cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wiles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wyles
Etymology: From Wile + -s (patronymic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Once Kennedy bought into the plan, Wiles advised waiting to announce it until after the Democratic convention, believing it would stall Harris’ momentum. To Wiles, the endorsement was one of the campaign’s key moments. It neutralized the threat that Kennedy would peel off votes from Trump. But more importantly, “he allowed us to broaden the base of the party,” she says. “He was a key way to do that.”
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time:
glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname. A patronymic form of Wile.
bialy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈæl.i/
Forms: form: bialys
form: bialies
Etymology: From Yiddish ביאַלי (byali), from the Polish name of the city of Białystok.
Senses: glosses: A flat bread roll topped with onion flakes. Instead of a hole like a bagel, it has a depression in the middle.
Related terms: pletzel
toepoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toepokes
form: toepoking
form: toepoked
form: toepoked
Senses: examples: text: ‘You’re not going to tell me you’re still toepoking at your age,’ his uncle said. ‘See what happens if you don’t kick properly? Look here till I show you.’
ref: 1988, Glenn Patterson, Burning Your Own, Minerva, published 1993, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Clinging on to said defender, viduka, slightly off balance, only manages to tickle the ball with his toecaps, merely toepoking it to the opposition.
ref: 2002 April 2, Darren Dootsen, “Does this ound familiar?”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.leeds-united (Usenet):
text: There are moments today as ever when you catch that joy on the wing: seeing a little girl standing in a shopping trolley singing a nonsense song or a chortling urchin toepoking a football past the toppling figure of his father in the park.
ref: 2004, Ferdinand Mount, Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain, Short Books, page 250
text: Morrison ran on to a through ball, toepoked it towards the goal, Sorensen went to ground too early and the ball bounced slowly over his chest and nestled in the goal.
ref: 2005 January 4, Sumisdad, “Re: So...is it time to bring back Tim?”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):
text: did he( Ronaldinhio) toepoke that goal or what?
ref: 2005 March 9, arby, “Re: chelsea v barca”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.newcastle-united (Usenet):
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of toe-poke.
toepoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toepokes
Senses: examples: text: Toepokes are useful in an emergency, particularly when it is impossible to get close to the ball.
ref: 1979, Ken Jones, How to Play Soccer, Chartwell Books, →ISBN, page 13:
text: viduka's toepoke was matched in the second half, but again was wide.
ref: 1997 October 3, David Arnold, “[Tunisia - Australia [R]]”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
text: I think the ball bounced over his hand, he was in line with the ball but the toepoke bounced higher than he expected.
ref: 2002 June 27, William Watson, “Re: Semifinal Brazil - Turkey [R]”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
text: 3-1is a bit close? Try 1-0, with a toepoke of a goal in the 90'.
ref: 2004 August 20, Victoria Barrett, “Re: [082104] When Gut League Saturday Comes”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of toe-poke.
scorpion kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorpion kicks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: scorpion volley
glosses: A rare type of kick in association football where the player dives headlong so his body flies parallel to the ground in a prone position and quickly extends his hips and flexes his knees backwards, so they resemble a scorpion's upright tail, to kick a football passing towards his heels, returning it in the direction it came.
infructuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infructuous
form: most infructuous
Etymology: From in- + fructuous.
Senses: glosses: Not fruitful.
Synonyms: unfruitful
fruitless
unproductive
ineffective
Derived terms: infructuously
em-dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: em-dashes
form: em dash
form: emdash
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of em dash.
hematochezia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + -chezia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of fresh (bright red) blood in stools, often due to lower gastrointestinal bleeding.
Coordinate terms: english: not to be confused; dark blood
translation: not to be confused; dark blood
word: melena
english: not to be confused; independently of stools
translation: not to be confused; independently of stools
word: rectorrhagia
Related terms: melena
verbal assault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbal assaults
Senses: glosses: Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: an assault that is verbal.
examples: text: If a pupil enrolled in grade six or above committed a verbal assault at school against school personnel, described above, and the assault were reported to the school board by the victim, the school board or its designee would be required, after affording the required due process, to suspend the pupil from the school district for 10 days. […]
ref: 1998, Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency, S.B. 313 (S-1), First Analysis: Student Expulsion for Assault, page 2:
text: The only evidence of a verbal assault is the one Mr. Comstock and Mr. Solomon made on me. They made their threatening and intimidating statement to me after I complied with directions Judge Jeff B. Clark gave during the September 17,2007 hearing.
ref: 2008, Victoria Laney, testimony to the Florida House Committee on Condominiums & Homeowners Association Governance http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?PublicationType=Committees&CommitteeId=2436&Session=2008&DocumentType=Action%20Packets&FileName=Condo_%20Action_02_16_08%20%28OCR%29%20%20%20.pdf
text: Any student in grades six or above who commits a verbal assault against any school employee, volunteer, or contractor will be suspended or expelled. […]
ref: 2009, Laingsburg Elementary School, Student Handbook 2009-2010, page 14:
topics: law
glosses: Oral or written speech that creates, or is intended to create, a fear of physical harm.
tetrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtɹæd/
Forms: form: tetrads
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετράς (tetrás), analysable as tetra- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Religious movements and cults are often founded on a tetrad of elements: a prophet, a prophecy, a book, and a revelation.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 177:
synonyms: word: foursome
word: quartet
word: foursome
word: quadruplet
word: quadruplicity
word: quadrad
word: quaternion
word: quaternity
word: quartet
word: tetrad
word: tetraplet
glosses: A group of four things.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
examples: text: They took figures for the abundance of invasive weeds mapped according to the normal grid unit of the 'hectad', or 10 × 10 km square, and then looked at how abundant these species were mapped at a much finer scale – in 'tetrads', or 2 × 2 km squares, inside these hectads.
ref: 2010, Richard Mabey, Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think about Nature, London: Profile Books, →ISBN:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetravalent atom or radical.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chord comprised of four notes; a tetrachord.
Derived terms: tetrad of Fallot
tetradic
wiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wīlz
ipa: /waɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
homophone: whiles (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of wile
fustigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fustigates
form: fustigating
form: fustigated
form: fustigated
Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin fūstīgātus, perfect passive participle of fūstīgō (“to cudgel to death”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūstis (“a cudgel”) + -igō.
Senses: synonyms: cudgel#Verb
thrash
birch
glosses: To hit someone with a club.
synonyms: castigate
denounce
berate
glosses: To harshly criticize someone.
Related terms: fustigation
fustigator
fustigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fustigations
Senses: examples: text: Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), page 150:
glosses: A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
examples: text: Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 97:
glosses: Any kind of beating or flagellation.
glosses: a harsh verbal assault
Related terms: fustigate
toker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokers
Etymology: From toke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a joker, I'm a smoker / I'm a midnight toker
ref: 1973, “The Joker”, performed by Steve Miller Band:
text: Before leading the coronavirus lockdown that worked and becoming New Zealand’s unifier-in-chief after the deadly shootings last year at two mosques in Christchurch, Ms. Ardern was, it seemed, like most of her constituents: a toker, at least once or twice.
ref: 2020 October 1, Damien Cave, “Jacinda Ardern Admits Past Cannabis Use. New Zealanders Shrug: ‘Us, Too.’”, in The New York Times:
text: You could take a few steps down the sidewalk and enter Friendly Stranger, which trades on nostalgia for tokers who picked up their first bong here, long before cannabis was legalized three and a half years ago.
ref: 2022 April 18, Catherine Porter, “A ‘Wild West’ of Marijuana Shops Grows in Toronto”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who tokes, especially marijuana.
starlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑː(ɹ)laɪt/
Forms: form: starlights
Etymology: From star + light.
Senses: examples: text: Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Bright starlight enabled us to see much of the country.
ref: 1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
glosses: Light emitted from stars other than the Sun.
Derived terms: starlight blue
starlight problem
starlight tour
starlit
herd cats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: herds cats
form: herding cats
form: herded cats
form: herded cats
Etymology: Formed of herd + cat, perhaps in reference to domesticated cats’ solitary nature. Possibly from the opening scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). Shepherds are discussing sheep and the topic strays to cats: "Can you imagine a herds of cats waiting to be sheared? Meow! Meow! Woo hoo hoo." Earliest usage unknown, but the idiom is attested from the 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: Managing volunteers from fourteen different organizations is like herding cats.
text: Finally, you present this vision and your goals to the authors; after that it’s like herding cats. Authors have their own perspectives on their topics, their own notions about what constitutes significant issues and adequate coverage
ref: 1983, Paul Henry Mussen, Handbook of Child Psychology, volume 4, page viii:
text: Trying to predict the future of office automation is like trying to herd cats. Things go in so many directions, you end up with a fist full of air.
ref: 1987, Lance Brilliantine, “Dual color copying”, in Office Administration and Automation, page 20:
text: The job of leader has often been compared to herding cats. It is not easy, but Senator DASCHLE did an outstanding job.
ref: 2004, Kent Conrad, “Tributes to Thomas A. Daschle”, in Proceedings in the Senate (US Senate):
text: It must feel like herding cats, with 20-or-so members and with the big five franchise owning groups.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Delivering a basis for rail changes”, in RAIL. issue 922, page 32:
glosses: To attempt to control the uncontrollable; to attempt to manage a great many unruly factors or people to a single end.
raw_tags: in similes
examples: text: It would be hard teaching a shepherd dog to herd cats, or even to herd sheep, before he leaves off his puppy ways and shows himself ready to become a good shepherd.
ref: 1924, Daniel Wolford La Rue, The Child’s Mind and the Common Branches, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see herd, cat.
unafraid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnəˈfɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + afraid.
Senses: examples: text: Every childhood seems to have exactly such a juvenile in its midst and mists. He's the boy who refuses to fear the opposite sex, purely because everyone else embraces that particular fear, and he's the type who is unafraid to make a decision.
ref: 2005, Markus Zusak, “The Kiss (a Childhood Decision Maker)”, in The Book Thief, Sydney, N.S.W.: Picador, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Not afraid.
Synonyms: word: brave
word: courageous
word: fearless
word: heroic
word: intrepid
word: unafraid
word: unruffled
word: unterrified
Derived terms: unafraidly
Related terms: word: brave
houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊzɪz/
ipa: /ˈhaʊsɪz/
ipa: /hʌʊsɪz/
ipa: /ˈhaʊzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of house
houses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊzɪz/
ipa: /ˈhaʊsɪz/
ipa: /hʌʊsɪz/
ipa: /ˈhaʊzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of house
flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊ.əz/
ipa: /ˈflaʊ.ɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flower
flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊ.əz/
ipa: /ˈflaʊ.ɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flower
walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːlz/
ipa: /waːlz/
ipa: /wɔlz/
ipa: /wɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of wall
glosses: The vagina.
walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːlz/
ipa: /waːlz/
ipa: /wɔlz/
ipa: /wɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wall
cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of case
cases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: examples: text: While the detective cases the joint, they'll get away.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of case
Apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apple
names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: plural of name
names
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /neɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of name
orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.dəz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.dɚz/
ipa: [ˈɔɹ.ɾɚz]
Senses: glosses: plural of order
orders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.dəz/
ipa: /ˈɔɹ.dɚz/
ipa: [ˈɔɹ.ɾɚz]
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of order
powers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈpaʊəz/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of power
powers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊ.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈpaʊəz/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power
relations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of relation
duties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːtiz/
ipa: /ˈdjuːtiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of duty
ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of ship
ships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ship
homogeneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒm.ə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhəʊ.mə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhɒm.ə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhəʊ.mə(ʊ).d͡ʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ.mə.d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhɑ.mə.d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ.mə.d͡ʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhɑ.mə.d͡ʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˌhəʉ.mə.d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌhəʉ.mə.d͡ʒəˈnɪi.ə.ti]
ipa: [ˌhəʉ.mə.d͡ʒəˈnɪi.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˌhəʉ.mə.d͡ʒəˈnæɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˌhəʉ.mə.d͡ʒəˈnæɪ.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: homogeneities
Senses: synonyms: word: homogeneousness
word: conformity
word: homogeneousness
word: homogeneity
word: regularity
word: uniformity
word: uniformness
antonyms: heterogeneity
dishomogeneity
glosses: The condition of being homogeneous: having uniformity of constituent content.
Derived terms: cohomogeneity
inhomogeneity
macrohomogeneity
nonhomogeneity
ultrahomogeneity
Related terms: homogenesis
homogenize
homogenous
homogeny
non-member
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: non-members
Etymology: From non- + member.
Senses: examples: text: Non-members will be welcome at all Clubroom lectures.
ref: 1960 February, “Society Column”, in Trains illustrated, page vii:
glosses: Someone who is not a member (of a club, institution, etc.)
boogie-woogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʊɡiˈwʊɡi/
ipa: /ˌbuːɡiˈwuːɡi/
rhymes: -ʊɡi
rhymes: -uːɡi
Forms: form: boogie-woogies
Etymology: Reduplication of boogie (“party”), of unknown origin.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of blues piano music.
examples: text: Ah, everybody was juiced, you can bet your soul / They did the boogie-woogie with a sturdy roll
ref: 1953, Ahmet Ertegun, “Mess Around”, performed by Ray Charles:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of swing dance.
sides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of side.
glosses: Clipping of side effects.
sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of side
pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of piece
pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of piece
conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɪʃənz/
Senses: examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea. Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: plural of condition.
conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of condition
absolute deviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute deviations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The absolute value of the difference between a given value (such as mean or expected value) and a variate value (usually an observed value).
qualifier: target shooting
glosses: The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where the projectile hit or burst.
remains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: examples: text: They buried the remains of their longtime friend in the town cemetery.
text: The victim's remains were one small piece of bone.
glosses: The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
glosses: Historical or archaeological relics.
examples: text: To his great intellectual powers his published remains bear abundant witness.
glosses: The extant writings of a deceased person.
examples: text: He couldn't bring himself to eat the remains of the chicken dinner.
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: All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
Derived terms: cremains
mortal remains
remains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of remain
remains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmeɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: examples: text: We'll go ahead, while she remains here.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remain
tells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tell
tells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: glosses: plural of tell
waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.təz/
ipa: /ˈwɔ.tɚz/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of water
glosses: Amniotic fluid (see note at water (“amniotic fluid”)).
waters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.təz/
ipa: /ˈwɔ.tɚz/
ipa: /ˈwɑ.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of water
stands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stændz/
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: plural of stand
stands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stændz/
rhymes: -ændz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stand
rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːlz/
ipa: /ˈɹulz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of rule
rules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːlz/
ipa: /ˈɹulz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rule
enemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ə.miz/
Senses: glosses: plural of enemy
enemies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.ə.miz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enemy
larger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹ.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɑː.d͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English largere, equivalent to large + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of large: more large
interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɪsts/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of interest
interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɪsts/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛsts/
Senses: examples: text: the coal-mining interests
text: the separatist interests
glosses: The persons interested in any particular business or cause, taken collectively.
interests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnt(ə)ɹɪsts/
ipa: /ˈɪntɹɛsts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interest
minds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: plural of mind
minds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind
absolute error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The difference (sometimes defined to be the absolute difference) between the measured or inferred value of a quantity and its true value.
qualifier: military gunnery
glosses: Shortest distance between the center of impact or the center of burst of a group of shots, and the point of impact or burst of a single shot within the group.
qualifier: military gunnery
glosses: Error of a sight consisting of its error in relation to a master service sight with which it is tested, including the known error of the master service sight.
Related terms: relative error
mesoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoderms
Etymology: From meso- + -derm.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.
Coordinate terms: ectoderm
endoderm
Derived terms: endomesoderm
mesendoderm
mesodermal
mesodermic
mesodermless
casuistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæzjuːɪstɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæʒjuːɪstɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæʒuːɪstɹi/
ipa: /ˈkæʒuːəstɹi/
Forms: form: casuistries
Etymology: From casuist + -ry. First use appears c. 1712-1714. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Cages for Gnats, and Chains to Yoak a Flea; Dry'd Butterflies, and Tomes of Caſuiſtry
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, Miscellaneous poems and translations, by several hands. Particularly The first book of Statius his Thebais [&c.] by mr. Pope, page 374:
text: The letters of Margarita were all that the fondest lover could desire, the eye of a poet linger on, but they did not contain the casuistry which could lead Glentworth to renounce a faith which he had now been led to examine in a manner he had certainly never done before.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: And yet it would seem that the whole analysis he had made, his attempt to find a moral solution to the problem, was complete. His casuistry had been honed to a razor’s edge, and he could no longer think of any objections.
ref: 1968, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Sidney Monas, Crime and Punishment, published 1866:
text: “And if you lose?” Diana enunciated, through a thin grin. She meant to extract casuistry’s penalty in advance.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 47:
synonyms: casuistics
glosses: The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
examples: text: I felt it was hopeless to argue against casuistry of this nature, which, if it were carried to its logical conclusion, would absolutely destroy all morality, as we understand it.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
synonyms: excuse
legalism
rationalization
sophistry
glosses: A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
Related terms: casuist
casuistic
casuistical
casuistically
casuistics
metazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metazoa
form: metazoans
Etymology: From translingual Metazoa + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
hypernyms: animal
<
eukaryote
<
organism
coordinate_terms: protozoan
;
prokaryote
glosses: Any animal that is multicellular.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.
Derived terms: micrometazoan
nonmetazoan
premetazoan
urmetazoan
Related terms: word: eumetazoan
word: Metazoa
word: metazoal
word: parazoan
metazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Metazoa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
glosses: Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.
Synonyms: metazoic
Related terms: parazoan
ectoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectoderms
Etymology: From ecto- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which produces through development, the epidermis (skin) and nervous system of the adult.
Coordinate terms: endoderm
mesoderm
Derived terms: ectodermal
ectodermic
ectodermosis
ectomorph
ectomorphic
mesectoderm
mesoectoderm
neurectoderm
neuroectoderm
trophectoderm
endoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoderms
Etymology: From endo- + -derm.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce through development, the digestive system of the adult.
Coordinate terms: ectoderm
mesoderm
Derived terms: endodermal
endodermic
endomorph
mesendoderm
mesoendoderm
magnetosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈni.təˌsfɪr/
Forms: form: magnetospheres
Etymology: From magneto- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.
ref: 2015, D. J. Armstrong, C. E. Pugh, A.-M. Broomhall, D. J. A. Brown, M. N. Lund, H. P. Osborn, D. L. Pollacco, “The Host Stars of Keplers Habitable Exoplanets: Superflares, Rotation and Activity”, in arXiv:
text: One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
text: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core. It prevents our atmosphere from being stripped away by solar winds blasting it from the sun. While the magnetosphere has been a constant presence for billions of years, its strength waxes and wanes over time.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The comet-shaped region around Earth or another planet in which charged particles are trapped or deflected. Shaped by the solar wind and the planet's magnetic field.
Derived terms: magnetospheric
paleomagnetosphere
protozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.təˈzəʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.təˈzoʊ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊən
Forms: form: protozoa
form: protozoans
Etymology: From translingual Protozoa + -an, equivalent to proto- + -zoan.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: protozoon
protozooid
Protozoa
hypernyms: protist
<
eukaryote
<
organism
coordinate_terms: metazoan
;
prokaryote
glosses: Any of the diverse group of eukaryotes, of the phylum Protozoa, that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies, are usually nonphotosynthetic, and are often classified further into phyla according to their capacity for and means of motility, as by pseudopods, flagella, or cilia.
Synonyms: word: protozoan
word: protozooid
word: protozoon
Hypernyms: word: eukaryote
word: organism
word: protist
Hyponyms: word: flagellate
word: amoeboid
word: sporozoan
word: ciliate
word: amoeba
word: cryptosporidium
word: euglena
word: falciparum
word: folliculinid
word: foraminifer
word: paramecium
word: peritrich
word: plasmodium
word: trypanosomatid
word: trypanosome
word: trophozoite
word: trophont
Coordinate terms: word: metazoan
word: prokaryote
Meronyms: word: macronucleus
word: micronucleus
word: microneme
Related terms: word: animal
english: both formerly construed as hypernymous, but not in current taxonomy
translation: both formerly construed as hypernymous, but not in current taxonomy
word: animalcule
protozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.təˈzəʊ.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.təˈzoʊ.ən/
rhymes: -əʊən
Etymology: From translingual Protozoa + -an, equivalent to proto- + -zoan.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a protozoan.
Derived terms: protozoal
protozoic
phototropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phototropic
form: most phototropic
Etymology: From photo- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Having a tendency to move in response to light. An animal or microbe that is positively phototropic will move toward light. One that is negatively phototropic will move away from light.
Derived terms: aphototropic
phototropically
Related terms: phototropism
phototaxic
phototaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phototaxic
form: most phototaxic
Senses: glosses: Having a tendency to adjust orientation in response to light. A plant or sedentary animal that is positively phototaxic will lean or grow toward light. One that is negatively phototaxic will lean or grow away from light.
Related terms: phototaxy
phototropic
coelenterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɛn.tə.ɹət/
ipa: /sɪˈlɛn.tɚ.ɪt/
Forms: form: coelenterates
Etymology: From scientific New Latin Coelenterata.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any simple aquatic animal formerly considered to belong to the phylum Coelenterata, now divided into the cnidarians and ctenophores.
no skin off one's back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If he wants to make a mess in his own room, it's no skin off my back.
glosses: No harm to one.
Synonyms: no skin off one's nose
no skin off one's teeth
hot to trot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɔʔ.təˈt͡ʃɹ̥ɔʔ/
Forms: form: hot-to-trot
Senses: examples: text: At the moment, Justice Department lawyers are cool to the idea. "We're not hot to trot on this thing," says one Justice official.
ref: 1986 May 19, James Kelly, “Shifting the Attack on Leaks”, in Time:
glosses: Eager to begin; anxious to get going.
examples: text: She's nowhere close to relinquishing her crown as the queen of dance-pop—or abandoning her favorite role as pop music's most hot-to-trot coquette.
ref: 2008 April 25, Jim DeRogatis, “Madonna reigns supreme with tasty 'Hard Candy'”, in Chicago Sun-Times, retrieved 03 May 2008:
glosses: Eager for sexual activity.
Synonyms: sense: eager to begin
word: champing at the bit
sense: eager for sex
word: libidinous
fuselage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈfjuːsəˌlɑːʒ/
Forms: form: fuselages
Etymology: Etymology tree
French fuseler
French -age
French fuselagebor.
English fuselage
Borrowed from French fuselage.
 Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).
For the meaning development, compare rocket, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“spinning wheel, distaff”) (whence also English rock (“distaff, the flax or wool on a distaff”)).
Senses: examples: text: Federal officials examining the horrifying midflight blowout of part of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage are testing the detached piece for clues on what led up to the plane’s “explosive decompression” after the missing piece was discovered in an Oregon backyard.
ref: 2024 January 8, Paradise Afshar, Elizabeth Wolfe, Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, “New details emerge on piece of Alaska Airlines plane that blew off midflight as investigators probe ‘explosive decompression’”, in CNN:
text: Wichita, Kansas-based Spirit AeroSystems makes major parts of several Boeing models, including the fuselages for the 737 Max.
ref: 2024 March 1, Chris Isidore and Gregory Wallace, “Boeing wants to buy back the company that builds the body of its troubled Max planes”, in CNN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.
Derived terms: fuselaged
Related terms: english: the body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane
translation: the body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane
word: hull
deltoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɫtɔɪd/
Forms: form: deltoids
Etymology: From Latin deltoideus, which was in turn from Ancient Greek adjective δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs). See also: δέλτα (délta), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: delt
glosses: The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The deltoid ligament, a triangular ligament on the human ankle.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A kite (quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end).
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A deltoid curve (hypocycloid with three cusps).
Derived terms: anterior deltoid
bideltoid
intradeltoid
radiodeltoid
spinodeltoid
deltoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɫtɔɪd/
Etymology: From Latin deltoideus, which was in turn from Ancient Greek adjective δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs). See also: δέλτα (délta), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
Senses: glosses: In the shape of the uppercase Greek letter delta (Δ); triangular.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In the shape of the uppercase Greek letter delta (Δ); triangular.
Of a triangular or roughly triangular shape and attached to the stem via the side.
raw_tags: of leaves
glosses: Of or pertaining to the deltoid muscle.
Derived terms: deltoidal
deltoid curve
deltoid moth
deltoid muscle
obdeltoid
subdeltoid
world's oldest profession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the world's oldest profession
form: oldest profession in the world
form: oldest profession
Etymology: First appears c. 1888, coined by Rudyard Kipling as most ancient profession in the world. Alternative forms appeared in the early 1900s, present form popular by the 1930s. Similar terms with various senses (not necessarily prostitution) exist in other languages.
Senses: examples: text: Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “On the City Wall”, in In Black and White:
glosses: Prostitution.
oldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldəst/
enpr: ōld
ipa: /ˈoʊldəst/
Senses: examples: text: An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 163:
glosses: superlative form of old: most old
Synonyms: english: in Western dialects of the US
translation: in Western dialects of the US
word: oldermost
Related terms: eldest
oldest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldəst/
enpr: ōld
ipa: /ˈoʊldəst/
Forms: form: oldests
Senses: examples: text: My oldest always forgets to turn the living room lights off before bed.
glosses: The oldest child in a family, or individual in a group.
funded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌndɪd/
Senses: examples: text: The government funded the research.
glosses: simple past and past participle of fund
funded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌndɪd/
Forms: form: more funded
form: most funded
Senses: examples: text: Byford said: "There is no UK recovery from the pandemic without a London recovery, and there is no London recovery without a properly funded transport network.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
glosses: Having received financial support; paid for.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Invested in public funds; existing in the form of bonds.
Derived terms: cofunded
nonfunded
prefunded
underfunded
unfunded
flaperon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflæpərɒn/
Forms: form: flaperons
Etymology: Blend of flap + aileron
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: An aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as an aileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and a flap (changing the chord line of the wing, thus affecting the angle of attack).
Related terms: elevon
rudderon
spoileron
up one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From the practice of magicians hiding tricks or gimmicks in the sleeve.
Senses: examples: text: I have tried everything I can think of, and I don't have anything more up my sleeve.
text: "There may be things that you know which I do not. I have not pretended to be aware of all the details of your show. But equally I've got something up my sleeve that you don't know about. And that's where I mean to score. Danvers was a damned clever fellow——" He broke off as if he had said too much.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Hidden and ready to be produced as needed; in reserve.
Related terms: nothing-up-my-sleeve number
roll up one's sleeves
harlot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːlət/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹlət/
Forms: form: harlots
form: harloting
form: harlotting
form: harloted
form: harloted
form: harlotted
form: harlotted
Etymology: From Middle English harlot, from Old French harlot, herlot, arlot (“vagabond; tramp”), of obscure origin. Likely to be ultimately of Germanic origin, either from a derivation of *harjaz (“army; camp; warrior; military leader”) or from a diminutive of *karilaz (“man; fellow”). Compare English carlot.
Senses: examples: text: […] they that spend their youth in loitering, bezzling, and harlotting, their studies in unprofitable questions, and barbarous sophistry
ref: 1614, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defense against Smectymnuus:
synonyms: word: harlotize
word: blissom
word: chamber
word: colt
word: gill
word: harlot
word: harlotize
word: minx
word: rake
word: rig
word: slut
word: trollop
word: wanton
word: wantonize
glosses: To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.
harlot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːlət/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹlət/
Forms: form: more harlot
form: most harlot
Etymology: From Middle English harlot, from Old French harlot, herlot, arlot (“vagabond; tramp”), of obscure origin. Likely to be ultimately of Germanic origin, either from a derivation of *harjaz (“army; camp; warrior; military leader”) or from a diminutive of *karilaz (“man; fellow”). Compare English carlot.
Senses: examples: text: The intellection in it, kiddo—the intellection.... That most harlot of harlots... talking of me, laughing at me... I'll kill her....
ref: 1943, Nick Joaquin, “It was Later than we Thought”, in Philippine Review:
synonyms: word: adult
word: bawdy
word: blue
word: cheeky
word: dirty
word: indecent
word: filthy
word: gross
word: harlot
word: ithyphallic
word: lewd
word: mucky
word: naughty
word: near the knuckle
word: obscene
word: off-colour
word: racy
word: raunchy
word: ribald
word: ribaudred
word: ribaudrous
word: risqué
word: rorty
word: salacious
word: saucy
word: shocking
word: sluttish
word: slutlike
word: slutty
word: smutty
word: spicy
word: tartish
word: tarty
word: trampy
word: vulgar
glosses: Wanton; lewd; low; base.
fill out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪl ˈaʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: fills out
form: filling out
form: filled out
form: filled out
Etymology: In the sense of to complete a form, originally attested in American English; possibly as a calque of German ausfüllen. Later spread to British English, where it now competes with the traditional expression fill in.
Senses: examples: text: Please fill out this application if you are interested in the job.
synonyms: complete
fill in
populate
glosses: To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
examples: text: He began to fill out once he started college.
text: We've scoured these science and tapped the top experts to help you learn how to do just that. Use these seven simple strategies, and you'll fill up without filling out.
ref: 2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
examples: text: The other lady, […] filling out a very large glass of wine, advised, and at last prevailed with her to drink it.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To fill up; to make full.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
filter out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filters out
form: filtering out
form: filtered out
form: filtered out
Senses: examples: text: The sieve will filter out large rocks and grains of sand.
text: The brain automatically filters out useless information.
glosses: To selectively remove part of something.
examples: text: The story of last winter's unprecedented snowstorms in Great Britain is slowly filtering out.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177:
glosses: To come out gradually (e.g. news).
foreign tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign tongues
Senses: glosses: Any language not native to particular person or place.
foreign affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Matters or news occurring abroad.
glosses: Policy of a government in dealing with other countries or with activities overseas.
glosses: A government office or department charged with handling relations with other countries.
examples: text: Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar was cuckolded by Clodius (Iul. 6, 74) but was himself so noted an adulterer that Pompey (lul. 50) called him "Aegisthus" (mock epic again); and his foreign affairs were the talk of Rome and of the army (Iul, 49–52).
ref: 1992, Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foreign, affairs.