cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
closing time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closing times
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see closing, time.
examples: text: Sometimes when you sit in a restaurant, still stuffing yourself half an hour after closing time, you feel that the tired waiter at your side must surely be despising you.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: all the women tear their blouses off / and the men they dance on the polka-dots / and it's partner found, it's partner lost / and it's hell to pay when the fiddler stops: / it's closing time
ref: 1992, Leonard Cohen, “Closing Time”, in The Future:
glosses: The time when a public house or restaurant closes. Used to invite final drink orders.
examples: text: No. You're supposed to die for me. By the way, I did think of asking you to join my little scheme, but somehow I knew that 007's loyalty was always to the mission — never to his friend. Closing time, James. Last call.
ref: 1995, Jeffrey Caine, Bruce Feirstein, GoldenEye, spoken by Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean):
glosses: Used to suggest that a deadline for action is imminent.
Derived terms: closing time effect
when is closing time
Related terms: drinking-up time
last call
last orders
time
drill sergeant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drill sergeants
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: drill instructor
pseph-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: psēf
enpr: psĕf
ipa: /psiːf/
ipa: /psɛf/
enpr: psēf
ipa: /psif/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ψῆφος (psêphos, “pebble”); the later, electoral sense stems from the ancient Athenian method of voting by putting a pebble in a ballot box (for which sense see psephisma and psephophoria).
Senses: glosses: pebble, small stone
glosses: voting, election; ballot box
Derived terms: topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
sense: Terms derived in the sense “pebble”, “small stone”
word: psephitic
topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
sense: Terms derived in the sense “pebble”, “small stone”
word: psephite
sense: Terms derived in the sense “pebble”, “small stone”
word: psephomancy
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephocracy
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephograph
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephologically
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephological
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephologist
sense: Terms derived in the sense “voting”, “election”; “ballot box”
word: psephology
Related terms: sense: Terms ultimately deriving from ψῆφος (psēphos, “pebble”) but not formed with this prefix
word: isopsephism
sense: Terms ultimately deriving from ψῆφος (psēphos, “pebble”) but not formed with this prefix
word: isopsephic
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
sense: Terms ultimately deriving from ψῆφος (psēphos, “pebble”) but not formed with this prefix
word: psephism
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
sense: Terms ultimately deriving from ψῆφος (psēphos, “pebble”) but not formed with this prefix
word: psephisma
sense: Terms ultimately deriving from ψῆφος (psēphos, “pebble”) but not formed with this prefix
word: psephophoria
drunk tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drunk tanks
Senses: examples: text: [I]f you're honest enough you might end up in the drunk-tank 15 or 20 times and lose a few jobs and a wife or 2 or maybe slug somebody in the streets and sleep on a park bench now and then […].
ref: 1962, Charles Bukowski, “letter”, in On Writing, Canongate, published 2016, page 57:
text: It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank / An old man said to me, “Won't see another one”
ref: 1987, Shane MacGowan, Jem Finer, “Fairytale of New York”, in If I Should Fall from Grace with God, performed by The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl:
glosses: A cell where people who have been arrested for public drunkenness are detained until they are sober.
dry off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dries off
form: drying off
form: dried off
form: dried off
Senses: glosses: To make dry.
examples: text: Drying off after the day of surfing in the afternoon summer sun of New Zealand, they remarked to each other how ironic their trip had been so far.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
text: The weather was atrocious (driving rain, strong wind, bone-chilling cold), but that didn't prevent us from getting out of our car, and walking over to the lighthouse there.[…]
After taking some time to dry off while having a seafood lunch at the nearby Fuchi (Fuji) Fishing Harbor 富基漁港, we continued down the coast to the Temple of the Eighteen Lords 十八王公廟.
ref: 2008 February 9, Kaminoge, “Welcoming in the Year of the Rat in Tansui and Hokutō Onsen 子年の旅行：淡水、北投温泉”, in A Curmudgeon Abroad (Blog), archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023:
glosses: To become dry.
examples: text: In an early study with cows producing very little milk at drying off, new infection rates were about equal whether cows were dried off abruptly or after a period of intermittent milking.
ref: 1986, Eberhart, R. J., “Management of Dry Cows to Reduce Mastitis”, in Journal of Dairy Science, volume 69, number 6, →DOI, pages 1721-1732:
text: Thus, revenue from milk yield before dry-off is higher for cows that are abruptly dried off.
ref: 2020 September 24, Pornpamol Pattamanont, Marcos Marcondes, Albert De Vries, “Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Dry-off Methods for Dairy Cows”, in edis.ifas.ufl.edu, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023:
text: If you are drying off more cows than normal you are likely to need to increase the area in which you normally keep dry cows.
ref: 2023 December 8 (last accessed), “Drying dairy cows off early”, in Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To cease milking a cow in preparation for calving.
dry martini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry martinis
form: dry Martini
Senses: examples: text: Yet, when he arrives at the party, everybody is dressed in typically modern urban fashion and is dancing the Charleston and mambo, and drinking dry martini, frappé mint, or whisky.
ref: 2009, Juan Poblete, “Condorito, Chilean Popular Culture and the Work of Mediation”, in Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Juan Poblete, editors, Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics (New Directions in Latino American Cultures), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 48:
text: “I approve,” Max, commented as he eyes took in the beauty before him, “are you still drinking dry martini.” “Yes,” replied Maria. Max beckoned a waiter over. “A dry martini with lemonade for the lady and I’ll have a Jack Daniel’s and coke, with plenty of ice.”
ref: 2012, M.W. Fletcher, To Unleash a Force, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
text: The pier, in whose dank shadows she and boys whose names she has forgotten drank dry martini straight from the bottle, long after Thomas had disappeared.
ref: 2013, Lezanne Clannachan, chapter 22, in Jellybird, Orion Books, published 2014, →ISBN:
synonyms: silver bullet
glosses: A cocktail made from gin or vodka mixed with a splash of vermouth.
dude up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dudes up
form: duding up
form: duded up
form: duded up
Senses: examples: text: No real hand would ever dude himself up in Wild West clothes, like chaps with silver conchas and fifty-dollar boots so skintight the man's feet were starting to curl like a ram's horns.
ref: 2014, Penelope Williamson, The Outsider, page 168:
text: He’s up against the wall, duded up like the Marlboro Man, his hips cocked and his hat tilted low.
ref: 2015 October 8, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘Fool for Love,’ a Kinship That Breaks Hearts and Knuckles”, in New York Times:
glosses: To dress up; to dress in smart or special clothes.
psepho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pseph-.
duff up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: duffs up
form: duffing up
form: duffed up
form: duffed up
Senses: examples: text: I heard Nick got duffed up behind the shopping centre at the weekend.
glosses: To beat up, to give a beating to.
dust up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dusts up
form: dusting up
form: dusted up
form: dusted up
Senses: glosses: To cover with dust.
examples: text: I promptly put my machine behind him and was about to dust him up a bit when another Fokker came to my help and got in first. He dived on the Caudron, who bolted at once. The Nieuport saw him and came to help his comrade in distress.
ref: 2009, Johannes Werner, Knight of Germany: Oswald Boelcke German Ace, page 194:
glosses: To attack (a person) physically; to beat up.
early riser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early risers
Senses: examples: text: I was surprised to see him asleep at 10:00, as he's normally such an early riser.
text: As we strolled along admiring the many-masted vessels, an old man, an early riser and doubtless a poor sleeper (as so many old people are) stopped us.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186:
text: An hour's pause in the journey, wherein early Risers may practise, each day, upon a diff'rent set of Travelers. Flirting? Cards? Coffee and Chatter? the Hope is for a productive, when not amusing, Hour.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 33, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 327:
glosses: Someone who rises (gets up) early in the morning.
Synonyms: early bird
morning person
density dependence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: density dependences
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Regulation of population growth by mechanisms controlled by the size of the population; especially the curtailment of growth by crowding, predators and competition
dry martinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dry martini
beau geste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaux gestes
form: beau gestes
Etymology: Borrowed from French beau geste (literally “beautiful gesture”).
*/ˌboʊ ˈʒest/
Senses: examples: text: Chamberlain's offer was enthusiastically welcomed by a section of the Zionists and by all with gratitude. It was a beau geste on the part of the Government, and a recognition that Herzl and his following were regarded seriously in serious quarters.
ref: 1920, “The Zionist Congresses”, in G. W. Prothero, editor, Zionism:
text: Real estate ventures provide opportunities for beau gestes that result in comfort and convenience.
ref: 1982, Jean Baer, “The Jewish Elite Way of Life”, in The Self-Chosen: “Our Crowd” Is Dead, Long Live Our Crowd, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →ISBN, part 2 (Who’s Who), page 336:
text: In a magnificent beau geste, the destroyer, hopelessly trapped, turned as if to flee, threw out a smoke screen, and when the [enemy ship] charged into it, rammed her at flank speed […]
ref: 1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion, volume 2, page 635:
glosses: A gracious gesture that is noble in form but often futile or meaningless in substance.
beaux gestes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beau geste
jeu d'esprit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jeux d'esprit
Etymology: Borrowed from French jeu d'esprit (“game of the spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: The last jeu d'ésprit circulating among us, is "A Characteristic Catalogue of Pictures." Characteristic enough some of them certainly are! for Mr. Onslow has contributed "A Flower-Piece;" and, if ever man talked poppies and tulips, it is our worthy and flowery speaker. "A Head Unfinished" is by Lord Townshend, of whom his colleague said, "that his brains wanted nothing but ballast!" Mr. Booth obliges us with "A Mist." He ought to be able to paint it most accurately, for he always seems in one.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 45–46:
text: "There is a jeu d'esprit that Frenchmen tell — though only to one another — of how, when God created the earth, he wanted one perfect place, so he made France. Then, seeing what he had done, he decided he had gone too far, so he made Frenchmen."
ref: 1988, William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, volume 2, page 506:
glosses: A witticism; a witty comment or composition.
examples: text: It was naturally a good deal laughed at in a friendly way, and exception was taken to the absence of Tones. This lack was vigorously defended by a Chinese-speaking captain in the mercantile marine, who quoted Sir Harry Parkes' dictum, “never trouble yourself about the Tones,”—a most erroneous view, with which I have never been in sympathy. My little book, however, was only a jeu d'esprit, in which Tones would have been wholly out of place. My object was to transliterate Chinese strictly according to the values of the English vowels and consonants, so that anyone could pick up the book and read off a simple sentence with a good chance of being understood.
ref: 1872, Herbert Allen Giles, edited by Charles Aylmer, The Memoirs of H. A. Giles, published 1997:
glosses: A small thing done in the spirit of an idea, not intended to be rigorous or comprehensive.
cultural imperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Nobody should have to watch American films; many in the world consider Hollywood a means of cultural imperialism.
qualifier: chiefly depreciative
glosses: The imposition of a dominant nation's culture onto a nondominant nation, often through the export of cultural products such as film and music.
Northern Thai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔɹðəɹn taɪ/
Senses: synonyms: Lanna
Kam Mueang
glosses: The language spoken in the northern region of Thailand (closely related to Thai and Lao).
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Northern Thai terms
skin colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin colours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skin color.
gamma iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma-iron
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An allotrope of iron which is stable at high temperatures. It is used in the manufacture of austenite.
Coordinate terms: alpha iron
beta iron
gamma-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gamma iron.
iron carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of iron with carbon (Fe₃C).
Synonyms: ferric carbide
cementite
Austenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒstɪnaɪt/
homophone: austenite
homophone: austinite
homophone: Austinite
Forms: form: austenite
Etymology: From William Chandler Roberts-Austen + -ite (“rock, mineral, or fossil”).
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of austenite.
Austenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑstɪnaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒstɪnaɪt/
homophone: austenite
homophone: austinite
homophone: Austinite
Forms: form: Austenites
Etymology: From Jane Austen + -ite (“follower or adherent of a specified person”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]t seems a pity that they should not form a volume in one of the neat series of Jane Austen's novels now published, as to a real Austenite they contain much that is valuable, and are full of characteristic touches.
ref: 1907, G. E. Mitton, Jane Austen and Her Times, Methuen & Co., Chapter 5: The Novels
text: Towards the end of his life, Twain took Jane Austen as one of his stock jibes and the items collected here (No. 23), dating from 1896 to 1909, show how much he enjoyed needling his Austenite friends, Howells in particular.
ref: 1996, B. C. Southam, Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage: 1870–1940, Routledge, page 74:
glosses: a fan or admirer of Jane Austen; someone who studies the works of Jane Austen.
Synonyms: Austenian
Janeite
ferric carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of iron with carbon (Fe₃C).
Synonyms: iron carbide
cementite
Gossage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gossages
Etymology: Named after Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie Gossage, Commander-in-Chief RAF Balloon Command 1940-4.
Senses: qualifier: World War II; RAF; World War II; RAF
glosses: A barrage balloon.
Gossage
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gossages
Etymology: Named after Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie Gossage, Commander-in-Chief RAF Balloon Command 1940-4.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
euroize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euroizes
form: euroizing
form: euroized
form: euroized
Etymology: From euro + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, we examine factors leading some transition countries to euroize officially and bilaterally, and others to euroize unilaterally - that is, without prior sanction by the EMU.
ref: 2004, Feige and Dean, Dollarization and Euroization in Transition Countries: Currency Substitution, Asset Substitution, Network Externalities, and Irreversibility, chapter in Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs
glosses: To adopt the euro as official currency, or to link one's currency to the euro.
Derived terms: euroization
organ donation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organ donations
Senses: glosses: The act of donating one's organ to another person through an organ transplant.
Related terms: organ donor
blood donation
allothreonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allothreonines
Etymology: From allo- + threonine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two stereoisomers of threonine that are not normally found in nature
amphidinolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amphidinolides
Etymology: From amphidinol + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of macrolides, isolated from marine dinoflagellates of the genus Amphidinium, that show antitumor activity.
nongregariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nongregarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of not being gregarious.
arenocenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aromatic derivative of a ferrocene ion or radical
chichis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chichi
arylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aryl derivative of a methylene group
azinomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæzɪnoʊˈmaɪsɪn/
/ˈæzinoʊˈmaɪsɪn/
Forms: form: azinomycins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of antibiotic antitumour agents, isolated from a Streptomyces bacterium, that have an epoxide structure based on aziridine
aziridinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aziridiniums
Etymology: From aziridine + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation formed by protonation of an aziridine
aziridinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aziridinols
Etymology: From aziridine + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol derived from an aziridine
link up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: links up
form: linking up
form: linked up
form: linked up
Senses: glosses: To link or join together.
examples: text: The intention was for three Han armies – under Liu Pang, Han Hsin and P’eng Yueh – to link up at Ku-ling on the border with Ch’u.
ref: 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:
glosses: To become linked or joined together.
glosses: To meet with someone.
lay-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from lay off.
Senses: examples: text: Pogba zipped a pass to Cavani and his lay-off went to the ever-lurking Fernandes. Once more, his return ball to Cavani was instant, and the Uruguayan smacked home for his 11th goal this season.
ref: 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of layoff.
kingcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingcakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of king cake.
in use
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Currently being used.
examples: text: The man, ye should ken, was cast upon a rock in the sea, where it appears the Good People were in use to come and rest as they went through to Ireland.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: Used; accustomed.
in theory
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: That sounds fine in theory, but will it work in practice?
glosses: Theoretically.
Related terms: in fact
in practice
in principle
in reality
on paper
in style
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Disco went out of style in the 1980s, but is now in style again.
glosses: In fashion.
examples: text: She's so elegant, no matter what she does, she does it in style.
text: Let’s dance in style , let’s dance for a while / Heaven can wait, we’re only watching the skies
ref: 1984, “Forever Young”, in Forever Young, performed by Alphaville:
glosses: With flair.
in fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in fashion
form: most in fashion
Senses: examples: text: Disco went out of style in the 1980s, but is now in fashion again.
glosses: Fashionable, in style.
Synonyms: on trend
in existence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This magazine is really rare. Only 20 copies are believed to be in existence.
glosses: Existing, which exists.
Related terms: under the sun
everything under the sun
in brief
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Briefly; concisely; using a few words to summarize.
impassion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impassions
form: impassioning
form: impassioned
form: impassioned
Etymology: From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.
Senses: examples: text: Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.
ref: 1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States:
text: Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: make passionate, instill passion in
Derived terms: impassionable
Related terms: impassionate
in jail
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: jailed
incarcerated
behind bars
glosses: In a jail, as a prisoner.
Related terms: in prison
imprisoned
in danger
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: in a dangerous position or place; exposed to risk
in silence
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The cat crept down the stairs in silence.
glosses: Without making a noise, silently.
Billy Elliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Billy Elliots
Etymology: After the eponymous protagonist of Billy Elliot, a 2000 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film about a working-class boy who discovers a passion for ballet.
Senses: glosses: A young male dancer, typically a ballet dancer.
wikipedia: Billy Elliot
Billy Elliots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Billy Elliot
in truth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I swear in all truth that I never knew about her crimes.
text: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 40:
text: In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages -with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
text: In truth, I suspect it will take more than the first term of a Labour government to address the shortcomings of the railway system in the North.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, page 34:
glosses: Truthfully, to tell the truth, in fact.
in print
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Written down on paper, etc.
glosses: Published in a magazine, newspaper, etc.
topics: media
publishing
antonyms: out of print
qualifier: music industry
glosses: Of a book or film, available for purchase from the publisher.
early risers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early riser
besprinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besprinkles
form: besprinkling
form: besprinkled
form: besprinkled
Etymology: From Middle English bisprenklen, bisprenglen, bispringlen, equivalent to be- + sprinkle.
Senses: examples: text: At this crisis the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war had arisen, with dishevelled hair and torn garments, the timidity natural to women being overcome by the sense of their calamities, were emboldened to fling themselves into the midst of the flying weapons, and, rushing across, to part the incensed combatants and assuage their wrath: imploring their fathers on the one hand and their husbands on the other, as fathers-in-law and sons-in-law, not to besprinkle themselves with impious blood, nor to fix the stain of murder on their offspring, the one side on their grandchildren, the other on their children.
ref: 1904, John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Roman History, Books I-III:
text: We could still recognize the troughs that served for the manipulation of the bread, and the oven, the arch of which is intact, with the cavity that retained the ashes, the vase for water to besprinkle the crust and make it shiny, and, finally, the triple-flued pipe that carried off the smoke — an excellent system revealed by the Pompeian excavations and successfully imitated since then.
ref: 1871, Marc Monnier, The Wonders of Pompeii:
glosses: To sprinkle.
Derived terms: besprinkler
bewinged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bewing + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works:
text: As I edge up towards the vehicle in front, I can see it quite clearly - the red, bewinged nose cone of a Formula One car reflected in the rear end of the car I am following.
ref: 2004, Autocar, page 80:
text: Bewinged enchanted spirits— Safely guard these waters That flow hard.
ref: 2008, Jean Elizabeth Ward, Winter Meditations - Page 102:
text: Low and black and bewinged, it gave new meaning to her mental image of something that moved like a bat out of hell.
ref: 2011, Karen Robards, Walking After Midnight - Page 132:
text: There are shots of Wymondham Abbey, the rich green of the churchyard, and stained glass windows showing bewinged and halo—ed angels engaged in silent, motionless musical pursuit: lute, violin and horn; cymbal, trumpet, tambourine and triangle.
ref: 2012, Peter Mills, Media and Popular Music - Page 151:
glosses: Having, or equipped with wings
wabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wabbles
form: wabbling
form: wabbled
form: wabbled
Etymology: Compare German wabbeln (“to wabble”), and English whap. Compare quaver.
Senses: examples: text: Their planes wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure."
ref: 1911, Milo Hastings, In the Clutch of the War-God:
text: Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort.
ref: 1966, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wobble.
wabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wabble
wabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 1919, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
glosses: present participle and gerund of wabble
wabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wabblings
Senses: glosses: The motion of something that wabbles.
wabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wabble
waddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waddies
Senses: examples: text: Their weapons of defence are the spear and waddie; the former is about twelve feet long, and as thick as the little finger of a man; the tea-tree supplies them with this matchless weapon; they harden one end, which is very sharply pointed, by burning and filing it with a flint prepared for the purpose.
ref: 1829, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13,:
text: We found shells of Cymbium and Cytherea, an enormous waddie, which could have been wielded only by a powerful arm, nets and various instruments for fishing, in their deserted camp.
ref: 1846, Ludwig Leichhardt, Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waddy.
wagge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wagges
form: wagging
form: wagged
form: wagged
Senses: examples: text: I did call the Diuell by the name of Tom. I did stroake him on the backe, and then he would becke vnto me, and wagge his tayle as being therewith contented.'
ref: 1921, Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-cult in Western Europe:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wag.
Derived terms: wagge-wanton
waggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waggins
Senses: examples: text: "You know I had old Sam this morning, bringing in a little jag of wood for Armidy, and lengthened out the traces to fit the old waggin.
ref: 1896, Various, McClure's Magazine, March, 1896, Vol. VI., No. 4.:
text: This was soon done, and the peddler druv up front of old Jinnie and went to git her, so as to tie her behind his waggin.
ref: 1905, Charles Felton Pidgin, Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wagon.
waggins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waggin
wagonful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wagonfuls
form: wagonsful
Etymology: From wagon + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: So I reflected, having nothing better to do, when my wagonful of pilgrims had dropped out of sight in the fog--as a pebble drops into the lake--leaving me with the house to myself; and presently, as I sat at the window, I heard a white-throated sparrow singing outside.
ref: 1893, Bradford Torrey, The Foot-path Way:
text: We were obliged to wait at Camp MacDowell for Sergeant Stone to arrive with our wagonful of household goods, and then, after a mighty weeding out and repacking, we set forth once more, with a good team of mules and a good driver, to join the command.
ref: 1911, Martha Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona:
text: The station rests on nearly 300 piles, some driven in to a depth of 25 ft., and 3,000 wagonsful of spoil were used to fill the site to avoid the risk of flooding.
ref: 1960 September, M. J. Wilson, “Harlow Town station opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 540:
glosses: The amount that will fit in a wagon.
wagonfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wagonful
waight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waights
Senses: examples: text: Now, when you haue two thinges Miscible, whose degrees are truely knowen: Of necessitie, either they are of one Quantitie and waight, or of diuerse.
ref: 1570, John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara:
text: By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight,
 Till our Scale turnes the beame.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: This nobler resolution in you, Lords, Heartens me to disclose some thoughts that I— The matter is of waight and dangerous.
ref: 1882–1889, Various, Old English Plays, Vol. I:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of weight.
waile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wailes
form: wailing
form: wailed
form: wailed
Senses: examples: text: Among the rest by fortune overthrowne, I am not least, that most may waile her fate: My fame and brute, abroad the world is blowne, Who can forget a thing thus done so late?
ref: 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wail.
walkingstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkingsticks
Senses: examples: text: "We must see you soon again," said Lady Ellinor, kindly, as she followed us to the door. Mr. Trevanion walked on briskly and in silence, one hand in his bosom, the other swinging carelessly a thick walkingstick.
ref: 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons, Complete:
text: CHAPTER XIX A DIFFICULT POSITION And now Uncle John, finding himself left alone, took his walkingstick and started out to explore the valley.
ref: 1906, Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad:
text: He explained that this was a variety of insect known as a walkingstick.
ref: 2002 October 18, Sarah Sax, “The Birdman of the Academy”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of walking stick.
walkingsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkingstick
wannish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wannish
form: most wannish
Etymology: From Middle English wannysche, wannyssh; equivalent to wan + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Upon her crest she wore a wannish fire / Sprinkled with stars, like Ariadne's tiar: [...]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 6:
text: The moon turns the smoke into wannish clouds of white and yellow, which slowly rise, break, and disappear.
ref: 1890, Hezekiah Butterworth, The Log School-House on the Columbia:
text: Sheer slanting down the sky an opal light Pierces the snow-blur's veil of wannish gray, In iridescent sheen, tingeing the dazzling white With amethystine, gold or beryl ray.
ref: 1894, Leigh Gordon Giltner, The Path of Dreams:
glosses: Quite wan or pale.
wante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wantes
Senses: examples: text: But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke.
ref: 1733, Various, Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of want.
wante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wantes
form: wanteth
form: wanting
form: wanted
form: wanted
Senses: examples: text: I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass.
ref: 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete:
text: We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers.
ref: 1890, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of want.
wardenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardenships
Etymology: From Middle English wardenship. Equivalent to warden + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He was made one of the guardians of the young king James IV. but soon lost influence, being superseded by the Homes and Hepburns, and the wardenship of the marches was given to Alexander Home.
ref: 1771, Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1:
text: This, with other applications, led to his being presented with the wardenship of Manchester College, vacant by the removal of Dr William Chaderton to the see of Chester.
ref: 1872, John Roby, Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2):
text: The King granted a small part, namely, one virgate to "Herbert the Forester," before 1086, and this Herbert is generally supposed to have been the ancestor of those Lyndhursts who for so long held the wardenship of the Forest.
ref: 1914, Edward Hutton, England of My Heart--Spring:
glosses: The state of being a warden.
wardenships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wardenship
waistcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waistcloths
Etymology: From waist + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Two rows of slate beds, three of which only were occupied; two men and a boy, nude save a waistcloth; over their heads--sluggishly swayed by the air the new-comer had carelessly admitted--their clothes were hung like shapeless shadows.
ref: 1791, Alexandre (fils) Dumas, The Son of Clemenceau:
text: He was dressed in all the dignity of a woollen shirt, with a piece of fine "tapa" for a waistcloth, feet and legs bare.
ref: 1897, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
text: Fresh leaves had been stripped from a bush and a tiny fragment or two indicated that the Ojibway had torn a piece from his deerskin waistcloth to fasten over the leaves.
ref: 1916, Joseph Altsheler, The Hunters of the Hills:
glosses: A cloth or garment worn around the waist.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
waistcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waistcloth
wareroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warerooms
Etymology: From ware + room.
Senses: examples: text: But the curse of a most fluent pen, and of a numerous auditory, to whom his words were oracles, was upon him; and seventy volumes, more or less, which Cotta issued from his wareroom, are for the library of the Germans now, and for the selection of judicious editors hereafter.
ref: 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:
text: On the ground floor of a dim house in a dim street, which by the contrivance of its occupants had been converted from its original role of dark and sinister dining-room to wareroom for a dozen or more perambulators on high, rubber-tired wheels, Alphonse Michelson and Gertie Dobriner stood in conference with a dark-wrappered figure, her blue-checked apron wound muff fashion about her hands.
ref: 1916, Fannie Hurst, Every Soul Hath Its Song:
text: He made friends with a young apprentice who took him sometimes to a piano wareroom in the city, where he was allowed to play his little tunes on a fine piano.
ref: 1922, Harriette Brower, The World's Great Men of Music:
glosses: A room used for storing or displaying goods or wares.
warerooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wareroom
pibal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pibals
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: a pilot balloon
pibals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pibal
warless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From war + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Alas! in this he did not prove himself a true prophet, although it must be conceded that many wars have been averted or shortened by means of the telegraph, and there are some who hope that a warless age is even now being conceived in the womb of time.
ref: 1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals:
text: It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary disputes.
ref: 1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming?:
text: Well; for nine and twenty years he held that vast empire warless; even though it included within its boundaries many restless and savage tribes.
ref: 1921, Kenneth Morris, The Crest-Wave of Evolution:
glosses: Without war, devoid of war.
frontogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontogeneses
Etymology: From front + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: The formation or strengthening of an atmospheric weather front or of an oceanic front.
frontogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontogenesis
shelf cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf clouds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low, horizontal cloud typically forming at the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow. An arcus type cloud often found along squall lines.
shelf clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelf cloud
unrope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unropes
form: unroping
form: unroped
form: unroped
Etymology: From un- + rope.
Senses: examples: text: "As for you, little maiden, I am sorry I cannot buy you all. Unrope my boy, Pug. And look—treat these others well while they are in your hands or it'll be the worse for you."
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
glosses: To remove the rope or ropes from.
corder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corders
Etymology: From cord + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who prepares wood as cordwood.
unropes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrope
unroping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrope
unroped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + roped.
Senses: glosses: not attached to a rope
unroped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unrope + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrope
pitoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piton
pitoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piton
ropemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropemates
Etymology: From rope + mate.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: someone to whom one is connected by a rope
ropemates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ropemate
étriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of étrier
anticyclogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticyclogeneses
Etymology: From anti- + cyclogenesis.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: the development or strengthening of anticyclonic circulation in the atmosphere.
anticyclogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticyclogenesis
cyclolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclolyses
Etymology: From cyclo- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The weakening or termination of a cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere
Related terms: cyclolytic
cyclolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclolysis
aggressin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggressins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any substance, produced in the body by a pathogenic bacterium, that enhances the virulence of the bacteria.
Derived terms: antiaggressin
anticyclolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticyclolyses
Etymology: From anti- + cyclo- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The weakening or termination of anticyclonic circulation in the atmosphere.
Related terms: cyclolysis
anticyclolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticyclolysis
impertinents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impertinent
boulderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boulderers
Etymology: From boulder + -er.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A climber who takes part in bouldering.
frontolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontolyses
Etymology: From front + -o- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The degeneration or dissipation of an atmospheric weather front.
Related terms: frontolyze
frontolyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontolysis
boulderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boulderer
non partants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non partant
multi-addictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multi-addiction
ballonné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballonnés
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A step where the leg is extended (front, side, or back) at 45 degrees; the knee is then bent and the foot brought to a sur le cou-de-pied position.
bagua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 八卦 (bāguà).
Senses: glosses: The eight trigrams used in Daoist cosmology.
Coordinate terms: english: heaven
translation: heaven
alt: 乾 / 乾 (qián)
word: ☰
english: lake
translation: lake
alt: 兌 / 兑 (duì)
word: ☱
english: flame
translation: flame
alt: 離 / 离 (lí)
word: ☲
english: thunder
translation: thunder
alt: 震 (zhèn)
word: ☳
english: wind
translation: wind
alt: 巽 (xùn)
word: ☴
english: water
translation: water
alt: 坎 (kǎn)
word: ☵
english: mountain
translation: mountain
alt: 艮 (gèn)
word: ☶
english: earth
translation: earth
alt: 坤 (kūn)
word: ☷
vitrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitron
authentifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of authentify
Hellenophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hellenophiles
Etymology: From Helleno- + -phile, from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who has a love of Greece or Greek culture, either Ancient or Modern.
Synonyms: word: Graeculus
word: philhellene