosses: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
A device, such as a loosely fitted plug, which is driven through a pipe by the pressure of the contents behind the plug to clear away obstructions.
glosses: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
A rough sled or dray used for dragging or hauling loads.
gibanica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian gìbanica/гѝбаница, from gíbati/ги́бати (“to sway, rock, swing; fold”), originally meaning "folded pie".
Senses: examples: text: They sat eating gibanica and sardines and drinking some herbal grappa called kadulja.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 976:
glosses: A traditional dish from the Balkans made from filo pastry and white cheese.
acceptee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acceptees
Etymology: From accept + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who accepts, or is accepted for, a position
rubl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubls
Etymology: From Russian рубль (rublʹ).
Senses: examples: text: All the mantles observed in Russia were of German make. They brought a high price at first, about one rubl each, or say about 75 cents, and were eagerly snapped up at that.
ref: 1902 August, Light, volume II, number 6, page 78, column 1:
text: Annually 3 karb (probably meaning the Ukrainan^([sic]) rubl, similar to the Russian rubl and ordinarily 50 cents in American money).
ref: 1926, List of Foreign Educational Periodicals Other Than Great Britain, France and Germany, 1926, Office of Education:
text: In 2005 Russia achieved a seventh successive year of economic growth, which has averaged 6.4% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. Although high oil prices and the relatively low value of the Russian rubl have been important drivers of this economic recovery, investment and consumer-driven demand have played a noticeably increasing role since 2000.
ref: 2006, Bülent Gökay, editor, Politics of Oil: A Survey, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Decisions taken by the Crimean legislature following the disputed referendum included submitting an application for the territory to join Russia, replacing the Ukrainian currency (hryvnya) with the Russian rubl, and permitting Crimean soldiers to join the Russian military.
ref: 2016, The Europa Directory of International Organizations 2016, 18th edition, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 448, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of ruble (“Russian currency”).
rubl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubls
Etymology: From Tajik рубл (rubl).
Senses: examples: text: The new banknotes are called the rubl (рубл, vs. the Russian spelling: рубль). Tadzhik rubls will be issued in denominations of R1, R3, R5, R10, R100, R200 and R500 and R1,000.
ref: 1994, Russian Travel Monthly, volume 2, number 6, Russian Information Services, page 4:
text: A national currency, the Tajik rubl, will become the sole legal tender inside the country. One, three, five, 10, 200, 500 and 1,000 Tajik rubl notes have been issued.
ref: 1995, Daily Report: Central Eurasia, numbers 92–98, page 92:
text: The manat, sum, tenge and Tajik rubl are still relatively unstable and so prices quoted in this book are quoted in US dollar equivalents.
ref: 2000, Bradley Mayhew, Richard Plunkett, Simon Richmond, Central Asia, Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of ruble (“Tajik currency”).
Peipus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪpəs/
Etymology: From German Peipussee.
Senses: glosses: A large freshwater lake on the border between Estonia and Russia in Northern Europe. It is the fifth-largest lake in Europe, and the largest in Estonia. The lake consists of three parts: Peipsi (Chudskoe), Pihkva (Pskovskoe), Lämmijärv (Teploe).
Synonyms: Pskovsko-Chudskoye
Norwalk virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norwalk viruses
Etymology: From Norwalk, Ohio, site of a serious outbreak in 1968.
Senses: glosses: Any of several virus strains in genus Norovirus that cause acute gastrointestinal infection.
glosses: The disease caused by the virus.
Related terms: norovirus
toxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of toxin.
comfort women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfort woman
dielectric grease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dielectric greases
Senses: glosses: Synonym of silicone grease.
synonyms: word: silicone grease
on one's watch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: [Robert] Gates emerged from the first week of hearings bearing only a few scratches. […] He even vowed to resign if illegal activity occurred on his watch.
ref: 1991 September 30, Michael Duffy, “The CIA: See No Evil, Hear No Evil”, in Time, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2016:
text: Woods dismissed the idea that anyone could get away with election fraud on her watch.
ref: 2005 February 19, Amy Silvers, “100 miles per hour for 102 years”, in Milwaukee Journal Sentinal:
text: President George Bush today insisted American forces would not withdraw from Iraq "on my watch" and give terrorists the chance "to claim an historic victory over the United States".
ref: 2005 September 22, George W. Bush, quotee, “Bush: Troops will not withdraw on my watch”, in The Guardian:
text: “You look at what’s happening in Europe,” he continued, “you look at what’s happening in other places – we can’t allow that to happen to the United States. Not on my watch.”
ref: 2018 June 19, Lauren Gambino, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump says US will not be a 'migrant camp'”, in The Guardian:
text: [...] Fowler was responsible for a conservative small engine policy at the LMS, previously adopted on the Midland, which led to much double-heading - although the Royal Scot 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive was also introduced on his watch in 1928.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:
glosses: During the period of time when one is in a position of authority or responsibility.
sub-brown dwarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-brown dwarf
osculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of osculate
osculating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more osculating
form: most osculating
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having three or more points coincident with another
raw_tags: of a curve
Derived terms: osculating circle
osculating orbit
on the watch
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Come into that little brush-shop and sit down, father—they'll let you sit down," said Eppie, always on the watch lest one of her father's strange attacks should come on.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, chapter 21, in Silas Marner:
text: Even when he eats and sleeps there is always one on the watch near him who has strength and weapons.
ref: 1897, Joseph Conrad, Karain: A Memoir:
text: His children, married and single, were ever on the watch for what they could get out of him.
ref: 1924 December 1, “Peasants”, in Time:
text: The department also notified its Bureau of Forestry and Electricity to be on the watch for ice on trees and power lines.
ref: 2007, "WEATHER UPDATE," WBBM780.com (Illinois), 2 Dec.
glosses: Alternative form of on watch.
Synonyms: on watch
medrese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medreses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of madrasah.