cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
soaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soakers
Etymology: From soak + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, soaks.
glosses: A person suffering from alcoholism.
examples: text: The stack of folded diapers on the shelf above it was diminishing rapidly. Time to wash diapers, baby soakers, and gowns. She heard the men prepare to leave as she pulled the woolen knit soakers back up.
ref: 2005, Lauraine Snelling, Amethyst, page 127:
glosses: A kind of knitted woollen diaper.
glosses: A kind of perforated hose used to distribute drips of water to a number of plants.
synonyms: booter
glosses: The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A mixture of grains softened in water which is added to bread dough.
Synonyms: sense: person suffering from alcoholism
word: alcoholic
word: souse
word: suck-pint
Derived terms: soaker pad
super soaker
Super Soaker
anal beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Before using anal beads made of plastic, be sure to file down any irregular areas with an emery board to keep from injuring yourself.
ref: 2003, Hilda Hutcherson, What Your Mother Never Told You about Sex, page 169:
glosses: A sex toy consisting of several small balls attached together in series which are one by one inserted into and removed from the rectum.
Related terms: anal bead
Krym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From Russian Крым (Krym) or Ukrainian Крим (Krym).
Senses: glosses: Crimea: A geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; de facto occupied and annexed in 2014 as a republic of Russia, but internationally recognized as an autonomous republic of Ukraine
Related terms: Staryi Krym
capoierista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of capoeirista.
LX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of luxury.
glosses: Ethernet mode LX transmission (laser fibre optic)
Coordinate terms: sense: luxury
word: LE
LX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LXs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: total X-ray luminosity of X-ray sources within the defined population
Ross Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British explorer James Ross.
Senses: glosses: A volcanic island in the Ross Sea, near Antarctica.
Aconcagua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑkənˈkɑɡwə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Aconcagua
Senses: glosses: A mountain in Argentina in the Andes, the highest point in South America.
Derived terms: San Felipe de Aconcagua
bemol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbiːmɒl/
Forms: form: bemols
Etymology: From Italian bemolle, from Medieval Latin b mollis (“B-flat”, literally “soft B”).
Senses: examples: text: F natural has a Bemol on b. [...] B flat has a Bemol on b and e.
ref: 1753, The Deist Triumphant, page 154:
text: Now B♭, which is ſuppoſed to be repreſented by Nº 6. of the hammers, is the generator of the next modulation or key in the bemol or flat mode, F.
ref: 1818, George Jones, History of the Rise and Progress of Music, Theoretical and Practical, page 345:
text: Sol major has only one dièse for a signature; therefore sol ♭ major must have six bemols; six and one make seven.
ref: 1841, Terence Joseph O'Donnelly, The Academy of Elementary Music, page 133:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: diesis
glosses: The flat symbol (♭), or a flattened note.
gr8
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: grt
glosses: Great.
h8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: h8s
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hate.
h8
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: h8s
form: h8ing
form: h8ed
form: h8ed
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hate.
Derived terms: h8er
l8
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: l8r
form: l8est
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of late.
Related terms: l8r
l8r
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of later.
Related terms: cul8r
l8
l8rs
wknd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wknds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of weekend.
nxt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of next.
w8
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: w8s
form: w8ing
form: w8ed
form: w8ed
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of wait.
abaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪ.jə/
Forms: form: abayas
Etymology: From Arabic عَبَايَة (ʕabāya). Compare aba. First attested in 1856.
Senses: examples: text: France will bar children in public schools from wearing the abaya, a loosefitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, the government said this week.
ref: 2023 August 28, Aurelien Breeden, “France to Ban Full-Length Muslim Robes in Public Schools”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of aba.
synonyms: word: aba
Derived terms: abayaed
overimaginative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overimaginative
form: most overimaginative
Etymology: From over- + imaginative.
Senses: glosses: Excessively imaginative.
Derived terms: overimaginativeness
cinchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnt͡ʃi/
Forms: form: more cinchy
form: most cinchy
Etymology: From cinch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She hates rap. Rap is for teeds." "What are teeds, anyway?" "That's cinchy, dude. They're tedious people."
ref: 1992, Jerry Oster, Fixin' to Die, page 106:
text: It's cinchy for me, but I still like to read it.
ref: 2013, Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning:
text: “Yes, but it's not as cinchy as it sounds,” I said.
ref: 2015, Katy Kelly, Melonhead and the Later Gator Plan:
glosses: Very easy; presenting no challenge.
examples: text: Plaintiff alleged that defendants were negligent in failing to warn him that the horse was "cinchy."
ref: 1986, The Pacific Reporter, page 503:
text: Consider the “cinchy" horse. You tighten the girth and he blows up against it. By the same token, if you use a death grip with your legs on your horse's sides to ask him to go forward, he might swell up against you like the cinchy horse and be less forward.
ref: 1997, Jane Savoie, That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance, page 100:
text: Some horses and ponies have "cold backs" or are "cinchy."
ref: 1993, Judy Richter, Philip Richter, Pony Talk: A Complete Learning Guide for Young Riders, page 4:
text: Cinch up smoothly and by degrees to avoid making a horse "cinchy."
ref: 2001, Mary Twelveponies, There are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders, page 220:
glosses: Tending to fight having a girth cinched.
raw_tags: of a horse
woodbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodboxes
Etymology: From wood + box.
Senses: glosses: A box used for the storage of wood, particularly firewood.
unallied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + allied.
Senses: examples: text: England became the rallying-point and a balance in continental politics because her geographical position permitted her to remain unallied until an emergency threatened her and other nations.
ref: 1973, Leonard Frank James, Rivalry, reason, and revolution, page 51:
glosses: Not allied.
golde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldes
Senses: examples: text: Among all other was wrytten in her trone / In golde letters, this worde, whiche I dyde rede: / Garder le fortune que est mauelz et bone.
ref: 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:
english: Among all other was written in her throne / In gold letters, this word, which I did read: / Garder la fortune qu'est male et bonne. [That is, “To keep the fortune that is ill and good.”]
translation: Among all other was written in her throne / In gold letters, this word, which I did read: / Garder la fortune qu'est male et bonne. [That is, “To keep the fortune that is ill and good.”]
bold_translation_offsets: 47
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glosses: Archaic spelling of gold.
owd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of owe
owd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: old
stewpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stewpans
Etymology: From stew + pan.
Senses: examples: text: After letting them drain, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, salt, black and red pepper to taste.
ref: 1867, Colin MacKenzie, Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts, page 220:
text: ſcrape the Brown off well that ſticks to your Stewpan; put in as much Flour as you think fit,...
ref: 1743, Lady (Unknown author) - The lady's companion: or, An infallible guide to the fair sex [page 333]
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A saucepan used for stewing.
Synonyms: stewing pan
garlick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
homophone: garlic
Forms: form: garlicks
Senses: examples: text: He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: Archaic spelling of garlic.
garlick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk
homophone: garlic
Forms: form: garlicks
Etymology: A corruption of a placename, probably German Görlitz in Silesia (whence early spellings like garlits), or possibly Dutch Gulik (the Duchy of Jülich, suggested by early spellings like gulix).
Senses: examples: text: ... Segathies, Callimancoes, Stuffs, Hats, Silk, Worsted, and Thread Stockings, Hollands, Cambricks, Lawns, Muslin, Dowlasses, Garlicks, Damask Table Linen, Diaper Ditto, several Sorts of Manchester Goods, English and Italian Mantuas, ...
ref: 2009, C. Klekar, The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Garlicks, Isinghams, Irish and Russia Cloth; fine Bag and rough Hollands, fine Cambricks, and Muslins, plain and strip'd ... Ann Porter sold second-hand childbed linen and clothing for the poor, which would have been bought by the ...
ref: 2010, Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo, John Denton, The Language of Public and Private Communication in a Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Scarlett, blue, & Superfine Broad Cloth” (Pringle 1972, 1:31). Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.
ref: 2013, Kathleen A. Staples, Madelyn C. Shaw, Clothing Through American History: The British Colonial Era, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 141:
text: She chose one piece of garlick in November 1723 and one piece of silk crape from the same shipment in December the following year. Garlick was an imported linen cloth, very popular and used for ...
ref: 2014, Christina J. Hodge, Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany.
exemplaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exemplary
shiver my timbers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪvə maɪ ˈtɪmbəs/
ipa: /ˈʃɪvɚ maɪ ˈtɪmbɚs/
Forms: form: shiver me timbers
Etymology: A reference to a wooden ship being pounded heavily in stormy seas to the extent that its timbers shake, causing awe and fear to the sailors on board.
Senses: examples: text: I was informed I ſhould meet my dear Anna ſomewhere in theſe woods: I have been ſteering all points of the compaſs, but in vain. However, after having given chaſe to an enemy, ſhall I tamely haul my wind when my miſtreſs is in view? No;—ſhiver my timbers if I do. The man who meanly deſerts his King or his miſtreſs, deſerves to be ſhot for a traitor to both!
ref: 1794, James Roberts, Rule Britannia! A Loyal Sketch, in Two Acts, as Performed with Universal Applause at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London: Printed for Hookham and Carpenter, Old and New Bond-street, →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 26:
text: I weighed anchor inſtantly, and bore up right a-head to Dynevawr-houſe as faſt as my wooden leg would carry me. […] Shiver my timbers! what do you think I found 'em at? Split my wind if there was not a gang, with Mrs. Martha at the head, working away at the temple which was built for us to take our grog in.
ref: 1799, [Edward Dubois], chapter XII, in A Piece of Family Biography. In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for J[ohn] Bell, no. 148, Oxford-Street, opposite New Bond-Street, →OCLC, page 216:
text: "The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!" And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “At the Sign of the ‘Spy-Glass’”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris; New York, N.Y.: Cassell & Company, Limited, published 1883, →OCLC, page 66:
text: When I wake up the next morning there's a seagull on my windowsill. […] They're such big birds, seagulls, so loud and cocksure and arrogant. If they could speak they would all sound like sailors. All avast! and ahoy there! and shiver me timbers! and they'd smoke reedy pipes and down flagons of foamy ale.
ref: 2005, Daisy Jordan, chapter 19, in Wild about Harry, London: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 263:
synonyms: shiver my sides
shiver my soul
glosses: A mild oath expressing surprise, disbelief or annoyance. It is stereotypically regarded as being uttered by pirates.
wikipedia: Aert Anthoniszoon
National Maritime Museum
bichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bichords
Etymology: From bi- + chord.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A chord of two notes played at the same time.
glosses: The two strings of a note on a piano that are tuned as a unison.
bichord
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + chord.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having two strings
raw_tags: of a musical instrument
Related terms: polychord
semicroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicromas
form: semicrome
form: semicrome
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A semiquaver.
bitonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈtəʊnəl/
rhymes: -əʊnəl
Etymology: From bi- + tonal.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That has two tonic centres simultaneously
raw_tags: of a musical instrument
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or pertaining to bitonality
examples: text: So there we were, this black bro' frisks me down with his bitonal paw and relieves me of my wallet.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Of two tones, or shades of colour.
Derived terms: bitonalism
bitonally
bitonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bitonal + -ity.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The simultaneous presence of two keys in a piece of music
Related terms: bitonal
polytonality
bogosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogosity
White Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the White Sea
Etymology: Calque of Russian Белое море (Beloje more)
Senses: examples: text: We bore her down to the boat and aboard our vessel, and then getting up anchor we sailed away across the White Sea until the spires of Archangel sank down behind the horizon.
ref: 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man From Archangel:
glosses: A sea to the northwest of Russia.
carmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carmakers
Etymology: From car + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Helper and Sako (1995) did detect some convergence in the way U.S. and Japanese carmakers work with suppliers.
ref: 2008, Thomas H. Klier, James M. Rubenstein, Who Really Made Your Car?, page 24:
text: Nissan has struggled since the collapse of its long-standing alliance with French carmaker Renault. […] EV development costs have created a powerful incentive for carmakers to explore mergers as a way to share the financial burden, according to analysts.
ref: 2025 February 13, Juliana Liu and Junko Ogura, “Carmakers Nissan and Honda call off merger talks”, in CNN:
glosses: A manufacturer of automobiles.
Hypernyms: automaker
carmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carmaker
chaises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaise
choreographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of choreograph
choreographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choreograph
choreographing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choreographings
Senses: glosses: Choreography.
chronologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronology
clunkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clunky: more clunky
clunkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clunky: most clunky
collaborationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaborationists
Etymology: From collaboration + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who collaborates, a collaborator.
Derived terms: collaborationist regime
collaborationist state
collaborationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collaborationist
commemorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commemorate
light rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light rails
Senses: examples: text: The new Denver light rail runs along the Interstate highway.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
antonyms: heavy rail
glosses: A kind of passenger railway in urban and suburban settings typically characterized by a mixture of tram (or in North America streetcar) and metro features, crossing streets at grade crossings and normally powered by electricity.
Synonyms: word: LR
word: light rail system
word: light rail transit
word: light rail transport system
Derived terms: loot rail
ultra light rail
Related terms: fast tram
light metro
light railway
light train
rapid transit
streetcar
trolley car
subway
tramway
tate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːteɪ/
ipa: /teɪt/
rhymes: -ɔːteɪ
rhymes: -eɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 縦 (tate).
Senses: examples: text: This is a monitor, not a TV - but I LOVE it for gaming purposes as I can easily rotate the screen. I had to unscrew the rotation mechanism and flip it around so that Tate mode games play the right way up.
ref: 2002 September 20, JigsawMan, “What television are you using with your console?”, in uk.games.video.dreamcast (Usenet):
text: Shiki is good, haven;t played that in tate mode yet. I though^([sic]) Psyvariar was boring to begin with - but that was because I just didn;t 'get' the game. Now I love it. Haven;t played that in Tate yet either. Hence the need for a whizz bang TV!
ref: 2003 August 4, Dan, “Good 4:3 TV for Gaming?”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
text: Perhaps the next generation of consoles, with more RAM, will finally give us some worthy collections. All vertical games should have 'tate' capability, Menus should be slick, with full-screen detailed adverts, commercials, interviews w/developer, etc.
ref: 2003 December 4, EssenceK, “Midway arcade classics”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet):
text: I think the small size of the screen allows the eye to take in the entire playfield, lessening the chances of dying from some unseen projectile catching your vision off guard. Plus, it's a snap to flip the monitor vertically to play in "tate" mode.
ref: 2005 September 21, crymad, “What size TV do you use to play classic games?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet):
text: Many would likely not orient their screen in a vertical or tate orientation (i.e,^([sic]) turned sideways as a vertical monitor) and many of these games do not have a rotation feature to support vertical/tate monitor orientation (although some do support it but then it means rotating the monitor to play and then rotating back afterward).
ref: 2009 October 17, Daniel W. Rouse Jr., “Aspect ratio 16:9”, in alt.tv.tech.hdtv (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: Of video games, a vertical mode.
total loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total losses
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: writeoff
write-off
coordinate_terms: writedown
write-down
glosses: An insured item of which the entire value is written off.
examples: text: The ship was declared a constructive total loss.
text: Intelligence has been received at Hong Kong of the total loss of the ship Libelle while on a voyage to that port from San Francisco, having on board a valuable cargo and specie to the extent of £76,000 in dollars, and a number of passengers, among whom were Madame Anna Bishop, Miss Phelan, Mr. M. Schrutz, and Mr. Charles Lascelles, of the English Opera Company, who, with other artists, were on a musical tour. The ship was cast away on the night of the 4th of March, on an uninhabited and dangerous reef called Wake Island, in the China Seas.
ref: 1866 August 18, “LAST NEWS OF ANNA BISHOP”, in The Musical World, volume 44, number 33, London, →OCLC, page 521:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An insured item that is written off when it is beyond repair, or when the cost of repair exceeds the insured value.
Derived terms: sense: to cause total loss
word: total
total loss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Some rocket engines have a total loss hydraulic system for engine gimbal, using fuel bled from the main turbopumps as the working fluid.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: A system in which the working fluid is used once and then dumped, burned up, etc. rather than being recirculated. By extension, an electrical system that runs on battery power without the means to recharge during operation.
semicrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicroma
semicrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semicromes
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of semicroma (“semiquaver”).
commuters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commuter
tartine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːˈtiːn/
ipa: /tɑɹˈtin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: tartines
Etymology: Borrowed from French tartine.
Senses: glosses: A slice of bread topped with sweet or savoury spreadable food such as butter, jam, honey, cream, or sauce.
light rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light rail
vlakte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vlaktes
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans vlakte.
Senses: glosses: A plain.
casualwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From casual + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing for non-formal occasions.
Synonyms: informalwear
here and there
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
text: Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel[,] with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.
ref: 1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775:
glosses: In, at or to various places; in one place and another.
examples: text: Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […].
ref: 2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos, page 63:
text: Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there.
ref: 2011, R. E. Donald, chapter 23, in Slow Curve on the Coquihalla:
glosses: From time to time; intermittently, occasionally.
Synonyms: hither and yon
Related terms: here, there and everywhere
hither and thither
emergency exit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency exits
Senses: examples: text: As well as their obvious novelty value, the Class 313s offered fast acceleration, those power-operated sliding doors, non-opening passenger windows, closed ventilators to prevent any body part, head or limbs reaching out, drivers' and guards' doors opening inwards, and end doors for emergency exit.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:
glosses: An exit that is designed to allow rapid evacuation in the case of emergencies such as a fire.
Related terms: fire exit
emergency exits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emergency exit
cambers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of camber
cambering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of camber
cambering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camberings
Senses: glosses: A slight convexity or slope for drainage etc.; a camber.
cambered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cambered
form: most cambered
Etymology: From camber + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having camber.
Derived terms: precambered
uncambered
cambered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From camber + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of camber
caissons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caisson
snow fort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow forts
form: snowfort
Senses: examples: text: Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young.
ref: 1990 February 1, Sue Lebrecht, “You need patience building snow fort”, in Toronto Star, page A23:
text: 2008, Laura Dolce, "Seeing snow through a child's life," seacoastonline.com (New Hampshire), 3 Jan.,
It wasn't a big lawn . . . but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts.
synonyms: snow castle
glosses: A walled structure constructed of snow and used for children's wintertime play.
Related terms: igloo
quinzhee
snowcrete
Haalpulaar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haalpulaars
form: Haalpulaar
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Toucouleur.
synonyms: word: Toucouleur
byways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byway
burros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burro
burnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burning
burials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burial
bulkheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bulkhead
brushless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brush + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a brushless motor
glosses: Not requiring the use of a brush.
Of an electric motor: that does not use brushes, physical contacts for the commutator.
examples: text: a brushless shaving cream
text: a brushless finish on the concrete
glosses: Not requiring the use of a brush.
Not requiring the use of a hairbrush, scrubbing brush, or other brush.
Derived terms: brushlessness
brushfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brushfire
butyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butyl
bronzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronze
bronzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bronze
amyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.mɪlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of amyl
breathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breather
pentyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentyl
booms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːmz/
rhymes: -uːmz
Senses: glosses: plural of boom
booms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːmz/
rhymes: -uːmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boom
boomerangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomerang
boomerangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boomerang
bookishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bookish + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: bookism
glosses: The property of being bookish.
boomeranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boomerang
bookcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookcase
COIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COIPs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Communication Over Internet Protocol.
glosses: Acronym of Conferencing over Internet Protocol: H.323.
Synonyms: H.323
Related terms: VOIP
bonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonders
Etymology: From bond + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine or substance used to make a bond, or a person who uses such.
glosses: One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
examples: text: To avoid excessive cutting, the bond is arranged as shown in the figure, i.e. two half-bats and a one-brick bonder placed alternately.
ref: 2006, J. C. Hodge, Malcolm Thorpe, Brickwork for Apprentices, page 97:
glosses: A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.
Derived terms: die bonder
pair-bonder
wire bonder
bonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonder
let us
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: lettuce
Senses: examples: text: “Speak no more on’t,” she said; “and now let us part, our conversation may attract more notice than is convenient for either of us.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: Let us pray for the whole episcopate or company of bishops under heaven.
ref: 1855, Joseph Bingham, The antiquities of the Christian church, page 219:
text: Let us support the good people in what my father always called “the old country.”
ref: 2024 October 20, Susanne Sklar, “Supporting Ukraine”, in Centre Daily Times, volume 136, number 91, State College, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Letters to the Editor” section, page 9A, column 6:
glosses: Formal form of let's.
Derived terms: let us go
let us see
let us
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: lettuce
Forms: form: lets us
form: letting us
form: let us
form: let us
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, us.
blessee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blessees
Etymology: From bless + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The one who receives a blessing.
blessees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blessee
blamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪmə/
ipa: /ˈbleɪmɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blamers
Etymology: From Middle English blamer, blamear, blamere, equivalent to blame + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who blames.
blamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blamer
bestsellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bestseller
buccina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbu(ː)kɪnə/
Forms: form: buccinas
form: buccine
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin būcina, buccina. Doublet of buisine and posaune.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: buisine
glosses: A curved brass instrument used by the Ancient Roman army.
chamber music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of classical music written for a small group of instruments
bell ringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell ringers
form: bellringer
form: bell-ringer
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English belringer, belle ringer, bellryngar, belryngere, equivalent to bell + ringer.
Senses: synonyms: bellist
ringer
glosses: A person, especially one of a group, who rings bells.
glosses: A door-to-door salesman.
topics: education
glosses: An assignment, done regularly at the beginning of a class, and intended as a warm-up before other classroom activities.
examples: text: In Health Sciences, Dr. Ball was always available to us in the anatomy lab giving us tips and tricks for bell ringers. You can tell he genuinely cares about teaching, because why else would he wear a uterus costume!
ref: 2018 May 24, “Meet today's Faculty of Health Sciences valedictorian”, in McMaster Daily News, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2023:
topics: anatomy
education
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of anatomy exam in which students must answer questions at a series of stations and move on to the next station when a bell is rung.
Related terms: campanologist
quinzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinzees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quinzhee.
quin-zhee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quin-zhees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quinzhee.
pussycats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussycat
representative democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of representative democracy
bonhomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnəməs/
Forms: form: more bonhomous
form: most bonhomous
Etymology: From bonhom(ie) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Ortiz, the burly, bonhomous bar-keeper with the hooked, prize-fighter nose […], epitomised the pied noir with his emotional vehemence.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 350:
synonyms: friendly
genial
glosses: Good-natured; full of bonhomie.
Related terms: bonhomie
jaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jamans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jamun.
gourmands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gourmand
governesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governess
gramophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gramophone
gravesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: gravesites
Etymology: From grave + site.
Senses: examples: text: The gravesites of American soldiers buried at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial near Margraten have been adopted by Dutch families.
ref: 2024 September 12, Blane Bachelor, “A culture of commemoration is still thriving in this Dutch town 80 years after its liberation”, in CNN:
text: Ethel Kennedy joined President Obama and former President Bill Clinton — each held one of her hands — as they climbed stairs to lay a wreath at President Kennedy’s gravesite during a November 2013 observance of the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death.
ref: 2024 October 10, “Ethel Kennedy, social activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at age 96”, in NPR:
glosses: The location of a grave.
glosses: A grave.
gravesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravesite
googlewhacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googlewhackers
Etymology: From googlewhack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
ref: 2002 January 30, Lisa M. Bowman, “Are you a secret Googlewhacker?”, in zdnet.com, retrieved 21 Jan 2008:
glosses: One who searches for googlewhacks.
Related terms: googlewhacking
greats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
homophone: grates
Senses: glosses: plural of great
qualifier: universities
glosses: The great go examination.
Derived terms: modern greats
gridded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪdɪd/
Senses: examples: text: gridded paper
glosses: Having a grid, or grids
Derived terms: ungridded
gridded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grid
guillotines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guillotine
guillotines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guillotine
guillotining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guillotinings
Etymology: From guillotine + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of guillotine: an execution by guillotine.
guillotining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From guillotine + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of guillotine
guillotined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of guillotine
gulags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gulag
gyrocompasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocompass
gyrostabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrostabilisation
Etymology: From gyro- + stabilization.
Senses: glosses: A method of stabilization using a gyroscope.
haggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of haggle
haggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haggle
haggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagglings
Senses: examples: text: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
ref: 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times (book 2, page 51)
text: After weeks of haggling, Transport for London and the Department for Transport agreed a £200 million short-term funding deal that will keep the network running until June.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 48:
glosses: The act of one who haggles.
haggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haggle
hardier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hardy: more hardy
hardiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hardy: most hardy
harmonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harmonize
harnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harness
harnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harnessings
Senses: examples: text: All this, along with the carriages and harnessings of the horses, was temporarily housed in the armoury on the east side of one of the inner quadrangles.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast:
glosses: The materials used to harness an animal.
herbalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herbalist
horizontalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From horizontal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being horizontal.
Synonyms: sense: property of being horizontal
word: horizontality
Related terms: word: verticalness
english: the property of being vertical
translation: the property of being vertical
word: verticality
english: the property of being anteroposterior
translation: the property of being anteroposterior
word: anteroposteriority
mangue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangues
Etymology: From French manger.
Senses: glosses: The kusimanse, a genus of mongoose, Crossarchus.
hotlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotline
hot lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot line
humanoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humanoid
hurls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurl
icosahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icosahedra
Senses: glosses: plural of icosahedron
idealists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idealist
igloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of igloo
incrementally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incrementally
form: most incrementally
Etymology: From incremental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The probability density of the Bayesian posterior was estimated by Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, with multiple incrementally heated chains.
ref: 2004 July 27, F. Keith Barker et al., “Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation”, in PNAS, page 11040, column 2:
glosses: In an incremental fashion; by small changes.
Synonyms: word: little by little
word: gradually
word: additively
word: bit by bit
word: incrementally
word: footmeal
word: one at a time
word: one by one
word: one step at a time
word: piecemeal
word: step by step
word: stepwise
Related terms: word: additionally
word: adjunct
word: sequentially
word: gradually
mutuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutuels
Senses: glosses: Short for pari-mutuel.
resizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resizable
form: most resizable
form: re-sizable
form: resizeable
form: re-sizeable
Etymology: From resize + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be resized.
Derived terms: nonresizable
resizability
unresizable
resizable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resizables
form: re-sizable
form: resizeable
form: re-sizeable
Etymology: From resize + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An item that can be resized by the user.
mother country
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother countries
Senses: glosses: The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland; homeland.
long story short
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: A reduced form of to cut a long story short and to make a long story short.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, long story short, I totally screwed up today.
text: Sitting on a park bench / Years away from fighting / Ah, to cut a long story short, I lost my mind
ref: 1981, “To Cut a Long Story Short”, in Journeys to Glory, performed by Spandau Ballet:
text: So anyway, long story short . . . Kenny was always gambling. And six years ago, he bought this lottery ticket and he won. Not much. A million bucks. After taxes, that’s like five hundred thousand dollars. I’m thinking party time.
ref: 1994, Eric Bogosian, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 40:
text: “So long story short,” Damon continues, obviously enjoying his newfound status as Magic Kingdom iconoclast, “it got back to the director what I did and then it went all the way to [Michael] Eisner’s office. […]”
ref: 1999, Dennis Hensley, Misadventures in the (213), HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Long story short, I'm on the hook for sending Trong Tri Kelso to college and he doesn't want to go to a state school.
ref: 2005 March 1, “My Best Laid Plans”, in Scrubs, season 4, episode 19 (television production), spoken by Dr. Kelso (Ken Jenkins):
glosses: Introducing a short version of, or simply the conclusion of, a relevant story.
Related terms: long story
the long and short
KFS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of key factors for success.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of knife, fork and spoon.
bolometric correction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolometric corrections
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The difference between the bolometric magnitude and visual magnitude of a star
tackifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackifiers
Etymology: From tackify + -er.
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tackiness agent; a substance which is added in order to increase tack.
Related terms: detackifier
detackification
panenka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panenkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Panenka.
tackifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tackifier
cteniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cteniform
form: most cteniform
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís, “comb”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Comb-shaped.
Synonyms: pectiform
Chinese New Year
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chinese New Years
Etymology: From Chinese + New Year, the latter component also matching the traditional name of the holiday, 新年 (xīnnián, “New Year”) = 新 (xīn, “new”) + 年 (nián, “year”).
Senses: glosses: An annual Chinese holiday, marking the beginning of the Lunar New Year according to the traditional Chinese calendar.
Synonyms: Spring Festival
Yuan Tan
Chunjie
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Senses: examples: text: “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A famous bell tower in the Italian town of Pisa, known for its irregular lean.
Synonyms: Leaning Tower
Tower of Pisa
Machu Picchu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌmɑːtʃuː ˈpiːtʃuː/
/ˌmɑːtʃuː ˈpiːktʃuː/
Etymology: From Quechua machu (“old, ancient”) + pikchu (“mountain, peak”).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Incan city and archaeological site in Peru.
tenebrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnɪbɹəʊs/
ipa: /ˈtɛnəbɹoʊs/
Forms: form: more tenebrose
form: most tenebrose
Etymology: From Middle English tenebrose, from Old French tenebros, from Latin tenebrōsus (“dark, gloomy”).
Senses: glosses: Dark, tenebrous.
glosses: Obscure; obtuse; incomprehensible.
glosses: Morally, culturally or mentally benighted; backward; uncivilized.
glosses: Gloomy.
conferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Communication among multiple participants for serious discussion.
Derived terms: teleconferencing
video conferencing
webconferencing
conferencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conference