cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbis/
ipa: /əʊˈbiːs/
ipa: /əˈbiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: more obese
form: obeser
form: most obese
form: obesest
Etymology: From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).
Senses: examples: text: The president, being 74, a man and someone categorised as obese, is in a higher-risk category for Covid-19.
ref: 2020 October 3, Peter Bowes, “Trump spends first night in hospital after Covid-19 diagnosis”, in BBC:
text: But it can be recalled that Locsin earlier called out DepEd for seemingly being “unaffected” by the actions of a teacher who body-shamed her by describing her ^([sic]) “an obese person” in a Physical Education (PE) educational material after the agency issued an apology.
ref: 2020, Christia Marie Ramos, “Teacher behind exam material body-shaming Angel Locsin undergoing admin probe — DepEd”, in Philippine Daily Inquirer:
glosses: Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their conventionally ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².
Synonyms: word: big-boned
word: bulbous
word: corpulent
word: curvy
word: Daniel Lambertish
word: eurysome
word: famine resistant
word: gravitationally challenged
word: horizontally challenged
word: obese
word: rotund
word: round
word: spherical
word: big as a house
word: bloated
word: blubbery
word: fat as a cow
word: fat as a pig
word: gross
word: lardy
word: poddy
word: porcine
word: porky
word: tubby
Hypernyms: word: fat
word: heavyset
word: overweight
Hyponyms: word: morbidly obese
word: superobese
Coordinate terms: word: chubby
word: husky
word: juicy
word: stocky
word: stout
word: thickset
word: thick
word: unskinny
word: voluptuous
Derived terms: antiobese
clinically obese
hyperobese
morbidly obese
nonobese
obeast
obeseism
obesely
obeseness
obesify
obesity
obesogenic
obesophobia
overobese
postobese
preobese
superobese
unobese
Related terms: word: fat
word: physique
word: fat person
word: paunch
obese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbis/
ipa: /əʊˈbiːs/
ipa: /əˈbiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: obeses
Etymology: From Latin obēsus, derived from obedō (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + edō (“I eat”). Displaced native Old English oferfǣtt (literally “overfat”).
Senses: examples: text: Despite a large scattering of HR decay rate, even present in healthy subjects, a ₂ and ΔHR were significantly lower in obeses and COPDs.
ref: 2009, Abdoulaye Ba, Stephane Delliaux, Fabienne Bregeon, Samuel Levy, Yves Jammes, “Post-exercise heart rate recovery in healthy, obeses, and COPD subjects: relationships with blood lactic acid and PaO2 levels”, in Clinical Research in Cardiology, volume 98, number 1, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 52–58:
text: Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
ref: 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ:
glosses: A person who is obese.
observatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɜːvət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /əbˈzɝvətɔɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /əbzəˈveʈ(ɵ)ri/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔbzə(r)ˌveʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: observatories
Etymology: Borrowed from French observatoire.
Senses: glosses: A place where stars, planets and other celestial bodies are observed, usually through a telescope; also place for observing meteorological or other natural phenomena.
glosses: A lookout (vantage point with a view of the surrounding area)
Synonyms: english: archaic or non-native speakers’ English
translation: archaic or non-native speakers’ English
word: observatorium
bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”)..
Senses: glosses: The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
examples: text: Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.
ref: c. 1921, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11:
text: Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
Derived terms: all bark and no bite
all bark but no bite
all bark no bite
bark collar
barkery
Barkese
barkitecture
barkless
bark mitzvah
barkometer
barksome
barky
midbark
one's bark is worse than one's bite
bark
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”)..
Senses: synonyms: woof
glosses: The sound of a dog barking.
bark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barking
form: barked
form: barked
form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵós (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵ- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).
Senses: examples: text: Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
glosses: To strip the bark from; to peel.
examples: text: to bark one’s heel
text: Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.
ref: 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
glosses: To girdle.
examples: text: to bark the roof of a hut
glosses: To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
Derived terms: barking iron
ringbark
bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barque
form: barke
Etymology: From Middle English barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjrb-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1 (“transport ship”). Doublet of barge, barque and baris.
Senses: glosses: A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
examples: text: It is the star to every wandering bark
ref: c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:
text: We know not where we go, or what sweet dream
May pilot us through caverns strange and fair
Of far and pathless passion, while the stream
Of life our bark doth on its whirlpools bear,
Spreading swift wings as sails to the dim air; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 272:
text: Whether my bark went down at sea, / Whether she met with gales, […]
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book I.—Life] Whether my bark went down at sea”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
examples: text: Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 114:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
bark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːk/
ipa: /bɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
homophone: barque
Forms: form: barks
form: barke
Senses: glosses: An Irish person.
barking mad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːkɪŋ mæd/
enpr: bärkĭng măd
Etymology: From barking + mad.
Senses: synonyms: word: three stops short of Dagenham
word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Completely insane.
fingernail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌneɪl/
Forms: form: fingernails
form: finger nail
form: finger-nail
Etymology: From Middle English finger neil(e); equivalent to finger + nail. Compare Middle English nayl of fynger (“fingernail”) and Old English handnæġl (“fingernail”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fingernail (“fingernail”), West Frisian fingerneil (“fingernail”), Dutch vingernagel (“fingernail”), German Fingernagel (“fingernail”), Danish fingernegl (“fingernail”), Swedish fingernagel (“fingernail”), Norwegian fingernegl (“fingernail”), Icelandic fingurnögl (“fingernail”).
Senses: glosses: The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.
Synonyms: word: handnail
Meronyms: cuticle
quick
Derived terms: fingernail clam
fingernailed
fingernailful
fingernaillike
fingernail moon
fingernaily
little fingernail
ring fingernail
Related terms: nail
nail polish
nail varnish
thumbnail
toenail
vacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
enpr: vā-kā′shən
enpr: və-
ipa: /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʃn
Forms: form: vacations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Freedom from some business or activity.
examples: text: The first exploited his, sundrie waies, and excelleth in military exploits, and utilitie of his publike vacations.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
glosses: A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
glosses: A stretch of leisure time away from work or duty and devoted to rest or pleasure.
examples: text: Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.
glosses: An extended period of time away from work or school.
examples: text: The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.
glosses: The act of vacating something; moving out.
topics: law
glosses: The act of making legally void.
Synonyms: sense: freedom from some activity
word: holiday
sense: free time given over to a specific purpose
word: annulment
sense: free time given over to a specific purpose
word: revocation
sense: a stretch of leisure time away from work
word: holiday
sense: act of vacating something
word: departure
sense: act of vacating something
word: moveout
word: annual leave
word: break
word: day off
word: getaway
word: leave
word: leave of absence
word: pause
word: recess
word: time away
word: time off
word: vac
word: vacation
word: vaca
word: vacay
Hyponyms: word: long weekend
word: minibreak
word: staycation
word: bank holiday
word: busman's holiday
word: national holiday
word: privilege day
word: public holiday
Derived terms: adventurecation
baecation
come on vacation, leave on probation
coolcation
daycation
gaycation
girlcation
grippy socks vacation
grippy sock vacation
haycation
homecation
ladycation
long vacation
mancation
microvacation
minivacation
naycation
nearcation
nonvacation
postvacation
prevacation
racecation
recation
sexcation
sleepcation
staycation
summer vacation
vacation day
vacationer
vacationgoer
vacation home
vacationist
Vacationland
vacationland
vacationless
vacationship
vacation time
vaca
vacay
workcation
Related terms: word: celebration
vacation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
enpr: vā-kā′shən
enpr: və-
ipa: /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /vəˈkeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʃn
Forms: form: vacations
form: vacationing
form: vacationed
form: vacationed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.
glosses: To spend or take a vacation.
Synonyms: word: go on holiday
word: go on vacation
word: holiday
Related terms: vacate
marine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹiːn/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /mɛˈrajn/
ipa: /ˈmæɹɪn/
ipa: /məˈɹaɪn/
Forms: form: more marine
form: most marine
Etymology: Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin.
Senses: examples: text: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field. Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found evidence of them on their marine plastic, too.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.
glosses: Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.
glosses: Used or adapted for use at sea.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)
glosses: Belonging to or situated at the seaside; maritime.
Hypernyms: aquatic
Hyponyms: coastal
littoral
maritime
pelagic
oceanic
seafloor
benthic
demersal
Derived terms: aeromarine
cismarine
fluviomarine
glaciomarine
gyrene
INMARSAT
intermarine
Jersey Marine
marine acid
marine acid air
marine aerodrome
marine art
marine artist
marine biologist
marine biology
marine chronometer
marine climate
marine corps
marine engine
marine engineer
marine glue
marine ich
marine iguana
marine infantry
marine interest
marine league
marine leg
marine mammal
marine metal
marine mucilage
marine otter
marine rainbow
marinescape
marine science
marine snow
marine soap
marine stinger
marine store
marine toad
marine toilet
marine trumpet
marinite
marinization
marinize
marinone
nonmarine
Scotch marine boiler
semimarine
submarine
supermarine
transmarine
trumpet marine
ultramarine
unmarine
zoomaric
marine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹiːn/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /mɛˈrajn/
ipa: /ˈmæɹɪn/
ipa: /məˈɹaɪn/
Forms: form: marines
Etymology: Recorded since c.1420 as Middle English marin, borrowed from Middle French marin, from Old French, from Latin marinus (“of the sea”), itself from mare (“sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“body of water, lake”) (cognate with Old English mere (“sea, lake, pool, pond”), Dutch meer, German Meer, all from Proto-Germanic *mari). The modern pronunciation is presumably due to the influence of modern French marine, feminine singular of marin.
Senses: examples: text: He was a marine in World War II.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship.
examples: text: He fought with the Marines in World War II.
glosses: A marine corps.
glosses: A painting representing some marine subject.
synonyms: word: navy#English:_any fleet of maritime vessels
glosses: Any fleet of ships (commercial, military, or both).
Synonyms: devil dog
jarhead
leatherneck
Derived terms: word: dead marine
word: horse marine
word: merchant marine
word: Royal Marine
word: Royal Marines
word: space marine
word: tell it to the marines
colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭlʹərz
ipa: /ˈkʌl.əz/
enpr: kŭlʹərz
ipa: /ˈkʌl.ɚz/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of color
colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭlʹərz
ipa: /ˈkʌl.əz/
enpr: kŭlʹərz
ipa: /ˈkʌl.ɚz/
rhymes: -ʌlə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of color
colored
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹkŭlərd
ipa: /ˈkʌləɹd/
rhymes: -ʌləɹd
Forms: form: coloreds
form: coloured
form: Colored
form: Coloured
Etymology: From color + -ed.
Senses: qualifier: laundry
glosses: A colored article of clothing.
synonyms: Eurafrican
glosses: A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
examples: text: When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
ref: 2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:
glosses: A colored (nonwhite) person.
colored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹkŭlərd
ipa: /ˈkʌləɹd/
rhymes: -ʌləɹd
Forms: form: coloured
form: Colored
form: Coloured
Etymology: From color + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of color
colorful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌl.ə.fl̩/
ipa: /ˈkʌl.ɚ.fl̩/
Forms: form: more colorful
form: most colorful
form: colourful
Etymology: From color + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
ref: 1895, The Annual of the British School at Athens:
text: [Sen. John Curtis] gives colorful socks to other lawmakers on their birthdays.
ref: 2025 January 28, Cameron Joseph, “Meet Mitt Romney’s replacement – who could make or break the Trump agenda”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: Possessing prominent and varied colors.
examples: text: One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
ref: 1895, H. Walter Staner, Henry Sturmey, The Autocar:
glosses: Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
examples: text: Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
ref: 2002 July 14, “Did Hussain go too far?”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2019:
glosses: Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).
Synonyms: sense: possessing prominent and varied colors
word: motley
word: multicolored
word: polychromatic
Derived terms: colorfully
colorfulness
colourful bluetail
noncolorful
uncolorful
last year
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Related terms: next year
this year
squeeze in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squeezes in
form: squeezing in
form: squeezed in
form: squeezed in
Senses: examples: text: My appointment book is pretty full, but I can just squeeze you in.
text: I found a time to squeeze in a meeting with you.
text: I squeezed the meeting in.
glosses: To find time or other resources for.
examples: text: We don't have much room in this car, so everyone will have to squeeze in.
glosses: To pack tightly together.
examples: text: My son was able to squeeze in the tight crawl space to retrieve the cat.
glosses: To force in, stretch something to make something larger fit.
squeeze out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squeezes out
form: squeezing out
form: squeezed out
form: squeezed out
Senses: examples: text: Squeeze out some toothpaste and put it on your toothbrush.
text: Nothing more can be squeezed out of the motive power unit once the master controller has been moved to full on.
ref: 1963 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 115:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see squeeze, out.
examples: text: I auditioned and I would have had the role, but I got squeezed out by a more experienced actor
text: They came from nowhere to take over second place, squeezing out the previously eighth-place team
text: Huth headed wide inside two minutes, Andy Wilkinson blasted over from Shotton's cut-back and Jones was squeezed out when bearing down on goal.
ref: 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
coordinate_terms: force out#Verb
glosses: (sports) To force (a competitor) out of one of a limited number of winning positions by taking over that position or a higher one.
glosses: (business) To oust (someone, especially shareholders).
examples: text: The team managed to squeeze out a win in the final minutes.
text: The team managed to squeeze it out.
glosses: To obtain (a difficult victory) in a competition.
Derived terms: word: squeezeout
rub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌb/
enpr: rŭb
ipa: /ɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: rubs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rubben, of unknown origin; possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną, related to *reufaną (“to tear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”).
More at reave.
Compare typologically Latin fricō < friō < Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (whence also Russian брить (britʹ, “to shave”)).
Senses: examples: text: Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
glosses: An act of rubbing.
examples: text: To die, to sleep— / To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause
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 III, scene i]:
text: […] the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 16]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: 'My dear Devereux, I say, you mustn't talk in that wild way. You—you talk like a ruined man!'
'And I so comfortable!'
'Why, to be sure, Dick, you have had some little rubs, and, maybe, your follies and your vexations; but, hang it, you are young; you can't get experience—at least, so I've found it—without paying for it. […]'
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A difficulty or problem.
glosses: A quip or sarcastic remark.
glosses: In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
examples: text: a heat rub intended for muscular strains
glosses: Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
glosses: Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A loan.
Synonyms: sense: a difficulty or problem
word: hitch
sense: a difficulty or problem
word: hiccup
sense: a difficulty or problem
word: catch
sense: a difficulty or problem
word: kink
sense: a difficulty or problem
word: glitch
sense: a difficulty or problem
word: snag
Derived terms: chest rub
chub rub
Dutch rub
hand rub
heat rub
Martindale rub test
Princeton rub
rub and tug
rub board
rub-board
rub-boardist
rub iron
rub-off
rub of the green
rub-up
therein lies the rub
wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: wipes
Etymology: From Middle English wipen, from Old English wīpian (“to wipe, rub, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīpōn (“to wipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around”). Cognate with German wippen (“to bob”), Swedish veva (“to turn, wind, crank”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍀𐌰𐌽 (weipan, “to wreathe, crown”), Old English swīfan (“to revolve, sweep, wend, intervene”), Sanskrit वेपते (vépate, “to tremble”). More at swivel, swift.
Senses: examples: text: multiple wipes of a computer's hard disk
glosses: The act of wiping something.
examples: text: When on a plane or train, don't take anything into the bathroom except baby, a changing pad, a diaper, a travel packet of wipes, and a bottle of hand sanitizer. Always use a wipe on the area before you put your baby down.
ref: 2009, Mary Ann Zoellner, Alicia Ybarbo, Today's Moms: Essentials for Surviving Baby's First Year, page 58:
hyponyms: wet wipe
glosses: A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
examples: text: "Now, my kiveys, shy up your castors, tie your bird's-eye wipes to the stakes, and go to work."
ref: 1883, London Society, volume 43, page 101:
text: All fighting coves you too must know, / Ben Caunt as well as Bendigo, / And to each mill be sure to go, / […] And you must sport a blue billy, / Or a yellow wipe […]
ref: 1859, Ducange Anglicus, The Vulgar Tongue, page 54:
glosses: A handkerchief.
synonyms: wipeoff
glosses: A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
examples: text: I could not help giving Metcalfe a wipe for his lamentations, observing I should have thought he had enough to attend to at home.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 273
glosses: A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
examples: text: He rode close up to a French officer, and so much in advance of his men that the Frenchman thought he was going to surrender, and dropped his sword, when Penrice gave him a wipe over his head.
ref: 1894, William Tomkinson, James Tomkinson, The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns 1809-1815, page 48:
glosses: A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
Derived terms: asswipe
baby wipe
barn door wipe
clock wipe
flip wipe
handi-wipe
pie-wipe
sanitizing wipe
sky the wipe
wet wipe
wipe away
wipe-breech
wipe-down
wipe down
wipe off
wipe oneself
wipe out
wipe-out
wipeout
wiper
wipe somebody's eye
wipe someone's eye
wipe someone's nose
wipe the floor
wipe the floor with someone
wipe the slate clean
wipe the smile off someone's face
wipe up
wipe warmer
wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: wipes
Etymology: Compare Swedish vipa, Danish vibe (“lapwing”).
Senses: glosses: A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: wipes
form: wiping
form: wiped
form: wiped
Etymology: From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: If you try to fight that boss underprepared, you're definitely gonna wipe.
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
wipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: wipes
Etymology: From wipe out (verb) and wipeout (noun) by shortening.
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: TPK
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
Derived terms: party wipe
thumbnail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: thumbnails
Etymology: From thumb + nail. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.
Senses: glosses: The fingernail on the thumb.
glosses: A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small picture, used as a compact representation of a larger image.
qualifier: social media
glosses: A picture displayed by posts and videos pre-clicked conveying the matters discussed/shown in that post.
Derived terms: thumbnail moon
Related terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: icon
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: thumbshot
thumbnail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: thumbnails
form: thumbnailing
form: thumbnailed
form: thumbnailed
Etymology: From thumb + nail. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.
Senses: glosses: To describe concisely.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).
Derived terms: thumbnailer
rouge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːʒ/
ipa: /ɹuʒ/
rhymes: -uːʒ
Forms: form: more rouge
form: most rouge
Etymology: Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: glosses: Of a reddish pink colour.
Related terms: Baton Rouge
bête rouge
beurre rouge
Khmer Rouge
rouge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːʒ/
ipa: /ɹuʒ/
rhymes: -uːʒ
Forms: form: rouges
form: rouging
form: rouged
form: rouged
Etymology: Borrowed from French rouge, from Latin rubeus. Compare rare Middle English rouge, rouȝ (“red”); later borrowed again, as it is not attested until c. 1750. The game senses are of unknown origin according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: examples: text: She rouged her face before setting out for the party.
text: She was a lady of about fifty, I should think, youthfully dressed, and of a very fine complexion. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 13, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To apply rouge (makeup).
across
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-krŏs′
ipa: /əˈkɹɒs/
enpr: ə-krôs′
ipa: /əˈkɹɔs/
enpr: ə-krŏs′
ipa: /əˈkɹɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
Forms: form: acrost
Etymology: From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross.
Senses: examples: text: she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across
text: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: From one side to the other.
examples: text: If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
glosses: On the other side.
examples: text: He leaned across for a book.
glosses: In a particular direction.
examples: text: I got stuck on 4 across.
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: Horizontally.
nos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noes
Etymology: From no + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of no
nos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From no. + -s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nos. Abbreviation of numbers.
nos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noses
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: coordinate_terms: NOx
glosses: Acronym of nitrous oxide system.
synonyms: nox
glosses: Abbreviation of nitrous oxide (“N₂O”).
Related terms: inter nos
homonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homonym + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or being a homonym.
glosses: Of, related to, or being a homonym.
Having the same spelling or same sound or both.
synonyms: homonymous
coordinate_terms: heteronymic
glosses: Of, related to, or being a homonym.
Having the same spelling or same sound or both.
Having both the same spelling and the same sound.
synonyms: homonymous
homonymous
coordinate_terms: heteronymic
heteronymic
qualifier: strictly
Related terms: polysemic
polysemous
attraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹækʃn̩/
ipa: [əˈtɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n]
ipa: [əˈt͡ʃɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n]
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: attractions
Etymology: From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.
glosses: The tendency to attract.
examples: text: I felt a strange attraction towards the place.
text: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The feeling of being attracted (to something).
examples: text: Murphy struggled with his attraction to men while remaining happily married all his life, daily negotiating the challenges of living in two locations simultaneously. These doublings of desire and emotional attachment left their trace in the multiple doublings within […] the billboard painting he made to signpost the home he created with his wife Sara […]
ref: 2015 January 23, John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, Jason D. LaFountain, A Companion to American Art, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 255:
text: "I'm asexual," Yazhiisai said, the words spilling out faster than she intended. "I don't experience attraction the way most people do. I'm telling you this because I don't want there to be any surprises."
ref: 2024 October 20, Kate, A Love Unspoken, DeepMisti Publication, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: The feeling of being attracted (to something).
Sexual or romantic desire (especially for a specified individual, kind of person, etc).
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: The new mall should be a major attraction.
text: Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
glosses: An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.
Synonyms: charm
pull
Derived terms: aesthetic attraction
attractional
basin of attraction
chemoattraction
coattraction
Coulomb attraction
counterattraction
fatal attraction
genetic sexual attraction
interattraction
inverse attraction
law of attraction
local attraction
photoattraction
reattraction
split attraction model
star attraction
tourist attraction
unattraction
Related terms: orientation
attract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: attracts
form: attracting
form: attracted
form: attracted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: attract
form: attract
form: attracted
form: attract
form: attractest
form: attracted
form: attractedst
form: attracts
form: attracteth
form: attracted
form: attract
form: attracted
form: attract
form: attracted
form: attract
form: -
form: attracting
form: attracted
Etymology: From Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere (“to draw to, attract”), from ad (“to”) + trahere (“to draw”).
Senses: examples: text: A magnet attracts iron filings.
text: All bodies, and all the parts of bodies, mutually attract themselves, and one another.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
text: The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: To pull toward without touching.
examples: text: to attract admirers
text: Advertising is designed to attract customers.
text: His big smile and brown eyes instantly attracted me.
text: Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
examples: text: Using the minibar in a hotel room attracts additional charges.
glosses: To incur.
Synonyms: word: allure
word: attract
word: draw
Hypernyms: word: animate
word: impel
word: pull
Derived terms: attractability
attractable
attractancy
attract attention
attractee
attracticide
attractile
attractin
attractingly
attract mode
attract screen
chemoattract
counterattract
minor-attracted person
nonattracting
opposites attract
reattract
unattracting
you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
Related terms: attraction
attractive
attractor
attractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹæktɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more attractive
form: most attractive
Etymology: From Middle French attractif, from Late Latin attractivus, equivalent to attract + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force.
examples: text: That's a very attractive offer.
glosses: Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing.
examples: text: He is an attractive fellow with a trim figure.
text: […] or I keysmash my feelings away every time there is an attractive picture of them that surfaced on the internet and since every picture is an attractive picture, let's just say my keyboard knows the pain I have to go through.
ref: 2013 February, Olivia Solomon, “Idol Worship and the Life Ruiners of Ecosoc”, in Echoes, University of the Philippines, page 50:
glosses: Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner.
Synonyms: sense: causing attraction
word: magnetic
sense: pleasing or appealing to the senses
word: beautiful
word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
Hypernyms: word: beautiful
word: pleasant
word: pleasurable
Hyponyms: word: funalicious
word: sexy
Derived terms: attractively
attractiveness
attractive nuisance
attractivity
chemoattractive
counterattractive
nonattractive
superattractive
Related terms: word: beauty
bulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭlb
ipa: /ˈbʌlb/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
ipa: /ˈbʌb/
rhymes: -ʌlb
Forms: form: bulbs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.
Latin bulbusder.
English bulb
Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Senses: examples: text: the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 265c:
text: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: The bulb-shaped underground portion of a plant such as a tulip, consisting of a shortened stem and many fleshy scale leaves, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The medulla oblongata.
examples: text: the bulb of the aorta
glosses: Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
examples: text: an incandescent bulb
text: an LED bulb
text: a fluorescent tube bulb
glosses: Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
glosses: An onion.
Derived terms: bulbar
bulbectomy
bulbhead
bulbheaded
bulb horn
bulbitis
bulbless
bulblet
bulblike
bulboid
bulbophile
bulb-out
bulb tee
bulby
bus bulb
dim-bulb
dim bulb
dry bulb temperature
dry-bulb temperature
Edison bulb
endbulb
flashbulb
gliobulb
hair bulb
hemibulb
hot bulb
lamp-bulb
lamp bulb
light bulb
Mandelbulb
not the brightest bulb
not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
pseudobulb
rebulb
tulip bulb
urethral bulb
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
wet bulb
wet-bulb
wet bulbing
wet-bulb temperature
wet bulb temperature
Related terms: bulbiferous
bulbil
bulbous
bulb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭlb
ipa: /ˈbʌlb/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
ipa: /ˈbʌb/
rhymes: -ʌlb
Forms: form: bulbs
form: bulbing
form: bulbed
form: bulbed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.
Latin bulbusder.
English bulb
Inherited from Middle English bulb, bolbe, from Latin bulbus (“bulb, onion”), from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Senses: glosses: To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.
light bulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtˌbʌlb/
Forms: form: light bulbs
form: light-bulb
form: lightbulb
Etymology: From light + bulb First attested in 1885.
Senses: synonyms: word: bulb
word: glow-lamp
word: incandescent lamp
word: light globe
glosses: An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light.
examples: text: a fluorescent light bulb
text: an LED light bulb
glosses: An article that resembles such a bulb and converts electricity to light by any process.
examples: text: a light-bulb moment
text: Figuratively speaking, a light-bulb flashed over Galvin's head early this year, and in March–along […]
ref: 1949, Forbes, volume 64, page 18:
text: A light bulb went off in my head as I had an incredible idea for a beauty product.
ref: 2010, Sandy Abrams, Your Idea, Inc., Abrams Media, →ISBN, page xi:
glosses: Used in reference to the sudden arrival of a realization, an inspiration, an idea, or the like.
Derived terms: lightbulbed
light bulb joke
light-bulb moment