cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chapiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæpɪtɚ/
Forms: form: chapiters
Etymology: From Middle English chapitre, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum, diminutive of caput (“head”). Doublet of chapter and capitulum.
Senses: examples: text: Upon Friday the xxth daye of September in the yere before wrytten ther was a chapiter holden by Mr Deane and certen of the prebendaryes , at the whiche chapiter they dyd admitt ij peticanons and a clarke, that is to saye Syr John Thomas in to the rome of Sir Ellys Pecoke, Syr Wyllyam Laynborrow in the rome of Syr Ludgolde, and John Marshall in to Fox rome.
ref: 1997, C. S. Knighton, Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609, page 102:
glosses: Obsolete form of chapter.
examples: text: Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
ref: 1891, Albert Gallatin Mackey, Manual of the Lodge, page 70:
topics: architecture
glosses: The capital or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported.
examples: text: and when the time commeth , the shyrecue shall certifie the chapiters before the Justices in Eire, how many writs he hath and what & c.
ref: 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:
text: And at this day chapiters are called articles, for the most part, and are delivered as well by the mouth of the justice in his charge, as by the clerks in writing, to the inquest, where in ancient time they were (after an exhortation given by the justices, for the good observation of the laws and of the king's peace) first read distinctly and openly in the full court, and then delivered in writing to the grand inquest.
ref: 1812, John Rastell, William Rastell, Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of England, Now in Use, Expounded and Explained, page 78:
text: To these twelve knights, when returned and sworn, the chapiters or articles of their charge were read, and one part in writing, indented, was delivered to them, and the other part remained with the justices, who gave commandment to the knights, that to every chapiter or article they should answer, in their verdict, severally and by itself, sufficiently, distinctly, and openly.
ref: 1822, James Lowe, Observations on Fees in Courts of Justice, page v:
topics: law
glosses: A written summary of matters to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; articles.
chapiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapiter
oblations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbleɪʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of oblation
tensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛnsɪti/
Forms: form: tensities
Etymology: From Latin Latin tensus (“tense”) + -ity. Compare intensity.
Senses: examples: text: That broke the tensity of the children's interest, and they ran back into the house
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 994:
synonyms: tension
glosses: The quality of being tense (literally or figuratively); tension.
revitalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˌvaɪ.tə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɹiːˌvaɪ.tə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ɹiːˌvaɪ.ɾə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən]
ipa: /ɹiːˌvɑɪ.tə.lɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ɹiːˌvɑɪ.ɾə.lɑɪˈzæɪ.ʃən]
Forms: form: revitalizations
form: revitalisation
Etymology: From revitalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: As we will see, it is not difficult to envisage a pragmatic and workable revitalisation strategy to stabilise and develop the Scots language by applying the basic principles discussed so far.
ref: 2023, Clive Young, “chapter one: How Scots Works”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: The process of revitalizing.
scandalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scandalize
scandalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scandalized
form: most scandalized
Senses: glosses: Having been the subject of a scandal; disgraced.
Derived terms: unscandalized
scandalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scandalize
scandalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scandalize
scandalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scandalizing
form: most scandalizing
Senses: glosses: Tending to cause a scandal; scandalous.
scandalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scandalizings
Senses: examples: text: Hegel is averse to moralism, yes, that is true; that is, he is averse to sermons, to ingenuous scandalizings, to the charlatanry of professional morality.
ref: 2006, Luigi Luzzatti, God in Freedom: Studies in the Relations Between Church and State:
glosses: scandalization
overbuy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbuys
form: overbuying
form: overbought
form: overbought
Etymology: From over- + buy.
Senses: glosses: To buy excessively, especially to buy more than one needs or can afford.
glosses: To buy at an inflated price.
overcapacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcapacities
Etymology: From over- + capacity.
Senses: examples: text: In 1959, Ernest Marples became the new Minister of Transport. His business career had been as a road builder and he saw the future in a network of motorways, whereas he believed there was serious overcapacity in the railway network.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: A capacity for the production of a commodity or product that is in excess of what is needed.
Related terms: glut
overproduction
overstock
oversupply
overcloud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overclouds
form: overclouding
form: overclouded
form: overclouded
Etymology: From over- + cloud.
Senses: glosses: To cover, or become covered, with clouds.
glosses: To cast sorrow or gloom over.
overconfidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊvɚˈkɑnfɪdənts/
ipa: /ovɚ-/
ipa: /-dɪnts/
Forms: form: overconfidences
Etymology: From over- + confidence.
Senses: examples: text: My case is, as I have told you, almost complete; but we must not err on the side of over-confidence.
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 89:
text: Yet United may have paid the price for overconfidence as they completely lost their concentration after 10 minutes to let Wolves back in.
ref: 2011 May 2, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:
glosses: An excessive or unwarranted degree of confidence.
Related terms: overconfident
overdecorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdecorates
form: overdecorating
form: overdecorated
form: overdecorated
Etymology: From over- + decorate.
Senses: glosses: To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree
overdevelop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overdevelops
form: overdeveloping
form: overdeveloped
form: overdeveloped
Etymology: From over- + develop.
Senses: examples: text: After all, most neighborhoods in Chicago, outside of overdeveloped Lincoln Park, welcome any kind of retail developments their commercial strips can get.
ref: 1988 January 15, Ben Joravsky, “A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To develop to an excessive degree
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To develop a photographic film for too long
Derived terms: overdevelopment
overestimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overestimations
Etymology: From over- + estimation.
Senses: antonyms: underestimation
hypernyms: misestimation
glosses: The act of overestimating.
antonyms: underestimation
underestimate#Noun
hypernyms: misestimation
misestimate#Noun
glosses: An overestimate.
Related terms: overpricing
overvaluation
friends with benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friend with benefits
overexcite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexcites
form: overexciting
form: overexcited
form: overexcited
Etymology: From over- + excite.
Senses: glosses: To excite to an excessive degree.
overexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexercises
form: overexercising
form: overexercised
form: overexercised
Etymology: From over- + exercise.
Senses: glosses: To exercise to an excessive degree.
overexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + exercise.
Senses: glosses: Too much exercise.
overexert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexerts
form: overexerting
form: overexerted
form: overexerted
Etymology: From over- + exert.
Senses: examples: text: “But the real trick”, he said, “is to make sure you don’t over-exert yourself in the first place.” The key to post-exercise chic is simply not to sweat. Of course, it’s the first rule of style. Never, ever overdo it.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
glosses: To exert (oneself) to an excessive degree.
fair uses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fair use
overextend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overextends
form: overextending
form: overextended
form: overextended
Etymology: From over- + extend.
Senses: glosses: To expand or extend to an excessive degree, especially to do so beyond a safe limit; to overreach.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To apply (a term) to too many referents, by overextension.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To push a pawn too far, so that it becomes vulnerable to the opponent's attacks.
Derived terms: overextended
overextended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overextend
overextended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overextended
form: most overextended
Senses: glosses: extended or expanded beyond a safe limit
overflight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overflights
Etymology: From over- + flight.
Senses: examples: text: Nicaragua has been investigating the possibility that the 1985 outbreak of dengue fever along its Honduran border may have resulted from the release of infected mosquitos by U.S. reconnaissance overflights.
ref: 1987 May 9, Bod Lederer, “US Denies AIDS Bio War with Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: The flight of an aircraft over a particular place; used especially to refer to a flight over foreign or enemy territory.
Related terms: word: flyover
word: flyover
word: flyover country
word: flyover state
word: flypast
word: overfly
strike through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strikes through
form: striking through
form: struck through
form: struck through
form: stricken through
Senses: examples: text: It is useful to strike through an incorrect text, leaving it legible, to demonstrate that it is an incorrect usage.
synonyms: cross out
strike out
coordinate_terms: bold#Verb
boldface#Verb
embolden#Verb
italicize#Verb
underline#Verb
glosses: To partly obliterate text by drawing a continuous line through the centre thereof, usually to indicate the deletion of an error or obsolete information.
Derived terms: word: strikethrough
Related terms: strike down
overgenerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overgenerous
form: most overgenerous
Etymology: From over- + generous.
Senses: glosses: generous to an excessive degree
Derived terms: overgenerously
overgrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overgrow
overhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: over-hand
form: overhanded
form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + hand.
Senses: examples: text: an overhand shuffle of a deck of cards
glosses: Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
glosses: With the working part on top of the standing part.
raw_tags: of a loop in rope
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Done from below upward.
Synonyms: sense: with the hand from above
word: overarm
Derived terms: offset overhand bend
overhand knot
overhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: overhands
form: over-hand
form: overhanded
form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + hand.
Senses: examples: text: He had gotten thereby a great overhand on me.
ref: 1533, Thomas More, Debellation of Salem and Bizance:
glosses: The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
overhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: over-hand
form: overhanded
form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + hand.
Senses: glosses: In an overhand manner
overhand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: overhands
form: overhanding
form: overhanded
form: overhanded
form: over-hand
form: overhanded
form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + hand.
Senses: examples: text: Now, those little ends of the bag above the running stitches, are to be overhanded together.
ref: 1913, Jane Eayre Fryer, The Mary Frances Sewing Book, →ISBN:
glosses: Sew using an overhand stitch.
overhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + handed.
Senses: examples: text: That summer overhanded pitching was legalized, resulting in a slew of no-hitters, including the only ones ever pitched at Recreation Park.
ref: 1998, Richard Bak, A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium, →ISBN, page 31:
text: As has been mentioned earlier, there are various ways to hold a bow, the most obvious difference being between the overhanded method and the underhanded method.
ref: 1963, Gertrude Jean Shaw, The Violoncello Sonata Literature in France During the Eighteenth Century, page 19:
text: To make an overhanded knot, you pass the end of the rope over the standing part and through the bight.
ref: 2013, William Brady, The Kedge Anchor; or, Young Sailors' Assistant, →ISBN, page 22:
text: An overhanded patch is used on material that is seldom washed, and where the raw edge on the wrong side is not objectionable.
ref: 1927, The New Butterick Dressmaker, page 291:
glosses: Overhand.
examples: text: If these proposed alterations were made, would not the best trades soon be overhanded?
ref: 1867, John Watts, The Catechism of Wages and Capital, page 22:
glosses: Overstaffed.
overhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: over-handed
Etymology: From over- + handed.
Senses: examples: text: As you get older though, you will definitely want to be able to serve overhanded.
ref: 2013, Kacy Carter, Set to Serve, →ISBN:
text: The chimney was built entirely from the inside platforms, the masons working overhanded, and thus no staging was necessary on the outside.
ref: 1902, William Wallace Chrisite, Chimney Design and Theory: A Book for Engineers and Architects:
glosses: Overhand.
overhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-handed
Etymology: From overhand + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overhand
overjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: overjoys
form: overjoying
form: overjoyed
form: overjoyed
Etymology: From over- + joy.
Senses: examples: text: The prospect of writing three exams in a row without a break does not overjoy me.
text: This salutation ouerioyes my heart.
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, (please specify the page):
text: In overjoying me, you are grown sad;
ref: c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 143:
text: If my Letter pleas'd you, your's overjoy'd me; and I expect impatiently your kind Viſit: […]
ref: 1711 July 6 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Alexander Pope, “Letters to Henry Cromwell, Esq. Letter V.”, in Mr Pope’s Literary Correspondence, volume II, London: […] E[dmund] Curll, […], published 1735, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: To give great joy, delight or pleasure to.
examples: text: Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother’s; / Hers couldst thou wholly be, / My light in thee would outglow all in others; / She would relive to me. / But niggard Nature’s trick of birth / Bars, lest she overjoy, / Renewal of the loved on earth / Save with alloy.
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, “To an Orphan Child”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: To give too much joy to.
examples: text: 1598, John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals, London: Thomas Este, Madrigal ,
Your deeds my hart surchargd with ouerioying:
text: it is hard not to ouer-ioy in a sudden prosperitie, and, to vse happinesse is no lesse difficult, then to forbeare it
ref: 1618, Joseph Hall, Contemplations upon the Principall Passages of the Holy Story, volume 4, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 42:
text: 1685, Thomas Manton, “A Description of the True Circumcision” in Several Discourses Tending to Promote Peace and Holiness among Christians, London: Jonathan Robinson, p. 113,
That he doth not over-joy in worldly Comforts, nor over-grieve for worldly Losses.
glosses: To take too much pleasure (in something).
Derived terms: overjoyed
overjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Etymology: From over- + joy.
Senses: examples: text: to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords / And over-joy of heart doth minister
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second 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 I, scene i]:
text: a. 1631, John Donne, Letter to Robert Karre in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, p. 299,
I beginne to bee past hope of dying: And I feele that a little ragge of Monte Magor, which I read last time I was in your Chamber, hath wrought prophetically upon mee, which is, that Death came so fast towards mee, that the over-joy of that recovered mee.
text: 1835, William Wordsworth, “The Russian Fugitive” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 143,
Amazement rose to pain, / and over-joy produced a fear / Of something void and vain,
text: The katydids express their overjoy / Down in knee-high maturing August grasses;
ref: 1975, Jesse Stuart, “No Warning from the Wind”, in The World of Jesse Stuart: Selected Poems,, New York: McGraw-Hill, page 158:
synonyms: ecstasy
glosses: Very great joy.
examples: text: Restraint of the organs of sense, on which success in study and discipline depends, can be enforced by abandoning lust, anger, greed, vanity (māna), haughtiness (mada) and overjoy (harṣa).
ref: 1963, B. A. Saletore, Ancient Indian Political Thought and Institutions, Asia Publishing House, page 318:
text: The knowledge that some are deprived tempers overjoy or overdesire.
ref: 1991, Robert F. Morneau, Mantras from a Poet: Jessica Powers, Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, page 5:
text: The emotional extremes of overexcitement, overjoy, depression, and anxiety are all blockages in the Message Center.
ref: 2006, Zhi Gang Sha, chapter 6, in Soul Mind Body Medicine, Novato, CA: New World Library, page 158:
glosses: Excessive joy.
overleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From over + leaf.
Senses: glosses: On the other side of a sheet of paper (including a leaf of a book); thus, on the next page when flipping from a recto to the sequential verso.
Related terms: turn over a new leaf
turn the page
overnice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overnice
form: most overnice
Etymology: From over- + nice.
Senses: glosses: Excessively nice or fastidious.
Derived terms: overnicely
overniceness
overoptimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overoptimisms
Etymology: From over- + optimism.
Senses: glosses: Excessive optimism.
Derived terms: overoptimistic
overoptimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overoptimistic
form: most overoptimistic
form: over-optimistic
form: overly
form: optimistic
Etymology: From over- + optimistic.
Senses: glosses: Excessively optimistic.
Synonyms: overpositive
Derived terms: overoptimistically
Related terms: overoptimism
overparticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more overparticular
form: most overparticular
Etymology: From over- + particular.
Senses: glosses: Excessively picky or fastidious.
overpraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɹeɪz/
Forms: form: overpraises
form: overpraising
form: overpraised
form: overpraised
Etymology: From Middle English overpreisen, equivalent to over- + praise.
Senses: examples: text: The overpraised are the worst deceivers.
text: There may be a tendency in the gay press to overpraise the film. It is after all a major movie by and about gay people. […] One would think that it is what gays concerned with the media have been waiting for.
ref: 1978 April 29, Michael Bronski, “Notes on a Necessary Gay Film”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: To praise to an excessive degree.
Derived terms: overpraiser
overpraise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɹeɪz/
Etymology: From Middle English overpreisen, equivalent to over- + praise.
Senses: glosses: Excessive praise.
overprecise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overprecise
form: most overprecise
form: over-precise
Etymology: From over- + precise.
Senses: examples: text: For the consideration of ease, the unreasonablest of all others, and most unbecoming the nature of a man, declares it selfe at full the weakenes of the condition, having a longer traine of discomodites then any of the rest ; and deerely shall yow pay for yowr ease, when yow shall obtayne it by the industry of a wyfe; for I never found in all my observations, since I could deserne of any thing, but when soever the woman did governe, or semed to doe soe, the man grew straight into contempt; and although I know it is a very godly thing, to hold ones selfe constant and loving to a wyfe, indeede, yett withall have I often perceaved, to hold it overprecise in outward shew gives somme danger of an attribute of uxoriousnesse; nether did I ever know any man that was long constant to a mistresse, but lost of his reputation of a gallant and worthy man.
ref: 1838, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity 1838: Volume 27, Society of Antiquaries, page 336:
text: Lady Lyttelton is again the chief authority for this expression in its Glynnese use : and her application of it is a constant source of sonorous laughter on the part of the reverend person so often alluded to in this work. The Author conceives it is nothing but an arbitrary substitution of the word 'martyr' for 'slave' in colloquial English: and signifies that overprecise and punctilious attention to anything which is so often called 'being a slave to it'.
ref: 1851, George William Lyttelton, Contributions towards a Gossary of the Glynne Language, W. Nicol, pages 65-66:
text: His dark gray eyes beamed with benevolence ; and he used to say himself, “Any one can see by the look of me that I am a good-natured sort of fellow.”’ The impression given by his countenance and bearing was that of an earnest, dignified man, perhaps a little overprecise. Though fond of a joke, he never indulged in immoderate laughter.
ref: 1910, Richard Alexander Streatfeild, Life Stories of Great Composers: A Collection of Biographies of the Greatest Masters of Music, Theo. Presser Company, page 130:
glosses: Excessively precise; more accurate than is needed.
Derived terms: overprecision
overpreciseness
overprice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪs
Forms: form: overprices
form: overpricing
form: overpriced
form: overpriced
Etymology: From over- + price.
Senses: glosses: to give a commodity an excessive price
overproduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overproduces
form: overproducing
form: overproduced
form: overproduced
Etymology: From over- + produce.
Senses: examples: text: Mycelium overproduces links.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 55:
glosses: To produce more of something than one can use or sell.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: overarrange
glosses: To apply excess modifications to musical recordings, such as adding effects.
Derived terms: overproducer
Related terms: word: overproduction
english: wine analog
translation: wine analog
word: spoofulate
hyperpolarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperpolarizes
form: hyperpolarizing
form: hyperpolarized
form: hyperpolarized
Etymology: From hyper- + polarize.
Senses: glosses: To increase the polarity of something, especially the polarity across a biological membrane
Derived terms: hyperpolarizable
Related terms: hyperpolarization
hyperpolarizer
overproduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overproductions
Etymology: From over- + production.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion, / Said to the midwife 'Take it away; I'm through with overproduction'.
ref: 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music:
glosses: The production of more of a commodity than can be used or sold.
Derived terms: elite overproduction
Related terms: overproduce
glut
overcapacity
overstock
oversupply
overprotect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overprotects
form: overprotecting
form: overprotected
form: overprotected
Etymology: From over- + protect.
Senses: glosses: To protect to an excessive degree; to coddle
Derived terms: overprotection
overprotective
overrefined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overrefine
overrefined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overrefined
form: most overrefined
Senses: synonyms: fey
glosses: Refined to an excessive degree
overrefine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overrefines
form: overrefining
form: overrefined
form: overrefined
form: over-refine
Etymology: From over- + refine.
Senses: glosses: To refine to an excessive degree.
oversimple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversimple
form: most oversimple
Etymology: From over- + simple.
Senses: glosses: Excessively simple; lacking the necessary complexity.
Derived terms: oversimply
oversize
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversize
form: most oversize
Etymology: From over- + size.
Senses: glosses: Larger than normal.
examples: text: Volleyball jerseys are formfitting and cute—unlike the oversize basketball or football ones.
ref: 2009, Debbie Rigaud, chapter 2, in Perfect Shot (The Romantic Comedies), New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Excessively large.
Synonyms: oversized
oversize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversizes
form: oversizing
form: oversized
form: oversized
Etymology: From over- + size.
Senses: glosses: To exceed in size.
glosses: To make larger, or too large.
examples: text: o'er-siz'd with coagulate gore
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 II, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: To cover with size or gluey matter.
oversize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversizes
Etymology: From over- + size.
Senses: examples: text: However, any increase in capacity is useful and, if an engine is worn and needs a rebore, it's worth considering boring to a near maximum size rather than simply having it bored to the next oversize.
ref: 2005, Daniel Stapleton, How to Plan and Build a Fast Road Car, page 14:
text: Have your local machine shop rebore the cylinders to the next nearest oversize and supply new pistons and rings to suit. Recommended rebore oversizes go up in increments of 0.25mm/0.010 inch. If the engine's already been rebored, you'll usually be able to find the oversize stamped in the piston crowns.
ref: 2006, Rod Grainger, Pete Shoemark, Mazda MX-5 Miata 1.8 1993 to 1999: Enthuasiast Workshop Manual:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The increased size of the bore of an engine when it is rebored.
overspecialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˌspɛʃəlɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˌspɛʃəlɪˈzeɪʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: overspecializations
form: overspecialisation
Etymology: From over- + specialization or overspecialize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Extreme or excessive specialization.
Related terms: overspecialize
overspecialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: overspecializes
form: overspecializing
form: overspecialized
form: overspecialized
form: overspecialise
Etymology: From over- + specialize.
Senses: examples: text: The tendency to overspecialize is also noticeable in the county. Some farmers are growing fruit to the exclusion of all other crops; some carry the practice a step further and grow only peaches.
ref: 1915, E. H. Anderson, “Niagara County: An Account of Its Agriculture and of Its Farm Bureau”, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of the Agricultural Experiment Station, volume II, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, published 1916, page 2093:
text: The greatest of benefits to be derived from a purposeful college education are an active and lasting intellectual curiosity—a pervading spirit of inquiry—and the ability to think. To attain these goals the student should direct his education in a broad field of study rather than overspecialize in a single subject.
ref: 1953 December, Robert Constant, “Overspecialization”, in The Michigan Technic, volume LXXII, number 3, Ann Arbor, Mich.: College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52, column 1:
text: Still, Winn is a savvy observer of intellectual politics, ably dissecting the economic and administrative incentives that encourage academics to overspecialize.
ref: 1999 February 24, Louis Jacobson, “It's the play and the song that count”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly:
glosses: To specialize to an excessive degree.
Derived terms: overspecialization
overstimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstimulates
form: overstimulating
form: overstimulated
form: overstimulated
Etymology: From over- + stimulate.
Senses: glosses: To stimulate to an excessive degree; to expose to excessive stimulation.
overstock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: overstocks
form: overstocking
form: overstocked
form: overstocked
Etymology: From over- + stock.
Senses: antonyms: understock#Verb
hypernyms: stock up
stock#Verb
lay in
coordinate_terms: restock#Verb
glosses: To stock to an excessive degree.
Related terms: out of stock
stocked up
stockless
unstocked
overstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: overstocks
Etymology: From over- + stock.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: oversupply
text: This overstock of beauty, for which there are so few bidders, calls for an immediate supply of lovers and husbands […]
ref: 1794, The Tatler, volume 4, page 24:
antonyms: stockout
glosses: An excessive stock; a surplus or glut.
Related terms: overcapacity
overstrict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overstrict
form: most overstrict
Etymology: From over- + strict.
Senses: glosses: Excessively strict or severe.
Derived terms: overstrictly
overstrictness
overstrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overstrung
form: most overstrung
Etymology: From over- + strung.
Senses: glosses: Excessively tense or nervous
glosses: Strung too tightly
oversubscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oversubscribes
form: oversubscribing
form: oversubscribed
form: oversubscribed
Etymology: From over- + subscribe.
Senses: examples: text: The operator says its apprenticeship scheme is always oversubscribed, with more and more roles offered every year.
ref: 2024 February 21, “Network News: Northern seeks new recruits”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 17:
glosses: To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability.
examples: text: Société Générale said the approximately $8.4 billion it had raised in a rights offering of shares would allow it "to continue its development in business and regions with high potential." Investors had sought to buy €10.2 billion worth of new shares, oversubscribing the offering by 184 percent, the bank said.
ref: 2008 March 11, “Rights offering from Société Générale raises €5.5 billion”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability.
To attempt to buy more shares than there are available.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To use the oversubscription technique in multithreading.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use the oversubscription technique in a computer network.
Derived terms: oversubscription
oversubtle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversubtle
form: most oversubtle
Etymology: From over- + subtle.
Senses: glosses: Excessively subtle.
Derived terms: oversubtly
oversupply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəsəˈplʌɪ/
Forms: form: oversupplies
form: oversupplying
form: oversupplied
form: oversupplied
Etymology: From over- + supply.
Senses: glosses: To supply more than is needed.
oversupply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəsəˈplʌɪ/
Forms: form: oversupplies
Etymology: From over- + supply.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: overstock
text: He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.
ref: 2012, Jurek Martin, “A Singular President”, in Literary Review, section 401:
glosses: An excessive supply.
Related terms: overcapacity
overtax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtæks/
Forms: form: overtaxes
form: overtaxing
form: overtaxed
form: overtaxed
Etymology: From over- + tax.
Senses: glosses: To tax to an excessive degree.
examples: text: The overtaxed shaft snapped.
text: Again, that lonely taper, how often is it the companion and sign of studies for which the day is too short—studies that steal the gloss from the sunny hair, and the light from the over-taxed eye!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: The 310-mile Tokaido line is being built from Tokyo to Osaka, through the most densely populated and heavily industrialised area of the country, to relieve the existing 340-mile 3ft 6in gauge line, which is overtaxed by continually increasing traffic.
ref: 1963 January, “New in Japan: Tokaido line trials”, in Modern Railways, page 44:
glosses: To overburden.
overvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overvalues
form: overvaluing
form: overvalued
form: overvalued
form: over-value
Etymology: From over- + value.
Senses: glosses: To assign an excessive value to something.
Related terms: overvaluation
overvaluing
overvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overvalues
form: over-value
Etymology: From over- + value.
Senses: glosses: A value assigned to something in excess of its real value.
maun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English mau(e)n, mowen, from Old English magon, plural present indicative of magan (“to be able to, may”). More at mow, may.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:maun.
glosses: To have to; must.
aires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /eɹz/
rhymes: -eə(ɹ)z
rhymes: -eɹz
Senses: glosses: plural of aire
flense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: flenses
form: flensing
form: flensed
form: flensed
form: flench
form: flinch
Etymology: From Danish flense (now spelled flænse).
Senses: examples: text: In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 198:
text: His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed.
ref: 2001, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, →ISBN, page 191:
text: For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her.
ref: 2004, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth, →ISBN, page 5:
text: It engulfed screaming soldiers who disappeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them.
ref: 2008, Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard, →ISBN, page 569:
text: The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
ref: 2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106:
glosses: To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Synonyms: flay
fleece
skin
bitch-slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitch-slaps
form: bitch slap
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitch slap.
bitch-slap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitch-slaps
form: bitch-slapping
form: bitch-slapped
form: bitch-slapped
form: bitch slap
Senses: examples: 1993, John Shirley, "I Want to Get Married, Says the World’s Smallest Man", in New Noir, FC2, →ISBN, page 36,
But he’d got the door open, yelling, “SHUT UP WOMAN I BITCH-SLAP YOU!” as he slammed it behind him with that soap opera timing.
2001, Lisa Scottoline, Moment of Truth, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 171,
“Nah. I’m just gonna bitch-slap my partner here. You wanna watch?”
2007, John J. Nance, Orbit, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 104,
“And they’re suddenly going to go across town and politically bitch-slap their boy? I don’t frigging think so.”
For additional quotations, see bitch slap.
glosses: To slap someone powerfully in the face, meant to assert dominance or control over the receiver; to deliver a bitch slap to.
free-standing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of freestanding.
pornotopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔː.nəˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
ipa: /ˌpɔɹ.nəˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: pornotopias
Etymology: Blend of pornography + utopia; originally coined by American literary scholar and author Steven Marcus in his book The Other Victorians: a Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1966) to describe the setting in Victorian pornography.
Senses: examples: text: Whether written or pictorial, pornotopia overwhelmingly depicts or evokes visual images of female bodies (or male bodies, in the case of male homosexual pornography), particularly the genitals.
ref: 1990, Bruce J. Ellis and Donald Symons (November 1990), "Sex differences in sexual fantasy: an evolutionary psychological approach", Journal of Sex Research, 27(4):527–555, page 544
text: Pornotopia emerges as the forces of self-gratification, mass consumerism, and advanced technology merge.
ref: 1994, Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover (1994), "The pornographic state", Harvard Law Review, 107:1374–1399 – via Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons, page 1375
text: Pornotopia, it turns out, has the same narrative problem all utopias do—a perfectly happy place is more fun to live in than it is to read about.
ref: 2012, Roger Bellin (21 May 2012), "Pornotopia", Los Angeles Review of Books (retrieved 2017-10-31; archived from the original 2017-10-31)
text: Pornotopia is a fantasy realm, made possible by evolutionarily novel technologies (film, DVDs, the Internet, things that did not exist for most of human history), in which impersonal sex with a variety of high mate value women is the norm rather than the rare exception.
ref: 2012, Catherine Salmon (June 2012), "The pop culture of sex: an evolutionary window on the worlds of pornography and romance", Review of General Psychology, 16(2):152–160, DOI:10.1037/a0027910, page 155
glosses: A fantasy world in which everyone is ready and willing to indulge in all kinds of sexual activity.
Derived terms: pornotopic
pornotopian
Related terms: intimatopia
romantopia
Lacy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French, variant of Lacey
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage, variant of Lacey.
examples: text: Caught a glimpse of Lacy squatted like she was pissing […].
ref: 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Lacey.
equilibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːkwɪˈlɪbɹeɪt/
ipa: /iːˈkwɪlɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: equilibrates
form: equilibrating
form: equilibrated
form: equilibrated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Late Latin *aequilībrō.
Senses: examples: text: [Walras] was well aware of the indirect influences of the changes in the other prices, but he assumed that these influences were some equilibrating and some disequilibrating, so that up to a certain point they cancelled each other out; hence the prevailing effect war the stabilizing one of the ‘own’ price.
ref: 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 303:
text: The perfectly competitive new classical models that we analyzed in chapters 13 and 14 are examples of DSGE models in which wages and prices are perfectly flexible and equilibrate both the product and labor markets.
ref: 2019, George Alogoskoufis, Dynamic Macroeconomics, MIT Press, page 449:
text: Their equilibrium level is due to both trend inflation and r#42;, the real neutral rate of interest that equilibrates the economy in the long run.
ref: 2024, Lapo Bini, Lucrezia Reichlin and Giovanni Ricco, “A Hundred Years of Business Cycles and the Phillips Curve”, in CEPR Discussion Papers, number DP19552, CEPR, page 9:
glosses: To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
glosses: To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.
Synonyms: equilibrize
Derived terms: disequilibrate
equilibrative
preequilibrate
reequilibrate
Related terms: equilibrium
equilibrize
fighter bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fighter bombers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Alternative spelling of fighter-bomber.
DWV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of deformed wing virus.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: Initialism of drain-waste-vent.
sacrificati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In the early Christian church, those who sacrificed to idols in persecution, but returned as penitents afterwards.
manti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manti
form: manties
Etymology: The immediate source is Turkish mantı or Ottoman Turkish مانطی (mantı). Before that, the origin is obscure. The word was widespread in Central Asia by the 13th century. Possibly from Middle Chinese 饅頭 (man duw), which would make it a doublet of mandu, manju, and mantou.
Senses: examples: text: And they kept one of the national dishes, manti (pasta stuffed with ground beef served in garlic-yogurt sauce, $11.50), as well as lahmacun, sort of a Turkish pizza ($3), and arnavut cigeri (fried calf's liver and potatoes, $5.75), a hot appetizer.
ref: 1998 November 13, Ted Shen, “Restaurant Tours: Metin Kurtulus serves Turkey”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.
ref: 2007 December 5, Melissa Clark, “When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times:
glosses: A type of dumpling served in Turkish, Armenian and Central Asian cuisine
carabine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəbɪn/
Forms: form: carabines
form: carabining
form: carabined
form: carabined
Etymology: From French carabine. Doublet of carbine.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
glosses: To attach via carabiner.
carabine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəbɪn/
Forms: form: carabines
Etymology: From French carabine. Doublet of carbine.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A carbine.
isotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotropes
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The apparent surface separating two differing isotropic fluids.
contempo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contempo
form: most contempo
Etymology: Clipping of contemporary.
Senses: examples: text: You get “sex education" now in both high school and college classes: everyone determined not to be embarassed^([sic]), to be very up to date, very contempo.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security, Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, page 1141:
text: It's all very contempo—as one might expect of the musical version of a film released just four years before.
ref: 2004, Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in The 1970s, page 23:
glosses: Contemporary; modern.
oral hygiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: dental care
word: toilet of the mouth
glosses: The practice of keeping the mouth clean in order to prevent cavities (dental caries), gingivitis, periodontitis, bad breath (halitosis), and other dental disorders.
wikipedia: oral hygiene
machine-readable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more machine-readable
form: most machine-readable
Senses: examples: text: This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology’s greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
ref: 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 51:
glosses: Capable of being read by a machine, especially a computer system.
examples: text: machine-readable dictionary
text: An ASCII text file may not be considered machine-readable if its contents do not follow a predictable, well-defined structure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Organised or formatted in a way that permits unambiguous interpretation by a program.
Hypernyms: readable