cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: spilled
Etymology: From spill + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spill
Related terms: don't cry over spilt milk
sickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: sickies
form: sicky
Etymology: From sick + -ie, from sick leave.
Senses: examples: text: Sickies are when one really is sick, but, y’know, probably not to the extent that merits a day off. It’s the exaggerated head cold. It’s the sore throat overdramatised by a theatrical croak.
ref: 2021 July 9, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The sickie may be a guilty pleasure, but sometimes you just need a duvet day”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness.
examples: text: I'll tell you why, because I'm a sickie! But I'm getting cured.
ref: 1984, Victor Bumbalo, Niagara Falls and Other Plays, page 163:
glosses: A person who is unwell.
Derived terms: chuck a sickie
pull a sickie
throw a sickie
Related terms: duvet day
bickie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bickies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biccy (“a biscuit”).
bicky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bickies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biccy (“a biscuit”).
rub it in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs it in
form: rubbing it in
form: rubbed it in
form: rubbed it in
Senses: examples: text: Not to rub it in, but I'm working from home. So I took a swim this morning and have been thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather.
glosses: To add insult to injury; to emphasize one's strengths or another's weaknesses in a manner that degrades another.
Related terms: rub in
rub salt in the wound
rub off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs off
form: rubbing off
form: rubbed off
form: rubbed off
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rub, off.
examples: text: He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: rub out
glosses: To clean by rubbing.
examples: text: I hoped that, if I hung out with the popular kids, some of their charisma might rub off on me.
text: Over time, I noticed various exercises I did with Woebot rubbing off in my daily life. Woebot taught me how to set SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited.
ref: 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To be transferred with little or no effort.
Derived terms: word: rub-off
word: ruboff
word: rub one off
word: rub oneself off
Related terms: rub down
affect
impact
influence
rub off on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs off on
form: rubbing off on
form: rubbed off on
form: rubbed off on
Senses: examples: text: The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado.
text: I had hoped that if I went out with Jackie, then some of that elder-stateswoman dignity would rub off on me, but of course without Phil she didn't have any.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Over time, she explained, those beliefs started rubbing off on her.
ref: 2023 October 11, David Yaffe-Bellany, Matthew Goldstein, J. Edward Moreno, “Caroline Ellison Says She and Sam Bankman-Fried Lied for Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: beliefs
glosses: To be acquired by or transferred to (someone) as a result of regular exposure.
raw_tags: of behavior
cut out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cut out
form: most cut out
Senses: examples: text: I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
text: We've got our work cut out for us.
text: Do you think he is cut out for the role of manager?
text: I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:
glosses: Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: have one's work cut out for one
Jesus H. Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Unknown. An extension of Jesus Christ with a fantastical middle initial, perhaps derived from a reading of ΙΗΣ (IĒS) (sometimes ΙΗϹ (IĒS), using a lunate sigma), a Greek-alphabet abbreviation for Jesus (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ) as three initials in Latin letters. See "Christogram" at Wikipedia.
The earliest use of the phrase is unknown, although according to Mark Twain (1835–1910) it was already common in the region of Hannibal, Missouri, when he was a boy.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: Jesus fucking Christ; Christ almighty; good God; Jesus, Mary and Joseph
text: In passing along the street we heard a man, who was expressing a very decided opinion, say, “By Jesus H. Christ it is so.” Since that time we heard an individual who had “stubbed his toe” against the end of a plank cry, “By John D. God, I’ll sue the City.”
ref: 1857 May 20, “Swearing as one of the Fine Arts”, in J[ames] T. Hildreth, D[avid] N[elson] Richardson, editors, Daily Iowa State Democrat, volume 2, number 184, Davenport, Ia.: George R. West, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 2:
text: Jake: Yes! Yes! Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ, I have seen the light!
ref: 1980 June, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis, The Blues Brothers, Universal Pictures:
text: Stanton Boyd: Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick. First of all... Alan Stanwyk does not own one single share of stock.
ref: 1985, Andrew Bergman, Fletch, Universal Pictures:
text: “I’m gonna get outta their way,” he mutters, then snorts without mirth. “All I had were jacks.” We believe him, of course. What are jacks, after all, once Beelzebub and Jesus H. Christ get involved?
ref: 2004, James McManus, Positively Fifth Street:
text: “Jesus H. Christ on the cross,” he said. He caught my reflected gaze and held it. “How long have you known about this?”
ref: 2004, Marsha Moyer, The Last of the Honky-tonk Angels:
synonyms: Jesus Harold Christ
glosses: An expression of surprise, shock, etc., invoking the name of Jesus Christ (and taking it in vain).
wikipedia: Hannibal, Missouri
Mark Twain
Derived terms: Jesus H. bald-headed Christ
Jesus H. Christ on a raft
carry out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/
other: /ˈkɛɹ.i aʊt/
Forms: form: carries out
form: carrying out
form: carried out
form: carried out
Etymology: From Middle English caryen out, equivalent to carry + out (adverb).
Senses: examples: text: We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.
text: And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To hold while moving it out.
examples: text: She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.
text: The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
synonyms: discharge
glosses: To fulfill.
examples: text: For the entire last summer they were carrying out their plan to renovate the living room.
text: Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and jettisoning the features that have given trouble, in particular the chain-driven valve-motion, should give the Southern a supply of highly-competent machines able to last out the remaining life of steam on the S.R.
ref: 1957 July 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:
text: The body design has been carried out to the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate".
ref: 1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 124–125:
text: [B]ut easily two-thirds of the work we carried out in this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 123:
synonyms: run
glosses: To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do.
Related terms: carryout
carry off
carry through
combine harvester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmˌbaɪn ˈhɑɹvəstəɹ/
Forms: form: combine harvesters
Etymology: So called because it is a single harvester that manages to combine several machines into one, doing several jobs: a reaper component doing the reaping, a thresher component doing the threshing, and a winnower component doing the winnowing.
Senses: synonyms: combine
hypernyms: harvester
coordinate_terms: word: reaper-binder
english: machines
translation: machines
word: reaper
word: binder
word: ;
english: people
translation: people
word: harvester
word: harvestman
word: reaper
word: binder
word: thresherman
word: farmhand
word: farmworker
word: fieldworker
glosses: A farm machine that harvests, threshes, and winnows ripe grain.
head to head
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a very close one-on-one situation.
examples: text: comparing head to head
synonyms: toe to toe
antonyms: apples to oranges
qualifier: product features
glosses: In the same level as someone else.
raw_tags: of skill
examples: text: competing head to head
synonyms: toe to toe
glosses: Against, in direct opposition.
Related terms: head-to-head
hand-to-hand
neck and neck
tête-à-tête
consumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsʌmptɪv/
Forms: form: more consumptive
form: most consumptive
Etymology: From Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: a long consumptive war
ref: 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation:
text: [O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.
ref: 1753, [Tobias Smollett], “Count Fathom Unmasks His Battery; is Repulsed; and Varies His Operations without Effect”, in The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. […], volume II, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, pages 107–108:
glosses: Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
glosses: Of or relating to consumption.
examples: text: consumptive cough
text: The lean, conſumptive, wench, with coughs decay'd, / Is call'd a pretty, tight, and ſlender maid.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Latter Part of the Fourth Book of Lucretius; Concerning the Nature of Love”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 457:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Derived terms: consumptively
consumptiveness
nonconsumptive
photoconsumptive
unconsumptive
consumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsʌmptɪv/
Forms: form: consumptives
Etymology: From Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō, + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The consumptive has managed to shake the servant from her side and walks alone, striving to make it look easy.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 426:
glosses: A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
myalgic encephalomyelitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ME
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Chronic fatigue syndrome.
Derived terms: word: ME
word: ME/CFS
word: myalgic encephalomyelitis
word: chronic fatigue syndrome
narcosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹˈkoʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /nɑːˈkəʊ.sɪs/
Forms: form: narcoses
Etymology: From narco- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.
Derived terms: autonarcosis
electronarcosis
inert gas narcosis
toponarcosis
Related terms: narcotic
narcotize
nitrogen narcosis
stress fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stress fractures
Senses: glosses: A small crack in a bone caused by repeated stress.
Synonyms: fatigue fracture
masturbator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masturbators
form: masturbater
Etymology: From masturbate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who masturbates.
glosses: A sex toy used to complement and help stimulate its user's erogenous zone(s) during masturbation, and often designed to simulate an erotic body part (of an imaginary partner).
Synonyms: sense: someone who masturbates
word: jerk-off
sense: someone who masturbates
word: self-abuser
sense: someone who masturbates
word: self-polluter
sense: someone who masturbates
word: wanker
word: fapper
word: master baiter
word: masturbationist
word: onanist
word: self-pleasurer
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: solosexual
word: Female masturbator
word: female masturbator
word: Male masturbator
word: circle jerker
word: jerk-off
word: tosser
word: tosspot
Coordinate terms: masturbatrix
Related terms: english: < mask + masturbator
translation: < mask + masturbator
word: maskurbator
word: handjob
word: Masturbation
word: masturbate
word: masturbation
word: Person engaged in sexual activity
word: copulator
word: sexual partner
ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.ɪks/
ipa: /ˈeθ.ɪks/
Forms: form: ethics
Etymology: From Middle English etik, from Middle French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), from ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).
Senses: examples: text: Her decision was guided by her strong personal ethics.
glosses: Morality.
examples: text: The professor teaches a course on business ethics.
text: Medical ethics require doctors to prioritize patient welfare.
glosses: The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: deontology
moral philosophy
glosses: The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
Hyponyms: applied ethics
bioethics
business ethics
cacoethics
comparative ethics
descriptive ethics
environmental ethics
ethics of reciprocity
evolutionary ethics
interim ethics
lifeboat ethics
medical ethics
meta-ethics
metaethics
normative ethics
situational ethics
virtue ethics
Derived terms: astroethics
code of ethics
cyberethics
ethicist
genethics
geoethics
nanoethics
neuroethics
xenoethics
Related terms: ethic
ethical
ethos
ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθ.ɪks/
ipa: /ˈeθ.ɪks/
Etymology: From Middle English etik, from Middle French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), from ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).
Senses: glosses: plural of ethic
Related terms: aretaics
etiquette
hurray
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hooray.
hurray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: hurrays
form: hurraying
form: hurrayed
form: hurrayed
Senses: glosses: To cheer with a "hurray".
confide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: confides
form: confiding
form: confided
form: confided
Etymology: From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity.
Senses: examples: text: "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 269:
text: I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and consideration whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.
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 16:
text: In thy protection I confide.
ref: 1807, Lord Byron, The Prayer of Nature:
glosses: To trust, have faith (in).
examples: text: I confide this mission to you alone.
glosses: To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
examples: text: I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
glosses: To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.
raw_tags: with in
examples: text: After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.
text: She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.
text: One student had been so afraid to come out to our meetings that he would secretly meet me in the bookshelves of the library and confide about the miseries of being gay, closeted, and a a virgin.
ref: 1977 December 10, Mark N. Silber, “Gays On Campus — One Story”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 15:
glosses: To say (something) in confidence.
Derived terms: confidable
confidee
confide in
confider
confiding
misconfide
reconfide
unconfided
Related terms: confidant
confidante
confidence
confident
confidential
overconfident
superintendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsjuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/
ipa: /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
Forms: form: superintendents
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop.
Senses: glosses: A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
examples: text: “No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
glosses: The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
glosses: The head of a Sunday school.
glosses: In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
glosses: A janitor.
Synonyms: manager
foreman
chief
head
head man
controller
comptroller
overseer
supervisor
Derived terms: word: chief superintendent
alt: DCS
word: detective chief superintendent
alt: DSupt
word: detective superintendent
word: sidewalk superintendent
word: SP
word: superintendential
word: supt.
Related terms: word: superintend
word: superintendency
sense: policing
alt: PC
word: police constable
alt: WPC
word: woman police constable
english: DC
translation: DC
word: detective constable
alt: DS
word: detective sergeant
english: DI
translation: DI
word: detective inspector
alt: DCI
word: detective chief inspector
superintendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsjuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/
ipa: /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛndənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop.
Senses: glosses: Overseeing; superintending.
christening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Forms: form: christenings
form: Christianing
Etymology: From Middle English cristenynge, from Old English cristnung; compare christen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.
glosses: Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.
Derived terms: as demure as an old whore at a christening
as demure as a whore at a christening
christening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Forms: form: Christianing
Etymology: From Middle English cristenynge, from Old English cristnung; compare christen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of christen
wuss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊs/
rhymes: -ʊs
Forms: form: wusses
Etymology: 1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy.
Senses: examples: text: 1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript
Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss.
text: You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy
ref: 1982, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, spoken by Mike Damone:
text: ...if you got a reputation as a wuss around the league, nobody else would ever even trade for you, or pick you up if you got cut.
ref: 1995, Rob Huizenga, You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise Page 120
text: `Fatty's under the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 144:
text: And finally, don't be a wuss. Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.
ref: 2003, Andrea P. Roberts, Uncovered: 20 Hints for Men from a Bisexual Woman Page 7
text: ...stop, study the map, and wait for the others. It's better to be a wuss than a stud.
ref: 2003, Marc J. Soares, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park Page 21
glosses: A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
Synonyms: sense: ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person
word: pansy
word: pushover
word: weakling
word: wimp
word: puss
word: pussy
word: milksop
word: coward
Derived terms: wuss out
wuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊs/
rhymes: -ʊs
Forms: form: wusses
form: wussing
form: wussed
form: wussed
Etymology: 1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy.
Senses: glosses: Only used in wuss out
baptized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbæptaɪzd/
Forms: form: baptised
Senses: glosses: Of a person, who has been subjected to the rite of baptism.
baptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbæptaɪzd/
Forms: form: baptised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baptize
Derived terms: nonbaptized
prebaptized
unbaptized
baptised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baptized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baptise
baptised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baptised
form: most baptised
form: baptized
Senses: glosses: Who has been baptised.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: unbaptised
condesending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of condescending.
glowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glower
revere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə.viːɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reveres
form: revering
form: revered
form: revered
Etymology: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
Senses: examples: text: a highly revered musician
glosses: To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.
Synonyms: word: respect
word: venerate
word: hallow
word: esteem
word: exalt
word: honor
word: idolize
word: prize
word: rate
word: regard
word: revere
word: value
word: worthy
Hyponyms: word: approve
Related terms: reverence
revere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə.viːɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reveres
Etymology: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
Senses: glosses: A revers.
Java Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sea north of the island of Java in Indonesia and south of Borneo.
K2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪˈtuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: K-2
Senses: glosses: Initialism of kinder two.
withal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪˈðɔːl/
ipa: /wɪˈðɑl/
ipa: /-ðɔl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: PIE word
 *wí
The adverb is derived from Middle English withal, with-al, withalle (“against, in opposition to; in association with, together with; by means of”), from with (“against; close to, near; directly opposite to; in the company of, together with; on, upon; within; etc.”, preposition) + al (“total number in a group, all, everyone, everything”). The word displaced Old English mid ealle.
The postposition is derived from the adverb.
Senses: examples: text: She didn’t have the withal to pay the fee.
glosses: The means; the wherewithal.
homemade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homemade
form: most homemade
Etymology: From home + made.
Senses: examples: text: a homemade chicken casserole
text: [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
ref: 2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), page G7:
antonyms: shop-bought
store-bought
coordinate_terms: word: semi-homemade
word: ;
english: often antonymous
translation: often antonymous
word: ready-made
word: premade
word: prefabricated
english: often hyponymous
translation: often hyponymous
word: ;
word: scratch-made
word: scratch-built
glosses: Made at home.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: homebrew, handmade
text: a homemade bomb
synonyms: self-made
glosses: Made by oneself.
examples: text: Near-synonym: homespun
text: a homemade aphorism
glosses: In a simple style as if made at home.
Derived terms: semihomemade
semi-homemade
Related terms: DIY
pubic symphysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pubic symphyses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cartilaginous joint between the two bones of the pubis.
autopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A physician was occupied in making an autopsia of a woman dead of puerperal fever, when some one came for him to terminate an accouchement in the town.
ref: 1856, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 14, page 153:
glosses: Archaic form of autopsy.
sublet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: sublets
form: subletting
form: sublet
form: sublet
Etymology: From sub- + let.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: underlet
word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenant
glosses: To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease.
sublet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbˈlɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: sublets
Etymology: From sub- + let.
Senses: topics: business
law
property
real-estate
synonyms: word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenancy
word: undertenancy
word: subletting
word: underletting
word: underlet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
treating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiːtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of treat
treating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiːtɪŋ/
Forms: form: treatings
Senses: examples: text: […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold; at any rate, it was at about that time that he entered upon that memorable series of potations and treatings which is still one of the cherished traditions of the San Juan Smith country […]
ref: 1892, Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Holy Terror:
glosses: Treatment.
glosses: The practice of men providing young women ("charity girls") with entertainment outings, gifts, etc. in exchange for companionship and intimate activity.
examples: text: In the ensuing year [ 1804 ], in the Middlesex case, Mr. Mainwaring was charged with treating - by means of victuals supplied at an inn, at Brentford, by the order of persons proved to be his agents, and for which other persons, also proved to be his agents, had promised to pay.
ref: 1853, Samuel Warren, The Law and Practice of Election Committees: Being the Completion of A Manual of Parliamentary Election Law ..., London : Butterworths, page 522:
text: Where such a combination does not exist, any amount of bribery, treating, and intimidation may be carried on with perfect impunity
ref: 1853, George Francis Stewart ELLIOT (Hon.), Thoughts on the subject of bribery and corruption at elections, page 25:
text: He said the ballots were double-cast or cast from false addresses; false statements were made against Mr Biggs [John Biggs AM, candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets]; there was money that was given to organisations who were ineligible for organisations; treating took place, that is to say free food and drink was dished out to people to vote for Mr Rahman; and there was what is called spiritual influence - voters were told it was their religious duty to vote for Mr Rahman.
ref: 2015 May 21, Boris Johnson, “Mayor's Question Time - Elections in Tower Hamlets”, in Greater London Authority:
topics: law
glosses: The electoral offence of offering an inducement such as food, drink or entertainment to a voter.
effected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfɛktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of effect
effected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfɛktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Their palette was covered with heavily effected guitars, synthetic loops and samples, electronic drums, and cold industrial sound effects.
ref: 2000, John Joseph Thompson, Raised by Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Modified by effects.
counting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈkaʊ.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkuːn.tɪn/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋ
Forms: form: countings
Senses: glosses: a count
glosses: the act by which something is counted.
Synonyms: sense: act of making a count
word: enumeration
word: numbering
word: counting
word: numeration
word: telling
Hyponyms: word: reference counting
word: capitation
Derived terms: card counting
counting agent
counting cell hemocytometer
counting frame
counting glass
counting-house
counting measure
counting of the Omer
counting-out game
counting rhyme
counting rod
counting room
counting sort
double counting
emergent counting
finger-counting
photocounting
Related terms: word: count
counting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈkaʊ.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkuːn.tɪn/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of count
Derived terms: countinghouse
counting house
prime-counting
Related terms: and counting
counting number
mansuetude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/
ipa: /mænˈsuət(j)ud/
Forms: form: mansuetudes
Etymology: Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“I tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”).
Senses: examples: text: That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
ref: 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption, page 5:
text: Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
text: With mansuetude (compossible with my muliebrity), I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
ref: 2008 October 8, Angry Professor, “A malison on the poor of spirit.”, in A Gentleman's C:
glosses: Gentleness, tameness.
manumit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈmɪt/
Forms: form: manumits
form: manumitting
form: manumitted
form: manumitted
Etymology: From Middle English manumitten, from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”).
Senses: examples: text: […]Lungs, I will manumit thee from the Fornace; / I will reſtore thee thy complexion, Puffe, / Lost in the embers; and repayre this brayne, / Hurt with the fume o'the Mettalls.
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
text: Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.
ref: 1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln:
text: Persons taken in war were considered at the absolute control of their captors, and were therefore, de facto, slaves; and the children of a female slave followed the condition of their mother, and belonged to her master. But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions.
ref: 1867, John Lord, The Old Roman World: the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization:
text: Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked, Arbor House Publishing:
synonyms: emancipate
enfranchise
liberate
glosses: To release from slavery, to free.
Derived terms: manumitter
manumittor
Related terms: manumission
mission
backswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backswings
Etymology: From back + swing.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: follow through
glosses: The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
backswing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backswings
form: backswinging
form: backswung
form: backswung
Etymology: From back + swing.
Senses: glosses: To swing backward.
manumission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænjʊˈmɪʃən/
Forms: form: manumissions
Etymology: From Middle English manumissioun, from Middle French manumission and its etymon Latin manūmissiō.
Senses: examples: text: The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.
ref: 1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter IV, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC:
text: The most important law of Augustus, was the lex oelia sentia, deserving of all praise, which related to the manumission of slaves.
ref: 1867, John Lord, The Old Roman World: the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization:
text: In the west, and especially in Cornwall, the names of the serfs were mainly Celtic,—Griffith, Modred, Riol, and so forth,—as may be seen from the list of manumissions preserved in a mass-book at St. Petroc's, or Padstow.
ref: 1881, Grant Allen, chapter 19, in Anglo-Saxon Britain:
text: The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
text: Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.
ref: 2012 November 30, Paul Finkelman, “The Real Thomas Jefferson: The Monster of Monticello”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2015:
glosses: Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
Related terms: manumissive
manumit
manumitter
manumittor
emancipation
liberation
wetsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtˌs(j)ut/
Forms: form: wetsuits
Etymology: From wet + suit.
Senses: glosses: A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.
Related terms: dry suit
short john
spring suit
steamer
neoprene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniɵpɹin/
Forms: form: neoprenes
Etymology: US, 1930s; genericized trademark for DuPont brand of polychloroprene. neo- (“new”) + isoprene (dropping the iso-), the latter from terpene. Originally called duprene (blend of DuPont and isoprene); the “new” is because neoprene was the first mass-produced general-purpose synthetic rubber.
Senses: synonyms: polychloroprene
hypernyms: rubber
coordinate_terms: natural rubber
;
rubber
glosses: A synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, commonly used in wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces, electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings, car fan belts, etc.
wikipedia: DuPont
Derived terms: bioprene
tracksuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹækˌsut/
Forms: form: tracksuits
Etymology: From track + suit.
Senses: examples: text: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2012:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as tracksuit bottoms) worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear.
Synonyms: word: jogging suit
word: jogger
word: joggers
Related terms: shell suit
sweatshirt
maquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: maquettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French maquette.
Senses: examples: text: His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me[…]
ref: 2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio, page 51:
glosses: A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
maquette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: maquettes
form: maquetting
form: maquetted
form: maquetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French maquette.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: To prepare a maquette (of).
marae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: maraes
form: marai
form: morai
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori marae and Tahitian marae, from Proto-Oceanic *malaqe.
Senses: examples: text: The path ended down by the sea at a crumbling ‘ingot’ of black coral, twenty yards in length & in height two men. ‘A marae, this is called,’ Mr Wagstaff informed me. ‘All over the South Seas you see ’em, I’m told.’
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
glosses: The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house, seen as a cultural and spiritual focal point; (by extension) the buildings and people around it; a spiritual or cultural centre.
margrave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːɡɹeɪv/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹɡɹeɪv/
Forms: form: margraves
form: margraf
form: markgraf
form: markgrave
Etymology: From Middle Dutch marcgrāve (modern Dutch markgraaf), cognate with Old High German marcgrāvo (modern German Markgraf), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”) + *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at mark, graft.
Compare marchion, marquis, landgrave.
Senses: examples: 1973: Among pulverised heads of stone margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
glosses: A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.
examples: text: The Margrave of Bruges was their head.
ref: 1516, Thomas More, chapter 1, in Utopia:
glosses: A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.
Derived terms: margravate
margravely
margravial
margraviate
margravine
Related terms: burgrave
landgrave
palsgrave
waldgrave
martel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːtəl/
Forms: form: martels
Etymology: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“small hammer”).
Senses: glosses: A hammer, especially a war hammer.
Synonyms: sense: medieval hammer-like weapon
word: pole hammer
sense: medieval hammer-like weapon
word: war hammer
Related terms: martel de fer
martel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːtəl/
Forms: form: martels
form: marteling
form: martelling
form: marteled
form: marteled
form: martelled
form: martelled
Etymology: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“small hammer”).
Senses: examples: text: Her dreadfull weapon she to him addrest,
Which on his helmet martelled so hard
That made him low incline his lofty crest,
And bowd his battred visour to his brest
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To strike a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
Related terms: word: Martel
revers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revers
form: rever
form: revere
Etymology: Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse.
Senses: glosses: A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side.
revers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rever
form: revere
Etymology: Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse.
Senses: glosses: plural of rever
mastupration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mastuːˈpɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: mastuprations
Etymology: An alteration of masturbation, apparently to resemble or provide overtones of Latin manus (“hand”) + stupro (“defile”).
Senses: examples: text: it troubles me to think of, much more to relate, those frequent aborts and murdering of infants in their nunneries […], those rapes, incests, adulteries, mastuprations, sodomies, buggeries of monks and friars.
ref: , I.iii.2.4
text: She had caught him at the age of twelve in the act of mastupration. Unseemly, unroman, Greekish, Jewish. Well, in a sense he had done nothing but mastuprate since taking the purple.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: Masturbation.
Related terms: mastuprate
mathesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈθiːsɪs/
ipa: /ˈmaθəsɪs/
Forms: form: matheses
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mathesis, Middle French mathesie, and their source, Late Latin mathesis (“astrology, liberal arts, science”), from Ancient Greek μάθησις (máthēsis, “learning”), from the same base as μανθάνω (manthánō, “I learn”).
Senses: examples: text: Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
glosses: Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
examples: 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]
glosses: The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)
Derived terms: mathetics
refrigeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refrigerations
Etymology: From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
glosses: The process of preserving something by cooling.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
Derived terms: ton of refrigeration
mavourneen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈvʊəniːn/
ipa: /məˈvɔːniːn/
ipa: /məˈvʊɹniːn/
ipa: /məˈvɝniːn/
ipa: /məˈvuːɹniːn/
Forms: form: mavourneens
Etymology: Hiberno-English, from Irish mo mhuirnín (“my darling”) (diminutive of muirn (“affection”)).
Senses: examples: 1850 (approx.), Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake
Biddy O'Brien began to cry
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
"Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
"Ah, shut your gob," said Paddy McGee!
glosses: darling, sweetheart
Related terms: avourneen