cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hatching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: hatchings
Senses: topics: art
arts
drafting
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: drawing
glosses: A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
examples: text: We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
glosses: Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
Derived terms: cross-hatching
posthatching
prehatching
hatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hatch
clasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clasp
clasping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claspings
Senses: examples: text: Nothing had been said during our drive, but the high thin breathing of our new companion, and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands spoke of the nervous tension within him.
ref: 1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [13], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 82, column 2:
glosses: The act by which something is clasped.
hatched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hatch
heaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːvd/
rhymes: -iːvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heave
Synonyms: hove
Derived terms: unheaved
pained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: paned
Forms: form: more pained
form: most pained
Senses: synonyms: word: affronted
word: distraught
word: sore
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: In pain, especially in an emotional sense.
Derived terms: painedly
unpained
pained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: paned
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pain
infatuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From infatuate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of infatuate
perturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perturb
perturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perturbed
form: most perturbed
Senses: glosses: Disturbed; flustered.
examples: text: The equation x² − 3.0001x + 2 = 0 is a perturbed version of x² − 3x + 2 = 0.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Slightly modified.
Derived terms: imperturbed
nonperturbed
perturbedly
perturbedness
unperturbed
dirty dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dirty dances
form: dirty dancing
form: dirty danced
form: dirty danced
Senses: glosses: To engage in a sexually provocative dance; to striptease.
examples: text: The young women gave him the excitement of his life when they began to dirty dance with him on the dance floor.
glosses: To engage in an up-close-and-personal style of dancing, often with the goal of sexually enticing one's partner.
overwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/
homophone: overraught
Etymology: Past participle of overwork; see wrought.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overwork
overwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ.vəˈɹɔːt/
homophone: overraught
Forms: form: more overwrought
form: most overwrought
Etymology: Past participle of overwork; see wrought.
Senses: glosses: Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
glosses: Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
Synonyms: sense: emotional
word: distraught
sense: emotional
word: overwhelmed
sense: emotional
word: distressed
sense: emotional
word: agitated
sense: emotional
word: strung
sense: emotional
word: wrought-up
sense: elaborate
word: ornate
sense: elaborate
word: overdecorated
Derived terms: overwroughtness
unprincipled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpɹɪnsɪpəld/
Forms: form: more unprincipled
form: most unprincipled
Etymology: From un- + principled.
Senses: examples: text: That’s what Joe Biden did. His pardon of his son Hunter was understandable from a paternal perspective (what father wants to see his son in prison?), but it was inexcusably unprincipled.
ref: 2025 January 23, David French, “Donald Trump Is Running Riot”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2025:
text: Early in his career, Trump apprenticed himself to Roy Cohn, an unprincipled lawyer who taught the young Trump how to gain wealth and influence through ruthless bullying, profane braggadocio, opportunistic bigotry, baseless lawsuits, lying, and more lying.
Yet as Trump’s “fixer” with politicians, judges and mob bosses, Cohn remained utterly loyal to Trump and his father, Fred.
ref: 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: Lacking moral values.
Synonyms: licentious
immoral
Related terms: principled
principle
solitaire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.ɪˌtɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.ləˌtɚ/
Forms: form: more solitaire
form: most solitaire
Etymology: Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary.
Senses: glosses: Living or being alone; solitary.
Related terms: solitary
utensils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utensil
oarlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oarlocks
Etymology: From oar + lock.
Senses: examples: text: But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip.
ref: 1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:
text: "No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad."
 Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller. Tranny shows Hiro how to snap zodiac's oars into the oarlocks.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 361:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: rowlock
glosses: A usually U-shaped device attached to the gunwale of a rowboat to hold the oars in place while rowing.
oarlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oarlock
interject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.təˈdʒɛkt/
ipa: /ɪn.tɚˈd͡ʒɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: interjects
form: interjecting
form: interjected
form: interjected
Etymology: From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
Senses: glosses: To insert something between other things.
examples: text: He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume I, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC, pages 474-475:
text: ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’
‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.
ref: 1848, Anne Brontë, “Chapter 24”, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
text: As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
ref: 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West”, in Sam Moskowitz, editor, Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, published 1979:
text: Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”
ref: 21 August 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: To say as an interruption or aside.
glosses: To interpose oneself; to intervene.
Synonyms: sense: to insert between other things
word: insert
sense: to interpose oneself
word: interpose
sense: to interpose oneself
word: intervene
Derived terms: interjective
interjectory
Related terms: interjectable
interjection
interjector
symbolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symbolises
form: symbolising
form: symbolised
form: symbolised
Senses: examples: text: In summer 2020, the trains were unveiled at Wimbledon depot, and given the name Arterio. The operator said this symbolised its role as an artery for connecting the capital and beyond.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Wait goes on for South Western Railway Arterios to start work”, in RAIL, number 948, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of symbolize.
symbolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmbəlaɪz/
Forms: form: symbolizes
form: symbolizing
form: symbolized
form: symbolized
form: symbolise
Etymology: From Middle French symboliser.
Senses: examples: text: The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: To be symbolic of; to represent.
glosses: To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
examples: text: The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
examples: text: The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
ref: 1824, George Stanley Faber, The Difficulties of Infidelity:
glosses: To hold the same faith; to agree.
Synonyms: harmonize
represent
Derived terms: nonsymbolizing
discernible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɝnɪbl̩/
ipa: /dɪˈsɜːnɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more discernible
form: most discernible
form: discernable
Etymology: From Middle French discernable; spelling changed from -a- to -i- in the 17th century to conform to Latin discernibilis. By surface analysis, discern + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: There is a discernible performance difference between a Porsche and a Civic.
text: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
ref: 1821, John Duncan, Duncan's Travels:
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:
text: In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.”
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, “Introduction”, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36:
glosses: Possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.
Synonyms: discoverable
Derived terms: discernibility
discernibleness
discernibly
indiscernible
Related terms: discernment
incorruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorruptible
form: most incorruptible
form: incorruptable
form: uncorruptible
form: uncorruptable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- + corruptible.
Senses: synonyms: unbribable
antonyms: corruptible
glosses: Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
examples: text: Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible
ref: a. 1737, William Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolic Fathers:
glosses: Not subject to corruption or decay.
Derived terms: incorruptibleness
incorruptibly
incorruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incorruptibles
form: incorruptable
form: uncorruptible
form: uncorruptable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- + corruptible.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
glosses: One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance.
Derived terms: sea-green incorruptible
corruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corruptible
form: most corruptible
Etymology: From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis.
Senses: examples: text: They systematically corrupt a very corruptible race, (for some time a growing nuisance amongst you)
ref: 1791, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Mr. Burke: To a Member of the National Assembly; in Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs, Paris, Printed, Dublin, reprinted by William Porter, page 31:
antonyms: incorruptible
unbribable
glosses: bribable, that can be bought
raw_tags: of a person
examples: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Peter 1:18.
that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and golde,
antonyms: incorruptible
glosses: perishable, subject to decay
Synonyms: sense: possible to corrupt
word: corruptable
Derived terms: corruptibleness
corruptibly
corruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corruptibles
Etymology: From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis.
Senses: examples: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:53.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortalitie.
glosses: That which may decay and perish; the human body.
egocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌiːɡəʉˈsentɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more egocentric
form: most egocentric
form: egocentrical
Etymology: From ego- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed.
glosses: Egotistical.
glosses: Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.
Synonyms: sense: self-centered
word: self-minded
Derived terms: egocentrically
egocentricity
egocentric predicament
nonegocentric
egocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːɡəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌiɡoʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌiːɡəʉˈsentɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: egocentrics
form: egocentrical
Etymology: From ego- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: A person who is egocentric.
Synonyms: egocentrist
Related terms: egocentrism
vagrancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡɹənsɪ/
Forms: form: vagrancies
Etymology: From vagrant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: the state of being a vagrant
geosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːəʊˌsfɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːəˌsfɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: geospheres
Etymology: From geo- + -sphere.
Senses: glosses: The solid body of the Earth.
Derived terms: geospheric
geospherical
Related terms: atmosphere
biosphere
exosphere
hemisphere
hydrosphere
lithosphere
cubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌbz/
rhymes: -ʌbz
Senses: glosses: plural of cub
cubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌbz/
rhymes: -ʌbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cub
unintelligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnənˈtɛləd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: more unintelligent
form: most unintelligent
Etymology: From un- + intelligent.
Senses: examples: text: "That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 138:
synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: Not intelligent.
Derived terms: unintelligently
Related terms: unintelligence
floundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flounder
floundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flounderings
Senses: examples: text: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
ref: 2024 March 20, Christian Wolmar, “NAO report highlights lack of clarity and purpose”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 34:
glosses: The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle.
insufficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insufficiently
form: most insufficiently
Etymology: From insufficient + -ly or in- + sufficiently.
Senses: examples: text: The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently.
text: Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.
ref: 2024 July 25, Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja, “How a U.S. Antidoping Law Fueled Global Tensions”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2024:
glosses: Not sufficiently.
Derived terms: haploinsufficiently
surprisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
Forms: form: more surprisingly
form: most surprisingly
Etymology: From surprising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually
text: The house was surprisingly small for such a numerous family.
text: Not surprisingly, the electrician didn't come at the time he had said.
text: Chema'd, surprisingly, paid for everything.
text: François Hollande has moved a step closer to becoming the first Socialist president of France in a generation by beating the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, in the first round of elections. But the surprisingly high vote for the extreme-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, boosted the overall figures for the right and meant that the final runoff vote on 6 May remains on a knife edge.
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: believe it or not[sentence adverb]] sense>
antonyms: unsurprisingly
;
predictably
;
as usual[as usual#Adverb|its synonyms]]>
glosses: In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.
Luxembourgian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Luxembourgians
Etymology: From Luxembourg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Luxembourg
Luxembourgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Luxembourg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Luxembourg
unsatisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsatisfied
form: most unsatisfied
Etymology: From un- + satisfied.
Senses: glosses: Not satisfied, especially with the quantity of something; dissatisfied; uncontented.
examples: text: I made no answer, for I could not - especially before Leo - tell her that since I had seen her face I knew that it would always be before my eyes, and that I had no wish to prolong an existence which must always be haunted and tortured by her memory, and by the last bitterness of unsatisfied love.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Not gratified; not having been fulfilled or met.
rated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more rated
form: most rated
Senses: examples: text: He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: [H]e merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Whitsuntide”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: Scolded, rebuked.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
glosses: Having a particular rating or rate
raw_tags: in combinations
Hyponyms: G-rated
highest-rated
human-rated
overrated
R-rated
top-rated
X-rated
zero-rated
rated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rate
netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: nettings
Etymology: From net + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
ref: 1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:
text: The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
ref: January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3)
glosses: Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
Synonyms: mesh
Derived terms: hammock netting
mosquito netting
netting-needle
set-netting
set netting
side netting
side-netting
wire netting
netting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan.
Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.
Senses: examples: text: Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.
ref: 1557, Court Leet Records:
glosses: Urine.
netting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
ipa: /ˈnɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Etymology: From net + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of net
pacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pace
pacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: pacings
Senses: examples: text: We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings, etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
Derived terms: tachypacing
brilliantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brilliantly
form: most brilliantly
Etymology: From brilliant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a brilliant manner; with brilliance.
bosoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosom
peaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peach (also a term of endearment)
peaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peach
Fates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Etymology: Plural of fate.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, no!" said he, with a most imperturbable air, "I always make allowance for feminine weakness; I do not expect your mind to follow mine!"
"Now, the Fates forbid that it should!" thought Henrietta.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: 1944, Ralph Blane, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Through the years we all will be together / If the Fates allow
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis; supernatural beings who controlled the destiny of men and of the gods.
Synonyms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Moirae
topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: Parcae
english: Slavic mythology
translation: Slavic mythology
word: Sudice
Coordinate terms: Norn
Related terms: Fate
Graces
attractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attraction
whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whisper
whispers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whisper
traders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trader
distinctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of distinction
scored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /skɔɹd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of score
reversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reverse
reversed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Turned or changed to the contrary; inside out.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resupinate.
Derived terms: pall reversed
reversed pall
sides reversed is
affects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affect
affects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affect
activated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of activate
whirled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːld/
note: without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ʍɜːld/
note: h
enpr: wûrld
ipa: /(h)wɝld/
homophone: whorled (UK)
homophone: world (wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Forms: form: whirleds
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of world.
whirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːld/
note: without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ʍɜːld/
note: h
enpr: wûrld
ipa: /(h)wɝld/
homophone: whorled (UK)
homophone: world (wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whirl
spilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spilt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spill
shivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shiver
pricked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: examples: text: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Punctured by small holes.
examples: text: Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.
glosses: Listening carefully.
raw_tags: of ears
Synonyms: pierced
punctured
Derived terms: pin-pricked
Related terms: prick up one's ears
pricked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prick
laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laugh
laughs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of laugh
inexcusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inexcusable
form: most inexcusable
Etymology: From Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis.
Senses: examples: text: It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.
ref: 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE under fire over "unacceptable" cancellations”, in RAIL, number 970, page 6:
synonyms: unexcusable
antonyms: excusable
glosses: not excusable
Derived terms: inexcusableness
inexcusably
excusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excusable
form: most excusable
Etymology: From Old French escusable, from Latin excusabilis.
Senses: synonyms: forgivable
pardonable
venial
glosses: Possible to excuse; worthy of being excused.
topics: law
glosses: Describing an illegal act that was committed involuntarily, for example under false information or because of a faulty device. Distinguished from justifiable, describing an illegal act that was intentional but justified for other reasons.
Derived terms: excusableness
excusably
nonexcusable
unexcusable
catering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ]
Forms: form: caterings
Senses: glosses: The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
glosses: The business of providing such services for special occasions.
examples: text: Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.
ref: 1864, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos:
glosses: The act of one who caters (to something).
Derived terms: catering trolley
self-catering
catering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ]
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cater
grips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of grip
grips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grip
contrasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From contrast + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contrast
contrasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contrasted
form: most contrasted
Etymology: From contrast + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Set in contrast (of two or more things).
examples: text: Brittany was one of France's most heavily contrasted regions.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272:
glosses: Displaying or marked by contrast; contrasty.
Derived terms: autocontrasted
contrastedly
uncontrasted
differs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of differ
dyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: died
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dye
examples: text: Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes.
ref: 1651, William Bradford, The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were (by the blessing of God) the first beginners, and (in a sort) the foundation, of all the plantations, and Colonies, in New England (And their families).:
text: How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together.
ref: 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of died.
dyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: died
Forms: form: more dyed
form: most dyed
Senses: examples: text: Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 6:
text: Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:15:
glosses: Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
Derived terms: deep-dyed
double-dyed
dyed-in-the-wool
dyed in the wool
nondyed
undyed
wool-dyed
hates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of hate
hates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hates.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hate
persecuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝsəˌkjutɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of persecute
giants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant
waxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwækst/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wax
waxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwækst/
Forms: form: more waxed
form: most waxed
Senses: glosses: Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
Derived terms: unwaxed
waxed cloth
waxed cotton
waxed end
waxed jacket
waxed leather
waxed paper
quartered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarter
Related terms: halved
thirded
fifthed
sixthed
seventhed
eighthed
ninthed
tenthed
assumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assume
darting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more darting
form: most darting
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: dartlike
text: Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.
ref: 1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221:
text: Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.
ref: 1989, James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, page 429:
text: Stella was very quick, very darting.
ref: 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Haldanes:
glosses: Characterized by sudden, quick movements.
Derived terms: dartingly
dartingness
darting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dart
darting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dartings
Senses: examples: text: During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
ref: 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
glosses: A motion or gesture that darts.
signified
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signifieds
Senses: examples: text: Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
ref: 2012, Esti Sheinberg, Music Semiotics, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semiotics
coordinate_terms: signifier
referent
glosses: The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.
signified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of signify
strengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋkθənɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strengthen
strengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋkθənɪŋ
Forms: form: strengthenings
Senses: examples: text: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken.
ref: 1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
glosses: The process by which something is strengthened.
spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphere
spheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sphere
subsided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subside
Synonyms: worn off
limping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of limp
limping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmpɪŋ/
Forms: form: limpings
Senses: glosses: The motion of one who limps.
Derived terms: limpingly
limpingness
unlimping
traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Senses: glosses: plural of trap
traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Senses: glosses: A trap set (drum kit).
glosses: Archaic form of trappings (“clothing, equipment; horse coverings”).
traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trap
uplifted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uplift
uplifted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uplifted
form: most uplifted
Senses: examples: text: To the northeast and northwest of the uplifted area there was a belt of depression, mainly in land areas.
ref: 1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska Earthquake, The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 - Volume 5, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Some of the female figurines depicted women with uplifted arms while others portrayed pregnant females with uplifted arms in the process of giving birth.
ref: 2005, Karen Tate, Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations, page 34:
glosses: Lifted upwards, raised.
glosses: Joyous, hopeful or inspired.
ravaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ravage
Derived terms: war-ravaged
reformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reform
reformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reformed
form: most reformed
Senses: examples: text: The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Martin Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
examples: a reformed gambler or drunkard
glosses: Amended in character and life.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.
raw_tags: of an officer
thwarted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thwart
thwarted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thwarted
form: most thwarted
Senses: examples: text: He knows I should only laugh at his desertion; and he would not like to be the one who was left, which he knows I should do for the first thwarted whim.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 205:
text: There is no blockage in their instinctive life, and when the two men fight the physical closeness is not a substitute for a thwarted sexual life.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 192:
glosses: Frustrated, obstructed or prevented.
selves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self
glosses: plural of selfe
uneducated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more uneducated
form: most uneducated
Etymology: From un- + educated.
Senses: examples: text: Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.
ref: 2016 January 27, Tal Kopan, “Ben Carson: Uneducated voters a ‘threat’”, in CNN:
glosses: Not educated.
Derived terms: uneducated guess
Related terms: educated
noneducated
uneducated
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɛdjʊkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒʊkeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: uneducateds
Etymology: From un- + educated.
Senses: examples: text: […] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”
ref: 2011 February 10, Littleblackfish, “Cab confessionals: Iranians respond to Egypt”, in Index on Censorship:
text: If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).
ref: 2018 March 24, Huillam, Warframe Forums:
text: So what happened? It’s fun to point the finger. Some say it was the poors, or the uneducateds, or even the third-party voters. No matter the scenario, it’s always fun to blame someone else and throw up your hands (while a finger on each is pointed of course).
ref: 2018 May 28, Joel Edelman, “Primary election 2018 coverage for the deaf”, in Today's featured shit:
glosses: Someone who lacks education.
manufactures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manufacture
manufactures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manufacture
residing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reside
signifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and then is heard no more: it is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: present participle and gerund of signify