cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
painter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntə/
ipa: /ˈpeɪntɚ/
rhymes: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: painters
Etymology: Probably from Middle French pendeur.
Senses: glosses: A chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
examples: text: "Shove that [fat, wicker luncheon-basket] under your feet," he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Then he untied the painter and took the sculls again.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
text: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: Back at the water’s edge, Delbert realised something else. The number of steps had diminished by one, and the little boat was floating more freely to its painter.
ref: 1980, Robert Aickman, “No Time Is Passing”, in Intrusions:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
Derived terms: shank-painter
painter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntə/
ipa: /ˈpeɪntɚ/
rhymes: -eɪntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: painters
Etymology: From a variation of panther, paralleling other Southern pronunciations for can't and aunt (see ain't for more details).
Senses: examples: text: I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.
ref: 1893, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer:
glosses: A mountain lion.
laborer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɹɚ/
Forms: form: laborers
form: labourer
Etymology: From labor + -er.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: worker, toiler
glosses: One who labors.
examples: Near-synonym: toiler
glosses: One who labors.
One who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage, usually hourly.
synonyms: manual laborer
manual labourer
hypernyms: worker
Derived terms: colaborer
forced laborer
nonlaborer
the laborer is worthy of his hire
Related terms: laborist
bricks and mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brick and mortar.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bricks, and, mortar.
brick and mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: brick-and-mortar
form: bricks and mortar
form: bricks-and-mortar
Senses: examples: text: Brick and mortar retail stores face online competition.
text: E-commerce is not the kiss of death for big, traditional brick-and-mortar business.
ref: 2000, Judy Kong, in a report on the ICE Conference, "Non Traditional Clicks and Mortar Businesses: (Dinosaurs) Learn to Fly"
topics: business
glosses: Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.)
Synonyms: physical
traditional
old-fashioned
brick and mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick-and-mortar
form: bricks and mortar
form: bricks-and-mortar
Senses: glosses: Buildings, especially domestic housing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, and, mortar.
brick-and-mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Consolidating brick-and-mortar and online toy businesses may have been a good-faith strategy. What’s certain is that the deals helped generate $128 million in transaction fees for the owners.
ref: 2018 June 13, Bryce Covert, “The Demise of Toys 'R' Us Is a Warning”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of brick and mortar.
bricks-and-mortar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bricks and mortar.
Skirvin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The surname Skirvin may be of old Norse origin (possibly the name of a village), with many later instances of the name in the United Kingdom, primarily Scotland. The earliest instances of the name within the United States are found in Maryland dating back to the 1720s.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
lactose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæk.təʊs/
ipa: /ˈlæk.təʊz/
ipa: /ˈlæk.toʊs/
Forms: form: lactoses
Etymology: Borrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.
wikipedia: Marcelin Berthelot
Synonyms: lactobiose
milk sugar
Derived terms: allolactose
lactard
lactosamine
lactoseamine
lactose-free
lactose intolerance
lactose intolerant
lactose-negative
lactose-positive
lactoside
lactosuria
Related terms: lactase
lactulose
barrel of laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrels of laughs
Senses: examples: text: We went to a karaoke bar and had a barrel of laughs.
text: I gather he's a funeral director. That must be why he's such a barrel of laughs. (sarcastic)
text: As they say, getting older is not a barrel of laughs.
ref: 2014, Kathleen George, The Johnstown Girls, page 37:
glosses: A great amount of enjoyment or entertainment, or something or someone that provides this.
Related terms: barrel of fun
barrel of monkeys
lame duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lame ducks
form: lame-duck
form: lameduck
Etymology: Equivalent to lame + duck. First use appears c. 1761, in the London Evening Post. Derived from the situation in which a person who had defaulted in the London Stock Exchange was said to waddle out of Exchange Alley like a lame duck. Verbal form first appears c. 1910.
Senses: examples: text: Thus is happens, that, when a considerable loss arises from such contract, the principal on whole behalf it was made, refuses to fulfil it; in this case, the loss falls upon the broker, without remedy; and if he does not fulfil the contract in default of his prinicipal, he foreits his credit and business, and becomes, in the cant of the Alley, a lame duck.
ref: 1763 January, anonymous author, The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 288:
text: A few days after our dinner at the Albion, Glover's city speculations, in spite of his unceasing attention in watching the marker, went altogether wrong, and the poor fellow waddled away from Chapel Court a defaulter, or as the stock-brokers emphatically called it, a lame duck.
ref: 1825, Ned Clinton; or The Commissary, page 186:
text: Reflecting on this in our 800th issue seven years ago, RAIL said the broad government view in 1981 was that BR [British Rail] was a lame duck.
ref: 2024 January 10, Howard Johnston, “Launched for enthusiasts - now it's for everyone”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 28:
glosses: A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
examples: text: Congressman Jones was a lame duck and did not vote on many issues that were important to his constituents.
text: This is a lame duck administration, and if it is going to pass out political favors worth multimillions of dollars per year, it must move.
ref: 1968 October 3, Congressional Record, page 29513, column 2:
text: The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.
ref: 1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: So it is quite possible that there will be a Biden bounce in the last six months of his presidency, even if he is a lame duck. The question is, what will he do with it?
ref: 2024 July 22, Ed Pilkington, “Can lame duck Joe Biden give legs to Harris campaign in final six months?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A server that continues to serve ongoing requests while refusing new ones, allowing for graceful shutdown.
lame duck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lame ducks
form: lame ducking
form: lame ducked
form: lame ducked
form: lame-duck
form: lameduck
Etymology: Equivalent to lame + duck. First use appears c. 1761, in the London Evening Post. Derived from the situation in which a person who had defaulted in the London Stock Exchange was said to waddle out of Exchange Alley like a lame duck. Verbal form first appears c. 1910.
Senses: glosses: To behave in the manner of a lame duck.
Related terms: dead man walking
dead duck
sitting duck
rapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.pɪst/
rhymes: -eɪpɪst
Forms: form: rapists
Etymology: From rape + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: raper
coordinate_terms: rapee
glosses: One who has committed rape; someone who raped another person.
Derived terms: child rapist
date rapist
gang rapist
grapist
marital rapist
reverse rapist
serial rapist
the-rapist
lucid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
rhymes: -uːsɪd
Forms: form: lucider
form: more lucid
form: lucidest
form: most lucid
Etymology: Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
ref: 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: Clear; easily understood.
glosses: Mentally rational; sane.
examples: text: The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
Synonyms: sense: easily understood
word: clear
word: perspicuous
word: straightforward
sense: mentally rational
word: coherent
sense: mentally rational
word: sane
sense: bright
word: brilliant
sense: bright
word: light
sense: luminous
word: glowing
word: radiant
sense: transparent
word: clear
word: pellucid
word: see-through
word: transparent
word: translucent
Derived terms: word: circumlucid
word: hyperlucid
word: lucid dream
word: lucid dreaming
word: lucid interval
word: lucidity
word: lucidly
word: lucidness
word: lucidophyll
word: nonlucid
word: semilucid
word: sublucid
word: ultralucid
word: unlucid
Related terms: elucidate
lucid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈl(j)uːsɪd/
rhymes: -uːsɪd
Forms: form: lucids
Etymology: Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Senses: examples: text: The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
ref: 1986, Benjamin B. Wolman, Montague Ullman, Handbook of states of consciousness, page 163:
glosses: A lucid dream.
lovelorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvˈlɔɹn/
Forms: form: more lovelorn
form: most lovelorn
Etymology: From love + lorn.
Senses: examples: text: Ye lovesick bards! repay her scorn for scorn; / Ye artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are, / Make your best bow to her and bid adieu / Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.
ref: c. 1819-1820, John Keats, On Fame:
text: A soft-breasted bird from the sea / Fell in love with the light-house flame; / And it wheeled round the tower on its airiest wing, / And floated and cried like a lovelorn thing;
ref: 1890, John Boyle O'Reilly, “A Tragedy”, in In Bohemia:
glosses: Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.
synonyms: loveless
glosses: Unloved, bereft of love.
Derived terms: lovelornness
lovelorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌvˈlɔɹn/
Forms: form: lovelorns
Etymology: From love + lorn.
Senses: examples: text: And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.
ref: 1984, Alan Rudolph, Choose Me (motion picture), spoken by Nancy (Geneviève Bujold):
glosses: A person who is lovelorn.
lovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌvəbəl/
Forms: form: more lovable
form: lovabler
form: most lovable
form: lovablest
form: loveable
Etymology: From Middle English lovable, loveable, luffeabill, lufabul, equivalent to love + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.
ref: 1895, M[ollie] E[velyn] M[oore] Davis, “Prologue. The Town and the River.”, in Under the Man-Fig, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 6:
text: Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.
ref: Benjamin Griffin, Harriet Elinor Smith, editors (2015), “Explanatory Notes”, in Autobiography of Mark Twain (The Mark Twain Papers), volume 3, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 599
text: “[…] You’ll let Jims come here often, won’t you? I love him dearly.” / “No doubt you do, miss, for a lovabler child I never did see.[…]”
ref: 1921, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Mr. Hyde Goes to His Own Place and Susan Takes a Honeymoon”, in Rilla of Ingleside, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, →OCLC, page 359:
text: The wonder of the women of the world together, moya! And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, pages 375–376:
text: In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
text: At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky. But he has a lot of energy.
ref: 2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:
glosses: Inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
Derived terms: lovableness
lovably
unlovable
loveable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loveable
form: loveabler
form: most loveable
form: loveablest
Senses: examples: text: The young Clergyman John Sterling comes very much about me; and proves by far the loveablest man I have met for many a year.
ref: 1835 December 24, Thomas Carlyle, “To his Mother, Scotsbrig”, in Charles Eliot Norton, editor, Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826–1836, volume II (1832–1836), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 389:
text: I think I can partly understand why they [my sisters] appear cool towards thee; but it is for nothing in thyself personally, nor for any unkindness towards my Dove, whom every body must feel to be the loveablest being in the world.
ref: 1840 June 2, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “To Miss Peabody”, in Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chicago, Ill.: […] The Society of the Dofobs, published 1907, →OCLC, page 201:
text: We were angry at Thackeray about you, and he was ashamed and angry at himself—very—he confessed it all to Mrs. B. He was ill, and cross at the time; he will make the amends yet to you, and you will like him and he you, yet. He is a finer, larger, loveabler man, or rather fellow, than ever. We are more infatuated about him than ever.
ref: c. 1857 May, John Brown, “To Lady Trevelyan”, in his son [i.e., John Brown], D[avid] W[illiam] Forest, editors, Letters of Dr. John Brown: With Letters from Ruskin, Thackeray, and Others, London: Adam and Charles Black, published 1907, →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of lovable.
Derived terms: loveably
unloveable
lube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞ob
ipa: /luːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: lubes
Etymology: Clipping of lubricant.
Senses: examples: text: Jasmine put lube on her bike chain in preparation for the big race.
text: Squeezing a healthy dollop of lube onto her rosebud, he stretched the tight ring and forced more lubrication into her ass.
ref: 2017, Corinne Davies, The 3xtasy Lake Collection, volume 2, page 128:
glosses: Lubricant.
Derived terms: auto-lube
lube job
lubeless
lube
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞ob
ipa: /luːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: lubes
form: lubing
form: lubed
form: lubed
Etymology: Clipping of lubricate.
Senses: examples: text: Jeff lubed his Rubik's Cube before entering the competition.
glosses: Clipping of lubricate.
lube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞ob
ipa: /luːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Etymology: Clipping of lubricating.
Senses: examples: text: The main engine lube oil sump had a maximum capacity of 2,870 gallons, with a high-level operating capacity of 2,020 gallons, a normal operating level of 1,426 gallons, and a low level of 724 gallons. The alteration section of the construction diagram for the lubricating system of the Ponce-class vessels shows that in 1972, before El Faros keel was laid, the original design specifications for the operating levels of the lube' oil sump were changed. The operating capacity was increased from 900 gallons to 1,426 gallons, the low-level capacity was decreased from 750 gallons to 724 gallons, and the sump design capacity was decreased from 4,250 gallons to 2,870 gallons.
ref: 2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.3.6 Fuel and Lubricating Oil”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel SS El Faro, Atlantic Ocean, Northeast of Acklins and Crooked Island, Bahamas, October 1, 2015, archived from the original on 15 May 2022, page 37:
glosses: Lubricating.
lubricate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: lubricates
form: lubricating
form: lubricated
form: lubricated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”).
Senses: examples: text: If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.
synonyms: lube#Verb
glosses: To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
examples: text: They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey.
ref: 2021, Robert A. Webster, Fossils:
text: At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer.
ref: 2021, Edward Slingerland, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization:
glosses: To cause someone to become drunk, especially to make them more sociable or talkative.
Derived terms: lube
lubricant
lubrication
lubricative
lubricator
lubricin
mislubricate
overlubricate
relubricate
underlubricate
Related terms: lubricity
bawl out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bawls out
form: bawling out
form: bawled out
form: bawled out
Senses: examples: text: The teacher angrily bawled out my name.
glosses: To shout very loudly.
examples: text: After a mistake like that, there wasn't much to do besides bawl out the offender and clean up.
glosses: To deliver a loud, hard scolding or lecture to; to reprimand in order to kill.
glosses: To have a serious argument accompanied by shouting.
Related terms: row
you'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you-uns: a second-person plural pronoun.
redd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛd/
Forms: form: redds
form: redding
form: redd
form: redd
form: redded
form: redded
form: red
Etymology: Fusion of Middle English redden (“to save, rescue, deliver, rid, free, clear”), from Old English hreddan (“to save, deliver, recover, rescue”), from Proto-Germanic *hradjaną and Middle English reden (“to clean up, clear”), from Old English ġerǣdan (“to put in order, arrange, prepare”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to arrange”). More at rid, ready.
Senses: glosses: To free from entanglement.
glosses: To free from embarrassment.
glosses: To fix boundaries.
glosses: To comb hair.
glosses: To separate combatants.
glosses: To settle, usually a quarrel.
glosses: To tidy up, clear away.
Derived terms: outredd
outred
redd up
redd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛd/
Forms: form: redds
form: redding
form: redded
form: redded
form: red
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old Norse ryðja, Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden. In modern use probably actually a back-formation from ready.
Senses: examples: text: I've got to redd the place before your mother gets back.
glosses: To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
redd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛd/
Forms: form: redds
Etymology: Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches, National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
A female chinook salmon digs her redd, or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.
glosses: A spawning nest made by a fish.
redd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛd/
Etymology: From the archaic verb rede or read.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rede
examples: text: The Works of John Knox, 1841
roman: Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God
glosses: simple past and past participle of read
jaggerbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaggerbushes
Senses: glosses: A thornbush, bramble, briar.
rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of rate
rates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
examples: text: Nonetheless, it did not stop the Fed from cutting rates last Thursday.
glosses: Abbreviation of interest rates.
Derived terms: ratepayer
rates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rate
bed of roses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛd ʌv ˈɹəʊzəz/
Forms: form: beds of roses
Etymology: From Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599).
Senses: examples: text: It's a straightforward job, but it's no bed of roses, with such long hours.
text: Just speak to the stars about the bed of roses which is popularly supposed to be their resting place in the rarified atmosphere of the stellar regions!
ref: 1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 23:
text: I thank you all / But it's been no bed of roses / No pleasure cruise
ref: 1977, Freddie Mercury, “We Are the Champions”, in News of the World, performed by Queen:
synonyms: word: beer and skittles
word: bowl of cherries
word: beatitude
word: bliss
word: delectation
word: delight
word: ecstasy
word: euphoria
word: lust
word: nirvana
word: pleasure
word: rapture
word: ravishment
word: transport
glosses: A pleasant or easy situation; an untroubled existence.
wikipedia: Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
osso buco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒsəʊ ˈbuːkəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɑsoʊ ˈbukoʊ/
rhymes: -uːkəʊ
Forms: form: ossobuco
form: osso bucco
Etymology: From Italian ossobuco (a compound of osso (“bone”) + buco (“hole”, or as an adjective, “hollow”)).
Senses: glosses: A northern Italian dish of veal shanks and marrowbones braised in white wine, tomatoes, etc., often served with risotto.
bad blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (1823).
Senses: examples: text: The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.
ref: 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter III, in Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC:
text: [T]here was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business.
ref: 1896, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 3, in Tom Sawyer, Detective:
text: All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag, […].
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The former vice-president’s characterizations of peers such as Pete Buttigieg (talented but too gay for the America to accept as her running mate), and Josh Shapiro (an egoist) are not particularly juicy, but have already caused bad blood.
ref: 2025 September 22, Arwa Mahdawi, “107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: animosity
animus
glosses: Feelings of hostility or ill will.
examples: text: Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up. I like not to tell of slaughter, though it might be of wolves and tigers; and that was a night of fire and slaughter, and of very long-harboured revenge. Enough that ere the daylight broke upon that wan March morning, the only Doones still left alive were the Counsellor and Carver.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter LXXI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: blood feud
vendetta
glosses: A serious feud or long-standing grudge.
examples: text: [I]f we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the forcat.
ref: 1882, George MacDonald, chapter 4, in Weighed and Wanting:
text: "Humph! Thought there was bad blood somewhere!" he exclaimed […].
"No!" was the determined answer […]. Because his father was dishonest is no proof that he is a thief."
ref: 1902, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 5, in Flip's ‘Islands of Providence’:
text: She has bad blood in her. Her mother […] went to pieces, poor dear, and Judge Lawton wisely sent her East.
ref: 1921, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, chapter 6, in The Sisters-In-Law:
glosses: An inherited immoral or disturbed nature.
glosses: A particular disease; in some places, syphilis.
disaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/
Forms: form: disaccharides
Etymology: From di- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
Synonyms: word: disaccharide
Hypernyms: word: carbohydrate
Hyponyms: sucrose
lactose
maltose
rutinose
trehalose
turanose
cellobiose
Coordinate terms: monosaccharide
trisaccharide
tetrasaccharide
oligosaccharide
polysaccharide
Meronyms: word: monosaccharide
Derived terms: disaccharidase
heterodisaccharide
mannodisaccharide
phosphodisaccharide
pseudodisaccharide
sialyldisaccharide
monosaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosaccharides
Etymology: From mono- + saccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring
Synonyms: word: monosugar
word: simple sugar
word: monosaccharide
Hypernyms: word: carbohydrate
Hyponyms: word: triose
word: tetrose
word: pentose
word: hexose
word: heptose
word: glucose
word: fructose
word: deoxyribose
word: sarmentose
word: aldose
word: enose
word: septanose
word: octanose
word: galactose
Coordinate terms: disaccharide
trisaccharide
tetrasaccharide
oligosaccharide
polysaccharide
Derived terms: aminomonosaccharide
pseudomonosaccharide
unfunny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌni
Forms: form: unfunnier
form: more unfunny
form: unfunniest
form: most unfunny
Etymology: From un- + funny.
Senses: examples: text: Edward told an unfunny knock-knock joke that made his brother groan.
text: The decline of mobility, reason fading in and out like short-wave radio, the trickle of minor ailments that fed a deeper river—the subject was vast and not all of it was unfunny.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 388:
synonyms: word: nonfunny
word: unamusing
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not funny
multilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From multi- + lateral.
Senses: glosses: Having many physical sides.
glosses: Having many sides or points of view.
examples: text: a multilateral negotiation
text: Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.
ref: 1993, James Rochlin, Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America, page 223:
text: That is a sore point for the U.S. President Trump. He has in the past spoken against multilateral trade agreements. He argued that the deals give too much advantage to America's trading partners and lead to job losses in the U.S.
ref: 2017 February 22, Ivana Kottasova, “$1 trillion free trade agreement enters force”, in CNN Business:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Involving three or more parties or nations.
Derived terms: multilateralism
multilateralist
multilateralize
multilaterally
multilateration
nonmultilateral
multilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: multilaterals
Etymology: From multi- + lateral.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A group with representatives from three or more parties or nations.
telega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɪˈleɪɡə/
Forms: form: telegas
form: telegi
Etymology: From mid-16th century Russian теле́га (teléga), probably from Khazar.
Senses: examples: text: Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.
ref: 1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:
glosses: A simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.
simple harmonic motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple harmonic motions
Senses: topics: engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: oscillating motion (as of a pendulum) in which the acceleration of the oscillator has an equal magnitude but opposite direction to the displacement of it from the equilibrium position.
Related terms: simple harmonic oscillator
pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnd͡ʒələm/
ipa: /ˈpɪnd͡ʒələm/
Forms: form: pendulums
form: pendula
Etymology: Borrowed from the neuter of Latin pendulus (“hanging”).
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: clocks
glosses: A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
examples: text: The pendulum can be seen to be swinging in favour of rail, as with each issue of RAIL comes news of further intermodal service expansion.
ref: 2021 October 20, Industry Insider, “The wheels turn slowly”, in RAIL, number 942, page 68:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: clocks
glosses: A body suspended from a fixed support so that it swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity, commonly used to regulate various devices such as clocks.
The tendency of a situation to oscillate (between two extremes).
glosses: A lamp, etc. suspended from a ceiling.
glosses: A watch's guard-ring by which it is attached to a chain.
Derived terms: archipendulum
ballistic pendulum
compensation pendulum
compound pendulum
double pendulum
Foucault pendulum
Foucault's pendulum
invariable pendulum
Kater's pendulum
pendulum arbitration
pendulum clock
pendulumlike
pendulum saw
pendulum wire
play pendulum
Schuler pendulum
simple pendulum
torsion pendulum
Wilberforce pendulum
Related terms: pendant
simple harmonic motion
THC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Over the years, Jacobson has had many of these products tested at labs; almost invariably they contained very little or no CBD and too much THC. It has psychoactive effects, and there wasn’t much science suggesting THC could treat seizures.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2022:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of tetrahydrocannabinol.
glosses: Abbreviation of thermohaline circulation.
Related terms: sense: tetrahydrocannabinol
word: CBD
sense: tetrahydrocannabinol
word: THCV
tetrahydrocannabinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˈkæn.əb.ɪn.ɒl/
ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ).kəˈnæb.ɪn.ɒl/
ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhaɪ.dɹək.əˈnæb.əˌnɔl/
ipa: /ˌtɛ.tɹəˌhaɪ.dɹoʊˈkæ.nə.bɪˌnɔl/
Forms: form: tetrahydrocannabinols
Etymology: From tetrahydro + cannabinol.
Senses: examples: text: While the agency hasn’t proposed changing its 2023 6.7 million-gram quota for marijuana for 2024, it is now calling for the manufacturing of 900,610 grams of delta-9 THC and 790,010 grams of all other tetrahydrocannabinol. That represents another increase after DEA already moved this week to nearly double the 2023 quota for delta-9 THC to 628,460 grams and called for 350,000 grams of other tetrahydrocannabinols.
ref: 2023 February 11, Kyle Jaeger, “DEA Wants Nearly 1 Million Grams Of Delta-9 THC Manufactured For Research Next Year In Latest Schedule I Quota Hike”, in Marijuana Moment:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The psychoactive substance present in cannabis, a hydrogenated derivative of cannabinol.
Synonyms: word: THC
Hypernyms: cannabinoid
Derived terms: tetrahydrocannabinolic acid
THCA
tetrahydrocannabivarin
THCV
Related terms: cannabinol
CBN
cannabidiol
CBD
cannabigerol
CBG
cannabis
psychoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈæktɪv/
Forms: form: more psychoactive
form: most psychoactive
Etymology: From psycho- + active.
Senses: examples: text: LSD and DMT are psychoactive drugs.
text: Ng blows out more smoke, thinking. "As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to pyschoactive drugs.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 367:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Affecting the mind or mental processes.
Synonyms: psychotropic
Related terms: psychoactivation
psychoactivity
psychoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkoʊˈæktɪv/
Forms: form: psychoactives
Etymology: From psycho- + active.
Senses: examples: text: LSD and DMT are psychoactives.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug that affects the mind or mental processes.
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: midmost
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.
Senses: examples: text: Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Occupying a middle position; middle.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
examples: text: The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst).
ref: 2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR:
text: I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.
ref: 2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]
ref: 2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Mediocre; of middling quality.
glosses: Trashy; low-quality.
Related terms: midness
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.
Senses: examples: text: We need to retake mid.
topics: games
gaming
location
glosses: The middle of the battlefield.
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone head mid.
topics: games
gaming
location
glosses: To or into the middle of the battlefield.
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: mids
Etymology: From Middle English mid, midde, from Old English midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.
Senses: examples: text: About the mid of night come to my tent.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: middle
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: mids
Etymology: Clipping of mid-range.
Senses: qualifier: disc golf
glosses: A mid-range.
mid
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Etymology: From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although Middle English had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of use by the end of the 1300s and survived into the modern English period only in the compounds midwife and theremid.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.
glosses: With.
raw_tags: in representations of German-accented English
caftan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caftans
Senses: examples: text: From the pocket of her discarded caftan she lifted a thick medallion and set it in place around her neck.
ref: 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 456:
text: Still, he did look striking in his long white flowing pants and a white caftan.
ref: 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 12:
text: […] there’s always “The Golden Girls.” Less couture, more caftans; less Gramercy Park townhouses, more Miami ranch houses, but all the joy and laughs that “And Just Like That …” didn’t deliver.
ref: 2025 August 13, Jennifer Weiner, “In ‘And Just Like That …’ a Craven Era Took Its Revenge on Youth and Hope and Fun”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kaftan.
Derived terms: caftaned
kaftan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæf.tæn/
note: where?
ipa: /ˈkæf.tən/
Forms: form: kaftans
form: caftan
Etymology: Via Russian кафта́н (kaftán), from Ottoman Turkish قفتان (kaftan), from Persian خفتان (xaftân), which occurs already in the Shāhnāma.
Senses: glosses: A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
glosses: A long dress or shirt similar in style to those worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Derived terms: kaftaned
kaftanlike
plebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plib/
ipa: /pliːb/
rhymes: -iːb
Forms: form: plebes
Etymology: From Latin plēbs (“the plebeian class”), probably via Middle French plebe (“plebeians, commoners, the rabble”) and possibly later understood as a clipping of plebeian. Cognate with Italian plebe, Spanish plebe, Portuguese plebe.
Senses: examples: text: Another the like was among the Romanes of Patricij & plebes, thone ſtriuing with thother a long time, the patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at laſt all magiſtrates were made cõmon [common] betweene thẽ [them]: […]
ref: 1562–1565 (date written), Thomas Smyth [i.e., Thomas Smith], “The Diuision of the Parts and Persons of the Common Wealth”, in De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Gouernement or Policie of the Realme of England, […], London: […] Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, published 1583, →OCLC, pages 19–20:
glosses: A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
examples: text: All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.
ref: 1612, Thomas Heywood, chapter II, in An Apology for Actors:
glosses: The plebs, the plebeian class.
glosses: The similar lower class of any area.
examples: text: My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.
ref: 1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, page 85:
text: "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
"If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."
ref: 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point, page 84:
text: Plebes spend their first summer at Cadet Basic Training — Beast Barracks — where they get soldierized.
ref: 2014, David Lipsky, Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, page 8:
text: “You went to The Citadel?” her mother chimed in. “I’ve heard so many great things about that institution. Did you go through a plebe year?” I told her I did and that we called it the knob year because freshman cadets had to shave their heads bald to resemble the butt end of a door knob and keep it that way for an entire ten months while going through the process of being broken down, only to be built back up.
ref: 2018 October 26, Joe Crochet, My Winning Seasons: Discovering the Champion Within, page 3:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A freshman cadet at a military academy.
Derived terms: pleb
plebe class
plebe year
plebeskin
Related terms: pleb
plebs
plebeian
mass starvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The starvation of a large proportion of a region's population due to drought, warfare, famine or similar events.