cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
runaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runarounds
form: run-around
form: run around
Etymology: Deverbal from run around.
Senses: examples: text: I called them to find out what had happened to my parcel, but all I got was a runaround.
glosses: An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.
glosses: A detour or route that bypasses an obstacle.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration.
glosses: A whitlow running around the fingernail but not affecting the bone.
Derived terms: get the runaround
give somebody the runaround
run-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-throughs
form: runthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from run through.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: walkthrough
hypernyms: rehearsal#Noun
coordinate_terms: dress rehearsal#Noun
dry run#Noun
glosses: A rehearsal of a drama, especially an uninterrupted one, but with no makeup or costume.
glosses: A brief outline of the main points of something; a rundown.
Related terms: passthrough
run-through
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: runthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from run through.
Senses: qualifier: railroad
glosses: In which trains continue without stopping while going through a station.
Related terms: express
jerkwater town
whistle-stop
run-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: run-ups
form: runup
form: run up
Etymology: Deverbal from run up.
Senses: examples: text: Jasprit Bumrah has the most unique run-up in the history of cricket.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball.
examples: text: But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
ref: 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The approach run of a high jumper or other athlete in order to gather speed or momentum.
examples: text: The candidates were very nervous in the run-up to the election.
text: Politicians on TikTok will no longer be able to use the app tipping tools, nor access advertising features on the social network, as the company tightens its policies around political issues in the run-up to the US midterm elections in six weeks’ time.
ref: 2022 September 21, Alex Hern, “TikTok tightens policies around political issues in run-up to US midterms”, in The Guardian:
text: Further trials and commissioning of the newly laid track will take place in the run-up to the launch of passenger services in June.
ref: 2023 April 19, “Network News: First tram on Wolverhampton extension”, in RAIL, number 981, page 12, image caption:
glosses: A period of time just before an important event.
examples: text: Economists expect a run-up of long-term interest rates.
text: A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes [title]
ref: 2006 December 22, Andrew E. Kramer, “A Price Run-Up for Run-Down Communes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: hike
glosses: An increase in the value or amount of something.
examples: text: I found sand pushed all the way to the edge of my home by the run-up of Wednesday's tsunami.
text: Historical records of tsunamis in this region are available for the last 400 years, and the run-up heights of historical tsunamis at Koyadori were estimated and measured"
ref: 2019, Daisuke Ishimura, Keitaro Yamada, “Palaeo-tsunami inundation distances deduced from roundness of gravel particles in tsunami deposits”, in Scientific Reports, volume 9, →DOI, page 2:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: The extent of a wave's reach onto land as the result of a tsunami or storm such as a cyclone.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of warming up and testing an airplane before a flight.
Related terms: lead-up
rusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rushers
Etymology: From rush + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who rushes.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The fast defensive position whose objective is to sack the offensive team's quarterback.
examples: c. 1590, unknown author, attributed to William Shakespeare, Mucedorus
I am rusher of the stable
glosses: One who strews rushes.
Related terms: edge rusher
gold rusher
pass rusher
rushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rushier
form: rushiest
Etymology: From Middle English russhy, russhi, resshi, equivalent to rush (“a plant”) + -y.
Senses: coordinate_terms: flaggy
reedy
sedgy
glosses: Abounding in rushes.
raw_tags: of a marsh etc
glosses: Having the characteristics of a rush (the plant); rushlike.
Synonyms: juncaceous
juncous
Derived terms: rushiness
Rushy Green
Rushey Green
rushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rushy
form: most rushy
Etymology: From rush (“a hurry”) + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian ruusich (“fast; quick; rushy”).
Senses: glosses: Characterised by rushing; hurried; fast-paced
Synonyms: frenzied
rustically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rustically
form: most rustically
Etymology: From rustic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a rustic manner.
rustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rusty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Southgate's team, playing their first game since the 4-0 win in Kosovo in November, showed understandable rustiness
ref: 2020 September 5, Phil McNulty, “Iceland 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The state of being rusty.
swatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swatters
Etymology: From swat + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something used to swat with; a flyswatter.
glosses: Someone who swats.
Derived terms: fire swatter
flyswatter
swatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swatters
form: swattering
form: swattered
form: swattered
Etymology: Compare Dutch swaddren (“to dabble in water”).
Senses: glosses: To spill water about.
sulkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulkinesses
Etymology: From sulky + -ness. Compare Middle English solcenesse, asolkenesse, Old English āsolcennes.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sulky.
glosses: The result or product of being sulky.
sultriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultrinesses
Etymology: From sultry + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All I Need, Sylvester's most recent album, is first rate. Here is a dance record that doesn't forget it's a dance record: it delivers! From the easy sultriness of the title cut to the libidinous urgency of "Hard Up," the seven selections […] have your foot tapping and your body jumping.
ref: 1983 April 9, Charles Fuller Jr., “Sylvester Sparkles”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: The state or quality of being sultry.
subzero
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: sub-zero
Etymology: From sub- + zero.
Senses: glosses: Less than zero, most commonly used to refer to temperature.
subversively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subversively
form: most subversively
Etymology: From subversive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subversive manner.
succinctly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌkˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/
ipa: /səˈsɪŋ(k)t.li/
Forms: form: more succinctly
form: most succinctly
Etymology: From succinct + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With this preface, Sam related, as succinctly as he could, the last memorable conversation he had had with Mr. Pickwick.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XLIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: My companion smiled approvingly. “You sum up the difficulties of the situation succinctly and well,” he said.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter IV (What John Rance had to Tell), page 26:
text: ["]Who is he?" "He is Tom," replied Ajor succinctly.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
antonyms: unsuccinctly
glosses: In a succinct manner, concisely.
conciseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsaɪsnəs/
Etymology: From concise + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I shall endeavour to keep it with as much conciseness as possible.
ref: 1763, James Boswell, edited by Gordon Turnbull, London Journal 1762-1763, Penguin, published 2014, page 231:
synonyms: word: concision
word: ;
word: brevity
word: succinctness
word: terseness
word: brevity
word: briefness
word: conciseness
word: concision
word: laconicalness
word: laconicism
word: laconicity
word: laconism
word: succinctness
word: terseness
glosses: The property of being concise; succinctness.
succulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: succulences
Etymology: From French succulence.
Senses: examples: text: Many brought presents of roast chickens and pigs, swinging the fowls by their legs as they extolled their succulence.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 138:
glosses: The property of being succulent.
Related terms: succulent
underuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underuses
Etymology: From under- + use.
Senses: glosses: The act of using (something) less than expected.
underuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underuses
form: underusing
form: underused
form: underused
Etymology: From under- + use.
Senses: glosses: to use (something) less than expected
Synonyms: underutilize
underutilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/
ipa: [ˌɐn.dəˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz]
ipa: /ˌʌn.dɚˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz/
ipa: [ˌʌn.(ɾ)ɚˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz]
ipa: [ˌʌɾ̃.ɚˈjuː.tɪ.laɪz]
Forms: form: underutilizes
form: underutilizing
form: underutilized
form: underutilized
Etymology: From under- + utilize.
Senses: glosses: underuse
Derived terms: underutilization
dropdown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drop-down
Etymology: Deverbal from drop down.
Senses: examples: text: Click the Colours button on the toolbar to show a dropdown menu of available colours.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: pull-down#Adjective
glosses: Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
raw_tags: of a widget
dropdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropdowns
form: drop-down
Etymology: Deverbal from drop down.
Senses: examples: text: That screen is good, but add a couple of dropdowns and it will be perfect.
text: Your Web site doesn't have to be full of the latest dropdowns, rollovers, superslick graphics, or Flash videos.
ref: 2007, Ray Foley, Heather Dismore, Running a Bar for Dummies, page 273:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: pull-down#Noun
glosses: An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (especially the other choices) until activated.
Related terms: droplist
spuriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spuriously
form: most spuriously
Etymology: From spurious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spurious manner.
sweepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweeping
sweepings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Material that is swept up.
swashbuckling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swashbuckling
form: most swashbuckling
Etymology: Back-formation from swashbuckler, as though that had been formed as swashbuckle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Brecel's swashbuckling style has endeared him to fans across the world, in particular the manner of his famous victories over O'Sullivan and Si Jiahui on his run to the final.
ref: 2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport:
text: “Thank you, but I'm gonna come home, like, all the time. Ooh, I want to cuddle that baby!” “And maybe give her some swashbuckling tips?” “Already worried she's going to be deadly. You're going to be such a good mom.”
ref: 2024 October 24, Keith Foglesong, “Shades of Green” (22:20 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 2, spoken by D'Erika Tendi (Ariel Winter):
antonyms: timid
unadventurous
boring
glosses: Adventurous, exciting.
Related terms: swashbuckler
swankily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swankily
form: most swankily
Etymology: From swanky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a swanky manner.
fork in the road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forks in the road
Senses: synonyms: crossroads
glosses: A junction in which one road becomes two divergent roads.
examples: text: Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
ref: 1997, Billie Joe Armstrong, “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)”, performed by Green Day:
glosses: A critical moment or point in life or in a situation where one must make an important decision between two or more divergent options or paths.
surmountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surmountable
form: most surmountable
Etymology: From surmount + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Now that we have done the impossible we can finish it, all that remain are rather easy and surmountable obstacles.
text: A spokesman for South Western Railway told RAIL that all the issues were surmountable, and that it was continuing to work with both the train supplier and the union to bring the trains into service.
ref: 2021 November 3, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Rolling stock concerns as '701s' "not fit for purpose"”, in RAIL, number 943, page 21:
glosses: Able to be surmounted or overcome; defeatable.
daydreamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪdɹiːmə/
ipa: /ˈdeɪdɹiːmɚ/
ipa: [ˈdeɪdɹiːmɚ]
ipa: [ˈdeɪd͡ʒɹiːmɚ]
rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: daydreamers
Etymology: From daydream + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who daydreams.
glosses: A person who wastes time daydreaming of accomplishments instead of accomplishing things.
Derived terms: Daydreamer
Related terms: dreamer
ultrafine particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrafine particles
Senses: glosses: A particle with diameter less than about 100 nanometers (nm).
Synonyms: nanoparticle
Related terms: nanotechnology
quantum dot
nanoparticle
assembly line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assembly lines
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
coordinate_terms: conveyor belt
glosses: A system of workers and machinery in which a product is assembled in a series of consecutive operations; typically the product is conveyed by a continuously moving belt.
Related terms: disassembly line
production line
along of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: It’s all along of you that he ventured to do what he did.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 3.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg.[…]"
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: You will find yourself in trouble all along of that nonsense, if you don't do what I say.
ref: 1888, Harry Castlemon, “Chapter 16”, in The Steel Horse:
text: Turning against your own poor father, to set them bloody-minded soldiers on him! And now he'll be taken and hanged, and I shall be a poor miserable widow woman all along of you!
ref: 1896, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Carbonels:
glosses: because of
photovoltaic cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photovoltaic cell
aeolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈoʊ.li.ən/
ipa: /iˈoʊl.jən/
ipa: /eɪˈoʊ.li.ən/
Forms: form: æolian
form: eolian
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to the wind.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: carried, deposited or eroded by the wind.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Aeolian mode
Derived terms: aeolian attachment
aeolian harp
aeolianite
Aeolian mode
hyperaeolian
palaeoaeolian
aeolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈoʊ.li.ən/
ipa: /iˈoʊl.jən/
ipa: /eɪˈoʊ.li.ən/
Forms: form: aeolians
form: æolian
form: eolian
Senses: synonyms: eolienne
glosses: A lightweight fabric with a ribbed surface, generally made by combining silk and cotton, or silk and worsted warp and weft.
sumu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumu
form: sumus
Etymology: From Mandarin 蘇木 /苏木 (sūmù), from Mongolian ᠰᠤᠮᠤ (sumu), from Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru, “a large arrow, militia company, district”). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sum (“Mongolian administrative division”), sometimes used in relation to Inner Mongolia.
roadhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊdˌhaʊs/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊdˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: roadhouses
Etymology: From road + house.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: coaching inn (often synonymous, historically)
text: The pub was a classic 1930s 'roadhouse'. To the railway's official mindset, it might as well have been an opium den in Victorian London.
ref: 2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, pages 49-50:
hypernyms: inn#Noun
hotel#Noun
<
house
glosses: An inn or similar establishment situated beside a road beyond the jurisdiction of a town or city. In the centuries before motor vehicles, such inns were places for travellers to stop at night during multi-day journeys, besides being public houses for their local countryfolk.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A receiving house.
glosses: A truck stop located in a remote area, with basic accommodation facilities.
Related terms: barrelhouse
honky-tonk
juke
juke joint
robotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊbətaɪz/
Forms: form: robotizes
form: robotizing
form: robotized
form: robotized
form: robotise
form: roboticise
form: roboticize
Etymology: From robot + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: They have fought the robotizing of their characters to a kind of stand-off.
ref: 1987, Ira Shor, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, page 53:
text: But we did not want just to train Raun or robotize him or to use force or the threat of punishment as others had tried to do rather unsuccessfully with other youngsters like him.
ref: 1994, Barry Neil Kaufman, Son Rise: The Miracle Continues, page 61:
text: Nazi criminals interviewed about their motives have given the same sort of replies: “Just following orders.” Hearts and consciences can be deadened and robotized in the same way.
ref: 2007, Thomas d'Ansembourg, Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real, page 200:
text: Their cut-ups, sputtering drum machines, and shreds of harsh noise are the ugly mirrors of pop music's technological wonderland, while their lyrics literalize the horror of humans being treated as dead machines in pop-Marxist language and production styles that robotize the voice.
ref: 2011, Daphne Carr, Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, page 20:
glosses: To give something (or someone) the characteristics of a robot.
examples: text: "[…]And maybe one works, but in the long run what it does is it robotizes the process.”
ref: 2000, Lawrence Thelen, The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre, page 34:
text: In fact, its solution would determine the number of robots needed to tend machines in a manufacturing system and hence the investment required to robotize tending activities.
ref: 2006, Massimiliano Caramia, Paolo Dell'Olmo, Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems: Optimization Algorithms for Production Planning, page 105:
text: All of these figures indicate that the off-road vehicles that will be robotized for deployment in agricultural fields will not have any trouble powering their sensors,[…].
ref: 2010, Francisco Rovira Más, Qin Zhang, Alan C. Hansen, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles, page 10:
glosses: To automate, especially by making use of robots.
Derived terms: robotization
Related terms: automate
robustly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more robustly
form: most robustly
Etymology: From robust + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This implies the use of two selection criteria – frequency and prominence – both of which are difficult to determine without access to a robustly representative corpus or an extensive and comprehensive citation collection.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
glosses: In a robust manner.
rock-and-roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rock and roll.
rock-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rock-bottoms
form: rock-bottoming
form: rock-bottomed
form: rock-bottomed
Senses: examples: text: By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing.
ref: 2010, Johann Hari, How Goldman Gambled on Starvation:
glosses: To fall to the lowest possible level.
rock-bottom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She knew in her heart that she had hit rock-bottom this time.
glosses: Alternative form of rock bottom.
rockbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rockbound
form: most rockbound
form: rock-bound
Etymology: From rock + bound.
Senses: examples: text: The Atlantic coast of the United States from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to Key Biscayne, Florida, is low and sandy compared to the rock-bound coast of New England.
ref: 2009, Robert L. Lippson, Alice Jane Lippson, Life along the Inner Coast, page 1:
glosses: Surrounded by rocks.
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: Limited in frequency because of a limited supply of crystals.
tiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tisses
form: tissing
form: tissed
form: tissed
Senses: examples: text: He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder. Tissing through his open mouth, Tarka rolled and fought with the terriers.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: To make a hissing sound.
radiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of radiate
tidal volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal volumes
Senses: glosses: The amount of air breathed in or out during normal respiration.
downed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: examples: text: The ball was downed at the six yard line.
text: He downed an ale and ordered another.
glosses: simple past and past participle of down
downed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Senses: examples: text: The pilot escaped from the downed plane.
text: A dog was sent to fetch the downed birds for the hunters.
text: The power outage was caused by a downed tree.
glosses: That has been brought down, usually by force.
Derived terms: undowned
tondo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɒndoʊ/
Forms: form: tondos
form: tondi
Etymology: From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus. Doublet of round.
Senses: examples: text: As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.
ref: 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 135:
text: In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]
ref: 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A round picture or other work of art.
Related terms: imago clipeata
rockfall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockfalls
form: rock fall
Etymology: From rock + fall.
Senses: examples: text: A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; [...].
ref: 1964 December, Mark Bourne, “The rejuvenation of the Cambrian line”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
text: Design work is now complete on the Parsons Tunnel North programme, which envisages a 209-metre rockfall shelter built from a jack-up barge as there is no road access.
ref: 2020 July 15, Andrew Roden, “Network News: COVID-19 delays Dawlish resilience completion”, in Rail, pages 24–25:
synonyms: rockslide
glosses: A quantity of rocks that has fallen from a cliff etc.
Related terms: scree
talus
Rock Falls
rock-ribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rock-ribbed
form: most rock-ribbed
Senses: glosses: Having rocky cliffs or outcroppings
glosses: Obstinately firm and unyielding in one's opinions
rock-steady
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In successful snapshotting the camera must be held rock steady.
ref: 1935 June 22, The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate, NSW, page 2, column 7:
glosses: Absolutely or completely steady.
examples: text: She's so rock steady (bam-ba-lam) / And she's always ready (bam-ba-lam).
ref: 1977, “Black Betty”, performed by Ram Jam:
text: Now we've found a rock-steady beat / Now all we need is a melody / And words that mean something and nothing
ref: 2000, Damon Gough, “Say it Again”, in The Hour of Bewilderbeast, performed by Badly Drawn Boy:
glosses: Consistent and dependable in one's behaviour or performance.
Related terms: rocksteady
rock steady
steady as a rock
rock steady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of rocksteady.
Related terms: rock-steady
rocksteady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock steady
Etymology: From rock + steady.
Senses: examples: text: “Maelcum a rude boy, Case. Garvey Maelcum boat.” His gloved hand slapped a panel and the bass-heavy rocksteady of Zion dub came pulsing from the tug's speakers.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 192:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Jamaican music somewhat slower than ska.
roguery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogueries
Etymology: From rogue + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Sincerely I begin to wish I had never made such a Point of gaining so very good a character, for it has led me into so many curst Rogueries that I doubt I shall be exposed at last.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
glosses: malicious or reckless behaviour
glosses: mischievous behaviour
roguishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roguishly
form: most roguishly
Etymology: From roguish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e besought one of the young men domiciled with Marheyo for the loan of his spear. But he was refused; the youth roguishly telling him that the weapon was very good for him (the Typee), but that a white man could fight much better with his fists.
ref: 1846 March 17, Herman Melville, “The Story of Toby, a Sequel to ‘Typee.’”, in Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: "Well, it's never too late to mend," said Anne roguishly.
ref: 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Chapter of Accidents”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 195:
glosses: In a roguish manner.
rosily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rosily
form: most rosily
Etymology: From rosy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rosy manner; optimistically.
rottenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rottenly
form: most rottenly
Etymology: From rotten + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rotten manner.
roller-skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller-skates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller skate.
roller-skate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roller-skates
form: roller-skating
form: roller-skated
form: roller-skated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller skate.
roller skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roller skates
form: rollerskate
form: roller-skate
Senses: glosses: A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating.
Synonyms: roller boot
Related terms: in-line skate
quad skate
rollerblade
roller shoe
roller skate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roller skates
form: roller skating
form: roller skated
form: roller skated
form: rollerskate
form: roller-skate
Senses: examples: text: A fragrance drifts by, and a memory is evoked. My feet have not forgotten how to roller-skate, and my hands remember skills that I was hardly aware I had learned.
ref: 1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 11, →DOI, page 642:
glosses: To skate using roller skates.
rollerskate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerskates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller skate.
rollerskate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rollerskates
form: rollerskating
form: rollerskated
form: rollerskated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller skate.
rollerskating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roller skating.
rollerskating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rollerskate
roller skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerskating
Senses: glosses: Skating on roller skates.
rollick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑlɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: rollicks
form: rollicking
form: rollicked
form: rollicked
Etymology: Presumably a blend of roll + frolic; appeared 1811 as rollicking, 1826 as rollick.
Senses: examples: text: But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk’s head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 34, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: To behave in a playful or carefree manner; to frolic or romp.
Derived terms: rollicker
rollicking
rollick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑlɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: rollicks
form: rollicking
form: rollicked
form: rollicked
form: rollock
Etymology: From bollock.
Senses: glosses: To reprimand.
rollick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑlɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: rollicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rowlock.
rollicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rollocking
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rollick
rollicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollickings
form: rollocking
Senses: examples: text: Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life.
ref: 2004. Richard Ayoade as Dean Learner in "Once Upon a Beginning", Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode 1
text: He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice.
ref: 2006, James Russell, Fortune and Power, page 143:
text: That night, back at the billet, Corporal Banks summoned me to his room and there I stood to attention, whilst he gave me a roasting for getting him a rollicking from the sergeant.
ref: 2011, Johnny Barrs, From Rags to Rags, page 41:
glosses: A scolding, a bollocking.
rollicking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rollicking
form: most rollicking
form: rollocking
Senses: examples: text: Tin Maung gave an order and in due course the head-waiter arrived, a rollicking Shan with shining bald head and Manchu moustaches, carrying a dish heaped with scrawny chickens' limbs, jaundiced with curry, a bowl of rice and a couple of aluminium plates.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: carefree, merry and boisterous
Synonyms: rollicksome
roll-top
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rolltop
Senses: glosses: Having a top that rolls away when not needed.
Derived terms: roll-top desk
roll-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll-tops
form: rolltop
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of roll-top desk.
glosses: The flexible top of a roll-top desk.
glosses: An obstacle for a horse to jump over, having a rounded half-barrel appearance on top.
rolltop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roll-top.
Derived terms: rolltop desk
rolltop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolltops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roll-top.
rolltop desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolltop desks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roll-top desk.
roll-top desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll-top desks
form: rolltop desk
Senses: examples: text: he bought the roll-top desk and sat at it to do the accounts once a week
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 393:
glosses: A desk having a flexible top, made of parallel slats, that rolls away when not needed.
romanticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: romanticists
Etymology: From romantic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or follower of romanticism.
romanticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanticizes
form: romanticizing
form: romanticized
form: romanticized
form: romanticise
Etymology: From romantic + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: While we might have a tendency to romanticize the past, the reality is that cooking was often a monotonous, arduous, thankless task required to keep the family fed.
ref: 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 47:
synonyms: glamorize
glosses: To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
glosses: To think or act in a romantic manner.
rooftop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːfˌtɒp/
ipa: /ˈɹufˌtɑp/
ipa: /ˈɹʊfˌtɑp/
Forms: form: rooftops
Etymology: From roof + top.
Senses: examples: text: In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 47:
text: Why do you think the rooftop of their apartment building is called "tar beach"? (Answers may vary.)
ref: 1993, Liz Rothlein, Multicultural Books for Primary Grades:
text: Riding the District west of Hammersmith, you immediately know something exciting is coming up, because at Ravenscourt Park you are level with the rooftops.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 79–80:
glosses: The area atop a roof.
examples: text: The house itself was a mound of red baked bricks and a tin rooftop.
ref: 2012, Ernest Alanki, The Chocolate Shop Perverts:
glosses: The top layer of a roof; the material covering or composing a roof.
Hypernyms: roof
Derived terms: cry from the rooftop
foldable rooftop
folding rooftop
retractable rooftop
retracting rooftop
Rooftop of the World
rooftopper
rooftopping
shout from the rooftops
snow on the rooftop
there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
Related terms: desktop
hilltop
housetop
mountaintop
tabletop
treetop
roomette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roomettes
Etymology: From room + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Although many luxurious single-room sleepers are in service, the demand for sleeping accommodation on long journeys is so great that vehicles less weighty in proportion to their passenger accommodation, and therefore less expensive for the traveller, have become a paramount need, which is largely solved by the roomette car.
ref: 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
text: The 20-hr. rail journey was, I think the most unusual and comfortable that I have ever made, because I travelled in a "roomette," a small private room for one person.
ref: 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:
text: For most of its journey it is made up to about fourteen cars, of which a large proportion provide the better type of sleeping accommodation (bedrooms, roomettes, etc.).
ref: 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A small private compartment, for one person, in a railroad sleeping car.
Related terms: couchette
roomful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roomfuls
form: roomsful
Etymology: From room + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Bengston doing a roomful of painting is like Joe Willie Namath doing a gameful of curl patterns, Jason Robards doing an eveningful of O'Neill, Tina Turner doing a concertful of. . . . and so on.
ref: 1974, Artforum, volume 13, numbers 4-10, page 35:
glosses: The amount that a room can hold, especially the number of people that can fit into a room.
glosses: The people in a room, considered as a group.
roomful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roomful
form: most roomful
Etymology: From room + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A roomful house.
ref: 1612, John Donne, Of the Progress of the Soul—The Second Anniversery:
glosses: Abounding with room or rooms; roomy.
roominess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roomy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being roomy
rose-colored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rose-colored
form: most rose-colored
Etymology: From rose + colored.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rose-coloured.
rose-coloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rose-coloured
form: most rose-coloured
form: rose-colored
Etymology: rose + coloured
Senses: examples: text: That had never happened yet; and now her imagination, instead of retracing the past, was busy fashioning what would happen to-morrow—whereabout in the Chase she should see him coming towards her, how she should put her new rose-coloured ribbon on, which he had never seen, and what he would say to her to make her return his glance—a glance which she would be living through in her memory, over and over again, all the rest of the day.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Hetty’s World”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 185:
synonyms: rosy#Adjective
glosses: Having a pink colour suggestive of that of a pink rose.
glosses: cheerfully optimistic
Synonyms: rose-hued
rose-tinted
Derived terms: rose-coloured glasses
Related terms: couleur de rose
rosiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosinesses
Etymology: From rosy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And they will let me hold with my caresses
Their dim delights and trembling rosinesses.
ref: 1944, Anna Hempstead Branch, Last Poems of Anna Hempstead Branch:
glosses: The quality of being rosy.
rotatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹəʊˈteɪtəɹi/
Senses: examples: text: It is also obvious, and proved by experiment, that the rotatory motions observed in the hand proceed from the rotatory motions of the radius.
ref: 1808, John Barclay, The Muscular Motions of the Human Body, →OCLC, page 396:
glosses: Alternative form of rotational.
examples: text: unconnected, rotatory, biennial national assemblies
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: alternate or successive
Derived terms: optical rotatory dispersion
rotatory nystagmus
rotatory power
Related terms: rotary
rotisserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəʊˈtɪs.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪs.ɹi/
Forms: form: rotisseries
form: rôtisserie
Etymology: From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.
Senses: examples: text: There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:
text: Rotisseries are essentially self-basting because most of the juices stay on the meat and distribute across it while the rotisserie is being turned.
ref: 2007, Dan Huntley, Lisa Grace Lednicer, Extreme Barbecue: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real Good Recipes, page 279:
text: Rotisseries cook with dry heat, but the continual rotation of foods as they cook helps maintain their natural juices.
ref: 2010, Regina S. Baraban, Joseph F. Durocher, Successful Restaurant Design, page 150:
text: The Italians are famous for their little windup rotisseries that cook in wood—burning ovens.
ref: 2010, Diane Phillips, The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook, page v:
text: Rotisserie broilers cook meats and other foods by turning them slowly in front of electric or gas-powered heating elements.
ref: 2011, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, 7th edition, page 47:
glosses: A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.
examples: text: Restaurants, chop-houses, rotisseries, abound in every part^([of San Francisco]).
ref: 1871, D. Appleton, Appletons' Hand-Book of American Travel: Western Tour, page 124:
text: We refuse to be drawn into the debate over which of St. Barts' two rotisseries is the best. They're both good.
ref: 1983, Sandra Hart, Best of the Caribbean, 1984, Fisher Travel Guides, page 215:
text: Rue Chaouia, opposite the central market, is the best place for a quick bite, with a line of rotisseries, stalls and restaurants serving roast chicken, brochettes and sandwiches until past midnight.
ref: 2009, Tom Masters, Europe on a Shoestring, page 818:
glosses: A shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball, synonym of fantasy baseball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of rotisserie sports, synonym of fantasy sports.
Derived terms: rotisserie baseball
rotisserie sports
roto
Related terms: spit roast
rotisserie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəʊˈtɪs.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɪs.ɹi/
Forms: form: rotisseries
form: rotisserieing
form: rotisseried
form: rotisseried
form: rôtisserie
Etymology: From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.
Senses: glosses: To cook on a rotisserie.
rototiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rototillers
form: roto-tiller
Etymology: From a trade name, from rotary tiller.
Senses: glosses: a motorized cultivator having rotating blades
Synonyms: word: rotavator
Related terms: single-axle tractor
two-wheel tractor
walking tractor
rottenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rottennesses
Etymology: From Middle English rotennesse; equivalent to rotten + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The track was further weakened by the too wide spacing of the sleepers, most of which "were in the last stage of rottenness."
ref: 1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, pages 216, 219:
text: Slowly Matilda sat down. Oh, the rottenness of it all! The unfairness! How dare they expel her for something she hadn't done!
ref: 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:
synonyms: rottedness
glosses: The quality of being rotten.
rotundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rotundities
Etymology: From rotund + -ity, from Latin rotunditas.
Senses: examples: text: The captain, `Papa Viggo,´ as he is called among the islands, is a fair-haired man, rather under average height, and with a tendency towards rotundity.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 13:
glosses: The quality of being rotund.
roughage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: roughages
form: ruffage
Etymology: From rough (“not smooth; crude, unrefined”) + -age (suffix forming nouns with the sense of appurtenance or collection).
Senses: antonyms: nonroughage
glosses: Originally (archaic), garbage, rubbish, or waste; later (agriculture) the portions of a crop which are discarded, such as husks, stalks, etc.; also, agricultural waste such as weeds.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: word: roughness
glosses: Coarse or rough plant material such as hay and silage used as animal fodder.
examples: text: I keep telling her not to eat all that roughage for brekky; prunes, bran, and baked beans.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188:
antonyms: nonroughage
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
Derived terms: nonroughage
rough-and-ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rough-and-ready
form: most rough-and-ready
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rough and ready.