cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Madonna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɒnə/
Forms: form: Madonnas
form: Madona
Etymology: From Italian madonna, from Old Italian ma (“my”) + donna (“lady”). The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. Doublet of madam.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts.
synonyms: word: Mary
extra: especially in Catholic contexts
word: mother of Jesus
extra: especially in Catholic contexts
examples: text: We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.
ref: 1835 June, Fraser's Magazine, volume XI, page 652:
text: But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings―in California, no less―required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.
ref: 2005, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, Allen Lane, published 2005, →ISBN, page 184:
text: MADONNA(S) Yes. (They look at each other with surprise. The room goes silent.) MR. STEIN Two Madonnas? (Pause.) MR. STEIN Did either of you know God? EIGHTIES MADONNA I knew of Him. BIBLICAL MADONNA We had a Son together. MR. STEIN […] I’m going to have to ask you to leave. (The eighties Madonna gets up with a smile and then without uttering another word flounces out of the room loudly humming the tune ‘Like a Virgin’.)
ref: 2013 February, Alan Baggett, God’s Will, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Derived terms: Black Madonna
madonna
Madonnabe
Madonna blue
Madonna braid
Madonnaesque
Madonnahood
Madonnaish
Madonna-like
Madonna lily
Madonnamania
Madonna piercing
Madonna-whore complex
Madonnawise
Madonna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɒnə/
Forms: form: Madonnas
form: madonna
form: Madona
Etymology: From Italian madonna, from Old Italian ma (“my”) + donna (“lady”). The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. Doublet of madam.
Senses: examples: text: A beautiful example of this type of Madonna is the polyptych in the Museo Civico in Sansepolcro.
text: So many Madonnas were produced during the Renaissance that it became the habit to distinguish them by any peculiarity.
ref: 1913, “Art Galleries of Florence”, in The World’s Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature, Fully Illustrated, volume IX, Chicago, Ill.: The Delphian Society, page 114:
glosses: An artistic representation of the Virgin Mary, chiefly when holding the infant Jesus.
examples: text: “Men,” I said, with a tone of disgust. “Halal circles, haram circles, good, bad, Madonnas, whores, goats, penises, it’s all the same.”
ref: 2000, Deborah Copaken Kogan, Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 52:
text: […] the mothers who, like Sebastian’s mother in Notorious or Mitch’s mother Lydia in The Birds, block such a transference, or by potential love-objects who are, themselves, Madonnas, whores, or otherwise thinly disguised maternal figures.
ref: 2008, Paul Gordon, Dial “M” for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 205:
text: The Madonnas are the mothers to our children, the pillars of our families, and the goddesses of our communities. The Madonnas shun the dark side of human sexuality and banish the whores to hell. We put the Madonnas on a pedestal, and we can’t think of them as being sexual or sexy because they must be pure. They must be virginal like the Madonna herself.
ref: 2008, Maureen Canning, Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 182:
text: Sparing no one in her response to her interviewer’s questions about the ERA, she alludes to divisions within the women’s movement, referring to the factions as “Madonnas, whores, housewives, and lesbians.”
ref: 2013, Devorah Heitner, Black Power TV, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
text: In sexual politics the view of women as either Madonnas or whores limits women’s sexual expression, offering two mutually exclusive ways to construct a sexual identity.
ref: 2019, Chris Kelly, Carmen Hahn, Clinical Psychology, ED-Tech Press, published 2020, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: A morally pure woman.
Related terms: Mona
Giles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Etymology: Medieval English form of Old French saints' name Giles, modern Gilles, an altered form of Latin Aegīdius, from Ancient Greek Αἰγίδιος (Aigídios), derivative of αἰγίδιον (aigídion, “kid, young goat”).
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Hajas is a physics undergraduate at Sussex and has been blind since he was 16. He first heard about Giles and the SSDs when Giles was looking for blind students to test the devices.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A ghost town in Wayne County, Utah, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Brough with St Giles
Chalfont St Giles
Farmer Giles
Giles County
Gilson
Saint Giles Island
St Giles in the Wood
St Giles on the Heath
St Giles's Hill
Wade-Giles
Related terms: Aegidius
Gillard
fina
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
ref: 2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:
text: "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
ref: 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
ref: 2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:
text: "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"
ref: 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
Mlle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mlles
form: Mlle.
Etymology: From French Mlle.
Senses: examples: text: (Mlle Mary Paillon states in the Bulletin Mensuelle du C.A.F., 1901, p. 67, that the first women to traverse the Arêtes were Mlles Marie and Louise Lacharière in 1891, but I have found no confirmation of this)
ref: 1969, Nea Morin, A Woman’s Reach: Mountaineering Memoirs, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., pages 265–266:
text: Provenance: Mme Jean-Baptiste Lepère, née Elisabeth Fontaine, Paris, until 1844; her daughter Mme Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, née Elisabeth Lepère, Paris, until 1870; her son Charles-Joseph Hittorff, Versailles, until 1898; Dr. Pierre and Mlle Elisabeth Cartier, by inheritance; their gift to the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1938
ref: 1999, Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee, editors, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 349:
text: An atrocious fear of compromising my independence invaded me, and also an extreme timidity, before the so obstinately impenetrable attitude of the Mlles Louise and Pauline.
ref: 2020 (published), Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories, Riverrun, →ISBN:
glosses: Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.
Versailles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛəˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈzaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).
Senses: glosses: A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: The Palace of Versailles.
synonyms: dictate of Versailles / Dictate of Versailles
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: The Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Derived terms: Versaillais
Versailles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛəˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈzaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /vərˈseɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
ipa: /vɛəˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈzaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A home rule city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
Versailles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛəˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈzaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /vərˈseɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
ipa: /vəɹˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɛəˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈsaɪ/
ipa: /vɚˈzaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /vərˈseɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
Etymology: Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Vichy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːʃi/
rhymes: -iːʃi
Etymology: From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."
Senses: glosses: A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
glosses: A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
Vichy France; the Vichy French government.
Derived terms: Vichy France
Vichyism
Vichyist
Vichyite
vichyssoise
Vichy water
Vichy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːʃi/
rhymes: -iːʃi
Etymology: From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Vichy water.
Vichy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviːʃi/
rhymes: -iːʃi
Etymology: From Vichy France.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.
ref: 2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian:
text: In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion.
ref: 2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, →ISBN, page 755:
text: "There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine," former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.
ref: 2022 March 2, Peter Weber, “U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire”, in The Week:
glosses: Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
Louisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈiːzə/
rhymes: -iːzə
Senses: examples: text: But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!
ref: 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
text: On being told that Mrs. Bounderby was there, she replied, at cross-purposes, that she had never called him by that name since he married Louisa; that pending her choice of an objectionable name, she had called him J; and that she could not at present depart from that regulation, not being yet provided with a permanent substitute.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.
glosses: A ghost town in California.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Gay, West Virginia.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Louisa County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Louisa County
wf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of wrong font.
merchantability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From merchant + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being merchantable.
paseo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paseos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish paseo.
Senses: glosses: A public path or avenue designed for walking, sometimes for dining or recreation.
polymodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymodal
form: most polymodal
Etymology: From poly- + modal.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to several different forms of sensory information
glosses: involving more than one sense
Derived terms: polymodally
medias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of media
money-making
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money-makings
form: moneymaking
Senses: examples: text: obstinacy in money-making
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
text: He rejoined, “Thy calling is of no account in our city, where not a soul understandeth science or even writing or aught save money-making.”
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. [Night 12.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: Love, in fact, having in this modern world-movement been denied, and its natural manifestations affected with a sense of guilt and of sin, has really languished and ceased to play its natural part in life; and a vast number of people - both men and women, finding themselves barred or derailed from the main object of existence, have turned their energies to 'business' or 'money-making' or 'social advancement' or something equally futile, as the only poor substitute and pis aller open to them.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 189:
text: Controversy has surrounded some of the schemes, which local authorities and commuters have seen as putting money-making before travel.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: TfL creates property company to raise funds”, in RAIL, number 994, page 17:
glosses: The acquisition of money.
money-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: moneymaking
Senses: examples: a moneymaking idea
He's always working on one money-making project or another.
glosses: Profitable.
examples: text: We're a moneymaking enterprise, not a charity.
glosses: For profit.
Related terms: make money
moneymaker
net weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net weights
form: net wt.
Senses: coordinate_terms: gross weight
glosses: The weight of a product (especially food) without the (tare) weight of its packaging.
glosses: The weight of a vehicle without that of its fuel, cargo, personnel etc.
Klingel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Klingels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Klingel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
come up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes up with
form: coming up with
form: came up with
form: come up with
Senses: examples: text: How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?
text: Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend.
text: And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
text: Eric Andre: Were you born black or did you come up with a stage name and get a ton of surgery?
Blac Chyna: I came up with it.
ref: 2023, The Eric Andre Show, season 6, episode 3:
glosses: To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
glosses: To reach or overtake.
examples: text: He came up with a bag of rice, having it carried it up from downstairs.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up, with.
Derived terms: come up with the goods
come up with snake eyes
Related terms: come up short
come across
come away with
functional programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Programming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is preserved.
Hypernyms: computer programming
programming
Related terms: functional language
function-level programming
Knebel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knebels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Knebel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Knicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the fictional Diedrich Knickerbocker, a pseudonym of Washington Irving.
Senses: glosses: The New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, formerly the New York Knickerbockers of the Basketball Association of America.
crystallomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalomancy
form: chrystallomancy
form: cristallomancy
Etymology: From crystallo- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: The use of a crystal ball or other transparent solid for the purpose of divination.
Related terms: crystallomancer
Kraft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German, Jewish, Swedish and Danish surname, from the noun Kraft (“strength, power”). Compare Croft and Craft.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
kraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swedish kraft (“strength”) as used in kraftpapper.
Senses: glosses: A kind of strong, smooth brown wrapping paper.
Synonyms: kraft paper
Derived terms: kraft leather
kraft process
kraft pulp
Kreisel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kreisels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kreisel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
freezing cold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: extremely and unpleasantly cold
Synonyms: word: brass monkeys
raw_tags: of the weather
word: freezing
word: glacial
word: ice-cold
word: taters
raw_tags: of the weather
freezing cold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: extreme and unpleasant cold
gumbo limbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gumbo limbos
form: gumbo-limbo
Senses: examples: text: A cluster of mature gumbo limbos is planted between Bastion 1 and the small magazine, overarching the brick walkway.
ref: 2011, Susan L. Hitchcock, Dry Tortugas National Park, Garden Key, Cultural Landscape Report:
synonyms: tourist tree
glosses: A tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, that yields an aromatic resin used in varnishes etc
guttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutterings
Senses: glosses: Gutters collectively.
guttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gutter
guttering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
ref: 1919, Siegfried Sassoon, The Dug-out:
glosses: flickering and about to be extinguished
raw_tags: of a small flame
Krug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Krugs
form: Krugh
Etymology: From the German and Jewish surname, from both senses of the noun Krug (“jug”) and Krug (“pub, tavern”). Compare Krueger.
Senses: examples: text: Director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, Mrs. Krug was a national leader in several legal cases that rose to the Supreme Court.
ref: 2009 April 14, Patricia Sullivan, “Judith Krug”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A surname from German.
hairbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛə(ɹ)bəʊ/
Forms: form: hairbows
form: hair bow
Etymology: From hair + bow.
Senses: glosses: A decorative bow worn in the hair.
Derived terms: hair-bowed
hair moss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hair mosses
Senses: glosses: Fat choy, a type of alga.
glosses: Any moss of genus Polytrichum.
fat choy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cantonese 髮菜／发菜 (faat3 choi3).
Senses: glosses: a blue-green alga (Nostoc flagelliforme) used as a vegetable in Chinese cooking
Synonyms: sense: Nostoc flagelliforme
word: black moss
sense: Nostoc flagelliforme
word: hair moss
half time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half times
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-time.
halftime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halftimes
Senses: examples: text: If the employment is halftime, $12.50 plus 12 of the next $75 is disregarded. If the employment is irregular or occasional, the allowance is adjusted to be consistent with the situation.
ref: 1966, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 903:
glosses: Alternative spelling of half-time.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The halftime show, the primary light entertainment of a game, after the second quarter, when players can physically recover, coaches can give players a pep talk, bets can be doubled, etc.
halftime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-time.
halftime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of half-time.
half-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-times
form: halftime
form: half time
Etymology: From half- + time.
Senses: examples: text: Let's get some pizza at half-time.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The interval between the two halves of a sports match.
examples: text: I'm following a half-time schedule this month.
glosses: Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value.
Coordinate terms: double time
full time
part time
quarter time
triple time
Derived terms: half-timer
half-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: halftime
form: half time
Etymology: From half- + time.
Senses: examples: text: The remedy proposed is half-time schools. The teachers are to be engaged for a school year's service, but the pupils belonging to each school are to be divided into two sections. Each section is to spend half the time in school and the remainder at home.
ref: 1884, The Ohio Educational Monthly, page 544:
text: The remaining federal and State programs provide aid to part-time students only if attendance is half-time or more (at least six credit-hours).
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and Related Measures: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session ...., page 162:
glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by half the usual duration.
half-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: halftime
form: half time
Etymology: From half- + time.
Senses: examples: text: I'm working half-time this month (two and a half days per week) before my maternity leave.
glosses: In a half time manner.
half board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half boards
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
synonyms: modified American plan
glosses: A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner, but no meal at lunchtime.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A manoeuvre by which a sailing-ship gains distance to windward by luffing up into the wind.
Related terms: full board
full board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A hotel rate that includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Synonyms: American plan
Related terms: half board
hamstrung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hamstrung
form: most hamstrung
Senses: examples: text: The hamstrung State environmental Protection Administration might get ministerial status.
ref: 2008 March 5, Simon Elegant, “China Blog— The National People's Congress: Rubber Stamp?”, in Time:
text: To be hamstrung is to be unable to do what you want to do, as in “the government is hamstrung by the strike.” Literally it is to be crippled because your hamstrings have been cut and you cannot bend your knee. The word ham arose in English […]
ref: 2015, Charles Hodgson, Carnal Knowledge: A Navel Gazer's Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 202:
text: Transport Minister Mulley, with just six months left in office before Harold Wilson's Labour government was toppled by Edward Heath's Conservatives, was hamstrung by inefficient working practices - although thankfully for him he did not have to answer to 2020-style media questioning over why slow decision-making allowed costs to escalate.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: Restricted as if by being crippled with a hamstring; hamstringed.
hamstrung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hamstring
Hangaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language of Tanzania.
hang-gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hang gliding.
hang gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæŋ ˈɡlɑɪdɪŋ/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [heɪŋ ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang glide
hang gliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæŋ ˈɡlɑɪdɪŋ/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [heɪŋ ˈɡlaɪdɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Senses: glosses: The sport of flying in a hang glider.
hang-glide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hang-glides
form: hang-gliding
form: hang-glided
form: hang-glided
Senses: glosses: To fly a hang glider.
hang glider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: hăng glī'də
ipa: /hæŋ ˈɡlaɪdə(ɹ)/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [heɪŋ ˈɡlaɪdɚ]
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hang gliders
form: hang-glider
Etymology: Calque of German Hängegleiter, from hängen (“hang”) + gleiten (“glide”).
Senses: glosses: An unpowered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in a harness.
glosses: The rider of such a craft.
Related terms: hang glide
hang gliding
hard-bitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-bitten
form: most hard-bitten
form: hardbitten
Senses: examples: text: Its author, we must remember, was above all a man of action, an elected official, a captain, a traveler, and a pragmatic intellectual, a successful combatant against warrior and disease alike, hardbitten and intimate with both privilege and disgrace, a man who suffered with and outlived most of the greatest men of his age.
ref: 1996, Victor Davis Hanson, Introduction to The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War
text: Kirsten Dunst stars as Lee, a hardbitten photojournalist who leads a group of war correspondents on a road trip towards the conflict’s front line.
ref: 2024 March 30, Ellen E. Jones, “Civil War film-maker Alex Garland: ‘In the US and UK there’s a lot to be very concerned about’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Callous and toughened by experience.
hatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhætləs/
rhymes: -ætləs
Etymology: From hat + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not possessing, or not wearing, a hat.
Derived terms: hatlessly
hatlessness
Haya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a group of people who live near Lake Victoria in Tanzania
Haya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the language of these people
headband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌbænd/
Forms: form: headbands
Etymology: From Middle English *hedband, from Old English hēafodbænd, hēafodbend (“headband”), equivalent to head + band. Cognate with Old High German houbitbant (“headband”), Dutch hoofdband (“headband”).
Senses: glosses: A strip of fabric worn around the head.
glosses: A hair accessory, made of a flexible material and curved like a horseshoe, for holding one's hair back.
hypernyms: endband
glosses: A strip of fabric attached to the top of the spine of a book; used as decoration and reinforcement.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A thin slip of iron on the tympan of a printing press.
Synonyms: sense: horseshoe-shaped headband
word: Alice band
word: fillet
Hyponyms: deely bobber
katyusha
Derived terms: headbanded
headbander
heat haze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat hazes
Senses: examples: text: Under increase of heat, it volatilizes faster, so as to become dimly visible in large mass, as a heat-haze.
ref: 1860, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VII (Of Cloud Beauty), § 7, page 110:
text: Behind them, stretching in a long line east and west, were the Roan and Book Cliffs, cut to their base by the river's gorge, and meandering away in long wavy lines distorted by heat haze and the smoke of forest fires.
ref: 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:
text: Sol squinted out over the barrens to where the mountains shimmered in the heat haze.
ref: 1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.
heathenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heathenisms
Etymology: From heathen + -ism, coined in the 17th century in place of the then-obsolete heathendom. First attested in Francis Bacon's Of the advancement of learning (1605), II. xiv. §9: "The heresy of the Anthropomorphites … and the opinion of Epicurus, answerable to the same in heathenism, who supposed the gods to be in human shape" (OED).
Senses: examples: text: A woman's love is essentially lonely and spiritual in its nature—feeding on fancy, rather than hope—or like that fairy flower of the East, which floats in, and lives upon, the air. Her attachment is the heathenism of the heart: she has herself created the glory and beauty with which the idol of her altar stands invested.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 284:
text: Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 11:
text: […] they urge all followers of the Prophet to return to an authentic Islam, devoid of heathenism and innovations.
ref: 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town, Page 88
synonyms: heathenship
glosses: paganism, heathendom
heavyset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/
Forms: form: more heavyset
form: most heavyset
form: heavy-set
Etymology: From heavy + set.
Senses: examples: text: No Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains.
ref: 1989 March 20, “One Bear Of a Soviet Politician”, in Time:
glosses: Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance; overweight; obese.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: stocky
stout
thickset
heilsgeschichte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heilsgeschichte.
hem-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemline.
heptadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heptad + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a heptad; sevenfold
herring gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herring gulls
Senses: examples: text: Flocks of herring gulls are often seen near piers and wharves where they perform a valuable service by feeding on garbage and refuse.
ref: 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106:
glosses: Any of a group of large seagulls in the Larus genus.
glosses: Any of a group of large seagulls in the Larus genus.
Specifically the European herring gull (Larus argentatus).
Synonyms: sense: European herring gull
word: shitehawk
Derived terms: alt: Larus smithsonianus or Larus argentatus smithsonianus
word: American herring gull
taxonomic: Larus vegae
word: East Siberian herring gull
hesychastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Christianity
Eastern-Christianity
glosses: Of or relating to hesychasm.
glosses: Soothing or calming.
Related terms: hesychasm
heteronomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛtəˈɹɒnəməs/
Forms: form: more heteronomous
form: most heteronomous
Etymology: From heteronomy + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The competitive necessity of economies of action mean that surveillance capitalists must use all means available to supplant autonomous action with heteronomous action.
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
glosses: Arising from an external influence, force, or agency; not autonomous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Differing in development or in specialization.
raw_tags: of parts of an organism
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Being a dialect of an autonomous language.
raw_tags: of a language
Derived terms: heteronomously
Related terms: heteronomy
hideyhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hideyholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hidey-hole.
hidey-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidey-holes
Senses: examples: text: "This was Lord Alfred's hidey-hole, I think."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 20:
glosses: An isolated or secluded place; a hideaway or hideout.
Hiligaynon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪ.lɪ.ɡaɪ̯ˈn̪on̪/
Etymology: From Hiligaynon Hiligaynon, from Spanish hiligaino + Hiligaynon -non, where Spanish hiligaino is from Hiligaynon Iligan + Spanish -ino, with the root from ilig + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Ilonggo
glosses: language of the native people of Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island
Hiligaynon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪ.lɪ.ɡaɪ̯ˈn̪on̪/
Forms: form: Hiligaynons
form: Hiligaynon
Etymology: From Hiligaynon Hiligaynon, from Spanish hiligaino + Hiligaynon -non, where Spanish hiligaino is from Hiligaynon Iligan + Spanish -ino, with the root from ilig + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Ilonggo
glosses: an ethnic group from Iloilo and nearby areas of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros island in Visayas, Philippines
holding action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holding actions
Senses: glosses: An attack designed to prevent an enemy from attacking, or from moving its position
holly oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holly oaks
Etymology: Named from a resemblance to the holly plant.
Senses: glosses: holm oak
holm oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊm əʊk/
ipa: /ˈhoʊm oʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: holm oaks
form: holm-oak
Etymology: Named from a resemblance to the holly plant, also known as holm.
Senses: synonyms: holly oak
ilex
prine tree
glosses: An evergreen tree, Quercus ilex, native to the Mediterranean region.
homestay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌsteɪ/
Forms: form: homestays
form: home stay
Etymology: From home + stay, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ホームステイ (hōmusutei).
Senses: examples: text: Whether you’re crossing paths with shepherds in the mountains or staying with a family at a homestay, the warmth of the people will linger in your heart long after your trip ends.
ref: 2023 May 31, Cliona Elliott, “8 reasons to travel to Pakistan”, in intrepidtravel.com:
glosses: A system whereby students, visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price.
glosses: A house used primarily as the residence of the owner but with the business of accommodating paying guests.
Sesotho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsutu/
ipa: /səˈsoʊtoʊ/
note: native pronunciation
ipa: /sɛ̀.sʉ́.tʰʉ̀/
Forms: form: Sesoto
form: Sesuto
form: Sesutho
Etymology: From Sotho Sesotho.
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken mainly in Lesotho and in the Free State and Gauteng provinces of South Africa.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Sotho
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Southern Sesotho
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Southern Sotho
Hypernyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Bantu
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Sotho
Derived terms: Northern Sesotho
Southern Sesotho
Sesotho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsutu/
ipa: /səˈsoʊtoʊ/
note: native pronunciation
ipa: /sɛ̀.sʉ́.tʰʉ̀/
Forms: form: Sesotho
form: Sesoto
form: Sesuto
form: Sesutho
Etymology: From Sotho Sesotho.
Senses: synonyms: Mosotho
glosses: A member of an African ethnic group who speak the Sesotho language.
Sesotho
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsutu/
ipa: /səˈsoʊtoʊ/
note: native pronunciation
ipa: /sɛ̀.sʉ́.tʰʉ̀/
Forms: form: Sesoto
form: Sesuto
form: Sesutho
Etymology: From Sotho Sesotho.
Senses: glosses: In or pertaining to the Sesotho language.
glosses: Pertaining to the Basotho people or culture, or language.
Related terms: word: Basotho
word: Lesotho
word: Mosotho
word: Sotho
english: Resource on the language Sesotho
translation: Resource on the language Sesotho
urls: http://www.sesotho.web.za/
word: Sesotho Web
Laken
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The legislation is named after Laken Riley, a 22-year old Georgia student who was killed last year while out for a run. An undocumented migrant from Venezuela was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in the case that reignited a national debate over immigration and crime.
ref: 2025 January 22, Clare Foran, Haley Talbot and Priscilla Alvarez, “Congress passes immigrant detention bill in first legislative win for Trump”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
allarme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allarmes
form: allarming
form: allarmed
form: allarmed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of alarm.
signalman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡnəl.mən/
Forms: form: signalmen
Etymology: signal + -man
Senses: examples: text: With extra traffic, numerous boat trains to and from Southampton Docks, and working of empty stock, his job, like that of most signalmen, is no sinecure.
ref: 1954 September, 'South Western', “Shawford Junction Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 604:
text: The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:
text: As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: Somebody employed to operate the signals and points of a railway.
glosses: A member of the armed forces responsible for signalling.
glosses: Somebody employed to direct rigging or crane operations by providing a different point of view.
Synonyms: signaller
Derived terms: handsignalman
hand signalman
Related terms: signalwoman
slam-dunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam-dunks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slam dunk.
Marseille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Marseilles
Etymology: From French Marseille (supplanting earlier Marseilles, derived from the Old French nominative form), from Latin Massilia, Marsilia, from Ancient Greek Μασσαλία (Massalía), probably from a pre-Latin language of Italy, perhaps Ancient Ligurian mas (“spring”). The r was probably retained from Arabic مَرْسَى (marsā, “harbor”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Bouches-du-Rhône department, France; the capital city of the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Derived terms: Marseille soap
Related terms: marcella
Marseillaise
Massilia
Marseille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈseɪl/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -eɪl
ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: Marseilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Marseille. This surname is mostly found in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
aphyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˈfɪləs/
Etymology: 19th century, from New Latin aphyllus, from Ancient Greek ἄφυλλος (áphullos, “leafless”) (ἀ- (a-) + φύλλον (phúllon)).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: afoliate
glosses: Having no leaves; leafless.
Leine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Irish ancestry.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass
glosses: plural of grasse
grasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grass
celebrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celebrity
concretely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concretely
form: most concretely
Etymology: From concrete + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a concrete manner, physically, definitely
minerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineral
minerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He wouldn't mess with me. He hasn't got the minerals.
glosses: Testicles, balls, especially in the figurative sense of nerve or courage.
stems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stem
stems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stem
decaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From decay + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decay
decaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decayings
Etymology: From decay + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.
ref: 1839, William Jenkyn, James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude, page 274:
glosses: The process of undergoing decay.
philandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined from Ancient Greek φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀνδρός (andrós), genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”), equivalent to phil- + -andry. Compare philander.
Senses: examples: text: If a man is philogynous towards his partner, she is more than likely to denote her philandry of fondness, love, or admiration for him.
ref: 2014, Troy Mckenzie, WOMEN'S WORTH, PRICELESS, pages 111–112:
glosses: A love of, or fondness for, men.
Derived terms: philandrist
Related terms: androphilia
Linde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lindes
form: Linda
Etymology: * As a German, Dutch, Jewish, and North Germanic surname, from Linde (“linden tree, UK:lime tree”). Compare Lindy.
* As a Spanish surname, from linde (“boundary”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
pulse modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse modulations
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of techniques whereby a series of information-carrying quantities occurring at discrete instances of time is encoded into a corresponding series of electromagnetic carrier pulses.
Related terms: pulse modulator
Lippe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lippe.
Senses: glosses: A river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
glosses: A district (Kreis) in North Rhine-Westphalia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Robinson Township, Posey County, Indiana, United States, named after Lippe, Germany.
glosses: A surname.
pulse modulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulse modulators
Senses: glosses: A device for the pulse modulation of a radio-frequency carrier signal
push-pull amplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-pull amplifiers
Senses: glosses: An electronic circuit in which two transistors (one as current source, one as sink) are used to amplify a signal
push-pull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I thought he was rather foolish when he selected the revolving door instead of taking the orthodox push-pull door at the side.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35:
glosses: Operated by pushing and pulling.
examples: text: The coaches require modifications, including work to ensure they can work in push-pull mode with Class 67 locos.
ref: 2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
text: That train is Inspection Saloon 975025, better known as Caroline. It's a former Hastings line Class 201 diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) buffet car converted to run in push-pull operation, with large windows at both ends to give a great view of the line ahead.
ref: 2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 48:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Operated by pushing and pulling.
Operating with locomotives at both the head and rear of a train, or with a locomotive at one end and a driving position in the vehicle at the opposite end, so that the train can be driven from either end.
glosses: Having two electronic devices in opposite phase.
Synonyms: push-and-pull
Related terms: push-pull amplifier