cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
admonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of admonish
admonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admonishings
Senses: glosses: admonishment
admonishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more admonishing
form: most admonishing
Senses: glosses: Giving admonishment.
illuminating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːmɪneɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪlˈluməneɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /-ɾɪŋ/
Forms: form: more illuminating
form: most illuminating
Etymology: From illuminate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Providing illumination or light.
examples: text: An illuminating article in a recent issue of the Eastern Region's Civil Engineering News points out that where coal is worked over a reasonably large area, it is not only the whole of the strata above the workings, but also an area beyond which is liable to subside at varying rates after the coal has been removed.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The subsidence problem”, in Trains Illustrated, page 651:
glosses: Providing clarification or explanation; educational, revealing.
Synonyms: clarifying
explanatory
revelatory
Derived terms: illuminating gas
illuminatingly
illuminating oil
underilluminating
unilluminating
illuminating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːmɪneɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪlˈluməneɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /-ɾɪŋ/
Etymology: From illuminate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illuminate.
unloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unload
unloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unloadings
Senses: examples: text: Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - [...]
ref: 1964 March, “Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:
glosses: The act by which something is unloaded.
imparted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impart
assemblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assembly
glosses: plural of assemblie
bearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of bearing
assimilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assimilate
scooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scoop
scooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoopings
Senses: examples: text: I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]
ref: 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:
glosses: The process or result of something being scooped.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.
assuring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assuring
form: most assuring
Senses: examples: text: And then we have this further most assuring statement: "The blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin."
ref: 1876, The American pulpit of the day, page 698:
text: Hoeness nodded shortly, but Gabriel was less assuring.
ref: 2013, Don Pendleton, Cold Fusion, page 55:
text: The news about the efficacy of these concoctions was very assuring and soothing at a time when caregivers were in daily contact with their relations or loved ones who were suffering from COVID-19, considering that total quarantine of the patients they were looking after was not feasible at home where most of the COVID-19 patients were recuperating.
ref: 2024, Yamikani Ndasauka, COVID-19 and Psychological Distress in Africa:
glosses: Synonym of reassuring.
synonyms: word: reassuring
Derived terms: assuringly
unassuring
assuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assure
rearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rear
rearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearings
Etymology: From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).
Senses: examples: text: We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.
text: In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.
ref: 1896, The Progressive Bee-keeper, page 320:
glosses: Act of raising young.
babbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babblings
Etymology: From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
glosses: sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
glosses: Idle senseless talk; prattle.
glosses: A confused murmur, as of a stream.
babbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more babbling
form: most babbling
Etymology: From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, babelinde, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That babbles.
Derived terms: babblingly
babbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, babelinde, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of babble
battering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of batter
battering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.təˌɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
ipa: /ˈbæ.tɚˌɪŋ/
Forms: form: batterings
Senses: examples: text: Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: A heavy beating.
examples: text: That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A large defeat.
glosses: Domestic violence
Derived terms: batteringly
baring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: Baring
homophone: bearing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bare
baring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
homophone: Baring
homophone: bearing
Forms: form: barings
Senses: examples: text: These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
ref: 2008, Carolyn Arends, Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt, page 90:
glosses: The act by which something is laid bare.
beseeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beseech
beseeching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beseechings
Senses: examples: text: The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions.
ref: 2009 September 20, John R. Quain, “Getting Lost With a Cellphone”, in New York Times:
glosses: A heartfelt plea.
Derived terms: beseechingly
beseechingness
reveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revelers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reveller.
chattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chatter
chattering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That chatters
Derived terms: chattering classes
chattering damsel
chattering lory
chatteringly
chattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatterings
Senses: examples: text: That speed mimics the natural electrical chatterings of the brain, said Dr. Karl Deisseroth, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford.
ref: 2007 August 14, Ingfei Chen, “The Beam of Light That Flips a Switch That Turns on the Brain”, in New York Times:
glosses: A noise that chatters.
glosses: Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.
labouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laboring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of labour
labouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labourings
form: laboring
Senses: glosses: The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
labouring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labouring
form: most labouring
form: laboring
Derived terms: labouringly
nonlabouring
unlabouring
leasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: leasings
Etymology: From Middle English lesing, leasung, from Old English lēasung (“leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice, lie, empty talk, frivolity, laxity”), from Proto-West Germanic *lausungu, from Proto-Germanic *lausungō, equivalent to lease (“to lie”) + -ing. Cognate with Scots lesing (“lying, falsehood”), German Lösung (“breaking away, release, liberation, solution”), Icelandic lausung (“lying, falsehood”).
Senses: examples: text: fy on þi lawe / For al by lesynges þow lyuest · and lecherouse werkes.
ref: c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Passus II]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
text: Then ren they with leſinges, and blow them about,
With, ‘He wrate ſuche a bil withouten dout’,
With, ‘I can tel you what ſuch a man ſaid,
And you knew all ye would be ill apayd’.
ref: c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, 'Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:
text: Shewes, visions, sooth-sayes, and prophesies; / And all that fained is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A lie; the act of lying, falsehood.
leasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English lesing, leesing, lesinge, equivalent to lease (“to tell lies”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle of lease (“to tell lies”)
leasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈliːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Etymology: From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lease
leasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈliːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːsɪŋ
ipa: /ˈliːzɪŋ/
Forms: form: leasings
Etymology: From lease (“to rent out”) + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of lease
Derived terms: body leasing
wet-leasing
burying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bury + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bury
burying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buryings
Etymology: From bury + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] itself will always be with you, despite all cuttings, excretings, and buryings.
ref: 2000, John Limon, Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America, page 117:
glosses: A burial.
Derived terms: burying ground
buryingplace
rumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumbling
form: most rumbling
Senses: examples: text: rumbling discontent
text: His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.
glosses: Deep- and slow-sounding.
Derived terms: Rumbling Bridge
rumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumblings
Senses: examples: text: The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state.
glosses: A muted sound of complaint or discontent.
examples: text: The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.
glosses: A deep low noise.
rumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rumble
flavoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavorings
form: flavouring
Senses: examples: text: This soda has an artificial flavoring, I can taste the after taste.
glosses: Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient.
flavoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flavouring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flavor
booked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊkt/
rhymes: -ʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of book
Derived terms: pre-booked
prebooked
bordered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having a border
Derived terms: pearl-bordered fritillary
unbordered
bordered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of border
broiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broil
truncated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more truncated
form: most truncated
Senses: glosses: Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet).
glosses: Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.
Derived terms: truncated cube
truncated cuboctahedron
truncated dodecahedron
truncated domes
truncated icosahedron
truncated icosidodecahedron
truncated octahedron
truncated tetrahedron
truncated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of truncate
ploughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊd
Forms: form: plowed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plough
ploughed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊd
Forms: form: more ploughed
form: most ploughed
form: plowed
Senses: glosses: Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
glosses: Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
examples: text: they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed
ref: 1983, Gillian Brown, George Yule, Discourse Analysis:
text: "I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.
ref: 2020, Tom Leveen, Party:
glosses: Drunk.
Derived terms: unploughed
sided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of side
Derived terms: bright-sided
double-sided
four-sided
low-sided
one-sided
single-sided
wall-sided
flavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavoured
form: most flavoured
form: flavored
Senses: examples: text: This is only grape flavoured soda, the flavouring is artificial; real grape juice tastes much richer.
glosses: Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
flavoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flavored
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flavour
obscured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obscure
obscured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obscured
form: most obscured
Senses: glosses: Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
Derived terms: obscuredly
unobscured
threaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threaded
form: most threaded
Etymology: From thread + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having threads.
examples: text: A threaded email will commonly have a number, (e.g., (5)) after the sender's name to show how many emails are in that thread. An unthreaded email, however, will not have that number marker because all the messages are listed separately.
ref: 2025 January 31 (last accessed), Darlene Antonelli, “What is an Email Thread? Definition, Using Threads, & More”, in wikiHow:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
Derived terms: cross-threaded
double-threaded
fine-threaded
hyperthreaded
multithreaded
threaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thread
tapering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taper
tapering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taperings
Senses: glosses: A tapered shape.
reeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reek
reeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reek
bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒmz/
rhymes: -ɒmz
Senses: glosses: plural of bomb
bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒmz/
rhymes: -ɒmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bomb
coated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkoʊtɪd/
ipa: [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɨd]
homophone: coded
rhymes: -əʊtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coat
coated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkoʊtɪd/
ipa: [ˈkʰoʊ̯ɾɨd]
homophone: coded
rhymes: -əʊtɪd
Senses: glosses: Covered with a thin layer.
examples: text: I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day.
ref: 1849 December, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. […]”, in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, number IX, Boston, Mass.: […] Coolidge & Wiley, […], page 51:
text: Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.
ref: 1908, The Practical Dental Journal, page 2:
text: A few seconds after photograph 17 was taken; note that the coated woman has stopped to chat to the group.
ref: 1963, The Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, page 51, column 1:
glosses: Wearing a coat.
Synonyms: sense: wearing a coat
word: becoated
Derived terms: biocoated
black-coated
coated felt sheet
coated paper
filmcoated
Flat-coated Retriever
frock-coated
fur-coated
multicoated
nanocoated
noncoated
party-coated
pea-coated
pearl-coated
powder-coated
precoated
Prince Albert-coated
Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
sugarcoated
sugar coated
sugar-coated
tricoated
foiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foil
foiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪld/
rhymes: -ɔɪld
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having a foil.
Derived terms: unfoiled
complied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comply
drumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: drummings
Senses: glosses: The act of beating a drum.
glosses: A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.
glosses: In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.
Derived terms: air-drumming
drumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drum
Derived terms: drummingly
unfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unfold
unfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfoldings
Senses: examples: text: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
ref: 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
text: If I had the space, I'd cite dozens more examples of Gould's graceful unfoldings of various Beatle tunes.
ref: 2007 October 28, Bruce Handy, “Nothing You Can Know That Isnt Known”, in New York Times:
text: The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed.
demonstrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demonstrate
deciding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: decidings
Senses: examples: text: She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings.
ref: 2005, Walter Wangerin Jr., Jesus: A Novel, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 372:
text: By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.
ref: 2007 November 30, Dahlia Lithwick, “Open Books”, in Slate, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2023:
glosses: The act of making a decision.
deciding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more deciding
form: most deciding
Senses: examples: text: The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.
text: Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.
ref: 2018 June 4, Adam Liptak, “In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023:
glosses: Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.
deciding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decide
hindering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hinder + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hinder
hindering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hindering
form: most hindering
Etymology: From hinder + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Harmful; of or relating to that which hinders.
Derived terms: hindering impediment
hinderingly
consenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consent
consenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consenting
form: most consenting
Senses: examples: text: The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults.
antonyms: unconsenting
glosses: Giving consent; agreeing to something.
examples: text: consenting sex
antonyms: unconsenting
glosses: Done with the consent of all parties involved.
Derived terms: consentingly
consentingness
nonconsenting
unconsenting
confining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confine
confining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confining
form: most confining
Senses: glosses: limiting; restrictive
Derived terms: confiningly
confiningness
deconfining
nonconfining
unconfining
deceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deceive
deceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deceivings
Senses: examples: text: And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Peter 2:13:
glosses: deception
Related terms: deceiving knight
looks can be deceiving
taxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæksɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tax
taxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæksɪŋ/
Forms: form: more taxing
form: most taxing
Senses: glosses: With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
examples: text: a taxing problem
glosses: Burdensome, difficult, exacting.
Derived terms: taxingly
taxingness
taxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæksɪŋ/
Forms: form: taxings
Senses: examples: January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
glosses: The act of imposing a tax.
Derived terms: taxing master
pounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pound
pounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: poundings
Senses: examples: text: “I took a few poundings in the past.”
ref: 2008 January 21, Robin Pogrebin, “Undaunted Director at Indian Museum”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act in which something or someone is pounded.
glosses: An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.
Derived terms: ass pounding
heart-pounding
pounding block
pulse-pounding
pussy pounding
pounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊn.dɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: more pounding
form: most pounding
Senses: examples: text: pounding rain
text: I have a pounding headache.
glosses: Characterized by heavy or loud throbs.
Derived terms: poundingly
grazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of graze
Derived terms: Earth-grazing
grazingly
grazing occultation
nongrazing
grazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.zɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: grazings
Senses: examples: text: The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do.
ref: 1901 June 7, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 7, page 196:
text: There are about one thousand common grazings across the Highlands and Islands. Typically 15-20 crofters share in an area of common grazings, on average 400-500 hectares, which is usually hill-land, unsuitable for cultivation.
ref: 2001, Sally Jeanrenaud, Communities and Forest Management in Western Europe:
glosses: Grazeland.
examples: text: Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.
ref: 2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd:
glosses: The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
Derived terms: fly grazing
goat grazing problem
grazing fire
macrograzing
semi-zero grazing
sungrazing
rebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebuild
rebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebuildings
Senses: examples: text: The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: A Much Transformed Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 186:
text: These have certainly witnessed many events of interest, chief among them, undoubtedly, being the rebuilding of the Bulleid Pacifics.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 160:
glosses: The act of building something again.
frowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Frowning heads are still gloomily shaken when the subject is raised on the NER, [...].
ref: 1964 September, G. Freeman Allen, “Interim report on the East Coast Route express service”, in Modern Railways, page 160:
glosses: present participle and gerund of frown
Derived terms: frowningly
unfrowning
frowning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: frownings
Senses: examples: text: Let all the creatures above and below frown and scowl upon me; if my Creator smile, I am happy; nor can all their frownings diminish my complete joy.
ref: 1734, Isaac Watts, Reliquiæ juveniles:
glosses: The act of giving a frown.
forgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forgiving
form: most forgiving
Senses: examples: text: I am inclined to take a forgiving attitude, since this is his first offence.
glosses: Inclined to forgive.
examples: text: A good WebApp interface is understandable and forgiving, providing the user with a sense of control. […] Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time.
ref: 2010, Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, page 336:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.
Derived terms: forgivingly
forgivingness
unforgiving
forgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forgive
forgiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgivings
Senses: examples: text: And I receive your forgiveness only from you. A group's promises and forgivings are nothing more than the sum of its individual members' promises and forgivings.
ref: 1996, Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Citizenship in a Fragile World, page 58:
glosses: An act of forgiveness.
fingering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerings
Senses: examples: text: She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
examples: text: That chord has two fingerings.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
coordinate_terms: hand job
glosses: The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.
synonyms: sock yarn
glosses: A thin woollen yarn for stockings.
Related terms: fingerer
manual sex
fingering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finger
feasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: They are feasting on turkey and venison.
glosses: present participle and gerund of feast
feasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feastings
Senses: examples: text: The lover at last fell ill; he fairly wasted away; and was so unhappy, that he gave up all his feastings and entertainments.
ref: 1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2:
text: There was hooch galore, and meat and feastings, and they took kindly to the new order.
ref: 1904, Jack London, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Despite many feastings, the wolves were hungry again.
ref: 1911, Joseph A. Altsheler, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast
exploding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: My head is exploding from all this rubbish.
glosses: present participle and gerund of explode
exploding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance of an explosion.
topics: business
glosses: Only available for a very short period.
raw_tags: of an offer
Derived terms: explodingly
nonexploding
Related terms: word: exploded
exploding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explodings
Senses: examples: text: When helpless, a soldier lay racked with his goadings Of wounds he'd received in the battle's explodings.
ref: 1861 April, “The Dying Soldier”, in The Wabash Monthly, volume 2, number 6, page 213:
text: Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!
ref: 1876, William Cox Bennett, Songs of a Song Writer, page 60:
text: How can these vitality affects be described? They are surgings, fadings, explodings, collapsings, slowings down, drawing out or drifting, feelings.
ref: 2013, Arnold I. Goldberg, Progress in Self Psychology:
text: Nietzsche judged in advance [präjudiziert] this exploding of the heavens by elevated humanness [gesteigerte Meschhaftigkeit], an exploding that, religiously (also for Nietzsche), is and remains inculpation.
ref: 2021, Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves, Julia Ng, Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition:
glosses: Explosion.
incoming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
Etymology: From in (adverb) + coming (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.
text: Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35:
text: In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 3, 5:
text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
text: "We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"
ref: 2015 February 1, Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary, archived from the original on 14 May 2024:
glosses: Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
examples: text: The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
glosses: Succeeding to an office or other position.
incoming
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
Etymology: From in (adverb) + coming (adjective).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.
incoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
Forms: form: incomings
Etymology: From Middle English incomming, in comyng, in-comyng, incomyng, in-comynge, incomynge, inne comyng, yn comyng, equivalent to in (adverb) + coming (noun).
Senses: glosses: The act of coming in; arrival.
examples: text: Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.
ref: 1977, Moyers S. Shore, The Battle for Khe Sanh:
text: I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.
ref: 1992, Michael R. Conroy, Don't tell America!, page 120:
text: Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same, the Japanese aircraft screaming into their attack runs on Hornet about the same time as most of the Wildcats managed to sort themselves out to begin their own attacks on the incoming.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 11:05 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Enemy fire directed at oneself.
exhilarating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, exhilarate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhilarate
dirty dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A morally unclean, indecent or sexually provocative style of dancing; a striptease.
examples: text: The elderly woman was offended when she saw the young couple performing dirty dancing on the dance floor at the reception.
glosses: A style of dance for a man and a woman, involving close contact and sexually provocative body movements.
Synonyms: bump and grind
striptease
dirty dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dirty dance
pastures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pasture
pastures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pasture
extracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extract
extracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extract
exploits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploit
exploits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exploit
displaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of displace
Derived terms: displaced homemaker
displaced person
nondisplaced
undisplaced
trailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: On the far hillside we are approaching can be descried a bridge on the first section (Ruabon–Llangollen) of the important G.W.R. branch to Dolgelley, which will shortly join our main line by means of a trailing junction.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: That converge in the direction of travel.
raw_tags: of points and crossovers
examples: text: the trailing railcars
text: the trailing comments
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text: On the long, continuous downgrades of East Africa dynamic braking is of special value; the traction motors are used as generators and their energy output dissipated in force-ventilated banks of resistors. This facility enables a 700-ton trailing load, for example, to be brought down a 1 in 66 gradient at any selected speed between 14 and 25 m.p.h. without use of the air brakes.
ref: 1961 February, “New English Electric diesels for East Africa”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 90–91:
text: Having reversed at Eastbourne, I am in the trailing car, which leaps and fishtails around so much on our way to Bexhill that I have trouble writing coherent notes.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind.
Derived terms: trailing edge
trailing spoke
Related terms: trailer
semi-trailer
tractor-trailer
trailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trail
trailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: trailings
Senses: examples: text: […] their roots, projecting in fibrous sprawls from their trunks, were their feet, and she pictured them advancing with wide trailings, and rustlings as of green draperies […]
ref: 1901, Mary E. Wilkins, The Portion of Labor:
text: All too often, the spout of a soap dispenser rests over the counter and leaves trailings of soap that must be wiped up frequently if a clean appearance is to be maintained.
ref: 2010, Regina S. Baraban, Joseph F. Durocher, Successful Restaurant Design:
glosses: Fabric or other material that trails.
Derived terms: coat-trailing
semi-trailing
trailing arbutus
trailing axle
trailing commission
trailing edge
trailing points
trailing spring
trailing truck
trailing wheel
interfering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interfere
interfering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interferings
Senses: examples: text: […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
ref: 1807, George Campbell, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, page 274:
glosses: interference
incorporating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of incorporate
herding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herd
herding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdings
Senses: examples: text: These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern?
ref: 2010, Inga Clendinnen, Reading the Holocaust:
glosses: An act by which individuals are herded.
examples: text: The whole flock is divided up into seven herdings (the equivalent of the Scottish "hirsels"), and it is through the head shepherd's herding that the only new blood is introduced. Every two or three years some rams are bought at Hawick […]
ref: 1930, Scottish Agriculture:
glosses: A hirsel.
examples: text: It’s what known in the polling industry as “herding”. And herding, not to put too fine a point on it, is when pollsters cheat. Each polling company knows that however accurate their results are, they will ultimately only be judged on one poll. The final poll before the election.
ref: 2015 June 24, Dan Hodges, “Why did the polls get it wrong at the general election? Because they lied”, in The Telegraph:
text: Some observers are concerned also that polling firms “play it safe” by trying to ensure that their own results don't differ too much from the findings of other firms. This practice has been called “herding.”
ref: 2016, Russell K. Schutt, Understanding the Social World: Research Methods for the 21st Century:
text: Pollsters often engage in a practice known as “herding,” which refers to the tendency to announce results similar to those other organizations have already published.
ref: 2016, David M. Newman, Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life:
glosses: Manipulation of poll results by a polling organization so that they match those produced from other organizations.
Derived terms: herding dog
herding instinct
share-herding
shareherding
share herding
sheepherding
swineherding
heaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heave
heaving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːvɪŋ
Forms: form: more heaving
form: most heaving
Senses: examples: text: 2006, Tim Downie, "Ride Report: Bealach-na-Ba", uk.rec.cycling http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_thread/thread/af08b5a62b82262c/192dcd8f8dca7b8e?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=7#192dcd8f8dca7b8e
Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow, the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear.
text: 2006, "Krusty", "Krusty's Holiday", uk.rec.motorcycles, http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f3c43a458f94a29b/bdff0eb3decbb853?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=99#
The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
text: 2007, "Jamie", "Hyde Park Calling 2007", "classic rock magazine readers", http://groups.google.com/group/classic-rock-mag-readers/browse_thread/thread/7a5dc153e8401fb9/e32feaabd9dc9423?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=8#
At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani came on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry.
text: "You know what Paddington is like when it's absolutely heaving. There is nowhere for kids. You're holding their hands, you're holding the luggage, you're trying to move the pram, you're working out where to go. It really is quite stressful.
ref: 2022 February 23, Paul Clifton, “A demand for family-friendly trains”, in RAIL, number 951, page 40:
glosses: Crowded with people.
Derived terms: heavingly
heaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːvɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːvɪŋ
Forms: form: heavings
Senses: examples: text: No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene."
ref: 1884, Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven:
text: His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.
ref: 1893, Thomas De Quincey, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols):
text: Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings.
ref: 1895, Owen Wister, The Dragon of Wantley:
glosses: An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.
Derived terms: coalheaving
frost heaving
heaving line bend
haunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A ghost was haunting the house.
glosses: present participle and gerund of haunt
haunting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haunting
form: most haunting
Senses: examples: text: He had a haunting gaze.
glosses: Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.
Derived terms: hauntingly
hauntingness
unhaunting
haunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hauntings
Senses: examples: text: During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.
text: They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.
ref: 1945, C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce:
glosses: A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
Derived terms: intelligent haunting
residual haunting