cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: chapes
Etymology: From Middle English chape, from Old French chape (“a churchman's cope, a cover, a chape”), from Latin cappa, itself derived from Latin caput (“the head”). Doublet of cap, cape, and cope.
Senses: examples: text: The blade is 33 in. long, of triangular section, etched, gilt and blued at the hilt. The scabbard is covered with black sole-skin, with a gilt locket and chape; the locket inscribed BLAND AND FOSTER, SWORD CUTLERS[…]
ref: 1904, Sir Guy Francis Laking, The Armoury of Windsor Castle: European Section, page 181:
text: Sword and scabbard fittings comprise the sword pommel, the chape at the end of the scabbard, the sword guard at the top of the blade, the sword slide and its accompanying reverse fitting (the latter being sometimes referred to as a girdle-clasp) that were normally bound into the scabbard[…]
ref: 2012 December 6, Roger Keverne, Jade, Springer, →ISBN, page 119:
text: The scabbard ended in a chape, which took two forms: sometimes it terminated in a ball, and sometimes in a crescent or fish-tail.
ref: 2013 June 17, Henri Hubert, The Rise of the Celts, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The lower metallic cap at the end of a sword's scabbard.
examples: text: […] the swords nevertheless do not lack the chape, the small leather piece that overlaps the crossguard in a semi-circle over the base of the blade and that is often referred to as a rain guard.
ref: 2018 July 30, Dierk Hagedorn, Bartlomiej Walczak, Medieval Armoured Combat: The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of chappe (“rainguard”) (piece fitted to a sword's crossguard).
examples: text: SABRE-BELT, ( black buff-leather.) — Length 36 to 40 inches, width 1.9 inch; 2 leather chapes sewed on the outside of the belt for attaching 2 brass loops […]
ref: 1862, United States. Army. Ordnance Department, The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States Army, page 229:
text: At the end of each point a buckle is attached by means of a leather chape, and it is to these buckles that the two […]
ref: 1893, Saddlery and Harness, page 113:
glosses: The piece by which an object is attached to something, such as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
glosses: The tip of a fox's tail.
Derived terms: chaped
chapeless
chapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chape
chequee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequees
Senses: examples: text: At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois.
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, volume XXX, Rottolo:
qualifier: historical units of measurement
glosses: Alternative form of cheki.
chequees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chequee
chequeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequeens
Etymology: From Italian zecchino. Compare sequin.
Senses: examples: text: he came to the Road of Antibo in Peamon, where he set Smith on shore with five hundred chicqueenes, and a little box God sent him worth neere as much more.
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 40:
glosses: A gold coin formerly used in Italy and Turkey; a sequin.
chillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilla
chilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chilla.
Senses: glosses: The South American gray fox.
chillen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Marotta also illustrates the fragility of gay lib pioneering — something we chillen of the '60s and '70s have trouble appreciating as the baby-boom of gay lib.
ref: 1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of children.
chinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinch
chinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chinch
chupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chupa
chupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua chupi.
Senses: examples: text: Chupe is the Peruvian national dish, and may be made of any and every thing, so long as it holds its relationship to soup. It is made generally of mutton, potatoes, eggs, rice, all highly seasoned with pepper, &c.
ref: 1854, William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, Exploration of the Amazon Valley:
text: And as chupe is the eternal and almost always the sole dish obtainable in the interior of Peru and in Bolivia, I may as well dispose of it at once.
ref: 1868, Harper's New Monthly Magazine:
text: Here can be purchased all the native articles of luxury: coca, chupe, frozen potatoes, parched corn, and chicha […]
ref: 1911, Hiram Bingham, Across South America:
text: […] but for the most authentic chupe, leave the shells on the shrimp.
ref: 1985, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, Soup, Beautiful Soup:
glosses: A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
text box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text boxes
form: textbox
Etymology: From text + box.
Senses: examples: text: The graphic design of secondary schoolbooks, which includes many text boxes, captions, labelled diagrams, thought bubbles, etc., introduced a certain level of noise into the scanning and OCR[.]
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 4:
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: sidebar
sidebox
glosses: A block of printed text contained within borders that is intended to be read separately from the major text of the page.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: input field
glosses: A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.
Hypernyms: box
chuta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chota.
galling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more galling
form: most galling
Etymology: From gall + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Uruguay were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and seemed intent on showing they were a better team than had been apparent in their defeat to Costa Rica. Yet the most galling part for England is that they helped them on their way.
ref: 2014 June 20, Daniel Taylor, “World Cup 2014: Uruguay sink England as Suárez makes his mark”, in guardian.co.uk:
glosses: Vexing, humiliating; eliciting indignation or bitterness.
Derived terms: gallingly
gallingness
ungalling
galling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gall + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: If, however, the input crank on the standby rudder actuator is not free to rotate with respect to the actuator housing because of galling between the shaft and bearing, the actuator housing, input crank, and control rod will act as a rigid link between the rudder and the torque tube. The inability to change the length of this link by rotation of the standby rudder actuator input crank within the actuator housing will affect the feedback mechanism between the rudder position and the MPCU input crank. This condition can result in problems ranging from high pilot control force necessary to move the rudder to uncommanded rudder deflections.
ref: 2001 March 27, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.3 Detail Examination and Tests of Standby Rudder Actuator Input Shaft and Bearing”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Uncontrolled Descent and Collision With Terrain, United Airlines Flight 585, Boeing 737-200, N999UA, 4 Miles South of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 3, 1991, archived from the original on 08 May 2022, page 63:
glosses: Material transfer caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces, potentially resulting in wear or binding.
galling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gall + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gall
cover slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover slips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coverslip.
clausure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɔːzjʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈklɔːʒʊə(ɹ)/
/ˈklɔːʒə(ɹ)/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus. See closure and cloture, which are doublets.
Senses: examples: text: In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born.
ref: 1715, Michael Geddes, Miscellaneous Tracts, 3rd edition:
glosses: The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
put paid to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts paid to
form: putting paid to
form: put paid to
form: put paid to
Senses: examples: text: Well, then, I'll put paid to that little account.
ref: 1893 December, Mrs. Alexander, “Found Wanting”, in Belgravia, volume 82, page 353:
glosses: To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid".
examples: text: When peace came in 1802 she regained a measure of control, but it was wrested from her when war with Britain broke out once more in 1805 and Nelson put paid to Spanish sea power in the Atlantic at the Battle of Trafalgar.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 204:
text: If Harry had always seemed a sickly child, Harrow put paid to notions that he was really a physical weakling.
ref: 2010, David Brown, Palmerston: A Biography:
text: This puts paid to the argument that a claimant who comes to a nuisance has impliedly consented to the continuance of that nuisance.
ref: 2013, Allan Beever, The Law of Private Nuisance, page 60:
text: The Guardian recently uncovered nearly 200 new projects – “carbon bombs” – that if completed would put paid to the world’s chances of limiting global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
ref: 2022 June 17, Fiona Harvey, “Fossil fuel firms ‘have humanity by the throat’, says UN head in blistering attack”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To put an end to.
examples: text: The rain put paid to our plans for a picnic.
glosses: To terminate; to cancel (plans or expectations); to preclude (possibilities); to stop (something) once and for all.
Synonyms: put a stop to
put an end to
finish off
automated clearing house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automated clearing houses
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A nationwide electronic funds transfer system that provides for interbank clearing of electronic payments, such as credit-card transactions. An ACH transaction is an electronic fund transfer through the Federal Reserve Bank from a checking or savings account.
nickel-and-dime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.
nickel-and-dime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nickel-and-dimes
form: nickels-and-dimes
form: nickel-and-diming
form: nickeling-and-diming
form: nickelling-and-diming
form: nickel-and-dimed
form: nickel-and-dimed
form: nickeled-and-dimed
form: nickeled-and-dimed
form: nickelled-and-dimed
form: nickelled-and-dimed
Senses: examples: text: The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.
ref: 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, page 358:
text: Advocates for the poor have long resisted various cities’ efforts to crack down on bags — whether by charging fees or banning them — as a regressive tax on shoppers who can’t afford to be nickel-and-dimed every time they get groceries.
ref: 2016 May 5, “How New York Can Put an End to the Plastic Bag”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.
acquiring financial institution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquiring financial institutions
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An institution that contracts with the bank and the merchant to enable credit card transactions. The acquirer deposits the credit card totals and debits the end-of-month processing fees from the merchants' accounts.
Synonyms: acquirer
AFI
address verification service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: address verification services
Senses: glosses: The process of validating a cardholder's given address against the issuer's records, to determine accuracy and deter fraud. This service is provided as part of a credit card authorization for mail order/telephone order transactions. A code is returned with the authorization result that indicates the accuracy of the address match. Abbreviated: AVS.
coagula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coagulum
coagulase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coagulases
Etymology: Blend of coagulation + -ase
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that induces coagulation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Specifically, the enzyme produced by various Staphylococcus species that converts fibrinogen to fibrin.
coagulases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coagulase
colead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleads
Etymology: From co- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. (The studio preferred Cary Grant and Burt Lancaster in these roles, respectively.)
ref: 2006, James Robert Parish, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, page 23:
glosses: A joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.
colead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coleads
form: coleading
form: coled
form: coled
Etymology: From co- + lead.
Senses: examples: text: A workshop dealing with "Our Place in Judaism" was co-led by gay male and straight female rabbis.
ref: 1982 August 14, Aryeh Engel, Aliza Maggad, “Differences Into Unity”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 7:
text: Last year, in April 1993, I co-led a party of birdwatchers to the island[.]
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 109:
glosses: To lead jointly.
coleen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colleen.
scansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæn.ʃən/
Forms: form: scansions
Etymology: From Late Latin scansiōnem, accusative singular of scansiō (“the act of climbing”), from scandō (“I climb”).
Senses: glosses: The rhythm or meter of a line or verse.
glosses: The act of analyzing the meter of poetry.
Related terms: diction
prosody
scansion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæn.ʃən/
Forms: form: scansions
form: scansioning
form: scansioned
form: scansioned
Etymology: From Late Latin scansiōnem, accusative singular of scansiō (“the act of climbing”), from scandō (“I climb”).
Senses: examples: text: Many of my doggerels are scansioned from letters I've written to these children while they were incarcerated in those warehouses for the minority nuisance, laughingly called correctional facilities.
ref: 2000, Don Pirata, Cark and Moil, →ISBN:
text: It is “mannered through and through” or, in Karl Kraus's notorious harangue, little more than “scansioned journalism” — an “artful stage-prop in the shopping window of a pastry shop or a feuilleton writer.
ref: 2002, Angela Esterhammer, Romantic Poetry, →ISBN, page 448:
text: At this time I got up and called the session over, punctuating or scansioning his discourse in order to symbolically communicate to him in action my belief that what had just transpired was genuinely important in the history of his therapy.
ref: 2012, Kareen Ror Malone, Stephen R. Friedlander, The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: Of text, to put into a rhythmic form or meter.
examples: text: The fine zigzag and diagonal interweavings, the nuances of varying intervals between the scansioned dots, show the enormous time and effort Polke invested in his complex, manual transfer method.
ref: 1999, Margit Rowell, Michael Semff, Bice Curiger, Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974, →ISBN, page 27:
text: And it saw the concept of an historical time in linear development as depriving it of the reassuring repetitions of a circular form of chronology that was connected to the seasons and to the cycle of agricultural work; which in turn was scansioned by rituals that reasserted its continuity with the world of myth.
ref: 2003, Luigi Zoja, Growth and Guilt: Psychology and the Limits of Development, →ISBN, page 106:
text: Scansioning the walkway face of the garden wall like an unfolding scroll, he strolled south as far as the narrow arched doorway to the belltower. Mad for abstracting patterns and images from the masonry, at first the hues and linear lay-up of the stone wall appeared haphazard as nature.
ref: 2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: To impose patterns on.
Related terms: scan
colmado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colmados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish colmado.
Senses: examples: text: The beaches are beautiful but the people even more so and I think you will come away with a lot more from your visit if you venture outside the tourist districts. Make an effort to get into the poorer areas which lie on the outskirts of the big cities and spend a day at a colmado.
ref: 1997 January 19, Robert W. Boyd, “Coming to Visit”, in soc.culture. (Usenet):
text: Flexibility, fairness, and amicability with customers were extremely important qualities of a successful colmado. At least one colmado in Santa Lucia suffered significant business losses because of development of a reputation for unfairness and inflexibility. The successful long-term capturing of household income by a colmado, largely a byproduct of solid credit relations, directly impacted the colmado's ability to remain in good standing with suppliers with whom they often held debt.
ref: 2010, David Himmelgreen, The Global Food Crisis, page 64:
glosses: A corner store.
hyssop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪ.səp/
Forms: form: hyssops
Etymology: Via Latin hȳsōpum, from Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos), of Semitic origin.
Senses: examples: text: The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:
glosses: Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
glosses: Any of several similar plants
glosses: Any of several similar plants:
Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
glosses: The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.).
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Agastache foeniculum
word: anise hyssop
taxonomic: Teucrium pseudo-hyssopus
word: bastard hyssop
taxonomic: Agastache spp.
word: giant hyssop
word: hedgehyssop
taxonomic: Gratiola spp.
word: hedge hyssop
word: nettle-leaf giant hyssop
taxonomic: Bacopa spp.
word: water hyssop
english: or Verbena officinalis
translation: or Verbena officinalis
taxonomic: Hyssopus spp.
word: wild hyssop
word: yellow-flowered water hyssop
combes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of combe
comas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coma
compacta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compactum
eyepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyepieces
Etymology: From eye + piece.
Senses: glosses: The lens (or the component containing a combination of lenses) at the eye end of a microscope or telescope by which the image is viewed.
Derived terms: eyepieced
compense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛns/
rhymes: -ɛns
Forms: form: compenses
form: compensing
form: compensed
form: compensed
Etymology: From French compenser. See compensate.
Senses: examples: May 2 1623, Francis Bacon, letter to Mr. Tobie Matthew
I hope, if any thing want in the speed of time, it will be compensed in the fruit of time, that all may sort to the best.
glosses: To compensate.
concern troll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concern trolls
form: concern-troll
Senses: examples: text: Contrarians aren't "champions of the scientific method," as Pearce posits. They might more accurately be described as ‘concern trolls’, feigning concern at every little climate uncertainty or issue they can use to manufacture doubt and delay the action necessary to solve the climate problem.
ref: 2013 August 2, Dana Nuccitelli, “It's climate scientists, not concern trolls who champion the scientific method”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Various concern trolls repeatedly explained why #GamerGate needed a leader and how #GamerGate would never accomplish anything or be respected without a leader, concerns that were generally blown off with multiple GamerGaters declaring that they were the leader of #GamerGate or denouncing the concern troll as a shill, which is GG parlance for an individual who is not to be trusted.
ref: 2015, Vox Day [pseudonym; Theodore Robert Beale], “Counterattack”, in SJWs Always lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Kouvola, Kymenlaakso: Castalia House, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Someone who posts to an Internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to abandon group projects entirely.
concern troll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concern trolls
form: concern trolling
form: concern trolled
form: concern trolled
form: concern-troll
Senses: examples: text: I think I agree with just about all the substance of David Brooks' concern trolling about the GOP (see, e.g., my final American Prospect column which made some similar points), but this minor aside strikes me as wrongheaded in an interesting way:[…]
ref: 2007 April 30, Matthew Yglesias, “Smells Like Team Spirit”, in The Atlantic:
text: Foremost among the critical governments were the expansionist northern Italian kingdom of Piedmont, which had territorial designs on the papal domains, and Piedmont's ally Great Britain, whose policy was to concern-troll for alleged papal misgovernment in order to delegitimize Pius's rule.
ref: 2015, Max Longley, For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in the Civil War:
glosses: To troll as a concern troll would.
comprended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comprend
comprendo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From the Spanish comprender (“to understand”) and Italian comprendere. The word in fact means "I understand".
Senses: glosses: do you understand?
feed the meter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feeds the meter
form: feeding the meter
form: fed the meter
form: fed the meter
Senses: glosses: To place coins into a parking meter or gas meter.
computad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computads
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of polygraph (“multidimensional directed graph”).
synonyms: word: polygraph
extra: multidimensional directed graph
computes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpjuːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compute
conceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concede
concedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsiːdz/
rhymes: -iːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concede
concentres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concentre
senor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senors
form: senores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of señor.
condenses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of condense
configures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of configure
trendsetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trendsetter
confirme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confirmes
form: confirming
form: confirmed
form: confirmed
Senses: examples: text: If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
ref: 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
glosses: Obsolete spelling of confirm.
confirmes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confirme
confronté
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏnfrŭnʹtā
ipa: /kɒnˈfɹʌnteɪ/
Etymology: From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: word: affronté
english: but this also has another meaning
translation: but this also has another meaning
glosses: Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.
raw_tags: of two animals
confronte
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confrontes
form: confronting
form: confronted
form: confronted
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of confront.
confrontes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confronte
conjures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conjure
connotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of connote
conserves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conserve
conserves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conserve
consigne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consignes
Etymology: Borrowed from French consigne.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A countersign or watchword.
consignes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consigne
consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of console
consoles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of console
conspires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conspire
constate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: constates
form: constating
form: constated
form: constated
Etymology: From French constater.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.
examples: text: It need be no concern of his how we come, through the joint action of our double nature, to apprehend at first those truths which, when apprehended, he knows to be necessary. The metaphysician has only to constate such facts ; it is the business of the psychologist to explain them.
ref: 1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals:
text: Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.
ref: 1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum:
glosses: To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
constates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constate
consulta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consultas
Etymology: From Italian consulta and Spanish consulta, attested in English since the eighteenth century. Doublet of consult.
Senses: examples: text: One method that has been carried out by the Zapatistas and by their sympathizers is the practice of consulta, referendum, and plebisite.[…] A consulta has to do with voting, but it is voting that takes place alongside debate between different people.
ref: 2009, Kara Zugman Dellacioppa, This Bridge Called Zapatismo, page 116:
glosses: An official meeting or consultation.
examples: text: The magistrates of each province also send a procuratour to the general consulta; and when all the procuratours are assembled at Corte,[…] may proceed to the election of the president and oratour of the general consulta.
ref: 1768, James Boswell, edited by Boulton, James & T. O. McLoughlin, An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island, annotated edition of original by Boswell, published 2006, page 97:
glosses: The meeting of a government council, especially of an Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese government or agency.
examples: text: the council of Indies sent […] their consulta relative to my colony. In this consulta, bearing the date of 26th November, 1819, his majesty was advised of the unanimous decision of the council, in favor of a grant to me in Mexico
ref: 1824, Richard Raynal Keene, Letter of vindication to Colonel Munroe, President of the United States, page 55:
glosses: The minutes or report of such a government council.
contagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contagium
contended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contend
unsinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsinkable
form: most unsinkable
Etymology: From un- + sink + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Any true Grecophile will understand when I say that the unsinkable condom and the smell of shit which precede the moment of illumination make it more exciting when it happens.
ref: 1981, Patrick White, Flaws in the Glass: A Self-Portrait:
text: It was the kind of place with a neon martini glass for a name and an unsinkable turd floating in the toilet.
ref: 2007, Eric Puchner, “Children of God”, in Music Through the Floor: Stories, page 13:
text: That was the connection, the hook, the key, that was the thought that had been bobbing around like an unsinkable turd in the toilet of my subconscious all night.
ref: 2008, Adrian Hyland, Moonlight Downs:
text: The Sydney water team are hoping that by showing families the 'unflushable' and 'unsinkable' items, that the environment will be a lot better off.
ref: 2021 December 23, ElizaMcPhee, “Kids' toys, jewellery and a BRICK: The bizarre things Sydneysiders tried to flush down their toilet - wih flushed wet wipes costing $8MILLION a year”, in Daily Mail Australia:
text: The RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner which had been marketed as “unsinkable”, sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, on a route from Britain to the US after being holed by an iceberg, claiming the lives of 1,514 of the 2,224 passengers and crew.
ref: 2023 June 19, Edward Helmore, Leyland Cecco, “Search under way for tourist submarine missing on dive to wreck of Titanic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: sinkproof
glosses: That cannot be sunk.
raw_tags: of ships
examples: text: unsinkable optimism
glosses: That cannot be overcome or defeated.
Derived terms: unsinkable rubber duck
unsinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsinkables
Etymology: From un- + sink + -able.
Senses: examples: text: As the construction and preparation of the unsinkables would require six weeks or two months , I thought it best to make report of my plan to the admiral before the departure from Key West .
ref: 1898 December, Richard Pearson Hobson, “The Sinking of the "Merrimac"”, in Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, editors, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 57, number 2, page 266:
text: German unsinkables with their penetrating shell and safety magazines? That there was this acute material disparity between this type of ship of both nations there can be no doubt.
ref: 1930, Shane Leslie, Augustine Agar, Jutland: A Fragment of Epic, page x:
text: But no large ship has vanished without trace since the whaleback Clifton, another of the “unsinkables” and skippered by Emmet Gallagher of Beaver Island, sailed through a crack in Lake Huron on September 22, 1924, taking all hands — a total of 28— down with her.
ref: 1989, William Ratigan, Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals:
glosses: A ship that was designed to be unsinkable.
funnels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funnel
funnels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of funnel
plaques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plaque
contrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See contra-.
Senses: examples: a contrate wheel, or crown wheel
glosses: Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
converso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversos
Etymology: From Spanish converso. Doublet of converse.
Senses: examples: text: Guillermina Jasso, a sociology professor at New York University, said Angel was “evocative of the old converso practice of taking on very Christian surnames as a way of survival in a suspicious environment.”
ref: 2007 January 20, Sam Roberts, “New Favor for a Name That Straddles Cultures”, in New York Times:
text: In the Inquisition's terms, both were automatically suspect by the fact that their families were conversos, and they might be seen as emerging from that maelstrom of religious energy released by the religious realignment of Spain in the 1490s.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 672–3:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Jew or Muslim in Spain or Portugal who converted to Roman Catholicism under duress, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries.
Synonyms: crypto-Jew
Marrano
conversas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversa
conversa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversas
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: glosses: a female converso
converses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of converse
convives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convive
convives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convive
convive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: convives
form: conviving
form: convived
form: convived
Etymology: Borrowed from French convive.
Senses: glosses: To feast with others
convive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: convives
Etymology: Borrowed from French convive.
Senses: glosses: a participant in a feast or banquet
examples: text: First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
There, in the full convive we; afterwards,
As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
Concur together, severally entreat him
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], lines 271-4:
glosses: a feast or banquet
Related terms: convivial
cooperad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperads
Etymology: From co- + operad.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: One of a set of composed operads
Cornellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cornellian
form: most Cornellian
Etymology: From Cornell + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Cornell University.
Cornellian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cornellians
Etymology: From Cornell + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Cornell is a big place. There’s a lot to do. Here’s a list of 161 things that every Cornellian should do during their time on the Hill.
ref: 2024 December 1 (last accessed), “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024:
text: It’s a trademark of the infamous “weeder” classes — and a source of dread for thousands of Cornellians.
ref: 2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:
glosses: One who is a student or an alumnus of Cornell University.
copen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copens
form: copenning
form: copenned
form: copenned
form: co-pen
Etymology: From co- + pen.
Senses: glosses: To cowrite.
copulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copula
coronad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more coronad
form: most coronad
Etymology: From corona + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Besides its axis, therefore, the Malleus possesses a pivot, which projects coronad or superiorly to the bony ring of the membrana tympani and antinio-basilad or anteriorily and inferiorily to its own head […]
ref: 1808 May, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 19, number 111, page 396:
text: This canal is formed basilad or inferiorly by the crura cerebri g, and superiorly or coronad by the posterior commissure p […]
ref: 1825, John Lizars, A System of Anatomical Plates:
text: The facial branch of the left antler differs from the right one in being slender, round, and tapering throughout, and in curving coronad from near its commencement.
ref: 1854, Edward Forbes, editor, The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Herald:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Towards a corona.
coronas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹəʊ.nəs/
enpr: kə-rō'nəz
ipa: /kəˈɹoʊ.nəz/
rhymes: -əʊnəs
rhymes: -əʊnəz
Senses: glosses: plural of corona
corone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corona
corrido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corridos
Etymology: From Spanish corrido.
Senses: examples: text: Like most Anglos in the Southwest, he could listen tolerantly, if not with great pleasure, to trios and mariachis, the music of the bourgeoisie in Mexico, but express nothing but scorn for corridos, the music of the poor in northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.
ref: 1984 February 4, David Morris, “Different Origins: Joto Güero del West Side”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 16:
text: The Mexican corrido remains essentially true to these Iberian roots in regard to its poetic form and its handling of narrative subjects. It is probable that the term corrido is a shortening of the term romance corrido, meaning a through-sung ballad, as attested in Spanish usage during the sixteenth century (Simmons 1963).
ref: 2015, John Holmes McDowell, ¡Corrido!: The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast, UNM Press, →ISBN, page 2:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Mexican or Mexican-American ballad or folk song.
corresponded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of correspond
corten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trademarked name COR-TEN.
Senses: examples: text: Rudi Jass has developed a distinctly complementary style with copper, corten steel bronze, glass and stone.
ref: 2009 January 29, “Exhibitions”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Any type of weathering steel, a steel alloy which does not require painting and acquires a stable, rust-like appearance over time
cosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cose
coses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cose
coses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cos
cose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coses
form: cosing
form: cosed
form: cosed
form: coze
Etymology: Back-formation from cosy.
Senses: examples: text: Told her of the bad cooking here; that I could get nothing to eat here or, sometimes, even at Shibden. We agreed we would have things nice sometime, our tastes suit & we are very thoroughly happy together. We cosed very comfortably.
ref: a 1821, Anne Lister, quoted in 1992, Helena Whitbread, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 (page 171)
glosses: To make oneself cosy; to be snug.
cosen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosens
form: cosening
form: cosened
form: cosened
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cozen (“deceive”).
costean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costeans
Etymology: Presumably from Cornish kodha (“to fall, happen”) + sten (“tin”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A trench in solid rock intersected by pits which reveals mineral veins.
costean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: costeans
form: costeaning
form: costeaned
form: costeaned
Etymology: Presumably from Cornish kodha (“to fall, happen”) + sten (“tin”).
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To search for lodes by sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, so as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Related terms: costeaning
costee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costees
form: castee
Etymology: From Spanish castizo, whence also English castizo. With regard to the ending, compare dustee, fustee, mustee/mestee.
Senses: glosses: A quadroon.
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
costees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of costee
creases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːsɪz/
rhymes: -iːsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of crease
creases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːsɪz/
rhymes: -iːsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crease
cremas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crema
cremes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creme
throats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throat
throats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throat
crispen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crispens
form: crispening
form: crispened
form: crispened
Etymology: From crisp + -en.
Senses: synonyms: crisp#Verb
glosses: To make crisp.
synonyms: crisp#Verb
glosses: To become crisp.
Related terms: crispy
breezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːzɪz/
rhymes: -iːzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of breeze
breezes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːzɪz/
rhymes: -iːzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breeze
cuajo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɑː.hoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish cuajo, from Hokkien, possibly 看好 (khòaⁿ-hó) or 看護 /看护 (khàn-hō͘ / khòaⁿ-hō͘ / khan-hō͘) or 看虎 (khòaⁿ hó͘, literally “watching the tiger”). Compare Tagalog kuwaho, Kapampangan kuwaho, English khanhoo.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: a kind of card game, similar to Khanhoo
refugium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refugia
form: refugiums
Etymology: From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.
Senses: examples: text: Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
glosses: A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.
Derived terms: refugial
microrefugium
culmina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culmen
guardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guardian
culpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French coulpe, from Latin culpa. Compare culpable, culprit.
Senses: examples: text: Banished out of the realme […] without culpe.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
glosses: blameworthiness; fault
villagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villager
cures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cure
cures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cure
curara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of curare.
curares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curare
curvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curva
all in a day's work
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, dealing with rude customers is all in a day's work around here.
glosses: Coming with the territory.
examples: text: —Wow, it's amazing that you fixed it so well that no one would even know that it was ever broken! —All in a day's work!
glosses: A nonchalant dismissal of a significant accomplishment.
Related terms: God's work
custodias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custodia
custodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of custody
that's how the cookie crumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of that's the way the cookie crumbles.
half moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half moons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-moon.
debes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debe
debe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debes
Etymology: From Swahili debe.
Senses: glosses: A tin container used for kerosene etc.
deben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbɛn/
Forms: form: debens
form: deben
Etymology: Borrowed from Egyptian dbn.
Senses: topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of weight used during the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, equivalent to about 13.6 grams.
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of weight used during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, equivalent to 10 kite (about 91 grams).
debite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debites
Etymology: Alteration of depute.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus stode before the debite, and the debite axed him, saynge: Arte thou the kynge of the iwes?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: A deputy; an official.
debites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debite
debute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of debut.
if the shoe fits
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of if the shoe fits, wear it.
Synonyms: word: if the cap fits