cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
high noon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high noons
Senses: examples: text: The same streets that are inviting and quiet at high noon may be intimidating at night.
synonyms: word: noontime
word: noontide
word: nones
word: 12 o'clock
word: 12 noon
word: 12 p.m.
word: high noon
word: meridian
word: meridiem
word: midday
word: nones
word: noon
word: noonday
word: noontime
word: noon-time
word: noontide
word: sext
word: twelve
word: undern
word: undermeal
word: undertide
coordinate_terms: noonish
glosses: Exactly noon; midday (when the sun is at its highest).
synonyms: noontime
noontide
glosses: The zenith or apex of one's life or of a certain activity or era.
examples: text: […] whereas, ten years since, there were thousands who could not endure my lightest word of rebuke to the South, they can now easily swallow John Brown whole, and his rifle into the bargain. In firing his gun, he has merely told us what time of day it is. It is high noon, thank God!
ref: 1860 February 17 [1860 January 27], William Lloyd Garrison, “Speech of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, In the Tremont Temple, Boston, Jan. 27, 1860”, in The Liberator, volume XXX, number 7, page 26:
glosses: A time, set out in advance, at which an important decision is to be made or a nemesis is to be confronted.
Related terms: high time
moded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mode
moded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moded
form: most moded
Senses: glosses: Put in an embarrassing situation.
glosses: outmoded.
Derived terms: multimoded
fretted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛtɪd/
rhymes: -ɛtɪd
Etymology: From fret.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fret
fretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛtɪd/
rhymes: -ɛtɪd
Etymology: From fret.
Senses: examples: text: The dulcimer and sitar are fretted instruments.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: unfretted
fretless
glosses: Having frets.
raw_tags: of a musical instrument
Derived terms: fretted dulcimer
fretted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛtɪd/
rhymes: -ɛtɪd
Etymology: From fret.
Senses: antonyms: unfretted
fretless
glosses: Decorated with fretwork.
Derived terms: interfretted
oldie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊldi/
ipa: /ˈoʊldi/
rhymes: -əʊldi
Forms: form: oldies
Etymology: From old + -ie.
Senses: synonyms: word: antique
english: thing
translation: thing
word: classic
word: ;
word: oldster
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: Something or someone old.
antonyms: newie#Noun
glosses: A song or record from a previous era.
examples: an oldies radio station
glosses: The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras.
Synonyms: english: music senses
translation: music senses
word: classic hit
Derived terms: golden oldie
oldie but goodie
thymotic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymotic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of hydroxyisopropylmethylbenzoic acid, formally derived from thymol; one of the constituents of tannic acid.
thymol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaɪmɒl/
Forms: form: thymols
Etymology: From French thymol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a monoterpene phenol, C₁₀H₁₃OH, found in the oil extracted from thyme; used as in perfume, as an antiseptic and fungicide, and in embalming
Derived terms: thymol blue
Related terms: carvacrol
tsukiotoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsukiotoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 突き落とし, literally "thrust down".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker drives his opponent down using a thrusting movement on his rib cage or shoulder.
tsukitaoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsukitaoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 突き倒し, literally "frontal thrust down".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker, after a heated slapping exchange, thrusts his opponent over onto his back or side.
tsumatori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsumatori
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 褄取り, literally "rear toe pick".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker reaches down and picks up his opponent's foot (at the toes) and pulls back and up forcing him to fall forward
tsuridashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(t)suːɹiˈdɑːʃi/
Forms: form: tsuridashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 吊り出し (tsuridashi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker grips his opponent's mawashi and heaves him into the air, lifting him over and out of the ring.
tsuriotoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(t)suːɹioʊˈtoʊʃi/
Forms: form: tsuriotoshi
Etymology: From Japanese 吊り落とし (tsuriotoshi, literally “hanging and dropping”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker grips his opponent's mawashi, lifts him, and swings him sideways and down. A lifting bodyslam.
tsutaezori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(t)suːtɑːeɪˈzɔːɹi/
Forms: form: tsutaezori
Etymology: From Japanese 伝え反り (tsutaezori), literally underarm forward body drop.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker dives under his opponent's arm whilst maintaining a grip on it, then leans back, forcing him to fall forward.
uchigake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uchigake
Etymology: From Japanese 内掛け (uchigake, “inside leg trip”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker pulls his opponent forward, hooks his opponent's leg with his own, and pulls him over backwards.
uchimuso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uchimuso
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 内無双, literally inner thigh propping twist down.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker sweeps one of his opponent's legs up by hitting his inner thigh, then pulling him with the other hand.
ushiromotare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ushiromotare
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 後ろもたれ, literally backward lean out.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A kimarite in which the attacker leans into his opponent from behind, forcing him back and out.
Brandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændən/
rhymes: -ændən
Etymology: From Irish Mac Breandáin (“son of Breandán”). Doublet of Brendan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] from the Gaelic Mac Breandáin.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and 1990s American usage, variant of Brendan.
Brandon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹændən/
rhymes: -ændən
Etymology: From let's go, Brandon, ultimately from Brandon L. Brown. Originated from a news reporter incorrectly describing NASCAR fans chanting "fuck Joe Biden" as chanting "let's go, Brandon".
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Joe Biden.
Derived terms: Dark Brandon
utchari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utchari
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese うっちゃり, literally "backward pivot throw".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker, in a last ditch effort, drops his hips while twisting and pulling his opponent up and past him, sometimes onto his back
galago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈleɪɡəʊ/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: galagos
form: galagoes
Etymology: Scientific Latin / translingual Galago (as a genus name), probably from Wolof golo (“monkey”).
Senses: examples: text: From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 146:
glosses: Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the family Galagidae, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes.
Synonyms: bushbaby
bush baby
galagid
Derived terms: greater galago
northern greater galago
small-eared galago
Related terms: Galagidae
bushbabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush babies
Senses: glosses: plural of bushbaby
bush babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushbabies
Senses: glosses: plural of bush baby
stenohaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stenohaline
form: most stenohaline
Etymology: From steno- + haline.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Tolerant of only a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms
Related terms: euryhaline
chats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: plural of chat
chats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chat
urbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urbanites
Etymology: From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).
Senses: examples: text: But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.
ref: 2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times:
synonyms: word: city slicker
word: urban dweller
word: townie
coordinate_terms: ex-urbanite
exurbanite
suburbanite
glosses: Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
glosses: One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.
urbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urbanites
Etymology: From urban + -ite (“rock or mineral”).
Senses: examples: text: In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.
ref: 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
scruffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌf.i/
ipa: /ˈskɹaf.i/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: scruffier
form: scruffiest
Etymology: From scruff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
text: scruffy clothes
text: scruffy man
text: scruffy outfit
text: "So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.
ref: 1987 December 13, Elizabeth Pincus, “Rock Against Sexism”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 16:
glosses: Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
glosses: Scurfy.
Derived terms: scruffily
scruffiness
scruffy chic
Related terms: scruff
scruffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌf.i/
ipa: /ˈskɹaf.i/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: scruffies
Etymology: From scruff + -y.
Senses: glosses: An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: An arctic fox.
scruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌf/
ipa: /skɹɐf/
ipa: /skɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: scruffs
Etymology: See scurf.
Senses: examples: text: That candidate will never get the job: he's a right scruff.
glosses: Someone with an untidy appearance.
glosses: Stubble, facial hair (on males).
glosses: Crust.
glosses: Scurf.
Derived terms: Apple scruff
scruffy
scruff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌf/
ipa: /skɹɐf/
ipa: /skɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: scruffs
Etymology: 1790, from earlier (1787) scuft and dialect scuff, influenced by scruff (“crust”).
Related to North Frisian skuft (“back of the neck of a horse”) and Dutch schoft (“withers (of a horse)”), from Proto-Germanic. Compare also Old Norse skopt (“hair of the head”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), Middle High German schopf (German Schopf).
Senses: glosses: The loose skin at the back of the neck of some animals.
examples: text: He grabbed his unruly child by the scruff of the neck, and took him home.
glosses: The back of the neck, nape; also scruff of the neck.
Synonyms: word: nape
word: nucha
english: medical
translation: medical
word: nuchal
english: of a horse
translation: of a horse
word: withers
scruff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹʌf/
ipa: /skɹɐf/
ipa: /skɹʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: scruffs
form: scruffing
form: scruffed
form: scruffed
Etymology: 1790, from earlier (1787) scuft and dialect scuff, influenced by scruff (“crust”).
Related to North Frisian skuft (“back of the neck of a horse”) and Dutch schoft (“withers (of a horse)”), from Proto-Germanic. Compare also Old Norse skopt (“hair of the head”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), Middle High German schopf (German Schopf).
Senses: examples: text: She gently scruffed the kitten who was trying to climb her leg.
ref: 2023, Anastasia Ryan, You Should Smile More:
glosses: To lift or carry by the scruff.
Related terms: scuff
gamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æmɪk
Etymology: From gam (“gamete, syngamy”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Formed as a result of syngamy (union of gametes), sexually produced, sexual.
Derived terms: pangamic
Related terms: -gamic
refuel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfjuːəl/
ipa: /ɹiːˈfjuːl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /ˈɹiːfjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfjuːl/
Forms: form: refuels
form: refueling
form: refuelling
form: refueled
form: refueled
form: refuelled
form: refuelled
Etymology: From re- + fuel.
Senses: examples: text: […] bundle the sorted, weighed, zipcoded parcels aboard the already refueled aircraft, which speedily take off […]
ref: 1989, Richard L. Daft, Organization theory and design:
text: On a vast, dry lakebed called Tianshuihai, we came to a community of sorts, a desperate huddle of concrete and mud structures. My map labeled the region “Soda Plain,” and it seemed a long time since any water had gathered there. It was also, evidently, earthquake country. Buildings, many of them abandoned, had been shaken off their foundations; their walls had cracked and roofs fallen in. The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses. Thousands of fifty-gallon drums littered the ground, along with broken machinery, derelict vehicles, chunks of concrete, goat carcasses, cans, bottles, and shit.
ref: 1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan, Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:
text: Guided by the Earth’s magnetic field, starlight and other biocompasses that scientists have yet to fully divine, the birds wheel over land and sea, alighting opportunistically en route to rest, preen and refuel.
ref: 2007 September 18, Natalie Angier, “Songs and Sojourns of the Season”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2018:
text: In his statement, Miliband said the two flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia. Each one had a single detainee on board who did not leave the aircraft.
ref: 2008 February 22, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger, “Embarrassed Miliband admits two US rendition flights refuelled on British soil”, in The Guardian:
text: The United States refuels military jets and provides intelligence support to the military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, that is trying to defeat Houthi insurgents in Yemen.
ref: 2015 December 22, Somini Sengupta, “Saudi-Led War in Yemen Frays Ties With the U.S.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2016:
text: The president of the FIA, Jean Todt, has said he would like to see a return of in-race refuelling to Formula One as a way to improve the sport.
ref: 2019 July 12, Giles Richards, “FIA president Jean Todt calls for return of refuelling during races”, in The Guardian:
text: During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.
ref: 2022 February 26, John Walton, “How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
glosses: To refill with fuel.
Derived terms: hot refuel
refuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈfjuːəl/
ipa: /ɹiːˈfjuːl/
rhymes: -uːəl
rhymes: -uːl
ipa: /ˈɹiːfjuːəl/
ipa: /ˈɹiːfjuːl/
Forms: form: refuels
Etymology: From re- + fuel.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of refilling with fuel.
Derived terms: hot refuel
playpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playpens
Etymology: From play + pen.
Senses: glosses: An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
glosses: An area or domain in which a person can exercise their activities or endeavors freely.
plunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌnd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈplʌnd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: plungers
Etymology: From plunge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
glosses: The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
glosses: The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
glosses: Certain equipment for brewing coffee.
The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
glosses: Certain equipment for brewing coffee.
A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
glosses: One who plunges; a diver.
glosses: A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cavalryman.
glosses: A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
glosses: The moving portion of a solenoid.
qualifier: pinball
glosses: The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
examples: text: Well I suppose there's not one of you gentlemen here who hasnt^([sic]) at some time or other taken a plunger, and how many of you hasnt^([sic]) come back sadder and wiser.
ref: 1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 2nd section, page 146:
glosses: A reckless gambler or gamble.
examples: text: Another part of the invention relates to making articles of earthenware by a plunger, which is forced into a mould
ref: 1862, Examples of the Architecture of the Victorian Age […] , (Please provide the book title or journal name):
qualifier: pottery
glosses: A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The firing pin of a breechloader.
Synonyms: sense: device
word: plumber's helper
sense: device
word: plumber's friend
Derived terms: autoplunger
coffee plunger
cryoplunger
plungerless
plungerlike
plunger mute
plunger pump
lotus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈloʊtəs/
ipa: /ˈləʊtəs/
rhymes: -əʊtəs
Forms: form: lotuses
form: loti
form: lotos
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Doublet of lote. First attested in the 1540s
Senses: glosses: A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
glosses: A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.
glosses: A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.
glosses: A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.
glosses: A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches.
glosses: A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.
glosses: An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.
examples: text: Since the '60s ended abruptly on January 1, 1970, everyone, protestors, police and all, fell to the ground in a full lotus.
ref: 1979, Charlie King, “Vaguely Reminiscent of the Sixties (The Story)”:
glosses: Ellipsis of lotus position.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Nelumbo lutea
word: American lotus
taxonomic: Nymphaea caerulea
word: blue lotus
english: Egyptian water lily
translation: Egyptian water lily
word: Egyptian lotus
word: honey-lotus
word: honey lotus
taxonomic: Nelumbo nucifera
word: Indian lotus
word: lotiform
word: lotus birth
word: lotus eater
word: lotus-eater
word: lotus-eating
word: lotus effect
word: lotus foot
taxonomic: Ziziphus lotus
word: lotus jujube
word: lotus land
word: lotuslike
word: lotus nut
word: lotus position
word: lotus root
word: lotus seed
word: lotus shoe
taxonomic: Ziziphus lotus
word: lotustree
word: lotus woman
taxonomic: Nelumbo nucifera
word: sacred lotus
taxonomic: Saussurea involucrata
word: snow lotus
taxonomic: Nymphaea nouchali
word: star lotus
taxonomic: Nymphaea lotus
word: white lotus
taxonomic: Nelumbo lutea
word: yellow lotus
syngamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.
Synonyms: fertilization
Related terms: karyogamy
somatogamy
hissy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Forms: form: hissier
form: hissiest
Etymology: From hiss + -y.
Senses: glosses: Accompanied with hisses.
examples: text: Each is very inexpensive ($60 per two-pack for the Midland, $100 a pair for the Audiovox), and feels it. Each is also tiny, no bigger than a bar of Ivory. Both are far hissier than their more expensive rivals, and don't have as much range (more on this in a moment).
ref: 2003 May 8, David Pogue, “STATE OF THE ART; For Two-Way Radios, a Mileage Test”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Making a hissing sound.
examples: text: Viewers were aghast. . . . As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!"
ref: 1996 May 13, David E. Thigpen, “If You Could Hear Her Now”, in Time:
text: Midwestern-bred and still wholesome despite his exposure to New York’s hissiest, Sam remains the play’s anchor.
ref: 2016 March 30, Ligaya Mishan, “Jesse Tyler Ferguson Skewers Food Culture on Broadway”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Childish or petulant.
Synonyms: sense: making a hissing sound
word: hissing
word: sibilant
word: infantile
word: milky
word: childish
sense: petulant
word: bad-tempered
word: huffy
word: irritable
Derived terms: hissily
hissiness
hissy fit
hissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Forms: form: hissies
Etymology: From hiss + -y.
Senses: examples: text: get into a hissy
glosses: A tantrum, a fit.
Synonyms: tantrum
Mauretania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
homophone: Mauritania
Etymology: From Latin Mauretania. Doublet of Mauritania.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Berber kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa which was annexed by the Romans.
Derived terms: Mauretanian
Related terms: Moor
unelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more unelastic
form: most unelastic
Etymology: From un- + elastic.
Senses: glosses: lacking elasticity; inflexible, unyielding
Synonyms: inelastic
inflexible
capitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæpɪˈtæn/
Forms: form: capitans
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish capitán. Doublet of captain and chieftain.
Senses: glosses: Captain (in Spanish-speaking contexts).
Derived terms: Capitan Pasha
pizzeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːt.səˈɹiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: pizzerias
form: pizzerie
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pizzeria, from pizza + -eria (“-ery”).
Senses: examples: text: The talented artist quickly became fluent in English, found work at a pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant.
ref: 2025 September 10, Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, “Suspect in Charlotte train stabbing that killed a Ukrainian refugee is charged with a federal crime. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas.
Synonyms: word: pizza parlor
word: pizza parlour
word: pizza joint
word: pizza place
Related terms: pizza
pizza boy
pizza pie
pizza slice
pizza topping
papaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpaɪə/
ipa: /pəˈpɑːjə/
rhymes: -aɪə
rhymes: -ɑːjə
Forms: form: papayas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Possibility a doublet of pawpaw.
Senses: glosses: A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
examples: text: It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
glosses: An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
Synonyms: word: pawpaw
word: common term for papaya
word: but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree
word: fruit
Derived terms: mountain papaya
raw papaya
yaya papaya
Related terms: papain
pawpaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːpɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɑːpɑː/
Forms: form: pawpaws
form: paw-paw
form: papaw
Etymology: Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Lokono papáia; compare also Kari'na kapaja. Doublet of papaya.
Alternatively from Yuchi pahpah.
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
glosses: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
glosses: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
examples: text: Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.
ref: [2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254:
text: If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: bandango
custard apple
hillbilly mango
prairie banana
glosses: The fruit of these trees.
pawpaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːpɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɑːpɑː/
Forms: form: pawpaws
form: papaw
form: pappaw
Etymology: Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).
Senses: glosses: Grandfather.
Synonyms: peepaw
pepaw
Related terms: mamaw
whorehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whorehouses
form: whore-house
Etymology: From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).
Senses: examples: text: The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 276:
glosses: Brothel.
Hypernyms: house
retriever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈtɹivəɹ/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ɹə-/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: retrievers
Etymology: From retrieve + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who retrieves something.
hypernyms: gun dog
<
hunting dog
<
dog
hound
coordinate_terms: pointer
setter
glosses: A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A tool for retrieving materials from the body after an operation.
Derived terms: Flat-coated Retriever
Golden Retriever
Labrador retriever
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
COIN-OR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research.
rance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæns/
ipa: /ɹɑːns/
rhymes: -æns
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: rances
Etymology: From Old French ranche, from Latin ramex, ramus.
Senses: glosses: A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
glosses: A prop or shore.
glosses: A round or spreader between the legs of a chair.
rance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæns/
ipa: /ɹɑːns/
rhymes: -æns
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: rances
form: rancing
form: ranced
form: ranced
Etymology: From Old French ranche, from Latin ramex, ramus.
Senses: glosses: To prop or shore up.
nationwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'shən-wīdʹ
ipa: /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: nation-wide
Etymology: From nation + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: (in federations) federal
text: There was a nationwide search on for the bankrobbers.
text: To assist in this mind-bogglingly complex endeavour, Switzerland has developed sophisticated software tools that allow infrastructure managers (IMs), operators and local/national authorities to co-ordinate civil engineering projects with planned service enhancements, demand forecasts, pathing requirements, nationwide timetables, and asset utilisation up to 15 years ahead.
ref: 2022 December 14, Ben Jones, “Switzerland: a template for Northern Powerhouse Rail?”, in RAIL, number 972, page 29:
text: Kraft Heinz said the new products will be available nationwide to all school administrators to procure and offer to students either for purchase in the lunchroom – though the company did not disclose the cost to schools – or for free through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
ref: 2023 March 13, Parija Kavilanz, “Lunchables are going to be rolled out directly to students. Here’s what’s in them”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: national
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: countrywide
antonyms: non-national
intranational
infranational
coordinate_terms: municipal
townwide
citywide
districtwide
;
local
locoregional
regional
;
provincewide
provincial
statewide
;
interprovincial
interstate#Adjective
;
unionwide
;
glosses: Extending throughout an entire nation.
nationwide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'shən-wīdʹ
ipa: /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: nation-wide
Etymology: From nation + -wide.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: (in federations) federally
text: …Toote became the principal Black surrogate (highest “rank” in the Reagan campaign operation), booking Reagan for appearances before Black organizations and traveling nationwide in his behalf.
ref: 1980, Simeon Booker, “Reagan Becomes U. S. President; His Top Blacks Had Key Roles”, in Jet, volume 59, number 10, pages 6–7:
synonyms: word: nationally
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: countrywide
antonyms: intranationally
infranationally
coordinate_terms: municipally
townwide
citywide
districtwide
;
locally
locoregionally
regionally
;
provincewide
provincially
statewide
;
interprovincially
interstate#Adverb
;
unionwide
;
glosses: Throughout a nation.
Derived terms: nationwidely
mortician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)ˈtɪʃən/
Forms: form: morticians
Etymology: From Latin mort- (“death”) + -ician.
Senses: examples: text: “And I prefer mortician to funeral director. It sounds more professional and, well, it is more precise. I deal with more than mere funerals; I deal with death, passing on, the transition.”
ref: 2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 91:
glosses: An undertaker or funeral director; especially, one who is also the embalmer or cremator.
Related terms: mortuary
misconduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs-kŏnʹdŭkt
ipa: /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/
Forms: form: misconducts
Etymology: From mis- + conduct (noun sense).
Senses: examples: text: The student was banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.
glosses: Behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
examples: text: There is definitely an indication of retaliation in this case. I have never received a misconduct for possessing or using drugs.
ref: 1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 5:
text: After Jonathan Marchessault buried an empty-net goal with 90 seconds left in overtime, Hartman yelled from the bench and allegedly threw his stick in the officials’ direction. Hartman was assessed a misconduct for abusive language, according to the game sheet.
ref: 2024 March 31, Michael Russo, “Wild’s Ryan Hartman offered hearing for throwing stick in direction of officials”, in New York Times:
glosses: A penalty or write-up for improper behavior.
Derived terms: sexual misconduct
misconduct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭs-kŏnʹdŭkt
ipa: /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/
enpr: mĭs-kən-dŭktʹ
ipa: /mɪskənˈdʌkt/
enpr: mĭs-kŏnʹdŭkt
ipa: /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/
Forms: form: misconducts
form: misconducting
form: misconducted
form: misconducted
Etymology: From mis- + conduct (verb sense).
Senses: glosses: To mismanage.
examples: text: It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.
ref: 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal, published 1995, page 224:
glosses: To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.
examples: text: The quartermasters have misconducted, and the government should bear the loss resulting from that misconduct.
ref: 1869, Ebenezer Peck, “Spear v. United States: Dissenting Opinion”, in Charles C. Nott, Samuel H. Huntington, editors, Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, at the December Term for 1869, volume 5, published 1871, pages 213–14:
text: It seems no answer for the recipient to allege that he was incompetent and misconducted, but that the acts were committed outside the jurisdiction.
ref: 1881, William Stawell, “In re Victoria Steam Navigation Board, ex parte Allan”, in George H. F. Webb, editor, The Victorian Law Reports, volumes 7, 1881—XLIV and XLV Victoriæ, published 1882, page 264:
text: Whether the jury misconducted in making the view of the premises, or whether the court erred in instructing them as to what effect they should give, in making up their verdict, to matters which came under their observation while making the view, does not appear from the record in this case.
ref: 1882, David Taylor, “Boardman and another vs. The Westchester Fire Ins. Co. of New York”, in O. M. Conover, editor, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin […], volume 54, page 367:
glosses: To act improperly.
hydrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹənt/
Forms: form: hydrants
Etymology: An irregular formation: hydr- + -ant, originally US English. By surface analysis, hydrate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: A horde of dirty children play about the dripping hydrant, the only thing in the alley that thinks enough of its chance to make the most of it: it is the best it can do.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which fluid (e.g. water or fuel) can be tapped.
Derived terms: dehydrant
dry hydrant
fire hydrant
cutthroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtθɹoʊt/
Forms: form: cutthroats
form: cut-throat
form: cut throat
Etymology: From cut + throat.
Senses: glosses: A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
glosses: An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
glosses: A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
examples: text: Children go through a phase of compound acquisition in which they invent cutthroats spontaneously before dropping the habit again.
ref: 2015 May 22, Stan Carey, “The Kick-butt World of Cutthroat Compounds”, in Slate Lexicon Valley:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).
Derived terms: cutthroat razor
cutthroat trout
cutthroat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtθɹoʊt/
Forms: form: more cutthroat
form: most cutthroat
form: cut-throat
form: cut throat
Etymology: From cut + throat.
Senses: glosses: Involving the cutting of throats.
examples: text: He found that playing cutthroat Spades was much more difficult than playing with a partner.
glosses: Of or relating to a card game where everyone plays for him or herself rather than playing with a partner.
examples: text: Law is a cutthroat business, you always have to look out to see who is trying to outdo you.
text: More specifically, Scrabblers are diehard, competitive, and occasionally cutthroat players who treat the game like it's chess or baseball...
ref: 2010, Kate Stevens, Freak Nation, page 159:
text: While these esports are often framed as battles of mental strategies and mechanical skills, how players juggle their hundreds, or thousands, of simultaneously ticking clocks and timers defines their ability to succeed in cutthroat competitions.
ref: 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 9, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025:
glosses: Ruthlessly competitive, dog-eat-dog.
Related terms: cutthroat eel
crematorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/
ipa: /kɹɛməˈtɔːɹɪəm/
ipa: /kɹiːməˈtɔːɹi.əm/
Forms: form: crematoriums
form: crematoria
Etymology: From New Latin crematorium.
Senses: synonyms: crematory
glosses: A place where the bodies of dead people are cremated.
Related terms: cremate
cremation
crematory
kerogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerogens
Senses: glosses: any organic matter present in a sedimentary rock that is insoluble in organic solvents; the precursor of oil and natural gas
Derived terms: kerogenous
Related terms: bitumen
cellmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellmates
Etymology: From cell + -mate.
Senses: synonyms: word: celly
glosses: A person with whom one shares a prison cell.
Related terms: prison bitch
adrenalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenalins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of adrenaline.
Derived terms: adrenalin rush
adrenalise
uplifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uplifting
form: most uplifting
Etymology: From uplift + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Listening to whalesong can be very uplifting.
text: It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 159:
glosses: Improving the mood; causing cheerfulness.
uplifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upliftings
Etymology: From uplift + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, “Chapter 35, The Mast-Head”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (fiction), page 86:
text: The borders of large subsiding areas sooner or later experiencing deep fissurings and extensive upliftings through the tension or horizontal force of the subsiding crust[…]
ref: 1847, The American Journal of Science and Arts, →ISSN, page 91:
glosses: The act of something being lifted upward.
stockholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒk.həʊl.də/
ipa: /ˈstɑk.hoʊl.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈstɑk.hoʊɫ.dɚ]
ipa: /ˈstɔk.həʉl.də/
ipa: /stakˈhol.dəɹ/
Forms: form: stockholders
Etymology: From stock + holder.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: One who owns stock.
examples: text: Zumbeco are stockholders of round bar, flat bar and plate.
glosses: A company that maintains a stock of certain products.
Synonyms: english: sense 1
translation: sense 1
word: shareholder
english: sense 2
translation: sense 2
word: stockist
Coordinate terms: bondholder
debtholder
noteholder
stakeholder
unitholder
Derived terms: preferred stockholder
Kerr effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Rev. John Kerr, Scottish physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Birefringence of a material induced by an electric field due to partial orientation of its molecules.
Related terms: magneto-optic Kerr effect
stopwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stopwatches
Etymology: From stop + watch.
Senses: examples: text: I etched the face of a stopwatch on the back of a raindrop
And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass
ref: 2011, Alex Turner, “Piledriver Waltz”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
synonyms: stop clock
glosses: A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
Related terms: timer
scurry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈskʌɹ.i/
note: hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈskɜɹ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: scurries
form: scurrying
form: scurried
form: scurried
form: skurry
Etymology: Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.
Senses: examples: text: Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in the Guardian:
text: Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
ref: 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies:
glosses: To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
Synonyms: sense: run with quick light steps
word: scamper
sense: do things quickly
word: hurry
word: zoom
word: rush
Derived terms: ascurry
scurry away
scurry off
scurry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌɹ.i/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈskʌɹ.i/
note: hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈskɜɹ.i/
rhymes: -ʌɹi
Forms: form: scurries
form: skurry
Etymology: Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.
Senses: examples: text: Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
ref: 1845, Sporting Magazine, volume 5, page 25:
glosses: A dash.
ketene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketenes
Etymology: From keto- + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of unsaturated ketones, having a general formula R₁R₂C=C=O, that react as if they were inner acid anhydrides
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the parent compound of this class, CH₂=C=O, an unstable, reactive colourless gas
Derived terms: diketene
ketenide
ketenimine
kimberlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kimberlites
Etymology: From Kimberley + -ite, from the name of the South African town of Kimberley where the mineral was first found.
Senses: examples: text: Some researchers think that the warming was caused as kimberlite pipes (volcanic vents originating deep in the Earth’s mantle) reached the surface near Lac de Gras in northern Canada and released huge amounts of carbon.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 54:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A variety of peridotite containing a high proportion of carbon dioxide; often contains diamonds.
Derived terms: kimberlite pipe
kimberlitic
pointe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pwæ̃t/
ipa: /pwɑnt/
ipa: /pɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɑnt
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: pointes
Etymology: From French pointe (“point, tip”). Doublet of point, ponto, puncto, punctum, punt, and punto.
Senses: examples: 2007: Classical dance manages to get along without too many momentous events shuddering beneath its pointe work. — The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3
qualifier: ballet
glosses: The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
Derived terms: demipointe
pointe shoe
pointework
Related terms: en pointe
Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pair of fundamental natural laws dealing with the relations of currents at a junction and the voltages around a loop.
Related terms: Kirchhoff's current law
Kirchhoff's voltage law
postage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊstɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: postages
Etymology: From post + -age.
Senses: glosses: The charge for posting an item.
glosses: The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment.
Derived terms: book postage
e-postage
postage and packaging
postage and packing
postage code
postage due
postage meter
postage rate
postage stamp