cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
t'othersider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtʌðə(ɹ)ˈsaɪdə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: t'othersiders
Etymology: From t'other + side + -er.
Senses: examples: text: whilst the ancient t'other-sider oscillated his frame-saw
ref: 1903, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life:
text: The first Labor premier of Western Australia was Henry Daglish (1866-1920), a Victorian t'othersider, ...
ref: 1963, Clinton Hartley Grattan, The Southwest Pacific Since 1900: A Modern History:
text: Among the t'othersider teachers Victorians predominated, as they did among newcomers in general.
ref: 1972, David Mossenson, State Education in Western Australia, 1829-1960:
text: Mabel Guy was also born in the Goldfields in 1908, but unlike the other women in the group, her father was not a 't'othersider'³⁴: he was born in Pinjarra, in the state's southwest, and was a postmaster.
ref: 2008, Janina Trotman, Girls Becoming Teachers: An Historical Analysis of Western Australian Women Teachers, 1911-1940:
glosses: A person from the eastern states of Australia.
snottygobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snottygobbles
Etymology: A borrowing from the British dialect of Bedfordshire where it referred to the fruit of the yew tree. By surface analysis, snotty + gobble.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Society for Growing Australian Plants, Australian Plants, Volume 21, Issue 166 - Volume 22, Issue 181, page 62,
Similarly, residents of Perth are likely to recognise the sickle-shaped leaves of their commonest snottygobble, Persoonia longifolia.
text: I can vouch for this technique, as my colleagues and I used it to sample the apparently odorless flowers of snottygobble bushes (Persoonia) in Australia.
ref: 2002, Peter Bernhardt, The Rose′s Kiss: A Natural History of Flowers, page 118:
text: Jeffrey espies a ripe snottygobble tree that hasn't been raided yet.
ref: 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2009, page 66:
text: 2011, Gavin Wright, Cycling For Dummies, Australian & New Zealand Edition, unnumbered page,
These forests are ancient, with many tree species limited to this region of Australia. This is the home of the stately jarrah and the graceful snottygobble.
glosses: A plant of the genus Persoonia.
Synonyms: geebung
persoonia
shitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: shittings
Etymology: From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English schitinge, schytynge (“defecation”), whence modern English shiting.
Senses: glosses: The act of defecating.
Derived terms: shitting match
shitting planks
whole shitting match
shitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English shityng, shytyng (“defecating”), whence modern English shiting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shit
shitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English shityng, shytyng (“defecating”), whence modern English shiting.
Senses: glosses: An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it modifies; same as fucking.
face-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌɑf/
Forms: form: face-offs
form: faceoff
form: face off
Etymology: 1889, face + off.
Senses: examples: text: It's unclear which side will win the latest face-off between the President and Congress.
text: Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
ref: 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A confrontation or argument between two people or groups.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The start of play, when two players try to get control of the puck dropped by the referee.
qualifier: field lacrosse
glosses: The start of play, when two players attempt to get possession of a ball placed on the ground between them by the referee.
Derived terms: face-off circle
refereed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈɹiːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of referee
refereed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛfəˈɹiːd/
Forms: form: more refereed
form: most refereed
Senses: examples: text: She has published four books, twenty refereed articles, and dozens of book reviews.
glosses: said of articles or books that have undergone peer review
examples: text: Lexicography Illustrated isn't a refereed journal, is it?
glosses: said of a journal whose articles are submitted to peer review
shotakon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shotacon.
alec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alecs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).
Senses: glosses: An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
glosses: A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
Derived terms: alec sauce
alecy
Related terms: smart alec
smart aleck
horsefeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: horsefeathers!
Etymology: The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.
Senses: examples: text: Horsefeathers! You knew it was a bad idea and now you're just making excuses about it.
glosses: Indicates disbelief.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
get out of town
pull the other one
bullshit
horsefeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.
Senses: glosses: plural of horsefeather (singular not used)
horsefeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.
Senses: examples: text: Dismissing the rumors as "horsefeathers", he advised everybody to disregard them.
text: The most notorious of these was Templeton Rye: Said to be from Iowa, it was purportedly distilled using a Prohibition-era recipe that was a favorite of none other than Al Capone who, according to legend, called it "the good stuff." The story turned out to be such a load of horsefeathers that Templeton was found guilty of deceptive marketing, and forced by a judge to issue partial refunds to its customers.
ref: 2015, Tony Sachs, “The Delicious Secret Behind Your Favorite Whiskey: The Best Spirits from MGP”, in Serious Eats:
glosses: Nonsense; indicates disbelief.
glosses: Long hair on lower legs of a draft horse (e.g., Clydesdale), especially the rear legs.
examples: text: The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."
ref: 1940, New York lumber trade journal, volumes 108-9, page 26:
text: In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.
ref: 1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968
text: Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles
ref: 1978 April, Joseph R. Provey, “How to reroof your house like a pro”, in Popular Mechanics, page 160:
text: To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).
ref: 2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192:
glosses: Feathering strips.
afront
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a- + front.
Senses: glosses: in front; face to face
afront
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From a- + front.
Senses: examples: text: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust / at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven / points in my target, thus!
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 4, lines 195–197:
glosses: in front of
agest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: age + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of age
saucy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔː.sɪ/
ipa: /ˈsɔ.si/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.si/
rhymes: -ɔːsi
rhymes: -ɒsi
Forms: form: saucier
form: sauciest
form: sauce-y
form: saucey
form: sawcy
Etymology: From sauce + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Bring the tomatoes to a boil and then simmer until they reach a saucy consistency.
glosses: Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.
examples: text: She is a loud, saucy child who doesn't show a lot of respect to her elders.
text: If this be knowne to you, and your Allowance, / We then haue done you bold, and ſaucie wrongs.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 311, column 1, line 143:
text: And books!—Thomson, Cowper, Scott;—she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree. Should not you, Marianne? Forgive me, if I am very saucy. But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 216:
synonyms: word: audacious
word: bold
word: get wise
word: bold-faced
word: bold as brass
word: brassy
word: brazen
word: brazen-faced
word: cheeky
word: chutzpadik
word: cocket
word: cute
word: dicacious
word: facey
word: familiar
word: flippant
word: flip
word: forward
word: fresh
word: impudent
word: impertinent
word: insolent
word: irreverent
word: malapert
word: pert
word: petulant
word: sassy
word: saucy
glosses: Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart.
examples: text: Her mouth was large, and she had a saucy, pronounced chin.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: Impudently bold; pert.
glosses: Sharp; pungent; piquant.
examples: text: I enjoyed the dancing, but my husband found it a little too saucy.
text: Saucy epaulet shoulder and full sleeves that fit into neat button trimmed cuffs.
ref: 1933, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 46:
text: An episode of ITV1's The X Factor which featured a Britney Spears impersonator performing a "saucy" routine in a body stocking did not breach the broadcasting code, media regulator Ofcom has ruled.
ref: 2012 December 17, John Plunkett, “The X Factor did not breach code with 'saucy' dance routine, Ofcom rules”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Mildly erotic.
Derived terms: oversaucy
sassy
saucily
sauciness
Related terms: applesaucey
tomato-saucy
sassy
harboured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a harbour
glosses: sheltered
Derived terms: unharboured
harboured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of harbour
billet-doux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪl.eɪ ˈdu/
ipa: /ˈbi.jeɪ ˈdu/
Forms: form: billets-doux
form: billet doux
Etymology: Borrowed from French billet doux (literally “sweet note”).
Senses: examples: text: "O heavenly, heavenly flowers!" exclaimed Miss Sharp, and smelt them delicately, and held them to her bosom, and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration. Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers; but there was no letter.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter IV, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 31:
text: Adonis calls for a 'pick-me-up' before he has strength enough to answer a billet-doux from Venus.
ref: 1873, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VI, in Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 253:
glosses: A love letter.
Related terms: dulcet
dolce far niente
dolce vita
amu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amus
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of atomic mass unit.
adverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverb
adverbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adverb
transfer function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transfer functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: a mathematical representation of the relation between the input and output of a linear time-invariant system
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: feedback transfer function
forward transfer function
loop transfer function
pulsed transfer function
vaginas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagina
vaginae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈd͡ʒaɪˌni/
Forms: form: vaginas
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: plural of vagina
chee chees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chee-chees
Etymology: Probably from Spanish chichis (“breasts”).
Senses: glosses: Breasts, tits, titties. plural of chee chee.
Related terms: chee chee
chee-chee
chee-chees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chee-chee
chee chee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chee chees
form: chee-chee
Etymology: Probably from Spanish chichi
Senses: glosses: A breast, tit.
chee chee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chee chees
form: chee-chee
Etymology: Hobson-Jobson (see References) stated that the word is "said to be taken from chi (fie!), a common native (South Indian) interjection of remonstrance or reproof, supposed to be much used by the class in question. The term is, however, perhaps also a kind of onomatopoeia, indicating the mincing pronunciation which often characterises them." Hotten stated in his 1870 The Slang Dictionary "it takes its origin from a very common expression of these half-caste females, "CHEE-CHEE," equivalent to our "Oh, fie! - Nonsense! - For shame!" Merriam-Webster (see References) states "probably from Hindi chī-chī fie!, literally, dirt".
Senses: examples: text: Pretty little Looking-Glasses, / Good and cheap for Chee-chee Misses.
ref: 1781 March 17, Hicky's Bengal Gazette:
text: Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust.
ref: 2021, Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj, Anglo-Indian Identity, page 401:
glosses: A mixed-race person of British and Eurasian origin and in particular of Anglo-Indian descent.
examples: text: He is no favourite with the pure native, whose language he speaks as his own in addition to the hybrid minced English (known as chee-chee), which he also employs.
ref: 1873 October, Fraser's Magazine, section 437:
text: There is no doubt that the 'Chee Chee twang,' which becomes so objectionable to every Englishman before he has been long in the East, was originally learned in the convent and the Brothers' school, and will be clung to as firmly as the queer turns of speech learned in the same place.
ref: 1881 August 26, St. James's Gazette:
text: 2021 September 8, sesquiotic.com The chi chi I know refers to the sing-song accent of some Anglo-Indian women. Perhaps it’s a term that is now out of date.
glosses: The speech style of these people.
chee-chee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chee-chees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chee chee.
boobies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːbiz/
rhymes: -uːbiz
Senses: glosses: plural of boobie
glosses: plural of booby
boobies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːbiz/
rhymes: -uːbiz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of booby
jugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of jug
jugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jug
knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the verb knock + -er, an agentive suffix. The slang term for breasts is attested since the 1940s. For fuller etymology see knock.
Senses: glosses: plural of knocker
knockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the verb knock + -er, an agentive suffix. The slang term for breasts is attested since the 1940s. For fuller etymology see knock.
Senses: examples: text: […] from the Rev. Mr. Cannaday, “who winks at you to show that he’s one of the boys,” to the thrice-married Norma Norbridge, “who leans on her knockers instead of her elbows when she sits at a table.”
ref: 1950, Richard Mealand, The First Person, page 116:
text: I bet her knockers are bigger than any girl in our grade, whaddya think?
ref: 1984, Sharon Berman, With a Face Like Mine, page 35:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
Synonyms: breasts
hooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooter
hooters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As you'd expect, “Hooters” has a farcical structure and an endless supply of gags about pick-up rituals, about sexual roleplaying, about “hooters” themselves. (If that slang term is new to you, suffice it to say that Cheryl's anatomy provides the definition.)
ref: October 21, 1982, Frank Rich, “Stage: ‘Hooters,’ comedy by Ted Tally, revived”, in New York Times, page C19:
glosses: A woman's breasts.
headlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headlight; especially a pair on a single vehicle.
hydro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdro/
ipa: /ˈhʌɪdro/
Etymology: From prefix hydro-, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Canadian sense "electricity" from the fact that hydroelectricity is the prevalent source of electricity in much of Canada and many electric companies have the word "Hydro" in their names.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of hydroelectric.
examples: text: hydro watercress
glosses: Clipping of hydroponic.
examples: text: hydro massage
text: For the sheer pleasure of speed, the aqua, or hydro, karts probably have all fun craft beat.
ref: 1965, Field & Stream, page 98:
text: You can also use sound healing, aromatherapy, massage, breath work, herbal and hydro therapies, and guided meditation for mind/body healing.
ref: 2016, Meera Lester, “Stimulate Your Mind with New Challenges”, in The Law of Attraction Made Easy: More Than 50 Exercises to Manifest the Life You Want, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 104:
text: Those members also get unlimited tanning, half-priced drinks and hydro and chair massages.
ref: 2017 May 6, Carrie Rengers, “Planet Fitness to open fifth Wichita gym”, in The Wichita Eagle, volume 145, number 126, Wichita, Kan., page 9A, columns 3–4:
glosses: Alternative form of hydro- (“water”).
hydro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdro/
ipa: /ˈhʌɪdro/
Forms: form: hydros
Etymology: From prefix hydro-, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”). Canadian sense "electricity" from the fact that hydroelectricity is the prevalent source of electricity in much of Canada and many electric companies have the word "Hydro" in their names.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of hydropower (“hydroelectric power”).
glosses: Clipping of hydroelectricity.
examples: text: I won't have lights until my house gets the hydro turned on.
text: She was having trouble paying the hydro.
text: He crashed his car against a hydro pole.
glosses: electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this.
examples: text: She almost lived at hotels and hydros, last year, but that isn't pleasant for her.
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon:
glosses: A spa.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of hydroaeroplane.
glosses: Abbreviation of hydrodynamics.
Derived terms: dehydrobenzo
dihydroretinol
heliohydroelectric
hexahydroxoantimonate
hydro complex
hydrofield
hydro hotel
hydronitroxide
hydropalladation
hydro pole
palaeohydrogeological
palaeohydrogeology
perhydro
pumped hydro
tetrahydro
thermohydrodynamic
trihydro-
invigilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɪdʒɪleɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɪdʒəleɪt/
Forms: form: invigilates
form: invigilating
form: invigilated
form: invigilated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin invigilātus, past participle of invigilō (“to stay awake, watch over”).
Senses: examples: text: Professor Burns will be invigilating over the final examinations to ensure that the students do not cheat.
synonyms: proctor
glosses: To oversee a test or exam.
glosses: To keep watch.
Derived terms: invigilation
invigilator
invigilatrix
Related terms: proctor
alumni association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumni associations
Senses: glosses: an association of former students of a college or university
tug-of-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tugs-of-war
form: tug-of-wars
Senses: examples: 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
Heads fling blood and mucus into the air; viscera drip from vulture bills; two birds play tug-of-war with a ten-foot rope of intestine coated in dirt and feces.
glosses: Alternative spelling of tug of war.
tuneful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuneful
form: most tuneful
Etymology: From tune + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Having or producing a pleasing tune; melodic or melodious
tuneless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tuneless
form: most tuneless
Etymology: From tune + -less.
Senses: examples: text: They insist they aren't a hardcore band, but their hectic pace and tuneless vocals are certainly in the hardcore vein.
ref: 1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:
glosses: Having no pleasing tune; not tuneful.
glosses: Silent or mute.
Derived terms: tunelessly
tuning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtuːnɪŋ/
Forms: form: tunings
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Action of the verb to tune.
The calibration of a musical instrument to a standard pitch.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Action of the verb to tune.
Ellipsis of tuning system.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Action of the verb to tune.
The adjustment of a system or circuit to secure optimum performance.
Hyponyms: engine tuning
neuronal tuning
piano tuning
Derived terms: fine-tuning
Related terms: cross-tuning
open tuning
tuning fork
tuning hammer
tuning head
tuning key
tuning lever
tuning peg
tuning wrench
tuning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtuːnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tune
tureen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹiːn/
ipa: /t͡ʃʊˈɹiːn/
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈɹiːn/
ipa: /təˈɹin/
ipa: /t(j)uˈɹin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tureens
Etymology: From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.
Senses: examples: text: The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.
ref: 1983, Gillian Wilson, Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 22:
text: But the metal tureen cannot just have been an import from the eastern Mediterranean area or from the Carpathian basin, because the style horizon of the Tiefstich pottery tureens with pendant triangles on the shoulder did not penetrate as far as that, nor do we know of any vessels there, pottery or precious metal ones, which show a similarity with these.
ref: 2009, Jan Albert Bakker, The TRB West Group: Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefsttich Pottery, page 125:
text: The large covered soup tureen, as well as the 15 inch round plate on which it sat, was rimmed by gold leaf, and was decorated with an ornate nineteenth century English scene.
ref: 2011, Paul Winick, Cancer Dreams, page 95:
glosses: A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.
Turinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
Turinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turinese
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
turn back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns back
form: turning back
form: turned back
form: turned back
Senses: examples: text: Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office.
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
synonyms: about turn
about face
glosses: To reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
examples: text: The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers.
text: Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
ref: 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:
glosses: To cause to reverse direction and retrace one's steps.
examples: text: He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.
text: Once we take this decision, there's no turning back.
text: Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
ref: 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:
glosses: To return to a previous state of being.
examples: text: The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier.
synonyms: drive away
repel
turn away
stop
coordinate_terms: kick out
glosses: To prevent, or refuse to allow, passage or progress.
examples: text: In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.
text: I love that song: turn back to it!
glosses: To adjust to a previous setting.
examples: text: When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket.
coordinate_terms: turn down
glosses: To fold something back; to fold down.
examples: text: We turn not back the silks upon the merchants,
When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands.
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act II, scene II:
glosses: To give back; to return.
Derived terms: word: turnback
word: turn back the clock
word: turn the clocks back
hydrozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrozoan
glosses: plural of hydrozoon
turning point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turning points
Senses: examples: text: Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road / Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
ref: 1997, Billie Joe Armstrong, “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)”, performed by Green Day:
text: Europe will be watching the final battle closely. A Hollande victory in the second round would be a turning point in European politics, a rare victory for the left in Europe, which has in recent years moved towards the right
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: crossroads
watershed
glosses: A decisive point at which a significant change or historical event occurs, or at which a decision must be made.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A maximum or minimum on a graph.
glosses: A crossroads.
glosses: A T-junction.
examples: text: Chicago was the turning point of my journey and I left there at midnight abroad ^([sic]) the "Chicagoan," an express of the New York Central System.
ref: 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
glosses: A place at which one changes their direction of travel.
Related terms: taxonomic: English adjective-equivalent
word: momentous
word: tipping point
crossroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crossroad
crossroads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossroads
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: intersection
text: When they came to a crossroads where the road split off into four cardinal directions, Stanton stood squinting up at the signpost for a long time.
ref: 2010, M. K. Hobson, The Native Star:
glosses: A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
examples: text: The shiny wet black triangle at the crossroads of where her legs split.
ref: 2005, Jake Logan, Slocum and the Sierra Madras Gold:
text: Together they control the approaches to this important railway crossroads from Chester, Crewe, Wolverhampton, Hereford and Machynlleth, and the station itself via an unusual mix of semaphore and colour light signals.
ref: 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury
glosses: A centrally located position.
examples: text: Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
ref: 1992 March 30, Richard Nixon, 13:46 from the start, in Richard Nixon on ‘Inside Washington’, Richard Nixon Foundation, via Seoul Broadcasting System, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2017:
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.
examples: text: But first he stopped his car at the crossroads where the highway forked off to Gastmann's house.
ref: 1955, Therese Pol, The judge and his hangman, translation of original by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, page 48:
text: The Company A commander, Captain Helmer, was at the crossroads where the road split, with the left fork leading to Udenbreth, when he saw a group of men coming toward him.
ref: 2005, Phil Nordyke, All American, all the way: the combat history of the 82nd Airborne, page 723:
text: When she reached the crossroads where the trail split, one part of her yearned to head toward the lake.
ref: 2010, Raeanne Thayne, A Cold Creek Baby, page 199:
glosses: A fork in the road.
Synonyms: sense: decision point
word: turning point
sense: decision point
word: watershed
Derived terms: Crossroads of America
crossroad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossroads
form: cross road
Etymology: From cross + road.
Senses: glosses: A crossroads (place where one road crosses another).
examples: text: Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north.
ref: 2012, Richard G. Chapman, Work Break, page 114:
glosses: A road that crosses another.
Derived terms: crossroader
Related terms: corner
intersection
junction
turn-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-offs
form: turnoff
Etymology: Deverbal from turn off.
Senses: examples: text: I like the people at my job, but the 60-hour work weeks are a big turn-off.
text: Braces on a pretty girl actually aren't a turn-off for me.
synonyms: passion killer
glosses: Something that repulses, disgusts, or discourages, especially sexually.
glosses: A road where one turns off, such as a motorway exit.
Derived terms: turn-off time
Related terms: turndown
turnout
turn-up
turn-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-ons
form: turnon
Etymology: Deverbal from turn on.
Senses: examples: text: Pretty eyes have always been a turn-on.
antonyms: turn-off
glosses: Something that attracts, gives pleasure, or encourages, especially sexually.
Related terms: aphrodisiac
fetish
kink
panty peeler
turnstile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːnstaɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɝnstaɪl/
Forms: form: turnstiles
Etymology: From turn + stile.
Senses: examples: text: The fare was fixed at 2d., irrespective of distance, and was paid by passengers on passing through turnstiles at each station.
ref: 1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224:
synonyms: turnpike
glosses: A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
synonyms: turnpike
glosses: A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )
Derived terms: turnstile attendance
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: double turnstile
canister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪstɚ/
Forms: form: canisters
Etymology: From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster.
* (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can.
* (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing.
Senses: examples: text: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
glosses: Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
glosses: A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
glosses: A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
glosses: A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
glosses: Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
examples: text: Caunt let fly left and right, but Bendy ducked his canister, and got down with more caution than gallantry.
ref: 1897, R. G. Allanson-Winn, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Boxing, page 225:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A person's head.
Derived terms: canister Damascus
canister damascus
canisterize
canisterlike
canister shot
oxygen canister
Related terms: canasta
canistel
canister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪstɚ/
Forms: form: canisters
form: canistering
form: canistered
form: canistered
Etymology: From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster.
* (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can.
* (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing.
Senses: glosses: To pack into a canister.
dalet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑː.lɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɑː.lɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɑː.lɪð/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪt
rhymes: -ɑːlɪd
Forms: form: dalets
form: daled
form: daleth
Etymology: From Phoenician 𐤃𐤋𐤕 (dlt, “door”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-; compare Hebrew דֶלֶת (délet). Doublet of delta.
Senses: glosses: The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
tweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: tweeds
Etymology: Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.
Senses: examples: text: MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]
ref: 1839, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court, Central Criminal Court. Minutes of Evidence, page 75
text: “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
Derived terms: Harris tweed
windowpane tweed
tweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tweed.
examples: text: The doctor is young and cute but successful enough to have a big house and a small car and good tweeds as well as well-fitting jeans and wool sweaters.
ref: 1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:
glosses: Clothing made of this material.
examples: text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Trousers.
cannelure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannelures
Etymology: Borrowed from French cannelure.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A ringlike groove, such as that around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling.
Derived terms: cannelured
tweezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwizɚz/
ipa: /ˈtwiːzəz/
Etymology: 17th century (1645–55): plural of tweeser (on the model of nippers, pincers, pliers or scissors), from obsolete tweese (“case for small instruments”) (or alternatively, alteration of plural form tweeses), aphetic form of earlier etweese (plural of etwee), from French étuis, plural of étui (“case, box, cover”) (from Old French estui (“container, prison”, noun), derivative of étuier (earlier spelling, estuier (“to shut up, guard, keep, preserve, save, enclose, place in a cover”), probably from Vulgar Latin *estudiāre (“to keep, treat with care”) or *studiāre, from Latin studēre (“to care about”).
Senses: glosses: A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.
Synonyms: word: pair of pincers
word: pincers
word: pair of tweezers
alt: philatelic
word: tongs
word: tweezer
Derived terms: optical tweezers
Related terms: en prison estuier
estuier
self-expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + expression.
Senses: glosses: The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
rescuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛskjuːə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: rescuers
Etymology: From rescue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As Tarzan’s heavy hand fell upon his shoulder the priest dropped his victim, and turned upon her would-be rescuer.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 171:
text: […] an opportunistic relative masquerading as his rescuer, […]
ref: 1997 September 28, “In Rescuing a Relative, a Helping or a Heavy Hand?”, in The New York Times:
text: She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
text: By now, a new worry had emerged. With the rescuers working close to so many dead bodies, there was fear of disease taking hold.
ref: 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:
glosses: A person who rescues someone or something.
Derived terms: mountain rescuer
self-rescuer
confessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛsə/
ipa: /ˈkɒnfɛsə/
ipa: /ˈkɒnfɛsɔː/
ipa: /kənˈfɛsɚ/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: confessors
form: confessour
Etymology: From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”). By surface analysis, confess + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Long before Edward I, the English had a King Edward who they considered a martyr and a King Edward who they considered a confessor.
text: Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 174:
coordinate_terms: martyr#Noun
glosses: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
examples: Near-synonym: confessant
glosses: One who confesses to having done something wrong.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: father confessor#Noun
coordinate_terms: confessant#Noun
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
examples: text: They do not feel connected to any gay/lesbian communities. Nor do they feel able to establish relationships with anyone who can support them. Thus an inexperienced but sincere young heterosexual actor can find himself playing not only role model but also confessor and phantom friend to people in great need.
ref: 1994 October, Larry Gross, “Coming Out On the Soaps”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Someone who acts as listener and helper.
Derived terms: confessorial
confessorship
father confessor
twin-engine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From twin + engine.
Senses: synonyms: bimotored
glosses: powered by two engines, one in each wing
raw_tags: of an aircraft