cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pile-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pile-ups
form: pileup
Etymology: Deverbal from pile up.
Senses: examples: text: Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.
text: Pinot was among those involved in the huge pile-up just as the race entered the final three kilometres. Grazes were visible under his torn clothing as he pedalled, with a face like thunder, to the finish line.
ref: 2020 August 29, Jeremy Whittle, “Alexander Kristoff takes Tour de France yellow jersey after day of crashe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially
A pile of crashed vehicles due to a traffic accident.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially
A pile of tackling players.
examples: text: If the supervisor deals with daily workload in an orderly way and does not put pressure on the employee about a pile-up of work, then the employee's perception of pressure will be reduced and the employee will not suffer from work pressure stress.
ref: 2001, Gavriel Salvendy, Handbook of Industrial Engineering: Technology and Operations Management, →ISBN:
text: Evidently, the annealing in NO ambient results in a pile-up of nitrogen at the oxide/SiC interface and this results in a reduction of interface states near the conduction band edge of 4H-SiC [16,30,31].
ref: 2002, Carl-Mikael Zetterling, Process Technology for Silicon Carbide Devices, →ISBN, page 107:
text: Cusp-like trapezoidal shaping functions have been shown to produce the best signal-to-noise ratio and still maintain short duration to avoid pile-up of events.
ref: 2004, G. Molnar, Handbook of Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis: With Neutron Beams, →ISBN:
text: Because family crises evolve and are resolved over a period of time, families seldom are dealing with a single stressor, but rather, our longitudinal data suggest they experience a pile-up of stressors and strains (i.e., demands), particularly in the aftermath of a major stressor, such as a death, a major role change for one member, or a natural disaster.
ref: 2014, Hamilton I Mc Cubbin, Marvin B Sussman, Social Stress and the Family, →ISBN:
glosses: An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome.
Synonyms: topics: American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: dogpile
Related terms: pile-on
pile up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piles up
form: piling up
form: piled up
form: piled up
Senses: examples: text: The kids piled up their boots and coats by the back door.
text: And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: In the Norwegian district of Tellemarken a cairn is piled up wherever anything fearful has happened, and every passer-by must throw another stone on it, or some evil will befall him.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 14:
text: If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: pile on
glosses: To form a pile, stack, or heap.
examples: text: The requests piled up while she was away.
text: The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
text: There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131/132:
synonyms: head up
glosses: To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.
Synonyms: word: accumulate
word: agglomerate
word: amass
word: build up
word: cumulate
word: heap
word: heap up
word: mound
word: pile
word: pile up
word: rack up
word: stack
word: stack up
word: upheap
Hypernyms: word: round up
Derived terms: word: pile-up
word: pileup
Related terms: backlog
back up
backup
get the show on the road
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the show on the road
form: getting the show on the road
form: got the show on the road
form: got the show on the road
form: gotten the show on the road
Senses: examples: text: If we're all in agreement about how to proceed, let's get the show on the road.
glosses: To begin or launch; to get going.
Related terms: keep the show on the road
misbehavior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈheɪvjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbəˈheɪvjə/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈheɪvjɚ/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbəˈheɪvjɚ/
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈhæɪvjə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˌmɪsbɪˈheːvɪjɚ/
Forms: form: misbehaviors
form: misbehaviour
Etymology: From mis- + behavior.
Senses: examples: text: The teacher did not tolerate misbehavior in his classroom.
glosses: Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.
Synonyms: sense: inappropriate conduct
word: misconduct
sense: inappropriate conduct
word: errancy
ac-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Old English āc (“oak”) (but not part of the etymology of acorn).
Senses: glosses: oak.
raw_tags: in place names
ac-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk/
ipa: /ək/
ipa: /æk/
ipa: /ək/
Etymology: * Around 1500 the c was added to some versions of the a- prefix.
* From Middle English a-, from Old French a-, from Latin ad- (“to, toward”).
Senses: examples: text: ac- + company → accompany
text: ac- + knowledge → acknowledge
glosses: to or with.
head up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heads up
form: heading up
form: headed up
form: headed up
Senses: examples: text: We want you to head up the effort to organize all the entries.
text: April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/
The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.
glosses: To lead or take the lead in; to direct; to take charge of.
glosses: To close (a cask, barrel, etc.) by fitting a head to it.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn towards the wind
Related terms: heads up
huff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌf/
ipa: /hɐf/
ipa: /hʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: huffs
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).
Senses: examples: text: With a huff, he lifted the box onto the back of the truck.
glosses: A heavy breath; a grunt or sigh.
examples: text: in a huff
text: Such wickedness had never come into his head; but he had a certain pleasure in being the confidential friend of a very pretty woman; and when he heard that that pretty woman's husband was jealous, the pleasure was enhanced rather than otherwise. On that Sunday, as he had left the house in Curzon Street, he had told Stanbury that Trevelyan [the husband] had just gone off in a huff, which was true enough, and he had walked from thence down Clarges Street, and across Piccadilly to St. James's Street, with a jauntier step than usual, because he was aware that he himself had been the occasion of that trouble.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Hard Words”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 74:
text: Tom Bower’s 2024 book, The House of Beckham, painted a rather snide portrait of the marriage, in which Beckham is constantly surrounded by lovelies, and Victoria is in a constant huff about it.
ref: 2025 May 2, Zoe Williams, Sarah Gilbert, “David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A condition of anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
examples: text: Lewd, shallow-brained huffs make atheism and contempt of religion the sole badge [...] of wit.
ref: 1667, Robert South, The Practice of Religion enforced by Reason:
glosses: One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
qualifier: draughts
glosses: The act of removing an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
huff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌf/
ipa: /hɐf/
ipa: /hʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: huffs
form: huffing
form: huffed
form: huffed
Etymology: Probably an altered spelling of earlier *hough, represented by Scots hech (“to breathe hard, pant”). Compare also German hauchen (“to breathe”).
Senses: examples: text: The run left him huffing and puffing.
glosses: To breathe heavily.
glosses: To say in a huffy manner.
examples: text: Bread huffs.
glosses: To enlarge; to swell up.
examples: text: This senseless arrogant conceit of theirs made them huff at the doctrine of repentance.
ref: 1691, Robert South, On the nature and measure of conscience:
text: After all, she huffed, Emily (played by Lily Collins) has been living in the French capital for about a year and had a Champagne brand as her client at the fictional luxury marketing firm, Savoir, where she worked.
ref: 2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
examples: text: […] I was ſent for by the marſhall, huffed and hectored ſtrangely, thretned, &c., in fine, muſte give bonds to the good behaviour; I refuſed, […]
ref: 1684 February 4, William Vaughan, “[Appendix.] XXXI. A Letter from William Vaughan, Esq. Containing a Journal of Transactions during His Imprisonment, &c. to Nathaniel Weare, Esq. Agent in London.”, in Jeremy Belknap, The History of New-Hampshire. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Re-printed for the author, published 1792, →OCLC, page lix:
text: You must not think to huff us.
ref: 1720, Laurence Echard, The history of England: from the first entrance of Julius Caesar and the Romans to the end of the reign of King James the first containing the space of 1678 years:
glosses: To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
examples: text: Signior Riccabocca had become very intimate, as we have seen, at the Parsonage. But not so at the Hall. For though the Squire was inclined to be very friendly to all his neighbours he was, like most country gentlemen, rather easily huffed.
ref: 1851, Varieties in English Life, page 42:
glosses: To vex; to offend.
glosses: To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
qualifier: draughts
glosses: To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
Derived terms: antihuff
huff and puff
huff-cap
huffcap
huffer
huffish
Hufflepuff
huff off
huff paste
huffy
in a huff
take huff
thalidomide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θəˈlɪdəˌmaɪd/
Forms: form: thalidomides
form: phthalidomide
Etymology: From (ph)thal(ic acid) + (im)ido + (i)mide.
Senses: examples: text: I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
ref: 1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194:
text: I can't stand to see your thalidomide robot face
ref: 2001, “Left Behind”, performed by Slipknot:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug sold during the late 1950s and early 1960s as a sleeping aid, and to pregnant women as an antiemetic to combat morning sickness and other symptoms, but withdrawn as causing severe birth defects, such as phocomelia; currently used to treat leprosy.
Synonyms: alt: RS
word: --(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1H-isoindole-1
word: 3(2H)dione — C13H10N2O4
Hypernyms: teratogen
Derived terms: flid
pseudothalidomide syndrome
thalidomide baby
thalidomide child
metic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtɪk/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɛtək/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: [ˈmɛɾək]
homophone: medic
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: metics
Etymology: From Late Latin metycus (also metoecus), from Ancient Greek μέτοικος (métoikos, “foreigner, metic”).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there.
Related terms: helot
watch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: watches out
form: watching out
form: watched out
form: watched out
Etymology: watch + out
Senses: examples: text: Watch out for low doorways, so you don’t hit your head.
text: Being exiled from the Nexus was a huge shock, I still can't believe Tann did that. But at least Sloane's watching out for us and giving us whatever land we want. We hope to make a life out here and we've got our very own lakeside property with a view.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Fresh start:
glosses: To be aware or conscious; to look closely or carefully; to use caution. Often used in the imperative.
Synonyms: to beware
to get away
to heed
to mind
Derived terms: word: watchout
Related terms: careful
caution
caveat
watch out
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: watch out !
Etymology: watch + out
Senses: glosses: Used to warn someone of an imminent danger.
Related terms: beware
look out
watch it
xiphocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xipho- + costal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
xenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin xenia, from Ancient Greek ξενίᾱ (xeníā, “hospitality”).
Senses: topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The concept of hospitality to strangers.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The effect that genes from pollen have on the endosperm.
Derived terms: carpoxenia
metaxenia
xenial
xenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenias
Etymology: From Xenia.
Senses: examples: text: [...] keep things like elegance corals, xenias and other soft corals and polyps that don't need maximum light levels.
ref: 2001, Freshwater and Marine Aquarium, volume 24:
text: Corals such as pulsing xenia will be fine if left above the waterline for short amounts of time during water [changes ... I'm fine with] xenias being exposed to air for a relatively brief period.
ref: 2009, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 57:
glosses: A coral of the genus Xenia of photosynthetic soft marine corals with many-branched arms which pulse and push water around the coral.
xenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenium
androphilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˌæn.dɹoʊˈfɪ.li.ə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Etymology: From andro- + -philia.
Senses: coordinate_terms: gynephilia
gynophilia
glosses: A love of or sexual attraction to men or masculinity.
Derived terms: androphile
androphilous
androphily
autoandrophilia
androphile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: androphiles
Etymology: From andro- + -phile, from androphilia.
Senses: examples: text: According to the age of the attracting person homosexuals are divisible into ephebophiles (lovers of youths, 14-21), androphiles (grown men up to the period of old age),[…] The corresponding divisions in women are parthenophiles (lovers of young women, virgins), gynecophiles (lovers of adult women), grasphiles (lovers of old women), and korophiles (lovers of undeveloped girls).
ref: 1914, L. Pierce Clark, “A critical digest of some of the newer work upon homosexuality in man and woman”, in State Hospital Bulletin, volume VII, New York State Hospital Commission, page 352:
glosses: One who is attracted to masculinity or to men.
Coordinate terms: gynephile
gynophile
Muhamed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Muhammad (the prophet who introduced Islam).
Mehmed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
recyclability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recyclabilities
Etymology: From recycle + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recyclable.
apostil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostils
form: postil
form: postille
form: postile
form: postle
form: apostille
form: apostle
Etymology: From French postille (“marginal note”), from Latin post illa (verba) (“after those (words)”).
Senses: glosses: A marginal note; a gloss.
examples: text: The deponent's signature was verified in accordance with the apostil to the Hague convention.
glosses: A method of verification for international documents.
apostil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apostils
form: apostiling
form: apostilling
form: apostiled
form: apostiled
form: apostilled
form: apostilled
form: postil
form: postille
form: postile
form: postle
form: apostille
form: apostle
Etymology: From French postille (“marginal note”), from Latin post illa (verba) (“after those (words)”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apostille.
Dinah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪnə/
rhymes: -aɪnə
homophone: diner (non-rhotic)
Etymology: From Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.
Senses: examples: text: And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
ref: Genesis 34: 1-2
glosses: A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)
examples: text: Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]
ref: 1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.
Related terms: Dina
almondine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(l)məndiːn/
ipa: /ˈælməndiːn/
Etymology: From Middle English almandin; equivalent to almond + -ine. Sense 2 is modelled on French almondin.
Senses: glosses: Like or of the almond or almond tree.
examples: text: You've probably heard of trout almondine, but how about cheese-baked trout, Parmesan trout, or trout with lemon rice stuffing?
ref: 2009, Katy Koontz, Insiders' Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains, page 91:
glosses: Garnished with almond slices.
Synonyms: amandine
almondine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(l)məndiːn/
ipa: /ˈælməndiːn/
Forms: form: almondines
form: almandine
form: almandite
Etymology: See almandine.
Senses: glosses: A gemstone that is either a deep red garnet or a purple spinel.
bitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Etymology: From bitch + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bitch
bitched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Forms: form: more bitched
form: most bitched
Etymology: From Middle English bicched, equivalent to bitch + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the whelping of the bitched bones two: Perjury, anger, cheating, homicide.
ref: 1934, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Urban Nicholson, Canterbury tales, rendered into modern English, page 302:
glosses: Wretched; vile; accursed; damned
examples: text: A Sussex villager told his friends that Elizabeth Best was a 'bitched whore', and offered a shilling to anyone who would drive his cart to her door and say, 'Dame, here is a cart load of whores'.
ref: 2004, Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet:
text: For example, she fought a bitched battle with the Condorloser, although she, the Boxer, was eventually vanquished.
ref: 2005, Sean Barry, John Barry, What A Zoo!:
text: Sully took a look and diagnosed a bitched spring, but said he could make a temporary repair.
ref: 2007, Nicholas Ashby, Time Pips, page 118:
text: Let us renounce the dichotomies of the bitched mandarins.
ref: 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!:
glosses: Causing difficulty; nasty; unpleasant; problematic; (intensifier) damned, bloody
apostille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostilles
form: apostil
Etymology: From French apostille (“a marginal note”), from Latin post (“after”) + illa (“these”) + verba (“words”).
Senses: glosses: A special certification established in 1961 for certifying foreign documents.
apostille
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: apostilles
form: apostilling
form: apostilled
form: apostilled
form: apostil
Etymology: From French apostille (“a marginal note”), from Latin post (“after”) + illa (“these”) + verba (“words”).
Senses: examples: text: We also sent off three copies of our marriage certificates to the State of Nevada to be “apostilled".
ref: 2003, Carrie Ostrea, Family Bound: One Couple's Journey Through Infertility and Adoption, page 95:
text: The fact that Samoa has full diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and has a Chinese Embassy is particularly helpful when legalizing or apostilling documents required for transactions and business in mainland China.
ref: 2004, Samoa: Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sector, page 19:
glosses: To authenticate an official document in accordance with the Apostille Convention.
recusancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recusancies
Etymology: From recusant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: Obstinate refusal or opposition.
glosses: The state of being a recusant; nonconformity.
Related terms: recusance
recusant
recuse
don't count your chickens before they're hatched
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched
form: don't count your chickens before they hatch
form: don't count your chickens before they've hatched
form: don't count your chicks before they hatch
form: don't count your chicks before they're hatched
form: don't count your chickens
form: don't count your chicks
Etymology: First attested in English in Thomas Howell's 1570 New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets in the couplet "Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be, / Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee", possibly deriving from similar medieval and early modern Latin fables and maxims.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Make Fools believe in their fore-seeing / Of things before they are in Being; / To swallow Gudgeons ere th' are catch'd, / And count their Chickens ere th' are hatch'd, [...]
ref: [1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto III.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 175:
synonyms: don't get your hopes up
don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
glosses: One should not depend upon a favorable (and typically overoptimistic) outcome to one's plans until it is certain to occur.
Related terms: halloo before one is out of the wood
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
out of the woods
strenuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strenuousnesses
Etymology: From strenuous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Here the debate might have moved into the political arena. For it has been clear over the past two years that the British Home Office and police do regard PIE as a corrupting organization. Hence the strenuousness with which they prosecuted this case — using a law which has, for some years, been condemned by many British legal authorities as unsafe and undesirable.
ref: 1981 February 14, Roger Moody, “Retrial for PIE Defendants”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 4:
synonyms: eagerness
earnestness
strenuosity
glosses: The state or character of being strenuous; active zeal.
jako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jakos
Senses: examples: text: Of parrots, little Jack only saw ash-gray jakos, with red tails, which abounded under the trees. But these jakos were not new to him.
ref: 1878, Jules Verne, “A Hundred Miles in Two Days”, in [anonymous], transl., Dick Sand; or, A Captain at Fifteen. […], New York, N.Y.: George Munro, […], →OCLC, part I, page 145:
text: Very little is known of these birds in their wild state, although they are brought to Europe in far greater numbers than any other species. We learn from Henglin that the habitat of the Jako extends from the western coast of Africa deep into the heart of that continent […]
ref: 1882, Rev. P. B. Power, The Home Visitor and District Companion:
text: The Jako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list.
ref: 1908, Chandler Belden Beach, The Students' Reference Work:
glosses: An African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, commonly kept as a cage bird.
isochromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isochromosomes
Etymology: From iso- + chromosome.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An abnormal chromosome in which one arm has been lost and replaced with an exact copy of the other arm.
intrigues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: noun form
enpr: ĭnʹtrēgz
ipa: /ˈɪntɹiːɡz/
note: noun form
note: verb form
enpr: ĭntrēgzʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹiːɡz/
note: verb form
Senses: glosses: plural of intrigue
intrigues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: noun form
enpr: ĭnʹtrēgz
ipa: /ˈɪntɹiːɡz/
note: noun form
note: verb form
enpr: ĭntrēgzʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈtɹiːɡz/
note: verb form
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intrigue
Kepler's equation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), German mathematician and astronomer.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: celestial mechanics
glosses: the mathematical relationship between the mean anomaly (M) and the eccentric anomaly (E) of a planet in an elliptical orbit with eccentricity (ϵ). M=E-ϵ· sin (E).
wikipedia: Johannes Kepler
Related terms: Kepler's laws
Kepler's laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kepler's law
Etymology: For Johannes Kepler, German mathematician and astronomer.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The three laws of planetary motion discovered by Kepler in the early 17th century, stating that (i) the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci, (ii) a line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time, and (iii) the square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
wikipedia: Johannes Kepler
Related terms: Kepler's equation
kernite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kern + -ite, since it comes from Kern County, California.
Senses: glosses: A hydrated borate mineral, Na₂B₄O₆(OH)₂, originally discovered in the Mojave Desert.
Synonyms: rasorite
kitty corner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitty-corner.
kitty corner
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitty-corner.
blackberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blackberry + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And the thought of that old time came upon me like a flood — the winter games at the Cedars — the blackberrying and bilberrying upon the sunshiny summer moors […]
ref: 1859, Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, Hurst and Blackett, published 1859, page 212:
text: When the harvest was over, the nutting and the blackberrying began; […]
ref: 1884, Hesba Stretton, Carola, The Religious Tract Society, page 104:
text: At that time there were no built-up areas round Harrow, and during one autumn we gathered enough blackberries for twenty-eight pounds of jam. I enjoyed the blackberrying, but I did not enjoy the walks, which averaged about five miles a day and might be over seven.
ref: 1948, Brian Lunn, Switchback: An Autobiography, Eyre & Spottiswoode, published 1948, page 20:
text: In the days of Queen Anne, Dick explains, dissenting sects like the Presbyterians were under a ban and had to educate their children in the fields, behind the blackberry hedges, so in the blackberrying season, the children's lips and cheeks were stained black with the fruit.
ref: 1993, Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, published 1995, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: The gathering of blackberries.
Related terms: bilberrying
blueberrying
raspberrying
blackberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blackberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackberry
toto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in in toto
glosses: Only used in toto caelo
glosses: Only used in toto genere
tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪk.ɪts/
rhymes: -ɪkɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of ticket
examples: text: Did you get tickets to the game tonight?
glosses: A single ticket.
Synonyms: word: tix
tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪk.ɪts/
rhymes: -ɪkɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ticket
demonstrative determiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonstrative determiners
Senses: examples: text: In the sentence "I like this music", the word "this" is a demonstrative determiner.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a determiner used to demonstrate the identity of the thing referenced by the following noun; in English, they include this, these, that and those
Related terms: possessive determiner
possessive determiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possessive determiners
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A determiner used to demonstrate the possession of the object referenced by the following noun; in English, they include my, his, her, our, your, its and their.
Synonyms: possessive adjective
Related terms: demonstrative determiner
possessional adjective
war criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: war criminals
Senses: glosses: A person guilty of one or more war crimes.
credo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹidəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹeɪdəʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹidoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹeɪdoʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: credos
form: credoes
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English credo, from Old French credo, from Latin crēdō (“to believe”); doublet of creed.
Senses: examples: text: “You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
glosses: A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
examples: text: Credo III is so beautiful!
text: Until the mid-1970s, however, most Catholic hymnals contained at least one musical setting of the creed […] By the 1980s hymnals having sung credos were mainly those devoted to "traditional" styles of church music […]
ref: 1996, Pastoral Music, volume 21, page 12:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
Derived terms: credobaptist
dress up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dresses up
form: dressing up
form: dressed up
form: dressed up
Senses: examples: text: Everyone dressed up for the graduation ball.
text: I want a job where I don't have to dress up.
text: Runners had a fun day out in Friday's HKLRRC Boxing Day Race at Wan Chai Gap with most of the participants dressed up in costumes and braving the chilly weather.
ref: 2014 December 26, Richard Castka, “Runners brave chilly weather in Boxing Day Run”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2021, Sport:
synonyms: gussy up
antonyms: dress down
glosses: To put on special or fancy clothes.
examples: text: We're having a party on Saturday, but you must dress up as a famous historical figure.
glosses: To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.
raw_tags: with 'as'
examples: text: The cat hated when they dressed him up for Halloween.
glosses: To put a costume on (someone) portraying them as a particular type of character or well-known person.
raw_tags: with 'as'
examples: text: Mistress, your father prays you leave your books,
And help to dress your sister’s chamber up:
You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To decorate; to prettify.
examples: text: You can dress up that proposal however you want; it's still going to go over like a lead balloon.
synonyms: spin
glosses: To present in a favorable light.
Coordinate terms: cosplay
Derived terms: word: dressed up
word: dress-up
dress rehearsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dress rehearsals
Senses: examples: text: We've got three dress rehearsals before the opening night to prepare ourselves for any potential technicalities.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
hypernyms: rehearsal#Noun
coordinate_terms: run-through#Noun
runthrough#Noun
walk-through#Noun
walkthrough#Noun
glosses: A rehearsal prior to a public spectacle, where all the performers are in costume, in order to test all aspects of the production by closely reproducing the actual conditions of a performance.
glosses: The final rehearsal before a performance, whether or not costumes or performance dress are worn.
examples: text: Although the train derailment ended up not being very serious, the emergency services' response served as a dress rehearsal in case of a much worse disaster.
text: Sunday, November 6, was spent in a second full-scale dress rehearsal of the complete weekday electric timetable, [...] during which the public were invited to make their first trial of the trains—and 15,000 did so.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:
text: And if anybody thinks that that was not a dress rehearsal for what they may try to attempt in January of 2025, I’m sorry to say, but I think that’s a very naïve assumption.
ref: 2024 April 12, Shane Goldmacher, quoting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, “Ocasio-Cortez Never Steered Money to a Key Arm of Her Party. Until Now.”, in The New York Times:
coordinate_terms: dry run#Noun
glosses: Any complex activity that serves to prepare for a more important iteration of it later.
erythrosine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythrosines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”) + -ine, equivalent to erythro- + -s- + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The sprinkles had the red food coloring E127, or erythrosine. E127 is only permitted for use in cocktail cherries and candied cherries in the UK and the EU, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Trading Standards sent to CNN Thursday.
ref: 2021 October 14, Jack Guy, “UK bakery banned from using sprinkles which are legal in the US”, in CNN:
text: In 1990, the FDA banned Red No. 3, also known as erythrosine, from cosmetics and topical drugs under the Delaney Clause, because the chemical was shown to be carcinogenic at high doses in tests on lab rats.
ref: 2024 December 7, Kaitlin Sullivan, “FDA may finally ban artificial red dye from beverages, candy and other foods”, in NBC News:
text: Red dye No. 3: red 3, FD&C Red No. 3 or erythrosine
ref: 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetraiodo-fluorescein, a cherry-pink fluorone used as a food colouring, in printing inks, and as a biological stain, a dental plaque disclosing agent and a radiopaque medium.
Synonyms: E127 when used as a food colouring
fluorone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorones
Etymology: From fluor- + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tricyclic heterocyclic ketone that is the basis of a class of synthetic dyestuffs.
chlorophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorophyllins
Etymology: From chlorophyll + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any water-soluble derivative of chlorophyll in which the central magnesium atom is replaced (often with copper), and a number of side-chains are converted into sodium salts.
Wenglish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛŋɡlɪʃ
Etymology: Blend of Welsh + English
Senses: glosses: A spoken mix of Welsh and English.
glosses: The dialect of the English language as spoken in Wales.
examples: text: Other words frequently used in the Welsh language, or Wenglish - a hybrid of the languages typically spoken by some in the south Wales valleys - that are used in spoken English include cariad, bach and cwtch.
ref: 2010 September 1, Laura Chamberlain, BBC:
text: The word is said to be one of the nation's favourites and has been adopted by many in the cross-over language of Wenglish, particularly popular in the south Wales valleys.
ref: 2012 January 23, Polly March, BBC:
glosses: The dialect of the English language as spoken in the South Wales valleys.
turntable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːnteɪb(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtɝnˌteɪbəl/
Forms: form: turntables
form: turntabling
form: turntabled
form: turntabled
Etymology: From turn + table.
Senses: examples: text: Traditional carols we all know. Holiday Baroque, Renaissance and medieval music is not, and therefore makes a distinctive gift for the discriminating recordphile and is certain to be turntabled other times of the year, too: […]
ref: 1982, “Holiday Music”, in Westways, volume 74, Los Angeles, Calif.: Automobile Club of Southern California, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66, column 3:
text: Rik Shaw of Deadly Dragon Soundsystem continues his weekly residency by turntabling the rudest Jamaican dance records ever pressed.
ref: 2006, Spin, volume 22, New York, N.Y.: Spin Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 101, column 2:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play (a record) using a turntable.
examples: text: Herein we see a plan wisely borrowed from America, in whose great cities the bulk of the merchandise is not carted along the streets, but turntabled into and out of the warehouse basements from an underground railway.
ref: 1919, The Architectural Review, volume 45, London: The Architectural Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 2:
text: To submerge the upper body while turntabling on the side, perform one scoop with the lower arm, or two smaller scoops with the same arm, so that the body rolls and twists from a Spearfish position on the side into an inverted Spearfish position.
ref: 1963, Beulah Gundling, Exploring Aquatic Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: International Academy of Aquatic Art, →OCLC, page 510:
text: He stopped, turned around and looked to the City, which he saw as its first buildings in the haze the subway el entered as a vanishing point. He looked into the other direction, hills beginning, turntabling a highway toward the country.
ref: 1971, Io Magazine, Richmond, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 186:
text: The Round House, a bare, gaunt railway shed designed by Stephenson in 1847, in which engines were once housed and turntabled (hence its shape and name), was in those days very flexible in its programming and in its seating arrangements; […]
ref: 1981, Nicholas Kenyon, The BBC Symphony Orchestra: The First Fifty Years, 1930–1980, London: British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISBN, page 366:
text: "Pass the loco weed," I say to a middle-aged redhead turntabling naked in the middle of the floor, no doubt wondering why her red go-go boots are nailed over the fireplace.
ref: 2006, Peter Johnson, Eduardo & “I”: Prose Poems, Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To rotate or turn around using, or as if using, a turntable.
examples: text: We particularly like hovering next to DJ Sid Wilson and seeing how he spends the large chunks of time where he's not turntabling.
ref: 2017 May 6, Zach Dionne, “Slipknot Classic ‘The Shape’ Gets a 360 Virtual Reality Live Video”, in Fuse, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2017:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To manipulate sound using turntables; to perform turntablism; to scratch
record player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: record players
form: record-player
Senses: synonyms: gramophone
phonograph
turntable
glosses: A device for playing phonograph records.
forenoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːnuːn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹnun/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfo(ː)ɹnuːn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈfoənuːn/
Forms: form: forenoons
Etymology: From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.
Senses: examples: text: You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
ref: 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1:
text: Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:
text: This, too, was why no one, not even the twins, paid Papa O. any heed when the family returned from Mass one Sunday forenoon and he told them someone had been knocking while they were away.
ref: 1945, Nelson Algren, “How the Devil Came Down Division Street”, in The Best American Short Stories, (also in The Neon Wilderness, 1947):
text: A hot sun burned down on us. Ten times during a single forenoon every stitch of clothes on one's body was soaked with perspiration, and ten times it dried again.
ref: 1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
text: It was run in by Ranochan of Polmadie on the forenoon slow to Carlisle and the afternoon slow back to the North.
ref: 1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87:
text: Desire to be alone in forenoon.
ref: 2003, Timothey Field Allen, Handbook Of Materia Medica & Homoeopathic Therapeutics, HTML edition, B. Jain Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
synonyms: word: morning
extra: the part of the day between sunrise and noon
Synonyms: foreday
morn
morning
Derived terms: midforenoon
Related terms: afternoon
viceroys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viceroy
humming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Etymology: From hum + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hum
humming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: more humming
form: most humming
Etymology: From hum + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Making a hum sound.
examples: text: But at night crowds of visitors called at his cot, / For he told a right marvellous tale; / Yet a stronger attraction by chance he had got, / A barrel of old humming ale.
ref: 1889, John Bickerdyke, The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History, page 13:
glosses: Of ale or beer: very strong.
glosses: Very bad-smelling.
Derived terms: humming October
humming stone
humming-top
humming top
humming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: hummings
Etymology: From Middle English hummynge, equivalent to hum + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There are some contemporary additions to these scattered fragments from Shakespeare. Mostly they are songs; sometimes they are various screechings and hummings[…]
ref: 1969 December 8, New York Magazine, volume 2, number 49, page 70:
glosses: The sound of something that hums; a hum.
Synonyms: word: bombination
word: buzz
word: buzzing
word: drone
word: droning
word: hum
word: humming
word: thrum
word: thrumming
word: whirr
word: whirring
word: whizz
word: whizzing
Hypernyms: word: sound
Hyponyms: word: crooning
word: girn
word: purr
word: purring
Derived terms: hummingbird
chess boxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chessboxing
Etymology: Coined by Enki Bilal in 1992
Senses: glosses: A hybrid sport involving alternating rounds of chess and boxing.
Related terms: chess boxer
chessboxer
alarm system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarm systems
Senses: glosses: A burglar alarm.
quarter note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter notes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
Synonyms: word: crotchet
tignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tignons
Etymology: From French tignon, obsolete synonym of chignon and cognate with tignasse, teigne.
Senses: glosses: An article of woman's headgear consisting of a piece of material tied in individual ways.
snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of snake
snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snake
snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sneɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: examples: text: "Snakes!" cried the impetuous Westerner, like one speaking before he could stop himself; "suppose there were something in it, after all!"
ref: 1926, G. K. Chesterton, The Incredulity of Father Brown:
glosses: Synonym of snakes alive (“expression of surprise”).
synonyms: word: snakes alive
extra: expression of surprise
shower head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shower heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of showerhead.