cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Forms: form: aughts
form: owt
Etymology: From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āht, āwiht, from ā (“always", "ever”) + wiht (“thing", "creature”). More at wight.
Senses: synonyms: word: bit
word: jot
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: Whit, the smallest part, iota.
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Forms: form: aughts
Etymology: Rebracketing of a naught.
Senses: glosses: Zero.
glosses: The digit zero.
Related terms: naught
owt
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Etymology: From Middle English aught (“estimation, regard, reputation”), from Old English æht (“estimation, consideration”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (“attention, regard, heed”), German Acht (“attention, regard”). Also see ettle.
Senses: examples: text: in my aught
glosses: Estimation.
examples: text: an event of aught
glosses: Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
examples: text: a man of aught
translation: a man of high esteem, an important or well-respected man
english: a man of high esteem, an important or well-respected man
text: Show some aught to your elders, boy.
glosses: Esteem, respect.
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Forms: form: aughts
form: aughting
form: aughted
form: aughted
Etymology: Originally the past tense of owe.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete or dialectal form of ought
aught
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
enpr: ôt
ipa: /ɔt/
enpr: ät
ipa: /ɑt/
homophone: ought
Etymology: From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (“eight”). More at eight.
Senses: examples: text: Seven — aught — aught tines on the antlers. By G—d, a hart of aught tines, and the first of the season!
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.
askance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskæns/
ipa: /əˈskɑːns/
ipa: /əˈskæns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: askaunce
form: askant
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).
Senses: examples: text: The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.
text: The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminating patrons.
ref: 1932, Clark Ashton Smith, The Maker of Gargoyles:
text: Both […] were viewed askance by authority.
ref: 1875, William Ewart Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism:
text: My palfrey eyed them askance.
ref: 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, volume III, Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney:
glosses: With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
raw_tags: of a look or glance
examples: text: I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.
ref: 1896, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The Island of Doctor Moreau:
text: ...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.
ref: 1878, Henry James, chapter 1, in The Europeans:
glosses: Sideways; obliquely.
Synonyms: sense: with disapproval, skepticism
word: skeptically
sense: with disapproval, skepticism
word: suspiciously
sense: sideways, obliquely
word: obliquely
sense: sideways, obliquely
word: sideways
sense: sideways, obliquely
word: asquint
askance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskæns/
ipa: /əˈskɑːns/
ipa: /əˈskæns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: askaunce
form: askant
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).
Senses: examples: text: My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:
glosses: Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.
Synonyms: sense: turned to the side
word: oblique
sense: turned to the side
word: sideways
sense: turned to the side
word: askew
askance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskæns/
ipa: /əˈskɑːns/
ipa: /əˈskæns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: askances
form: askancing
form: askanced
form: askanced
form: askaunce
form: askant
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from Middle English askances (“as if”), or from Old French a escone (“hidden”) or Italian a scancio (“obliquely”). Compare asquint, Middle English askoyn (“at a slant, askance”), Dutch schuin, schuins (“sideways”), schuiven (“to shove”), schuinte (“slope”).
Senses: examples: text: Bowed heads, Aunt Ellen's, Aunt Laura's, her sister's — bowed but askancing her yellow dress — yes, yellow, golden yellow, hue of sun and life, Dad's favorite, to see him off on this, his greatest journey.
ref: 1953, Lowry Charles Wimberly, Prairie Schooner, volume 27, page 406:
text: "My dear sir," said Hube in an authoritative manner to the receptionist askancing Thales, "first of all, we aren't tourists. Secondly, this isn't a rat, this is the present embodiment of the spiritual leader of millions of people in India […]
ref: 1997, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, page 185:
glosses: To look at (someone or something) with a sideways glance.
examples: text: The pope askanced his eye at Michael with displeasure, and after a short pause saluted him, " Instead of your coming to us, you seem to have expected that we should attend upon you."
ref: 1826, William Hone, The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year:
glosses: To turn (one's eye or gaze) to the side.
sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
Senses: examples: text: And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
ref: 2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169:
text: In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
ref: 2006, David Haskell, Roundabout the USA, page 103:
text: Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.
ref: 2013, Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, page 81:
glosses: plural of sideway
sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
Forms: form: more sideways
form: most sideways
Senses: examples: text: Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…].
text: He gave the ball a sideways kick.
glosses: Moving or directed toward one side.
examples: text: There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.
glosses: Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
examples: text: Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
glosses: Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
examples: text: He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.
glosses: In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
raw_tags: with "with"
sideways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
Senses: examples: text: He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.
glosses: With a side to the front.
examples: text: A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.
text: He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.
text: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Towards one side.
glosses: Askance; sidelong.
examples: text: The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.
glosses: Neither upward nor downward.
examples: text: We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
text: As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
ref: 2011, D. P. Lyle, chapter 78, in Hot Lights, Cold Steel, →ISBN, page 340:
text: It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.
ref: 2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, quoting Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
glosses: Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
Synonyms: word: askance
word: askant
word: askile
word: broadside
word: laterally
word: sideling
word: sidelong
word: sidely
word: sideward
word: sideways
word: sidewise
word: sideyways
Hypernyms: word: indirectly
word: obliquely
Derived terms: fuck me sideways
go fuck yourself sideways
knock sideways
move sideways
sideways-on
spelled sideways
Related terms: word: skewly
obliquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbliːkli/
rhymes: -iːkli
Forms: form: more obliquely
form: most obliquely
Etymology: From oblique + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then, advancing obliquely towards us, came a fifth.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 99:
text: Finally I descended the hill, obliquely, towards the trees I had seen.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206:
glosses: In an oblique manner; sideways.
toward
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈwɔːd/
ipa: /tɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈtwɔɹd/
ipa: /təˈwɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /to(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtwo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /təˈwɔɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toəd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtwoəd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /təˈwɔd/
ipa: /tɘˈwoːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: towards
Etymology: From Middle English toward, from Old English tōweard, from Proto-West Germanic *tōward, equivalent to to + -ward. Cognate with Middle Low German tôwart, Middle Dutch toewaert (Modern Dutch toewaarts), Middle High German zuowart, zūwart (Modern German zuwärts). Compare also Middle English tilward, tillward (“toward”).
Senses: examples: text: She moved toward the door.
text: [A]Nd when Balaam ſawe that it pleaſed the LORD to bleſſe Iſrael, hee went not, as at other times to ſeeke foꝛ inchantments, but hee ſet his face toward the wilderneſſe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:1:
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
ref: 2019, Voice of America, Learning English (public domain), archived from the original on 11 Mar 2019:
roman: China has claimed that South Korea's dust flies toward Shanghai.
glosses: In the direction of.
examples: text: What are your feelings toward him?
text: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye ſhalbe euill toward his bꝛother, and toward the wife of his boſome, and towards the remnant of his childꝛen which he ſhall leaue:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:54:
glosses: In relation to (someone or something).
examples: text: I'm saving money toward retirement.
glosses: For the purpose of attaining (an aim).
examples: text: Our place is over toward the station.
text: I am toward nine years older since I left you, yet that is the least of my alterations; […]
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “To Mr. Gay”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 92:
glosses: Located close to; near (a time or place).
Derived terms: regression toward the mean
theretoward
wheretoward
toward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈwɔːd/
ipa: /tɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈtwɔɹd/
ipa: /təˈwɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /to(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtwo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /təˈwɔɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /toəd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtwoəd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /təˈwɔd/
ipa: /tɘˈwoːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Etymology: From Middle English toward, from Old English tōweard, from Proto-West Germanic *tōward, equivalent to to + -ward. Cognate with Middle Low German tôwart, Middle Dutch toewaert (Modern Dutch toewaarts), Middle High German zuowart, zūwart (Modern German zuwärts). Compare also Middle English tilward, tillward (“toward”).
Senses: glosses: Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward.
examples: text: Do you heare ought (Sir) of a Battell toward.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 304, column 1:
text: On the morrow, after mass, our Lord Abbot [Samson of Tottington] orders the Cellerarius to send off his carpenters to demolish the said structure brevi manu, and lay up the wood in safe keeping. Old Dean Herbert, hearing what was toward, comes tottering along hither, to plead humbly for himself and his mill.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Practical Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 70:
glosses: Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand.
examples: text: Clif[ford] Why that is ſpoken like a toward Prince.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 154, column 2:
text: My Miſtreſs had a Daughter of nine Years old, a Child of toward Parts for her Age, very dextrous at her Needle, and ſkilful in dreſſing her Baby.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Description of the Farmer’s Daughter. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [178]:
glosses: Promising, likely.
examples: text: But ear that wiſhed day his beame diſcloſd, / He either enuying my toward good, / Or of him ſelfe to treaſon ill diſpoſd / One day vnto me came in friendly mood, / And told for ſecret how he vnderſtood / […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 238:
glosses: Future; to-come.
Synonyms: word: coming
word: future
sense: approaching
word: imminent
word: in the offing
word: proximate
word: impending
Derived terms: towardly
towardness
untoward
oblique arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique arches
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An arch whose span is not at right angles to the face.
oblique bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique bridges
Senses: glosses: a skew bridge
oblique case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique cases
Senses: examples: text: 19. Cases of Nouns are six: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, and Ablative. As in the Latin and Greek languages, these cases are derived from the Nominative by certain rules of inflection; the Nominative being the root of all the other cases, is termed the direct case, the others are called oblique cases.
ref: 1817, Peter Edmund Laurent, An introduction to the study of German grammar; with practical exercises., London, page 13:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: objective case
antonyms: direct case
glosses: Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a preposition.
Derived terms: oblique case constituent
Related terms: grammatical case
oblique circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique circles
Senses: qualifier: projection
glosses: a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane
oblique line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique lines
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it.
oblique motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique motions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone.
oblique fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique fires
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Fire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at.
oblique flank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique flanks
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered.
oblique narration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oblique speech.
synonyms: word: oblique speech
oblique muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique muscles
form: oblique
form: obliquus
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.
Derived terms: internal oblique muscle
oblique plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique planes
Senses: glosses: A plane which declines from the zenith, or inclines toward the horizon.
oblique sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.
oblique speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: oblique narration
glosses: Speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.
oblique step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A step in marching, by which a soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25 degrees.
oblique sphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oblique spheres
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator.
oblique system of coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A system in which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other.
rhumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌm/
ipa: /ɹʌmb/
rhymes: -ʌm
rhymes: -ʌmb
Forms: form: rhumbs
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rumbo or Portuguese rumo, from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhomb and rhombus.
Senses: synonyms: rhumb line
loxodrome
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Any of the 32 points of the compass.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A unit of angular measure equal to 1/32 of a circle or 11.25°.
Derived terms: rhumb-line
rhumb sailing
eyeball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɔl/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɑl/
Forms: form: eyeballs
form: eye-ball
Etymology: From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
Senses: examples: text: Goe make thy ſelfe like a Nymph o' th' Sea.
Be ſubiect to no ſight but thine, and mine: inuisible
To euery eye-ball elſe: goe take this ſhape,
And hither come in't: goe: hence
With diligence.
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 I, scene ii], page 4, column 2:
glosses: The ball of the eye.
glosses: A person's focus of attention.
examples: text: Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention.
ref: 2016, Marie Breen-Smyth, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, page 384:
glosses: Surveillance.
examples: text: We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
text: When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time as House of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted more eyeballs.
ref: 2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A readership or viewership.
examples: text: We had an eyeball last year.
qualifier: CB radio
glosses: A face-to-face meeting.
glosses: A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
Synonyms: eye-apple
Derived terms: eyeball queen
eyeball to eyeball
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
hairy eyeball
mark 1 eyeball
my eyeball
sailor's eyeball
up to one's eyeballs
eyeball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɔl/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.bɑl/
Forms: form: eyeballs
form: eyeballing
form: eyeballed
form: eyeballed
form: eye-ball
Etymology: From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
Senses: examples: text: A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
text: Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
glosses: To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
examples: text: Are you eyeballing my girl?
glosses: To stare at intently.
examples: text: Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.
ref: 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: To roll one's eyes.
Derived terms: eyeballer
Related terms: bums in seats
click-through
mesial plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesial planes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: the plane which divides the body of an animal into similar right and left halves
Related terms: median plane
chime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: chimes
Etymology: From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
Senses: examples: text: Hugo had a recording of someone playing the chimes against a background of surf noise that she found calming.
text: Sylvia was a chime player in the school orchestra.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
examples: text: Peter removed the C♯ chime from its mounting so that he could get at the dust that had accumulated underneath.
glosses: An individual ringing component of such a set.
examples: text: The professor had stuffed a wad of gum into the chime of his doorbell so that he wouldn't be bothered.
glosses: A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
examples: text: The copier gave a chime to indicate that it had finished printing.
text: Chimes sing Sunday morn.
glosses: The sound of such an instrument or device.
examples: text: Strike the bell with the brass chime hanging on the chain next to it.
glosses: A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
Synonyms: alarm
bell
buzz
buzzer
carillon
clapper
curfew
ding-dong
dinger
glockenspiel
gong
peal
ringer
siren
tintinnabulum
tocsin
toll
vesper
Derived terms: achime
chimeless
chimelike
chimer
chimesmaster
chime whistle
chimist
clock chime
spoon chime
wind chime
windchime
chime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: chimes
form: chiming
form: chimed
form: chimed
Etymology: From Middle English chime, chim, chimbe, chymbe, a shortening of chimbelle (misinterpreted as chymme-belle, chimbe-belle), from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”), from Latin cymbalum.
Senses: examples: text: The microwave chimed to indicate that it was done cooking.
text: I got up for lunch as soon as the wall clock began chiming noon.
text: An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
glosses: To make the sound of a chime.
examples: text: And chime their sounding hammers.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
examples: text: Chime his childish verse.
ref: 1809, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers:
glosses: To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
examples: text: The other lab's results chimed with mine, so I knew we were on the right track with the research.
text: Everything chimed in with such a humor.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To agree; to correspond.
examples: text: It shall not keep one settled pace of time,
In the same tune it shall not always chime
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Ode Upon Liberty:
glosses: To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
Derived terms: chime in
chime up
rechime
chime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: chimes
Senses: examples: text: Let the chimes meet so that the chime of one cask shall not work into the head of the next.
ref: 1859, Robert White Stevens, On the stowage of ships and their cargoes, page 59:
text: The chime, or smooth curved surface of the cask, is produced by a dexterous use of the adze.
ref: 1861, The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, page 185:
text: Instead of rolling the barrel on the chime, it is a common practice to lay it on its side and give it a push.
ref: 1928, Gerald Arthur FitzGerald, Containers and Packages Used in Shipping Shucked Oysters:
glosses: Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).
yoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːf
Forms: form: yoofs
Etymology: Respelling of youth to correspond with a nonstandard pronunciation; th-fronting, in particular.
Senses: examples: text: Slash'n'sideburn pop is what you get when Manc yoof grows up angry and facially bristling.
ref: 1992, New Musical Express:
text: As for the yoof question, yes, there was an attempt to inject a certain spring into Mr Punch's aged step.
ref: 1992, Punch:
text: And London clubzine Chortler's Inc has featured a cartoon strip with a bumbling yoof TV presenter, again called Nobski.
ref: 1992, The Face:
text: Free Speech was one of those slightly cringey ‘let’s make politics relevant to da yoof’ programmes […]
ref: 2025 January 15, James Delingpole, “The day I was heckled for speaking about the rape gangs”, in The Spectator:
glosses: youth (young person, young people or the state of being young)
Derived terms: yoofspeak
Related terms: yout
pooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: pooches
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. One (unsubstantiated) conjecture is that the word comes from Putzi, a common German name given to lapdogs. The name Putzi is possibly formed from German Putz + -i, influenced by German putzig (“funny, cute, small”, adjective).
Senses: examples: text: My thoughts are disturbed by a man and pooch trying to get off the front of the train. Despite hitting the door button, they refused to open.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
glosses: A dog.
glosses: A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.
Derived terms: poochie
screw the pooch
pooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: pooches
Etymology: Probably related to pouch.
Senses: examples: text: There's a pooch in the plastic where it got too hot.
glosses: A bulge, an enlarged part.
examples: text: Her left sleeve has more pooch at the shoulder than the right.
glosses: A distended or swelled condition.
Derived terms: poochy
pooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: pooches
form: pooching
form: pooched
form: pooched
Etymology: Probably related to pouch.
Senses: examples: text: Inflate that tire too much and the tube may pooch out of the cut in the sidewall.
text: There were rustling sounds from the tent and the sides pooched out as if they were trying to stand up.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 21, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 124:
glosses: To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out.
fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oz
ipa: /fjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: fuses
Etymology: From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Senses: examples: text: The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
glosses: A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
topics: business
government
manufacturing
military
mining
politics
war
synonyms: fuze
glosses: The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
examples: text: When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
glosses: A tendency to lose one's temper.
glosses: A kind of match for starting a fire:
A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
glosses: A kind of match for starting a fire:
A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Derived terms: Bickford fuse
concussion fuse
defuse
fuse box
fuselike
fuse plug
multifuse
percussion fuse
polyfuse
proximity fuse
resettable fuse
safety fuse
short fuse
time fuse
fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oz
ipa: /fjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: fuses
form: fusing
form: fused
form: fused
Etymology: From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
Derived terms: re-fuse
fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oz
ipa: /fjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: fuses
Etymology: Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
Derived terms: blow a fuse
fuseboard
fusebox
fuseless
fuselike
fuseway
fuse wire
fuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fyo͞oz
ipa: /fjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: fuses
form: fusing
form: fused
form: fused
Etymology: Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
Senses: examples: text: Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)
ref: 1891, Dmitri Mendeleev, The Principles of Chemistry (1905) 3rd edition, Vol. 2, p.553, Tr. George Kamensky, of Основы химии (1867)
glosses: To liquify by heat; melt.
examples: text: That each, who seems a separate whole,
Should move his rounds, and fusing all
The skirts of self again, should fall
Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:
text: All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
text: Actually the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Rutland Railroads already are doing so; if they are fused, they would have a combined route mileage of 5,269 and assets totalling £318 million, [...].
ref: 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:
glosses: To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
glosses: To melt together.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To combine through nuclear fusion.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
examples: text: When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
raw_tags: of a circuit
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.
Synonyms: sense: melt together
word: meld
sense: melt together
word: smelt
Derived terms: autofuse
circumfuse
electrofuse
fusogen
fusome
fusor
interfuse
refuse
unfuse
recharge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Forms: form: recharges
form: recharging
form: recharged
form: recharged
Etymology: From Old French rechargier, from Old French re- + Old French chargier.
Senses: examples: text: GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
ref: 2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13:
glosses: To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: relax, unwind
text: My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.
ref: August 28, 2003, Tiger Woods, interview by Todd Budnickhttp://www.asapsports.com/show_interview.php?id=15302
synonyms: recharge one's batteries
glosses: To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
synonyms: reload
glosses: To reload a gun with ammunition.
glosses: To add or restore water to an aquifer.
examples: text: Customer was recharged for doing same brake work (in November) that had been done in September. QA teams believes^([sic]) this work was a rip-off.
ref: 1977, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Diagnostic Motor Vehicle Inspection Demonstration Projects, Program Engineering Support:
glosses: To request payment again from.
glosses: To charge or accuse in return.
examples: text: They charge, recharge, and all along the sea / They drive, and squander the huge Belgian fleet
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: To attack again or anew.
Derived terms: recharge one's batteries
recharge one's battery
recharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Forms: form: recharges
Etymology: From Old French rechargier, from Old French re- + Old French chargier.
Senses: glosses: Water that has percolated from the ground surface to an aquifer.
examples: text: My phone has needed five recharges in the last month.
glosses: The process of charging (an electrical device) again.
glosses: The process of revitalizing one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
Derived terms: recharge area
recharge basin
recharge well
fête
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪt/
ipa: /fɛt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: fêtes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fête.
Senses: examples: text: The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of the fête, who superintended the arrangements; […]
ref: 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Stratford-on-Avon”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fete.
fête
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪt/
ipa: /fɛt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: fêtes
form: fêting
form: fêted
form: fêted
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fête.
Senses: examples: text: This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.
ref: 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fete.
précis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪsi/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: précis
form: precis
Etymology: Borrowed from French précis (“summary”), from a substantive use of its adjectival sense "precise". Doublet of precise.
Senses: examples: text: I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: the computer is functioning, lights on it softly blinking as it produces on the screen beside it a series of graphs — ten years' worth of annual reports, a précis of Data General Corporation's financial history.
ref: 1981, Tracy Kidder, chapter 1, in The Soul of a New Machine:
text: I was sometimes mildly reprimanded during English lessons at school for making my précis too short[...]
ref: 2023, John Gribbin, Impossible, Possible, and Improbable, →ISBN:
glosses: A summary or brief: a concise or abridged statement or view.
Synonyms: summary
précis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹeɪsi/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: précises
form: précising
form: précised
form: précised
form: precis
Etymology: Borrowed from French précis (“summary”), from a substantive use of its adjectival sense "precise". Doublet of precise.
Senses: examples: text: If the inital ^([sic]) passage consists of a series of paragraphs, each with a one-sentence summary, the individual's success in managing to précis the essential content of the message can then be assessed
ref: 1983, Philip Priestley, James McGuire, Learning to Help: Basic Skills Excercises, →ISBN, Counseling, page 71:
text: Nevertheless, to be required to précis say 5000 words on a single sheet of A4 has the advantage of simplicity, even if it isn’t easy.
ref: 1996, Richard Palmer, “Creative Doodling: Note-taking for fun and profit”, in Brain train: studying for success, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Télémaque would not only be read widely in schools throughout the century, it would also be cited approvingly in the Encyclopédie, cherished by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, précised by Louis XVI, and its author saluted by Robespierre as ‘tutor to the human race’.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 28:
text: We think it is vital to learn how to précis, and to improve this skill with regular practice.
ref: 2005, Mike Cardwell, Cara Flanagan, Psychology AS: The Complete Companion, Nelson Thornes, →ISBN, Module 2: Developmental psychology: Attachments in development, page 73:
text: She also asks if she can leave out the questions asking her to write a business letter and to précis because she feels that these questions would substantially disadvantage her because of her dyslexia. The education provider would not have to make this adjustment because these questions are there to determine her competence at writing and précising, so are part of the competence standard being tested.
ref: 2007, Disability Rights Commission, Code of practice post-16: code of practice (revised) for providers of post-16 education and related services, Large print version edition, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: to write a précis of a work; to summarise, abridge
bicep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪsɛp/
Forms: form: biceps
Etymology: Back-formation from biceps.
In Latin, biceps is singular.
Senses: examples: text: My bicep, my poor little cluster of nearly muscle is being pressed into a funsize turkey nugget and I’m starting to perhaps regret my outing with this bunch of Brentford fans who have that slightly edgier reputation.
ref: 2009, Spencer Austin, “The Macc Daddy”, in I Am the Gloryhunter: One Man’s Quest for the Ultimate Football Season, Know The Score, →ISBN, pages 185–186:
glosses: A biceps.
Derived terms: bicep curl
biceped
Related terms: tricep
tricep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triceps
Etymology: Back-formation from triceps.
In Latin, triceps is both singular and plural.
Senses: examples: text: An example would be cable curls supersetted with tricep pushdowns, or leg extensions supersetted with leg curls.
ref: 2016 August 10, Spring Hill Fitness, “Supersetting For Better Workouts”, in Spring Hill Fitness:
glosses: A triceps.
Related terms: bicep