cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burn up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns up
form: burning up
form: burned up
form: burned up
form: burnt up
form: burnt up
Etymology: From burn + up. Compare Middle English upbrennynge, upbrennende (“burning up”, present participle), German Low German upbrannen (“to burn up”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: go up in smoke; see also Thesaurus:combust
text: The rocket may burn up on reentry.
coordinate_terms: burn away
burn down
burn off
glosses: To catch fire and burn until destroyed.
examples: text: Before daylight, when the dragon flew home to sleep, he had burned up the hall and even the throne of the Geatish king.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
coordinate_terms: burn away
burn down
burn off
;
fire up
light up
glosses: To destroy by burning.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: incense; see also Thesaurus:enrage, Thesaurus:annoy
text: His thoughtlessness really burns me up.
glosses: To anger; to annoy.
examples: text: One morning […] we stood around the office talking and laughing, having a good time, when one man, Tim, made a job ^([sic]) about "fags." Right then we had to leave, and soon we were warming up our cars on the street. Naturally I was burning up about the comment, and decided to do something about it, though even as I got out of my car to walk up to Tim's, I wasn't sure what.
ref: 1980 February 9, Bruce MacDonald, “Cultural Preparation”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 4:
glosses: To be angry or annoyed.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: steam, swelter
text: It's the middle of summer; I know it's going to be burning up outside.
text: Now that we've been walking awhile, I'm burning up in this coat! Time to take it off.
glosses: To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
examples: text: She felt the child's forehead and discovered that he was burning up!
glosses: To be or feel overly hot or inflamed.
To experience a high fever.
coordinate_terms: tear it up
glosses: To ride a motorcycle or other vehicle at high speed.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: roll out
burn out
glosses: To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.
raw_tags: of a ball
burn up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From burn + up. Compare Middle English upbrennynge, upbrennende (“burning up”, present participle), German Low German upbrannen (“to burn up”).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of burnup.
set the Thames on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets the Thames on fire
form: setting the Thames on fire
form: set the Thames on fire
form: set the Thames on fire
Etymology: Unknown. Suggested to derive from a misconstrual of temse (“sieve”): thus, to work so vigorously as to heat a sieve by friction. Alternatively, a reference to lightning strikes which sometimes occurred along the Thames, occasionally setting trees on fire or causing death in unusual manner. Otherwise simply by hyperbole, from the improbability of setting a river on fire (although the image might sound like a familiar reference to the Great London fire of 1666).
Senses: examples: text: The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: They intend to send a wire / To the moon — to the moon; / And they'll set the Thames on fire / Very soon — very soon
ref: 1884, WS Gilbert, ‘Princess Ida’, The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan, Oxford University Press, published 1996, page 491:
text: Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire.
ref: 1925, GK Chesterton, “The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow”, in The Collected Works, Ignatius Press, published 2005, page 402:
text: My head is spinning round / my heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / now I must come back down.
ref: 1985, Tom Waits, “Anywhere I Lay My Head”:
synonyms: set the world on fire
glosses: To achieve something amazing but to a nearly-impossible degree; to do something which brings great public acclaim.
raw_tags: in the negative
wikipedia: Peter Ackroyd
Frenchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frenchies
Etymology: From French + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Frenchy (“French person”).
examples: text: I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.
ref: 1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:
text: Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers, rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics — these days they're just condoms.
ref: 2002 February 7, Janine Burgess, “Armour against pleasure?”, in The Timaru Herald:
text: The poster was designed by Aboriginal health workers in northern Queensland for use in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, where the slogan was sometimes modified to ‘Use Frenchies’ because the word ‘condom’ was not in common use.
ref: 2004, Paul Sendziuk, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS:
synonyms: word: condom
word: cum catcher
word: rubber
glosses: A condom; abbreviated form of French letter.
glosses: A French Bulldog.
examples: text: “Kiss me,” she said.
He heard a giggle from Molly.
“Give her a Frenchie,” Solly said.
ref: 2014, J. David Simons, The Credit Draper:
glosses: A French kiss.
Frenchie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frenchies
Etymology: From French + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Frenchy (“name”).
Frenchness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃnəs/
Etymology: From French + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being French.
Englishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃnəs/
Forms: form: Englishnesses
Etymology: From English + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: 'Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
text: "Unlike most nations, we no longer "own" our language. The Anglish/New English project is intended as a means of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people"
ref: 2017 March 25, Lili Bidwell, “Anglish: A Brexiteer’s lingua franca?”, in The Cambridge Student, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2021:
glosses: The quality, state or characteristic of being English.
Scottishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Scottish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, characteristic or state of being Scottish.
Welshness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Welsh + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Welsh
logon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logons
Etymology: Deverbal from log on.
Senses: examples: text: Using the same logon for different systems can be a security risk.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: login
log-in
sign-in
sign-on
glosses: credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer.
examples: text: The user's desktop is displayed shortly after logon.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: login
log-in
sign-in
sign-on
antonyms: logoff
logout
glosses: The process of logging on.
logon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Deverbal from log on.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of log on.
drunkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drunk + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Drunkenness
hugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈhʌɡə/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: huggers
Etymology: From hug + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 16:
text: Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.
ref: 2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: One who hugs or embraces.
Derived terms: bunny hugger
dolphin hugger
hiphugger
hiphuggers
hugger-mugger
Jesus hugger
left lane hugger
nuthugger
nuthuggers
panda hugger
right lane hugger
tree hugger
hugger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈhʌɡə/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: huggers
form: huggering
form: huggered
form: huggered
Etymology: From hug + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Such a one they saw there lyrkinge and huggeringe two houres before.
ref: 1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:
glosses: To conceal; to lurk in ambush.
strangulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strangulates
form: strangulating
form: strangulated
form: strangulated
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To stop flow through a vessel.
glosses: To strangle.
kinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bent or twisted into a tight curl.
Synonyms: sense: bent or twisted into a tight curl
word: bent
sense: bent or twisted into a tight curl
word: twisted
kinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kink
Anastasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Romanization of Russian Анаста́сий (Anastásij), cognate with English and Latin Anastasius, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages.
Related terms: Anastasia
atmospherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atmospherical
form: most atmospherical
Etymology: From atmosphere + -ical.
Senses: glosses: atmospheric
schmucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of schmuck
scheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schedule
scheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schedulings
Senses: glosses: A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
glosses: The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
examples: text: The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.
ref: 1991, James W. Cooper, Drug-Related Problems in Geriatric Nursing Home Patients, page 111:
glosses: Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
Derived terms: trace scheduling
plus ça change
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: A short form (specifically, an anapodoton) of French plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (“the more it changes, the more it's the same thing”).
Senses: glosses: The more it changes, the more it's the same thing (sometimes loosely translated as the more things change, the more they stay the same).
glosses: Although the outward appearance may change, fundamentals are constant.
Related terms: same old same old
SSDD
glister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪstɚ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: glisters
form: glistering
form: glistered
form: glistered
Etymology: From Middle English glisteren, either borrowed from or related to Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch glisteren; like a host of other Germanic words in gl- related to shining, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.
Senses: examples: text: All that gliſters is not gold.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Fift Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 140:
text: […] strangely she glistered in the sun / as she leaped forth in the sun […]
ref: 1945, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lay of Autrou and Itroun:
glosses: To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
glister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪstɚ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: glisters
Etymology: From Middle English glisteren, either borrowed from or related to Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch glisteren; like a host of other Germanic words in gl- related to shining, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.
Senses: glosses: A brilliant flash; a glint.
glister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪstɚ/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: glisters
Etymology: Compare Old French glistere.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clyster.
glittery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: glitterier
form: glitteriest
Etymology: From glitter + -y.
Senses: glosses: That glitters.
Derived terms: glitteriness
glitzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtsi/
rhymes: -ɪtsi
Forms: form: glitzier
form: glitziest
Senses: examples: text: It must have been a while since I've attended a fancy, glitzy event, because as soon as I got to the GQ awards I felt like something was up.
ref: 2013 September 13, Russell Brand, The Guardian:
glosses: Brilliantly showy.
Derived terms: glitz
glitzily
glitziness
ritzy-glitzy
unglitzy
globalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globalist
form: most globalist
Etymology: From global + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: From a globalist point of view, talk of threats to a local culture or identity can look like bigotry and even racism: what reason could there be for excluding people when we are all part of a welcoming, global culture?
ref: 2019, Hassan Damluji, The Responsible Globalist, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to globalism.
globalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalists
Etymology: From global + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: You are either a globalist or a nationalist; one cannot be both.
synonyms: globocrat
antonyms: antiglobalist
nationalist
glosses: An advocate of globalism.
glosses: A Jew, implying that Jews are more loyal to a global conspiracy than the country which they live in.
topics: historiography
history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: continentalist
glosses: One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.
examples: text: "Globalists" tend to view international issues in terms of US-Soviet rivalry, while "regionalists" see them more often as manifestations of local rivalries and problems.
ref: 1986, Galia Golan, The Soviet Union and the PLO since the War in Lebanon, page 285:
text: The authors suggest that the globalist emphasis among policymakers has increased during the Reagan administration.
ref: 1986, Eric Stromayer, African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy (review), page 240:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: One who believes international events are primarily caused by conflicts between great powers.
Derived terms: globohomo
Related terms: globalism
globalisation
globalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊ.bə.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊ.bə.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡləʉ.bə.lɑɪz/
Forms: form: globalizes
form: globalizing
form: globalized
form: globalized
form: globalise
Etymology: From global + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to make something global in scope, as:
To internationalize to a worldwide or near-worldwide degree.
glosses: to make something global in scope, as:
To generalize to a comprehensive or even exhaustive degree.
Derived terms: deglobalize
globalizable
globalization
globalizer
glocalize
reglobalize
Related terms: globalism
globalist
globetrotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of globetrot
globetrotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: worldwide travel
globetrot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: globetrots
form: globetrotting
form: globetrotted
form: globetrotted
Etymology: From globe + trot.
Senses: glosses: To frequently travel worldwide.
Related terms: globetrotter
geologic joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geologic joints
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fracture in rock in which (unlike a fault) the strata do not move relative to each other.
footbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footbags
Etymology: From foot + bag, by analogy with football.
Senses: glosses: A small beanbag or sandbag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. It is typically controlled by the feet, but in some sports every part of the body except the hands and arms may be used.
glosses: Any of the sports that use the footbag.
Related terms: hack
hacky sack
blind curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind curves
Senses: glosses: A dangerous curve on a roadway, around which drivers cannot see approaching traffic.
analogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French analogique, from Latin analogicus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to analogy.
Synonyms: analogical
Derived terms: analogicity
Related terms: analog
analogue
analogical
analogically
analogous
analogy
antivenom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antivenoms
Etymology: From anti- + venom, q.v. Doublet of antivenin and antivenene.
Senses: examples: text: broad-spectrum antivenom
text: Most deaths and serious consequences from snakebites are entirely preventable by existing means, including making antivenom much more widely available.
ref: 2008, “Poisonings”, in Margie Peden, Kayode Oyegbite, Joan Ozanne-Smith, Adnan A Hyder, Christine Branche, AKM Fazlur Rahman, Frederick Rivara, Kidist Bartolomeos, editors, World Report on Child Injury Prevention, WHO Press, →ISBN, page 129:
text: So how much venom do you actually need to make antivenom?
About 15.
15 snakes to make one vial of antivenom?
ref: 2022, Derek Muller, "How Horses Save Humans from Snake Bites", Veritasium, 00:03:12 ff.
roman: Yep.
text: For Tim Friede, who's now the director of herpetology at Centivax, it's about helping the people impacted by venomous snakebites worldwide. When he heard that his antibodies had helped create this new antivenom cocktail, he says he was happy. […] David Williams, a scientist who evaluates antivenoms for WHO, says the biggest risk to people who are bitten by these snakes is paralysis, "which can prevent them from being able to control their airway and breathing and they can potentially suffocate and die as a result of that."
ref: 2025 May 2, Ari Daniel, “He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom”, in NPR:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicine that counteracts venom, an antidote to biological poisons from venomous animals such as snakes and spiders.
Synonyms: word: antivenin
english: UK & Australia
translation: UK & Australia
word: antivenene
Hypernyms: antitoxin
antidote
serum
antiserum
Hyponyms: english: supposed universal antidotes
translation: supposed universal antidotes
word: mithridate and theriac
english: certain snakebites
translation: certain snakebites
word: antivenin
bellflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellflowers
Etymology: From bell + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
Any flowering plants in the genus Campanula.
glosses: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
Flowering plants in the genera, Campanulastrum, Codonopsis, or Platycodon, in the family Campanulaceae.
glosses: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
Any flowering plant in genus Uvularia.
glosses: A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Campanula americana
word: American bellflower
word: birch-leaved bellflower
taxonomic: Codonopsis spp.
word: bonnet bellflower
word: bristly bellflower
word: Chilean bellflower
taxonomic: Platycodon grandiflorus
word: Chinese bellflower
taxonomic: Campanula portenschlagiana
word: Dalmatian bellflower
taxonomic: Platycodon grandiflorus
word: Japanese bellflower
taxonomic: Campanula takesimana
word: Korean bellflower
word: peachleaf bellflower
word: rover bellflower
black pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black pines
Senses: glosses: A pine tree, genus Pinus, of darker foliage than most other species:
A European black pine (Pinus nigra);
glosses: A pine tree, genus Pinus, of darker foliage than most other species:
A Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii);
glosses: A pine tree, genus Pinus, of darker foliage than most other species:
A Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), principally of California.
glosses: Other similar conifers:
Matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia), a New Zealand conifer;
glosses: Other similar conifers:
Miro (Pectinopitys ferruginea), also a New Zealand conifer.
glosses: Wood of such trees
glosses: A certain red alga, of species Neorhodomela larix, found in intertidal areas of the North Pacific.
Synonyms: sense: Pinus nigra
word: Austrian pine
falsifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsifiers
Etymology: From falsify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One that falsifies.
fanatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnæt.ɪk(.ə)li/
ipa: [fəˈnæɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]
Forms: form: more fanatically
form: most fanatically
Etymology: From fanatical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fanatical manner; with extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm.
full-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full-timers
Etymology: From full-time + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Based at BTP's London headquarters, Russell's team of three full-timers in the drone unit are responsible for overseeing the safety of drones in support of police officers.
ref: 2022 February 9, Tom Allett, “The BTP's eyes and ears in the air”, in RAIL, number 950, page 50:
synonyms: whole-timer
glosses: One who is employed, or otherwise engaged in an activity, on a full-time basis.
fumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumblers
Etymology: From fumble + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of fumble: one who fumbles.
Derived terms: finger-fumbler
all fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The four legs of a quadruped.
examples: text: to be on all fours
glosses: The four limbs of a primate.
examples: text: 'Twas a bad leg allowed me to read the Pilgrim's Progress, and Mark Clark learnt All-Fours in a whitlow.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: Other games were cribbage, all fours, ruff and honours, French ruff, five cards, costly colours, bon ace, putt, plain dealing, Queen Nazareen, pennech, post and pair, bankafalat, beast.
ref: 1882, John Ashton, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 104:
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game similar to whist.
glosses: A certain game of dominos.
blackfeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackfellers
form: blackfella
Etymology: From black + feller.
Senses: examples: text: You see we were only like ordinary blackfellers. We didn′t know anything.
ref: 1992, Bruce Shaw, editor, When the Dust Come in Between: Aboriginal Viewpoints in the East Kimberley Prior to 1982, page 100:
text: The whitefellers′ Law said it was a wrong thing to get a blackfeller to leave his district and go elsewhere, so Clancy and his mates were gaoled ...
ref: 2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 143:
text: 2009, Alf Barlow, The Two Rainbow Serpents, in Jeremy Beckett, Luise Hercus, The Two Rainbow Serpents Travelling: Mura Track Narratives from the ‘Corner Country’, page 30,
They reckoned they saw a big blackfeller camp on one side. They made the creek deeper. They named the place ‘Gumbagunbara (blackfeller)’.
coordinate_terms: whitefeller
glosses: An Australian Aboriginal.
dillybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dillybags
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dilly bag.
foc's'le lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foc's'le lamps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fo'c's'le lamp.
forecastle lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecastle lamps
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A lamp hung in the forecastle of a ship to allow sailors to work and relax after dark.
Synonyms: foc’s’le lamp
overbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbæləns/
Forms: form: overbalances
form: overbalancing
form: overbalanced
form: overbalanced
Etymology: From over- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.
ref: 1793, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 225
glosses: To be more important than; to outweigh.
glosses: To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
glosses: To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
glosses: To lose one's balance; to fall over.
overbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈbæləns/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌbæləns/
Forms: form: overbalances
Etymology: From over- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: an overbalance of exports
text: […] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]
ref: a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Original Sin:
glosses: Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
sea-calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-calves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea calf, Phoca vitulina.
seacalf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seacalves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sea calf, Phoca vitulina.
sea calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea calves
form: sea calfs
form: seacalf
form: sea-calf
Etymology: From Middle English see calf, ultimately a calque of Latin vitulus marīnus (“sea calf”). Compare French veau marin and German Seekalb. See also, among others, English sea lion, sea cat, Latin porcus marīnus (“porpoise”, literally “sea pork”), rāna marīna (“anglerfish”, literally “sea frog”), bōs marīna (“sea cow, dugong”), caballus marīnus (“seahorse”), canis marīnus (“seal”, synonym of vitulus marīnus, literally “sea dog”) and translingual Phoca vitulina (“calf-like seal, sea calf”).
Senses: synonyms: common seal
harbor seal
glosses: A common seal (Phoca vitulina).
treetops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treetop
treetop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiˌtɑp/
ipa: /ˈtɹiːˌtɒp/
Forms: form: treetops
Etymology: From tree + top.
Senses: glosses: The crown or uppermost branches of a tree.
Derived terms: treetop disease
stock room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stockroom.
bullocky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊləki/
Forms: form: bullockies
Etymology: From bullock + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Mother looked as though she were having a fit. She was jumping up and down, running to snatch up the long-handled broom, swearing like a bullocky.
ref: 1972, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Stradbroke Dreamtime, Angus & Robertson, 1992, page 32:
text: He could yarn with the bullockies for hours.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 21:
text: Through the bush, the shouts of the bullockies and the cracking of their savage wattlestick whips reverberated as the teams slowly made their way. The bullocky′s whip was over four metres long with a handle of nearly three metres.
ref: 1993, Mark St Leon, The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano, page 18:
text: In so doing, the bullocky assumes a larger than life dimension and passes into the realm of myth and Australian legend.
The bullocky in Australia has vanished into the past and old methods have given way to new - ‘grass is across the waggon-tracks and plough strikes bone beneath the grass’.
ref: 2006, Jaydeep Sarangi, Binod Mishra, Explorations In Australian Literature, page 107:
text: The bullock driver, or bullocky, was an important part of the rural labour force in the era before cars and, in some places, for long after.[…]A good bullocky could get work just about anywhere.
ref: 2010, Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales, page 249:
glosses: A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.
roll cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roll cages
form: rollcage
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A frame built in or around the driver and passenger compartment of a vehicle to protect its occupants from being injured in an accident, particularly if the vehicle rolls over.
examples: text: The trial was designed to showcase what could be successfully loaded and offloaded using standard roll cages at most main line stations and was the first of its kind in the UK to be carried out using a former commuter EMU.
ref: 2020 May 6, “Network News: GBRf mobilises ex-commuter '319' for Euston freight trial”, in Rail, page 15:
glosses: A cage-like container mounted on small wheels, which can be rolled on and off a vehicle and used for the transport of goods.
Related terms: roll bar
Stylianos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Στυλιανός (Stylianós), from Ancient Greek Στυλιανός (Stulianós, literally “someone firm”), from στῦλος (stûlos, “pole”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Στυλιανός (Stylianós), used in Greece.
glosses: Saint Stylianos, also known as Stylianos of Paphlagonia.
Related terms: Stelios
Stelios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Στέλιος (Stélios), diminutive of Στυλιανός (Stylianós), from Ancient Greek Στυλιανός (Stulianós, literally “someone firm”), from στῦλος (stûlos, “pole”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name diminutive Στέλιος (Stélios), used in Greece.
Related terms: Stelio
Stylianos
argal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹɡəl/
Etymology: A corruption of the Latin ergō (“therefore, thus”).
Senses: examples: text: And an act hath three branches—it is to act, to do, to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
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 V, scene i], lines 11-13:
text: He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:
glosses: thus, therefore
argal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹɡəl/
Forms: form: argals
Senses: glosses: crude tartar.
argal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹɡəl/
Forms: form: argals
Senses: glosses: An argali (kind of sheep).
vertical publication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical publications
Senses: glosses: A publication whose editorial content deals with the interests of a specific industry, e.g., National Petroleum Magazine, Retail Banking Today, etc.
Related terms: vertical market
baza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːzə/
rhymes: -ɑːzə
Forms: form: bazas
Etymology: From Hindi बाज़ (bāz, “goshawk”).
Senses: glosses: Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.
Synonyms: crested hawk
cuckoo-hawk
Derived terms: Jerdon's baza
Aviceda jerdoni
Pacific baza
Aviceda subcristata
black baza
Aviceda leuphotes
clicket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clickets
form: clicketing
form: clicketed
form: clicketed
Senses: examples: text: The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable.
text: A Fox goeth to Clickitting.
ref: 1677, Cox, Nicholas, The Gentleman's Recreation […] :
text: Soon after the New Year vixens start miauling, and the curious proceeding known as clicketting soon follows.
ref: 1951, Douglas Francis St. Leger-Gordon, The way of a fox.:
glosses: To be in oestrus; to copulate.
raw_tags: of a fox or foxes
clicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickets
Etymology: From Old French cliquet (“the latch of a door”). See click.
Senses: glosses: The knocker of a door.
glosses: A latchkey.
elflock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elflocks
Etymology: From elf + lock.
Senses: examples: text: [T]heir wide Farthingales extreamly fill the Coach, an one would take their thick and knotty Elflocks for Hempen ſtuffing, broke out of an old pack-ſaddle.
ref: 1699, [Antoine de Brunel], A Journey Into Spain, London: R. Wellington, page 68:
text: Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]
ref: 1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278:
text: All went unshaven, and many had long, filthy elf-locks hanging about their faces, and ragged beards reaching to their girdles.
ref: 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
text: The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A lock of hair that is tangled.
elflocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elflock
elfinwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elfinwoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of elfin wood.
elfinwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elfinwood
Mission Indians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mission Indian
demand valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demand valves
Senses: glosses: A mechanism in a diving regulator which controls the supply of gas by opening to provide flow when the user inhales, and shuts off supply when inhalation stops.
Mission Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mission Indians
Senses: examples: text: 1904. Constance Goddard Du Bois. Mythology of the Mission Indians, The Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society, volume XVII, No. LXVI. page 185-8.http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/mmi/index.htm
Mythology of the Mission Indians...the mythology of the Luiseño and Diegueño Indians of Southern California.
text: 1906. Alfred L. Kroeber, Two Myths of the Mission Indians, Journal of the American Folk-Lore Society, volume XIX, No. LXXV pp. 309-21.http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/tmmi/
What are to-day known as the Mission Indians are those Shoshonean and Yuman peoples who occupy the portion of southern California which lies between the principal mountain ranges and the sea.
text: Prior to the American conquest of California 1846-1848, some of the secularized Mission Indian families obtained formal Mexican land grants.
ref: 2007, Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Website, Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: A Brief History...:
glosses: A Native American who lived in one of the Catholic missions in California.
bombazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒmbəziːn/
ipa: /ˈbʌmbəziːn/
Forms: form: bombazines
form: bombasine
form: bombazin
form: bombasin
Etymology: From Middle French bombasin, from Late Latin bombasinum, ultimately from bombyx (“silkworm”).
Senses: examples: text: I watched the animated widows in their bombazine dresses, capping each other's memories.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 144:
glosses: A twilled or corded fabric made from silk, wool, or cotton dyed black.
bronze-wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronze-wings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bronzewing.
bushcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushcrafts
Etymology: From bush + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: camping, firemaking, hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, first aid, orienteering
text: Near-synonym: bushmanship
text: The two activities (bushcraft and camping) have remarkable similarities because they are both outdoor activities that occur in distant territories. Camping is what everybody can participate in regardless of their abilities to survive. On the other hand, bushcraft requires a learned skillset and some amount of experience to thrive.
ref: 2021, Zach Parham, Bushcraft Survival Guide […] , page 9:
hypernyms: outdoorsmanship
glosses: The skills needed to survive in the bush, and by extension in any natural environment.
Related terms: bushman
bushperson
bushwoman
rangering
scouting
duckboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckboards
Etymology: Possibly a metaphorical use of a name for a board connecting a duck hutch to a yard.
Senses: examples: text: In an attempt to alleviate the problem, wooden planking, known as duckboards, was placed at the bottom of trenches and across other areas of muddy or waterlogged ground.
glosses: One of a long series of boards laid from side to side as a path across wet or muddy ground; normally used in plural.
synonyms: bog board
bog bridge
puncheon
glosses: Wooden, low walkway or short part of a path with one or more planks, logs, or boards laid after each other lengthwise, often two planks wide.
glosses: A panel of wooden slats typically laid on a concrete floor in a workshop, to reduce fatigue for a person operating a machine tool or working at a bench.
Coordinate terms: sense: thoroughfare paved with wood
word: boardwalk
sense: thoroughfare paved with wood
word: plank road
sense: thoroughfare paved with wood
word: corduroy road
Derived terms: duckboard bridge
flat iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat irons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flatiron.
flatiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatirons
form: flat iron
form: flat-iron
Etymology: From flat + iron.
Senses: examples: text: The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued —
 The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes,
 He kicks his dirty children with his boot,
 Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife
 With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits
 His coming, to revile his drinking hard.
ref: 1881 December 3, Sydney Punch, page 8, column 2:
glosses: A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.
glosses: A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
glosses: a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.
raw_tags: referring to the shape of a building
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.
glosses: Ellipsis of flat iron steak.
Synonyms: sense: tool for hair
word: straightener
flatiron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flat iron
form: flat-iron
Etymology: From flat + iron.
Senses: examples: text: a flatiron building
text: The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: Having a flatiron shape.
Derived terms: flatiron steak
supernatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + natant.
Senses: examples: text: There may be a place at some certain latitude between the poles and the line on each side the equator, where the inflammable supernatant atmosphere may end, owing to the greater centrifugal force of the heavier aerial atmosphere.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 11:
glosses: Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).
raw_tags: of a liquid
supernatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernatants
Etymology: From super- + natant.
Senses: synonyms: supernate
glosses: The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate.
glosses: Material that floats on the surface of a liquid.
Related terms: immunosupernatant
surnatant
linguaphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin lingua + -philia.
Senses: synonyms: glossophilia
hypernyms: logophilia
glosses: The love of language and words.
Related terms: linguaphile
sparging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sparge
discontiguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discontiguous
form: most discontiguous
Etymology: From dis- + contiguous.
Senses: examples: text: A discontiguous network comprises two major networks.
glosses: Not contiguous
Synonyms: sense: not contiguous
word: fragmented
sense: not contiguous
word: noncontiguous
Derived terms: discontiguousness
chyluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chylurias
Etymology: From chyle + -uria.
Senses: glosses: A medical condition involving the presence of chyle in the urine.
Derived terms: chyluric
rainproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnpɹuːf/
Forms: form: more rainproof
form: most rainproof
Etymology: From rain + -proof.
Senses: glosses: waterproof (for use outdoors); resistant to rain
rainproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪnpɹuːf/
Forms: form: rainproofs
form: rainproofing
form: rainproofed
form: rainproofed
Etymology: From rain + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make rainproof.
Related terms: showerproof
-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the adjective proof (“fully resistant”), from the same Old French root as prove.
Senses: glosses: Suffix added to a noun to form an adjective denoting imperviousness to that noun.
Derived terms: acid-proof
bug-proof netting
bullet-proof vest
burglar-proof
cat-proof
crash-proof
dog-proof
earthquake-proof
explosion-proof
frost-proof
future proof
hammer-proof
hurricane-proof
idiotproof
inflation-proof
limeproof
moisture-proof
pig-proof
rabbitproof
rabbit-proof
rabbit-proof fence
rust-proof
sale-proof
saltproof
scaleproof
shellproof
stiletto-proof
stormproof
storm-proof
virus-proof
waterproof
weatherproof
wind-proof
windproof
winter-proof
Related terms: -safe
sedated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sedate
central bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central banks
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: The principal monetary authority of a polity or monetary union; it normally regulates the supply of money, issues currency and controls interest rates. It usually oversees banking activity within its country's borders.
Related terms: fractional reserve banking
monetary authority
reserve bank
wormery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormeries
Etymology: From worm + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A self-contained system for producing vermicompost.
violet red bile agar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of agar with peptone, yeast extract, bile salts and crystal violet; it is used for enumerating coliform bacteria in dairy products
coliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the genitive of Latin colon + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the bacteria that inhabit the intestines (especially the colon) of mammals.
coliform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coliforms
Etymology: From the genitive of Latin colon + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, nonaerogenic coliforms in human feces were only 2.5 per cent of the total coliform strains examined
ref: 1969 May 20, Edwin E Geldreich, “Applying bacteriological parameters to recreational water quality”, in Journal‐American Water Works Association:
text: Differential biochemical or physiological characteristics which correlate with aerogenesis at elevated incubation temperatures will be adapted towards a fecal coliform procedure and towards converting a total coliform procedure under development to give a fecal coliform count as well.
ref: 1973, Water Resources Research Catalog - Volume 8, Issue 1, page 732:
text: The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.)
ref: 2017 September 1, Susan Scutti, “Sewage, fecal bacteria in Hurricane Harvey floodwaters”, in CNN:
glosses: Such a bacterium.
bile salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bile salts
Senses: glosses: The sodium salt of a bile acid; produced by the bile to neutralize the products leaving the stomach and to emulsify fatty material in it.
crystal violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dye, derived from gentian violet, that is used as an acid-base indicator and as a biological stain.
volte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volta.
Related terms: volte-face
epideictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈdaɪktɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιδεικτικός (epideiktikós), from ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi, “to display, exhibit”), from ἐπι- (epi-) + δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
Derived terms: epideictically
bureaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bureaux
Senses: glosses: plural of bureau
goalkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Karius has too much previous for this to be considered a one-off and, as goalkeeping mistakes go, his errors in the 51st and 83rd minutes were as bad as one another. In fact, they were not just bad. They were appalling, so wretched it was difficult to recall a worse goalkeeping performance in any major final through the years.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: The art of a goalkeeper.
Synonyms: goaltending
netminding
goalkeeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of goalkeep
goddammit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Contraction of God damn it.
Senses: examples: text: Goddammit, you wrecked my car while I was cleaning it!
text: Goddammit, who the hell stole half of my money?!
text: Goddammit, I told you to shut up three times already!
glosses: Synonym of goddamn.
synonyms: word: goddamn
Synonyms: word: dagnabbit
word: dadgummit
word: doggonit
word: consarn it
word: confound it
word: goldarnit
word: goshdarnit
word: goshdangit
godhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godhoods
Etymology: From Middle English *godhod, from Old English godhād, equivalent to god + -hood. Compare godhead and Dutch godheid as well as German Gottheit.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of divinity: the state of being a god or God.
synonyms: word: divinity
extra: the state of being a god or God