cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːz/
ipa: /əz/
ipa: /ˈhɔːz/
ipa: /ˈhɝz/
ipa: /ɚz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
Forms: form: her's
Etymology: From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s).
Senses: glosses: plural of her
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
ours
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊəz/
ipa: /ɑːz/
ipa: /ˈaʊəɹz/
ipa: /ɑɹz/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)z
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
homophone: hours
Forms: form: ours
form: our's
Etymology: From Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.
Senses: examples: text: You can't take that! It's ours!
text: Could we ask you to move, please. These seats are ours.
raw_tags: double possessive
text: This beach is a favourite of ours.
glosses: That or those belonging to us.
Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours)
examples: text: We should ask for it back. After all, it is ours.
text: Don't you think that ours looks much nicer than theirs?
glosses: That or those belonging to us.
Including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive ours).
examples: text: French food is better than ours.
glosses: That or those belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
examples: raw_tags: double possessive
text: As we get older, maintaining an active social life should be a priority of ours.
glosses: That or those belonging to people in general.
examples: text: Good evening everyone. How are we all tonight? I know I've got my happy face on; have we all got ours on too?
glosses: That or those belonging to everyone being addressed.
examples: text: Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning? Oh, what's that bottle of tablets under our chair? Is that ours?
qualifier: may seem patronising
glosses: That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.
examples: text: Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. There are lots of recipes for these, but ours is the best.
glosses: Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
examples: text: You can stay the night at ours if you like.
glosses: Our house or home.
Derived terms: both of ours
friend of ours
of ours
theirs
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛəz/
ipa: /ðɛːz/
ipa: /ðɛɚz/
ipa: /ðɛɹz/
ipa: /ðeːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeəz/
ipa: /ðeɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: there's
Forms: form: theirs
form: their's
Etymology: From Middle English theires, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to their + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced theirn (from Middle English theiren, formed by analogy to mine, thine) in standard speech.
Senses: examples: text: This luggage is theirs. These passports are also theirs.
text: Theirs cost a lot more than ours.
raw_tags: double possessive
text: That cat of theirs got into our garden again.
text: The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
glosses: That or those belonging to them; the possessive case of they, used without a following noun.
examples: text: Let's go over to theirs.
glosses: Their house or home.
very
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
homophone: vary stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.
Distantly cognate with the Old English wǣr (“true”). Over time displaced the use of a number of Germanic words or prefixes to convey the sense 'very' such as fele, full-, mægen, sore, sin-, swith, (partially) wel.
Senses: examples: text: That dress is very you.
text: Not very many (of them) had been damaged.
text: She's so very similar to her mother.
text: ‘Is she busy?’ ― ‘Not very.’
text: In the end, the tickets didn't turn out so very expensive.
text: Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean.
 There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
text: “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To a great extent or degree.
synonyms: truly
actually
authentically
glosses: Conforming to fact, reality or rule; true.
examples: text: He was the very best runner there.
text: This is my very own treehouse.
glosses: Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.
raw_tags: with superlatives
Synonyms: word: above a bit
word: absolutely
word: abundantly
word: all too
word: but good
word: completely
word: eminently
word: ever so
word: exceedingly
word: excessively
word: extremely
word: greatly
word: highly
word: in spades
word: main
word: mightily
word: murrain
word: passing
word: positively
word: pretty
word: quite
word: right
word: simply
word: sore
word: specially
word: strongly
word: swith
word: truly
word: vastly
word: very
word: very much
word: way
word: way too
word: wicked
Hypernyms: word: partially
Derived terms: how very dare you
very much
Very Reverend
Related terms: word: degree
word: quantity
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 31. Greatness
helping verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helping verbs
Senses: examples: text: Such verbs as can be formed through the present and past times without the aid of any of these helping verbs, are called principal verbs, and are formed thus:
ref: 1814, Lindley Murray, The Young Man's Best Companion: And Book of General Knowledge:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An auxiliary verb; a verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause.
jump
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭmp
ipa: /d͡ʒʌmp/
ipa: [d͡ʒɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
ref: c. 1599–1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 1, lines 64–65:
glosses: Exactly; precisely
Synonyms: accurately
just
slap bang
exactly
jump
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭmp
ipa: /d͡ʒʌmp/
ipa: [d͡ʒɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: more jump
form: most jump
Etymology: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, bounce”), an iterative verb. The OED suggests an imitative origin. Related to jumble. In the sense “to propel oneself” it displaced leap partially and spring largely.
Cognates
Cognate with German Low German jumpen (“to jump”), archaic German gumpen (“to jump, hop, bounce”), dialectal German gampen (“to hop”), Alemannic German gumpe (“to leap, jump”), Walser dialect kumpu, Old Norse gopta (“to jump; make jump”) Danish gumpe (“to jolt”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump”), Danish gimpe (“to move up and down”), Middle English jumpren, jumbren (“to mix, jumble”).
Senses: examples: text: jump names
ref: 1640, Ben Jonson, An Execration Upon Vulcan:
text: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
jump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jŭmp
ipa: /d͡ʒʌmp/
ipa: [d͡ʒɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: jumps
Etymology: Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon.
Senses: glosses: A kind of loose jacket for men.
Related terms: jumper
jumps
both
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: bōth
ipa: /bəʊθ/
ipa: [bəʊθ]
ipa: [boʊθ]
ipa: [bɜʊ̯θ]
ipa: [bɐʉθ]
ipa: [boːθ]
enpr: bōlth
ipa: /boʊlθ/
ipa: [boʊɫθ]
rhymes: -əʊθ
Forms: form: bothe
Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number.
Senses: examples: text: Both (the/my) children are such dolls.
text: Which one do you need? ―I need both of them.
text: Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 21:27:
text: He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.
ref: 1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile:
text: Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
ref: 2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNN:
text: The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.
ref: 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:
glosses: Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
Derived terms: bat for both sides
best of both worlds
both barrels
both-handed
both-handedly
both-handedness
both of ours
both of theirs
both of yours
both-sided
both-sidedness
bothsiderism
both-sides
both-sidesism
both … and
burn one's candle at both ends
burn the candle at both ends
butter one's bread on both sides
cut both ways
find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight
go both ways
God doesn't give with both hands
grip oneself with both hands
have a foot in both camps
have it both ways
have one's bread buttered on both sides
hear both sides
jump in with both feet
make both ends meet
not have both oars in the water
out of both sides of one's mouth
play both ends against the middle
play both sides against the middle
swing both ways
take one's courage in both hands
with both hands
work both ends against the middle
work both sides against the middle
worst of both worlds
both
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: bōth
ipa: /bəʊθ/
ipa: [bəʊθ]
ipa: [boʊθ]
ipa: [bɜʊ̯θ]
ipa: [bɐʉθ]
ipa: [boːθ]
enpr: bōlth
ipa: /boʊlθ/
ipa: [boʊɫθ]
rhymes: -əʊθ
Forms: form: bothe
Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number.
Senses: examples: text: Did you want this one or that one? ―Give me both.
text: They were both here.
text: I've already lost both (of) my parents.
text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
glosses: Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
both
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: bōth
ipa: /bəʊθ/
ipa: [bəʊθ]
ipa: [boʊθ]
ipa: [bɜʊ̯θ]
ipa: [bɐʉθ]
ipa: [boːθ]
enpr: bōlth
ipa: /boʊlθ/
ipa: [boʊɫθ]
rhymes: -əʊθ
Forms: form: bothe
Etymology: From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English bā þā (“both the; both those”) and possibly reinforced by Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English bō, from Old English bā, a form of Old English bēġen. A remnant of the Indo-European dual grammatical number.
Senses: examples: text: I (can) both sing and dance.
text: Both you and I are students.
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Including both of (used with and).
examples: text: […] having much aduantage both in number, valure, and forepreparation […]
ref: 1598, Philip Sidney, The countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, page 211:
text: Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:
text: He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.
ref: 1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:
text: […] as he appreciates its beauty and its rich gifts, as he regards it with venerant love, fed by both his intellectual powers, his contemplation, and his meditation.
ref: 1892, Richard Congreve, Essays Political, Social, and Religious, volume 2, page 615:
glosses: Including all of (used with and).
Related terms: sense: various semantically related terms
word: 2
sense: various semantically related terms
word: 2nd
sense: various semantically related terms
word: couple
sense: various semantically related terms
word: double
sense: various semantically related terms
word: dual
sense: various semantically related terms
word: neither
sense: various semantically related terms
word: pair
sense: various semantically related terms
word: second
sense: various semantically related terms
word: twice
sense: various semantically related terms
word: two
hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊl/
ipa: [hɔʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /hɒl/
ipa: /hɐʉl/
ipa: [hɔʊɫ]
ipa: /hoʊl/
ipa: [hoɫ]
ipa: [hoːɫ]
ipa: /hol/
ipa: [hoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: whole
Forms: form: holes
form: holing
form: holed
form: holed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”), which is of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to hollow.
Senses: examples: text: Shrapnel holed the ship's hull.
glosses: To make holes in (an object or surface).
examples: text: She completely holed the argument.
glosses: To destroy.
examples: text: Good master Picklock, with your worming brain,
And wriggling engine-head of maintenance,
Which I shall see you hole with very shortly!
A fine round head, when those two lugs are off,
To trundle through a pillory!
ref: 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, act IV, scene ii:
glosses: To go into a hole.
examples: text: If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
ref: 1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49:
text: Woods holed a standard three foot putt
glosses: To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
examples: to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
glosses: To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
Derived terms: holeable
hole out
holer
hole up
hole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊl/
ipa: [hɔʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /hɒl/
ipa: /hɐʉl/
ipa: [hɔʊɫ]
ipa: /hoʊl/
ipa: [hoɫ]
ipa: [hoːɫ]
ipa: /hol/
ipa: [hoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: whole
Forms: form: holer
form: more hole
form: holest
form: most hole
Senses: examples: text: Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
ref: 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of whole.
glosses: Misspelling of whole.
wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝od
ipa: /wʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
homophone: would
Forms: form: woods
form: wooding
form: wooded
form: wooded
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”).
Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish ved (“wood”), Elfdalian wið (“wood, timber”), Faroese, Icelandic viður (“wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk ved (“wood, firewood”), vid (“wide, broad”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”), from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).
Senses: examples: text: Their be ii good bellys, a chales, and a few veſtments of litil valure, the ſtuff beſide is not worth xl s. lead ther ys non except in ii gutters the which the p’or hath convey’d in to ye town, but that is ſuar yt is metely wodey’d in hege rowys.
ref: 1542, Sir Richard Devereux, letter, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, London: J. Nichols, published 1792, page 155
glosses: To cover or plant with trees.
examples: text: Immediatly, the other boate lying ready with their shot to skoure the place for our hand weapons to lande upon, which was presently done, although the land was very high and steepe, the Savages forthwith quitted the shoare, and betooke themselves to flight: wee landed, and having faire and easily followed for a smal time after them, who had wooded themselves we know not where […]
ref: c. 1586, Sir Ralph Lane, “Lane’s Account of the Englishmen Left in Virginia”, in Henry Sweetser Burrage, editor, Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534–1608, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1906, page 246
glosses: To hide behind trees.
examples: text: to wood a steamboat or a locomotive
text: Many passengers would save a little by helping to “wood the boat,” i. e., by carrying wood down the bank and throwing it on the boat, a special ticket being issued on that condition.
ref: 1891 November 23, John Bidwell, “The First Emigrant Train to California”, in Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, editors, The Century Magazine, volume XLI, number 1, Scribner & Company, page 106:
glosses: To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
examples: text: In this little Iſle of Mevis, more than twenty Years ago, I have remained a great time together, to Wood and Water and refreſh my Men […]
ref: c. 1629, Captain John Smith, chapter XXVII, in The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith, volume II, London: Awnsham and John Churchill, published 1704, page 409:
glosses: To take or get a supply of wood.
wood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝od
ipa: /wʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
homophone: would
Forms: form: wooder
form: woodest
form: wode
Etymology: From Middle English wood, from Old English wōd (“mad, insane”). See the full etymology at wode.
Senses: examples: text: And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good.
ref: 1593, Thomas Nashe, The Choice of Valentines, lines 140-141:
text: And like a lion wood amongst them fares,
Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: How the young whelpe of Talbots raging wood, / Did fleſh his punie-ſword in Frenchmens blood.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], page 114, column 1:
text: A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: Mad, insane, crazed.
Derived terms: wood-wroth
woodness
wood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͝od
ipa: /wʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
homophone: would
Forms: form: woods
Etymology: Back-formation from peckerwood.
Senses: examples: text: He further stated that "I can't remember ever seeing a wood [white inmate] assault a nigger without being provoked".
ref: 1991, Mary E. Pelz, James W. Marquart and Terry Pelz, "Right-Wing Extremism in the Texas Prisons: The Rise and Fall of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas", The Prison Journal, Winter-Fall 1991
text: Other than shout-outs to fellow "woods," I found no references on their record to racism, and after getting to know the members, I think Woodpile's message is the opposite of what the L.A. Times construed it to be — they want to bring hardcore white guys to rap music, rather than alienating anyone of any race.
ref: 2009, Brendan Joel Kelly, “Pride vs. Power”, in The Phoenix New Times:
text: The only thing is, even though there are ways to remain neutral, to just be a wood and not get caught up in the white supremacist gang stuff, you do have to take a side if things get bad.
ref: 2011, Christian Workman, Black Boxed: Coming of Age Behind Prison Walls:
glosses: A peckerwood.
raw_tags: of a person
former
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːmə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fmr
form: fmr.
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English former, comparative of forme (“first”), from Old English forma (“first”), descended from Proto-Germanic *frumô. Parallel to prior (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to first and fore (thence before), from Proto-Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: A former president
text: the former East Germany
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: The former-slaves-turned-abolitionists Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano were the chief organizers of the Sons of Africa.
ref: 2007, Junius P. Rodriguez, Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World:
text: Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
synonyms: erstwhile
sometime
whilom
wont-to-be
antonyms: word: next
word: current
word: former
glosses: Previous.
examples: text: The former is a good idea but the latter is not.
text: We have two cars, a red one and a blue one. We won the former on a game show.
text: Bananas are tastier than parsnips, but the latter’s nutritional value is higher than the former’s.
antonyms: latter
glosses: First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
Synonyms: word: antecedent
word: anterior
word: earlier
word: erstwhile
word: ex
word: foregone
word: former
word: hitherto
word: old
word: olden
word: past
word: preceding
word: precedent
word: previous
word: prior
word: quondam
word: sometime
word: used-to-be
word: whilom
Derived terms: formerly
formerness
former Soviet Union
former times
former USSR
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
shadow of one's former self
Related terms: word: ex-
word: formerly
former
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹmɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːmə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: formers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English formere. By surface analysis, form + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Dave was the former of the company.
glosses: Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
examples: text: The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
glosses: An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
examples: text: Fifth-former.
text: Sixth-former.
glosses: Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
raw_tags: used in combinations
Derived terms: beamformer
glassformer
metalformer
opinion former
pan former
sixth-former
sporeformer
T-former
t-former
anterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /anˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /ænˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anteriour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).
Senses: examples: text: Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.
ref: 2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:
text: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
ref: 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
(of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
examples: text: anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:
glosses: Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
Derived terms: anterior auricular muscle
anterior cerebral artery
anterior chamber
anterior choroidal artery
anterior ciliary artery
anterior cingulate cortex
anterior commissure
anterior communicating artery
anterior cruciate ligament
anterior deltoid
anterior ethmoidal artery
anterior inferior cerebellar artery
anteriority
anteriorization
anteriorize
anteriorly
anteriorally
anterior median fissure
anteriormost
anteriorness
anterior pituitary
anterior pituitary gland
anterior scalene muscle
anterior spinal artery
anterior superior alveolar artery
anterior superior iliac spine
anterior triangle
anteriorward
antero-
centroanterior
distoanterior
dorsoanterior
duplicitas anterior
inferoanterior
lateroanterior
medioanterior
mentoanterior
mesoanterior
midanterior
nonanterior
occipitoanterior
posteroanterior
posterioanterior
sacroanterior
subanterior
superoanterior
tibialis anterior
toxic anterior segment syndrome
ventroanterior
Related terms: auricularis anterior
past anterior
astronaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăsʹtrənôt'
ipa: /ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt/
ipa: /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/
ipa: /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/
Forms: form: astronauts
Etymology: From astro- + -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
examples: text: Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.
ref: 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
text: The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.
ref: 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN:
text: Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. […] Space doesn't just appear dark to astronauts aboard the space station.
ref: 2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN:
glosses: A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
glosses: A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.
Synonyms: cosmonaut
Hyponyms: astronautess
spationaut
taikonaut
vyomanaut
Derived terms: actornaut
Afronaut
ancient astronaut
astronaut ice cream
astronaut maneuvering unit
astronaut propulsion unit
astronautrix
astronautte
astronette
chimponaut
fapstronaut
Nastronaut
para-astronaut
touronaut
Related terms: aeronaut
astronautic
astronautical
astronautics
cosmonaut
space cadet
taikonaut
vyomanaut
crew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kroo͞
ipa: /kɹuː/
ipa: [kɹuʊ̯]
ipa: /kɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: crewe
homophone: Crewe
homophone: cru
Forms: form: crews
form: crewing
form: crewed
form: crewed
Etymology: From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Senses: examples: text: We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
text: The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
glosses: To be a member of a vessel's crew
examples: text: The film was crewed and directed by students.
glosses: To be a member of a work or production crew
examples: text: The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 182:
text: Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
ref: 2003, Kirk C. Jenkins, The Battle Rages Higher, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: To supply workers or sailors for a crew
examples: text: The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To do the proper work of a sailor
examples: text: The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.
ref: 1967 January, “Tampa”, in The Pilot, page 30:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To take on, recruit (new) crew
Derived terms: crewer
uncrewed
crew up
crew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kroo͞
ipa: /kɹuː/
ipa: [kɹuʊ̯]
ipa: /kɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: crewe
homophone: Crewe
homophone: cru
Senses: examples: text: It was still dark when the cock crew.
text: And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door!
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more."
ref: 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:
glosses: simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
crew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kroo͞
ipa: /kɹuː/
ipa: [kɹuʊ̯]
ipa: /kɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: crewe
homophone: Crewe
homophone: cru
Forms: form: crews
Etymology: Probably of Brythonic origin. Compare Middle Welsh creu (“pigsty, hovel, stockade”).
Senses: examples: text: Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.
ref: 2004, Gillian Cross, On the Edge, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Derived terms: crewyard
crew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kroo͞
ipa: /kɹuː/
ipa: [kɹuʊ̯]
ipa: /kɹu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: crewe
homophone: Crewe
homophone: cru
Forms: form: crews
Senses: glosses: The Manx shearwater.
remote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈməʊt]
ipa: [ˌɹiːˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹəˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹɪˈmoʊt]
ipa: /ɹəˈməʊt̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞ʔ/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: more remote
form: remoter
form: most remote
form: remotest
Etymology: From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
Senses: examples: text: A remote operator may control the vehicle with a wireless handset.
text: remote workers
synonyms: disconnected
hands-free
wireless
antonyms: attached
connected
contiguous
direct
presential
glosses: At a distance; disconnected.
examples: text: After his fall from the emperor's favor, the general was posted to a remote outpost.
synonyms: word: far
word: hidden
word: distant
word: far
word: far-flung
word: far-off
word: faraway
word: outlandish
word: outlying
word: out of the way
word: remote
antonyms: word: close
word: near
word: proximate
word: distant
glosses: Distant or otherwise inaccessible.
examples: text: There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.
text: They have a very remote chance of winning.
text: You have a remote resemblance to my grandmother.
synonyms: distant
faint
small
antonyms: considerable
great
reasonable
sure
glosses: Slight.
raw_tags: with respect to likelihood
examples: text: After her mother's death, my friend grew remote for a time while she dealt with her grief.
synonyms: word: aloof
word: dispassionate
word: distant
word: removed
word: withdrawn
word: aloof
word: cool
word: distant
word: frosty
word: hankty
word: hard-to-get
word: offish
word: quiet
word: remote
word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: strange
word: thorny
word: touch-me-not-ish
word: unapproachable
word: unbending
word: undemonstrative
word: unimpressionable
word: uninvolved
antonyms: companionable
intimate
involved
passionate
glosses: Emotionally detached.
Derived terms: remote access
remote control
remote-controlled
remote desktop
remote froglet
remote hands
remote horn
remote keyless entry
remotely
remote method invocation
remoteness
remote passed pawn
remote procedure call
remote proxy
remote sensing
remote sensing scientist
remote speaker
remote starter
remote strobe
remote surgery
remote training collar
remote viewer
remote viewing
remote work
remote worker
remote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈməʊt]
ipa: [ˌɹiːˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹəˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹɪˈmoʊt]
ipa: /ɹəˈməʊt̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞ʔ/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: remotes
Etymology: From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
Senses: examples: text: I hate it when my uncle comes over to visit; he always sits in the best chair and hogs the remote.
glosses: Ellipsis of remote control.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
Synonyms: sense: remote control
word: buttons
sense: remote control
word: clicker
sense: remote control
word: zapper
remote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈməʊt]
ipa: [ˌɹiːˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹəˈməʊt]
ipa: [ɹɪˈmoʊt]
ipa: /ɹəˈməʊt̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞/
ipa: /ɹəˈmʌo̞ʔ/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: remotes
form: remoting
form: remoted
form: remoted
Etymology: From Middle English remote, from Old French remot, masculine, remote, feminine, from Latin remotus, past participle of removere (“to remove”), from re- + movere (“to move”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To connect to a computer from a remote location.
examples: text: These requirements are applicable whether you are remoting into a server or locally executing SharePoint cmdlets.
ref: 2010, Bill English, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administrator's Companion:
glosses: to remove (from something or someone)
complete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kɒmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: completes
form: completing
form: completed
form: completed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: complete
form: complete
form: completed
form: complete
form: completest
form: completed
form: completedst
form: completes
form: completeth
form: completed
form: complete
form: completed
form: complete
form: completed
form: complete
form: -
form: completing
form: completed
form: compleat
Etymology: From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Senses: examples: text: He completed the assignment on time.
text: How far are you willing to reach?
 While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve
 Now you're on a mission, but you won't complete
 Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me
 Try to let go of me, let go of me
ref: 2023, “30 Under 13”, performed by Better Lovers:
synonyms: word: accomplish
word: finish
word: complete
word: conclude
word: consummate
word: discontinue
word: do
word: end
word: finalize
word: finish
word: fullcome
word: get through
word: round off
word: stay
word: stop
word: terminate
word: wind up
glosses: To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
examples: text: The last chapter completes the book nicely.
synonyms: consummate
perfect
top off
glosses: To make whole or entire.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
Derived terms: autocomplete
completability
completable
completement
complete the square
recomplete
Related terms: accomplish
complement
completion
completive
comply
deplete
replete
complete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kɒmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: completes
form: compleat
Etymology: From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
Senses: examples: text: “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
ref: 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
text: …our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.
ref: 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013
text: 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
“Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”
glosses: A completed survey.
visit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪt/
rhymes: -ɪzɪt
Forms: form: visits
Etymology: From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”).
The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
Senses: examples: text: Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.
text: We paid a quick visit to James on the way up to Scotland.
text: There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
glosses: A single act of visiting.
topics: business
insurance
medicine
sciences
glosses: A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
Derived terms: closed visit
conjugal visit
educational visit
flying visit
home visit
open visit
pay a visit
state visit
visit a spell
visitation
visitor
working visit
Related terms: unvisited
visitation
visitor
experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mənt/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.ə.mənt/
ipa: /ɪkˈspiɹ.ə.mənt/
Forms: form: experiments
Etymology: From Middle English experiment, from Old French esperiment (French expérience), from Latin experimentum (“experience, attempt, experiment”), from experior (“to experience, to attempt”), itself from ex + *perior, in turn from Proto-Indo-European *per-.
Senses: examples: text: conduct an experiment
text: carry out some experiments
text: perform a scientific experiment
text: From her childhood she had been accustomed to watch, and often to aid, in her uncle's chemical experiments; she was, therefore, not at a loss, as a complete novice in the science would have been.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Laboratory”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 327:
text: South Korean officials announced last month that an experiment to create artificial rain did not provide the desired results.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.
examples: text: Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye,
 The maisters of his long experiment,
 And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Experience, practical familiarity with something.
Hyponyms: blue bottle experiment
control experiment
double-slit experiment
factorial experiment
forbidden experiment
ganzfeld experiment
gedanken experiment
Hughes-Drever experiment
Kennedy-Thorndike experiment
Michelson-Morley experiment
Milgram experiment
noble experiment
science experiment
Stern-Gerlach experiment
thought experiment
Valsalvian experiment
Wizard of Oz experiment
Derived terms: experimental
experimentarian
experimentary
experimentation
experimentee
experimentise
experimentist
experimentize
experimentwise
interexperiment
intraexperiment
multiexperiment
preexperiment
sexperiment
subexperiment