cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waltz Matilda
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːl(t)s məˈtɪldə/
Forms: form: waltzes Matilda
form: waltzing Matilda
form: waltzed Matilda
form: waltzed Matilda
Etymology: From waltz + matilda (“romantic name for a swag”).
Senses: examples: text: Coercionist Byrnes tells an S. M. Herald reporter that things in Queensland are eminently satisfactory. He doesn't "Waltz Matilda," evidently.
ref: 1894 December 29, The Worker, Brisbane, page 3, column 6:
text: As far as I was concerned the choice was Alice Springs, the center of the great Outback or a box car. There was no contest. I was ready to waltz Matilda.
ref: 2002, Stuart Dick, Outback to Asia, page 163:
text: A 1928 bestseller offered the opinion that ‘there is only one way of getting off the beaten track—take a swag. Victoria is full of possibilities for the walker willing to “waltz Matilda”,’ and went on to describe the track.
ref: 2005, Kristin Otto, Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne′s Murky River, unnumbered page:
text: Indeed, while in Australia before the war Simpson had “waltzed matilda,” tramped through the bush, independent and outside the constructed differentiating society, carrying all his worldy goods—his “bluey”——on his back.
ref: 2012, Bruce Kapferer, Legends of People, Myths of State, page 173:
glosses: To travel on foot carrying a swag (belongings wrapped in a blanket); to travel in this manner looking for work.
wanderlust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒndəlʌst/
ipa: /ˈwɑndɚˌlʌst/
Forms: form: wanderlusts
form: wanderlusting
form: wanderlusted
form: wanderlusted
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderlust (“urge to travel; love of the ‘great outdoors’”), from wandern (“to wander; to hike”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn; to wind”)) + Lust (“desire, wish to do or have something; fun, pleasure”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to separate; to set free; to untie”)); analysable as wander + lust.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, he probably saw a picture of the South Sea islands last night, and now he is wanderlusting.
ref: 1922, Bull’s-Eye, New Orleans, La.: Associated Rice Millers of America, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
glosses: To feel a strong impulse or longing to travel.
examples: text: "Be assured that we will never weary listening to tales related by one who has wanderlusted so many years," flattered Mrs. Cunningham, [...]
ref: 1915, “A-No. 1” [pseudonym; Leon Ray Livingston], The Ways of the Hobo […], 6th edition, Erie, Pa.: The A-No. 1 Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 85:
text: It was the joy of our lives to be once more "hitting the trail," lustily as ever, Sunday last, under the brave lead of one who started the community hike here, and who, after three months wanderlusting in other lands must rejoice to find that a few brave scouts have kept up the good work here and made of us "some hikers."
ref: 1916 January, “To Takoma Park—A Self-explanatory Letter”, in Elliot R. Downing, editor, Nature-Study Review, volume XII, number 1, Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 37:
text: Moroney wanderlusted around the business houses, taking a two hour lunch on principle. People inside dealing and dialling, filing and invoicing, collating and collecting, debiting and crediting.
ref: 1969, Michael Feld, Super Shelley’s Mein Kampf, London: Ross, →OCLC, page 168:
text: I went there partly because I had shown signs of terminal wanderlust – and the West Coast is the premier place in the U.S. for wanderlusting around – and partly because L.A. is such a mixture of fact, fantasy, and illusion that, as an Americanist, I felt I had to go.
ref: 1992, Gayle Pemberton, “Is it Maya? Or: Notes from Behind the Veil”, in The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter, Hanover, N.H.; London: Wesleyan University Press; University Press of New England, published 1998, →ISBN, part 1, page 23:
text: On a one-way. Roaming holiday. Wanderlusting.
ref: 2007, Steven T. Savage, chapter 22, in Splattery, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 19 May 2010, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: To roam or travel widely.
Related terms: english: historical psychiatric diagnosis
translation: historical psychiatric diagnosis
word: dromomania
word: footloose
english: frequent traveling
translation: frequent traveling
word: hypermobility
word: itchy feet
word: travel bug
word: craving
wanting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒntɪŋ
Forms: form: more wanting
form: most wanting
Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That wants or desires.
examples: text: Already Cæſar
Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees
Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword:
Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting
To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
text: […] but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition, published 1995, page 171:
text: Discal black dot small or wanting. Transverse posterior line reduced to two dotlets or altogether wanting.
ref: 1902, Proceedings: Entomological papers, volumes 25-26, United States National Museum, page 201:
glosses: Absent or lacking.
examples: text: Kate felt privileged to have been permitted to speak through it and she was glad that, as before, she had been judged and not found wanting
ref: 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: Deficient.
Derived terms: find wanting
wantingly
wanting
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒntɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Without, except, but.
glosses: Less, short of, minus.
wanting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒntɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of want
wanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒntɪŋ
Forms: form: wantings
Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, equivalent to want + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Choice occurs only when we experience a conflict of wantings.
ref: 2004, Joseph H. Casey S.J., Life, Love, and Sex:
glosses: The state of wanting something; desire.
warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹdən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: wardens
Etymology: From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.
Senses: examples: text: He called to the wardens on the outside battlements.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter IV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A guard or watchman.
examples: text: The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]
ref: 1934, Nathanael West, “Chapter 7”, in A Cool Million:
glosses: A chief administrative officer of a prison.
glosses: An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.
examples: text: the warden of a college
glosses: A governing official in various institutions
Derived terms: air-raid warden
air warden
chapelwarden
churchwarden
dog warden
firewarden
fire warden
fish warden
game warden
mint warden
parking warden
people's warden
subwarden
traffic warden
wardeness
Warden Hill
wardenless
warden of the mint
Warden of the Mint
wardenry
wardenship
warden system
waywarden
warden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹdən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: wardens
form: wardening
form: wardened
form: wardened
Etymology: From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.
Senses: glosses: To carry out the duties of a warden.
warden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːdən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹdən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: wardens
Etymology: From Middle English wardon, origin uncertain; perhaps from Anglo-Norman or Anglo-Latin wardo, -ōnis.
Senses: examples: text: Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t:
ref: c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:
text: I must have saffron to colour the warden pies;
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: In September, come Grapes; Apples; Poppies of all colours; Peaches; Melo-Cotones; Nectarines; Cornelians; Wardens; Quinces.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Wardens, a name given to pears which never melt, are long keeping, and used for cooking only. The name comes from the Cistercian Abbey of Warden in Beds. Parkinson’s Warden is now Black Worcester. There are Spanish, White and Red Wardens.
ref: 1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, page 30:
glosses: A variety of pear.
Related terms: Warden in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
warder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
homophone: water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping)
Forms: form: warders
Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”).
Senses: examples: text: Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV]:
text: Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza II, page 24:
text: So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368th Night, p. 26:
text: Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 24, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
glosses: A guard, especially in a prison.
examples: text: The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.
ref: 1876, The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East, page 79:
glosses: One who or that which wards or repels.
warder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
homophone: water (most non-rhotic accents with flapping)
Forms: form: warders
Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,
When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,
Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
text: Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3]:
text: If thou doſt not inſtantly comply with theſe juſt demands, he defies thee to ſingle combat to the laſt extremity. And ſo ſaying, the Herald caſt down his warder.
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter III, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 91:
glosses: A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
ward off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wards off
form: warding off
form: warded off
form: warded off
Senses: examples: text: He raised his arms to ward off the attack.
text: Door guards are a detail that can be added readily to almost any garage door for the purpose of protecting the door from being broken off the hinges or for the protection that is afforded the customers of the garage. The simplest form of these are inclined slides for warding off the front or rear wheels of the entering car.
ref: 1920 November 25, “Protected Garage Door and Car Fenders”, in Motor Age, volume XXXVIII, number 22, Chicago, page 48, column 1:
text: Double plate glass windows and central heating ward off the rigours of the northern winter.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Passenger Comfort on Swedish Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: To parry, or turn aside.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To, while in possession of the ball, move the free hand or the hand and arm holding the butt end of the stick laterally into a defending player's body or stick.
examples: text: He wore garlic to ward off vampires.
text: Group 2, the never or prophylactic group, was also small compared with group 1. Iodine lockets, string shirts, underwear made of special material such as flannel (particularly red), sheep wool, angora wool, clothes made of modern synthetic fibres, and so on, would ward off arthritis.
ref: 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:
glosses: To avert or prevent.
warehouseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warehousemen
Etymology: From warehouse + -man.
Senses: examples: text: But the itinerant tradesman or street-seller is still further distinguished from the regular fixed dealer—the stallkeeper from the shopkeeper—the street-wareman from the warehouseman, by the arts they respectively employ to attract custom.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
text: If a recount of an item is ordered, the warehouseman responsible for the custody of the stock accompanies and assists the rechecker to assure himself that the exact quantity of stock recorded as on hand is actually physically present.
ref: 1940, War Department Technical Manual, volume 10, number 250, page 117:
glosses: A person who manages, or works in, a warehouse.
glosses: One who keeps a wholesale shop for woollen goods.
Synonyms: storeman
warehouse clerk
Derived terms: Italian warehouseman
Related terms: warehousewoman
pawn shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawn shops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pawnshop.
pawnshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːnʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈpɔnʃɑp/
Forms: form: pawnshops
form: pawn shop
Etymology: From pawn + shop.
Senses: glosses: The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security
Synonyms: word: pawnbrokery
word: pawnbrokerage
word: Lombard house
pawnbroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːnˌbɹəʊ.kə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pawnbrokers
Etymology: From pawn + broker.
Senses: examples: text: "We may keep it by us," replied the pawnbroker, "for months; there is no demand for such articles." "But," exclaimed she, eagerly, "I shall soon redeem it!" "So you all say," returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Poverty”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 280:
glosses: A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.
Derived terms: pawnbrokeress
Roxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒksi/
ipa: /ˈɹɑksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: Roxie
Etymology: Diminutives + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Roxana, Roxane, and Roxanne.
Roxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒksi/
ipa: /ˈɹɑksi/
rhymes: -ɒksi
Forms: form: Roxys
form: Roxies
Senses: glosses: A Roxicodone tablet.
Roxanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.
e-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-books
form: ebook
form: eBook
Etymology: A contraction of electronic book: e- + book.
Senses: examples: text: The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.
ref: 2004, Sunil Saxena, Breaking News: The Craft and Technology of Online Journalism:
glosses: An electronic book, a book published in electronic form.
Related terms: cyberbook
etext
e-text
warhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warheads
Etymology: From war + head, originally to distinguish a live war head of a torpedo from an inert exercise head.
Senses: examples: text: "To their anchorage off Kodiak," Chuck says. "The Orthos were all ready. They had put together a crew of ex-Navy men, guys who had worked on nuke subs in the past—X-rays, they call them—and they came and took the sub over. As for us, we had no idea that any of this had happened. Until one of the warheads showed up in the goddamn front yard."
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 281:
text: "Multi Bottle Rocket". Possibly the strongest weapon around, it does a lot of damage due to its massive warhead.
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
glosses: The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.
glosses: The glans penis.
Derived terms: hydrogen warhead
nuclear warhead
super warhead
pillow block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow blocks
Senses: glosses: A mounting used to support a rotating shaft, using a bearing in a housing which is bolted to a foundation or bedplate with the mounted shaft in a parallel plane to the mounting surface and perpendicular to the centre line of the mounting holes; functionally similar to a plummer block.
voyeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔɪːˈjɜː/
ipa: /vwɑˈjɜː/
ipa: /vɔɪˈjɜɹ/
ipa: /vwɑˈjɜr/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: voyeurs
Etymology: From French voyeur, from voir (“to see”).
Senses: synonyms: peeping tom
inspectionist
eyeball queen
glosses: A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.
glosses: An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.
Related terms: word: voyeurism
english: female voyeur
translation: female voyeur
word: voyeuse
word: exhibitionist
word: creepshot
word: scopophile
paper money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪpə ˈmʌni/
ipa: /ˌpeɪpəɹ ˈmʌni/
Etymology: Formed within English, by compounding: paper (noun) + money (noun).
Senses: synonyms: folding money
paper currency
antonyms: commodity money
glosses: Cash in the form of banknotes.
phantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantasies
Senses: examples: text: What generous self-sacrifice—what a world of gentle affection, were now called forth in Emily by a moment's phantasy, whose life depended on that frailest of frail things, a coquette's vanity!
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 319:
text: Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: […] what man has hitherto known only in febrile phantasy and tenuous legend?
ref: 1931 November–December, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth:
glosses: Archaic spelling of fantasy.
examples: text: By later Kleinians and critics alike, phantasy is often seen as identical to Freud's concept of psychic reality.
ref: 1987, Juliet Mitchell, “Introduction”, in Selected Melanie Klein, →ISBN, page 22:
text: However, Klein's phantasy is not exactly Lacan's imaginary fantasy; it is, I think, more than that.
ref: 2013, Lene Austed, quoting Jonathan Davidoff, “Introducing Psychoanalysis and Politics”, in Nationalism and the Body Politic, →ISBN, page 262:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The innate, mental image of an object; the link between instinct and reality.
phantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phantasies
form: phantasying
form: phantasied
form: phantasied
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of fantasy.
ps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of p
ps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of PS (post scriptum).
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: word: pb
english: power brakes
translation: power brakes
word: pw
english: power windows
translation: power windows
glosses: Abbreviation of power steering.
raw_tags: in classified ads
iconize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: iconizes
form: iconizing
form: iconized
form: iconized
Etymology: From icon + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form an image or likeness of someone.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To minimize (a window) on a computer screen, replacing it with a representative icon.
Derived terms: iconization
banter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæntə/
ipa: /ˈbæntɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɛən.tɚ]
ipa: /ˈbæntə/
ipa: [ˈbeːn.tɐ]
rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)
Etymology: 1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."
Senses: examples: text: I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.
ref: 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVIII, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:
text: This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours.
ref: 2007, Evelyn M. Field, Bully Blocking, page 17:
synonyms: pleasantry
raillery
glosses: Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
coordinate_terms: chit-chat
small talk
;
patter#Etymology_2
sales pitch
glosses: Good-humoured bits of monologue and/or conversational prompts used in any of a wide range of occupations that must frequently interact with the public (for example, store clerks, salespersons, nurses).
Derived terms: banterer
banterous
bantersome
bantery
bants
soy banter
banter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæntə/
ipa: /ˈbæntɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɛən.tɚ]
ipa: /ˈbæntə/
ipa: [ˈbeːn.tɐ]
rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: banters
form: bantering
form: bantered
form: bantered
Etymology: 1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."
Senses: glosses: To engage in banter or playful conversation.
glosses: To play or do something amusing.
examples: text: Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
ref: 1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […]; T[homas] Davies, […], published 1760, →OCLC, Act II, page 56:
text: Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
text: Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature, he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone, […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Levitical”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 8:
synonyms: kid
wind up
chaff
glosses: To tease (someone) mildly.
examples: June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.
glosses: To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
examples: text: [W]e diverted ourſelves vvith bantering ſeveral other poor Scholars, vvith hopes of being at leaſt his Lordſhip's Chaplains and putting on a Scarf; […]
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, pages 69–70:
glosses: To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
glosses: To challenge to a match.
glosses: To haggle; cheapen the price.
Derived terms: Archbishop of Banterbury
bant
Bantersaurus Rex
fora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Welcomes the Committee’s work, which has drawn on the reports of the Panel of Experts and taken advantage of the work done in other fora, to draw attention to the responsibilities of private sector actors in conflict affected areas;
ref: 2010 October 14, United Nations, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1945:
glosses: plural of forum; alternative form of forums
buttfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtfʌk/
Forms: form: buttfucks
Etymology: From butt + fuck.
Senses: glosses: An act of anal intercourse.
buttfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtfʌk/
Forms: form: buttfucks
form: buttfucking
form: buttfucked
form: buttfucked
Etymology: From butt + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, Dwayne.
ref: 1988, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, spoken by John McClane (Bruce Willis):
glosses: To perform an act of anal intercourse.
Related terms: buttfuckable
buttfucker
Buttfuckistan
Britannia metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy of tin with copper and antimony, somewhat like pewter.
candy flipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candyflipping
Senses: examples: text: Pretty Lights blasts from invisible speakers, making Lion think about candyflipping back in high school.
ref: 2019, Steven Kotler, Last Tango in Cyberspace, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: The experience of combining the drugs LSD and MDMA.
candy flipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: candyflipping
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of candy flip
cannibalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannibalizations
form: cannibalisation
Etymology: From cannibal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of cannibalizing.
the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food
glosses: The act of cannibalizing.
adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The act of cannibalizing.
a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product
glosses: The act of cannibalizing.
the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device
Related terms: cannibalize
hand pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand pays
Senses: examples: text: If you could get 30 or more hands an hour (the low number is due to the frequent hand-pays), the hourly return exceeded $1,000!
ref: 2003, Bob Dancer, Million Dollar Video Poker, page 231:
glosses: The situation when a slot attendant or cage gives the player a cash payout, rather than the actual slot machine paying out from the printer with ticket voucher or coin hopper.
phenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenomes
Etymology: From pheno- + -ome.
Senses: glosses: The whole set of phenotypic entities in a cell, tissue, organ, organisms, and species. This includes phenotypic traits with genotypic origins.
Derived terms: phenomic
phenomics
Related terms: phecode
phenotype
phenotypic
electrophoresis
bioinformatics
pootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooties
Senses: examples: text: Please pick up the baby's pootie and put it back in his mouth.
glosses: A baby's pacifier.
pootie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pooties
Senses: examples: text: As Preacher Stevie's prayer drones on I imagine the things Rhonda's sweaty hand touched while she was hawking her underage pootie on the streets of Oklahoma City.
ref: 2012, Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir:
glosses: Alternative form of pooty (“the female genitalia”).
catalytic reformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A reformation technique used to "strip" gasoline of impurities, improve octane rating etc.
commercial model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commercial models
form: CM
Senses: glosses: a person (usually a female actress or singer) who stars in a product advertisement (posters, TV advertisement spots etc.).
raw_tags: in many parts of Asia
croquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹoʊˈkiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: croquis
Etymology: Borrowed from French croquis.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A quick and sketchy drawing, often of a live model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose and another croquis is drawn.
globus cruciger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡləʊ̯bəs ˈkɹuːsɪd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ̯bəs ˈkrusɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: globus crucigers
Etymology: From Latin globus cruciger (“globe bearing a cross”).
Senses: glosses: A globe topped by a cross, used as a symbol of royal power.
Synonyms: mound
orb
Related terms: crown
scepter
sceptre
hoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊzə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈhoʊzɚ/
ipa: /ˈhoːzəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hosers
Etymology: From hose + -er. The Canadian senses originally derive from hose (“to siphon gasoline from automobile gas tanks”), in reference to farmers who siphoned gas from farming vehicles; they were later reinforced by use to describe the players on the losing side of a game of shinny or hockey, who were required to hose down the rink to return it to a smooth state, and ultimately popularized in the 1980s by a sketch on the television show Second City Television, in which Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas played Bob and Doug McKenzie, who used the term as an insult for each other.
Senses: examples: text: […] they found one of the neighbors hosing down the area. He was pretty resistant when the cops told him to turn off the hose. The hoser gave the cops a statement, […]
ref: 2010, Rosalind Noonan, In a Heartbeat, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Membership [in early Russian fire departments] included the mayor, a retired general, a teacher at a school for artists, a merchant, at least sixteen duma members, and teams of hosers, climbers, and security guards.
ref: 2011, Nigel Raab, Democracy Burning?: Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society, →ISBN:
glosses: One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
examples: text: All three of these are blue-hosers. Every color in Magic has cards specifically designed to hurt it. Against many of the hosers, you can't really do much; the best strategy is simply not to rely too much on a single color.
ref: 1997, Beth Moursund, The Official Magic: The Gathering : Strategies & Secrets, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: One that hoses, i.e. hurts (someone) badly.
glosses: A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
glosses: A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
examples: text: We bet you know lots of hosers, eh. And you want to help them not be hosers.
ref: 1985, Canadian Dimension, volume 19, page 94:
text: This brings me to the second, more interesting genre of Canadian TV drama, one focused on what can be summarized as “hosers, whores, boozers, and losers.”
ref: 2012, Canadian Television: Text and Context, →ISBN, page ix:
text: As we laughed, we passed a table of scowling hosers and they gave our chortles an extra boost. They were beginning to come to terms with the notion that family resorts are not known for their abundance of poontang […]
ref: 2013, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover, →ISBN:
glosses: A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
synonyms: Canuck
glosses: A Canadian.
Related terms: hosebag
hosehead
imperial decree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperial decrees
Senses: glosses: A decree issued by a sovereign.
ludo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ludos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ludo.
beggarware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beggar + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: freeware that encourages the user to make an optional donation to its author
inherent power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inherent powers
Senses: glosses: Any of the powers that are given to a national government.
mouthguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthguards
Etymology: From mouth + guard.
Senses: glosses: A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of the teeth and usually made of plastic. Such devices may protect against injury during sport or fighting or may serve a medical purpose.
Synonyms: gumshield
sika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkə/
rhymes: -iːkə
homophone: seeker (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sikas
form: sika
form: Sika
Etymology: From Japanese 鹿 (shika, “deer”).
Senses: synonyms: Japanese deer
sika deer
glosses: Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia
sika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkə/
rhymes: -iːkə
homophone: seeker (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: sikas
form: sika
Senses: examples: text: In the past sikas were made within the family and its purchase and sale was not so noticeable.
ref: 2003, Sirajul Islam, Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, volume 7, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: A traditional Bangladeshi hanging basket
tomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːm/
ipa: /tum/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈumb/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: tombs
Etymology: From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
The verb is from Middle English tomben.
Senses: synonyms: burial chamber
sepulchre
vault
coordinate_terms: grave
glosses: A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
examples: text: As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
synonyms: grave
glosses: A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
examples: text: I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.
ref: 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book III, chapter 4:
glosses: One who keeps secrets.
examples: text: I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.
glosses: Death (literary)
Derived terms: altar tomb
beehive tomb
chamber tomb
disentomb
empty as the tomb on Easter
entomb
the womb to the tomb
womb to tomb
passage tomb
Severn-Cotswold tomb
silent as the tomb
tomb bat
tombless
tomblike
tombstone
wedge tomb
tomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːm/
ipa: /tum/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʈumb/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: tombs
form: tombing
form: tombed
form: tombed
Etymology: From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
The verb is from Middle English tomben.
Senses: glosses: To bury.
plano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Plano lenses may be used to protect the eyes from ultraviolet light.
glosses: Of lenses: flat; having no curvature; not serving to correct the vision.
Q quotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q quotients
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Q score.
synonyms: word: Q score
quiescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwiˈɛsəns/
Forms: form: quiescences
Etymology: From quiescent + -ence, or borrowed from Latin quiescentia, from quiescens, present participle of quiesco, from quies.
Senses: examples: text: Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
ref: 1883, Henry J. Winser, The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists, New York: G.P. Putnam Sons, page 46:
glosses: The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
glosses: Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
examples: text: I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence.
ref: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:
glosses: The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
redskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redskins
form: Redskin
Etymology: From red + skin.
References to indigenous Americans' skin being red can be found from the 1580s, although not consistently (another European in 1584 described indigenous Americans as "yellowish"); in some cases the reference may be not to their skin color per se but to their painting themselves with red paint. A letter ostensibly from 1699, which was formerly cited as the earliest reference to "red skins", was not published until 1900 and is now recognized as fake.
The earliest documented instance of the term "redskin" is from a 1769 discussion between the Piankeshaw and John Wilkins, this and other early uses appear to be translating terms meaning red + skin, flesh, or people that the tribes of the Illinois / Mississippi Valley area used to refer to themselves when communicating with the French (who translated such terms as French peau-rouge) and with English-speakers (whence redskin).
Piecewise doublet of Rauðskinna.
Senses: glosses: A Native American.
Synonyms: red man
Native American
Derived terms: Washington Redskins
redskinned
Related terms: redskin onion
Red Indian
redskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redskins
Etymology: From red + skin, from skinhead.
Senses: examples: text: The Red & Anarchist Skinheads, a left‐wing splinter of the SHARP group, formed in 1993. It grew out of influences from the redskin culture in England.
topics: anarchism
communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: An anticapitalist skinhead.
recovery time objective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery time objectives
Senses: glosses: The amount of time within which a business process must be restored after a disruption in order to avoid unacceptable consequences.
top shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: top-shelf
Etymology: * (US: best, or high quality): Possibly from the higher quality, thus more expensive, thus less often used liquors being stored on the less accessible top shelf behind a wet bar.
* (British: material with adult content): Such material is often stored on the top shelf in a newsagent's shop, where it is both less visible and harder to reach without being seen.
Senses: examples: text: I bought a bottle of top shelf whiskey.
synonyms: word: top notch
word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Best, or high quality.
examples: text: Most of the band used to buy Autotrader to read on the various bus and plane journeys, but Barry would always turn up with a copy of Underwear Unlimited or some other seedy little top-shelf mag.
ref: 2008, Rick Wakeman, Martin Roach, Grumpy Old Rock Star, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Describing books, magazines, or movies that have adult content or softcore pornography.
top shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top shelves
form: top-shelf
Etymology: * (US: best, or high quality): Possibly from the higher quality, thus more expensive, thus less often used liquors being stored on the less accessible top shelf behind a wet bar.
* (British: material with adult content): Such material is often stored on the top shelf in a newsagent's shop, where it is both less visible and harder to reach without being seen.
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The upper part of the goal.
toxidrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxidromes
Etymology: Blend of toxic + syndrome
Senses: glosses: A syndrome induced by a toxin.
nova remnant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nova remnants
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The ejected material left behind by novae.
Related terms: supernova remnant
plerion
planetary nebula
protoplanetary nebula
preplanetary nebula