cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fire escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire escapes
Senses: examples: text: Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.
ref: 1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198:
glosses: Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
glosses: The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
glosses: Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.
Synonyms: emergency escape
emergency exit
emergency stairs
fire stairs
fire-resistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of withstanding fire, either permanently or for a pre-determined time.
Synonyms: fire-retardant
vases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vase
vases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vase
planters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planter
brutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of brute
chestnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chestnut
anticipations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticipation
competitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of competitor
gales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gale
appropriations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌpɹoʊpɹiˈeɪʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃənz
Senses: glosses: plural of appropriation
invaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈveɪ.də(ɹ)z/
Senses: glosses: plural of invader
detectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detective
cellars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellar
builders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of builder
builders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of builders' tea (builder's tea).
ducats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ducat
squadrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squadron
squadrons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squadron
handkerchiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handkerchief
constituents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constituent
utterances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌtəɹənsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of utterance
thickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thicket
monasteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monastery
electors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛktɚz/
ipa: /əˈlɛktɚz/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of elector
assailants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assailant
Philistines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philistine
victors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of victor
deficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deficiency
affaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affaire
precipices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precipice
groats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groat
astronomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astronomer
Bunsen pile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bunsen piles
Etymology: Named for Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An early electrical battery using multiple cells of zinc and graphite in dilute chromic acid.
wikipedia: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Related terms: Bunsen cell
landaulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landaulets
form: landaulette
Etymology: From landau + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small landau.
Bunsen cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bunsen cells
Etymology: Named for Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An early electrical battery using zinc and graphite in dilute chromic acid.
wikipedia: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Related terms: Bunsen pile
couverture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuvərtʃ(ʊ)ər/
Forms: form: couvertures
form: coverture
Etymology: Borrowed from French couverture. Doublet of coverture.
Senses: glosses: Chocolate prepared for covering cakes and sweets; a covering of such chocolate.
glosses: Alternative spelling of coverture.
Related terms: fondant
ganache
shell
tempering
Confucianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Confucianisms
Etymology: From Confucian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A third important part of Confucianism is the concept of chun tzu or "ideal gentlemanly behavior." Confucius believed that the ideal man "is kind and upholds moral principles. He is a man who loves learning, who is calm and perfectly at ease and constantly careful of his own conduct, believing that by example he has great influence over society."
ref: 1981 September 27, “Humanism is still alive and well”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 38, Taipei, page 2:
glosses: The philosophy and teaching of Confucius, which emphasizes self-cultivation, collective harmony, righteousness and the family structure.
examples: text: The Chinese New Year holiday period, being disrupted this year by the outbreak of a viral illness, has evolved over more than 3,000 years to become the most important of China’s traditional festivals.
As celebrated in China and in many other places where its known as the Lunar New Year, it is largely a secular holiday, yet it includes rituals and traditions that derive from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as from ancient myths and folk religions.
ref: 2020 January 23, David Crary, “Chinese New Year secular now but kept religious underpinning”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2022:
glosses: The school of thought and philosophy centered on Confucian principles, originating in China, including later teachings of scholars such as Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi).
glosses: A saying, epithet or idea attributed to Confucius.
Synonyms: Ruism
Derived terms: Confucian
Confucianist
Confucianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Confucianism
social security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system whereby the state either through general or specific taxation provides various benefits to help ensure the wellbeing of its citizens.
glosses: Those benefits paid under such a system.
glosses: A specific such social benefit providing income in retirement or disability.
Derived terms: social security number
deliverer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deliverers
Etymology: From deliver + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who delivers.
examples: text: "Thus, even thus, have I lived for full two thousand years [...] tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire - without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led on only down my dreary road by the marsh lights of Hope, which, though they flickered here and there, and now glowed strong, and now were not, yet, as my skill told me, would one day lead unto my deliverer."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: One who brings deliverance.
Synonyms: deliveryperson
inquirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkwaɪ.əɹə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inquirers
form: enquirer
Etymology: From inquire + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who inquires.
Synonyms: asker
inquirist
inquisitor
interrogator
querent
questioner
Derived terms: coinquirer
anatiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From Latin anas, anat- (“duck”) + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: Thomas Browne (1646), Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book III: “[I]f there be anatiferous trees, whoſe corruption breaks forth into Bernacles, yet if they corrupt, they degenerate into maggots, which not produce them again.”
glosses: Producing ducks. Formerly used of barnacles, since it was believed that they produced ducks and geese.
Related terms: barnacle goose
spontaneous generation
preserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈzɝvɝ/
Forms: form: preservers
Etymology: From preserve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Like lightning Numa turned upon this new enemy, and, defenseless as he was, Tarzan of the Apes was nearer to death that instant than he ever before had been. It was the black who saved him. The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123:
glosses: One who preserves.
glosses: A life preserver.
glosses: A person who refinishes furniture.
glosses: A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
Derived terms: life preserver
Related terms: preservation
preserve
polypus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑlɪpəs/
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪpəs/
Forms: form: polypi
form: polypuses
Etymology: From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of polyp.
Senses: examples: text: The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc.
ref: 1898, Werner's magazine, volume 20:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical phenomenon.
A polyp.
topics: hematology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical phenomenon.
A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
examples: text: He had been becalmed in the tropical seas, and had watched, in eager expectation, though unhappily always in vain, to see the colossal polypus rise from the water, and entwine its enormous arms round the masts and the rigging.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VII:
text: From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:
glosses: An aquatic creature.
A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish.
glosses: An aquatic creature.
Any of various simple aquatic invertebrates having mouths surrounded by tentacles, including hydrozoa and anthozoa; including the sessile life stages of organisms whose corresponding free-swimming stage is the medusa.
post-mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As the physician can obtain the faculty of making correct diagnoses of obscure diseases only by carefully attending to ante-mortem symptoms and post-mortem examinations, so the engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.
ref: 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of post mortem.
post-mortem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-mortems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of post mortem.
unsuspecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuspecting
form: most unsuspecting
Etymology: From un- + suspecting.
Senses: examples: text: He easily shot the unsuspecting target.
text: One by one grotesque forms emerged from the jungle to creep stealthily upon the unsuspecting woman.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193:
text: To unsuspecting eyes these mongoose relatives can seem eminently pettable.
ref: 2008 June 20, Edward Rothstein, “Critters of a Wondrous Isle, Meet Your Friend and Foe”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not suspecting; without any suspicion.
meteorological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmitiəɹəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˌmiːtɪəɹəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
Etymology: From meteorology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The trip was postponed because the meteorological conditions were so bad.
glosses: Of or pertaining to meteorology.
Synonyms: word: meteorologic
Derived terms: agrometeorological
astrometeorological
biometeorological
hydrometeorological
mesometeorological
meteorological bomb
meteorologically
meteotsunami
micrometeorological
nonmeteorological
radarmeteorological
unmeteorological
cop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cop shops
Etymology: From cop (“police officer”) + shop (“workplace”).
Senses: examples: text: 1977-1984, Cop Shop (title of an Australian television series).
text: Billy Suggs spotted Sam standing outside the cop shop when he still was two blocks away.
ref: 2005, Steve Brewer, Boost, page 42:
text: “Could you go up the cop shop and bring Paul home again” said Heather.
ref: 2007, Rachel Bramble, Stephanie Clover, page 47:
text: He then drove up to the township and dragged me inside the cop shop.
ref: 2011, Robert Watkins, A Face in the Crowd, page 40:
glosses: A police station.
hidden agenda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidden agendas
Senses: glosses: A wish (and plan) to implement a particular idea without telling anybody, even though people may be affected in a negative way.
Related terms: word: by-end
word: by-purpose
alt: pedagogy
word: hidden curriculum
word: ulterior motive
uninjured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + injured.
Senses: examples: text: Of the three, two were hurt and went to hospital, but the uninjured one made her way home.
glosses: That did not suffer injury.
uninjured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + injured.
Senses: examples: text: The driver was hurt and went to hospital whilst the uninjured passengers went home.
glosses: One or many people or objects that have not suffered injury.
barrenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrennesses
Etymology: From Middle English bareynnesse; equivalent to barren + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ‘She has come with a garment of sorrow and barrenness; she will return with a garment of twins.’
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 257:
glosses: The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
sluggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluggishnesses
Etymology: From sluggish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
examples: text: And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.
ref: 2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:
glosses: The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
incitement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/
Forms: form: incitements
form: encitement
Etymology: From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
text: Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.
ref: 2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times:
text: In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.
ref: 2020 April 8, Charlie Warzel, “Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
Derived terms: nonincitement
unhallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhallowed
form: most unhallowed
Etymology: From Middle English unhalowyd; equivalent to un- + hallowed.
Senses: examples: text: The murderer was buried in unhallowed ground.
text: Gra[tiano]. O be thou damn’d, inexecrable dog, / And for thy life let iuſtice be accuſde; / Thou almoſt mak’ſt me wauer in my faith, / To hold opinion with Pythagoras, / That ſoules of Animals infuſe themſelues / Into the trunks of men: Thy curriſh ſpirit / Gouern’d a Wolfe, who, hang’d for humane ſlaughter, / Euen from the gallowes did his fell ſoule fleete, / And whilſt thou layeſt in thy vnhallowed dam, / Infuſde it ſelfe in thee: for thy deſires / Are woluiſh, bloody, ſtaru’d and rauenous.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Dead and Living Meet”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, pages 238–239:
text: Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […]
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: In the service of Venus ghastly and unhallowed crimes have been committed, men have braved tempestuous dangers, have renounced magnificence, power, and possessions, confirming the almost thaumaturgic virtue of ‘All for love.’
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i:
glosses: Not hallowed or blessed; unholy.
Derived terms: unhallowedness
petulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtjʊləns/
ipa: /ˈpɛt͡ʃələns/
Forms: form: petulances
Etymology: From Middle French pétulance, and its source, Latin petulantia.
Senses: examples: text: [W]ise men knew, that that, which looked like pride in some, and like petulance in others, would, by experience in affairs, and conversation amongst men, both of which most of them wanted, be in time wrought off […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: Rudeness, insolence.
examples: text: I believe I was guilty of a petulance, which nothing but my uneasy situation can excuse; if that can.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXIX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: An insolent remark or act.
examples: text: She […] had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance, and yet unable to discontinue it.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Another Love Scene”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 40:
synonyms: caprice
capriciousness
moodiness
tetchiness
glosses: Childish impatience or sulkiness; testiness.
hereabout
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌhɪəɹəˈbaʊt/
Forms: form: hereabouts
Etymology: From here + about.
Senses: glosses: About this; concerning this.
examples: text: I am sure my grandmother lived hereabout.
glosses: Close to; nearby.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
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whenas
whenever
whenso
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whenceafter
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wheresoever
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whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
untroubled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untroubled
form: most untroubled
Etymology: From un- + troubled.
Senses: examples: text: Once the exams were over, she enjoyed untroubled sleep once more.
glosses: Without worries; free from care.
untroubled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of untrouble
disposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disposers
Etymology: From dispose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (sentient agent type) decider, determiner
text: the disposer of all things [Allah]
text: Offer the PCB waste to transporters, disposers, or commercial storers of PCB waste who have not received an EPA identification number.
ref: 2005, Code of Federal Regulations, page 699:
glosses: One who or that which disposes or disposes of something.
Derived terms: food waste disposer
alimentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alimentations
Etymology: Borrowed from French alimentation.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alimony.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Nourishment, as a process or as a substance.
glosses: A French delicatessen.
Derived terms: hyperalimentation
hypoalimentation
realimentation
superalimentation
unmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈmænli/
Forms: form: more unmanly
form: most unmanly
Etymology: From un- + manly.
Senses: examples: text: He had acted unmanly, unworthy of a gentleman.
ref: 1878, The Christian Monitor, volume 17, page 298:
text: "That means that we shan't quarrel if I agree to whatever you are going to propose. What is it you want to say?" he asked, becoming grave in his turn. "Is it that I have behaved unmanly in visiting your room in your absence? Why cavil about a little thing of that sort? I do this for you as I would for Dora."
ref: 1900, Pauline Hopkins, Contending forces : a romance illustrative of negro life north and south:
text: A Yankee who had not "acclimated" well but had retained his native habit of "arguing" things, came to Riddle's one day, and after some talk about a stray horse, intimated that Mr. Riddle had behaved unmanly in the matter. Wi-ne-ma taking in the situation, pitched into Mr. Yank, and before he knew it, his head was bleeding profusely and a strong hand was grasping his throat. He fought back as best he could, but the poor little Yank was in the hands of an enraged Modoc woman, who was pelting him in the face, saying between her licks, "I'll learn you how you talk about my man."
ref: 1914, Jeff C. Davis Riddle, The Indian history of the Modoc war, and the causes that led to it:
glosses: In a manner that is unmanly.
Related terms: unwomanly
evolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evolve
personify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɒnɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: personifies
form: personifying
form: personified
form: personified
Etymology: From French personnifier. By surface analysis, person + -ify or person(a) + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
antonyms: unpersonify
glosses: To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
examples: text: The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
text: If ever any of the girls had taken a fancy to personify their good genius, they would certainly have given to his image all they remembered of "Uncle Frank."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 73:
antonyms: unpersonify
glosses: To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.
Derived terms: dispersonify
personifiable
personifier
unpersonified
Related terms: personification
personifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of personify
personifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of personify
personifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personifyings
Senses: examples: text: […] rejecting poetic pantheism and sentimental Romantic personifyings of inanimate things.
ref: 1960, John Cowie Reid, Francis Thompson: Man and Poet, page 179:
glosses: Personification.
personified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of personify
guider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guiders
Etymology: From Middle English gider, gyder, equivalent to guide + -er. Compare Old French guidëor.
Senses: synonyms: guide
glosses: One who guides.
glosses: A person in charge of an almshouse.
Derived terms: guidership
guidress
conciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conciliations
Etymology: From Middle French conciliation.
Senses: glosses: The process of bringing peace and harmony; the ending of strife.
topics: law
glosses: A form of alternative dispute resolution, similar to but less formal than mediation, in which the parties bring their dispute to a neutral third party, who helps lower tensions, improve communications and explore possible solutions.
Derived terms: conciliation cross
conciliationism
conciliationist
Related terms: reconciliation
atonement
insufficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnsəˈfɪʃənsi/
Forms: form: insufficiencies
Etymology: From in- + sufficiency.
Senses: examples: text: The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.
text: She may crowd her days with gaiety, variety, and what are called amusements; she will do so only to find their insufficiency.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: On a recent trip down the Rhine many of the trains we saw were still steam-hauled, presumably through an insufficiency of electric locomotives, as yet, to deal with peak summer traffic.
ref: 1962 October, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: Rhine right-bank line re-signalling”, in Modern Railways, page 276:
synonyms: word: unsufficiency
glosses: The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
Derived terms: diploinsufficiency
haploinsufficiency
immunoinsufficiency
pancreatic insufficiency
thoracic insufficiency syndrome
dermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɜːməɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)məl
Etymology: From derm + -al. First attested in the early 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: The dermal muscles in the face are used to form expressions.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: dermic
dermatic
glosses: Of or pertaining to skin or integument (or other forms of tissue)
Derived terms: dermal bone
dermally
ectodermal
electrodermal
exodermal
extradermal
gastrodermal
hypodermal
interdermal
intradermal
monodermal
neodermal
nondermal
oculodermal
osteodermal
paradermal
peridermal
protodermal
subdermal
transdermal
dermal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈdɜːməɫ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: dermals
Etymology: From derm + -al. First attested in the early 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Anchors with holes in the heel and toe of the foot are for dermals that are meant to be permanent. As the piercing heals, the tissue attaches to the foot around the holes, anchoring it in.
ref: 2013, Genia Gaffaney, The Art of Body Piercing:
glosses: A body piercing consisting of an object positioned partially below and partially above the skin.
relaxant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈlæksənt/
Forms: form: relaxants
Senses: glosses: A drug or other agent that promotes relaxation.
Derived terms: muscle relaxant
myorelaxant
cubic yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic yards
Senses: glosses: A unit of volumetric measurement equivalent to a cube one yard in each dimension.
bad-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: worse-tempered
form: more bad-tempered
form: worst-tempered
form: most bad-tempered
Senses: examples: text: His bad-tempered outburst caught his friends by surprise.
text: Jack is the most bad-tempered and violent man I know.
synonyms: word: foul-tempered
word: ill-tempered
word: ill-natured
word: choleric
word: surly
word: zowerswopped
antonyms: good-tempered
glosses: Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.
Derived terms: bad-temperedly
bad-temperedness
headpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌpis/
Forms: form: headpieces
Etymology: From head + piece.
Senses: glosses: The head; the brain.
synonyms: headgear
coordinate_terms: hairpiece
glosses: Something covering the head.
A protective cover for the head; a helmet.
synonyms: headgear
coordinate_terms: hairpiece
glosses: Something covering the head.
A headdress.
examples: Meronyms: mouthpiece, earpiece
glosses: A headset.
synonyms: headcollar
glosses: A headstall.
examples: text: Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in magohany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 214:
glosses: A headboard of a bed.
examples: text: A view of a Wenford train headed by this locomotive forms the headpiece to the present article.
ref: 1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 643:
topics: media
printing
publishing
coordinate_terms: frontispiece
glosses: A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
examples: Near-synonym: head
glosses: The top piece or part of any of various things.
teammate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːmˌmeɪt/
Forms: form: teammates
Etymology: From team + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: Pass the ball to your teammate.
coordinate_terms: coworker
workmate
glosses: One who is on the same team.
conservator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɝ.və.tɚ/
ipa: [kənˈsɝ.və.ɾɚ]
Forms: form: conservators
form: conservatour
Etymology: From Middle English conservatour, from Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin cōnservātor (“one who conserves”), agent noun from cōnservō (“I preserve”).
Senses: examples: text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Chlouveraki, a tenacious archaeological conservator, has salvaged antiquities all over the Middle East.
text: the great Creator and Conservator of the world
ref: 1726, William Derham, Physico-Theology:
glosses: One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
examples: text: The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
text: The Governor [of Missouri] is […] the conservator of the peace
ref: 1839, John Bouvier, Law Dictionary:
topics: law
glosses: A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
glosses: An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
glosses: A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
Derived terms: conservatorial
conservator of the peace
conservatorship
subconservator
Related terms: conservatee
conservation
conservative
claimant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkleɪ.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪmənt
Forms: form: claimants
Etymology: From Old French and Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from Latin clāmō (“to cry out”), equivalent to claim + -ant. Compare clamant.
Senses: examples: text: “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: One who claims; one who makes a claim.
glosses: A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
topics: law
glosses: The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
Derived terms: counterclaimant
non-claimant
nonclaimant
proclaimant
pro-claimant
consignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsaɪnmənt/
rhymes: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: consignments
Etymology: From consign + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: To E. M. McVicker and Co., Southampton, England. "We undertake no guarantee for goods damaged in transit. As soon as the consignment was taken on board we drew your captain's attention to the fact that the vessel was unsuitable for the transport of Robots, and we are therefore not responsible for spoiled freight. We beg to remain for Rossum's Universal Robots. Yours truly."
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
text: In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
glosses: A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
glosses: The act of consigning.
glosses: The sale of one's own goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor, in exchange for a portion of the sale price, and with the consigner retaining ownership of the goods until they are sold or abandoned.
Derived terms: consignment note
consignment shop
nonconsignment
reconsignment
Related terms: consignee
consignor
in transit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It is important to maintain the correct temperature for perishable goods in transit.
glosses: In the process of being transported.
colorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorers
form: colourer
Etymology: From color + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who colors.
Synonyms: colorist
colorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorists
form: colourist
Etymology: From color + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
ref: 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
glosses: A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
glosses: One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.
brigadier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪɡəˈdɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brigadiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French brigadier. Equivalent to brigade + -ier.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A field officer of the highest grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7.
glosses: Ellipsis of brigadier general.
examples: text: The supervisory staff of the farm did their work well, according to the source. All the brigadiers were old, experienced workers who knew their business.
ref: 1952, The Soviet Bloc as Reported by Former Nationals Interview Report:
glosses: The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.
Synonyms: brigadier general
senior colonel
Coordinate terms: commodore
Derived terms: brigadier general
brigadiership
subbrigadier
Related terms: word: commodore admiral
word: fleet captain
english: lower half
translation: lower half
word: rear admiral
word: senior captain
dessertspoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dessertspoons
form: dessert spoon
form: dsp.
form: dstspn.
Etymology: From dessert + spoon.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure, being equivalent to two teaspoons or two-thirds of a tablespoon, or approximately 10 millilitres; a dessertspoonful.
glosses: More generally, that volume of a substance which is contained within a dessert spoon.
glosses: An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.
uncaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncaring
form: most uncaring
Etymology: From un- + caring.
Senses: examples: text: His uncaring attitude did not win him many friends.
synonyms: word: indifferent
word: unconcerned
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
word: alexithymic
word: apathistical
word: clinical
word: dull
word: cold-blooded
word: cold-hearted
word: dead inside
word: dispassionate
word: emotionless
word: immovable
word: impassible
word: impassive
word: insensible
word: nonemotional
word: nonfeeling
word: nonpassionate
word: nonsentimental
word: stolid
word: unemotional
word: unfeeling
word: unmovable
word: unpassionate
word: unsentimental
glosses: Characterized by a lack of care; not caring.
uncaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + caring.
Senses: examples: text: To accomplish this end, each of the three components contains two levels: verbal caring and uncaring, nonverbal caring and uncaring, and technically competent and incompetent behavior.
ref: 1988, Madeleine M. Leininger, Care, Discovery and Uses in Clinical and Community Nursing:
glosses: Lack or absence of caring
neckline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛkˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: necklines
Etymology: From neck + line.
Senses: glosses: The line formed by the edge of an article of clothing that surrounds the neck, especially as seen at the front.
Derived terms: bateau neckline
boat neckline
heart neckline
necklined
plunging neckline
scoop neckline
sweetheart neckline
Related terms: hemline
springy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹɪŋi/
rhymes: -ɪŋi
Forms: form: springier
form: springiest
Etymology: From spring + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The soft peat was springy under her feet.
text: The hard woods were used for pegging, the soft woods for cradling the load and the springy woods for carrying it.
ref: 2013, Eric Sloane, Weather Almanac, →ISBN, page 48:
text: What returning director Genndy Tartakovsky reveres is animation—and not necessarily the wonders of photorealistic follicle creation or impeccably rendered water, but the kind of gloriously exaggerated movement, the stretchy and springy caricature, that enlivens many classic cartoons.
ref: , Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018:
text: We had now reach'd the closest point of union; but when he backened to come on the fiercer, as if I had been actuated by a fear of losing him, in the height of my fury I twisted my legs round his naked loins, the flesh of which, so firm, so springy to the touch, quiver'd again under the pressure
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: That returns rapidly to its original form (as a spring does) after being bent, compressed, stretched, etc.
examples: text: Shangrila and Linda is an outstandingly uneven book -- sometimes it's fun and springy, and other times it's irritating and boring.
ref: 1982 April 10, Andrea Loewenstein, “Daily Life”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: Every step—a light click of the heel and then a springy step, optimistic, perhaps a bit contemptuous.
ref: 2005, Adam Zachary Newton, The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: Lively; bouncy.
examples: text: It was springy weather after Easter, and she wore a pale lavender silk dress with myriad little ruchings down the front, each edged with a narrow band of real lace.
ref: 1947, Gulielma Fell Alsop, Deer Creek: The Story of a Golden Childhood, page 276:
text: We had a blizzard, a thaw, a spell of springy weather, and James baked me a heart-shaped white clam pizza for Valentine's Day.
ref: 2014, Kitty Burns Florey, Vigil for a Stranger, →ISBN:
text: After our few brief days of springy weather it surely is a sudden change.
ref: 2015, Marian Baldwin, Canteening Overseas 1917-1919:
glosses: Characteristic of the spring season.
glosses: Of land, having many springs (of water).
Synonyms: sense: that returns to its original form
word: bouncy
sense: that returns to its original form
word: elastic
sense: that returns to its original form
word: resilient
sense: lively
word: bouncy
sense: lively
word: jaunty
sense: lively
word: energetic
sense: lively
word: vigorous
sense: characteristic of spring
word: springlike
sense: characteristic of spring
word: mild
Derived terms: springily
springiness
unspringy
springiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From springy + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: bounce
bounciness
elasticity
resilience
spring
glosses: the property of being springy.
picker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pickers
Etymology: From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The apple picker climbed the tree.
text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:
glosses: Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
examples: text: Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.
ref: 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: "Farmers can't get sufficient fruit pickers," he said. "It is the same pool of labour, agency staff [who are] largely eastern European [and] a huge number of them Polish."
ref: 2021 August 27, “Fruit picker shortage spreads to Christmas workers”, in BBC News, United States, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025:
glosses: Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
examples: text: date picker
text: file picker
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any user interface control that selects something.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
qualifier: gold panning
glosses: A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
glosses: One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
glosses: A pilferer.
Hyponyms: cherry picker
cotton picker
gooseberry-picker
hop picker
nit-picker
nose-picker
sally-picker
stock picker
stock-picker
waste picker
wig-picker
Derived terms: berrypicker
bone-picker
bowpicker
G2P
goods-to-person
goods-to-picker
lockpicker
nutpicker
parts-to-picker
peckerhead
picker-to-goods
picker-to-parts
picker-up
picker-upper
picker-upperer
ragpicker
shitpicker
sternpicker
stockpicker
toothpicker
winkle picker
winkle-picker
wool picker