cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
healthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: healthfuller
form: more healthful
form: healthfullest
form: most healthful
form: healthfull
Etymology: From Middle English helthful, helþful, helþeful, equivalent to health + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Hockey is an exciting and healthful form of exercise, well suited to college students […]
ref: 1906, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 7, page 210:
text: The advertisement [published in 1856] concluded with the announcement that the excursion was being run "to afford the industrious classes the opportunity of enjoying the healthful and invigorating sea-breezes of Southport, and the luxury of sea-bathing, or the numerous objects of interest and amusement at Liverpool."
ref: 1951 December, “Notes and News: Reduced Fares for Ladies”, in Railway Magazine, pages 852-853:
text: A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 104:
glosses: Beneficial to bodily health.
examples: text: She trusted it was a sign that his mind was recovering a more healthful state, that he was not obliged to refer to his imagination, and, by giving her an ideal existence, compel himself to love her as the representative of another; surely, if he could do so long without the real Margarita, and appear cheerful and happy as he used to do when in England, he might (now that death had really taken her, poor thing!) resign her entirely, and love his wife, […]
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 128:
text: As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 30:
glosses: Conducive to moral or spiritual prosperity; salutary.
examples: text: His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
ref: 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
glosses: Synonym of healthy (“evincing health”).
synonyms: word: healthy
extra: evincing health
Synonyms: healthy
salubrious
salutary
wholesome
Derived terms: healthfully
healthfulness
unhealthful
Related terms: heal
health
healthy
Mirandize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈɹændaɪz/
Forms: form: Mirandizes
form: Mirandizing
form: Mirandized
form: Mirandized
Etymology: From Miranda + -ize. The former refers to the US Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, after Ernesto Miranda.
Senses: examples: 1981. Television program Hill Street Blues, Season 1, Episode 7, "Film At Eleven".
Lt. Furillo: Be sure to Mirandize them, Ray.
[1997. New York State Bar Journal, "Volume 69"
We credit Judge John G. Gabbert of California with the first reported usage of "Mirandize" […] ]
[2007. Anu Garg, "The dord, the diglet, and an avocado or two"
To mirandize is to advise people under arrest of their legal rights, such as the right to remain silent under questioning, the right to legal counsel, etc.]
2012. Garrett Graff, "The Threat Matrix"
There was also a fierce debate over whether to Mirandize the detainees immediately. “You wouldn't Mirandize an American in this situation,” Knowles argued with Justice Department officials.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To inform someone who has been arrested of their constitutional rights.
wikipedia: Miranda v. Arizona
Derived terms: re-Mirandize
Related terms: Miranda card
Miranda right
Miranda rule
Miranda warning
DCXO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCXOs
Senses: examples: text: This is a general description of the type of oscillator, whether it be a TCXO, OCXO, DCXO, rubidium, or cesium.
ref: 1997, Ulrich L. Rohde, Microwave and Wireless Synthesizers: Theory and Design, Wiley,, →ISBN, page 239:
text: They are temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO), oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXO) and a few other variations such as digitally compensated crystal oscillators (DCXO).
ref: 2003, Nihal Kularatna, Digital and Analogue Instrumentation: Testing and Measurement, Institution of Electrical Engineers, →ISBN, page 265:
text: A digitally controlled crystal oscillator (DCXO) generates a high-quality basestation-synchronized frequency reference such that the transmitted carrier frequencies and the received symbol rates are accurate to within 0.1 ppm.
ref: 2008, Robert Bogdan Staszewski, “Digital RF Processor (DRP™)”, chapter 10 of Krzysztof Iniewski (editor), Wireless Technologies: Circuits, Systems, and Devices, CRC Press, page 267
glosses: Initialism of digitally-compensated crystal oscillator.
Brazilian Portuguese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Portuguese language as spoken and written in Brazil, particularly when it differs from other regional varieties of that language.
wikipedia: Brazilian Portuguese
jib boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jib booms
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A spar attached to the outboard end of a bowsprit or flying jib boom with an additional stay to increase sail area.
Derived terms: flying jib boom
oxytone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn/
enpr: ŏk'sĭtōn"
ipa: /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊn/
Forms: form: oxyt.
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: paroxytone
proparoxytone
perispomenon
properispomenon
barytone
preproparoxytone
glosses: Having the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
raw_tags: of a word
oxytone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊn/
enpr: ŏk'sĭtōn"
ipa: /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊn/
Forms: form: oxytones
form: oxytona
form: oxyt.
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́τονος (oxŭ́tonos).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: paroxytone
proparoxytone
perispomenon
properispomenon
barytone
prototonic
preproparoxytone
glosses: A word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
Derived terms: oxytonical
oxytonize
oxytones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪˌtəʊnz/
enpr: ŏk'sĭtōnz"
ipa: /ˈɑksɪˌtoʊnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of oxytone
anti-democratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-democratic
form: most anti-democratic
form: antidemocratic
Etymology: From anti- + democratic.
Senses: glosses: opposing the democratic process or democracy, especially by the use of force
glosses: enforcing views contrary to that of a majority of the public
Adige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈadɪdʒeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Adige, from Latin Athesis.
Senses: glosses: A river in South Tyrol, Italy.
Olza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in central Europe.
Angrapa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Poland and Russia.
-scopy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-skəpi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō, “to see”).
Senses: glosses: observation, viewing
Related terms: -scope
hydrostatic skeleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrostatic skeletons
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the soft bodies of certain invertebrates such as jellyfish
hydrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪdɹəʊˈstætɪk/
Forms: form: hydrostatick
Etymology: From hydro- + static.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or relating to hydrostatics.
examples: text: [...] the electric fan drive and Drayton regulator temperature control employed on the prototypes have been superseded on the production version by Serck-Behr hydrostatic drive from an engine-driven pump with thermostatically controlled fan speed regulation.
ref: 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
glosses: Of or relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit.
Derived terms: hydrolock
hydrostatical
hydrostatically
hydrostatic arch
hydrostatic balance
hydrostatic bed
hydrostatic bellows
hydrostatic equilibrium
hydrostatic fluid
hydrostatic head
hydrostatician
hydrostaticity
hydrostatic lock
hydrostatic loop
hydrostatic paradox
hydrostatic press
hydrostatic pressure
hydrostatics
hydrostatic shock
hydrostatic skeleton
magnetohydrostatic
nonhydrostatic
quasihydrostatic
Related terms: static
hydrodynamic
Radha Soami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Indian philosophical or religious movement.
Mogilev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mahilyow
form: Mahiloŭ
form: Mogilyov
Etymology: From Russian Могилёв (Mogiljóv).
Senses: glosses: A city in Belarus.
glosses: A region of Belarus.
Ostrava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in the far east of the Czech Republic.
thalassocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθæləˈsɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: thalassocracies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θαλασσοκρατέω (thalassokratéō, “to be master of the sea”), from θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”) + κράτος (krátos, “rule”). By surface analysis, thalasso- + -cracy.
Senses: synonyms: maritime empire
thalattocracy
coordinate_terms: tellurocracy
glosses: A state whose power derives from its naval or commercial supremacy on the seas.
glosses: Maritime supremacy.
dodecaphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecaphony
Etymology: From dodeca- + -phony.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: dodecaphonism
twelve-tone technique
glosses: Twelve-tone music, a form of composition using all twelve tones of the chromatic scale in such a way that they are equal, i.e. having no tonic, no dominant, no major key or minor keys, and no distinction between harmony and dissonance.
Related terms: dodecaphonic
clm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of claim.
intracule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intracules
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a mathematical function that gives the probability of observing two electrons in a given molecule with a given difference in position or momentum
hot tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tubs
form: hot-tub
Senses: glosses: A large tub, often situated outdoors, filled with hot water and used for communal leisure bathing.
nearside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearsides
Etymology: near + side
Senses: examples: text: An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...].
ref: 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 286:
glosses: The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
glosses: A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.
Related terms: near side
real-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːəltaɪm/
ipa: /ˈɹiːltaɪm/
Forms: form: realtime
Etymology: From real time.
Senses: examples: text: It will provide a wireless navigation service that can deliver turn-by-turn route guidance and real-time traffic and weather information. Motorola is the first company to create such a solution, […]
ref: 2001, Automotive Engineering International:
text: Audiences tolerate the idea of Roxy Hart turning from a “real-time” conversation with her husband or lawyer and launching into a song about her dreams and ambitions. And in the old days, movie audiences did the same: Judy Garland could ...
ref: 2004, William J. Mann, Gay Pride: A Celebration Of All Things Gay And Lesbian, Citadel Press, →ISBN:
text: This may nevertheless require some re-drawing of boundaries, to integrate real- time or near-real-time intelligence collection with the other means of locating, identifying and tracking major military equipment and units.
ref: 2013, Michael Herman, Intelligence Services in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: If not real-time, in-person backup, he at least needed to tell Davenport what was going on, and where he was headed.
ref: 2014, John Sandford, Deadline: A Virgil Flowers Novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 167:
text: All signage in and around the station is bilingual in Welsh and English, while station announcements and passenger information screens provide real-time information.
ref: 2020 December 30, Paul Stephen, “Chirk station is truly blooming”, in Rail, page 48:
coordinate_terms: instantaneous
synchronous
glosses: Communicated as the events being responded to occur; communicated or proceeding without much delay.
examples: text: The projects, which are due to start in November, are: Real-time prediction and mitigation of disruption through personalised passenger communications - [...]
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a system: that responds to events or signals within a predictable time after their occurrence; specifically the response time must be within the maximum allowed, but is typically synchronous.
Synonyms: RT
Derived terms: hard real-time
immediate real-time
near real-time
real-time attack
realtimely
real-time strategy
soft real-time
Related terms: real time
star ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star rings
Senses: glosses: a network topology consisting of a physical star and a logical ring.
star topology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star topologies
Senses: glosses: A physical network topology in which all nodes are connected to a central connectivity device (e.g. a hub).
methylated spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylated spirit
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of methylated spirit.
Derived terms: metho
outskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtskɝts/
ipa: /ˈaʊtskɜːts/
Forms: form: outskirt
Etymology: From out- + skirts.
Senses: examples: text: He lived on the outskirts of Paris for a time.
text: The village borders on the Hakka district of Wanluan on the southeastern outskirts of Chaozhou, and its temple is modest in size, with a front and rear chamber and two larger temporary extensions front and side. Yet its members (unaware of similarly named temples in Pingdong as well as Donggang) insist that it is the City God of the county of Pingdong.
ref: 2003, Donald S. Sutton, “Places: Nine Troupes in Their Local Settings”, in Steps of Perfection: Exorcistic Performers and Chinese Religion in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
text: There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
text: More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.
ref: 2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, Asia Pacific:
glosses: The area surrounding a city or town; suburb.
outskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtskɝts/
ipa: /ˈaʊtskɜːts/
Senses: glosses: plural of outskirt
outskirts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtskɝts/
ipa: /ˈaʊtskɜːts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outskirt
umbellic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dihydroxycinnamic acid, obtained from certain umbelliferous plants
back kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back kitchens
Senses: glosses: A scullery.
back end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back ends
form: back-end
form: backend
form: backen'
form: back-en'
Senses: examples: text: The back end of the operation is kept out of sight of the customers.
glosses: The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).
examples: text: Together, the MathDocument and PaperController classes comprise the MathPaper application's front end, while the Evaluator makes up the application's back end. This technique of having separate front and back ends is a common […]
ref: 2002, Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney, Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 295:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: front end
glosses: That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
examples: text: I'll see you on the back end of tomorrow.
translation: I'll see you tomorrow evening/night.
english: I'll see you tomorrow evening/night.
glosses: The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.
examples: text: so-called “back end” deals is speculative at best. Ideally, the author or book publisher will secure a percentage of gross revenues rather than net profits, but such deals are rare indeed.
ref: 1995, Jonathan Kirsch, Kirsch's Handbook of Publishing Law, page 212:
text: How does the taking of “back end” compensation affect the creative control asserted by an actor?
ref: 2003, Melvin Simensky, Entertainment Law, page 1222:
text: That kind of money, he can get a piece of anybody's back end he wants." “It's an industry phrase. Means if the picture is a big hit, he gets a share of the profits, sometimes even a percentage of gross.
ref: 2004, Dean Koontz, The Face, page 64:
text: […] Miramax was going to buy out the U.S. and Canadian rights to the picture and terminate everyone else's participation for a payout that included a guaranteed amount for the back end, as well as bonuses if the film exceeded certain levels of U.S. box office performance.
ref: 2013, Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Money paid on a contingent deferred basis, for example, as a proportion of the profits or revenue of a work.
glosses: The processing of spent fuel from a nuclear reactor into reusable materials.
Derived terms: backendish
look like the back end of a bus
Related terms: front end
backdraught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.dɹɑːft/
Forms: form: backdraughts
Etymology: From back + draught.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Alternative spelling of backdraft.
beserk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈzɜː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: beserks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of berserk.
beserk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈzɜː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: more beserk
form: most beserk
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:beserk.
glosses: Alternative form of berserk.
pasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɑʃə/
Forms: form: pashas
form: pascha
form: bashaw
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پاشا (pāšā) (Turkish paşa); this either from Persian پادشاه (pâdšâh, “padishah, king”), or from Ottoman Turkish باش (baş, “head”), or from Ottoman Turkish بچه (beççe, “male offspring”), this in turn from Persian بچّه (bačče). Ottoman Turkish باش (baş, “head”) + آغا (ağa, “master”) has also been proposed as etymon.
Senses: glosses: A high-ranking Turkish military officer, especially as a commander or regional governor; the highest honorary title during the Ottoman Empire.
glosses: The Indian butterfly Herona marathus, family Nymphalidae.
Derived terms: pashadom
pashalike
pashaship
two-tailed pasha
Related terms: pashalik
good looking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-looking.
paths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːðz/
ipa: /pæðz/
ipa: /pæθs/
rhymes: -æθs
Senses: glosses: plural of path
paths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːðz/
ipa: /pæðz/
ipa: /pæθs/
rhymes: -æθs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of path
Novi Sad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.
cancer sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cancer stick
HST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HSTs
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of High Speed Train, a common name for the InterCity 125.
glosses: Initialism of harmonized sales tax, a combined federal and provincial sales tax collected in some provinces.
topics: business
manufacturing
quilting
textiles
glosses: Abbreviation of half-square triangle.
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: HSV
HSC
glosses: Initialism of high speed transport.
Related terms: alt: GST
word: goods and services tax
HST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Hawaiian Standard Time.
topics: NASA
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Hubble Space Telescope.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Harry S. Truman.
rec'd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of recommended.
glosses: Abbreviation of received.
appr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of approval.
appr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprs.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of appr.
inv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of invoice.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Abbreviation of inventory (“items carried by a player”).
ser.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of serial.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of series.
flying jib boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying jib booms
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A jib boom with an additional outboard jib boom attached.
lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of lake
lakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lake
lookouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookout
one fell swoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Shakespeare, in Macbeth, act iv, scene 3, where Macduff learns his wife and entire family are murdered:
: Ro. Wife, Children, Servants, all that could be found. […]
: Macd. […] All my pretty ones?
Did you say All? Oh Hell-Kite! All?
What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme
At one fell swoope?
The imagery is of a bird of prey ("hell-kite") ransacking a whole nest at one blow, fell meaning "terrible, cruel, savage." In later uses of the expression, the force of the metaphor is reduced or lost.
Senses: examples: text: Changing the oil lubricates the engine and removes debris in one fell swoop.
text: ...they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
ref: , Episode 16
text: There can be few examples in the history of railways of a reduction of sixteen hours in the running time of one train, at one fell swoop, but this has been achieved by the Canadian Pacific Railway with its transcontinental train service, an advance without any parallel in the record of Canada's railways, and the first major timetable change of any sort for several decades.
ref: 1955 June, Robert F. Legget, “Dieselisation of Canadian Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 417:
text: Remember that these trains will serve Aintree on race days and both Anfield and Goodison Park (and soon Everton FC's new stadium), so there will be times when they are packed to the gunwales with passengers - albeit, disgorging their footfall at one station in one fell swoop.
ref: 2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 59:
glosses: One stroke; one action or event that achieves or accomplishes many results.
Related terms: Gordian knot
swoop
at one stroke
kill two birds with one stone
in one foul swoop
cavitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkævɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cavitations
Etymology: From cavity + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The formation of pits on a surface.
topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation, in a fluid, of vapor bubbles that rapidly collapse, especially in a rotating marine propeller or pump impeller.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation of cavities in an organ, especially in lung tissue as a result of tuberculosis.
Derived terms: cavitate
cavitational
cavitatory
decavitation
microcavitation
nanocavitation
supercavitation
camisado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæmɪˈseɪdəʊ/
Forms: form: camisados
form: camisadoes
form: camisade
Etymology: From Spanish encamisado (“shirted”).
Senses: examples: text: the English doubting least the Scots minded to give them a camisado that night
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:
glosses: A nocturnal ambush or surprising act of aggression.
glosses: A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack.
listening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪs.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English listnynge, lustninde, from Old English hlysnende, equivalent to listen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Any listening person can tell she's lying.
glosses: Of something or someone that listens.
examples: text: He could hear better when he used his listening device.
glosses: Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.
examples: text: The safest cover lay close under the wall of the cañon, and here through the dense thickets Venters made his slow, listening advance toward the oval.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 5, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.
Derived terms: must-listening
listening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪs.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English listnynge, lustninde, from Old English hlysnende, equivalent to listen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of listen
Derived terms: listening post
listening station
listening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪs.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Forms: form: listenings
Etymology: From Middle English listnynge, lustnynge, lystenynge, equivalent to listen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This symphony grows on me more and more with each listening.
text: It is an album that rewards multiple listenings.
ref: 2010 May 3, Michael Senior, “CD Review: Massive Attack, "Heligoland"”, in The Oklahoman, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2024:
glosses: An act by which something or somebody is listened to.
examples: text: OK, students, today we're going to do a couple of listenings about the environment, then a reading about crime.
glosses: An educational exercise involving listening.
examples: text: You can improve your listening well by watching English-language films.
glosses: Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.
Derived terms: active listening
baby listening
easy listening
listening comprehension
listening device
listening fatigue
listening watch
social listening
oxgang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxgangs
Etymology: From Middle English oxegang, from Old English oxangang (“¹⁄₈ hide or ploughland”), equivalent to ox + gang.
Senses: examples: text: 1417. Henry Rishworth formerly held two oxgangs in Hipperholme, Osbarn rode, lands in Coley, etc. His nephew Henry, son of Nicholas de Rishworth, next heir, paid 10s heriot.
1418. John, son and heir of Henry de Rishworth, herioted a cottage and a royd in the Hey in Hipperholme.
ref: 1909, “Appendix II: Rishworth of Coley”, in William Brown, editor, Record Series, volume 39: For the Year 1907: Yorkshire Deeds, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, page 226:
glosses: The area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year, ¹⁄₈ hide or carucate and notionally 15 acres.
glosses: The similar Scottish concept, ¹⁄₈ of a ploughgate and notionally 12+¹⁄₂ or 13 Scottish acres.
Synonyms: bovate
oxgate
oxengate
Hypernyms: sense: 800 oxgangs
word: hundred
sense: 8 oxgangs
word: carucate
sense: 4 oxgangs
word: ochdamh
sense: 2 oxgangs
word: virgate
Hyponyms: alt: 1⁄2 oxgang
word: nook
alt: 1⁄4 oxgang
word: fardel
sense: various & for further subdivisions
word: acre
jumentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jumentous
form: most jumentous
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or smelling like horse urine.
Related terms: jument
sexually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksjʊəli/
ipa: /ˈsɛkʃʊəli/
ipa: /ˈsɛkʃəli/
Forms: form: more sexually
form: most sexually
Etymology: From sexual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She kissed him sexually.
glosses: In a sexual manner; erotically.
examples: text: The firm discriminated sexually in its hiring and retention practices.
glosses: With respect to sex (either of the two divisions of organisms).
examples: text: He was sexually active by the age of fifteen.
glosses: With respect to sexual intercourse.
examples: text: AIDS and gonorrhea are sexually transmitted diseases.
text: A parrot is a sexually reproducing organism.
text: NBC, never shy about exploiting a celebrity tragedy, overproduced and overpromoted her film in “Farrah’s Story,” but never made the public service point that, besides abstinence, the HPV vaccine is the most promising form of prevention against this type of cancer, which in most cases is sexually acquired.
ref: 2009 June 26, Alessandra Stanley, “Farrah Fawcett, a Sex Symbol Who Aimed Higher”, in The New York Times:
glosses: By means of sexual intercourse.
Derived terms: word: sexually anorexic
word: sexually assault
word: sexually harass
word: sexually mature
word: sexually-oriented
word: sexually transmitted infection
sense: by means of intercourse
word: sexually transmitted disease
sense: by means of intercourse
word: STD
EPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of exclusive provider organization.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: Epo
glosses: Initialism of erythropoietin.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: TRO
ROAH
glosses: Initialism of emergency protective order.
EPO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Patent Office.
Related terms: PPO
carucate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carucates
form: carrucate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin carūcāta (“ploughland”), from Latin carūca (“chariot; coach; carruca”). Compare French charrue (“plough”).
Senses: glosses: The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
Synonyms: word: hide
word: plow
word: plough
word: plowland
word: ploughland
word: carrucate
word: carve
sense: Scots
word: ploughgate
word: plowgate
Hypernyms: sense: 100 carucates
word: hundred
Hyponyms: alt: 1⁄4 carucate
word: virgate
alt: 1⁄8 carucate
word: oxgang
alt: 1⁄16 carucate
word: nook
alt: 1⁄32 carucate
word: fardel
sense: various & for further divisions
word: acre
sense: Scottish divisions
word: ploughgate
bovate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin bovāta, from Latin bov-, bōs + -āta.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oxgang.
synonyms: word: oxgang
Thomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomists
Senses: examples: text: […] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom.
ref: 1842, The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature:
glosses: A follower or advocate of Thomism.
Derived terms: neo-Thomist
Thomist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thomism.
all over
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all-over
Senses: examples: text: I just spent two hours in the dentist's chair. Thank God it's all over.
glosses: Completely finished.
Implying a lengthy, exhausting or unpleasant experience.
examples: text: Just as soon as Christmas arrives, it seems it's all over.
glosses: Completely finished.
Implying loss or sadness.
examples: text: It's the final fence ... and ... the horses are all over!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: all over.
all over
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: all-over
Senses: examples: text: He was covered all over with mud.
glosses: Over an entire extent.
examples: text: I've looked all over for it.
text: I'm itching all over.
glosses: Everywhere.
examples: text: Dancing with everyone, singing show tunes all night: that was Luke all over.
glosses: In every way; thoroughly.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: all over.
Derived terms: all over again
all-overish
all-over painting
all over
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: all-over
Senses: examples: text: He dropped the bucket and got paint all over the floor and his clothes.
glosses: Everywhere; covering completely.
Derived terms: all over the map
all over the place
duplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuː.plɪk.ə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more duplicative
form: most duplicative
Etymology: From duplicate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The purpose of such a position would be to oversee all aspects of government AIDS programs, weeding out duplicative or wasteful programs in favor of those that would meet the needs of all people with HIV.
ref: 1991 December 1, Jacob Smith Yang, “Surgeon General Confers With ACT UP”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 2:
text: MBDA provides minority business enterprises with a variety of business assistance services that are duplicative of other Federal, State, local, and private sector efforts.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, related to, or being a duplicate.
Derived terms: nonduplicative
DVMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dynamic video memory technology.
malm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːm/
ipa: /mɑːlm/
Forms: form: malms
Etymology: From Middle English malme (“sand”), from Old English mealm (as in mealmstān (“sandstone”)), from Proto-Germanic *malmaz (“sand, ore”); related to Old Norse malmr (“ore, metal”). From the same Proto-Indo-European root as meal.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
glosses: An artificial mixture of chalk, clay, and sand, from which light-brown or yellowish bricks are made.
Derived terms: malmstone
malmy
tallit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑˈliːt/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈtɑlɪs/
Forms: form: tallits
form: tallitot
form: tallitoth
form: tallitim
form: talleysim
form: tallaisim
form: dales
form: dalles
form: tales
form: talis
form: talith
form: tallis
form: tallith
Etymology: From Hebrew טַלִּית (talít).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Jewish prayer shawl with tassels which covers the chest and upper part of the back.
Derived terms: tallit katan
mannen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mannen (“men”).
Senses: glosses: plural of mann
mans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: From man + -s (third-person singular suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of man
mans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: From man + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Down the Ice Arena we met up with bare mans then Dot came with us and we bopped to the Orchard.
ref: 2014, Robb Peters, D.A. Diary, Bloomington: AuthorHouse:
glosses: plural of man
mans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: From man + -s (genitive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And symony they called this, to take and inioy any spirituall liuing at a secular mans hand.
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page [28]:
text: But vnto man, and to diuers other land Creatures, the eating of much ſalt is very contagious, becauſe it maketh the bloud ſalt, and it breedes barenneſſe to mans bodie by the extreame ſiccitie thereof, and it maketh our ſeed ornature too ſharpe, but the ſame being moderatly taken, is very ſtirring in our bodies, and prouoketh them to venerious actes, whereby it helpeth to the generation of mankind.
ref: 1594, H[ugh] Plat, Diuerse New Sorts of Soyle Not Yet Brought into Any Publique Vse, for Manuring Both of Pasture and Arable Ground, with Sundrie Concepted Practises Belonging Therunto, London: […] Peter Short, page 8:
text: The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls […] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,
ref: 1596, Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America, London: John Busbie:
glosses: genitive of man
mans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Etymology: From man + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Whose mans is this?
text: “Don’t forget that I’m here for you.” I stated. He smiled. / “Yeah I know, thanks mans.” he answered.
ref: 2017 August 22, A-T. Gabe, chapter 7, in Stuck in a Day Dream, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of man.
synonyms: word: man
Bolshevik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/
ipa: /ˈboʊlʃəvɪk/
ipa: /ˈbɑl-/
ipa: /ˈbol-/
ipa: /ˈbɔl-/
rhymes: -ɒlʃəvɪk
rhymes: -əʊlʃəvɪk
Forms: form: Bolsheviks
form: Bolsheviki
form: bolshevik
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).
Senses: examples: text: Мы, большевики, утверждаем, что на нашей стороне большинство настоящих, русских, партийных деятелей.
ref: 1967 [1905 February 3], Владимир Ленин [Vladimir Lenin], “Письмо к Грейлиху”, in Краткий очерк раскола в РСДРП (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 9), page 239; English translation from “The Letter to Greulich”, in Bernard Isaacs, Isidor Lasker, transl., A Brief Outline of the Split in the R.S.D.L.P. (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 8), translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 130:
english: Vladimir Lenin
roman: My, bolʹševiki, utverždajem, što na našej storone bolʹšinstvo nastojaščix, russkix, partijnyx dejatelej.
translation: Vladimir Lenin
text: But such points were on the whole lost in the picture as it appeared in gross: everyone had confessed, the Old Bolsheviks had publicly avowed disgraceful plans and actions. The whole business almost passed belief. Were the confessions true? How had they been obtained? What did it all signify? We are told that the confessions were as little believed in Russia as abroad, ‘or even less’, but that the average Soviet citizen who had not been in jail found them as puzzling as foreigners did.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Problem of Confession”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:
glosses: A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.
glosses: A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Related terms: anarcho-Bolshevik
Bolshevism
Menshevik
VTOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VTOLs
Etymology: Acronym of vertical takeoff and landing.
Senses: examples: text: Radio for VTOL, heavy lift gear. We're not leaving him here.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Arrival:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fixed-wing aircraft that is capable of ascending into the air straight up as opposed to needing to accelerate horizontally first.
Coordinate terms: STOL
SVTOL
S/VTOL
V/STOL
VSTOL
STOVL
V/STOVL
VTOSL
CTOL
CATOBAR
STOBAR
HTOL
Derived terms: eVTOL
VTOLport
Related terms: VTVL
VTHL
HTVL
HTHL
HVTL
VHTL
V/HTL
H/VTL
RATO
JATO
CATO
ATO
ZLL
ZELL
ZLTO
ruling pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruling pens
Senses: glosses: a pen used in graphic design and calligraphy for drawing precise lines of various thicknesses
John Hancock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɒn ˈhænkɒk/
ipa: /dʒɑn ˈhænkɑk/
ipa: /dʒɑn ˈhænkɔːk/
Forms: form: John Hancocks
Etymology: Named after American merchant and statesman John Hancock (1737–1793), the first person to sign the United States Declaration of Independence. According to legend, he signed his name prominently to be sure George III could read it, causing his name to become an eponym for a signature. However, other examples show that Hancock always wrote his signature this way.
Senses: examples: text: Please put your John Hancock on the dotted line to close the deal.
text: The man is pressed for his "John Hancock" with all the persuasiveness and eloquence of a practiced operator on masculine vanity.
ref: 1879, Bates Harrington, How 'tis Done: A Thorough Ventilation of the Numerous Schemes Conducted by Wandering Canvassers, together with the Various Advertising Dodges for the Swindling of the Public, Chicago, Ill.: Fidelity Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 63:
text: Can I have your auto—your John Hancock, please?
ref: 1996, 30:38 from the start, in Space Jam, Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, →ISBN:
text: Audrey and crew even squeezed frail grocer Frank Morgan, the victim, into adding his John Hancock to the parole petition. The cherry was getting Hanging Judge Joe Williams to sign on as well.
ref: 2005, Dary Matera, John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal, trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 36:
text: [Jack] Lew is not the first Treasury secretary to change his John Hancock upon arrival at 1500 Pennsylvania Ave.
ref: 2013 June 18, Zachary A. Goldfarb, “Treasury Secretary Jack Lew unveils new signature after quibbles with his scribble”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A person's signature.
John Hancock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɒn ˈhænkɒk/
ipa: /dʒɑn ˈhænkɑk/
ipa: /dʒɑn ˈhænkɔːk/
Forms: form: John Hancocks
form: John Hancocking
form: John Hancocked
form: John Hancocked
Etymology: Named after American merchant and statesman John Hancock (1737–1793), the first person to sign the United States Declaration of Independence. According to legend, he signed his name prominently to be sure George III could read it, causing his name to become an eponym for a signature. However, other examples show that Hancock always wrote his signature this way.
Senses: examples: text: Billy Rose inked his contract with AGVA this week and the document only needs the signature of Matt Shelvey, head of the union, to put it into effect. Altho the deal was made in mid-summer, John Hancocking by both sides is coming about only now.
ref: 1944 October 21, “Finally”, in The Billboard, volume 56, number 43, page 23:
glosses: To sign; to write one's signature on (something).
Related terms: english: placename
translation: placename
word: Hancock
word: John Henry
dressed to the nines
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dressed + to the nines; first recorded in the 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: He arrived at the gala, dressed to the nines in his top hat and tails.
text: During the early part of the day he took a stroll in the vicinity of "Fell's Point," dressed to the nines, with his cravat, and pin, and shirt collar neatly folded over.
ref: 1846, Alexander Kerr Bonn, An Original, Laughable and Comical Tale of Hughie Morrison, the Scottish Emigrant, page 20:
text: All you will see is a girl you once knew, although she's dressed up to the nines, at sixes and sevens with you.
ref: 1976, Tim Rice, Don't Cry For Me Argentina:
glosses: Very fancily or formally dressed; wearing very showy or splendid clothing.
Related terms: dressed to kill
Sunday best
to the nines
nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of nine
nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: examples: text: He drew nines from the deck.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of nines.
Derived terms: dressed to the nines
Related terms: 9s
9's
have butterflies in one's stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has butterflies in one's stomach
form: having butterflies in one's stomach
form: had butterflies in one's stomach
form: had butterflies in one's stomach
Senses: examples: text: Kevin had butterflies in his stomach every time he saw Chrissy.
glosses: To experience a certain “fluttery” physical sensation in one's stomach, associated with nervousness, uncertainty, anxiety, apprehension, or excitement.