cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
insuperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsup(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more insuperable
form: most insuperable
Etymology: From Latin insuperabilis.
Senses: examples: text: Regular services for passengers and goods were maintained for almost 50 years, but the speed limit of 16 m.p.h., imposed by the Board of Trade, proved an insuperable handicap after the introduction of competitive motor bus services.
ref: 1950 September, “The Southwold Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 578:
text: While Indian English may not have a uniform standard form throughout the country, this in itself is not an insuperable obstacle for lexicography.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 308:
text: The basic problem before the court on Wednesday is that there is a Supreme Court case pretty closely on point – United States v. Bestfoods – in which the justices rejected the government’s argument that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act was such an important statute that it should create an exception to traditional state-law doctrines that require a high (indeed, all but insuperable) bar for actions seeking to ignore corporate identities and, in the common phrase, “pierce the corporate veil.”
ref: 2024 December 10, Ronald Mann, “Case Preview: Federal trademark law and doctrines of corporate identity”, in SCOTUSblog:
text: Underground stations were also slated for closure, and there were plans for massive ring roads to cater for the ever-growing numbers of people commuting into town by car. […] However, it soon dawned on politicians that this was unsustainable. Much of London would have had to be demolished to make way for the ring roads, and parking was becoming an insuperable difficulty.
ref: 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 57:
glosses: Impossible to achieve or overcome or be negotiated.
examples: text: For the first time I steadily reviewed the obstacles—and to consider them was at once to see they were insuperable.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 4–5:
glosses: Overwhelming or insurmountable.
Synonyms: unsuperable
Derived terms: insuperableness
insuperably
Related terms: insuperability
impassable
unconquerable
cloaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊˈeɪ.kə/
ipa: /kloʊˈeɪ.kə/
rhymes: -eɪkə
Forms: form: cloacas
form: cloacae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), related to cluō (“cleanse; purge”), but the derivation is uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: The Thames, polluted with the filthy effusions of the cloacae.
ref: 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 598:
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in Latter-day Pamphlets, page 46:
text: […] that tremendous cloaca of Pauperism […]
text: After working an hour, I began to speculate on the distance one had to go before the cloaca was reached the chances we had of missing it altogether.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 266:
glosses: A sewer.
examples: text: In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch […] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.
ref: 1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume I, page 7:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes, marsupials and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.
examples: text: To every house […] a cloaca.
ref: 1840, Frederick Marryat, chapter XXIV, in Olla Podrida:
text: Only think of that cloaca being supplied daily with such dainty bibliographical treasures!
ref: 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 55:
glosses: An outhouse or lavatory.
examples: text: Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).
ref: 1846, Joseph François Malgaigne, translated by Frederick Brittan, Manual of Operative Surgery, page 172:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.
topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.
Synonyms: sense: sewer
word: sewer
sense: duct
word: vent
sense: outhouse or lavatory
word: bathroom
Hypernyms: external genitalia
Derived terms: cloacal
cloacinal
cloacitis
persistent cloaca
mufti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌfti/
note: only in sense 1
ipa: /ˈmʊfti/
rhymes: -ʌfti
rhymes: (sense 1) -ʊfti
Forms: form: muftis
form: muftee
form: mufty
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).
Senses: examples: text: Mujtahidd's online claims have prompted an aggressive backlash against social media from the Saudi religious establishment. The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, said in January that Twitter was a platform for "promoting lies" and a "dangerous practice" that should be avoided by Muslims. Commentators have described the phenomenon as symbolic of the growing political debate about use of Twitter in Saudi Arabia.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: A Muslim scholar and interpreter of sharia law, who can deliver a fatwa.
examples: text: He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 91:
text: The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.
ref: 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:
text: The neutrality, however, causes some peculiar situations, such as that arising from the prohibition of uniforms other than those of the Eireann Defence Forces and the Diplomatic Corps. This would be simple if no one from Eire were a sailor, soldier, or airman in the British Forces, but thousands of them are, and as such they may not wear mufti unless on leave from the B.E.F.
ref: 1940 May, “The Irish Railways Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 295:
text: The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.
ref: 2002 April 3, Dave Wilma, “First nuclear submarine U.S.S. Nautilus visits Seattle and crew secretly buys Bar's Leak on June 3, 1958”, in HistoryLink.org: Essay 3739:
synonyms: civvies
glosses: A civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform.
Derived terms: muftiate
mufti day
sharia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After all, Usamah had served the sadist Zangi and, if read in full, his account presents a picture of Islamic violence no less shocking to modern sensibilities: the collecting of Christian heads, the crucifying and bisections of their own soldiers and heretics, the severe punishments of Islamic sharia – and the story of how his father, in a rage, lopped off the arm of his page.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 276:
text: Unlike in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, in Yemen they are trying to implement sharia by winning over the hearts and minds of the people.
ref: 2012 April 30, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, “Al-Qaida's wretched utopia and the battle for hearts and minds”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shari'a.
FOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Fo Tan in Hong Kong.
FOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FOTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of field operational test.
FOT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of free on truck.
glosses: Initialism of fell off a truck; stolen.
fall off the back of a lorry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls off the back of a lorry
form: falling off the back of a lorry
form: fell off the back of a lorry
form: fallen off the back of a lorry
form: fall off a truck
Senses: glosses: Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally.
luminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːmɪnəs/
Forms: form: more luminous
form: most luminous
form: luminious
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French lumineus, from Latin lūminōsus.
Senses: examples: text: The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:
text: The bonfire in his heart made luminous the rose-tan in his cheek.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter [HTTP://GUTENBERG.NET.AU/EBOOKS06/0608511H.HTML CHAPTER 11].”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: beamful
word: shining
word: radiant
word: aglow
word: alight
word: beamful
word: beamsome
word: beamy
word: brilliant
word: effulgent
word: glowing
word: illuminating
word: lambent
word: lighted
word: lit
word: lucent
word: luciferous
word: lucific
word: luminant
word: luminiferous
word: luminous
word: lustrous
word: orient
word: profulgent
word: radiant
word: refulgent
word: resplendent
word: sheeny
word: shining
word: shiny
glosses: Emitting light; glowing brightly; shining.
synonyms: word: lighted
word: lit up
word: alight
word: illuminated
word: inlighted
word: lighted
word: lighty
word: lit
word: lit up
word: luminous
glosses: Brightly illuminated.
examples: text: a luminous explanation
glosses: Clear; enlightening; easy to understand.
Derived terms: fast-evolving luminous transient
hyperluminous
luminosity
luminous energy
luminous flux
luminous intensity
luminously
luminousness
non-luminous
nonluminous
overluminous
radio-luminous
self-luminous
subluminous
superluminous
transient luminous event
ultraluminous
underluminous
unluminous
Related terms: illuminate
lumic
luminal
causer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causers
Etymology: From cause + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone or something that causes or produces an effect.
Synonyms: author
originator
source
Derived terms: trouble causer
aux
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔks/
ipa: /ˈɑks/
ipa: /ˈɔːks/
rhymes: -ɔːks
homophone: ox (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: aux.
Senses: examples: text: Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.
ref: 2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 69:
glosses: Abbreviation of auxiliary.
aux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔks/
ipa: /ˈɑks/
ipa: /ˈɔːks/
rhymes: -ɔːks
homophone: ox (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: auxes
form: aux.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, pass the aux. I'll play some music from my phone.
text: BE AWARE, reverbs should be in the end of your chain, as sends to auxes. Setting them first doesn’t mean they will be first in the chain. You just set up the auxes, then get back to the vocal channel to add EQs, compressors, etc.
ref: 2025 October 15, @natemixing, Twitter:
glosses: The auxiliary audio connector of a sound system.
eggnog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɡˈnɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.nɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈɛɡ.nɑɡ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒɡ
Forms: form: eggnogs
form: egg nog
Etymology: American English c. 1775 (although drinks like it are attested far earlier, e.g. posset, of which a monastic Christmas recipe used eggs), from egg + nog.
The second element is uncertain and long-debated; prominent claims include Norfolk dialect nog (“strong ale”), or a clipping of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”) (q.v.). Other hypotheses include a variant of grog (“rum-and-water cocktail”), and descent from Old Norse (compare wassail).
Senses: synonyms: nog
egg flip
egg-hot
glosses: A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.
wikipedia: Norfolk
boiled egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiled eggs
Senses: glosses: An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled.
Coordinate terms: fried egg
poached egg
scrambled egg
Related terms: deviled egg
eggcup
hard-boiled
omelette
over easy
soft-boiled
soldier
sunny side up
dowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dou'dē
ipa: /ˈdaʊdi/
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: dowdier
form: dowdiest
Etymology: First appears c. 1581. Origin uncertain, probably literally "little poorly dressed woman," formed from doue, "poorly dressed woman". Possibly also related to the Scots dow, meaning to "fade".
Senses: glosses: Plain and unfashionable in style or dress.
examples: text: [...she was] a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: “Ha! Shagging a chair is quite odd.” “Its legs were very sexy. And I know how you are, so I expected a challenge. What did you turn into anyway?” “Oh, the dowdiest mortal woman. You should have seen it.” “Oh, I would have been all over that.” “I know!”
ref: 2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (15:59 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Deliria (Hannah Waddingham):
glosses: Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby.
Derived terms: dowd
dowdify
dowdily
dowdiness
dowdyish
dowdyism
dowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dou'dē
ipa: /ˈdaʊdi/
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: dowdies
Etymology: First appears c. 1581. Origin uncertain, probably literally "little poorly dressed woman," formed from doue, "poorly dressed woman". Possibly also related to the Scots dow, meaning to "fade".
Senses: examples: text: Besides these, however, and the determined dowdies, women who either do not understand dress, or who will not be troubled with it, there are certainly many who, while always anxious to appear to the best advantage, are not wealthy enough to do so […]
ref: 1877, Truth, volume 1, page 615:
text: “I knew there were women-dowdies in Bengal. They come up here sometimes. But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:
text: The men are all dowdies and the women are all dandies, aren't they?
ref: 1895, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband:
glosses: A plain or shabby person.
dowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dou'dē
ipa: /ˈdaʊdi/
rhymes: -aʊdi
Forms: form: dowdies
form: dowdying
form: dowdied
form: dowdied
Etymology: First appears c. 1581. Origin uncertain, probably literally "little poorly dressed woman," formed from doue, "poorly dressed woman". Possibly also related to the Scots dow, meaning to "fade".
Senses: examples: text: Topping the apples with squares of dough allowed steam to escape during baking, preventing the apples from overcooking. Dowdying the crust partway through created the dessert's sweet finish.
ref: 2021, America's Test Kitchen, The Complete Cook’s Country TV Show Cookbook, page 743:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To press the crust into the filling during baking, to allow the juices to caramelize on top.
Derived terms: dowdy up
figgy-dowdy
pandowdy
floating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, float + -ing.
Senses: examples: floating buoys
glosses: That floats or float.
examples: text: The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
text: In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
text: You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
text: "And I am much mistaken if she has not some floating fancy of her own."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 198:
glosses: Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
raw_tags: of a tone
Derived terms: flixel
floating academy
floating beacon
floating bog
floating bridge
floating car data
floating cellular data
floating dock
floating feeling
floating gold
floating ground
floating heart
floating island
floating kidney
floating light
floatingly
floating market
floating point
floating-point
floating-point number
floating-point operation
floating point operation
floating point processor
floating-point unit
floating rate
floating rib
floating screed
floating signifier
floating tone
floating vote
floating voter
floating wind turbine
floating wood tile
free-floating planet
nonfloating
unfloating
floating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, float + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of float
floating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: floatings
Etymology: By surface analysis, float + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The motion of something that floats.
examples: text: Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
ref: 1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256:
glosses: Material that floats in a liquid.
glosses: The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.
cast adrift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts adrift
form: casting adrift
form: cast adrift
form: cast adrift
Senses: examples: text: We cast adrift the burning sloop to await its fate.
glosses: To abandon a ship at sea
examples: text: Captain Bligh and some loyal crewmen were cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific.
glosses: To place a person in a ship's boat or raft and leave them
Molotov cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒ.ləˌtɒf ˈkɒk.teɪl/
ipa: /ˈmɔ.ləˌtɔv ˈkɑk.teɪl/
Forms: form: Molotov cocktails
form: Molotoff cocktail
form: molotov cocktail
form: Molotov's cocktail
Etymology: Calque of Finnish Molotovin koktaili. Coined in Finland during the Winter War of 1939–40 between Finland and the Soviet Union, and named after then-Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986), who claimed the bombs the Soviet Union dropped on Finland were airborne humanitarian food deliveries prompting Finns to say their firebombs were Molotov cocktails (drinks to go with his food deliveries).
Senses: examples: text: The site, which appears in the wake of anti-Elon Musk protests across the country, displays names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as its cursor. […] In one incident in Las Vegas, an individual dressed in black used Molotov cocktails to ignite five Tesla vehicles at a service center.
ref: 2025 March 19, Dan Cody, “What Is Dogequest? Website Exposes Tesla Owners' Personal Data”, in Newsweek:
glosses: A crude incendiary bomb made from a glass bottle, either filled with a flammable liquid such as petroleum and supplied with a rag for a fuse that is lit just before being hurled, or filled with such a mix of flammable liquids that it ignites itself when it is smashed and its contents are exposed to air.
Synonyms: sense: bomb
word: mollie
sense: bomb
word: petrol bomb
sense: bomb
word: Bandera smoothie
word: Molotov
word: molotov
Related terms: Molotov breadbasket
all hands on deck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: all hands to the deck
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the boche and his guard were aboard again, I called all hands on deck, including von Schoenvorts, and there I explained to them that the time had come for us to enter into some sort of an agreement among ourselves that would relieve us of the annoyance and embarrassment of being divided into two antagonistic parts--prisoners and captors.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Chapter V”, in The Land That Time Forgot:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An order, on board ship, for all seamen of all watches to muster on deck immediately; normally shortened to "All hands"
examples: text: It was all hands to the deck in the Swindon penalty box.
ref: 2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Summer, with its good weather and accompanying onslaught of tourists, was the time when they made most of their money for the year, and so it was all hands on deck.
ref: 2015, Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister:
synonyms: all hands to the pump
glosses: A call for everyone to participate in something.
Related terms: lost with all hands
clear the decks
amidships
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈmɪd.ʃɪps/
Forms: form: more amidships
form: most amidships
form: midships
Etymology: From amid + ships.
Senses: examples: [The U-boat captain] waited until the crosshairs lay directly amidships.
Two more torpedoes were fired; one ran erratic; the second hit amidships.
The saloon, instead of being at the stern, according to the old method of construction, is placed more amidships.
The main cabin, most amidships, was 8 feet 3 inches broad …
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the middle of a ship, either longitudinally or laterally.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Usually in the line of the keel, but sometimes halfway between bow and stern; often contracted to “midships.” (FM 55-501).
examples: text: In stating that the Woosters never give up, I was in error. These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me, leaving me a spent force.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: On the flank, at a vulnerable place.
amidships
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /əˈmɪd.ʃɪps/
Forms: form: midships
Etymology: From amid + ships.
Senses: glosses: A helm order, normally shortened to midships!, to centre the helm in the line of the keel.
ashore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈʃɔː/
ipa: /əˈʃɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈʃo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈʃoə/
homophone: assure (pour–poor merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- + shore; see also onshore.
Senses: examples: text: I shall no more to sea, to sea, / Here shall I die ashore—[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On the land as opposed to onboard.
examples: text: The canoe sailed ashore.
text: Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On, or towards the shore.
Synonyms: aland
Derived terms: hangashore
onboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑnˈbɔɹd/
ipa: /ɔnˈbɔɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɑnˈboɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɔnˈboɹd/
ipa: /ɒnˈbɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: on-board
Etymology: From on board, equivalent to on- + board.
Senses: examples: text: Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 48:
glosses: Carried or used on or in a vehicle or vessel.
examples: text: When it comes to security, everybody seems to be as onboard as I am.
text: James is onboard as a production manager.
glosses: Being a part of, being included in, participating in.
onboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑnˈbɔɹd/
ipa: /ɔnˈbɔɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɑnˈboɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɔnˈboɹd/
ipa: /ɒnˈbɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: on-board
Etymology: From on board, equivalent to on- + board.
Senses: glosses: On or in a vehicle or vessel; aboard; on board.
Related terms: aboard
outboard
overboard
onboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑnˈbɔɹd/
ipa: /ɔnˈbɔɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɑnˈboɹd/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɔnˈboɹd/
ipa: /ɒnˈbɔːd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: onboards
form: onboarding
form: onboarded
form: onboarded
form: on-board
Etymology: From on board, equivalent to on- + board.
Senses: examples: text: It's easiest to onboard and offboard employees if you have a checklist to follow.
ref: 2022, Audrey O'Shea, Jeff T. Parker, CompTIA A+ Complete Practice Tests […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: To become a part of a group; to incorporate (someone) into a group.
glosses: To begin to use a product or service; to take (someone) on as a new customer of a product or service.
Related terms: take on board
on board
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Baby on board
text: Even when I am on board the plane, I can never feel secure that my luggage is, too.
text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: On or in a means of transportation.
examples: text: Is that new teammate properly on board yet?
glosses: Joining in or participating.
examples: text: It's a good idea, but let's see if we can get a few more of the management team on board.
text: Without management on board, the project has little chance of success.
text: The ships' successes made Hitler quite the fan of them, and he supported the idea of more being converted and sent out soon. And so, with the Führer on board, albeit not literally, another six vessels were rapidly placed under conversion.
ref: 2021 February 17, Drachinifel, 20:52 from the start, in German Merchant Raiders of WW2 - Gentleman Raiders of the High Seas, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: Agreeing or supporting.
examples: text: Soccer players certainly tend not to take fluids on board.
ref: 1991, David R. Lamb, Melvin H. Williams, Ergogenics: Enhancement of Performance in Exercise and Sport:
glosses: Into itself or oneself.
Derived terms: onboarding
take on board
on board
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: on board !
Senses: glosses: The stereotypical cry of pirates when boarding a ship for close quarters combat.
joining in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of join in
join in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: joins in
form: joining in
form: joined in
form: joined in
Senses: glosses: To participate, take part or get involved in something.
astern
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɝn/
ipa: /əˈstɜːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more astern
form: most astern
Etymology: From a- (“towards”) + stern (“rear part of a vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: After we had row'd, or rather driven about a League and a Half, as we reckon'd it, a raging Wave, Mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us, and plainly bad us expect the Coup-de-Grace.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 50:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Behind (a vessel); in the rear.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: At or toward the rear of a vessel.
Derived terms: astern of
drop astern
astern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɝn/
ipa: /əˈstɜːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From a- (“towards”) + stern (“rear part of a vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second.
text: When we first espied the Dutch fleet sailing towards us, our whole blue squadron was astern much farther from us, so that Prince Rupert thought it absolutely necessary to slacken sail that they might have time to join us.
ref: 1838, M. Guizot, edited by J. Stuart Wortley, Memoirs of George Monk, Duke of Albemarle, London: Richard Bentley, page 307:
text: Every yachtsman knows that if the ballast of a ship be too afore or too astern.
ref: 1872, Hunt's Yachting Magazine, volume 21, page 288:
text: The chief engineer's evidence of the S.S. Lennox was the best given; but, as will be seen, he asserted that from the orders he received the Lennox's course was more astern than ahead.
ref: 1883, Lieutenant J. Menteith Brebner, RETURN WRECKS AND CASUALTIES IN INDIAN WATERS, page 140:
text: but when near Cape Palmas the wind will perhaps be more astern
ref: 1883, Alexander George Findlay, A Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic Or South Atlantic Ocean:
text: The galley fire was lighted; coffee was boiled; the sun shone brightly, and the ship astern was coming up fast.
ref: 1901, W. Clark Russell, The Ship's Adventure, Westminster: Archibald Constable, page 304:
text: The steamer was more than ahead of us, just on our quarter as we say, and the light was more astern.
ref: 1966, Peter Padfield, The Titanic and the Californian, page 233:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Behind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.
aye aye, sir
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: aye, aye, sir
form: aye-aye, sir
form: aye, aye, Sir
form: aye-aye, Sir
form: aye aye, Sir
Senses: examples: text: “I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently,” said the captain. “I wish that you would make a personal and very careful examination of Mr. Caldwell’s effects, to ascertain if there is any clew to a motive either for suicide or murder—sift the thing to the bottom.” “Aye, aye, sir!” responded Mr. Brently, and left to commence his investigation.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Wreck of the ‘Lady Alice’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 172:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The correct and seamanlike reply, onboard a Royal Navy (or US Navy) ship, on receipt of an order from someone of senior rank or authority. It means "I understand the command and hasten to comply with the order."
Related terms: english: where one reply to this hail is aye aye
translation: where one reply to this hail is aye aye
word: ahoy
english: a type of lemur
translation: a type of lemur
word: aye-aye
seamanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seamanlike
form: most seamanlike
Etymology: From seaman + -like.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a seaman.
glosses: indicating competent seamanship.
befitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈfɪt.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈfɪt.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 63:
text: Emmanuel Macron joined heady celebrations in the France dressing room, dabbing alongside star midfielder Paul Pogba and delivering a rousing speech to the team after they won the World Cup in a final befitting a thrilling month-long tournament.
ref: 2018 July 15, Martha Kelner, Shaun Walker, “France’s victory was a befitting end to a thrilling World Cup”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: present participle and gerund of befit
befitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈfɪt.ɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈfɪt.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more befitting
form: most befitting
Senses: examples: text: He moved with a befitting grace.
text: At a time when the old have never been more vulnerable and, in many cases, lonely, here is a befitting reminder that the frail souls you see sitting in a semi-circle in a day room on the TV news, their eyes distant and their hair like candy floss, do not necessarily feel as you think they look.
ref: 2020 June 22, Rachel Cooke, “The Summer of Her Life by Thomas von Steinaecker and Barbara Yelin – review”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Appropriate, becoming.
Derived terms: befittingly
befittingness
misbefitting
unbefitting
offing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɔfɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒfɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːfɪŋ
Forms: form: offings
Etymology: From off + -ing. Attested since before 1600. Early texts also spell the term offin and offen.
Senses: examples: text: to see (a ship) in the offing
text: I came to an Anchor in seven fathomes water in the offing to Sea.
ref: 1610, Samuel Argall, quoted 1625, by Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, p84
text: September 30, 1659. I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwreck'd during a dreadful Storm, in the offing, came on Shore on this dismal, unfortunate Island, which I call'd the Island of Despair, all the rest of the Ship's Company being drown'd, and my self almost dead.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 15:
text: In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint […]
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.
examples: text: […] till I ſaw the Land tun out a great Length into the Sea, at about the Diſtance of four or five Leagues before me, and the Sea being very calm I kept a large, offing to make this Point; […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: However, what with the help of this Ebb, and our Boats, we by Noon had got an Offing of 1 1/2 or 2 Miles, yet we could hardly flatter ourselves with hopes of getting Clear […]
ref: 1768–1771, James Cook, chapter 8, in Captain Cook's Journal, First Voyage, published 1893:
text: We beat off shore during the whole of the night, when the weather moderated, and at daybreak we found out that we had not gained much offing, in consequence of the current […]
ref: 1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman, chapter 2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.
glosses: The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
Coordinate terms: sense: nautical range of sight
word: ken
Derived terms: in the offing
offing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɔfɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɑfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒfɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔːfɪŋ
Etymology: From off + -ing. Attested since before 1600. Early texts also spell the term offin and offen.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of off
in the offing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They could see that the ship was waiting in the offing.
text: There were several small islands in the offing.
text: Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 15:
text: If the ship that bore the sacred flame arrived too soon, it might not put in to shore, but had to cruise in the offing till the nine days were expired.
ref: 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 252:
qualifier: landmass
glosses: Within the area of the sea known as the offing; at a considerable distance from land, but visible from shore, often in reference to an approaching ship.
raw_tags: of a ship
examples: text: We have known wives to forget that they had husbands,[…] especially when they supposed that a tax bill or a notification to do military duty might be in the offing!
ref: 1850, Sylvester Breakmore Beckett, The Portland Reference Book and City Directory:
text: The Ship of the Spring in the offing at last! / Oh, rude blew the hindering gales, / But perfumes entrancing, the danger o'erpast, / Are wafted afar, from her sails!
ref: 1917 May 24, Florence Van Leer Earle Coates, “In the Offing”, in The Minaret:
text: He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.
ref: 2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
text: He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing. So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?
ref: 2019 November 3, Andrew Anthony, “David Mitchell: ‘I have no reason to have these apocalyptic musings’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: The serious end of tech has never made the dash from northern to southern California that is forever in the offing.
ref: 2025 June 21, Janan Ganesh, “How Los Angeles made the modern world”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
synonyms: imminent
glosses: Soon to come; likely to happen; in the foreseeable future; projected to occur; on the horizon; in the wind.
examples: text: The moment I saw the man standing there, registering respectful attention, a weight seemed to roll off my mind. I felt like a lost child who spots his father in the offing. There was something about him that gave me confidence.
ref: 1919, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Leave it to Jeeves”, in My Man Jeeves, London: George Newnes:
glosses: At a distance, but visible.
heads
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Forms: form: heads!
Etymology: Plural of head.
Senses: glosses: A shouted warning that something is falling from above, mind your heads; heads-up.
Synonyms: sense: warning
word: heads up
sense: warning
word: fore
sense: warning
word: timber
heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Etymology: Plural of head.
Senses: glosses: plural of head.
heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Etymology: Plural of head.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That part of older sailing ships forward of the forecastle and around the beak, used by the crew as their lavatory; still used as the word for toilets on a ship.
examples: text: Heads, I win.
glosses: One side of a coin
glosses: One side of a coin:
The side that bears the picture of the head of state or other national symbol.
synonyms: obverse
antonyms: tails
glosses: One side of a coin:
The side that does not bear an image of the Irish harp.
synonyms: reverse
antonyms: harps
examples: text: Pass me the heads, I wanna listen.
glosses: Clipping of headphones.
examples: text: Until the session of 1782 bills could only (under Poynings’ Law) begin in the Irish privy council. However, informal legislative initiatives, known as ‘heads of bills’, began regularly in the houses of parliament.
ref: 2000s "How Irish statutes were made" Queens University Belfast
text: The Heads of the Bill are being published to enable consultation with relevant sectors on the proposed changes prior to the detailed drafting of the Bill.
ref: 2012 Department of Justice and Equality "Government Publishes Proposed Amendments to Anti Money-Laundering Law" Dublin, 6 June 2012
topics: law
glosses: The draft scheme of a bill before it is formally introduced to a parliament.
glosses: Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
Derived terms: heads of agreement
heads or harps
heads or tails
heads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of head
heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Etymology: From head (from the notion that it gives a head high) + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).
Senses: glosses: High-grade marijuana.
Synonyms: kine bud
KB
KBs
headies
Coordinate terms: mersh
regs
schwag
mids
middies
%
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛnt/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: Back-formation from any% or low%, in which the “%” was a literal indicator of the percentage completion the player would achieve in order to qualify for the given leaderboard category.
The suffix was then broadened to form category names in general, where the suffixed term specified some condition about the category, e.g. what score must be obtained, items used, etc., in order to qualify.
Senses: examples: text: 100%
translation: 100% of the game must be completed
english: 100% of the game must be completed
text: any%
translation: any percentage completion is permitted
english: any percentage completion is permitted
text: low%
translation: the lowest possible completion is required
english: the lowest possible completion is required
glosses: Suffix forming speedrunning categories requiring a given percentage to qualify.
examples: text: P%
translation: requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify
english: requiring a “P” rank in order to qualify
text: Gears%
translation: gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)
english: gear items are allowed as part of the run (whereas in the main category runs they would not be)
glosses: Suffix forming speedrunning categories related to the suffixed element, or subject to constraints based on it.
Derived terms: %p
%ps
at%
mol%
vol%
wt%
crew-served weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crew-served weapons
Senses: examples: text: A heavy machine gun, anti-materiel rifle, or rocket launcher might be a crew-served weapon.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: notably USMC
glosses: Any weapon system that requires a crew or more than one individual to function due to its high operational complexity.
Vulcan cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vulcan cannons
Etymology: Originally coined by General Electric for their electric gatling guns.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any electric Gatling gun.
~
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Etymology: (indicating emotion): Perhaps borrowed from Japanese ~, 〜, 〰, emphatic form of ー (long vowel mark).
Senses: examples: text: cõtempt — contempt
text: The begyñyng off the Goſpell of Ieſu Chriſt the ſonne off God / as yt ys written in the prophettꝭ[…]
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark j:[1–2], folio xliij, verso:
text: And he [Jesus] made a ſcourge off ſmale cordes / and drave thẽ all out off the temple / bothe ſhepe and oxen / ãd powred doune the changers money / and overthrue their tables.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John ij:[15], folio cxxj, verso:
text: And immediatly his fete ãd anclebones receaved ſtrenght / and he ſprange / ſtode / ãd alſo walked / ãd entred with them into the temple walkinge / and leapynge / and laudynge god.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts iij:[7–8], folio clvij, recto:
text: And you ſhall finde, that the ſcriptures will instruct the man of God vnto all good works, & make him wiſe vnto ſaluation, if theſe wil not ſerue your turn, ſeeke where you wil, & find yͤ deuil & eternal damnatiõ.
ref: 1580, T. Stapleton and Martiall (Two Popish Heretikes) Confuted, and of Their Particular Heresies Detected, London: Middleton, Henrie, page 167:
text: Yet could she for some yeares, so carry her selfe among them, that they found cause in the delicacie of her sex, of admiration, not of cõtempt : & which was notable, even in the time that many countries were full of wars (which for old grudges to Corinth were thought still would conclude there) yet so hãdled she the matter, that the threatens ever smarted in the threatners; she using so straũge, and yet so well‐succeeding a temper, that she made her people by peace, warlike ; her courtiers by sports, learned ; her Ladies by Love, chast.
ref: c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] Chapter 21”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 283, recto:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: The Lord is not ſlacke cõcerning his promiſe (as ſome men count ſlackneſſe)[…].
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Peter 3:9, column 2:
glosses: Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.