cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waffle
unities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unity
newtons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newton
characterisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: characterisations
Etymology: From characterise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of characterization.
Derived terms: mischaracterisation
recharacterisation
meronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɹənɪm/
Forms: form: meronyms
Etymology: From mero- + -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).
Senses: examples: text: The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree".
text: If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
ref: 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum, editor, Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 38:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
synonyms: partonym
antonyms: holonym
glosses: A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
Coordinate terms: word: hypernym
word: hyponym
english: but be aware that some metonyms derive from meronyms; for example, wheels/automobile, jet/jet airplane, head/cow
translation: but be aware that some metonyms derive from meronyms; for example, wheels/automobile, jet/jet airplane, head/cow
word: metonym
Derived terms: comeronym
meronymic
meronymy
meronymous
Related terms: mereology
synecdoche
Wiktionary:Semantic relations
holonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈhəʊl.əˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈhɑl.əˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈhoʊl.əˌnɪm/
Forms: form: holonyms
Etymology: From holo- + -nym.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: semantic network, wordnet, thesaurus
text: The word "face" is a holonym of the word "eye", which is a holonym of the word "retina".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
antonyms: meronym
glosses: A term that denotes the whole of which another term's referent is a part.
Derived terms: holonymic
holonymous
holonymy
Related terms: hypernym
synecdoche
Wiktionary:Semantic relations
square centimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square centimeters
form: square centimetre
Senses: glosses: A unit of area equal to that of a square of sides 1 centimeter.
Synonyms: cm2
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nomological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomology + -ical.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity.
Derived terms: nomologically
Related terms: nomology
square centimetre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square centimetres
Senses: glosses: British and Canadian spelling of square centimeter.
amounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmaʊntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amount
case law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case laws
form: caselaw
Senses: glosses: Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.
Synonyms: common law
decisional law
judge-made law
precedential law
Coordinate terms: precedent
Constance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A medieval form of the Latin Constantia from a word meaning constancy.
Senses: examples: text: And forth she sailed the ocean salt and rude. / O Constance, full of sweet solicitude, / O Emperor's daughter of a mighty realm, / He that is Lord of Fortune guide thy helm!
ref: 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of the Law's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977:
text: My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife; / Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: / I am not mad:—I would to heaven I were!
ref: , Scene IV
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Alternative form of Konstanz, Germany, probably with influence from French Constance.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A former unincorporated community in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Connie
sense: male given name
word: Constant
sense: male given name
word: Constantine
Beatrice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiː(ə)tɹɪs/
ipa: /biˈætrɪs/
ipa: /beɐˈtɹɪs/
Forms: form: Beats
Etymology: Either 1) from the Latin Beatrix, name of early Christian saints, from beatrix (“she who makes happy”), or 2) from beata, influenced by viatrix (“female wayfarer, traveller”).
Senses: examples: text: I, with your two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice.
ref: Scene II
text: Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.
ref: 1797, William Roscoe, chapter II, in The Life of Lorenzo di Medici, London:
text: "Seventeen years old - a senior in high school. Beatrice, her name is."
Beatrice! Rebecca was struck dumb with admiration. Beatrice would be a female version of Tristram. Rebecca pictured her in a modest muslin dress from the nineteeth century, although she knew that was unlikely.
ref: 2001, Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska, United States.
voted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voted
form: most voted
Senses: glosses: That has been assigned or established by a vote.
voted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vote
therapeutic vaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: therapeutic vaccines
Senses: glosses: a vaccine which prevents or eases the severity of the problems from an infection that has already occurred.
firefight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefights
Etymology: From fire + fight.
Senses: examples: text: Military Specialization
Soldier
Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Profile Reconstruction:
glosses: A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
examples: text: Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
ref: 2025 October 9, Ross Douthat, quoting Doug Wilson, “He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2025:
glosses: An intense argument.
firefight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: firefights
form: firefighting
form: firefought
form: firefought
Etymology: From fire + fight.
Senses: examples: text: His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
ref: 2011 July 8, Mark Thompson, “Inside the Battle for Kandahar”, in Time:
glosses: To engage in a firefight.
filiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filiform
form: most filiform
Etymology: Latin filum (“thread”), + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
examples: text: Tiger beetles have filiform antennae.
glosses: Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
concerted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concert
concerted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concerted
form: most concerted
Senses: examples: text: Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population.
ref: December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time:
glosses: Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having separate parts for voices and instruments.
Derived terms: concertedly
concertedness
nonconcerted
preconcerted
unconcerted
gunstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunstocks
form: gun stock
Etymology: From gun + stock.
Senses: glosses: The handle of a handgun.
glosses: The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
Synonyms: word: stock
Derived terms: bump stock
gunstocker
gunstock war club
mut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mutt.
gumph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumphs
form: gump
form: gumpf
form: gumpth
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Gump, a numscull.
ref: 1825, John Jamieson, Supplement to the Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language:
text: Drossy saw ’em in her drawer, and for all the gumph he is, he knew the writing; and I made him get ’em for me this morning while they were at breakfast.
ref: 1860, Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner, Say and Seal, page 246:
text: He strikes me as the perfect example of an intellectual gumph. He knows too much!
ref: 1919, St. John Greer Ervine, John Ferguson:
text: ‘ Tell them what, you gumph ? ’ cried Squibs. ‘ Are you all mad ? ’
ref: 1938, George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine, page 816:
text: If Romeo were just a lovesick gumph, occasionally falling into a deeper trance in which he speaks unaccountable poetry, then Olivier is your Romeo.
ref: 1971, Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud, New York: Random House:
glosses: A foolish person; a gump.
examples: text: Things had not been going will with Pino ever since he started to take Sister Apollonia’s bloated gumph as gospel. Thanks to the wacko, his man was actually getting a Christ complex.
ref: 1998 December 15, T.C. Van Adler, St. Agatha's Breast: A Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: ‘It’s like listening to adolescent daughters with all their gumph and they’re going to chew you out...’
ref: 2000 April, Linda Grant, Remind Me Who I Am, Again, Granta Books, New Ed edition (July), page 266
text: Between a couple of silent factories, beat-box music drifted over to us. Some kind of unrecognizable chart gumph; the usual mix of soul and rap.
ref: 2003 June 6, Chris Wooding, Crashing, Scholastic Point, Scholastic Paperbacks (November), pages 100-101
glosses: Nonsense.
gumph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gump
Etymology: Shortening of gumption.
Senses: examples: text: Never lifted a hand to defend himself, hadn’t got any gumph.
ref: a. 1923, Violet Hunt, The Coach:
text: 1955, Mathematics Teaching, Association of Teachers of Mathematics
...anyone likely to use the book would surely have enough gumph to try both before giving up.
glosses: Gumption; grit.
gumph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gumphs
form: gumphing
form: gumphed
form: gumphed
form: gump
Etymology: From Scots [Term?].
Senses: glosses: To grope, especially after fish.
glosses: To catch fish by groping.
raw_tags: used with out
lumpsucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpsuckers
Etymology: From lump + sucker.
Senses: glosses: Any of the scorpaeniform fish in the family Cyclopteridae, with adhesive pelvic discs.
Synonyms: sense: one of the Cyclopteridae
word: lump
sense: one of the Cyclopteridae
word: lumpfish
sense: one of the Cyclopteridae
word: sea owl
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eumicrotremus spinosus
word: Atlantic spiny lumpsucker
alt: Aptocyclus ventricosus
word: smooth lumpsucker
behind the wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If you've had too much to drink, don't get behind the wheel.
text: Would you really want to be behind the wheel of a fighter jet?
synonyms: at the wheel
glosses: In control of a vehicle; driving.
synonyms: in the driver's seat
glosses: In control of the situation; in charge.
Related terms: take the wheel
lumpfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumpfishes
form: lumpfish
Etymology: From lump + fish.
Senses: glosses: lumpsucker
noh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /noʊ/
homophone: no
homophone: know
Forms: form: nō
form: nou
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō), from Middle Chinese 能 (nong, “talent, ability”).
Senses: glosses: A form of classical Japanese music drama.
larg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A larg concors ware standing round
ref: 1800's, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy wise:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of large.
lume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːm/
Forms: form: lumes
Etymology: Short for luminous or luminescent.
Senses: examples: text: Within the realm of vintage watch restoration there are few sub-specialties as controversial as dial lume.
ref: 2020, Colin A. White, The Vintage Rolex Field Manual Chevalier Digital Edition, page 46:
text: LumiNova and Super-LumiNova fall into the category of photoluminescent lumes.
ref: 2021, Thomas M. Meine, Vintage Watches - Radium and Tritium, page 16:
glosses: A luminescent paint used to make a timepiece's dial readable in the dark.
cere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: sear
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: ceres
form: sere
Etymology: From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cera (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cero (“I smear or coat with wax”).
Senses: examples: text: The cere is the fleshy spot just above the beak where the nostrils, or nares, are located. In some species, like the parakeet, the cere is prominent; in others, the cere is covered by feathers. Both the cere and the nares should be clean[…]
ref: 2021, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 182:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.
Derived terms: cerecloth
cereless
cere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: sear
homophone: seer
homophone: sere
Forms: form: ceres
form: cering
form: cered
form: cered
Etymology: From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cera (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cero (“I smear or coat with wax”).
Senses: examples: text: a strong twisted Thread cered
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To wax; to cover or close with wax.
Tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tonks
Etymology: Contraction of Tonkinese.
Senses: glosses: A Tonkinese cat.
turpid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turpid
form: most turpid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin turpis, with the suffix -id.
Senses: examples: text: [...] things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.
ref: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary:
text: I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais!
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
glosses: Foul; base; wicked; morally depraved.
Related terms: turpidly
turpitude
turpitudinous
turpidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more turpidly
form: most turpidly
Etymology: From turpid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a turpid manner.
Related terms: turpid
turpitude
turpitudinous
turpitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turpitudinous
form: most turpitudinous
Etymology: From turpitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by turpitude.
Related terms: turpid
turpidly
turpitude
apprenticeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: apprenticeships
Etymology: From apprentice + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
examples: text: There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 41:
text: Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.
ref: 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:
text: Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
ref: 2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:
glosses: The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
Derived terms: pre-apprenticeship
Kennedy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛnədi/
rhymes: -ɛnədi
Forms: form: Kennedys
form: Kennedies
form: Cannedy
form: Kennady
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Ó Cinnéidigh (ceann (“head”) + éidigh (“ugly”)) or Scottish Gaelic Ceannaideach (ceann (“head”) + aideach (“ugly”). Compare Kenneth and Irish eitigh (“refuse, reject”).
Senses: examples: text: A study Kennedy discussed on multiple podcast episodes exposed male African clawed frogs to atrazine in a lab, castrating 75% of the male frogs and turning one in 10 males into females.
ref: 2023 July 13, Abby Turner and Andrew Kaczynski, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern American usage.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lamar County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lake County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Spencer County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Kittson County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Poland, Chautauqua County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Lake, Price County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A railway point and unincorporated place in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Wawken No. 93, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A neighbourhood (locality) in Bogotá, Colombia.
glosses: A coastal locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
Derived terms: Cape Kennedy
Foster Kennedy syndrome
JFK
Kennedi
Kennedy disease
Kennedyesque
Kennedyism
Kennedyite
Kennedy Meadows
Kennedynomics
Kennedy plea
Kennedy's disease
Kennedy syndrome
Kennedy Town
pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome
pretensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretension
sixpence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪks.pəns/
Forms: form: sixpences
Etymology: From six + pence.
Senses: examples: text: Finest apples, sixpence each.
text: When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
examples: text: Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?
text: "One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 55:
text: I remember playing card games with my grandfather. Games of memory, not of skill. If I won, he gave me sixpence; if he won, he didn't. We would play until I was bored, or until he ran out of sixpences.
ref: 1994, Neil Gaiman, Mr. Punch:
glosses: A former British or Irish coin worth six pennies, first minted in 1551.
Synonyms: word: sixpenny bit
word: tanner
word: lord
word: tester
word: tizzy
word: hog
word: pig
word: sow's baby
Derived terms: look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
mill-sixpence
on a sixpence
upon a sixpence
Related terms: twopence
tuppence
threepence
fourpence
fivepence
eightpence
tenpence
old pennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old penny
Benedict Arnold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benedict Arnolds
Etymology: From Benedict Arnold, famous for betraying the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Senses: examples: text: A Negro hotelkeeper in a free city of the North views with disdain a Benedict Arnold in the colored camp who crosses the lines to a "white" hotel.
ref: 1945, William Worthy, Jr., “Non-Fraternization: American Style”, in The Crisis, volume 52, number 11, page 323:
text: I am no longer an American; I am a traitor, a Judas, a Benedict Arnold.
ref: 2008, Nick De La Pena, The Contagion, page 299:
text: Within a group, Benedict Arnolds attempt to prevent the group from accomplishing its goals
ref: 2009, Charles Zastrow, The Practice of Social Work: A Comprehensive Worktext, page 204:
text: What if we are already under investigation from someone covertly talking with the cops? What if there is a Benedict Arnold in the group?
ref: 2012, Nicholas Campanella, Traglamoor's Journey:
glosses: A traitor.
wikipedia: Benedict Arnold
Synonyms: quisling
take out the stops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes out the stops
form: taking out the stops
form: took out the stops
form: taken out the stops
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: To carry out the supposed practice whereby locals (floor traders trading for their own account) buy or sell to push prices towards where they suspect stop loss orders lie, with a view to profiting from the resulting acceleration of the move when those orders hit the market.
stop loss order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop loss orders
form: stop-loss order
Senses: examples: text: The shares are currently trading at $4.40 and he has issued a stop loss order to sell if they fall to $4.20.
topics: business
finance
stock-market
glosses: A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops (or rises in some cases) to a specified price level.
Synonyms: stop order
Related terms: buy-stop order
meline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin mēlīnus.
Senses: examples: text: A meline musteloid carnivorous mammal, usually burrowing, nocturnal, and having a flat stout body, short legs with long-clawed toes, and a long snout.
ref: 1894, Isaac Kaufman Funk, A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, page 153, definition of "badger"
glosses: Having the qualities of or relating to a badger.
ennoble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnəʊbəl/
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: ennobles
form: ennobling
form: ennobled
form: ennobled
Etymology: From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble.
Senses: examples: text: We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.
ref: 2020, Francine Prose, “Has Trump learned anything from Covid-19? Absolutely not”, in The Grauniad:
text: There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise.
ref: 2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister Hendy has a tough job... but the skills to succeed”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44:
synonyms: elevate
invest
knight
lord
glosses: To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
glosses: To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To inarch.
Derived terms: disennoble
ennobled
ennoblement
ennobler
ennobling
Kamilaroi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪlərɔɪ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gamilaraay.
Kamilarai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gamilaraay.
ingenuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/
Forms: form: more ingenuous
form: most ingenuous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu.
Senses: glosses: Naive and trusting.
examples: text: "Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?"
"Of course not."
"On your word of honour?"
I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
examples: text: The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.
ref: 1965, New Left Review, page 86:
text: […] Semitic agitation by stating 'the truth' in terms of facts and figures, the practice of self-criticism represented a well-intended but ingenuous effort to defend Jewry against anti-Semitism.
ref: 1978, G. Lebzelter, Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918–1939, page 150:
text: There was nothing more I dared say. My ingenuous attempts to lie my way out of trouble had only served to get me in deeper and deeper.
ref: 2012, Hester Rowan, The Linden Tree:
glosses: Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
glosses: Unable to mask one's feelings.
examples: text: [H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Straightforward, candid, open, frank.
Derived terms: ingenuously
ingenuousness
uningenuous
Related terms: ingenue
ingénue
ingenu
ingénu
boning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bone
on a sixpence
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This motorboat can turn on a sixpence.
text: This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a sixpence.
related: word: upon a sixpence
synonyms: word: on a dime
glosses: Within a very short distance.
gingival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪvəl/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪvəl/
rhymes: -aɪvəl
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin gingīvālis.
Senses: synonyms: uletic
glosses: Relating to the gums.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alveolar.
Derived terms: dentogingival
gingivally
intragingival
linguogingival
mucogingival
occlusogingival
subgingival
supragingival
transgingival
tonneau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnəʊ/
ipa: /təˈnoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: tonneaus
form: tonneaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French tonneau.
Senses: examples: text: From the tonneau of Bentley's car the sheriff and Garland removed the groceries and sick-room supplies, stowing them in the kyacks.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, “The Understanding Heart”, in Ch.XV (Usenet):
text: The first step was to install a tonneau cover.
ref: 1982 March, “How to improve your pickup′s mileage”, in Popular Mechanics, page 102:
glosses: The rear body or compartment of some types of motor vehicle, especially one containing seats for passengers.
examples: text: He has spent ten years lovingly restoring a rather luxurious tonneau with teak panelling and leather seats.
text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: An old-style open passenger vehicle with a tonneau (rear compartment with seats).
examples: text: The first step was to install a tonneau cover. Now most pickup tonneaus snap onto studs screwed into the bodywork. The snaps rust, the holes in the truck rust and the tonneau—because the snaps are spaced every foot or so along the edges—eventually rips around the snaps.
ref: 1982 March, “How to improve your pickup′s mileage”, in Popular Mechanics, page 102:
text: Tonneaux were made of the same plasticised canvas material used for soft-tops.
ref: 2003, Bill Piggott, Original Triumph TR4/4A/5/6: The Restorer′s Guide, unnumbered page:
glosses: Clipping of tonneau cover.
assidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of assiduous.
Peralta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Peraltas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Peralta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
grubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌbi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: grubbier
form: grubbiest
Etymology: From grub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
synonyms: word: grimy
word: befouled
word: besmirched
word: clarty
word: cruddy
word: dirtsome
word: dirty
word: foul
word: grotty
word: grubby
word: horry
word: icky
word: manky
word: nasty
word: seamy
word: soiled
word: sordid
word: squalid
word: sullied
word: unclean
word: unwashed
word: yucky
glosses: Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
examples: text: I have in mind, in particular, the claim that has echoed through the liberal side of coronavirus-era debates — that the key to sound leadership in a pandemic is just to follow the science, to trust science and scientists, to do what experts suggest instead of letting mere grubby politics determine your response.
ref: 2020 December 19, Ross Douthat, “When You Can’t Just ‘Trust the Science’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Disreputable, sordid.
examples: text: The United States Department of Agriculture states that grubs cost the livestock industry from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 each year. The average devaluation on grubby cattle is from 25 cents to one dollar per cwt.
ref: 1944, National Live Stock Loss Prevention Board, Report, page 694:
glosses: Having grubs in it.
Derived terms: grubbily
grubbiness
grubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌbi/
ipa: /ˈɡɹʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: grubbies
Etymology: From grub + -y.
Senses: glosses: Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
internal combustion engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal combustion engines
Senses: glosses: A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.
glosses: A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket.
Derived terms: internal combustion engined
Related terms: internal combustion
heat engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat engines
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: Any device which converts heat energy into mechanical work, by moving heat from a source to a sink.
Hyponyms: Carnot engine
drinking bird
Derived terms: Carnot heat engine
Related terms: information engine
combustion chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combustion chambers
Senses: glosses: An enclosed space, within a heat engine, in which the fuel is mixed and reacted with air or other oxidizing agent in a controlled manner.
stock ticker symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock ticker symbols
Senses: examples: text: They were joking that the stock ticker symbol for their company should be "SCAM".
related: word: stock-ticker symbol
synonyms: stock symbol
ticker symbol
glosses: A unique series of letters assigned to a company or other security for trading purposes.
hucklebuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkl.bʌk/
Forms: form: hucklebucks
form: hucklebucking
form: hucklebucked
form: hucklebucked
Etymology: The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.
Senses: examples: text: "We jumped* and boped*
and stamped around the floor,
we hucklebucked until my back is sore
but honey, wont you waltz with me once more*.
ref: 1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), page 168
text: The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music...
ref: 1957, Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, Houghton Mifflin, published 1957, page 58:
text: […] Thanks to jazz my toes don't knock no more. I cold-turkeyed to Bird doin 'Now's the Time,' and hucklebucked out a the spell of heroin. […]
ref: 1995, Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic, Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: To dance the hucklebuck.
examples: text: Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.
ref: 2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 151:
text: It is only a game. I join the rhythmic clapping that always follows the fight song while the last of the players extracts himself from the stands and hucklebucks his way to join the milling, weight-shifting, pocketjammed team, […]
ref: 2011, Jay Nelson, Cold Creek, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 646:
glosses: To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.
referring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refering
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refer
referring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: referrings
form: refering
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody or something is referred; a reference.
irresponsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bəl/
ipa: [ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more irresponsible
form: most irresponsible
Etymology: From ir- + responsible.
Senses: examples: text: They left the crown what, in the eye and estimation of law, it had ever been, perfectly irresponsible.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 28:
glosses: Not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.
glosses: Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.
Derived terms: irresponsibilism
irresponsibilist
irresponsibility
irresponsibleness
irresponsibly
irresponsible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.əˈspɑn.sə.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bəl/
ipa: [ˌɪɹ.ɪˈspɔn.sə.bl̩]
Forms: form: irresponsibles
Etymology: From ir- + responsible.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is not responsible.
Related terms: unresponsive
stagecoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagecoaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stage-coach.
stagecoach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stagecoaches
form: stagecoaching
form: stagecoached
form: stagecoached
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stage-coach.
stage-coach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ.kəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ.koʊtʃ/
Forms: form: stage-coaches
form: stagecoach
form: stage coach
Etymology: From stage + coach, reflecting the fact that relay of horses was a typical aspect of the operation of the service.
Senses: examples: Meronym: thoroughbrace
synonyms: stage
glosses: A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.
stage-coach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ.kəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ˈsteɪdʒ.koʊtʃ/
Forms: form: stage-coaches
form: stage-coaching
form: stage-coached
form: stage-coached
form: stagecoach
form: stage coach
Etymology: From stage + coach, reflecting the fact that relay of horses was a typical aspect of the operation of the service.
Senses: glosses: To travel by stage-coach.
ranged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of range
ranged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ranged
form: most ranged
Senses: qualifier: or projectile system
glosses: whose range can be adjusted
raw_tags: of a projectile
Derived terms: ranged weapon
ranged weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranged weapons
Senses: hypernyms: weapon
coordinate_terms: cold weapon
white arm
sword
knife
glosses: Any weapon that strikes at a distance beyond the reach of hand-to-hand combat.
swaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒdəl/
ipa: /ˈswɔdəl/
ipa: /ˈswɑdəl/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
Forms: form: swaddles
form: swaddling
form: swaddled
form: swaddled
Etymology: From Middle English swathlen (“to bind; swaddle”), from Middle English swathel, swethel, from Old English swaþul, swæþel, sweþel, sweoþol (“swaddling cloth”), equivalent to swathe (“to wrap with fabric”) + -le (agent/instrumental suffix), the word then underwent th-stopping (its voiced th became a d). Cognate with Middle Dutch swadel (“swaddling; bandage”), Old High German swedili (“poultice”), Old English sweþian, besweþian (“to wrap; swaddle”).
Senses: glosses: To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
glosses: To beat; cudgel.
Related terms: swaddling
swaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒdəl/
ipa: /ˈswɔdəl/
ipa: /ˈswɑdəl/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
Forms: form: swaddles
Etymology: From Middle English swathlen (“to bind; swaddle”), from Middle English swathel, swethel, from Old English swaþul, swæþel, sweþel, sweoþol (“swaddling cloth”), equivalent to swathe (“to wrap with fabric”) + -le (agent/instrumental suffix), the word then underwent th-stopping (its voiced th became a d). Cognate with Middle Dutch swadel (“swaddling; bandage”), Old High German swedili (“poultice”), Old English sweþian, besweþian (“to wrap; swaddle”).
Senses: examples: text: They put me in bed in all my swaddles.
ref: 1711 June 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 13, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 90; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 207:
glosses: Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.
swaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English swaþelynge; equivalent to swaddle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swaddle
swaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swaddlings
Etymology: From Middle English swaþelynge; equivalent to swaddle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement.
glosses: Clothing of this kind.
Derived terms: swaddling clothes
swaddling clothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs.
examples: text: The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago.
ref: 1952, Steel Industry Union Strife Has Been In Progress For Even Century, "The Day" issue of June the 4th, 1952
text: 1954, Academy Site May Be Chosen May 15, St Petersburg Times, 11 May issue
The Air Force Academy, baby brother to West Point and Annapolis, is crawling out of its swaddling clothes.
glosses: An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.
bumble-bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumble-bees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bumblebee.
saprophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sapro- (“putrid, rotten matter”) + -phagous (“eating, feeding on”).
Senses: glosses: Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
Related terms: saprophagan
saprophage
saprophagy
medial capital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medial capitals
Senses: glosses: A capital letter occurring anywhere in the middle of a word.
Related terms: CamelCase
camelback
HumpyCase
PascalCase
filter funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter funnels
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass funnel, into which is placed filter paper or other material, through which a liquid / solid mixture is poured in order to separate them.
Related terms: filtrate
filter paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter papers
Senses: glosses: Porous paper used for filtration, typically in a filter funnel.
lithate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithates
Etymology: From lithic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of lithic acid (uric acid); an urate.
lithiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithiates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: materials design
glosses: lithate
lithiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lithiates
form: lithiating
form: lithiated
form: lithiated
Senses: glosses: To mix with lithium
lithic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: uric acid
lithia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithias
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “a stone”), apparently because it is found only in minerals; discovered 1817 by Johan August Arfwedson.
Senses: examples: text: 1839, Lithium, entry in The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 14, page 43,
These substances contain from about five to nearly ten per cent. of lithia in combination with silica, from which it is best separated by the following process of Berzelius: […] .
text: This can be an acute problem with certain glass-ceramics because of the use of large quantities of lithia, in particular, which readily attack the refractories.
ref: 1990, A. Paul, Chemistry of Glasses, page 42:
text: The major source of lithia is lepidolite, the most widespread of the lithia-containing minerals with deposits in the United States, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa, India, China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
ref: 1996, Peter A. Ciullo, Industrial Minerals and Their Uses: A Handbook and Formulary, page 462:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lithium oxide, Li₂O, used in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
wikipedia: Johan August Arfwedson
Derived terms: lithia emerald
lithia water
lithian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithium + -ian.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing lithium.
lithiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithium + -ated.
Senses: glosses: treated with lithium or one of its compounds.
Derived terms: delithiated
prexies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prexie
glosses: plural of prexy
prexie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: prexy
Forms: form: prexies
Etymology: From presidential + -ie.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A definitive stamp of the presidential series issued by the United States from 1938 to 1954.
lithiophilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithiophilites
Etymology: From lithio- + -philite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of triphylite that is a mixed phosphate of lithium and manganese.
lithiophorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithiophorites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic oxide of lithium, manganese and aluminium found in hydrothermal ore deposits and sedimentary manganese deposits, with the chemical formula (Al,Li)Mn⁴⁺O₂(OH)₂.
ownage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊn.ɪdʒ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪdʒ
Etymology: * own (“to have rightful possession of”) + -age
Senses: examples: text: I Alone, of all the Graecians, haue not obteined the estate of a Monarche by extertion, neither haue I taken any thing, that was not mine owne by vsurpation: for I am by byrth, a Cecropian, I challenge that vnto me by right of ownage, ...
ref: 1576, Pisistratus, translated by Abraham Flemming, A panoplie of epistles:
glosses: ownership