cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
landless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English londlees, from Old English landlēas, equivalent to land + -less. Cognate with Dutch landeloos (“landless”), German landlos (“landless”), Icelandic landlaus (“landless”).
Senses: examples: text: The landless younger sons of the gentry often entered the military as the only way to make a living.
text: The landless flock to the cities seeking jobs.
text: By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 392:
glosses: Not owning land.
examples: text: We set sail toward the landless horizon.
glosses: Not containing any land.
Derived terms: farmlessness
landlessness
lasciviously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lasciviously
form: most lasciviously
Etymology: From lascivious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lascivious manner.
lastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lastingly
form: most lastingly
Etymology: From lasting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only by good diplomacy will we lastingly establish peace.
glosses: In a lasting manner, in a way that persists.
Synonyms: word: abidingly
word: at length
word: enduringly
word: duratively
word: lastingly
word: lengthily
word: longevously
word: longsomely
word: prolongedly
word: protractedly
Hyponyms: word: permanently
Related terms: word: lasting
word: lastingness
lashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: lashings
Etymology: From lash + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The lashings, which had been holding the chest to the deck of the storm-tossed ship, broke, and it went overboard.
glosses: Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
examples: text: the lashings out of his luxur
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation, chastisement.
examples: text: [It] came from the sea, that wind, and soon enough, it would bring lashings of rain. The captain opened the door just as the first patters of rain began to fall.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Celine Jeanjean, The Veiled War: A Quirky Steampunk Fantasy Series, Celine Jeanjean:
glosses: The or an act of lashing; a heavy falling or downpour (of rain).
examples: text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: You bring happiness to my heart
Like a freshly baked apple tart
With lashings of piping-hot custard
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Lots; a great amount.
Derived terms: tongue lashing
lashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Etymology: From lash + -ing.
Senses: examples: the rain was lashing down
glosses: present participle and gerund of lash
Derived terms: lashingly
perfunctorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pəɹˈfʌŋkt(ə)ɹɪli/
Forms: form: more perfunctorily
form: most perfunctorily
Etymology: From perfunctory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Lim Cheng Po said an Anglican prayer or two, not too perfunctorily.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 606:
text: Tibor was circling the table and asking each of us how our entrée was, and we all regarded this as just one of those perfunctory waiter-questions and all perfunctorily smiled and cleared our mouths and said Fine, Fine—and Tibor finally stopped and looked down at us all with a pained expression and changed his timbre slightly so it was clear he was addressing the whole table: “Please. I ask each: is excellent? […]”
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
routinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈtiːnli/
rhymes: -iːnli
Forms: form: more routinely
form: most routinely
Etymology: From routine + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The risk of going out of business was very real, they had suffered disastrous presidents, routinely lost their best players, and were effectively owned by a bailed-out bank, so Lim was welcomed as their saviour.
ref: 2017 January 18, Sid Lowe, “Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a routine manner, in a way that has become common or expected.
examples: text: We routinely test the fire extinguishers but no one ever expects them to fail.
glosses: Done by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.
Synonyms: sense: in a routine manner
word: customarily
word: ordinarily
word: normally
certificate authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certificate authorities
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organization that issues digital certificates for use by other parties.
digital certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital certificates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a public key certificate
Related terms: certificate authority
public key certificate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public key certificates
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: digital certificate
glosses: A certificate that uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity — used to verify that a public key belongs to a particular person.
Related terms: certificate authority
blood pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood puddings
Senses: glosses: Blood sausage.
Related terms: black pudding
flavone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪvəʊn/
Forms: form: flavones
Etymology: From Latin flāvus (“yellow”) + -one, as many are yellow in nature.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of tricyclic aromatic heterocyclic ketones, especially the naturally occurring flavonoids.
Derived terms: benzoflavone
biflavone
bioflavone
dihydroxyflavone
dimethoxyflavone
heptamethoxyflavone
hinokiflavone
isoflavone
naphthoflavone
neoflavone
nitroflavone
prenylflavone
largish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From large + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […]in Ford Prefect's satchel were a few ballpoints, a notepad and a largish bath towel from Marks and Spencer.
ref: 1997, Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide:
text: Humans, buffered by cultural and behavioral options, can often tolerate largish changes in climatic conditions.
ref: 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Somewhat large.
largeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːd͡ʒnəs/
Forms: form: largenesses
Etymology: From large + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Liberality; generosity.
glosses: The property of being physically large.
glosses: The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.
lathery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lathery
form: most lathery
Etymology: From lather + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This new shaving cream isn't as lathery as the old stuff: there just aren't as many bubbles to be had.
text: 1824, James Atkinson, “Peer Mahommud; The Moralist,” stanza 51, in The City of Palaces, Calcutta: Government Gazette Press, p. 128,
Thus rapidly my little tale advances,
And now we come to him, who lives to shave!
The lathery Knight of Razors, not of lances,
And without question more a fool than knave.
text: “Oh, no!” said Bobbie, greatly shocked; “you don’t rub muslin. You put the boiled soap in the hot water and make it all frothy-lathery—and then you shake the muslin and squeeze it, ever so gently, and all the dirt comes out. […]”
ref: 1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 7, in The Railway Children:
text: They wash their clothes in running streams with lathery weeds—too poor to buy soap.
ref: 1931, Langston Hughes, “People without Shoes”, in I Wonder As I Wander, New York: Hill and Wang, published 1993, page 28:
text: He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.
ref: 1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: Bantam, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:
synonyms: foamy
frothy
glosses: Resembling or covered in lather.
lavishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlævɪʃli/
Forms: form: more lavishly
form: most lavishly
Etymology: From Middle English lavausly, equivalent to lavish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was noted to entertain lavishly, throwing the biggest and best parties in town.
text: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: I suspect fruity language is lavishly used on building sites and in 10 Downing Street, but not so much in middle-ranking jobs. Iain Duncan Smith once told a Treasury mandarin on the phone "If you ever speak to my officials like that again I'll bite your balls off and send them to you in a box."
ref: 2023 February 1, Carol Midgley, quoting Iain Duncan Smith, “House pomposity is one of the few remaining joys in British life”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023:
glosses: In a lavish manner, expending profusely.
originating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of originate
legalese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌliː.ɡəˈliːz/
ipa: /ˌli.ɡəˈliz/
ipa: /ˌliː.ɡəˈliːz/
ipa: [ˌlɪi.ɡəˈlɪiz]
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From legal + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: It is also his considered opinion that a condition precedent to any legislative action is that those best qualified to pronounce on the merits of a popular demand examine it in all its aspects. That is good Menzian legalese, as pompous as parody permits.
ref: 1937 October 9, Smith's Weekly, Sydney, page 12, column 1:
glosses: Technical jargon common in the legal profession; the argot of lawyers.
glosses: Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.
Synonyms: lawspeak
legalspeak
forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈfoːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfoːdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz
Forms: form: further forwards
form: farther forwards
form: furthest forwards
form: farthest forwards
form: forrads
form: forrards
Etymology: From forward + -s (adverbial suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forward (most senses).
synonyms: word: forward
extra: most senses
Related terms: w:Adverbial genitive
forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈfoːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfoːdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz
Forms: form: forrads
form: forrards
Etymology: From forward + -s (adverbial suffix).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of forward.
synonyms: word: forward
Derived terms: backwards and forwards
forwards and backwards
forwards compatibility
forwards compatible
forwards roll
forwards time machine
set forwards
forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈfoːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfoːdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz
Forms: form: forrads
form: forrards
Etymology: See forward (verb).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forward.
forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈfoːwədz/
ipa: /ˈfoːdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)dz
Forms: form: forrads
form: forrards
Etymology: See forward (noun).
Senses: glosses: Plural of forward.
generating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of generate
Derived terms: prime-generating
unfeeling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeeling
form: most unfeeling
Etymology: From un- + feeling.
Senses: glosses: Without emotion or sympathy.
Synonyms: emotionless
stony
uncaring
alexithymic
Derived terms: unfeelingly
unfeelingness
uninitiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninitiates
Etymology: From un- + initiate.
Senses: examples: text: This mystery was too sacred to be imparted to uninitiates.
ref: 1907, Alfred Cort Haddon, “The Religion of the Torres Straits Islanders”, in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor:
synonyms: exoteric
glosses: One who has not been initiated; an outsider.
glosses: One who is not experienced.
shipwreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
Forms: form: shipwrecks
form: shipwrack
Etymology: From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
Senses: examples: text: heaven will drive shipwrecks ashore to make us all rich
ref: 1670, John Dryden, William D'Avenant, The Tempest:
text: Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.
ref: 2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries:
text: The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
ref: 2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN:
text: Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy; a ruined vessel or its remains.
examples: text: they made the coast of Cochin China, and the tempests, which rose at the same time, threatened them more than once with shipwreck
ref: 1688, John Dryden, The Life of St Francis Xavier:
text: But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.
ref: 2002, Eva Brann, Homeric Moments, page 48:
glosses: An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
examples: text: Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:19:
text: It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
ref: 1879, John Morley, Burke:
text: Then you will have played your part and earned my gratitude completely. Five minutes afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation, you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance; and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience with my death or the shipwreck of my reason.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
glosses: Destruction; disaster; failure; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Synonyms: shipbreach
Derived terms: shipwrecky
Uluburun shipwreck
shipwreck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
Forms: form: shipwrecks
form: shipwrecking
form: shipwrecked
form: shipwrecked
form: shipwrack
Etymology: From Middle English shipwrak, from Old English sċipwræc (“jetsam”), equivalent to ship + wrack. Cognate with Scots schip-wrak (“to shipwreck”, verb), Swedish skeppsvrak (“shipwreck”), Danish skibsvrag (“shipwreck”). Modern form is due to influence from wreck.
Senses: glosses: To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.
Related terms: castaway
neutralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːtɹəlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈnutɹəˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: neutralizes
form: neutralizing
form: neutralized
form: neutralized
form: neutralise
Etymology: From French neutraliser (first attested in 1642). By surface analysis, neutral + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The antidote neutralised the toxin.
synonyms: counteract
counterweigh
glosses: To make even, inactive or ineffective.
examples: text: All the powers involved are committed not only to stay out of a given territory, but also to reenter it if any one of them violates the independence of the neutralized country.
ref: 1965, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 1, page 77:
glosses: To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
examples: text: At the beginning of the opening game, Shepard becomes the first human Spectre, an elite operative given broad authority to neutralize threats to galactic order in the galaxy.
ref: 2019, “Mass Effect (Trilogy)”, in Michael M. Levy, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, Aliens in Popular Culture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175:
text: “We managed to neutralise the guilty person. So there was no longer any imminent threat,” De Croo said, […]
ref: 2023 October 17, Lisa O'Carroll, Miranda Bryant, Lorenzo Tondo, quoting Alexander De Croo, “Killing of two Swedish football fans in Brussels ‘probably lone wolf’ attack”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To kill.
Derived terms: bioneutralize
deneutralize
electroneutralize
gender-neutralize
immunoneutralize
immunoneutralized
neutralizable
neutralization
neutralizer
nonneutralizing
overneutralize
preneutralize
reneutralize
seroneutralize
seroneutralizing
subneutralizing
underneutralize
unneutralized
inexplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.ɪkˈsplɪ.kə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɪnˈɛk.splɪ.kə.bəl/
Forms: form: more inexplicable
form: most inexplicable
form: unexplicable
Etymology: From Middle English inexplicable, from Middle French inexplicable, from Latin inexplicābilis, from in- (“not”) + explicābilis (“explicable”). By surface analysis, in- + explicable.
Senses: examples: text: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten.
ref: 1873, Jules Verne, chapter I, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 3:
text: “No,” replied the girl, “it would not be strange, of course; but for some inexplicable reason I have one of those foolish feminine presentiments that all is not right with Mr. Caldwell. It is the strangest feeling—it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 106:
synonyms: word: inexplainable
word: unexplainable
word: insoluble
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: fathomless
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: unfathomable
word: ungraspable
word: unintelligible
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
antonyms: word: explicable
word: confusing
word: incomprehensible
glosses: Impossible to explain; not easily accounted for.
Derived terms: inexplicability
inexplicableness
inexplicably
inexplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.ɪkˈsplɪ.kə.bl̩/
ipa: /ɪnˈɛk.splɪ.kə.bəl/
Forms: form: inexplicables
form: unexplicable
Etymology: From Middle English inexplicable, from Middle French inexplicable, from Latin inexplicābilis, from in- (“not”) + explicābilis (“explicable”). By surface analysis, in- + explicable.
Senses: examples: text: HEE [Cleanthes] left behind him (ſaith [Diogenes] Laertius) theſe excellent Books. […] Of Inexplicables.
ref: 1656, Tho[mas] Stanley, “[Cleanthes.] Chap[ter] III. His Writings.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Second Volume, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring: […], →OCLC, 8th part (Containing the Stoick Philosophers), pages 127–128:
text: The premature passing of Bob Collins and the sadness it begets leave us in wonder. A man of vigor and vitality, compassion and concern, and a joyous contributor enhancing each new day is suddenly no more. Or is that also conjecture or gospel? Could it be that his departure is but a chapter in the imponderable mystery we long to comprehend? An inexplicable that cannot be perceived?
ref: 2000, Wally Phillips, “Foreword”, in Vicki Quade, I Remember Bob Collins, Champaign, Ill.: Bannon Multimedia Group, →ISBN, page vi:
text: Each clone acts as a huge, undivided tree, with its own time of flushing spring leaves, of turning yellow, and its own shade of yellow that can vary from lemon to salmon to an occasional sandy red, the color change defining the margins of each clone. The contrasting colors depend on variations in soil chemistry, slope exposure, genetic makeup, and a grab bag of inexplicables that bless trees, growing so closely that their upper branches may touch, with smartly different colors.
ref: 2001, Ann Zwinger, “Fall Colors, Gifts of Glory”, in Anthony Eaton Cook, Fall Colors across North America, Portland, Ore.: Graphic Arts Center Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Her proposition was that at the heart of each of the great tragedies were unanswerable questions about love, and, to make sense of the plays, we must each attempt to explicate these inexplicables in our own way.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, chapter 1, in Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 10:
synonyms: inexplicability
glosses: Something that is impossible to explain.
stinging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: more stinging
form: most stinging
Etymology: From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
Senses: examples: stinging nettles
glosses: Having the capacity to sting.
examples: text: That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.
ref: 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: Precise and hurtful.
Derived terms: stinging catfish
stingingly
stinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
glosses: present participle and gerund of sting
stinging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: stingings
Etymology: From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
Senses: examples: the stingings of scorpions
stingings of remorse
glosses: The act by which someone receives a sting.
inflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more inflated
form: most inflated
Senses: examples: text: The inflated balloons danced in the breeze.
glosses: Filled with air or fluid
examples: text: His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.
glosses: Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.
examples: text: His inflated prices made the vendor unpopular.
text: Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
ref: 2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: In a state of higher cost.
glosses: Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)
examples: text: The inflated speech did not impress the audience.
glosses: Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show
examples: inflated incidence figures
glosses: Higher that the true figure
Synonyms: bloated
bulging
expanded
filled
swelled
swollen
tumid
turgid
bombastic
pompous
Derived terms: hyperinflated
inflatedly
inflatedness
noninflated
overinflated
underinflated
uninflated
inflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inflate
strangeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strangenesses
Etymology: From Middle English straungenesse; equivalent to strange + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: oddity
weirdness
glosses: The state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
glosses: The product or result of being strange.
examples: text: Mesons which combine the charmed quark with the up or down antiquarks are denoted the D mesons. These mesons carry explicit charm (i.e. have a non-zero charm quantum number), just as the K mesons carry strangeness.
ref: 2020, James E. Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: charm
glosses: One of the quantum numbers of subatomic particles, depending upon the relative number of strange quarks and anti-strange quarks.
Synonyms: word: abnormalcy
word: abnormalism
word: abnormality
word: abnormity
word: anomalousness
word: atypicality
word: crotchet
word: deviancy
word: eccentricity
word: enormity
word: extraordinariness
word: freakishness
word: irregularity
word: nonnormality
word: oddity
word: oddness
word: peculiarness
word: queerhood
word: queerness
word: quirk
word: quirkiness
word: rumness
word: strangeness
word: unusuality
word: unusualness
word: weirdness
Hypernyms: word: nonuniformity
Hyponyms: word: unconformity
word: uncommonness
word: rareness
word: rarity
Derived terms: high strangeness
Related terms: strange
stranger
strangely
distasteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
rhymes: -eɪstfəl
Forms: form: more distasteful
form: most distasteful
form: distastefull
Etymology: From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: unpalatable
text: The food had very distasteful flavour.
glosses: Having a bad or foul taste.
examples: text: Near-synonym: unpalatable
text: Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
text: He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Herald”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 2, page 142:
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:
glosses: Unpleasant.
examples: text: distasteful language
text: AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.
ref: 1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5:
glosses: Offensive.
Derived terms: distastefully
distastefulness
undistasteful
Related terms: bad taste in one's mouth
untasteful
disgusting
industries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndəstɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of industry
enlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈlɪst/
ipa: /ɪnˈlɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: enlists
form: enlisting
form: enlisted
form: enlisted
form: inlist
Etymology: From en- + list.
Senses: glosses: To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
examples: text: The army wants potential soldiers to enlist.
glosses: To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.
examples: text: We enlisted fifty new members.
text: “The Emperor visited east-central China (江與京洛), and enlisted 400,000 soldiers and 500 Wu ships to cross the seas and go to P’ing-jang, (the Kao-li capital).”
ref: 1890, E. H. Parker, “On Race Struggles in Corea”, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume XVIII, Tokyo: The Hakubunsha, →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: To recruit the aid or membership of others.
examples: text: They enlisted the government's support.
text: “I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. […]”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: To secure; to obtain.
Synonyms: sense: enter on a list
word: enscroll
word: catalogue
word: enlist
word: enroll
word: induct
word: put down
word: put on
word: register
word: tabulate
Hypernyms: word: record
word: tick off
Hyponyms: word: populate
word: blacklist
word: greylist
word: hotlist
word: longlist
word: playlist
word: roster
word: shitlist
word: shortlist
word: waitlist
word: watchlist
word: whitelist
word: relist
word: downlist
word: move up
word: check off
word: cross off
word: mark off
Coordinate terms: conscript
draft
Derived terms: enlistee
enlister
enlistment
reenlist
Related terms: word: list
enlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈlɪst/
ipa: /ɪnˈlɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: enlists
form: inlist
Etymology: From en- + list.
Senses: examples: text: […] 19.17% are enlisted officers (including cadets and midshipmen with BA degrees and associate degrees, officers Designated Military Occupational Specialty, the enlists converting into conscripts], officers from ROTCs) ; 0.31% are conscripted […]
ref: 2006, USA International Business Publications, Taiwan National Security And Defense Law And Regulations Handbook:
glosses: One who is enlisted, usually in a military service.
hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: hittings
Senses: examples: text: The batter's hitting improved with practice.
text: The right hand of Curtis was open too much; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
ref: 1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 600:
glosses: A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
Derived terms: mean hitting time
hitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit
harshly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːʃli/
Forms: form: harshlier
form: more harshly
form: harshliest
form: most harshly
Etymology: From harsh + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza 193:
text: The traveller hears me now and then,
⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak:
⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Oh, those cruel and blitheless asses! Did they know my thoughts, my dreams, as I searched the sweet mystery of myself for the hidden meaning of my life? They did not. They judged me harshly for a few paltry actions.
ref: 1968, Paul Ritchie, Confessions of a People Lover: A Novel - Page 51:
text: Clinton said she is has grown “very disappointed and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemned so quickly and judge so harshly when I think part of the message that I certainly have tried to understand and live with is to look at yourself first.”
ref: 2016 January 25, Dan Merica, quoting Hillary Clinton, “In personal exchange, Clinton laments using faith to ‘judge so harshly’”, in CNN:
glosses: In a harsh manner; severely.
watches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɒtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of watch
watches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɒtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of watch
watches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɒtʃɪz
Forms: form: watches
Senses: glosses: The species Sarracenia flava (so-called because its leaves look similar to a clock face).
arsphenamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɑːsˈfɛnəmaɪn/
/ɑːsˈfɛnəmiːn/
Forms: form: arsphenamines
Etymology: From arsenic + phen- + amine.
Senses: examples: 2001: The 606th compound was one that contained arsenic and was called arsphenamine. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 9)
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A phenolic amine derivative of arsenic that was used to treat syphilis (under the trade name of Salvarsan).
Synonyms: 606
salvarsan
Salvarsan
Derived terms: neoarsphenamine
postarsphenamine
catecholamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /katəˈkəʊləmiːn/
ipa: /katəˈkɒləmiːn/
Forms: form: catecholamines
Etymology: From catechol + -amine.
Senses: examples: text: Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.
ref: 1988, Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025:
text: The catecholamines are used in several motivational and emotional systems of the brain, and their concentration is regulated by proteins that break them down or recycle them.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 746:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic amines derived from pyrocatechol that are hormones produced by the adrenal gland.
Synonyms: word: catecholamine
Hypernyms: word: benzenediol
word: hormone
Hyponyms: adrenalone
arbutamine
cysteinyldopa
deoxyepinephrine
dopamine
dopexamine
epinephrine
hexoprenaline
isoprenaline
methyldopa
nordefrin
norepinephrine
oxidopamine
Derived terms: catecholaminergic
catecholaminic
pyrocatechol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrocatechols
Etymology: From pyro- + catechol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A dihydric phenol, benzene-1,2-diol, present in some tars.
Synonyms: catechol
dihydric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈhaɪdɹɪk/
Etymology: From di- + hydric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: dihydroxy
glosses: Containing two hydroxyl functional groups.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or containing a dihydride.
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: dihydro-
word: dihydrogen
word: dihydroxide
word: hydridic
chloramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloramines
Etymology: From chlor- + -amine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of unstable compounds of nitrogen and chlorine R₁R₂NCl; also the parent compound NH₂Cl (monochloramine), used to manufacture hydrazine, and as the antiseptic chloramine-T
Derived terms: chloramination
chloramine-T
dichloramine
monochloramine
trichloramine
Related terms: chloro-
amine
chloramine-T
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chloramine when used as an antiseptic
hydrazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹəˌziːn/
Forms: form: hydrazines
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hydrazin, coined by Emile Fischer in 1875 as a derivative from Diazin, an obsolete name for diimide, of which hydrazine is a hydrogenated analog. By surface analysis, hydr- + azo (“nitrogen”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A corrosive, fuming liquid, NH₂-NH₂, used as a rocket fuel.
examples: text: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
ref: 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any member of the class of organic compounds formally derived from NH₂-NH₂.
Synonyms: diamidogen
Derived terms: arylhydrazine
benzoylhydrazine
dimethylhydrazine
hydrazination
hydrazinium
hydrazinolysis
isonicotinoylhydrazine
methylhydrazine
monomethylhydrazine
nonhydrazine
phenelzine
phenylhydrazine
picrylhydrazine
zinoconazole
high nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high nellies
form: high nellie
form: high-nelly
form: High Nelly
Etymology: From the high riding position and Nelly, an old-fashioned name
Senses: examples: text: I don't know what make of bike it was but it was certainly the motor bike version of the High Nelly push bike or the Tin Lizzy car.
ref: 1974 July 17, Derry Power, “Spain before it was packaged”, in The Irish Times, Dublin, page 16:
text: Chinese bikes are bigger and heavier than Western ones, they carry number plates and resemble the old "High Nellies" that are now such a rare sight on Irish roads.
ref: 1988 October 8, Deaglán de Bréadún, “The Saturday Column; Stephen Roche's slow bike from China”, in The Irish Times, Dublin, page Weekend 12:
text: there's an old bike out the back of the barracks. You're welcome to it. It's a bit of a high-nelly, and it needs new tyres, but it will get you around.
ref: 1989, Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan, Reprisal: a novel, Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Now Julia Mahon. with two buckets of pigswill slung over the handlebars of her High Nelly, is off again to talk to her mother in St Michael's cemetery.
ref: 1989 Fall, Aidan Higgins, “Two from Ronda Gorge”, in Four Quarters, volume 3 [2nd series], number 2, →ISSN, page 53:
text: A HIGH Nellie bike once used by Irish rock icon Phil Lynott is being lovingly restored by a group of Carlovians, who are hoping to auction it to raise funds for a local cancer support group. Philomena Lynott found her much-loved 1930s bicycle rusting away in the garden shed and decided to put it to better use.
ref: 2014 April 1, “Philo’s old high nelly to be lovingly restored”, in Carlow Nationalist, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2017:
text: Before the age of the motorcar, practically everyone in Ireland owned a High Nelly.
ref: 2014 July 6, Tom Prendeville, “High Nelly bicycles making a comeback on the roads again”, in Sunday Independent:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: sit-up-and-beg
qualifier: formerly derogatory; now nostalgic; formerly derogatory; now nostalgic
glosses: An old-fashioned utility bicycle, especially one with a step-through frame and high handlebars providing an erect riding posture; a roadster.
high nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high nelly.
fuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fume
fuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more fuming
form: most fuming
Senses: examples: fuming nitric acid
glosses: That which fumes.
examples: text: The first Premier League hat-trick by a Fulham player was taken in fine style, but it also exposed a slack defensive display which left QPR manager Neil Warnock fuming on the sidelines.
ref: 2011 October 2, Kevin Core, “Fulham 6 - 0 QPR”, in BBC Sport:
text: Then Rublev was left fuming when the opening point of the next game had to be replayed after his shot was called wide.
ref: 2023 November 15, Kevin Core, “Rublev bloodies himself with his racket in frustration during loss to Alcaraz at ATP Finals”, in Seattle Times:
glosses: Very angry.
Derived terms: frumious
fumingly
fuming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: fumings
Senses: examples: text: He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
ref: 1840, The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register:
text: Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.
ref: 1949, New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide:
text: And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
ref: 1986, John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness:
glosses: The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
Derived terms: fuming sulphuric acid
red fuming nitric acid
white fuming nitric acid
fuming sulphuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of fuming sulfuric acid.
sulphuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sulphur + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.
ref: 1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfuric.
Derived terms: sulphuric acid
lamely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmli/
rhymes: -eɪmli
Forms: form: more lamely
form: most lamely
Etymology: From lame + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of one who is lame.
examples: text: He lamely tried to lie his way out of the situation, but he wasn't really trying and no-one believed him.
text: "I quite admire cats," he said. "There is something about them," he added, "which..." He could not find the words. "Which is quite admirable," he ended lamely.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 436:
glosses: In a foolish or ineffective way.
sulfuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌlˈfjʊəɹɪk/
enpr: sŭlfūr'ĭk
ipa: /sʌlˈfjuɹɪk/
Forms: form: sulphuric
Etymology: From French sulfurique. See sulfur + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to sulfur, especially in its higher oxidation state
Derived terms: hydrosulfuric
hydrosulphuric
iodosulfuric
iodosulphuric
nitrosulfuric
nitrosulphuric
persulfuric
sulfuric acid
sulfuric anhydride
sulphuric anhydride
sulfuric chloride
sulfuric ether
sulphuric ether
sulfuric oxide
sulphuric oxide
Related terms: sulfurous
lamppost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: lampposts
form: lamp post
Etymology: From lamp + post.
Senses: examples: text: Visit the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in the UK, and ammonite road signs greet you at every town and city and even the lampposts on the seafront feature a familiar coiled shell.
ref: 2017 June 14, Mark Carnall, “The ancient mystery of St Hilda's 'snake stones': what do ammonites really look like?”, in The Guardian:
text: "What is really good is they haven't just painted the station building, they've done all the lampposts to match as well, right down to the end of the platform.
ref: 2023 January 25, Tom Allett, “Sleaford restored to its 'true' identity”, in RAIL, number 975, page 51:
synonyms: lightpost
glosses: The pole that holds up a light so it can illuminate a wide area, such as holds up a streetlight.
examples: text: You big skinny lamppost. And you're going grey!
ref: 1985, Vladimir Kornilov, Girls to the Front, page 4:
synonyms: beanpole
long ghost
glosses: A tall, thin person.
landowning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From land + owning.
Senses: examples: text: The landowning citizens of the county will object to the increased property tax, but those who rent won't care.
text: By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 392:
glosses: In possession of real estate (i.e. land).
examples: landowning rights
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ownership of land.
Derived terms: nonlandowning
landowning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landownings
Etymology: From land + owning.
Senses: glosses: A portion of land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.