cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Khoisan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪsɑːn/
ipa: /ˈkɔɪˌsɑn/
Forms: form: Khoi-San
Etymology: From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen).
Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).
Senses: glosses: The group of languages associated with the Khoisan including the Khoi, Kx'a and Tuu families, sometimes to the inclusion of the Hadza and Sandawe language isolates of Tanzania.
Khoisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪsɑːn/
ipa: /ˈkɔɪˌsɑn/
Forms: form: Khoisans
form: Khoisan
form: Khoi-San
Etymology: From Khoi + San, from the pastoral Khoi tribe (formerly also called Hottentots) and the hunter-gatherer San (also known as Bushmen).
Coined by Isaac Schapera in 1930, in linguistic usage since the 1950s (following Joseph Greenberg, Studies in African Linguistic Classification, 1955).
Senses: glosses: A member of the group of non-Bantu Southern African indigenous people: the Khoi or San people.
forehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːhænd/
ipa: /fɔːɹhænd/
Forms: form: forehands
Etymology: From fore- + hand.
Senses: antonyms: backhand
qualifier: racket sports
glosses: A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
synonyms: flick#Noun
qualifier: disc sports
glosses: A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
examples: text: […]those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked
ref: 1618, Michel Baret, An Hipponomie […] :
glosses: All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
examples: text: The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 3:
glosses: The chief or most important part.
examples: text: And, but for ceremony such a wretch,
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
Had the forehand and vantage of a king
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
antonyms: backhand
glosses: The hand towards the front of the board.
Derived terms: forehander
forehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːhænd/
ipa: /fɔːɹhænd/
Etymology: From fore- + hand.
Senses: examples: a forehand rent
glosses: Beforehand; paid in advance.
forehand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːhænd/
ipa: /fɔːɹhænd/
Forms: form: forehands
form: forehanding
form: forehanded
form: forehanded
Etymology: From fore- + hand.
Senses: glosses: To strike with a forehand stroke.
baying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.
glosses: present participle and gerund of bay
baying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayings
Senses: examples: text: 1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI
Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
text: ...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Tramp Abroad:
text: And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.
ref: 1885, “The Dogs of War”, in Charles Dickens, Jr, editor, All the Year Round, volume XXXVI:
text: When I had advanced some distance into the forest, I heard the notes of the bugle and the distant baying of hounds in full cry, which gradually ceased, till nothing but a faint echo of the bugle reached my ear.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 279:
text: 1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III
Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.
glosses: An instance of baying; a howl.
zoological name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoological names
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: a formal scientific name of an animal, especially as conforming to the ICZN.
Hypernyms: scientific name
ICZN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
examples: text: The current 4th edition of the ICZN consists of a preamble, a series of 18 chapters comprising 90 articles, recommendations and examples, and a glossary.
ref: 2003, Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé, editors, Encyclopedia of Insects, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 804:
glosses: Initialism of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Coordinate terms: ICBN
ICN
Hottentot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hottentot, its first known use in Dutch being in the 1650s. The third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary concluded in 2008 that hottentot came into English in the seventeenth century. But it finds that no definitive etymology of Dutch hottentot can so far be given:
A very large number of different etymologies for the name have been suggested ... The most frequently repeated suggestion ... is that the word was a spec. use of a formally identical Dutch word meaning ‘stammerer, stutterer’, which came to be applied to the Khoekhoe and San people on account of the clicks characteristic of their languages. However, evidence for the earlier general use appears to be lacking. Another frequent suggestion is that the people were so named after one or more words which early European visitors to southern Africa heard in chants accompanying dances of the Khoekhoe or San ... but the alleged chant is rendered in different ways in different 17th-cent. sources, and some of the accounts may be based on hearsay rather than first-hand knowledge.
It does seem clear, however, that hottentot was an exonym, that is, not the Khoikhoi's own name for themselves but rather a foreign term applied to them.
Senses: examples: text: Ive tried her with every […] possible sort of sound that a human being can make— […] Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot […] clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; and […] she picks them up like a shot, right away, as if she had […] been at it all her life.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act III, pages 157–158:
synonyms: Hottentot language
Khoekhoe
glosses: The language of the Khoekhoe, remarkable for its clicks.
Derived terms: Hottentotism
Related terms: Pachymetopon
accumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accumber
accumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accumber
accumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accumber
accoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accouple
accoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accouple
accouples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accouple
accouraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accourage
accouraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accourage
accourages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accourage
ake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: ache
Forms: form: akes
form: aking
form: aked
form: oke
form: aked
form: oke
form: aken
Etymology: From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.
Senses: examples: text: ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622
text: And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]
ref: 1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114:
text: instead he went with the rogues to supper in an arbour, though it made his heart "ake" to listen to their mad talk.
ref: 1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, text edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:
glosses: Archaic spelling of ache.
ake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: ache
Forms: form: akes
Etymology: From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.
Senses: examples: text: The ake of months of a growing firenlust became a rising queem til at last there was the burst of loosing that almost made his knees buckle.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:
glosses: Archaic spelling of ache.
Derived terms: backake
bellyake
headake
heartake
toothake
ake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: ache
Forms: form: akes
Senses: examples: text: Returning with the timber portions of his anchor, to the stone, he would assemble all together […] The ake would be the slightly hollowed part of the stone that fitted closely to the sides […]
ref: 1913, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror (volume 3, page 300)
glosses: The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock.
ake
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: ache
ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /eɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
homophone: ache
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori ake.
Senses: examples: text: The answer given was : — " Friends, this is the reply of the Maori : we shall fight on ake, ake, ake, for ever, for ever, for ever."
ref: 1882, B. Francis, Isles of the Pacific: Or, Sketches from the South Seas, page 78:
text: That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish.
ref: 1907, Wilhelm Dittmer, Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris:
text: "Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day?"
ref: 1938, Edith J. Lyttleton, G. B. Lancaster, Promenade, page 383:
text: One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake!
ref: 1997, Queenie Rikihana, Paki Waitara: Myths & Legends of the Māori, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: forever
aked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ake
akes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ake
aking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ake
infiltrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnfəltɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɪltɹeɪt/
Forms: form: infiltrates
form: infiltrating
form: infiltrated
form: infiltrated
Etymology: From Middle English infiltrate (adjective), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō.
Senses: examples: text: The spy infiltrated the high-tech company and stole many secrets.
text: Caithness was infiltrated with a palpable sense of being underimagined.
ref: 2012, Will Self, Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
examples: text: The agency infiltrated several spies into the company.
glosses: To cause to penetrate in this way.
glosses: To pass through something by filtration.
raw_tags: of a liquid
glosses: To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.
examples: text: High-grade tumors often infiltrate surrounding structures.
text: In certain conditions, immune cells may infiltrate into the cerebrospinal fluid.
text: Plesner et al. reported the nonbeta islet endocrine cell remodeling in diabetic NOD mice: that study suggested that infiltrating immune cells may restrict alpha-cell expansion in NOD mouse islet in the diabetic state [ 36 ].
ref: 2015 August 5, Roberto Codella et al., “Moderate Intensity Training Impact on the Inflammatory Status and Glycemic Profiles in NOD Mice”, in Journal of Diabetes Research, volume 2015, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ.
topics: government
military
politics
war
antonyms: exfiltrate
glosses: To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
glosses: To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
raw_tags: of an intravenous needle
Derived terms: agroinfiltrate
agroinfiltrated
coinfiltrate
infiltratable
infiltration
infiltrative
infiltrator
infiltratrix
noninfiltrated
noninfiltrating
reinfiltrate
uninfiltrated
infiltrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɪltɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪnfəltɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɪltɹeɪt/
Forms: form: infiltrates
Etymology: From Middle English infiltrate (adjective), from Medieval Latin infiltrātus, from infiltrō.
Senses: examples: text: One critical distinction to make is whether a focal corneal infiltrate is infected with bacteria or is a sterile immunologic response.
ref: 2008, Jimmy D. Bartlett, Siret D. Jaanus, Clinical Ocular Pharmacology, page 539:
text: Extensive lumpy infiltrates with a tendency to caseate and to form fistulas with purulent secretions appear, mainly in the anogenital region.
ref: 2013, Otto Braun-Falco, Dermatology, page 141:
text: Common immunohistochemical markers of this lymphoma include CD2, CD56, CD3, and T-cell receptors. 7 Typically, the histology of these lymphomas are characterized by monomorphic inflammatory cellular infiltrates, which may be diffuse or show angiocentricity and angiodestruction as well as tissue destruction. 7 Lymphoid markers from the nasal mucosal biopsy from this patient were negative for CD56 and EBER.
ref: 2015, Brook McConnell, M. Sherif Said, Vijay R. Ramakrishnan, “Nasal septal perforation associated with pyoderma gangrenosum”, in Allergy & Rhinology, volume 6, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body.
mashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mash
mashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: more mashed
form: most mashed
Senses: examples: mashed potatoes
glosses: Broken up into a pulpy state.
glosses: intoxicated
Synonyms: sense: broken up
word: pulped
sense: intoxicated
word: drunk
Derived terms: mash potato
unmashed
Related terms: mashed on
mass media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: măs mēʹdē-ə
Forms: form: mass medium
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the communications media, especially television, radio, and newspapers, that reach the mass of the people.
matched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of match
Derived terms: crossmatched
ill-matched
matched order
nonmatched
overmatched
phasematched
well-matched
matched
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætʃt
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: traditional
glosses: Ellipsis of matched grip.
accourts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accourt
accourting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accourt
accourted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accourt
accouters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accouter
accoutering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accouter
accoutered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accouter
accoying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accoy
accoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accoy
accoys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accoy
accresces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accresce
accrescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accresce
accresced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accresce
capsizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of capsize
capsizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of capsize
capsizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capsizings
Senses: glosses: An overturning of a boat etc.
capsized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capsize
reorganize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reorganizes
form: reorganizing
form: reorganized
form: reorganized
form: re-organise
form: reorganise
form: re-organize
Etymology: From re- + organize.
Senses: glosses: to organize something again, or in a different manner
glosses: to undergo a reorganization
Synonyms: revise
salon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælɒn/
ipa: /səˈlɑn/
ipa: /səˈlɔn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: salons
Etymology: Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.
Senses: synonyms: hall
lounge
parlor
guest room
glosses: A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
synonyms: circle
cenacle
glosses: A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
examples: text: Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.
ref: 1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
glosses: A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Derived terms: beauty salon
bridal salon
hairdressing salon
hair salon
literary salon
nail salon
pink salon
salon music
tanning salon
Related terms: salonnière
cabinet
consul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏnʹsəl
ipa: /ˈkɒn.səl/
enpr: kŏnʹsəl
ipa: /ˈkɑn.səl/
rhymes: -ɒnsəl
Forms: form: consuls
Etymology: From Middle English consul, from Old English consul, from Latin cōnsul.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
glosses: Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804.
glosses: A count or earl.
glosses: A councillor
A member of early modern city councils in southern France and Catalonia.
glosses: A councillor
An officer of the trading and merchant companies of early modern England.
glosses: A councillor
An official in various early modern port and trading towns, elected by resident foreign merchants to settle disputes among themselves and to represent them to the local authorities.
glosses: An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country.
examples: text: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: And many of the Conſuls, rais'd and met,
 Are at the Dukes already.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1:
text: With kinges and conſules of the earth, which build themſelves ſolitarie places:
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Iob 3:14, page 1065:
glosses: A high government official, generally either a coruler himself or a counsellor directly under the ruler.
Synonyms: sense: count
word: count
sense: councillor
word: councillor
sense: capitoul (Toulouse)
word: early modern councilmen of southern France and Catalonia
sense: counsellor
word: counsellor
Derived terms: coconsul
consulacy
consulage
consuless
consul general
consul-general
consuling
consulship
first consul
honorary consul
honourary consul
vice-consul
Related terms: consular
consularity
consulary
consulate
ambassador
incarnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːnət/
Etymology: First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Here shalt thou sit incarnate.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, 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:
text: 1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
qualifier: traditionally postpositive; now frequently prepositive; traditionally postpositive; now frequently prepositive
glosses: Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
examples: text: Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.
ref: 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII. King Edward VI. and Queen Mary the First. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] John Wyat, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Flesh-colored; crimson.
Derived terms: disincarnate
unincarnate
incarnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈkɑːnət/
ipa: /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/
Etymology: From in- + carnate.
Senses: examples: text: I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Not in the flesh; spiritual.
xerox copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerox copies
form: xeroxcopy
form: zerox copy
Senses: examples: text: Bring a xerox copy of your driver's licence.
glosses: A xerox; a photocopy.
glosses: something exactly the same as something else
Synonyms: photocopy
xerox
Ephesians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Eph.
Ephes.
glosses: The tenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Ephesus which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
Ephesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ephesian
polycythemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪsaɪˈθiːmɪə/
Forms: form: polycythemias
form: polycythaemia
form: polycythæmia
Etymology: From poly- + -cyte + -emia, with /θ/ for euphony; akin to poly- + -cyte + hem- + -ia; morphologically parallel with erythrocythemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells.
Synonyms: polyglobulia
erythrocythemia
erythrocytosis
Hyponyms: alt: erythremia
word: polycythemia vera
Derived terms: polycythemia vera
relative clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative clauses
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (dated, deprecated) adjective clause, adjectival clause, attributive clause
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: subordinate clause
<
clause
glosses: A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes whole statement; in English, may be introduced by a relative pronoun (sometimes optional) such as that, which or who.
paternalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɝnəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: paternalisms
Etymology: From paternal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref: 2012 January 24, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74:
glosses: The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.
glosses: The guiding of people in a manner that limits their autonomy in the name of their own well-being.
choke the chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chokes the chicken
form: choking the chicken
form: choked the chicken
form: choked the chicken
Senses: synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's penis.
chief executive officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief executive officers
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: CEO
hypernyms: CXO
officer#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: COO
chief operating officer
;
more at [[CXO#English:_Chief [X] Officer, with variable|CXO § Hyponyms]]
glosses: The highest-ranking corporate officer or executive officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis; CEO.
wind-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndˌʌp/
Forms: form: wind-ups
form: windup
Etymology: Deverbal from wind up.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone is invited to our end-of-term wind-up party.
text: The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.
ref: 1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102:
text: After this long windup, Smith says, “Is there a question there, your honor?” He says it not in an evasive way, but with a smile.
ref: 2017 October 3, Mark Walsh, “A “view” from the courtroom: A big windup on partisan gerrymandering”, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: The end or conclusion of something.
glosses: The punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
examples: text: "Is this a wind-up, or what?" "No, no, it's true. He can really do it."
ref: 1999, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (film)
glosses: A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
examples: text: He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner!
ref: 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie)
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
Derived terms: wind-up merchant
wind-up radio
wind-up toy
Related terms: wind up
wind-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪndˌʌp/
Forms: form: windup
Etymology: Deverbal from wind up.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you could get a wind-up toy to distract him.
ref: 1997, Daria (TV, episode 1.07)
glosses: Needing to be wound up in order to function.
raw_tags: of a machine
stereognosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + gnosis.
Senses: glosses: The ability to perceive the form of an object by using the sense of touch.
pot calling the kettle black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒt ˈkɔːliŋ ðə ˈkɛtl̩ ˈblæk/
ipa: /ˈpɑt ˈkɔliŋ ðə ˈkɛtl̩ ˈblæk/
Etymology: There are two interpretations of this phrase, though some sources give only the first interpretation.
In the first interpretation, it refers to the fact that both cast-iron pots' and kettles' bottoms turn equally black when hung over a fire, and thus the pot is accusing the kettle of a fault it shares.
In the second (unlikely) interpretation, the pot is sooty (being placed on a fire), while the kettle is clean and shiny (being placed on coals only), and hence when the pot accuses the kettle of being black, it is the pot’s own sooty reflection that it sees: the pot accuses the kettle of a fault that only the pot has.
Senses: examples: text: I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black when she says he is obsessive.
glosses: A situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares.
Related terms: hi pot, meet kettle
pot, meet kettle
hypocrisy
it takes one to know one
look who's talking
methinks the lady doth protest too much
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
fill someone's shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills someone's shoes
form: filling someone's shoes
form: filled someone's shoes
form: filled someone's shoes
Senses: examples: text: I don't think anyone could ever fill her shoes, doing all she does.
text: You have some very large shoes to fill. I hope you know that.
ref: 2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt):
text: Does he take care of you? / Or could I easily fill his shoes? / But you say no, you say no
ref: 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
text: "As I was chairing a committee that had only ever been chaired by Labour women, I was fairly conscious that I was filling some fairly big shoes left behind by Louise and Gwyneth.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:
synonyms: fill someone's boots
glosses: To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role.
Related terms: put oneself in someone's shoes
hold someone's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds someone's hand
form: holding someone's hand
form: held someone's hand
form: held someone's hand
Senses: glosses: To grasp or hold a person's hand.
examples: text: I'll give you advice on writing an article, but I won't hold your hand through the entire process.
glosses: To guide somebody through the basics or assist with excessively small details.
take someone's word for it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes someone's word for it
form: taking someone's word for it
form: took someone's word for it
form: taken someone's word for it
Senses: examples: text: I can't really check on that, so I'll have to take your word for it.
glosses: To believe what someone claims, especially without checking or verifying for oneself.
Related terms: take someone at their word
take it from me
take to the bank
word is bond
word of honor
nullius in verba
on the fly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: on-the-fly
Senses: examples: text: Jones caught the ball on the fly.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: in flight
glosses: While in the air, without having touched the ground.
raw_tags: of the ball
examples: text: The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly.
synonyms: in flight
on the wing
;
on the spot
;
on the hoof
hypernyms: dynamically
glosses: Spontaneously or extemporaneously; done as one goes, or during another activity.
examples: text: The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye.
The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly.
Danger is his business.
ref: 1966, “Cool McCool (theme song)”, Bernie Green (music) (Cool McCool (television series)), performed by Bob McFadden:
glosses: On the move.
Derived terms: OTFE
on-the-fly encryption
Related terms: fly by the seat of one's pants
chowder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚ/
rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chowders
Etymology: Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron.
Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).
Senses: examples: text: fish chowder
glosses: A thick, creamy soup or stew.
glosses: A stew, particularly fish or seafood, not necessarily thickened.
glosses: Alternative spelling of jowter.
Derived terms: chowder beer
chowder-head
chowder head
chowderheaded
chowder-headed
chowderlike
clam chowder
chowder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaʊdɚ/
rhymes: -aʊdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chowders
form: chowdering
form: chowdered
form: chowdered
Etymology: Probably borrowed from French chaudière, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Related to English cauldron.
Possibly from older English jowter (“fish monger”).
Senses: glosses: To make (seafood, etc.) into chowder.
mop the floor with someone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mops the floor with someone
form: mopping the floor with someone
form: mopped the floor with someone
form: mopped the floor with someone
Senses: glosses: Synonym of wipe the floor with someone.
synonyms: word: wipe the floor with someone
not be caught dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I would not be caught dead in such a skimpy dress.
glosses: To refuse completely to do something, generally out of scorn.
skimpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪmpi/
rhymes: -ɪmpi
Forms: form: skimpier
form: skimpiest
Etymology: From skimp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They served a pretty skimpy portion of ice cream as the free birthday dessert.
text: He was of a pallid complexion, hair of a kind of dirty fairness, greyish eyes, and a skimpy, immature moustache under his peaked indeterminate nose.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Wheels of Chance: A Holiday Adventure, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Co., →OCLC:
text: You was a po' skimpy little boy no mo' than about fo'teen when you lef' home to come No'th; but I knowed you the minute I sot eyes on you.
ref: 1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Thimble, Thimble”, in Options:
text: [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:
text: Desert Hearts is one of the high spots in the skimpy history of gay movies — and probably the high spot in the even more barren history of lesbian films.
ref: 1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: Food might be a tad skimpy in the portions.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 72:
glosses: Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.
examples: text: Have you ever seen such a skimpy bikini?
text: The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; he carried his powerful torso thrown forward; […]
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
text: Denis Breen in skimpy frockcoat and blue canvas shoes shuffled out of Harrison’s hugging two heavy tomes to his ribs.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: His suit, the latest thing in Old Eli Togs, was skin-tight, with skimpy trousers to the tops of his glaring tan boots, a chorus-man waistline, pattern of an agitated check, and across the back a belt which belted nothing.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter II, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: Chang the elderly butler entered, wearing only a pair of skimpy black underpants.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: But he holds some hope that the skimpy brief is becoming more acceptable, especially given the attention that even young British men give to honing their bodies.
ref: 2020 August 9, Richard Godwin, “Tight fit: the comeback of the skimpy swimming brief”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Very small, light, or revealing.
raw_tags: of a garment
glosses: Wearing skimpy clothing; scantily clad.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: skimpily
skimpiness
skimpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪmpi/
rhymes: -ɪmpi
Forms: form: skimpies
Etymology: From skimp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It's a curious mix: weatherworn miners, fresh faced bankers, and a couple of g-stringed skimpies.
ref: 2000, Australian Journal of Mining, page 2:
text: For an anthropological experience, the front bar at the Exchange Hotel provides a window into some locals′ lives at all hours of the day, with skimpies, TV sports and mine workers chain-drinking.
ref: 2007, Terry Carter, Lara Dunston, Perth & Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 159:
text: ‘[…]There are thirty-two hotels in Kalgoorlie, and only seven would have skimpies [scantily clad barmaids].’
ref: 2010, Kathy Marks, “Tears of the Sun”, in Robert Drewe, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2010, page 239:
text: Skimpy barmaids, or just “skimpies,” refers to female bar staff who wear a bikini or lingerie. They are a feature of working class pubs in industrial suburbs and mining towns, which often advertise skimpies during traditionally quieter times such as midweek lunch and dinner services in an effort to attract customers.
ref: 2017 March 27, Calla Wahlquist, “'Skimpies' night: the Western Australia pub tradition that refuses to die”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A barmaid who wears little clothing.
Derived terms: skimpy work
doo-wop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doowop
form: doo wop
Etymology: Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre.
Senses: examples: text: The R&B groups possessed a grittiness and soulful earnestness that was soon to be emulated by street-corner doo-wop groups, some of whom would achieve commercial success with instrumentally arranged hit records.
ref: 2016, Lawrence Pitilli, Doo-Wop Acappella, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that was mostly popular within Black Americans of African descent in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s that is best characterized by nonsensical backing vocals with very little to no instrumentation.
Derived terms: doo-wopper
doo-wop progression
doo-woppy
doo-wop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doo-wops
form: doo-wopping
form: doo-wopped
form: doo-wopped
form: doowop
form: doo wop
Etymology: Coined by DJ Gus Gossert in the 1970s, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is onomatopoeic, representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre.
Senses: glosses: To perform music in this style.
montane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnteɪn/
ipa: /mɑnˈteɪn/
rhymes: (General American) -eɪn
Forms: form: montanes
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”). Synchronically, it can be seen to have the suffix English -ane (variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Montānus is derived from mōns (“mount, mountain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The true Montanes comprise those species, of unmistakably Alpine, Scottish, or Highland type, which not merely with us but elsewhere throughout Britain are characteristic of high latitudes and altitudes—of mountain regions only.
ref: 1888, Frederic Arnold Lees, “Climatology”, in The Flora of West Yorkshire: With a Sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in Connection therewith (Botanical Series of the Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union; II), London: Lovell Reeve & Co., […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: The wintergreens, and northern montanes such as Linnaea have their stronghold in these pinewoods and some of their rarity may be due to the reduction in the extent of the forest.
ref: 2005, Peter Taylor, “Restoring Ecological Processes: Regeneration of the Core Vegetation”, in Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy, London; Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, →ISBN, page 84:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal or a plant of a montane habitat.
airt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: airts
form: airting
form: airted
form: airted
Etymology: From Scots airt.
Senses: glosses: To guide; to direct.
airt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airts
Etymology: From Scots airt.
Senses: examples: text: He looked the airt the rain was coming from, and he saw it was the airt the Sker flowed.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: direction; quarter
crosstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosstalks
form: cross-talk
form: cross talk
Etymology: From cross- + talk.
Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng).
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
examples: text: I couldn't hear the opening address because of all the crosstalk around me.
glosses: Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
synonyms: xiangsheng
glosses: A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
examples: text: Sharing resources for mutual benefit: crosstalk between disciplines deepns the understanding of mycorrhizal symbioses.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 239:
glosses: Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
crosstalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosstalks
form: crosstalking
form: crosstalked
form: crosstalked
form: cross-talk
form: cross talk
Etymology: From cross- + talk.
Usage in reference to the Chinese comedic performance is probably a loose calque from Chinese 相聲／相声 (xiàngsheng).
Senses: glosses: To hold an incidental conversation
airts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of airt
airting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airt
airted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airt
airmails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.meɪlz/
Senses: glosses: The items of mail conveyed using aircraft.
airmails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.meɪlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of airmail
airmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airmail
airmailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airmail
airlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of airlift
airlifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been the subject of an airlift.
airlifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of airlift
airlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airlift
airlifts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of airlift
aiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aim
aiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: aimings
Senses: examples: text: The aimings after the impossible, represented by the Uniformity Act of 1549, had failed […]
ref: 1867, William Hickman Smith Aubrey, The National and Domestic History of England:
glosses: The act of one who aims.
aimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aim
aimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: glosses: Directed towards a target.
Derived terms: unaimed
well-aimed
aims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of aim
aims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aim
ails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
homophone: ales
Senses: glosses: plural of ail
ails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
homophone: ales
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ail