cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grab at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grabs at
form: grabbing at
form: grabbed at
form: grabbed at
Senses: glosses: To grasp, or attempt to grasp, something or somebody, using one's hand, usually in a rough or rude manner.
mark as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marks as
form: marking as
form: marked as
form: marked as
Senses: examples: text: His loudly verbalized beliefs marked him as an ignorant bore.
glosses: To provide sufficient reason to come to a conclusion about something.
Related terms: mark down as
mark down as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marks down as
form: marking down as
form: marked down as
form: marked down as
Senses: glosses: To come to a conclusion about someone or something; to make a note of one's conclusion about someone or something.
polymyxin E
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polymyxin + E.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of colistin.
synonyms: word: colistin
Hypernyms: polymyxin
antibiotic
pass as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes as
form: passing as
form: passed as
form: passed as
Senses: glosses: To be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.
hold up as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds up as
form: holding up as
form: held up as
form: held up as
Senses: examples: text: Judge Gilligan has been held up as a shining example of judicial restraint.
glosses: To purport that (someone) is an example of (something, usually positive).
NDM-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (“an enzyme conferring resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics”).
glosses: A bacterial gene that produces the enzyme.
Hypernyms: superbug gene
pawn off as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pawns off as
form: pawning off as
form: pawned off as
form: pawned off as
Senses: examples: text: We'll pawn this necklace off as real gold, and make a fortune.
glosses: To make a person or thing appear to be different than their true nature in order to fool someone else.
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1
Etymology: From New Delhi + metallo-beta-lactamase + 1.
From its place of discovery, New Delhi, that it is a metallo-beta-lactamase, and that it is the first.
Senses: glosses: An enzyme conferring resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics.
glosses: A gene that codes for the enzyme.
Synonyms: word: NDM-1
Hypernyms: word: New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase
sense: enzyme
word: metallo-beta-lactamase
word: superbug gene
Derived terms: word: NDM-1
english: super
translation: super
alt: a superbug made by NDM-1
word: New Delhi superbug
look on as
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks on as
form: looking on as
form: looked on as
form: looked on as
Senses: examples: text: I've always looked on him as the ideal candidate for the job.
glosses: To treat someone in a particular role; to consider someone in a particular way.
glosses: To witness (something) without participating in it.
draghound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draghounds
form: drag-hound
form: drag hound
Etymology: From drag + hound.
Senses: examples: text: "Pompey is the pride of the local draghounds—no very great flier, as his build will show, but a staunch hound on a scent."
ref: 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:
text: "I've told them, I'm ready to be the first chairman of the Badsworth draghounds," Mr Beechey said. "I'm all for riding round the countryside, and it's just as enjoyable if you're chasing artificial scent."
ref: 2003 December 27, Martin Wainwright, “This year, the day belonged to the hounds”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 15 Nov 2015:
text: There are also another 26 packs of draghounds and bloodhounds which exist purely to hunt a runner or trail.
ref: 2015 October 31, Tim Bonner, “Ten years on, and we're still here”, in Western Daily Press, UK, retrieved 15 Nov 2015:
glosses: A hunting dog especially trained to be effective in drag hunts, having the highly developed sense of smell and the stamina to follow an artificially scented trail at high speed over considerable distance.
bring up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings up against
form: bringing up against
form: brought up against
form: brought up against
Senses: glosses: To cause someone to have to solve a problem or deal with an issue.
drag-hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag-hounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draghound.
drag hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drag hounds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of draghound.
bring together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings together
form: bringing together
form: brought together
form: brought together
Senses: examples: text: Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.
ref: 2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, together.
glosses: To cause people to do something together; to bring about togetherness.
lean in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leans in
form: leaning in
form: leaned in
form: leaned in
form: leant in
form: leant in
Senses: glosses: To shift one's weight forward; to lean forward or towards something.
examples: 2011, Sheryl Sandberg, Forrestal Lecture at the United States Naval Academy.
We need to find a way for women to not drop out, but to lean in to their careers and give them the flexibility they need to stay in the workforce.
glosses: To proactively take charge of a situation; to be bold in exerting one's will in a situation.
glosses: To continue or strengthen a reaction in the face of criticism or disappointment; to redouble efforts despite setbacks and uncertainty from others.
Related terms: lean into
carbonless copy paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonless copy papers
Senses: glosses: A form of paper that is coated with a substance on the reverse and so does not need a separate sheet of carbon paper in order to produce copies
programming interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programming interfaces
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of application programming interface.
Hypernyms: interface
programming interfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹamɪŋ ɪntəfeɪs/
Senses: glosses: plural of programming interface
Hunger Games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hunger Games
form: hunger game
form: Hunger Game
form: hunger games
Etymology: From the titular fictional gladiatorial contests in The Hunger Games, first published in 2008.
Senses: examples: ref: 2012 December 28, “Jockey James Winks falls prey to the Hunger Games of riding”, in news.com.au, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2012:
text: If the term “daytime TV” used to be synonymous with slightly ramshackle, undemanding programming attuned to the languid circadian rhythms of hungover students and the retired, it’s now a hyper-competitive arena of mechanical oneupmanship, a Hunger Games for image and sound editors.
ref: 2014 September 10, Graeme Virtue, “Who’s Doing the Dishes? is the best daytime TV in years”, in The Guardian:
text: Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job.
ref: 2015 May 27, Ursula K Le Guin, “Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf review – happiness at the end of life”, in The Guardian:
text: “[Registration week] always been The Hunger Games of scheduling,” Valdez said. “You ultimately get in based on timing and luck.”
ref: 2015 November 9, Nicholas Da Silva, “Registration Week: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor”, in The Montclarion, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
glosses: A vicious contest, especially one that is winner-take-all.
Hunger Games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunger game
form: Hunger Game
form: hunger games
Etymology: From the titular fictional gladiatorial contests in The Hunger Games, first published in 2008.
Senses: glosses: plural of Hunger Game
autographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autography
havta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Contraction of have to.
birch brackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birch bracket
pseudocompliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocompliments
Senses: examples: text: This time, however, the true valuation of the two poets — disguised in the former poem by a pseudocompliment to Ponticus and ironic self-effacement on Propertius' part — is out in the open from the beginning […]
ref: 1985, Hans-Peter Stahl, Propertius: "love" and "war", page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of pseudo-compliment.
pseudocompliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocompliment
for all one knows
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I haven't seen her for weeks. For all I know, she's moved to another country.
text: Turn out the light
Don't try to save me
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right
ref: 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
glosses: Possibly or conceivably, given one's limited knowledge.
tenkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenkeys
Etymology: From ten + key; the numeric keypad includes keys for the ten digits.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The numeric keypad portion of a computer keyboard.
Derived terms: tenkeyless
Related terms: Numpad
bubble tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble taps
Senses: examples: text: Through the open door Clement sees the girls in the shady shelter shed drinking daintily from the bubble taps and dabbing at their mouths with their crumpled white hankies.
ref: 2008, Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row:
glosses: drinking fountain
bubble taps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bubble tap
tailormades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailormade
veldfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veldfires
Etymology: From veld + fire.
Senses: glosses: A wildfire on the veld.
megafire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafires
Etymology: From mega- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: This increase means that almost every aspect of the Earth’s climate system is now influenced by humanity, and the consequences – droughts, heatwaves, megafires, melting glaciers and rising oceans – are now well understood.
ref: 2015 November 20, Tim Flannery, “Climate crisis: seaweed, coffee and cement could save the planet”, in The Guardian:
text: There remains much that can be done to limit the damage to come, to brace against the coming megafires and superstorms and save lives and hold onto a thriving civilization.
ref: 2020 September 22, John Branch, Brad Plumer, “Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In”, in New York Times:
text: Across the Western United States, a summer of record-breaking drought, heat waves and megafires exacerbated by climate change is forcing millions of people to confront an inescapable string of disasters that challenge the future of growth.
ref: 2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: megastorm
glosses: A very large wildfire, typically one covering more than 100,000 acres.
veldfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldfire
megafires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafire
hall-of-famer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hall-of-famers
Etymology: From hall of fame + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who has achieved a spot in a hall of fame.
sitcomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sitcomic
form: most sitcomic
Etymology: From sitcom + -ic, perhaps influenced by comic.
Senses: examples: text: Kettle films deal with sitcomic themes, their feature length, lack of audience response tracks, and relatively panoramic settings make them very different viewing experiences.
ref: 1996, David Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, page 11:
text: In The Simpsons, the sitcomic plot drives the camera over the harsh, black, thin lines making up the flat setting in an often hasty and inconsistent tempo.
ref: 2014, Timotheus Vermeulen, Scenes from the Suburbs: Suburban Space in Us Film and Television:
glosses: Of or relating to sitcom.
testosteronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testosteronal
form: most testosteronal
Etymology: From testosterone + -al.
Senses: examples: text: (Mad Pierre had showered her with his customary praise as well, exclaiming on IRC that she made him behave “like a testosteronal teenager in an AOL chat room”—a line that Shiksaa was quick to appropriate for use in her Usenet signature.)
ref: 2014, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings, page 85:
text: Given the testosteronal fug surrounding these two, it can be hard to sort out who gets the gold medal for compassion and commitment.
ref: 2015 November 20, The Editorial Board, “Tackling the Homeless Crisis, Without Mr. Cuomo”, in New York Times:
glosses: Full of testosterone; characterised by masculine sexual drive.
Derived terms: testosteronally
chickenboners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickenboner
chickenboner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenboners
Etymology: From chicken + bone + -er, from their supposed diet of fast food.
Senses: examples: text: While leaders of notorious spam gangs tend to be more upscale in their lifestyles, it is believed that many of them rely on numerous "chickenboners" to perform affiliate mailings on behalf of the gangs.
ref: 2004, Danny Goodman, Spam Wars, page 110:
text: With Wallace vanquished, antispammers turned their attention to smaller foes, whom they jokingly referred to as chickenboners. Unlike big operators such as Wallace who incorporated their businesses and maintained office space with hired employees and other trappings of legitimacy, chickenboners were imagined by spam fighters as living in mobile homes with a personal computer on the kitchen table, surrounded by beer cans and buckets of take-out fried chicken.
ref: 2014, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings:
glosses: A small-time spammer.
cocommutativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + commutativity.
Senses: examples: text: Using cocommutativity of the Hopf algebra of symmetric functions, certain skew Schur functions are proved to be equal.
ref: 2015, Karen Yeats, “A Hopf algebraic approach to Schur function identities”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being cocommutative.
Schur function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schur functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Schur polynomial.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A holomorphic function in the Schur class.
Schur functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schur function
bidispersity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + dispersity.
Senses: examples: text: A two-dimensional system of photoelastic disks subject to vertical tapping against gravity was experimentally monitored from ordered to disordered configurations by varying bidispersity.
ref: 2015, N. Iikawa, M. M. Bandi, H. Katsuragi, “Sensitivity of Granular Force Chain Orientation to Disorder-induced Metastable Relaxation”, in arXiv:
glosses: The condition of being bidisperse.
coreset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coresets
Etymology: From core + set.
Senses: examples: text: This coreset based learning approach can be applied for both real-time learning of small, varied data and fast learning of big data..
ref: 2015, Abhimanyu Dubey, Nikhil Naik, Dan Raviv, Rahul Sukthankar, Ramesh Raskar, “Coreset-Based Adaptive Tracking”, in arXiv:
topics: computational
computing
engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small set of points that approximates the shape of a larger point set, in the sense that applying some geometric measure to the two sets (such as their minimum bounding box volume) results in approximately equal numbers.
coresets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coreset
lithiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithiation
delithiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delithiation
dreibeins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dreibein
hypercyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + cyclic.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the regular polygon ABCD ... can either be a convex n-gon, a star n-gon, a horocylic apeirogon or a hypercyclic apeirogon.
ref: 1984, Coxeter-Festschrift [Mitteilungen aus dem Mathem[atisches] Seminar Giessen], Giessen: Gießen Mathematischen Institut, Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen, page 247:
glosses: Of or relating to hypercycles.
silicane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicanes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of silane.
synonyms: word: silane
silicanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicane
nonbarotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + barotropic.
Senses: glosses: Not barotropic.
ptychographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ptychography.
ptychography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ptycho- (compare ptychonome) + -graphy, from Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold”) + γράφειν (gráphein, “write”).
Senses: examples: text: It was recently suggested that the transmitted phase can be directly measured in ptychography experiments performed on nanocrystal samples.
ref: 2015, O.Yu. Gorobtsov, I.A. Vartanyants, “Phase of the transmitted wave in the dynamical theory and quasi-kinematical approximation”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique that aims to solve the diffraction-pattern phase problem by interfering adjacent Bragg reflections coherently and thereby determining their relative phase.
Related terms: ptychographic
ptychographical
similaritons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of similariton
multiwormhole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + wormhole.
Senses: examples: text: The construction of stationary axisymmetric multiwormhole solutions to gravitating field theories admitting toroidal reductions to three-dimensional gravitating sigma models is reviewed.
ref: 2015, Gérard Clément, “Axisymmetric multiwormholes revisited”, in arXiv:
glosses: Involving more than one wormhole.
slip through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips through
form: slipping through
form: slipped through
form: slipped through
Senses: examples: text: Criticisms of poor accuracy can usually be justified, but the occasional error (as in many a published work) can still slip through.
ref: 2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: To get past an inspection or procedure without any issue.
glosses: To barely pass; to minimally succeed at something.
get past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets past
form: getting past
form: got past
form: got past
form: gotten past
Senses: glosses: To continue around a blockage; to get around (something); to surpass something that is in the way.
glosses: To cause something to get around a blockage; to cause to get around or surpass something that is in the way.
examples: text: He was an intelligent mathematician, and very few mistakes got past him in his works.
glosses: To pass by unnoticed by someone who would have the power to halt or correct it.
raw_tags: of a mistake
synonyms: reach past
glosses: To get through a difficult time; to overcome a source of grief.
glosses: To cause someone to overcome a source of grief or get through a difficult time.
be with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is with
form: being with
form: was with
form: were with
form: been with
Senses: examples: text: We dated for almost a year, but I've never been with him.
glosses: To have sex with.
examples: text: I've been with her for almost a year now.
glosses: To date or be boyfriend/girlfriend with.
examples: text: I came in here disagreeing, but I've changed my mind, and now I'm with you on this.
glosses: To agree with someone.
examples: text: I'm sorry; I'm not with you on this point.
glosses: To understand someone's point or intention.
examples: text: You know I ain't with using drugs.
text: You like robbing banks?
Nah, I ain't with that.
qualifier: slang or African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be down with (something); believe in, like, or espouse.
Synonyms: sense: to have sex with
word: go to bed with
word: go with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
sense: to date
word: go out with
sense: to date
word: go steady
sense: to date
word: go with
sense: to agree with
word: me too
sense: to agree with
word: take the point
sense: to understand someone's point
word: take the meaning
sense: to understand someone's point
word: take the point
bob up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bobs up
form: bobbing up
form: bobbed up
form: bobbed up
Senses: examples: text: He bobbed up and flailed toward the near bank. The weight of his boots and soaked uniform kept pulling him under.
ref: 2011, Curt Iles, A Spent Bullet: Louisiana 1941, page 125:
glosses: To rise to the surface; to ascend to the surface and remain floating there.
examples: text: That's when he bobbed up again and ruined everything.
glosses: To appear or arrive unexpectedly.
push up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pushes up
form: pushing up
form: pushed up
form: pushed up
Senses: examples: text: In a unanimous decision, the Fed's open market committee pushed up its federal funds rate by a quarter point to 1.25% and hinted that it would adopt a measured approach to any future increases.
ref: 2004 July 1, Larry Elliott, “Fed turns tide on US interest rates”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make (something) higher; to increase.
examples: text: The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box).
ref: 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
glosses: To arise or jut out from; to thrust from.
jut out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: juts out
form: jutting out
form: jutted out
form: jutted out
Senses: glosses: To protrude; to extend outwards into space; to stick out.
rub oneself off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs oneself off
form: rubbing oneself off
form: rubbed oneself off
form: rubbed oneself off
Senses: glosses: To masturbate.
closes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close in
closing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of close in
Taylour
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Taylor.
laced up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lace up
laces up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lace up
lacing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lace up
crumple up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crumples up
form: crumpling up
form: crumpled up
form: crumpled up
Senses: glosses: To become crumpled or messily folded up.
glosses: To crumple or messily fold (something).
glosses: To collapse; to give up and fold in a stressful situation.
folds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fold up
folding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fold up
folded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: folded-up
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fold up
folded up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folded up
form: most folded up
form: folded-up
Senses: glosses: Having been folded; having many folds.
folded-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more folded-up
form: most folded-up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folded up.
sink one's teeth in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sinks one's teeth in
form: sinking one's teeth in
form: sank one's teeth in
form: sunken one's teeth in
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sink one's teeth into.
nip at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nips at
form: nipping at
form: nipped at
form: nipped at
Senses: glosses: To bite or pinch with small actions.
glosses: To be cold; to be bitingly cold.
raw_tags: of poor weather
glosses: To sip a drink (usually alcoholic) in small amounts.
suck down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks down
form: sucking down
form: sucked down
form: sucked down
Senses: synonyms: inhale
glosses: To drink (or, more rarely, eat) all of something quickly.
examples: text: sucking down resources
coordinate_terms: suck up
vacuum up
;
suck out
suckle
;
guzzle
guzzle down
;
leech#Verb
glosses: To consume greedily, especially when undeservedly.
glosses: To give fellatio to.
redneckification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From redneck + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming a redneck; the changing of something to be suitable for, or characteristic of, rednecks.
paiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paiches
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish paiche
Senses: glosses: An arapaima, also called the pirarucu (Arapaima gigas).
run low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs low
form: running low
form: ran low
form: run low
Senses: examples: text: Our supplies are running very low.
text: We're running low on meat.
glosses: To near the end of a supply of something; to be nearly running out.
Related terms: run out
run short
run thin
bring low
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings low
form: bringing low
form: brought low
form: brought low
Senses: glosses: To embarrass or humiliate.
examples: text: Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle. Thus did Beowulf bring him low!
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46:
glosses: To kill.
Related terms: cut down to size
lower one's sights
put someone in their place
bring to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings to
form: bringing to
form: brought to
form: brought to
Senses: examples: text: The smelling salts will bring him to.
glosses: To restore consciousness.
examples: text: This brings your total to twenty dollars.
glosses: To make something equal to a different amount.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn into the wind; to check the course of (a ship) by trimming the sails so as to counteract each other.
paiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paiche
bring up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings up to
form: bringing up to
form: brought up to
form: brought up to
Senses: glosses: To raise (something) so that it reaches a particular standard or minimum requirement.
shine through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shines through
form: shining through
form: shined through
form: shined through
form: shone through
form: shone through
Senses: examples: text: Though she makes lots of spelling and grammar mistakes in her article, her passion for the subject shines through.
text: He went on to say that the society was also too loose and that WOMEN were too loose! Aha! Their true anti-woman and homophobic selves were shining through!
ref: 1979 February 10, Linda Gwizdak, “Fight to Choose”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 4:
glosses: To be discernible despite obstruction; to be apparent or evidenced.
raw_tags: of positive things
examples: text: The clouds are heavy, but the sunlight is still managing to shine through.
glosses: To be visible across a barrier.
raw_tags: of light
attend to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: attends to
form: attending to
form: attended to
form: attended to
Senses: synonyms: word: service#Verb
word: aid
word: attend
word: attend to
word: await
word: bestand
word: bestead
word: dance attendance
word: do
word: do for
word: serve
word: service
word: stay
word: tend
word: wait
word: wait on
word: wait upon
glosses: To serve; to satisfy someone's needs as a servant would; to wait on.
examples: text: You should attend to your studies if you plan to succeed in the exams.
text: Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties.
ref: 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Drivers' Reprisals”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
synonyms: word: heed
word: attend
word: clock
word: consider
word: give heed
word: heed
word: let in on
word: mark
word: mind
word: notice
word: pass
word: pay attention
word: pay heed
word: pick up what someone is putting down
word: privy
word: regard
word: take heed
word: take note
word: take notice
glosses: To diligently work on; to pay attention to.
Derived terms: english: own
translation: own
word: attend to one's knitting
wichu
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: From with/wi' + -chu.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of with you.
bitten off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bite off
bites off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bite off
biting off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bite off
bit off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bite off
blinged-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blinged-out
form: most blinged-out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blinged out.
dak bungalows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dak bungalow
make-shift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more make-shift
form: most make-shift
Senses: examples: text: An interesting problem is the consideration of partial failure and make-shift repair.
ref: 1988, E.G. Frankel, Systems Reliability and Risk Analysis, 2nd ed., page 150
glosses: Alternative form of makeshift.
make-shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make-shifts
Senses: examples: text: In making this report, it may be proper to state, that the weight of the established bower anchor of the Hind exceeds that of the make-shift by about five cwt...
ref: 1819 October 5, Charles Burrard, letter to Admiral George Campbell, reprinted in Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. XLVII, page 100
glosses: Alternative form of makeshift.
make-shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of make-shift
make shifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of make shift
cheat out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheats out of
form: cheating out of
form: cheated out of
form: cheated out of
Senses: examples: text: Terence introduces a flatterer talking to a coxcomb, whom he cheats out of a livelihood, and a third person on the stage makes on him this pleasant remark, 'This fellow has an art of making fools madmen.'
ref: 1846, Robert Chambers, Cyclopedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographcal, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, volume 1:
text: My dear Sir William, my Marmion has won the cup at Ilsley and been cheated out of it.
ref: 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends, volume 1:
text: If we just define lesbian as the way white middle-class lesbian feminists have mostly turned out to be, like much of the activist community in recent years, then we are cheating ourselves out of having a larger family.
ref: 1981 August 8, Maida Tilchen, Joan E. Biren, “Picturing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: Relieved, he also felt cheated—cheated out of that final scene—that concluding memory that had promised such insight.
ref: 2012, V. D. Carroll, Out of the Prison House, page 178:
glosses: To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
cling to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clings to
form: clinging to
form: clung to
form: clung to
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cling, to.
glosses: To have an intense emotional dependency on (someone).
glosses: To remain by (someone's) side; to refuse to leave the company of.
half-backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-back
fly-halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fly-half
scrum halves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrum half
stand-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stand-off
first receivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first receiver
stitch aloft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stitches aloft
form: stitching aloft
form: stitched aloft
form: stitched aloft
Senses: examples: text: To "stitch aloft" is the best way on welts, too, for the same reasons stated above.
ref: 1908, “The Shoe Factory”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 22:
text: Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated.
ref: 1912, William Henry Dooley, A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products, page 134:
text: But, in stitching aloft, the groove in the sole should be deep enough to protect the thread from the buffing operation, provided that the lock cannot be reached; the nearer to the top, the better for the wear of the seam.
ref: 1914, American Shoemaking, volume 51, page 316:
glosses: To sew (something, usually a shoe) such that the stitches are visible instead of covered.
pay towards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays towards
form: paying towards
form: paid towards
form: paid towards
Senses: glosses: To subsidize; to contribute to paying part of the cost of (something); to contribute to (something).
gear towards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gears towards
form: gearing towards
form: geared towards
form: geared towards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gear to.
gear to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gears to
form: gearing to
form: geared to
form: geared to
form: gear towards
Senses: glosses: To design or adapt so as to suit (someone).
go towards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes towards
form: going towards
form: went towards
form: gone towards
Senses: examples: text: This money will go towards paying off the debt.
glosses: To be a contribution to.
raw_tags: of anything that is not a person
examples: text: Your mission is to go towards that canyon.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, towards.
cop off with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cops off with
form: copping off with
form: copped off with
form: copped off with
Senses: examples: text: Who was that bird you copped off with at the pub last night?
glosses: To successfully engage the company of someone for a period of time.
cosy up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosies up to
form: cosying up to
form: cosied up to
form: cosied up to
Senses: examples: text: He forgot the whole argument when she cosied up to him on the couch.
text: The kitten cosied up to the gruff old hound, and all resistance disappeared.
glosses: To come physically close to, using body language in an attempt to persuade another (often hesitant) party to snuggle or embrace.
examples: text: It is often suggested that politicians are too inclined to cosy up to big business in order to receive funds for election expenses.
text: The sales guys might be able to cosy up to the customers, but they are inexperienced in technical support.
text: Looks like I'd better cosy up to her and see if I can pump some facts out of her.
ref: 2005, Lynn Phillips, Watford Under Wood, page 123:
text: […]further suggesting that Radcliffe and Watson would be safe in the knowledge that Rowling would forgive them, she leaped in: “Not safe, I’m afraid,” she wrote, and characterized them as “celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights.”
ref: 2024 April 30, Chris Heath, quoting J. K. Rowling, “How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: To form a relationship with some one or some thing for the purpose of obtaining some benefit.
Related terms: kiss up to
toady up to
cozy up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cozies up to
form: cozying up to
form: cozied up to
form: cozied up to
Senses: examples: text: The company’s expansion in China required cozying up to its repressive autocrats.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cosy up to.
cotton on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cottons on to
form: cottoning on to
form: cottoned on to
form: cottoned on to
form: cotton onto
Senses: examples: text: Buuut the Kamchatka eventually showed up, with news: whilst the main fleet had almost triggered a war with the British Empire, she'd managed to outdo them all, by reporting that, not only had she fired three hundred shells in an engagement with three Japanese ships, but, in fact, had shot at a Swedish merchantman, a German trawler, and a French schooner, putting the Russians at odds with almost every other major European fleet in existence. Fortunately, everyone else seemed to cotton on to the truly-appalling level of captaincy on the Kamchatka, and those incidents were quietly dropped. This was coupled with the fact that Kamchatka's truly-appalling levels of gunnery prevented it from having started several new wars, by not actually hitting anything.
ref: 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 26:59 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023:
glosses: To come to know or understand (something).
glosses: Synonym of cotton to (“like, tolerate”).
synonyms: word: cotton to
extra: like, tolerate
ball out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls out
form: balling out
form: balled out
form: balled out
Etymology: Derived from ball (“to play basketball”) + out.
Senses: examples: text: The Lakers were behind the whole game until they started balling out in the last quarter.
text: The defensive tackle is an intriguing pick because you know he will ball out this season.
ref: 2019 September 3, Jeff Fedotin, “How Oddsmakers See The Kansas City Chiefs: The Story Of The Season In 3 Bets”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2020:
text: The crowd gave Thomas a standing ovation after balling out... and that's when IT started to tear up and get in his feels.
ref: 2021 August 11, “Isaiah Thomas Breaks Down After Dropping 81 In Pro-Am Game, 'World Gave Up On Me'”, in TMZ, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
text: "I think every single person on the team said, 'Man, get out of here with that. You balled out and you did your thing,'" said Raiders receiver Davante Adams, who was on the receiving end of seven Stidham passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns.
ref: 2023 January 1, Paul Gutierrez, “'You couldn't tell he was a backup': Jarrett Stidham earns Raiders' respect in first start”, in ESPN, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2023:
text: Mitchell unsurprisingly balled out in his return, dropping 46 points, grabbing six rebounds and adding five assists.
ref: 2023 January 12, Isabel Baldwin, “Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell shares heartwarming reunion with young, longtime Jazz fan, who waited for him outside the arena at every game during his five years in Utah”, in The Daily Mail, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2023:
text: One particularly notable person, NBA star LeBron James, took note of Purdy balling out as the 49ers advanced to the Divisional Round: […]
ref: 2023 January 14, Robert Zeglinski, “49ers' Brock Purdy had priceless reaction to learning LeBron James loved his playoff debut”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2022:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play or perform extremely well.
ball out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls out
form: balling out
form: balled out
form: balled out
Etymology: Derived from balls-out (“with great abandon; at the fastest possible speed”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm not going to tell you how much I lost last night—let's just say I balled out.
text: If you've ever been to Las Vegas, you know it's damn near impossible to ball out on a budget.
ref: 2017 December 9, Eli Vazquez, Selorm Kploanyi, Alicia Barron, “We Went To Vegas With $50 And Had To Make It Last An Entire Day”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2022:
text: Whether that’s going from playing with Monopoly money to balling out at the high-roller casino tables, or playing with toy cars to actually getting behind the wheel of exotic Lambo convertibles, the duo has a blast in the process of speaking the life of luxury into existence.
ref: 2019 October 2, Michael Saponara, “Mustard & Roddy Ricch Inspire Kids to Chase Their Dreams in Luxe ‘Ballin’ Video”, in Billboard, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2023:
text: Whether you're celebrating a birthday or just want to ball out, Sekai Night and Day is a go-to for a luxury, VIP experience.
ref: 2022 October 3, Amarie Gipson, Shelby Stewart, Daniel Renfrow, “Clutch City Clubs: 11 of Houston's Greatest Nightclubs”, in Houstonia, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2023:
glosses: To spend extravagant amounts of money (especially at a casino or nightclub); to act as a baller.
ball out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: There's I guess, a pretty notable hearing that Austin had back when John McCain was alive, where he shied away from talking about regime change in Syria, and McCain just sort of balled him out and said that this is outrageous that you wouldn't be on my side on this.
ref: 2020 December 16, David Dayen, quotee, “AOC on Ending the Pelosi Era, Biden's Corporate Cabinet, and the Battle for Medicare for All.”, in The Intercept, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
glosses: Misspelling of bawl out.
ball out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls out
form: balling out
form: balled out
form: balled out
Etymology: From rootball.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To move a plant with its rootball attached.
ball out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls out
form: balling out
form: balled out
form: balled out
Etymology: From ball sealer.
Senses: glosses: To plug a hole using a ball sealer.
plugs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plug up
plugging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plug up
plugged up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of plug up
plugged up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plugged up
form: most plugged up
Senses: glosses: Clogged or otherwise blocked from flowing.
Synonyms: clogged
clogged up
plugged
cacked up
cacks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cack up
cacking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cack up
cacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cack up
cacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cacked up
form: most cacked up
Senses: qualifier: plug or filter
glosses: Clogged or plugged up.
raw_tags: of a pipe
creeps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of creep out
creeping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of creep out
creeped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of creep out
creeped out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creeped out
form: most creeped out
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t want to get myself into trouble,” he added, “but she’s very, she’s a great woman.”
Victoria [Starmer] looked a little creeped out. Her husband might be a master Trump-wrangler, an expert at sycophancy and genuflection, but she wasn’t.
ref: 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: crept out
glosses: Experiencing a creepy sensation; having been weirded out.
Castellón
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Valencian Community, Spain.
Derived terms: Castellón de la Plana
thumbnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbnuts
Etymology: From thumb + nut.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nut with a knurled rim which can be turned with thumb and forefinger.
glosses: Synonym of wingnut.
synonyms: word: wingnut
thumbnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thumbnut
go to town on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to town on
form: going to town on
form: went to town on
form: gone to town on
Senses: examples: text: Is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the whore who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her?
ref: 2011 October, Wellesley Wild, “Seahorse Seashell Party”, in Family Guy, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Meg:
glosses: To devour or consume (something); to enthusiastically or assiduously work on (something); to tear into (something).
goes to town
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go to town