cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tranquilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tranquilly
form: most tranquilly
Etymology: From tranquil + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When we see a party looking tranquilly up to heaven, unconscious that his body is shot through and through with arrows, we know that that is St. Sebastian.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “LEARNING THE RUDIMENTS”, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 238:
glosses: In a tranquil manner.
militarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: militarises
form: militarising
form: militarised
form: militarised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of militarize.
Derived terms: demilitarise
remilitarise
toughener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tougheners
Etymology: From toughen + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something used to toughen.
tougheners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toughener
tortuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tortuously
form: most tortuously
Etymology: From tortuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tortuous manner.
tortuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortuousnesses
Etymology: From tortuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being tortuous.
touchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more touchingly
form: most touchingly
Etymology: From touching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a touchingly pathetic plight
text: She felt a melancholy satisfaction in gazing for the last time on a scene so indelibly impressed with Madame de Mercœur's image. How many instances of her sweet and gentle temper rose so touchingly to memory!
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 89–90:
glosses: In a touching manner.
torridly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more torridly
form: most torridly
Etymology: From torrid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a torrid manner.
torridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torrid + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being torrid.
tongue-lashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-lashings
Senses: examples: text: One common thread is that many victims of Vance's tongue-lashing are America's allies.
ref: 2025 April 3, James Landale, “Vance took the lead attacking Zelensky. Why?”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tongue lashing.
tongue-lashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue-lashing
Handlanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Handlangers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Handlanger (“handyman; henchman”), from Hand (“hand”) + langen (“to hand over, to give; to reach for something”) + -er (in the sense of someone who puts things into another person's hands, that is, someone whose task it is to help another person succeed). The word was loaned into Dutch and might have entered English through the Dutch form.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, by His Majeſty's Command, preſented to the Houſe, Copy of a Convention between the King of Great Britain and the States General, on the one Part; and the Empreſs Queen of Hungary and Bohemia on the other— […] Artillery. […] 12 Gunners, or Handlangers. […] 2 Drummers, at the Pay of Handlangers. […] 4 Aſſiſtants, at the Pay of Handlangers.
ref: 1746 January 22, “Jovis, 22° die Januarii; Anno 20° Georgii II Regis, 1746”, in Journals of the House of Commons. From October the 17th, 1745, in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, to November the 22nd, 1750, in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Second. Re-printed by Order of the House of Commons, volume 25, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, published 1803, →OCLC, pages 247 and 250–251:
text: The Handlanger soldier was not a gunner or a bombardier, since he merely acted as labour on gun-sites […]
ref: 1973, Albert Seaton, The Austro-Hungarian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (Men-at-arms Series), Reading, Oxon.: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN:
text: After the defeat of 1809, the four artillery regiments were kept in existence, but the Handlanger-Corps was reduced to a cadre.
ref: 1990, Philip J. Haythornthwaite, Austrian Specialist Troops of the Napoleonic Wars (Men-at-arms Series; 223), London: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
text: The artillerymen concentrated on directing, loading and firing the guns, the remaining simpler functions being performed by the Handlanger. The No. 1 gunner inserted the charge and shot into the muzzle, No. 2 (a Handlanger) rammed it home and cleared the barrel with the sponge after firing. The chief gunner was No. 3, the Vormeister (gun commander) who was often a Bombardier, as were many Korporals. […] [H]e would also direct No. 5; the Handlanger holding the traversing spar and the Handlanger moving the gun.
ref: 2003, David Hollins, Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792–1815 (New Vanguard; 72), Oxford: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A low-ranking artillery soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army.
wikipedia: Austro-Hungarian Army
Related terms: handlanger
tongue-lash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃ
Forms: form: tongue-lashes
form: tongue-lashing
form: tongue-lashed
form: tongue-lashed
Senses: glosses: To scold, to chew out.
topflight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + flight.
Senses: glosses: best, A-one, superior.
torpidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpidities
Etymology: From torpid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being torpid.
torridity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torridities
Etymology: From torrid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being torrid.
teach-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teach-ins
Etymology: From teach + -in, modeled after sit-in.
Senses: examples: text: Bomb threats and pickets disrupted an all-night "teach-in" tonight at Michigan State University.
ref: 1965 April 9, “Pickets and Bomb Threats Disrupt Michigan Teach-In”, in The New York Times, page 65:
text: A more direct example of linkages between elite dissent and mass protest is the "Teach-In" movement which began in March 1965 at the University of Michigan (Menashe and Radosh, 1967).
ref: 1980, George A. Kourvetaris, Betty A. Dobratz, Political Sociology: Readings in Research and Theory, →ISBN, page 332:
text: He was a cohost of our Johannesburg teach-in and helped orchestrate a conclusion to the teach-in that was even more memorable than its beginning.
ref: 2006, Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, HarperCollins, page 95:
glosses: An extended session of lectures, debates or discussions on a matter of public interest, usually social or political, as a form of protest.
tramper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæmpɚ/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trampers
Etymology: From tramp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tramps.
examples: text: It's a popular spot for hikers, or trampers as they call them here.
ref: 2007 December 29, Linda Barnard, “Train trek carries travellers over New Zealand's alpine backbone”, in Toronto Star, page T9:
glosses: A recreational hiker.
examples: text: The purpose of the tramper is to pack the lint into the press box under the restraining dogs near the top end of the press box.
ref: 1995, W.S. Anthony, D.W. Van Doorn, Douglas Herber, “Packaging Lint Cotton”, in Cotton Ginner's Handbook, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.
examples: text: A Greek ship wants 30 pounds of feta cheese, a British tramper requests five cases of steak and kidney pies, a Japanese auto carrier orders 75 pints of boiled octopus, […]
ref: 2005, Robert C. Keither, Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship, typically a bulk freighter, which does not travel on a fixed route; compare liner.
Synonyms: sense: one who tramps
word: walker
sense: one who tramps
word: stomper
sense: one who hikes
word: hiker
sense: freighter not following a fixed route
word: tramp
sense: freighter not following a fixed route
word: tramp steamer
sense: freighter not following a fixed route
word: tramp freighter
trampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramper
tragically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tragically
form: most tragically
Etymology: From tragic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60:
glosses: In a tragic manner.
purifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of purify
purifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purifyings
Senses: examples: text: These ritual purifyings have taken place for thousands of years.
glosses: An act of purification.
tufter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tufters
Etymology: From tuft + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that tufts carpets, etc.
glosses: A person who uses such a machine.
tumidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumidities
Etymology: From tumid + -ity, after Latin tumiditās.
Senses: examples: text: There is, however, one [passage] in No. 11, which is blown up into such tumidity, as to be truly ludicrous.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1373:
glosses: The condition of being tumid; swollenness, distension.
Synonyms: tumescence
turgescence
turgidity
turgor
turfy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːfi/
ipa: /ˈtɝfi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
homophone: TERFy
Forms: form: turfier
form: turfiest
Etymology: From turf + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: The wind still sounds between the hills: and whistles through the grass of the rock. The firs fall from their place. The turfy hut is torn.
ref: 1762, James Macpherson, “Croma”, in Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, p. 254, footnote:
text: “Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves; or do they look turfy and flowery?”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Valley of the Shadow of Death”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: […] the fields […] were brown, turfy and stiff, these fields where battles of the Hundred Years’ War had been fought,
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter XXVI, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 535:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or constructed of turf.
examples: text: Good and fearless horse-women themselves, their whole delight seemed to be in the discussion of matters pertaining to the stable; and when meeting any young lady friend from a distance, the first questions were not enquiries after parents, sisters, brothers, or friends: no, nor even the lady-beloved talk of weddings and dress; but the discourse almost invariably took a “turfy” turn, that was, to say the least, unfeminine in the extreme.
ref: 1852, Louisa Anne Meredith, chapter 11, in My Home in Tasmania, volume 2, London: John Murray, pages 154–155:
text: Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but, in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing), page 36:
text: When a Frenchman is horsey he never runs the risk of being mistaken for a groom or a jockey, as do his turfy compeers in England.
ref: 1895, Henry Seton Merriman, chapter 14, in The Sowers, New York: Harper, page 121:
synonyms: horsy
glosses: Relating to or involved with horses or horse-racing.
daysman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪzmən/
Forms: form: daysmen
Etymology: From day + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 9:33:
text: in Switzerland (we are informed by Simlerus), ‘they had some common arbitrators or daysmen in every town, that made a friendly composition betwixt man and man […]’.
ref: , New York, 2001, p.85
text: Now, my darlings, let mother be the daysman between you […].
ref: 1901, David Bryant Fulton, Jack Thorne, Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre, Online edition, Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
glosses: An arbiter, referee, mediator.
glosses: A labourer who works during the day.
litten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Etymology: Pseudo-archaic formation from lit + -en.
Senses: examples: text: They’ve been inside the earth, too—there are openings which human beings know nothing of—some of them in these very Vermont hills—and great worlds of unknown life down there; blue-litten K’n-yan, red-litten Yoth, and black, lightless N’kai.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 7, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: past participle of light
Related terms: moonlitten
starlitten
twilitten
unlitten
tut-tut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of annoyance or impatience.
tut-tut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tut-tuts
form: tut-tutting
form: tut-tutted
form: tut-tutted
Senses: glosses: To express such a sound, especially as a mild reproof
Derived terms: tut-tutter
Related terms: tsk
slap bet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slap bets
Senses: glosses: A wager between two people (especially children) that involves no money, but in which the winner is allowed to slap the loser as hard as he or she can.
hitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “B-b-but I d-d-on't want to go b-b-back! Miss Kimble hitted me and—”
Moira pulled the child closer, looking over her head at the nurse. “You hit her?”
ref: 2009, Karen Hawkins, The Laird Who Loved Me:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hit
wolln't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: will not.
leastest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: least + -est
Senses: glosses: least.
yourn
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: your'n
Etymology: From Middle English youren. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, yours. See also ourn, hern. Cognate with West Flemish joen (“yourn”).
Senses: examples: text: When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 341:
text: Your room's in there, back of the office, an' you'll find some clothes there that the last man forgot to take with him. You ken have 'em, an' from the looks o' yourn you need 'em.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete outside British and US dialects
glosses: Yours.
hisn
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: his'n
Etymology: From Middle English hisen, ultimately corresponding to an alteration of his after mine, thine.
Senses: examples: text: I will not show him this letter of yours, though you seem to desire it, lest it should provoke him to be too severe a schoolmaster, when you are his'n.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: An' every feller felt ez though all Mexico wuz hisn.
ref: 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
text: But in the absolute whosen is often substituted, as in "if it ain't hisn, then whosen is it?" The imitation is obvious.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 297:
glosses: His.
ourn
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: our'n
Etymology: From Middle English ourn, ouren, from Old English ūrne and similar forms. Compare mine, thine; also compare and see hern. Displaced in standard speech by the -s form, ours, which see for more.
Senses: examples: text: “Supposin',” continued Ward, “that we let two o' your men an' two o' ourn under Mr. Divine, shin up them cliffs back o' the cove an' search fer water an' a site fer camp—the rest o' us'll have our hands full with the salvage.”
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete outside British and US dialects
glosses: Ours.
Related terms: hisn
his'n
hern
her'n
yourn
your'n
theirn
their'n
Zufall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zufalls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zufall.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Fron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Lenited from Welsh bron (“hill, breast”)
Senses: glosses: A small village in Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0965).
rivalries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rivalry
hierophants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hierophant
hierophantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /hʌɪəɹəʊˈfantɪk/
Forms: form: more hierophantic
form: most hierophantic
Etymology: From hierophant + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Cease to strive. Peace of the druid priests of Cymbeline: hierophantic: from wide earth an altar.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to a hierophant.
Derived terms: hierophantically
hierophantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hierophantically
form: most hierophantically
Etymology: From hierophantic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
photographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photograph
Janner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Janners
Etymology: Derived from Cousin Jan (the Devonian form of John). See Janner on WikipediaWikipedia for further explanation.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Plymouth.
glosses: Member of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.
Janner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from Cousin Jan (the Devonian form of John). See Janner on WikipediaWikipedia for further explanation.
Senses: glosses: The accent and colloquialisms of such people used by the people of Plymouth.
Janner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Derived from Cousin Jan (the Devonian form of John). See Janner on WikipediaWikipedia for further explanation.
Senses: glosses: Describing Plymouth's lower classes.
crenellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crenelated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crenellate
crenellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crenellated
form: most crenellated
form: crenelated
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: castellated
text: She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 52:
glosses: Having crenellations (battlements).
examples: Near-synonym: castellated
glosses: Having a series of indentations (usually square or squarish).
Derived terms: crenellated moulding
hypothesizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothesizers
form: hypothesiser
Etymology: From hypothesize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who hypothesizes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several systems that attempt to make educated guesses from incomplete information.
subinterval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subintervals
Etymology: From sub- + interval.
Senses: glosses: Any of several smaller intervals into which a larger one is divided
utriculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more utriculate
form: most utriculate
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a bladder, especially by being swollen or inflated
propellent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propellents
Etymology: From propel + -ent; originally from Latin prōpellēnt-, from prōpellēns, from prōpellō. Less common than propellant despite being more correct from an etymological viewpoint.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of propellant.
propellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propellent
form: most propellent
Etymology: From propel + -ent; originally from Latin prōpellēnt-, from prōpellēns, from prōpellō. Less common than propellant despite being more correct from an etymological viewpoint.
Senses: examples: text: 1845, The Lancet snippet only
and directed the abstraction of blood for its removal, after which the pains became more propellent, […]
text: whereas if more propellent force is required, an explosive lower in the table should be selected.
ref: 1915, Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy, American Sewerage Practice, page 137:
glosses: Capable of propelling.
technicolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: technicoloured
Etymology: From the trademark Technicolor for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation; + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The world instantly dissolved into a series of technicolored bubbles and, try as she might, Holly couldn't seem to hold on to more than one thought.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 76:
glosses: In brilliant, often surreal colors.
tinfoil hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinfoil hats
form: tin foil hat
form: tin-foil hat
Senses: examples: text: Jeanne Due's ingenuity has sent the most remarkable of hats, this being the now notorious tinfoil hat, pictured elsewhere. The strangest part about this weird creation, however, is the fact that it is not unbecoming, but quite wearable.
ref: 1916, Roger W Allen, editor, Millinery Trade Review, volume 41, page 27:
text: To prevent them from reading his mind, he wore a tinfoil hat at all times.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 42:
text: I mean, as much as any daughter, I want to make sure my mother is headed for happiness and not heartbreak, but Connie's taken it up a notch, to tinfoil-hat territory.
ref: 2008, Libby Sternberg, Recovering Dad, page 27:
text: It’s true that Team Trump, and its cowering minions in Congress, eventually parted ways with Powell as her professional demeanor gradually slipped to reveal her tinfoil hat.
ref: 2021 March 23, David Von Drehle, “Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:
text: Teachers in Russia have been fooled into posing for photos wearing tinfoil hats by a prankster who claimed they would protect them from a Nato plot. The teachers in the Voronezh region all received messages purporting to be from President Putin's ruling party urging them to make "helmets of the Fatherland" [i.e., decorated with the Russian flag]. Vladislav Bokhan, an exiled Belarusian blogger who opposes the Kremlin wrote that the tin-foil hats would protect against Nato satellites that were trying to "irradiate the Russian people physically and biologically". He told the teachers to provide photos and videos to prove that they had complied.
ref: 2024 November 12, Richard Lloyd Parry, “Tin-foil hat brigade tricked into believing Nato space-ray plot”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: TFH
glosses: A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other similar material; especially when worn in the belief that it shields the brain from electromagnetic fields or against mind control or mind reading.
glosses: A conspiracy theorist.
Derived terms: TFH
tinfoil hatter
tinfoilhattery
propagator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propagators
Etymology: From propagate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who disseminates news or rumour
glosses: A person who propagates plants
glosses: A covered, sometimes heated container for germinating seeds or raising seedlings
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function that represents the quantum propagation of a subatomic particle
Related terms: propagatrix
propagandize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: propagandizes
form: propagandizing
form: propagandized
form: propagandized
Etymology: From propaganda + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To use or spread propaganda.
examples: text: After we'd managed to make ourselves comfortable in this garret, my new friends began to propagandize me. All they knew about me was that I was a student […]
ref: 1987, Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal, Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar:
glosses: To tell propaganda to someone in an attempt to influence one's views.
examples: text: He propagandized this panacea with single-minded determination throughout the revolutionary period and even managed to establish a People's Bank for a short time before his arrest in 1849.
ref: 1989, Judith E. Zimmerman, Mid-Passage:
glosses: To use something or someone in propaganda purposes.
proofreader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proofreaders
form: proof reader
form: proof-reader
Etymology: From proof + reader.
Senses: glosses: A person who proofreads.
glosses: A person whose occupation is to proofread.
Synonyms: word: corrector
topics: translation-studies
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: reviser
word: printer's reader
Hyponyms: beta reader
Related terms: proof
proofread
proofreading
pronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronuclear
form: most pronuclear
Etymology: From pro- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the pronucleus.
glosses: Alternative form of pro-nuclear.
pronucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronuclei
Etymology: From pro- + nucleus.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two haploid nuclei (of a sperm and ovum) that fuse during fertilization
Related terms: pronuclear
pro-nuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-nuclear
form: most pro-nuclear
Etymology: From pro- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: In favor of the use of nuclear energy and the building of nuclear power plants.
glosses: In favor of nuclear weapons.
Related terms: pronuclear
pronged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pronged
form: most pronged
Etymology: From prong + -ed.
Senses: examples: a three-pronged fork
glosses: Having (a specified number or type of) prongs
Hyponyms: multipronged
three-pronged
two-pronged
trip the light fantastic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips the light fantastic
form: tripping the light fantastic
form: tripped the light fantastic
form: tripped the light fantastic
form: trip the light fantastic toe
Senses: examples: text: "Swing Time:" Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers trip the light fantastic in this yarn about a dancer with a yen for gambling.
ref: 1978 May 31, "Movies", in the St. Petersburg Independent, page 11-B
text: In the fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, they each wear out a pair of dancing shoes nightly, tripping the light fantastic in a magic forest.
ref: 2005 June 1, Kevin Kittredge, “Royal Ballet”, in Roanoke Times, retrieved 04 Oct 2008:
glosses: To dance or to move rhythmically to musical accompaniment, especially in a graceful or nimble manner.
promulgator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promulgators
Senses: glosses: A person who promulgates; a publisher.
Kelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kelts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Celt.
workability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workabilities
Etymology: From work + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ease with which something can be worked or fashioned.
examples: text: I dispute the workability of the new plan.
glosses: The quality of being workable; practical capacity to succeed.
nucleosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nucleo- + synthetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nucleosynthesis
Derived terms: nucleosynthetically
bay platform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bay platforms
Senses: examples: text: The corridor includes the busy Oxford Road station, with its four through and one bay platform, and has a mix of local and long-distance trains as well as freight from nearby Trafford Park.
ref: 2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 22:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A platform that can be accessed from only one end; a dead-end platform.
bay platforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bay platform
oligomineral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligomineral
form: most oligomineral
Etymology: From oligo- + mineral.
Senses: qualifier: Of water
glosses: Having few dissolved minerals.
scaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: scaurs
Etymology: A dialectal form of scar.
Senses: examples: text: The crag is high, the scaur is deep, / Yet shrink not from the desperate leap […].
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 3.XIII:
text: There are "stags of ten" roaming abroad unstalked; and perchance that is a hart royal swelling his broad front on yonder scaur.
ref: 1859, Walter Cooper Dendy, The wild Hebrides, page 67:
glosses: A steep cliff or bank.
lipidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lipid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the lipids.
Derived terms: glycolipidic
hyperlipidic
isolipidic
normolipidic
phospholipidic
proteolipidic
vacillates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacillate
vacillated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vacillate
tormentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tormentingly
form: most tormentingly
Etymology: From tormenting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tormenting manner.
topographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topographers
Etymology: From topography + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who studies or records topography
topographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topographer
tractor-trailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tractor-trailers
form: tractor trailer
Senses: synonyms: word: articulated lorry
word: artic
word: truck and trailer
word: semi-truck
word: semi truck
word: juggernaut
word: semi-trailer truck
word: semi
word: eighteen-wheeler
word: 18-wheeler
word: big rig
word: rig
coordinate_terms: road train
glosses: A large truck consisting of an engine and cab section (the tractor) and a cargo-carrying semi-trailer or trailer.
tractor-trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tractor-trailer
trimonthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + monthly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring at intervals three months apart.
Synonyms: quarterly
trimonthly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trimonthlies
Etymology: From tri- + monthly.
Senses: glosses: A periodical publication that appears four times per year (every three months).
shames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shame
shames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of shame
shames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Forms: form: shamesim
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shammes.
triennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From triennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring at intervals three years apart.
shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shame
shaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪm.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: shamings
Senses: glosses: The activity by which somebody is shamed.
Derived terms: bald-shaming
body shaming
body-shaming
fat shaming
fat-shaming
gay-shaming
reintegrative shaming
skinny shaming
slut-shaming
slut shaming
snack shaming
vote shaming
track-and-field
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He is a track-and-field athlete, he's a sprinter.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: referring to track and field athletics.
Related terms: track and field noun
water balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water balloons
Senses: glosses: A small rubber or latex balloon, filled with water and used as an informal weapon.
Synonyms: water bomb
true-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Based on fact; real, true.
zig-zag
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zig-zag
form: most zig-zag
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zigzag.
zig-zag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zig-zags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zigzag.
zig-zag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zig-zags
form: zig-zagging
form: zig-zagged
form: zig-zagged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zigzag.
eradicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eradicate
ticktock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tick-tock.
ticktock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ticktocks
form: ticktocking
form: ticktocked
form: ticktocked
Senses: examples: text: The son bent bushy eyebrows in an icy glance; Old Cornelius looked away — at the floor, into the fire, up at the clock ticktocking on the mantel, the clock which was Phebe Hand’s reserve magazine in the family’s ceaseless battle with want; most of the money stowed behind the swaying pendulum now came from Corneel.
ref: 1927, Arthur D[ouglas] Howden Smith, “The Ferryman”, in Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement, New York, N.Y.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, section III, page 50:
text: As the clock ticktocks away the last few hours and minutes of the year, we look toward a new year filled with hopes of better things to come.
ref: 1986, the Food Editors of McCall’s, “We Welcome the New Year”, in Elaine Prescott Wonsavage, editor, McCall’s Best Holiday Foods & Crafts, Columbus, Oh.: Newfield Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 333:
text: A Gustavian clock ticktocked on the carved marble mantelpiece.
ref: 2017, Emily Carpenter, chapter 4, in The Weight of Lies, Seattle, Wash.: Lake Union Publishing, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Alternative form of tick-tock.
ticktock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ticktocks
Senses: examples: text: A few days ago, the Washington Post published a long, depressing ticktock of the Trump administration’s execrable attempts to control the coronavirus and “reopen” the country for business, beginning with a shocking but not exactly surprising anecdote about how the president’s economic advisers had abetted the president’s most destructive impulses.
ref: 2020 May 6, Jordan Weissmann, “It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify 'Reopening' the Economy”, in Slate:
glosses: Alternative form of tick-tock.
eradicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eradicate
arithmetic operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arithmetic operations
Senses: examples: text: Although Equation 2.45 looks simple, it involves more arithmetic operations as compared to Equations 2.36 and 2.38.
ref: 2000, Chang Shu, Differential Quadrature and Its Application in Engineering, Springer, page 38:
text: A key feature of the IEEE standard is that it requires correctly rounded operations, specifically:
• correctly rounded arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide);
• correctly rounded remainder and square root operations;
• correctly rounded format conversions.
ref: 2001, Michael L. Overton, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, page 31:
text: PHP enables you to do arithmetic operations on numbers. You indicate arithmetic operations with two numbers and an arithmetic operator. For instance, one operator is the plus (+) sign, so you can indicate an arithmetic operation like this:
1 + 2
ref: 2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 289:
topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any one of the four basic operations in arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication or division; any one of said operations as implemented on a computer.
Related terms: algebraic operation
arithmetic operator
tie-dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tie-dye
tie-dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of making tie-dyed material
tie-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie-ins
form: tie in
Etymology: From tie + in.
Senses: glosses: Something that is related or connected to another thing.
examples: text: So while it might be pretty neat to see yourself as one of The Young Ones, as Dirty Den, Cobra, Rambo, Scooby or any of a hundred others, it's not really enough to cover up for the real problem with tie-in games.
ref: 1986 December, Max Phillips, “Backlash”, in Your Sinclair:
text: Brand new for this season! I got the unrecognizable summer movie tie-in sammich!
ref: 2008 June 30, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “The Baloneyman”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Bubs (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: An authorized product based on a media property, such as a film or video game, by way of cross-promotion.
examples: text: There was really important and unavoidable tie-ins between the two movements. Sexism is the thing that prevents women from achieving equal status in the world and indeed it's sexism that creates most of the homophobia — the fear of people not playing their proper sex roles.
ref: 1978 August 19, Tim Cwiek, Karen DeCrow, “Interview: Former NOW President DeCrow Talks About Gay Issues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 7:
glosses: An association or connection between things.
slave labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave labor
Senses: glosses: Using slaves to do work
glosses: The employment of workers for meagre pay to do tedious tasks.
tie-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from tie up.
Senses: examples: text: The tie-up hit at the height of the wheat harvest and trade spokesmen said any delays in moving the grain to storage could be disastrous.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: A temporary interruption or cessation of a normal activity.
examples: text: Goods values increase as businesses limit their stocks in order to reduce capital tie-up.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The act of tying up (or immobilizing) a capital.
examples: text: Fancy tie-ups and treadlings can be designed that weave the ordinary symmetrical point twill like an 8-pointed star or some other motif.
ref: 1991, Carol Strickler, editor, A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns, Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The connection of a loom's treadles to its shafts, used in combination with the threading and treadling to create a pattern.
wipe the slate clean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwaɪp ðə sleɪt ˈkliːn/
Forms: form: wipes the slate clean
form: wiping the slate clean
form: wiped the slate clean
form: wiped the slate clean
Senses: glosses: To make a fresh start, for example by forgetting about previous differences and disagreements.
Synonyms: word: bury the hatchet
word: draw a sponge over the slate
word: pass a sponge over the slate
Related terms: clean slate
turn over a new leaf
toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊd/
ipa: /toʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: toad
homophone: towed
Forms: form: more toed
form: most toed
Etymology: From toe (“digit of a foot”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: narrow-toed
a three-toed sloth
glosses: Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
Derived terms: close-toed
Eurasian three-toed woodpecker
even-toed
even-toed ungulate
fin-toed
fringe-toed lizard
greater short-toed lark
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
long-toed stint
long-toed water beetle
northern three-toed jerboa
odd-toed
odd-toed ungulate
open-toed
parrot-toed
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko
pigeon-toed
seven-toed Pete
short-toed eagle
short-toed snake eagle
short-toed treecreeper
square-toed
Tanahjampea bent-toed gecko
three-toed box turtle
three-toed sloth
twinkle-toed
two-toed sloth
warty thick-toed gecko
web-toed
yoke-toed
toed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊd/
ipa: /toʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: toad
homophone: towed
Etymology: See toe (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toe
toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊd/
ipa: /toʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: toad
homophone: towed
Etymology: See toe (verb).
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely; said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
better off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-off
Senses: examples: text: I think that cheese would be better off in the fridge.
glosses: comparative form of well off: more well off
Armagnac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Armagnac.
Senses: glosses: A region and former county of the duchy of Gascony in modern-day France.
glosses: A party prominent in French politics and warfare during the Hundred Years' War.
Armagnac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Armagnacs
form: armagnac
Etymology: Borrowed from French Armagnac.
Senses: glosses: A brandy made in the region of Armagnac.
Related terms: Cognac
cognac
best off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: best-off
Senses: examples: text: You're best off saving a backup copy in case the morons lose the one that you sent and then try to act like you never sent one.
glosses: superlative form of well off: most well off
Related terms: word: best
toe-to-toe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toe to toe.
forecastability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecastabilities
Etymology: From forecast + -ability.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the degree to which something may be forecast with accuracy.
tokenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokenisms
Etymology: From token + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We know the prime minister regards environmental matters as mere tokenism. But we at least expected his ritual once-a-year speech on the issue.
ref: 2004 April 27, Matthew Tempest, quoting Norman Baker, “Green groups dismiss climate change 'tokenism'”, in The Guardian:
text: Contemporary museums, they need to stop tokenism. Collect an Iranian artist here, a South African artist there or whatever. They need to really begin to try to properly take on … what is contemporary culture today?
ref: 2020 July 9, Mark Brown, quoting Anish Kapoor, “Anish Kapoor says art gallery 'tokenism' with diversity must end”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people.
Related terms: tokenise
tokenist
tokenistic
tole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tol/
homophone: toll
Etymology: From French tôle (“sheet iron”), from dialectal French taule (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of table.
Senses: glosses: A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
tole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tol/
homophone: toll
Forms: form: toles
form: toling
form: toled
form: toled
form: tollen
form: toll
Etymology: From Old English *tyll, related to betyllan (“to allure”) and fortyllan (“to seduce”).
Senses: examples: text: It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
text: And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repreſented as dangerous than really are ſo ; and then, that whatever you obſerve him to be more frighted at than he ſhould, you be ſure to tole him on to by inſenſible Degrees, till he at laſt, quitting his Fears, maſters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applauſe.
ref: 1693, John Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, in The works of John Locke Esq, volume III, published 1797, page 52:
glosses: To entice; to allure or attract.
tole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tol/
homophone: toll
Etymology: See toll.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of toll, especially in the sense a portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.
tole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tol/
homophone: toll
Forms: form: toles
Senses: glosses: A tola (unit of mass).
tole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tol/
homophone: toll
Senses: examples: text: I done tole you for the last time.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of tell
tongueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English tongeles, tunglees, equivalent to tongue + -less. Cognate with Old Norse tungulauss (“tongueless”).
Senses: examples: text: tongueless amphibians
glosses: Having no tongue.
Having no tongue whether through its normal nature, because of birth defect, or because of amputation.
antonyms: tongued
aglossal
raw_tags: of an animal or person
examples: text: tongueless plow
glosses: Having no tongue.
Having no tongue because hitched in another way.
antonyms: tongued
raw_tags: of wagons and farm implements
glosses: Lacking speech; mute.
glosses: Making no sound; silent, speechless.
glosses: Expressed without speech; wordless, unspoken.
Derived terms: tongueless frog
tonguelessly
tonguelessness
Related terms: untongued