cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
strip mall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip malls
Senses: examples: text: April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/
Fightville resembles a real-life Foot Fist Way, in that much of the action takes place within the cinder-block walls of a strip-mall gym, this one located next to a Piggly Wiggly in Lafayette, Louisiana.
text: The karate school where she took tai chi was in a strip mall near the Three Rivers depot. There's a convenience store, a bike shop, Happy Joy Chinese, and Caputo's Martial Arts. I got out, walked to the door, opened it a crack. Twenty or so little kids in karate suits stood with their hands clasped as if in prayer. "Bow to the master, bow to the flag," the instructor said.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.9-10
glosses: A shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
Hypernyms: word: parade
word: shopping center
word: plaza
word: shopping plaza
word: mall
unrelieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrelieved
form: most unrelieved
Etymology: From un- + relieved.
Senses: examples: text: Stock is generally well maintained, and the locomotives and railcars are kept scrupulously clean. The former are painted an unrelieved black, and the latter blue and cream, while the coaches are grey.
ref: 1955 May 24, H. P. White, “The Togoland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 349:
text: Part of this movement was driven by a growing conviction among African Americans that they faced unrelieved discrimination.
ref: 2020 June 8, Ronald Brownstein, “The partisan chasm over ‘systemic racism’ is on full display”, in CNN:
glosses: Utter; complete; without relief.
snobbishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snobbishnesses
Etymology: From snobbish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being snobbish.
glosses: The result or product of being snobbish.
Synonyms: snobbiness
sneakiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sneaky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being sneaky.
Synonyms: furtiveness
stealthiness
snappily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snappily
form: most snappily
Etymology: From snappy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snappy manner.
bootle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boodle.
snobbishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snobbishly
form: most snobbishly
Etymology: From snobbish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snobbish manner.
snappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snappy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being snappy.
snappishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snappishly
form: most snappishly
Etymology: From snappish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Lucy […] was too happy and excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 4, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: In a snappish manner.
snidely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snidely
form: most snidely
Etymology: From snide + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snide manner.
snooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnuːpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snoopers
Etymology: From snoop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly was embarrassed, detected in the character of a snooper. But he had to come on, short of bolting back in his tracks.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 87:
text: Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it.
ref: 2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist:
glosses: A person who snoops.
snorkeler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snorkelers
form: snorkeller
Etymology: From snorkel + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a snorkel to do snorkeling.
snottily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snottily
form: most snottily
Etymology: From snotty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snotty manner.
snootily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snootily
form: most snootily
Etymology: From snooty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a snooty manner.
snorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snorters
Etymology: From snort + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who snorts.
examples: text: The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.
glosses: Something extraordinary or remarkable.
examples: text: The maths problem is a real snorter, isn't it?
glosses: Something that is extremely difficult.
examples: text: Both ready, and on their guard; Burke evidently waiting for Byrne to commence; but incautiously putting down his hands to wipe them on his drawers, Byrne, as quick as lightning, popped in a snorter.
ref: 1855, Frank L. Dowling, Fights for the Championship and Celebrated Prize Battles, page 128:
text: And thereupon, remembering that he had threatened to wring my nose, I gave him a snorter upon his own.
ref: 1857, George Borrow, The Romany Rye:
glosses: A punch on the nose.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A powerful gale.
Derived terms: short snorter
snorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snorter
snorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snorers
Etymology: From snore + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One snorer can keep a whole room of sleepy people awake.
text: But there, Erskine was not a snorer. And yet to look at him, or hear him sing his song, you would have taken him for a snorer, a great snorer.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who snores (or is snoring).
snorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snorer
snootiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snooty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being snooty.
glosses: The state or quality of being a snoot (word connoisseur).
snottiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From snotty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being snotty.
soapiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soapy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My new shampoo has a certain soapiness to it that makes it harder to wash out.
text: You have no idea what a useful auxiliary the Black Cabinet of another Power can become — there is no better channel for false news, and in my short experience of the trade, I find oilmen and cheesemongers most indispensable factors of the diplomatic craft, colleagues I highly value, though I don't know what my high and mighty associates in the noble task of "disuniting" Germany would say, if I ventured to trespass on the sacrosanctity of these patented federal snorers (Bundestags Schnarcher) by assimilating my greasy grocers' boys, or my cheesemongering helpmates, to the bestarred and tinselled Excellencies of the Thurn and Taxis Palace, though they would give the former a point or two in soapiness and ignorance (Seifigkeit und Unverstand).
ref: 1853, George Smith, edited by William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, Princeton University, published 1898, page 452:
text: Certain kinds of water when mixed with only a very small quantity of soap immediately produce a lather, and the water acquires that peculiar feel to the hands known as soapiness. Such water is termed soft.
ref: 1898, Science and Industry, volume 2, page 96:
glosses: The state or quality of being soapy.
stabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabbers
Etymology: From stab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14:
glosses: One who, or that which, stabs.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small marlinespike.
Derived terms: shit-stabber
stump stabber
stably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stably
form: most stably
Etymology: From stable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The new procedures for money market operations continue to be in place until the consumer price index (excluding perishables, on a nationwide statistics) registers stably a zero percent or an increase year on year.
ref: 2001, Bank of Japan, New Procedures for Money Market Operations and Monetary Easing, March 19 2001
antonyms: unstably
glosses: In a stable manner.
stably
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English stablie, from Anglo-Norman stablie.
Senses: examples: text: As described in chapter three, classic bow and stably hunting in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance involved hunters waiting on foot at stands or stations for the driven quarry to appear within bowshot.
ref: 2011, Richard Almond, Medieval Hunting, page 140:
text: Additions to the present manuscript found in no other contemporary manuscripts include passages on blowing the "prise", an account of fox-hunting, and a section on hunting with bow and stably (in which deer are driven past ready bowmen).
ref: 2011, Yale University Library, notes on: William Twiti (d. 1328), The craft of venery
text: Twiti's discussion of hunting deer with bow and a pack of greyhounds (or “stably”) to drive them past the waiting archers is similar, for example, to that in Gawain and the Green Knight, and such hunting practices are referred to in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The Franklin's Tale.
ref: 2011, John B. Friedman, review of: David Scott-Macnab, The Middle English Text of The Art of Hunting by William Twiti. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 545-547
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A medieval hunting practice in which a group of hunters and hounds are stationed around the perimeter of a wood during a hunt to prevent the escape of the game.
staffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staffers
Etymology: From staff + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The politician had a staffer send out the prepared statement.
text: But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN.
ref: 2025 April 25, Priscilla Alvarez, Sunlen Serfaty, Marshall Cohen and Tami Luhby, “DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say”, in CNN:
glosses: A member of a staff; an employee.
staffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staffer
stagecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stagecrafts
Etymology: From stage + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: To be a professional actor you need to learn stagecraft.
text: For all the costume changes and the stagecraft – the gig starts with a camera crew following Murphy backstage – these are not the show’s most memorable takeaways. It’s the music
ref: 2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The skills of the theater.
examples: text: Lighting is a very technical stagecraft.
glosses: A specific skill of the theater.
stagecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagecraft
stagehand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪd͡ʒˌhænd/
Forms: form: stagehands
Etymology: From stage + hand (“manual worker”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: stage crew
text: The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.
coordinate_terms: stage manager
glosses: A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.
stagehands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stagehand
staggeringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more staggeringly
form: most staggeringly
Etymology: From staggering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ancient city was staggeringly beautiful.
text: ‘Yes,’ said Slartibartfast, ‘staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so.[…]’
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 111:
text: Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 254:
text: As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
text: Green can be a double-edged sword. Does it make sense for an eco-warrior to arrive at (say) the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in his Tesla electric car, get out in his low-carbon vegan trainers, and then step into a 19th century means of transport that is staggeringly inefficient and pretty darn polluting?
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 54:
text: Her fanbase is staggeringly large, with 53% of Americans saying they are fans and 16% identifying as “avid fans”, according to a March 2023 Morning Consult poll.
ref: 2024 February 8, Carter Sherman, “Could Taylor Swift really swing the 2024 presidential election?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2024:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a breathtaking degree.
examples: text: He made his way staggeringly to the bar.
topics: manner
glosses: Moving with a stagger.
staidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more staidly
form: most staidly
Etymology: From staid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a staid manner.
staleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stalenesses
Etymology: From stale + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stale.
glosses: The result or product of being stale.
staidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staidnesses
Etymology: From staid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to say whether Mr. John Dounce's red countenance, illuminated as it was by the flickering gas-light in the window before which he paused, excited the lady's risibility, or whether a natural exuberance of animal spirits proved too much for that staidness of demeanour which the forms of society rather dictatorially prescribe.
ref: 1836, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in Sketches of Boz:
text: [T]here was a staidness and sobriety about her demeanour that kept all impertinence at a distance.
ref: 1887, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 22, in Under the Storm:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being staid.
sputa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sputum
Fries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: frees
homophone: frieze
Etymology: The town was named after a prominent cotton-mill owner, Francis Henry Fries. The surname is converged from both Friesland and French friche (“fallow land”), found in Swiss French.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Virginia.
Arabist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɹəbɪst/
Forms: form: Arabists
Etymology: From Arab + -ist.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language.
glosses: One who followed the Arabic system of medicine or (more broadly) scholarship.
topics: government
politics
glosses: One that wants to spread Arabic culture; an Arab nationalist.
Arabist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɹəbɪst/
Forms: form: more Arabist
form: most Arabist
Etymology: From Arab + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Arabism; medieval Arabic scholarship.
glosses: Pertaining to the study of Arabic language or culture.
examples: text: Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police.
ref: 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 24:
glosses: Pertaining to Arab nationalism; promoting Arab interests.
staphylococcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more staphylococcal
form: most staphylococcal
Etymology: From staphylococcus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to staphylococcus.
Derived terms: staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
starer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starers
Etymology: From stare + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who stares.
starers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starer
stagnantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stagnantly
form: most stagnantly
Etymology: From stagnant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Andrew, Mina's husband! Ursula turned from her to him. The veins in his forehead stood out stagnantly; his blood-red eyes looked mournfully, helplessly at Ursula's, filling swiftly with maternal solicitude.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 251:
glosses: In a stagnant manner.
starless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A globe far off / It seemed, now seems a boundless continent / Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of Night / Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 422-6:
text: The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 11, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: A searchlight wounded the starless dark.
ref: 1931, Sinclair Lewis, “Ring Around a Rosy”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, Dell, published 1962, page 160:
text: 1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15,
Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,
text: A hotel's enormous neon name challenged the starless sky.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, Dell, published 1985, Book One, Chapter 1, p. 10:
text: […] there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 35:
text: The starless night was very dark.
synonyms: unstarry
glosses: Without visible stars.
Related terms: nonstarred
unstarred
cloudless
moonless
sunless
strenuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strenuously
form: most strenuously
Etymology: From strenuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By my direction, however, the head of his unwieldy machine was so critically pointed that, feeling him foreright against the tender opening, a favourable motion from me met his timely thrust, by which the lips of it, strenuously dilated, gave way to his thus assisted impetuosity, so that we might both feel that he had gain'd a lodgement.
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
text: Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 154:
text: Not only did I oppose President George H.W. Bush on his China policy, I strenuously disagreed with Democratic President Bill Clinton on his trade and human rights policies toward China and Tibet as well. This was difficult because I otherwise greatly supported and admired his leadership.
ref: 2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 96–97:
text: Journalists are strenuously objecting to the plan.
ref: 2017 March 10, Brian Stelter, “Journalists outraged by Tillerson's plan to travel without press”, in CNN Business:
text: [W]hen Chauvin’s trial for his alleged role in Floyd’s death begins, much of the argument will center instead on the autopsy details, most specifically whether fentanyl and underlying health conditions — not the police officer’s actions — stopped Floyd’s heart and lungs. Seven experts in toxicology, cardiology and illegal drug use consulted by The Washington Post largely disagreed with that idea, most of them strenuously.
ref: 2021, Lenny Bernstein and Holly Bailey, At the heart of Derek Chauvin’s trial is this question: What killed George Floyd?, in: The Washington Post, March 11 2021
glosses: In a strenuous manner.
strati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratus
claymation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkleɪˌmeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: claymations
Etymology: A blend of clay + animation. Originally registered as a trademark by Will Vinton in 1978, then entered the English language as a genericized trademark.
Senses: examples: text: As my friends deserted our weekend movie-making for more teenagerly pastimes, I had turned to the cold, clean world of claymation and animated LEGOs.
ref: 2011, Philips Patton, Angela, page 286:
glosses: stop-motion animation where each animated piece is made from a deformable substance, typically Plasticine clay.
Derived terms: claymate
streaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹiːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: streakier
form: streakiest
Etymology: From streak + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having streaks.
examples: text: Although the two added thirteen important runs, including four byes let through by Mongia and a streaky outside edge cum late-cut by Pollock for four, one didn't need to be blessed with gifts of insight to realise that Pollock's days at the crease were numbered.
ref: 2001, Luke Alfred, Lifting the Covers: Inside South African Cricket:
text: ...rather than hitting it with the middle of the bat, I jagged it off the inside edge and French-cut it over the top of the stumps for another four. That was the only streaky shot I can remember.
ref: 2005, Michael Slater, Slats: The Michael Slater Story:
text: Compton troubled Bradman with his Chinaman, and one streaky shot was edged past Crapp at slips.
ref: 2011, Roland Perry, Bradman's Invincibles: The Inside Story of the Epic 1948 Ashes Tour:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
examples: text: […] to do his duty in the face of uncommonly streaky weather like a man.
ref: 1870, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 17, page 34:
text: [Nebraska] has a reputation for streaky weather, long stretches of drouth and long seasons of rain.
ref: 1901, National Stockman and Farmer, volume 25, page 16:
text: It was one of those streaky days you often find at the end of a Kerry winter, with little spurts of cold rain and puffs of chilling wind and now and then glimpses of weak sunshine.
ref: , George Bartram, The White-headed Boy, page 204
glosses: Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
examples: text: Jones has always been a streaky hitter
glosses: Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
raw_tags: in particular
of a person
glosses: Having periods of irritation or bad temper.
examples: text: Two goals from Alexis Sánchez, the second a little streakier than the first, were enough to send Arsenal into a second successive FA Cup final, once again following extra time after being held over 90 minutes by a Championship side.
ref: 2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
Derived terms: streakily
streakiness
streaky bacon
Leeuwarden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪwɑɹdən/
ipa: /-ə/
ipa: /ˈleɪwɑːdən/
ipa: /-ə/
Forms: form: Lewarden
Etymology: From Dutch Leeuwarden.
Senses: glosses: A city and capital of Friesland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of Friesland, Netherlands.
subplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌb.plɒt/
ipa: /ˈsʌb.plɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: subplots
Etymology: From sub- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: 1978, R.B. Lee & R. Misiorowski, Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer,
Subplot, a story line enclosed within the principal story to provide relief from the main plot's tension, add character dimension, etc.
text: Structurally, the two most variant scenes (outside of Scene ii) are Scenes 3 and 4 in which the compiler works out the variant subplot.
ref: 1998, Stephen Roy Miller, The Taming of a Shrew: the 1594 quarto:
text: In a sense, Superman's romance with Lois Lane was a subplot and [...]
ref: 2001, Dennis O'Neil, The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics:
text: 2001, Nancy Arbuthnot Johnson, Vic Neufield, Forging Links for Health Research,
But this story has a subplot — a subplot about fairness and how people have divergent levels of access to knowledge and resources.
glosses: A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
examples: text: [...] on sixteen 8/10-acre plots (12.8 acres) well distributed over the area. [...] A 1/160-acre subplot was established in a randomly chosen corner of each [...]
ref: 1996, The American Midland Naturalist, the University of Notre Dame:
text: 1999, E. K. Sadanandan Nambiar, Christian Cossalter, Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forest,
There are 72 trees in each plot (6x12) and 36 trees in each subplot.
text: 2002, M. Boya Edwards, Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference,
Hardwood and shrub stems (besides gallberry) were counted by species and measured for total height (if greater than 2 ft) on 3 strip plots per subplot that were 0.01 acre […]
glosses: A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.
Synonyms: underplot
subplot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌb.plɒt/
ipa: /ˈsʌb.plɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: subplots
form: subplotting
form: subplotted
form: subplotted
Etymology: From sub- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: In the pictures of places, too, an author uses economy; and for his plot, complicated and subplotted as it may seem, he cannot count on having vast stretches of eternity in which to elaborate forever.
ref: 1965, Percival Hunt, The Gift of the Unicorn: Essays on Writing, page 70:
glosses: To provide (a story) with a subplot.
unknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.nɒt/
ipa: /ˈʌn.nɑt/
Forms: form: unknots
Etymology: From un- + knot.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In knot theory, a loop that is not knotted.
unknot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈnɒt/
ipa: /ʌnˈnɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: unknots
form: unknotting
form: unknotted
form: unknotted
Etymology: From un- + knot.
Senses: glosses: To unfasten (a knot).
Related terms: disentangle
untangle
untie
unhook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhooks
form: unhooking
form: unhooked
form: unhooked
Etymology: From un- + hook.
Senses: examples: text: A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.
ref: 1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
text: After Aulnoye the route lay through the colliery area and past Maubeuge to Jeumont, on the Belgian border. There Eùgene unhooked and we handed the train over to a Belgian diesel.
ref: 1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:
glosses: To remove from a hook.
examples: text: to unhook a bra
text: "She was standing in front of the mirror unhooking her frock. Mrs. P., I mean."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
text: Subject apparently unhooks button, releases clasp, pulls zipper, draws string, unholes button, loosens band. Trousers fall to buttock, revealing white rubber panties.
ref: 1969, Lawrence Garber, Garber's Tales from the Quarter, page 230:
glosses: To unfasten by means of hooks.
glosses: To unfasten the bra of (its wearer).
unworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworn
form: most unworn
Etymology: From un- + worn.
Senses: glosses: Not having been worn, as clothing.
glosses: Not worn away or eroded.
unwearable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwearable
form: most unwearable
Etymology: From un- + wearable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be worn
examples: text: European designers entered into the nineties with fashion collections that were astonishingly unwearable.
ref: 2004, Daniel Delis Hill, As Seen in Vogue, page 133:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Clothing that is unsuitable for wear in most circumstances because it is extreme, unusual, or uncomfortable.
unwearable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwearables
Etymology: From un- + wearable.
Senses: examples: text: He’s compensating you for an injury, not for purchasing your spattered unwearables.
ref: 2009 January 25, Randy Cohen, “Truth in Suspension”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something, such as clothing, that cannot be worn
untwist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: untwists
form: untwisting
form: untwisted
form: untwisted
Etymology: From un- + twist.
Senses: glosses: To remove a twist from.
glosses: To become untwisted.
untwist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untwists
Etymology: From un- + twist.
Senses: glosses: A twist in the opposite direction.
untidily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untidily
form: most untidily
Etymology: From untidy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an untidy manner.
untidiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: untidinesses
Etymology: From untidy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Elliot's frank statement that "sloth and untidiness are indefensible" is a sign that the task will be tackled with vigour.
ref: 1953 April, “Arrears of Station Maintenance”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
glosses: The quality of being untidy.
Related terms: dirtiness
scruffiness
untested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tested.
Senses: examples: text: If the promising but untested treatment would replace EET, the head-to-head comparison would be similar to the "placebo-controlled" trials I've already described, but with EET in place of the placebo.
ref: 2012, R. Brian Haynes, Clinical Epidemiology: How to Do Clinical Practice Research, page 197:
text: The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 306:
synonyms: untried
antonyms: tested
tried and tested
tried and true
;
battle-tested
coordinate_terms: experimental
;
unproven
glosses: Not previously tested.
unsteadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsteadinesses
Etymology: From unsteady + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Marsh rebuilding, with the higher-pitched and larger boiler and new standard boiler mountings, completely altered the appearance of the engine, which in its last guise was a very handsome machine; but unsteadiness in running at speeds over 50 m.p.h. resulted in no further such conversions being made.
ref: 1942 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: A Rebuilt Brighton 0-4-2 Tank”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
glosses: The quality of being unsteady.
unread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd (adjective and noun)
ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd (verb)
Etymology: From un- + read.
Senses: examples: text: 1700, Charles Hopkins, The Art of Love, (after Ovid’s Ars Amatoria), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36,
At first, perhaps, unread your Note’s return’d,
Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.
text: ‘PRIVATE: for the hands of J. G. Utterson ALONE and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
glosses: Not having been read.
examples: text: In fortune’s love […] the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: 1796, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Chapter 22, p. 111,
The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, unread, unused to reflect, but knowing how to feel […]
text: 1890, Frances Willard, Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Atlanta, Georgia, in William Jennings Bryan (editor), The World’s Famous Orations, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162,
[…] only those unread in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.
glosses: Not having read; uneducated.
unread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd (adjective and noun)
ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd (verb)
Forms: form: unreads
form: unreading
form: unread
form: unread
Etymology: From un- + read.
Senses: examples: text: That book was terrible! I wish I could unread it.
glosses: To undo the process of reading.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.
unread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd (adjective and noun)
ipa: /ˈʌn.ɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd (verb)
Forms: form: unreads
Etymology: From un- + read.
Senses: examples: text: You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.
ref: 2011, Hugh D. Culver, Give Me a Break: The Art of Making Time Work for You, page 129:
text: I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.
ref: 2022, Michelle McCraw, Boss Me:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An unread email or instant message.
unpractical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpractical
form: most unpractical
Etymology: From un- + practical.
Senses: glosses: Not practical, impractical
unplugged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈplʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Etymology: From un- + plugged.
Senses: glosses: Not plugged in.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Using acoustic instruments, especially instead of electric ones.
examples: text: an unplugged vessel containing liquid
glosses: Without a plug or bung.
examples: text: I enjoyed watching "Miley Cyrus Unplugged" last night.
glosses: Presented in a more low-key and intimate context than usual.
unplugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈplʌɡd/
rhymes: -ʌɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unplug
plugged in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plugged in
form: most plugged in
Senses: examples: text: Check if the television is plugged in.
glosses: With its plug properly connected to the electric plug socket.
raw_tags: of an electric device
examples: text: By subscribing to this magazine, you can stay plugged in to current issues.
text: My new boss is much more plugged in to the needs of his employees than my last boss.
text: Even the most plugged-in politics enthusiasts had a hard time understanding his oblique references.
synonyms: connected
informed
well-informed
involved
glosses: Fully aware; in a state of keeping up with current information about a topic; engaged wholeheartedly in a task or cause
plugged in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I plugged in the television.
glosses: simple past and past participle of plug in
plug in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plugs in
form: plugging in
form: plugged in
form: plugged in
Senses: examples: text: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?
ref: 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
text: I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
antonyms: unplug
glosses: To connect (an electrical device) to a plug socket.
examples: text: The drivers routinely patrol these areas- welfare offices, senior centers, even street corners- asking the Medicare patients to come with them for check-ups in return for cash. […] To get plugged in, we enlisted Lizzie Green, a 75-year-old widow who lives on social security and a small pension. She agreed to be our undercover test patient.
ref: 1994 September 22, 'Clinical Evidence' - Fraudulent Medicare Claims in FL (television production), Chris Wallace (actor), ABC:
text: The Eskimos’ [football team] organizational depth has been tested early and often by a persistent injury bug that has claimed three starters […] and they continue to plug in new players and carry on.
ref: 2017 July 15, Dan Barnes, “Dan Barnes: Eskimos survive late scare to remain only unbeaten CFL team”, in Edmonton Journal:
text: Research shows that children whose parents are involved in their school make better grades and have fewer disciplinary problems at school. When parents get plugged in at school, their children do better.
ref: c. 2017, Jay Moneta Hunter Thomson, “Membership”, in Wyatt Elementary PTA:
glosses: To familiarize and integrate (a person) into an organization.
examples: text: If an equation has three unknowns, you can plug in two of them to find the third.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: substitute
glosses: To replace a variable with a number in order to solve an equation.
examples: text: Want to find out what the bloggers are talking about before it hits the mainstream? Just sign up for PubSub […] and plug in your search terms. This site crawls more than 9 million blogs, public relations newswires, and SEC filings for relevant entries, and then e-mails you the results.
ref: 2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, page 76:
glosses: To input or enter (data).
examples: text: The inability of the gay movement as a whole to interrelate AIDS work with the many other items on its political agenda left vast segments of the lesbian and gay community sitting on the sidelines wondering how and why to plug in.
ref: 1983 December 24, Cindy Patton, “AIDS: Putting the Pieces Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 3:
glosses: To become involved in something.
Related terms: plug into
fecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feck
fecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛks
Senses: examples: text: The Lord save us, how cross you are this mornin', mister Mulligan! By my fecks, it wasn't to hould horses that I hired myself to your sarvice—an I'd have you to know that it is'nt my place.
ref: 1836, “PRECEPTS AND PRACTICE: THE MAN AND HIS MASTER.”, in The New monthly magazine:
glosses: Faith.
raw_tags: in minced oaths
fecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of feck
fecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of feck
unorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorganized
form: most unorganized
form: unorganised
Etymology: From un- + organized.
Senses: examples: Palmyra Atoll is an unorganized territory.
topics: law
glosses: Not organized: not having been organized.
(of a territory) Lacking a normal system of government.
examples: text: Health care is one of Boston's largest industries. It is also one of the most unorganized. As in most service industries, many of the jobs are semi- or unskilled, offering low pay with little security.
ref: 1977 December 10, Kate Gyllensvard, Richard Millen, “Blue Collar, White Collar, Lavender Collar: A Look At The Gay Work Force”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23, page 11:
glosses: Not organized: not having been organized.
Not unionized.
synonyms: ununionized
antonyms: organized
unionized
Derived terms: unorganized territory
Related terms: sense: unorganized militia (especially US)
english: yet
translation: yet
word: Citizens liable for military service but not organized on a military basis
english: a negative term indicating inadequate organization
translation: a negative term indicating inadequate organization
word: disorganized
unmovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmovable
form: most unmovable
Etymology: From un- + movable.
Senses: synonyms: word: immovable
word: static
word: stuck
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
glosses: Not physically able to be moved.
synonyms: word: dead inside
word: immovable
word: impassive
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: Incapable of being emotionally moved or persuaded.
Related terms: unmoveable
immovable
unlatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlatches
form: unlatching
form: unlatched
form: unlatched
Etymology: From un- + latch.
Senses: glosses: Remove from a latch
uninsured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + insured.
Senses: glosses: Not insured; not having insurance.
uninsured
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uninsureds
Etymology: From un- + insured.
Senses: glosses: One who is not insured.
unheard-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheard-of
form: most unheard-of
form: unheard of
Senses: examples: text: He was […] none of your unconscionable blades, requiring impossible chops, and taking unheard-of pickles for granted.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: Starvation in the uplands was not an unheard-of thing; […]
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, “Silver Spruce and Aspens”, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Prohibition produced the immense and previously unheard-of wealth that launched truly organized crime in America.
ref: 2004, Peter Bondanella, chapter 4, in Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, page 175:
glosses: Previously unknown; unprecedented.
unhatched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hatched.
Senses: examples: an unhatched egg
glosses: Not yet hatched.
glosses: Not shaded with hatching.
undying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: more undying
form: most undying
Etymology: From un- + dying.
Senses: examples: My abandoned heart
Just doesn't understand
My undying love for you
Won't let me wait - Janet Jackson - Come Back to Me
synonyms: immortal
endless
eternal
glosses: permanent; never-ending; infinite
undying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From un- + dying.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undie
Related terms: undead
guy wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy wires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guy-wire.
athletes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athlete
guy-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy-wires
Senses: glosses: A metal guy rope used to stabilize a tall structure (such as a radio mast).
Synonyms: guy rope
guy rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy ropes
Senses: glosses: A rope or cable used to steady either a tall structure, or a thing being hoisted or lowered
cause a stir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: causes a stir
form: causing a stir
form: caused a stir
form: caused a stir
Senses: examples: text: The news story caused a stir.
glosses: To cause controversy, or raise a disturbance.