cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
King James Version
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɜː.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɝː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˌkɪŋ ˈdʒeɪmz ˌvɝː.ʃən/
Forms: form: the King James Version
Etymology: Named for James I of England (James VI of Scotland), who authorized the production of a new English translation of the Bible.
Senses: examples: text: [...], and of course the Bible, the men who wrote it and especially the men who made the King James version, for it was the language of the Bible rather than its "message" which I got first and which I will never shake off.
ref: a. 1964, Henry Miller, “The Books in My Life”, in Henry Miller on Writing, page 125:
text: a. 1998, Jeffrey M. Perl, Common Knowledge, quoted in front material, Homer, Robert Fagles (translator), The Iliad, page i
"Fagles' Homer, Sophocles, and especially Aeschylus may one day stand relation to their originals as the King James Version to Greek and Hebrew Scripture."
text: The Catholic priest would have been surprised that the old shaman had memorized the King James version of this song.
ref: 1999, James D. Doss, The Shaman's Game, page 119:
text: She thought for a moment, trying to remember; then she told him, "twenty-third Psalm, King James version," as best she recalled.
ref: 2004, R. Garcia y Robertson, Lady Robyn, page 320:
text: It pained him to tell the story, yet tell it he did, over and over, in the unabridged, King James version.
ref: 2005, Michael Kun, You Poor Monster, page 19:
text: A Bible, King James Version. (This he stuck in his bag, because anybody who knows anything about English literature knows you can't ger away from the Bible.)
ref: 2005, Catherine Landis, Harvest, page 54:
topics: Christianity
biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An English translation, published in 1611, of the Bible from the original Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) commissioned for the Church of England, which is the version most quoted and influential in English literature and English Protestant religious culture.
wikipedia: James I of England
Synonyms: word: King James Bible
word: Authorized Version
Derived terms: KJV
Cydonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈdəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
ipa: /saɪˈdoʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /sɪˈ-/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Forms: form: Kydonia
form: Cydonea
Etymology: From Latin Cydonia, from Ancient Greek Κυδωνία (Kudōnía), q.v.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Chania: a city on the island of Crete, Greece.
glosses: A former state on the island of Crete around the city.
albedo feature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albedo features
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: On a Solar System body, a region with distinct brightness when seen using a telescope; often does not correspond any real geological formation.
haberdasheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haberdashery
handier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "I should feel just like it, mamma," said Eva, "because then it would be handier to take care of her, and because, you know, my bed is better than hers."
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
glosses: comparative form of handy: more handy
handiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of handy: most handy
hankies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanky
glosses: plural of hankie
haughtier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of haughty: more haughty
haughtiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mademoiselle gave him one of her haughtiest frowns, and turned away. In so doing, the glittering buckle dragged on the ground, and a youth, strikingly handsome, and dressed with just coxcombry enough to indicate that he was not indifferent to the opinion of others, stepped forward, and, dropping on his knee, entreated permission to fasten the buckle. Scarcely looking at him, the Princess accepted his services; the cavalier fastened the clasp, and, bowing profoundly, drew back.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 43:
glosses: superlative form of haughty: most haughty
heartaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartache
hornpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornpipe
homemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homemaker
hypersensitivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypersensitivity
hurdled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hurdled
form: most hurdled
Derived terms: unhurdled
hurdled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurdle
honorariums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honoraria
Senses: glosses: plural of honorarium
hideouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hideout
sulci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.saɪ/
/ˈsʌl.kaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of sulcus
paludes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palus
glosses: plural of palude
throwdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwdowns
form: throw-down
Etymology: Deverbal from throw down. Fight and music senses from earlier idiom throw down the gauntlet (“issue a challenge”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A fall, indicating defeat.
examples: text: The inquiry also found evidence some Australian troops in Afghanistan carried "throwdowns" — such as weapons, radios and grenades not issued by the ADF — which would be planted next to the bodies of Afghan civilians to suggest they were a "legitimate target" in any post-incident investigations.
ref: 2020 November 19, Matthew Doran, “Afghanistan war crimes report released by Defence Chief Angus Campbell includes evidence of 39 murders by special forces”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: A weapon planted at a crime scene in order to mislead investigation, especially in situations where deadly force would only have been justified if the victim were armed. Also an untraceable weapon kept in readiness for such use.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A slam dunk.
glosses: A fight or brawl; or, a challenge or incitement to fight.
examples: a hip-hop throwdown
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A performance by a rapper or DJ that is intended to be particularly hardcore or intense.
qualifier: hardcore punk music
glosses: A type of hardcore dance in which a person violently clears a space for himself and appears to be ready to fight those around him, while making violent and erratic movements with his body.
glosses: A 250 ml bottle of beer.
glosses: A type of small firework that explodes with a loud noise when thrown violently onto the ground.
Related terms: beatdown
smackdown
inter-agency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + agency.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of interagency.
sk8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sk8s
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skate.
sk8
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sk8s
form: sk8ing
form: sk8ed
form: sk8ed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skate.
sk8r
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sk8rs
form: sk8er
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of skater.
at night
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Owls usually hunt at night.
text: Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.
ref: 1955 February, “Notes and News: Arresting an Earth Slip at Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
text: As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
synonyms: after dark
nocturnally
antonyms: diurnally
glosses: During the night.
Related terms: be on nights
night job
nightly
night owl
night shift
verticilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verticillus
succose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Full of juice or sap.
trigona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐ́γωνᾰ (trĭ́gōnă), plural of τρῐ́γωνον (trĭ́gōnon).
Senses: glosses: plural of trigonon
trigone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /trɪˈɡəʊn/
ipa: /ˈtrʌɪɡəʊn/
Forms: form: trigones
Etymology: From French trigone, from Latin trigōnum, from Ancient Greek τρῐ́γωνον (trĭ́gōnon). Doublet of trigon and trigonon.
Senses: examples: text: Leaf cells are about 25–30 μm, with thin walls and bulging trigones.
ref: 1992, Marie L. Hicks, Guide to the Liverworts of North Carolina, page 66:
text: The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the thickenings of the cell wall at the angles where several cells join.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, bounded by the apertures of the ureters and urethra; a similar region of a mitral valve
Related terms: trigonal
tubulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubulose
form: most tubulose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tubulous.
unipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniparas
form: uniparae
Senses: glosses: A woman who has given birth to one child.
proposant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proposants
Etymology: From French proposant.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A theological student who performs religious functions and is a candidate for the ministry.
ciré
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːreɪ/
/səreɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French ciré (“waxed; made shiny”). Attested in English from the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: ciré silk
qualifier: fabric
glosses: Having a shiny, glossy surface, often due to the application of wax or heat treatment.
ciré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːreɪ/
/səreɪ/
Forms: form: cirés
Etymology: Borrowed from French ciré (“waxed; made shiny”). Attested in English from the 1920s.
Senses: glosses: A glossy finish applied to fabric.
examples: text: Shiny nylons and cirés are used for avant-garde shapes that run from early Mugler to Star Trek.
ref: 2009 June 19, “Looking ahead”, in Ragtrader:
glosses: A fabric featuring such finish.
cire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cires
Etymology: Back-formation from ciré (“glossy”).
Senses: glosses: A fabric with a glazed finish.
cires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cire
cirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciron
ask after
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: asks after
form: asking after
form: asked after
form: asked after
Senses: examples: text: He was surprised at my presence, I believe, but reacted with perfect aplomb. He asked after my Aunt Mamie, I after some of his cousins...
ref: 2006, Jed Rubenfeld, The Interpretation of Murder, page 499:
glosses: To enquire about the health or progress (of someone).
Synonyms: inquire after
give a light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a light
form: giving a light
form: gave a light
form: given a light
Senses: examples: text: I don't think I ever heard / A single little civil word from those guys / But you know I don't give a light
ref: 1976, Brian May, “Tie Your Mother Down”, in A Day at the Races, performed by Queen:
text: White man, white man / Don't you give a light / For the blood you've shed?
ref: 1976, Brian May, “White Man”, in A Day at the Races, performed by Queen:
synonyms: word: becare
word: bother
word: care
word: concern oneself
word: mind
word: reck
word: trouble oneself
word: worry
glosses: To care.
T-junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-junctions
Etymology: From T (“capital letter”) + junction.
Senses: synonyms: T-intersection
coordinate_terms: Y-junction
Y-intersection
glosses: An intersection of routes where one road terminates as it joins a (usually higher priority) road at approximately 90°. In most countries, a give way or stop road sign will be seen at a T-junction.
glosses: A similarly shaped section in a pipe, etc.
feed the troll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds the troll
form: feeding the troll
form: fed the troll
form: fed the troll
Senses: examples: text: The man rejected the business forum moderator's advice and decided to feed the troll by answering his irrelevant question whether he could host a game show.
glosses: To respond to someone who posts deliberately inflammatory or disruptive statements, such as to a newsgroup or other online forum.
AM pop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Music, especially rock music ballads and crossover material, played on top 40-formatted AM radio stations, especially during the 1970s.
glosses: Soft rock music, especially that produced prior to the early 1980s.
tall story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːl ˈstɔːɹi/
ipa: /tɔl ˈstɔɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: tall stories
Etymology: From tall (“exaggerated”) + story.
Senses: examples: text: Mary Beard, formerly professor of classics at Cambridge University, directed followers on X to her latest book, titled Emperor of Rome, which opens with a lengthy discussion of the “tall stories” told about Elagabalus.
ref: 2023 November 24, Esther Addley, “Was Roman emperor Elagabalus really trans – and does it really matter?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: Banbury story of a cock and a bull
word: cock-and-bull story
word: fish story
word: traveller's tale
word: tall tale
extra: a tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth
glosses: Synonym of tall tale (“a tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth”).
tape-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape-worms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tapeworm.
table manners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Basic table manners were covered in the first day of finishing school, but more followed.
glosses: An accepted code of conduct for behavior at a dining table.
examples: text: Some of the children had good table manners; some not.
glosses: The behavior of a person while dining.
take offense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes offense
form: taking offense
form: took offense
form: taken offense
form: take offence
Senses: synonyms: take umbrage
take exception
resent#Verb
take amiss
glosses: To feel (and usually to show) resentment at another's actions or words.
penny dreadful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny dreadfuls
Etymology: From its low price and the lower-class British use of dreadful (“sensationalized crime reporting”).
Senses: examples: text: They can read the ‘penny dreadful’, but they cannot darn their stockings or mend their shoes.
ref: 1861 July 29, North American Review
glosses: A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.
glosses: Pulp fiction: stories written in the lurid style of the penny dreadfuls.
Derived terms: penny-dreadfulish
penny-dreadfulism
Related terms: dime novel
gazette
pulp fiction
dime novel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dime novels
Senses: glosses: A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th-century America.
Related terms: dime novelist
gazette
penny dreadful
pulp fiction
tendancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tendencies.
tendancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tendency.
aluminocopiapite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminocopiapites
Etymology: From alumino- + copiapite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of copiapite containing varying amounts of aluminium in place of ferric iron.
copiapite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copiapites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic ferric sulfate mineral found in oxidized iron sulfide deposits, with the chemical formula Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₄(SO₄)₆(OH)₂·20H₂O.
Derived terms: aluminocopiapite
calciocopiapite
prayer rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer ropes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of komboskini.
synonyms: word: komboskini
divarication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divarications
Etymology: Unattested Latin *dīvāricātiō, from the verb dīvāricō (“I spread out”), from di- + vāricō (“I spread apart”).
Senses: glosses: A divergence of opinion.
glosses: The point at which branching occurs.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The growth habit of some low-growing shrubs; with wide angles where they diverge, the branches may interlace.
Related terms: divaricate
divaricated
adscititious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædsəˈtɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Etymology: From Latin adscitus, from past participle of adscisco (“admit”).
Senses: examples: text: When the poor man’s integuments, no longer nourished from within, become dead skin, mere adscititious leather and callosity, wearing thicker and thicker, uglier and uglier;[…]— yes then, you may say, his usefulness once more is quite obstructed;[…]it is time that he take to bed, and prepare for departure, which cannot now be distant!
ref: 1843, Thomas Carlyle, “XVII: The Beginnings”, in Past and Present, book 2:
glosses: Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.
Derived terms: adscititiously
Related terms: adventitious
katsuo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katsuo
Etymology: Japanese [Term?]
Senses: glosses: Synonym of skipjack tuna.
synonyms: word: skipjack tuna
fire load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire loads
Senses: glosses: The anticipated amount of wildfire control necessary in a given period and region, based on the number of current fires, the probable number of new fires, and their anticipated intensity.
glosses: The quantity of combustible matter in a given area, or the quantity of heat that can be generated by its combustion.
Japan Standard Time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JST
Senses: glosses: The time zone that encompasses the segment of Japan, being nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.
JST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Japan Standard Time
glosses: Japan Science and Technology Agency (独立行政法人科学技術振興機構 Dokuritsu Gyousei Houjin Kagaku Gijutsu Shinkou Kikou)
glosses: Jewish Standard Time
glosses: Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
glosses: JavaScript Synthesis Technology
glosses: Jubilee Sailing Trust
hatchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætʃəl
Forms: form: hatchels
form: hackle
form: heckle
form: hetchel
Etymology: From Middle English hechele, of West Germanic origin, related to the root of hook. Compare hackle.
Senses: examples: text: One end of the bundle being hatchelled, it is turned round, and the other is treated in the same way; and the process is repeated on finer hatchels.
ref: 1864, George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana [eds.], The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge VII: “Edward–Fueros” (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain), ‘Flax’, page 554
glosses: A comb used to separate flax fibers.
hatchel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ætʃəl
Forms: form: hatchels
form: hatcheling
form: hatchelling
form: hatcheled
form: hatcheled
form: hatchelled
form: hatchelled
form: hackle
form: heckle
form: hetchel
Etymology: From Middle English hechele, of West Germanic origin, related to the root of hook. Compare hackle.
Senses: glosses: To separate (flax fibers) with a hatchel, or comb.
Derived terms: hatcheler
unhatcheled
unhatchelled
fire loads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire load
gis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the military term GIS, "general impression and shape".
Senses: examples: text: Applied to birding, the gis approach involves a deemphasis of separate field marks in favor of the gestalt, the essence that tells us a dog is a dog […]
ref: 1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Alternative spelling of jizz.
gis
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gi's.
bouillons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouillon
bouillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouillion
bouillis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bouilli
chut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuts
Senses: glosses: A repeated short, low vocal sound made by guinea pigs, thought to express interest or curiosity.
chut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chuts
form: chutting
form: chutted
form: chutted
Senses: glosses: To produce this sound.
chut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuts
Etymology: Hindi छत (chat, “roof, ceiling”)
Senses: glosses: A coarse cotton sheet, stretched on a frame and whitewashed, forming the ceiling of a room.
chut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “The instinct that led me to insist on examining those coffee-cups. Chut! no more now!”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 59:
glosses: An expression of impatience.
Related terms: chut pattern
musses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muss
mues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mue
bovarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bovarysm.
bloodshedder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodshedders
Etymology: From blood + shedder.
Senses: glosses: One who sheds blood; a murderer.
bloodshedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodsheddings
Etymology: From blood + shedding.
Senses: glosses: The act of shedding blood.
blood-stained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blood-stained
form: most blood-stained
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bloodstained.
blood lust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood lusts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bloodlust.
blood diamond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood diamonds
Senses: examples: text: Several certification systems already exist throughout the world. The Kimberly Process certifies the origin of rough diamonds from areas that have conflict-free diamond production. The process aims to prevent “blood diamonds.”
ref: 2011 July 11, Erin Banco, “Is Your Cell Phone Fueling Civil War in Congo?”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: conflict diamond
hypernyms: diamond
<
gemstone
<
stone
rock
glosses: A diamond that has been mined in a war zone and sold to finance the conflict.
strong room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong rooms
Senses: examples: text: Some 150,000 legal documents belonging to the London Midland Region of British Railways have recently made a journey in three railway vans from the strong room at Derby Station to be stored in the deed room in the Doric Arch at Euston, whence they were removed at the outbreak of war.
ref: 1950 March, “Notes and News: Historic Documents Return to Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 210:
glosses: Alternative spelling of strongroom.
Manzonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Manzonian
form: most Manzonian
Etymology: From Italian Manzoni + -an or + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist.
Manzonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Manzonians
Etymology: From Italian Manzoni + -an or + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A follower of Alessandro Manzoni, or one who writes in his style.
marchesa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marchesas
form: marchese
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: An Italian marchioness.
Marist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɛːɹɪst/
Forms: form: Marists
Etymology: From French Mariste, from Marie (“Mary”) + -iste (“-ist”).
Senses: glosses: A member of any of several Roman Catholic organizations named after the Virgin Mary
Marist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɛːɹɪst/
Forms: form: more Marist
form: most Marist
Etymology: From French Mariste, from Marie (“Mary”) + -iste (“-ist”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these organizations or their members
rolling block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling blocks
Senses: glosses: A form of firearm action where the sealing of the breech is done with a specially shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin.
Related terms: falling block
bolt action
lever action
true or false
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: true-or-false
Senses: examples: text: Teachers prefer true or false or multiple-choice tests because they can be graded so easily.
glosses: Of a question or series of questions having as answers only "true" or "false"
Related terms: binary
Boolean
true-or-false
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of true or false.
gaugino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gauginos
Etymology: From gauge + -ino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a series of hypothetical particles that are the superpartners of gauge bosons
Related terms: bino
gluino
photino
wino
zino
susses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suss
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sus
superpartner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpartners
Etymology: From super- + partner.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any particle related to a more standard particle by supersymmetry.
sied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sie
inquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkwaɪət/
Forms: form: inquiets
form: inquieting
form: inquieted
form: inquieted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inquietare: compare French inquiéter. See quiet.
Senses: examples: text: His saide subiectes[…]shall [not] be sued, vexed, nor inquieted in theyr bodies goodes landes nor cattalles
ref: 1530-1531, King Henry VIII, Public Act 22:
glosses: To disquiet.
Derived terms: inquietly
inquietness
Related terms: quiet
houseboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houseboat
bourgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bourgeons
form: bourgeoning
form: bourgeoned
form: bourgeoned
Senses: examples: text: gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “(please specify the canto number or page)”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: Obsolete form of burgeon.
bourgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bourgeons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of burgeon.
turn the tide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the tide
form: turning the tide
form: turned the tide
form: turned the tide
Senses: examples: text: The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very "top brass"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.
ref: 1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
text: Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war.
ref: 2008 March 21, Owen Bowcott, “The man who captured the human cost of conflict”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To undergo a change or reversal of a general trend.
salue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: salues
form: saluing
form: salued
form: salued
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin salūs
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin salūtāre
Old French saluder
Old French saluerbor.
Middle English saluen
English salue
Inherited from Middle English saluen, borrowed from Old French saluer, from saluder, from Latin salūtāre, from salūs + -āris.
Senses: glosses: To greet; to salute.
salues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salue
shyest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shiest
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shy: most shy
gert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: Bristol
ipa: /ɡɝːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
homophone: girt
homophone: gurt
Forms: form: girt
form: gurt
Etymology: From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.
Senses: examples: text: That's a gert sandwich.
qualifier: Somerset; Bristol; Somerset; Bristol
glosses: big
gert
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: Bristol
ipa: /ɡɝːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
homophone: girt
homophone: gurt
Forms: form: girt
form: gurt
Etymology: From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.
Senses: examples: text: That's a gert big sandwich.
text: That pizza was gert tasty.
qualifier: Somerset; Bristol; Somerset; Bristol
glosses: very
Derived terms: gert lush
map out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: maps out
form: mapping out
form: mapped out
form: mapped out
Senses: glosses: To create a map of an area.
glosses: To organise a plan; to analyze a situation; to figure out a problem.
examples: text: You two sit down, and I'll map it out for you.” For the next fifteen minutes I told them a tale of greed, racism, treachery and murder.
ref: 1992, Roy Maynard, 38 Caliber: An Emerson Dunn Mystery, page 127:
text: The grading is tough, just like the classes, but they map it out for you right from the beginning.
ref: 2007, Carolyn C. Wise, Stephanie Hauser, The College Buzz Book, page 410:
text: He went to the white board and mapped out his entire organization, explaining what everyone was working on and how it fit together.
ref: 2010, Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable:
text: No one can map it out for you. You're going to have to figure it out for yourself and systematically lay the groundwork for your future.
ref: 2012, Rebecca Shambaugh, Make Room for Her, page 120:
glosses: To make explicit; to explain in detail.
Manxmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manxman
thirdborough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirdboroughs
Senses: glosses: The head of a frankpledge
glosses: The constable of a tithing or township
frankpledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frankpledges
form: frank-pledge
form: frankenpledge
Etymology: From Anglo-Latin franciplegium, a Latinization of Anglo-Norman frauncplege ("free pledge"), a mistranslation of Old English friðborh ("pledge of peace"), which had the corrupted form friborh, which led to the Modern English term friborg, as if it were *freoborh ("free pledge"). See also friborg, which refers to the predecessor of frankpledge.
Senses: examples: text: King John granted to the prior and convent, in all their manors and lands, sac, soc, tol, and theam, infangenthef, and outfangenthef, with the ordeals or judgment by fire, water, and iron, and a common gallows in each manor; with a view of frankenpledge, and assize of bread and ale, of all their tenants...
ref: 1806, Francis Bloomfield, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Vol. IV, p. 517
topics: law
glosses: A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing.
examples: text: The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.
ref: 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume III, page 13:
glosses: Any group so similarly answerable for the conduct of all its members and liable for collective punishment.
examples: text: Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges.
ref: 1765, William Blackstone, Commentary on the Laws of England, volume I, page 114:
topics: law
glosses: A decener: a member of a tithing bound in frankpledge.
topics: law
glosses: The tithing itself.
Derived terms: view of frankpledge
pelage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlɪd͡ʒ/
homophone: pellage
Forms: form: pelages
Etymology: From French pelage (“fur”).
Senses: glosses: Fur, hair, or any other form of the coat of a mammal.
glosses: The characteristic nature of this coat: its coarseness or fineness, its typical lay, and so on.
Related terms: hairiness
hairstyle
powiat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powiats
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish powiat.
Senses: glosses: The second-level unit of local government and administration in Poland.
stone me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Yesterday, Frears told the Guardian that he was surprised and honoured: "Stone me!" as Jim Broadbent said when he got his Oscar.".
ref: 2007 January 12, Simon Hattenstone, “First for UK directors as Frears heads Cannes jury”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Exclamation of complete surprise.
Synonyms: stone the crows
autantonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autantonyms
Etymology: From aut- + antonym. Coined or reported by Joseph T. Shipley, 1960.
Senses: examples: text: autantonym — word having two opposite meanings (as a fast horse, and a fast color). Cf. contronym, heteronym, and homonym.
ref: 1960, Joseph T. Shipley, Playing with Words, Prentice-Hall, p. 74
text: 1986, Harry Edwin Eiss, Dictionary of Language Games, Puzzles, and Amusements, Greenwood Press, p. 39.
autantonym — word having two opposite meanings (as a fast horse, and a fast color). Cf. contronym, heteronym, and homonym.
glosses: Alternative form of autoantonym.
contronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contronyms
Etymology: From contr(a)- + -onym. Coined 1962 by Jack Herring. Note that the vowel of the suffix generally supersedes the vowel of the prefix, hence coined as contronym, rather than contranym.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: enantioseme
related: word: contranym
synonyms: autoantonym
antagonym
Janus word
hypernyms: word#Noun
<
term
<
seme#Noun
glosses: A word that has two opposing meanings, such as cleave (“stick together” or “split apart”).
Derived terms: contronymic
Related terms: contranymic
contranymy
contronymy
enantiosemy
double negative
skunked term
moon landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon landings
Etymology: From moon + landing.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout our discussions and searching inquiries one object figured ever more prominently—the moon. We learned that it was technologically possible to develop a program to reach the moon, and we came to realize that since the Russians did not then have the ability to reach the moon any more than we did, we had at least a fifty-fifty chance of beating them there. Moreover, a moon-landing goal would give a dramatic focus to a space program designed to develop our skills and capacities on a broad technological front.
ref: [1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: The safe arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
witloof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witloofs
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch witloof, from wit (“white”) + loof (“leaf”), after the typical pale color of the leaves.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Belgian endive, common chicory (Cichorium intybus)
register office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: register offices
Senses: glosses: The local office in which births, marriages and deaths are registered, and in which civil marriages are conducted and recorded.
glosses: An employment office.
leave no stone unturned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leaves no stone unturned
form: leaving no stone unturned
form: left no stone unturned
form: left no stone unturned
Senses: examples: text: “This case of police torture and murder is shocking. But this is not the first case and it is unlikely to be the last case until and unless the police conduct serious interrogations and investigations and leave no stones unturned,” said Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch.
ref: 2021 August 25, Tassanee Vejpongsa, “Video sparks arrest of Thai police in drug suspect's death”, in The Washington Post, retrieved 26 Aug 2021:
text: We have a lead inspector who has a global overview of the investigation and will have site handback in mind, although we won't leave any stone unturned.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 30:
glosses: To search or investigate thoroughly.
examples: text: [He] left unturned no stone / To make my guilt appear, and hide his own.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: We mean to leave no stone unturned to carry out our intent.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 297:
text: But we must make it clear that in building our friendship with the Chinese on the mainland we will not sacrifice our Chinese friends on Taiwan. Julian Amery put the issue eloquently: "It is often necessary and legitimate to abandon causes long supported and to dissolve pledged bonds of alliance. But it is always wrong to abandon men who have been friends to their fate. We may have to jettison their interests but we should leave no stone unturned to save at least their lives."
ref: 1988, Richard Nixon, “The Awakened Giant”, in 1999: Victory Without War, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258:
text: James Sutherland insists Australia had "no alternative" but to cancel the tour. "We have left no stone unturned in trying to ensure the tour could proceed as planned but at the end of the day the safety and security of our employees must come first."
ref: 2008 March 11, “Australia cancel tour of Pakistan”, in The Guardian, retrieved 02 May 2013:
glosses: To perform a task carefully and thoroughly, not missing any step.
Related terms: spare no effort
pastance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastances
Senses: glosses: pastime
Merya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Finno-Ugric tribe which lived in the region around the modern Moscow and was later assimilated by Slavs.
Merya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by this tribe.
proselytise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proselytises
form: proselytising
form: proselytised
form: proselytised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of proselytize.
globe artichoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe artichokes
Senses: glosses: A variety of artichoke, Cynara cardunculus cultivated for food.
Synonyms: French artichoke
green artichoke
stop-loss order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-loss orders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stop loss order.
tall in the saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He is tall in the saddle (6 ft. 2 in.) and so adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face.
ref: 1966 August 12, “The Graven Image”, in Time:
glosses: Imposing, impressive; resolute; manly.
raw_tags: of a person
tall in the saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: His son noted Buckley had died "with his boots on, after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle."
ref: 2008 February 27, Conservative Author Buckley Dead at 82, Associated Press:
glosses: Imposingly, impressively; resolutely; manfully.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: ride tall in the saddle
Related terms: in the saddle
fairy circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy circles
Senses: examples: text: Common in the arid grasslands of the Namib desert, particularly in Namibia, fairy circles were at first thought unique to that region; however, similar rings have been observed in a part of the Pilbara in Western Australia.
text: Danin and Orshan (1995) noted that the growth of the horizontal rhizome of Stipagrostis ciliata, a common species of fairy circles in both the Namib and Negev deserts, would naturally result in the formation of fairy circles over time.
ref: 2016, David Ward, The Biology of Deserts, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 113:
glosses: A circular patch barren of vegetation, often encircled by a ring of stimulated grass growth, typically found in regions of arid grassland.
examples: text: Under that tree there is a fairy circle called The Dancing Place of the Goblin.
ref: 1880, Wirt Sikes, British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, page 73:
text: Then he explained how he entered the Fairy Circle, and how he was seized by them, but found their company so delightful that he thought he had been with them only for a few minutes.
ref: 1911, Jonathan Ceredig Davies, Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales, page 109:
glosses: Synonym of fairy ring.
synonyms: word: fairy ring
Related terms: heuweltjie
Mima mound
name days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of name day
ubiquetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ubiquitous, from Latin ubique.
obstetrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin obstetrīx.
Senses: glosses: A midwife.
oppidum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppida
Etymology: From Latin oppidum (“(chiefly walled or fortified) town”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Mount Ceasar’ was a major oppidum of the Bellovaci tribe and almost certainly the tribal capital: its geographical relationship to the nearby Roman capital of Beauvais is typical of a post-conquest tribal resettlement.
ref: 2013, Graham Robb, The Ancient Paths, Picador, published 2014, page 76:
glosses: A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture.
tweel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: tuile
homophone: tuille
Forms: form: tweels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twill.
tweel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: tuile
homophone: tuille
Forms: form: tweels
form: tweeling
form: tweeled
form: tweeled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twill.
twills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twill
tweels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweel
autodiegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + diegetic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a narrator who is also the protagonist.
Related terms: heterodiegetic
homodiegetic
hatchet men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchet man (alternative spelling of hatchetmen).
heterodiegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + diegetic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.
staunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of staunch
staunched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of staunch
stanches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stanch
stanching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stanch
stanching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stanchings
Senses: glosses: A stanchion.
stanched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stanch
sucker punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sucker punch
sucker punches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sucker punch
OHLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of overhead line equipment (overhead lines, and supporting infrastructure, that provide power to electric trains).
Synonyms: OLE
Related terms: pantograph
wrong-way concurrency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong-way concurrencies
Senses: topics: road
transport
glosses: A road concurrency in which at least two numbered highway routes are signed in opposite, conflicting directions on the same stretch of physical roadway.
corn pone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn pones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cornpone.
corn pones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corn pone
underutilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underutilize
underutilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underutilize