cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Yucatán
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Yucatán. Several etymologies for this name have been proposed:
* Perhaps the most well-known is where it is said to derive from Tabasco Chontal Yokot'an, being either tectetan, meaning “I do not understand you” or uyutan, uyukatan, or yukutan, “listen to them talk!”.
* Bernal Diaz derived the name from the vegetable yuca + tale, a hillock in which the tuber is planted.
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in North America incorporating the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo as well as Belize and northeastern Guatemala.
glosses: A state of Mexico.
Related terms: Yucatec
Yucatecan
Wikiholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪkɪˈhɒlɪk/
Forms: form: Wikiholics
form: wikiholic
Etymology: From wiki + -holic.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a Wikipedia editor. A Wikiholic. I have some 500 articles on my watchlist (!!!) and I edit some of the more controversial articles on WP: the Islam-related articles. For many months, I have been butting heads with some Iranian Shi'a editors...
ref: 2005 November 27, Karen Lofstrom, “Peeve: Iranian Shi'a”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
text: 2005, Richard Quinn, as quoted by David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: Charlie Stross: Wikipedian Extraordinaire” (April 8), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet
I was blessed with insight, that rare moment of lucidity which can truly validate the Buddhist belief in a path to enlightenment: Charles Stross is a Wikiholic!
text: "A lot of them are probably the sort of people who would have social problems in real life," said one wikimaniac over lunch, as though being a "wikiholic" suggested a full and active life.
ref: 2006 August 9, “Gary Younge reports on Wiki-mania, and Wikipedia vandalism”, in The Guardian Unlimited:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia or another wiki.
Related terms: Wikiholism
Wikipediholism
editcountitis
wiki crack
burrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɜɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ
homophone: borough stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: burrows
Etymology: From Middle English borowe, borewe, borwȝ, burȝe, burh, burye (“refuge for an animal, lair, burrow”), apparently a variant of Middle English burgh (“fortified dwelling, stronghold, refuge”) (see borough) and thus from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), but this sense is not known in Old English burh. Compare, however, Dutch cognate burcht, which has a similar sense.
It may be related to bury (“to dig”), in which case it would be derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to protect, defend, save, preserve”).
Senses: examples: text: But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
glosses: Obsolete form of barrow (“a mound”).
glosses: Obsolete form of borough (“an incorporated town”).
Derived terms: bargander
burrow duck
burrowless
burrowlike
paleoburrow
burrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɜɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ
homophone: borough stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: burrows
form: burrowing
form: burrowed
form: burrowed
Etymology: From Middle English borowe, borewe, borwȝ, burȝe, burh, burye (“refuge for an animal, lair, burrow”), apparently a variant of Middle English burgh (“fortified dwelling, stronghold, refuge”) (see borough) and thus from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“high”), but this sense is not known in Old English burh. Compare, however, Dutch cognate burcht, which has a similar sense.
It may be related to bury (“to dig”), in which case it would be derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to protect, defend, save, preserve”).
Senses: glosses: To dig a tunnel or hole.
examples: text: The young girl burrowed into the bed.
glosses: To move underneath or press up against in search of safety or comfort.
raw_tags: with an adverbial of direction
examples: text: The journalist burrowed into the origins of the mayor's corruption.
glosses: To investigate thoroughly.
raw_tags: with into
Derived terms: burrower
burrowing bug
burrowing owl
burrowing parrot
giant burrowing cockroach
reburrow
unburrow
absent-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.sn̩tˈmaɪn.dɪd.li/
Forms: form: more absent-mindedly
form: most absent-mindedly
Etymology: From absent-minded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, his hands clasped beneath the tails of his long coat, paces back and forth under the ever-watchful eye of his faithful secretary, Mr. Samuel T. Philander. Twice within the past few minutes he has started absent-mindedly across the tracks in the direction of a near-by swamp, only to be rescued and dragged back by the tireless Mr. Philander.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Ships That Pass”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 154:
text: On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.
ref: 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN:
topics: manner
glosses: Preoccupiedly; in an absent-minded manner.
Synonyms: absently
abstractedly
buttermilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɚˌmɪlk/
ipa: /ˈbʌtəˌmɪlk/
Forms: form: buttermilks
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Cognate with German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Buttermilch (“buttermilk”).
Senses: examples: text: An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 52:
glosses: The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.
glosses: Cultured buttermilk, a fermented dairy product produced from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste.
glosses: A light yellow color, like that of buttermilk.
Derived terms: Bulgarian buttermilk
buttermilky
Devil's buttermilk
fly in the buttermilk
Related terms: curd
milk
whey
yoghurt
whey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hwā
enpr: wā
ipa: /hweɪ/
ipa: /weɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: way
homophone: weigh
homophone: wey (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wheys
form: whig
form: whay
Etymology: From Middle English whey, wheye, whei, from Old English hwǣġ, hwæiġ, hwæġ, hweġ (“whey”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwaij (“whey”) (compare Saterland Frisian Waai, Woaie, West Frisian waai, Dutch wei, Low German Wei, German Low German Wei), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pile up, build”) (compare Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ, “order”), Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō, “to pile up, make”), Sanskrit कय (káya, “every one”)).
Senses: examples: text: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:
text: {...} if I wished any blessing in the world, it was to find him a worthy object of pride; and I’m bitterly disappointed with the whey-faced, whining wretch!
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights:
glosses: The liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained in the process of making cheese.
Coordinate terms: curds
Derived terms: curds and whey
green whey
sack-whey
wheyey
wheyface
whey-faced
wheylike
wine whey
Related terms: bland
buttermilk
milk
yogurt
whey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hwā
enpr: wā
ipa: /hweɪ/
ipa: /weɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: way
homophone: weigh
homophone: wey (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whig
form: whay
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, variation on wahey.
Senses: examples: text: He swayed over to the door, peered out, shouted "whey!" and came back, looking severe.
ref: 1928, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Waste Corner:
text: somebody who was more or less to their senses, shouted... ' Whey! ... Had on lads!' and everybody was trying to get wocken up and sorted out.
ref: 1982, Frank Entwisle, Abroad in England:
glosses: A shout for attention
examples: text: ... apart from Max, who rode his pallet like a surfboard with a huge grin plastered across his face. “Wheyyyyyyy!” Max yelled with delight.
ref: 2011 September 1, Case File 12: The Case of the Messy Mucked Up Masterpiece, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Several drunken men shouted from the corner. “Wheyyyy, showtime! Go on, go on!”
ref: 2016 December 30, Hahn Moo-Sook, The House of Pomegranate Trees, Literature Translation Institute of Korea, →ISBN:
glosses: A shout of enthusiasm or delight
examples: text: 12. Smashing a glass and the whole bar choruses "WHEYYYY".
ref: 2014 February 18, Catriona Harvey-Jenner, “25 things only bar staff will understand”, in Cosmopolitan UK:
text: If they don't shout "wheyyy" when you smash a glass, did it even smash?
ref: 2020 February 10, Claire Galloway, “15 things only people who have worked in an Edinburgh pub will understand”, in Edinburgh Live:
text: the sloshed post-work boozers all shout "Wheyyyyyyy!' at a glass that's smashed on the floor
ref: 2024 May 9, Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Shouted when someone drops a glass or other crockery, especially in a pub.
reluctant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlʌktənt/
Forms: form: more reluctant
form: most reluctant
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin reluctāns, present participle of reluctor (“to struggle against, oppose, resist”), from re- (“back”) + luctor (“to struggle”).
Senses: examples: text: She was reluctant to lend him the money
text: Surprisingly, our new dog is a reluctant ball-retriever.
text: They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
ref: 2008, Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services, page 222:
text: That’s probably because you appear as someone who rarely puts himself forward, and is reluctant to teach the wisdom he has.
ref: 2010, Plato, “Euthyphro”, in Christopher Rowe, transl., The Last Days of Socrates, Penguin Books Ltd., →ISBN, line 3d:
text: My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
synonyms: disinclined
loath
grudging
glosses: Not wanting to take some action; unwilling to do something.
examples: text: Whence we must infer, that the least stir of tumult or rebellion against the Prince is reluctant to all the Ordinances of Heaven, is an abortive product of Hell against the pure dictates of nature […]
ref: 1683 September 9, A Sermon of Thanksgiving for the Happy Delivery of Charles the Second […] Preached […] in Thomas-Town in the County of Kilkenny, published 1683, page 4:
text: If pride be allowed to cause you to envy or wound the characters of such as differ from, or outshine you, or to make you reluctant to Christian reproof from your inferiors, how fearful is your guilt and danger!
ref: 1782, John Brown, “Address to Students of Divinity”, in A Compendious View of Natural and Revealed Religion, page xiv:
text: There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 108:
text: Many of the inhabitants were reluctant against the measure, and are still so obstinate that they must be compelled to do their duty.
ref: 1866 February 15, H. Hjaltelin, “On the Treatment of Virulent and Zymotic Diseases”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 74, number 3, page 59:
glosses: Contrary; defiant; refractory.
antonyms: greedy
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: Tending to match as little text as possible.
Derived terms: reluctant dragon
Related terms: reluctance
reluctantly
reluctance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlʌktəns/
Forms: form: reluctances
Etymology: From reluct + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Our new dog shows reluctance to go on walks, preferring to be indoors.
glosses: Unwillingness to do something.
glosses: Hesitancy in taking some action.
examples: text: No more be mention’d then of violence / Against our selves, and wilful barrenness, / That cuts us off fom hope, and favours onely / Rancor and pride, impatience and despite, / Reluctance against God and his just yoke / Laid on our Necks.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1041–6:
glosses: Defiance, disobedience.
examples: text: That is to say, the total number of ampere-hours, including the drop of gilbertage, due to magnetic flux traversing the reluctance of the circuit, must be equal to zero.
ref: 1903, The Electrical World and Engineer, volume 42, page 369:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
Derived terms: reluctance cartridge
reluctance motor
Related terms: reluctant
adjective
reluctantly
adverb
ambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
ipa: /ˈæm.bə.ləns/
note: African-American Vernacular, also Southern American English
ipa: /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/
note: African-American Vernacular, also Southern American English
ipa: /ˈæm.bəˌlæns/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈamb(j)ʊləns/
Forms: form: ambulances
Etymology: Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
Senses: glosses: An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A mobile field hospital.
synonyms: private ambulance
glosses: A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
glosses: Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
synonyms: word: stretcher
extra: a litter used for medical transport
glosses: Synonym of covered wagon.
synonyms: word: covered wagon
Derived terms: air ambulance
amberlamps
ambulance at the bottom of a cliff
ambulance-chase
ambulance chaser
ambulance chasing
ambulance cover
ambulanceman
ambulanceperson
ambulance train
ambulancewoman
ambulette
cabulance
call an ambulance
field ambulance
motor-ambulance
nonambulance
police ambulance
private ambulance
vanbulance
wahmbulance
wambulance
Related terms: ambulatory
ambulant
ambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
ipa: /ˈæm.bə.ləns/
note: African-American Vernacular, also Southern American English
ipa: /ˈæm.bjəˌlæns/
note: African-American Vernacular, also Southern American English
ipa: /ˈæm.bəˌlæns/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈamb(j)ʊləns/
Forms: form: ambulances
form: ambulancing
form: ambulanced
form: ambulanced
Etymology: Borrowed from French ambulance, which replaced hôpital ambulant (“moving hospital”) via the suffix -ance, from Latin ambulō (“to walk; to go about”).
Senses: examples: text: Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.
ref: 1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66:
glosses: To transport by ambulance.
fuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: fusses
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”), from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”)).
Senses: examples: text: They made a big fuss about the wedding plans.
text: What's all the fuss about?
text: Sickness did not last above a ten days; my poor wife zealously assiduous, and with a minimum of fuss or noise.
ref: 1866 (date written), Thomas Carlyle, “Jane Welsh Carlyle”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Reminiscences, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1881, →OCLC, page 158:
text: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: But in the reader comments section beneath the FT piece, many couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about. “I’m surprised to see the FT reporting this sort of thing,” one person wrote.
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: hubbub
glosses: Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.
examples: text: If you make enough of a fuss about the problem, maybe they'll fix it for you.
glosses: A complaint or noise; a scene.
examples: text: They made a great fuss over the new baby.
glosses: An exhibition of affection or admiration.
Derived terms: fuss-budget
fuss-budgetry
fussless
kick up a fuss
fuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: fusses
form: fussing
form: fussed
form: fussed
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”), from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”)).
Senses: examples: text: His grandmother will never quit fussing over his vegetarianism.
text: Dear reader, spare me. I don't hate men, I love them; I eat 'em for breakfast. But it seems to me that fussing about masculinity is intimately related to homophobia.
ref: 1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9:
glosses: To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.
examples: text: Quit fussing with your hair. It looks fine.
glosses: To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust
glosses: To disturb (a person)
glosses: To cry or be ill-humoured.
raw_tags: of babies
glosses: To show affection for, especially animals.
raw_tags: with over
examples: text: He fussed the cat.
glosses: To pet.
Derived terms: fussable
fuss around
fusser
fuss over
fuss and bother
fussbudget
fussbutton
fusspot
fussy
no muss no fuss
groom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: grooms
Etymology: 1604, short for bridegroom (“husband-to-be”), from Middle English brydgrome, alteration (with intrusive r) of earlier bridegome (“bridegroom”), from Old English brȳdguma (“bridegroom”), from brȳd (“bride”) + guma (“man, hero”). In Middle English, the second element was re-analyzed as or influenced by grom, grome (“attendant”). Guma derives from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō; it is cognate to Icelandic gumi (cf. Icelandic brúðgumi) and Norwegian gume and, ultimately, human.
Senses: synonyms: bridegroom
glosses: A man who is about to marry.
Coordinate terms: bride
bride-to-be
Derived terms: brideangroom
child groom
groomal
groomdom
groomhood
groomlet
groomling
groomship
groomsmaid
groomsman
groomswear
groom-to-be
groomy
groomzilla
groom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: grooms
Etymology: From Middle English grom, grome (“man-child, boy, youth”), of uncertain origin. Apparently related to Middle Dutch grom (“boy”), Old Icelandic grómr, gromr (“man, manservant, boy”), Old French gromme (“manservant”), and also to Middle Dutch grom (“fish guts”), Middle Low German grôm (“fish guts”), from the same Proto-Germanic root. Possibly from Old English *grōm, from Proto-West Germanic *grōm (“swollen belly, stomach tumour, womb-child, fish roe, fish guts”), from Proto-Germanic *grōaną (“to grow”).
Alternative etymology describes Middle English grom, grome as an alteration of gome (“man”) with an intrusive r (also found in bridegroom, hoarse, cartridge, etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms.
Senses: examples: text: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
ref: 2013 January 24, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
synonyms: word: fettler
word: horsekeeper
word: ostler
word: sais
word: mafoo
glosses: A person who looks after horses.
examples: text: the groom of the chamber; the groom of the stole
glosses: One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
examples: text: The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,
Would make a miracle of thus much coin …
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
glosses: A male servant, or more generally, a common man.
examples: text: Give the mare a quick groom before you take her out.
glosses: A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
Derived terms: groom-in-waiting
groomlet
groomling
Groom of the Stool
groom-porter
head groom
herdgroom
teakettle groom
undergroom
marionette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: marionettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.
Senses: examples: text: If you think we are worked by strings,
Like a Japanese marionette,
You don't understand these things:
It is simply Court etiquette.
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
glosses: The buffel duck.
Derived terms: marionettelike
marionette line
marionettish
marionettist
Muppet
Supermarionation
supermarionette
marionette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: marionettes
form: marionetting
form: marionetted
form: marionetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.
Senses: glosses: To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.
Related terms: manipulator
bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: brides
Etymology: From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).
Senses: examples: text: I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:9:
text: Has by his own experience tried
 How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
ref: 1746, George Lyttelton, An Irregular Ode:
text: Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: bridegroom
groom
glosses: A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.
glosses: An object ardently loved.
Derived terms: always a bridesmaid, never a bride
blushing bride
bridal
bride-ale
brideangroom
bridebed
bridecake
bridechamber
bride gift
bride-gift
bridegroom
bridehood
brideless
bridelet
bridelike
bridely
bridemaid
bridenapping
Bride of the Red Sea
Bride of the Sea
bride-price
bride price
bridesmaid
bridesmaiden
bridesman
bridesmatron
brideswear
bride-to-be
bride token
bridewain
bride wealth
bridewealth
bride-wealth
bridewear
bride wear
bridewort
bridey
bridezilla
bridie
child bride
child-bride
cyberbride
December bride
hell bride
mail-order bride
mourning bride
off like a bride's nightie
picture bride
runaway bride
the bride at every wedding
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
war bride
would-be bride
bride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: brides
form: briding
form: brided
form: brided
Etymology: From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd (“bride”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi, from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bräid (“bride”), West Frisian breid (“bride”), German Low German Bruut (“bride”), Dutch bruid (“bride”), German Braut (“bride”), Danish brud (“bride”), Swedish brud (“bride”).
Senses: glosses: to make a bride of
bride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: brides
Etymology: Borrowed from French bride (“bridle”).
Senses: glosses: an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework
marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡəʊld/
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/
Forms: form: marigolds
Etymology: From Middle English marigolde, marygoldye, from Mary (referring to the Virgin Mary) + Middle English golde (“marigold”).
Senses: examples: text: A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:
glosses: Any of the Old World plants, of the genus Calendula, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers.
examples: text: Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007).
ref: 2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Any of the New World plants, of the genus Tagetes, with orange, yellow or reddish flowers.
glosses: A million pounds sterling.
glosses: Alternative form of Marigold (rubber glove for cleaning)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tagetes erecta
word: African marigold
taxonomic: Tagetes erecta
word: Aztec marigold
taxonomic: Bidens spp.
word: bur marigold
taxonomic: Glebionis segetum
word: corn marigold
word: desert marigold
english: Aizoaceae
translation: Aizoaceae
word: fig marigold
taxonomic: Tagetes patula
word: French marigold
word: marigolded
word: marigold window
taxonomic: Caltha palustris
word: marsh marigold
taxonomic: Tagetes erecta
word: Mexican marigold
taxonomic: Calendula officinalis
word: pot marigold
word: sea-marigold
marigold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡəʊld/
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.ɪˌɡoʊld/
Forms: form: more marigold
form: most marigold
Etymology: From Middle English marigolde, marygoldye, from Mary (referring to the Virgin Mary) + Middle English golde (“marigold”).
Senses: glosses: Having the color of marigolds, a bright yellowish-orange hue.
thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: thrushes
Etymology: Uncertain, though likely not related to the "bird" sense of Etymology 1; perhaps compare Icelandic þröstur, Danish torsk, Norwegian trøske. Perhaps also related to Old French fourchette (“frog of a horse's hoof”).
Senses: examples: text: Cervical cancer and recurrent vaginal thrush are both strongly linked to the presence of HIV in women.
ref: 1991 August 24, Dawn Schmitz, “AIDS Redefined In 1992?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 6:
glosses: A fungal infection caused by species of genus Candida, affecting the mouth or vagina; candidiasis.
Synonyms: candidiasis
Derived terms: oral thrush
Related terms: candida
turdiform
weigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wā
ipa: /weɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: way
homophone: Wei
homophone: wey
homophone: whey (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: weighs
form: waye
form: weye
Etymology: From Middle English weyen, from Old English wegan, from Proto-West Germanic *wegan, from Proto-Germanic *weganą (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wey, wee, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector.
Senses: examples: text: Give the sugar a quick weigh.
glosses: The act of weighing, of measuring the weight
Derived terms: weigh boat
weigh house
weigh station
spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/
ipa: /spɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spears
Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).
Senses: examples: text: It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you
ref: 2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
examples: text: Now toil'd the Bruce, the battle done ,
To use his conquest boldly won;
And gave command for horse and spear
To press the Southron's scatter'd rear
ref: 1815, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 187:
glosses: A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
glosses: A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
glosses: A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
glosses: The feather of a horse.
glosses: The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
examples: asparagus and broccoli spears
glosses: A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
Derived terms: bear spear
boar-spear
eelspear
fire spear
fishspear
Ithuriel's spear
king's spear
ox tongue spear
polespear
riding spear
spearable
spear biscuits
spearbush
spear carrier
spear-carrier
spearcast
spearcaster
spear catcher
spear-chucker
spearchucker
spear chucker
spear closet
spearer
spearfish
spearfisher
spearfisherman
spearfishing
spear foot
spear grass
speargrass
speargun
spear gun
spearhead
spearless
spearlet
spearlike
spear lily
spearmaker
spearmaking
Spearman
spearmint
spear-penny
spear penny
spear phishing
spearphishing
spearplay
spearpoint
spearproof
spear-rib
spearshaft
spearsman
spearsmith
spear tackle
spear thistle
spearthrower
speartip
spearwoman
spearwood
spearwork
spearwort
speary
tip of the spear
upspear
Related terms: assegai
assagai
assagaie
assagay
assegay
azagaia
hassagay
hassaguay
zagaie
zagaye
atlatl
bayonet
harpoon
javelin
joust
lance
pike
spit
used to grill food on fire
woomera
spear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/
ipa: /spɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spears
form: spearing
form: speared
form: speared
Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).
Senses: examples: text: By the 1970s, herders were spearing rhinos and poisoning lions to protest the loss of their land to conservation, then represented by the independent Kenyan government.
ref: 2012, Robin Reid, Savannas of Our Birth:
hypernyms: run through
coordinate_terms: word: jab
word: cut
glosses: To pierce with a spear.
examples: text: Former teammate Derek Sanderson recalls that Maki hit Ted from behind as Green was clearing the puck from the Boston zone. Green turned to knock Maki down, but Maki speared him as he rose from the ice.
ref: 2003, Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler, Who's who in Hockey:
glosses: To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
qualifier: gridiron football
glosses: To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
examples: text: you may prepare them for spearing by laying the Keys in Earth or Sand
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
examples: text: The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.
ref: 27 September 2013, Kane, Kathryn, The Regency Redingote Blog The Cut: The Ultimate & Final Social Weapon
synonyms: blank
cut
glosses: To ignore as a social snub.
raw_tags: in Regency England
spear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/
ipa: /spɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-West Germanic *speru, from Proto-Germanic *speru, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spjǫr, *sparrô, Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”); also Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”).
Senses: examples: text: a spear counterpart
text: When I was young, I was so desperate I'd go looking on the spear side.
ref: 2018, A Very English Scandal (TV series), episode 1:
glosses: Male.
examples: the spear side of the family
glosses: Pertaining to male family members.
Derived terms: spear side
spear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪə̯(ɹ)/
ipa: /spɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spears
Etymology: Alteration of spire, from Middle English spyre, spier, spir, from Old English spīr (“stalk of a plant, shoot, blade”). More at spire.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The sprout of a plant, stalk
glosses: A church spire.
Derived terms: spearmint
pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛpə/
ipa: /ˈpɛpɚ/
rhymes: -ɛpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: peppers
form: peppering
form: peppered
form: peppered
form: piper
Etymology: From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.
Senses: glosses: To add pepper to.
glosses: To strike with something made up of small particles.
examples: text: After the hailstorm, the beach was peppered with holes.
glosses: To cover with lots of (something made up of small things).
examples: text: He liked to pepper long words throughout his conversation.
glosses: To add (something) at frequent intervals.
examples: text: I am pepperd for this world, I am sped yfaith, he hath made wormes meate of me
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To beat or thrash.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use a pepper (type of value used prior to hashing).
glosses: To shoot (upon) with the dotty.
glosses: To write accents or disambiguating marks in script.
Derived terms: pepper up
Related terms: salt
hurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɹi/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹi/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhɝi/
ipa: /ˈhʊɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /hari/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: hurries
Etymology: From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry.
Senses: examples: text: Why are you in such a big hurry?
text: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref: 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
glosses: Rushed action.
examples: text: There is no hurry on that paperwork.
glosses: Urgency.
examples: text: At Alabama, Jedrick Wills Jr. anchored the right side of the offensive line for two years, allowing only one sack and three-and-a-half quarterback hurries on 714 snaps last season.
ref: 2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2020:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.
Derived terms: hurrisome
hurry-furry merger
hurry-scurry
hurry sickness
hurry-skurry
hurrysome
in a hurry
haste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: hastes
Etymology: Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).
Senses: examples: text: We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
text: The king's business required haste.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:
text: There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
ref: 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:
glosses: Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
examples: text: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:
glosses: Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
Derived terms: great haste makes great waste
hassle
hasteful
hasteless
hastely
haste makes waste
hasten
hastily
hastiness
hastish
hasty
in haste
make haste
make haste slowly
more haste, less speed
overhaste
posthaste
post haste
haste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: hastes
form: hasting
form: hasted
form: hasted
Etymology: Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).
Senses: examples: text: Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:
glosses: To urge onward; to hasten.
examples: text: The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
ref: 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition):
text: He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:
text: Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.
ref: 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present:
text: Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133:
glosses: To move with haste.
Synonyms: sense: move with haste
word: hurry
sense: move with haste
word: rush
sense: move with haste
word: scamper
sense: move with haste
word: scramble
sense: move with haste
word: scurry
Derived terms: unhasted
unhasting
hasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪ.sn̩/
rhymes: -eɪsən
Forms: form: hastens
form: hastening
form: hastened
form: hastened
Etymology: Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: glosses: To move or act in a quick fashion.
examples: text: I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 55:8:
text: Hamlet:
Bid the players make haste.
Will you two help to hasten them?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: A dearth of signalmen and the high cost of labour is hastening an elimination process that already was well under way before the second world war.
ref: 1956 May, C. H. Betts, “St. Pancras Tunnel Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
glosses: To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
examples: text: The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 96:
text: […]and prescribed policies and packages of military, economic and technical assistance to hasten their inevitable march toward development and modernity.
ref: 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 7:
glosses: To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Synonyms: sense: move in a quick fashion
word: dart
word: race
word: move quickly
sense: speed up
word: accelerate
word: quicken
word: speed up
sense: cause a scheduled event to happen earlier
word: hurry
word: rush
word: zoom
Derived terms: hastener
outhasten
overhasten
overhastened
unhastened
unhastening
Related terms: haste
Common Market
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Common Market
Senses: examples: text: The continued growth of cross-Channel traffic, the urgent question of the renewal of the short-sea fleet of the B.T.C. and its installations, and the possible entry of Britain into the Common Market make an early decision on the tunnel highly desirable, if not vital.
ref: 1961 December, “The Channel Tunnel—a realistic proposal”, in Trains Illustrated, page 722:
text: Does a common market in goods require a common market in transport services? Although nearly five years have passed since the inception of the 12-year phased transition of the Six to full "common market" conditions, this general question has still to be settled among member countries.
ref: 1963 January, “Transport in the Common Market”, in Modern Railways, page 3:
glosses: European Economic Community (A European trade group).