cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
disrobe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɹəʊb/
ipa: /dɪsˈɹoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: disrobes
form: disrobing
form: disrobed
form: disrobed
Etymology: From dis- + robe. Compare Old French desrober in the same sense.
Senses: examples: text: Goddamn this claustrophobia / 'Cause I should be disrobin’ ya
ref: 2020, “House Music All Night Long”, in Beyond the Pale, performed by Jarvis Cocker:
synonyms: dismantle
divest
strip
unclothe
uncover
undress
glosses: To undress someone or something.
examples: text: The doctor asked the patient to disrobe before her examination.
text: It concerns a young woman (played by Wendy Rieger) with a rather curious problem: she starts to disrobe every time she drinks champagne.
ref: 1977 May 18, Ken Murrah, “'Champagne Complex' Is Simply Hilarious”, in The Daily Press:
synonyms: strip
get undressed
glosses: To undress oneself.
Derived terms: disrober
disrobement
flaccid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæ(k)sɪd/
rhymes: -æksɪd
rhymes: -æsɪd
Forms: form: more flaccid
form: most flaccid
Etymology: From Latin flaccid(us).
Senses: examples: text: Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
ref: 1955, Joseph Heller, chapter 13, in Catch-22, page 140:
antonyms: firm
glosses: Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
examples: text: The combatants with rage most horrible
Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,
And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,
Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: Soft; floppy.
examples: text: They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
ref: 2006, Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality, page 93:
glosses: Soft; floppy.
Not erect.
synonyms: soft
antonyms: erect
turgid
hard
raw_tags: of an erectile organ
examples: text: The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.
ref: 2006, Jeff Bloodworth, “"THE PROGRAM FOR BETTER JOBS AND INCOME": WELFARE REFORM, LIBERALISM, AND THE FAILED PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER.”, in International Social Science Review, volume 81, number 3/4, pages 135–150:
glosses: Lacking energy or vigor.
Derived terms: acute flaccid myelitis
flaccidity
flaccidness
flaccify
nonflaccid
subflaccid
Related terms: flaccidly
fleeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Forms: form: more fleeting
form: most fleeting
Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
ref: 1931, Martha Kinross, “The Screen — From This Side”, in The Fortnightly, volume 130, page 511:
text: As they passed, accelerating, on to the bridge and felt the first bite of the incline beyond, one had a fleeting glimpse of driver and fireman, illumined as by the fires of hell, the one tugging at the regulator handle, the other shovelling for dear life.
ref: 1953 December, Henry Maxwell, “The Folkestone Harbour Branch: Some Evocations”, in Railway Magazine, page 809:
text: During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
ref: 2003, Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, pages 34–35:
text: For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
ref: 2008, Barbara L. Bellman, Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again, iUniverse, published 2008, →ISBN, page 12:
text: And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.
ref: 2010, Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: word: transient
word: ephemeral
word: fugacious
word: ephemeral
word: brief
word: deciduous
word: evanescent
word: fleeting
word: flying
word: fugacious
word: fugitive
word: instant
word: momentary
word: passing
word: perishable
word: quick
word: seasonable
word: short
word: short-lived
word: temporary
word: transient
word: transitive
word: transitory
word: volatile
word: whilend
glosses: Passing quickly; of short duration.
Derived terms: fleetingly
fleetingness
unfleeting
fleeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.
fleeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfliːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fleet
furor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjʊəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈfjɝɚ/
ipa: /ˈfjʊərɔː/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: Führer
Forms: form: furors
form: furore
form: furour
Etymology: From Middle English furour, from Middle French fureur, from Old French furor, from Latin furor, from furō (“To rage, to be out of one's mind”).
Senses: glosses: A general uproar or commotion.
examples: text: The verdict of not guilty created a true furor in the courtroom.
glosses: Violent anger or frenzy.
examples: text: The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.
glosses: A state of intense excitement.
Related terms: furor uterinus
fury
furious
facial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or affecting the face.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
examples: text: The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.
text: Discipline is a form of counter-law, of dissymmetry and inequality, that operates under the discourse of juridical power to make possible the stated or facial claims of equality and rights characteristic of the French Revolution.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
topics: law
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).
Derived terms: acousticofacial
acrofacial
basifacial
bifacial
brachiofacial
brachyfacial
buccofacial
cardiofacial
centrofacial
cephalofacial
cervicofacial
cofacial
craniofacial
craniomaxillofacial
cytofacial
dentofacial
dentomaxillofacial
devil facial tumor disease
distofacial
dolichofacial
enantiofacial
encephalofacial
endofacial
epifacial
equifacial
exofacial
extrafacial
facial angle
facial artery
facial composite
facial cream
facial disc
facial discrimination
facial expression
facial feature
facial hair
facialist
faciality
facialize
facially
facial mask
facial nerve
facialness
facial profiling
facial pubes
facial soap
facial tissue
facial yoga
facio-
gustofacial
hemifacial
hemimaxillofacial
heterofacial
interfacial
intrafacial
labiofacial
linguofacial
lithofacial
mandibulofacial
maxillofacial
mesiofacial
mesofacial
microfacial
midfacial
minifacial
multifacial
musculofacial
nasofacial
nonfacial
occipitofacial
oculofacial
oculomandibulofacial
odontofacial
omnifacial
orofacial
oromaxillofacial
orthofacial
panfacial
parafacial
perifacial
prefacial
retrofacial
rhinofacial
subfacial
suprafacial
temporofacial
transfacial
transverse facial artery
trifacial
trigeminofacial
unifacial
urofacial
vajacial
velocardiofacial
zygomaticofacial
facial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: facials
Etymology: Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
examples: text: But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]
ref: 2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
examples: text: Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sex
sexuality
synonyms: money shot
coordinate_terms: self-facial
glosses: A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.
Derived terms: brachiofacial
cryofacial
vampire facial
treatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiːtmənt/
Forms: form: treatments
Etymology: From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
Senses: examples: text: He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
glosses: The process or manner of treating someone or something.
examples: text: A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
text: Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
text: The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
synonyms: course
glosses: Medical care for an illness or injury.
glosses: The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
examples: text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
examples: text: Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: entertainment; treat
examples: text: He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
text: Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.
glosses: harsh punishment; retribution
Derived terms: absent treatment
adjunct treatment
antitreatment
biotreatment
cold treatment
conservative treatment
cotreatment
definitive treatment
error treatment
exposure treatment
flour treatment agent
give the royal treatment
hairdryer treatment
heat treatment
hydrotreatment
ill-treatment
ill treatment
intensive treatment
intertreatment
medication assisted treatment
medication-assisted treatment
Nauheim treatment
nontreatment
overtreatment
phototreatment
phytotreatment
posttreatment
preferential treatment
pretreatment
residential treatment
re-treatment
retreatment
scriptment
self-treatment
shock treatment
silent treatment
subtreatment
treatment-naïve
tweakment
undertreatment
wilderness treatment center
window treatment
Related terms: treat
fecund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛk.ənd/
ipa: /ˈfi.kənd/
rhymes: -ɛkənd
rhymes: -iːkənd
Forms: form: more fecund
form: most fecund
form: fœcund
Etymology: From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
Senses: examples: text: The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
ref: 2001, Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population, page 9:
text: The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
ref: 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: battle
word: childing
glosses: Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
examples: text: This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.
ref: 1906, Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences”, in The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, volume II, page 373:
synonyms: fertile
productive
prolific
glosses: Leading to new ideas or innovation.
Derived terms: fecundability
fecundate
fecundation
fecundify
fecundist
fecundize
fecundly
infecund
superfecund
unfecund
Related terms: fecundity
flab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæb/
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: flabs
Etymology: Back-formation from flabby.
Senses: glosses: Soft, loose flesh on a person's body; fat.
Synonyms: word: spare tire
english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
word: spare tyre
word: roll of fat
prominent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: more prominent
form: most prominent
Etymology: From obsolete French prominent (compare proéminent), from Latin prōminēns, present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, to project”), from prō (“before, forward”) + mineō (in compounds, “jut, project”).
Senses: examples: text: The bird was perching on the prominent ledge at the top of the rocks
synonyms: extuberant
outstanding
glosses: Standing out, or projecting; jutting; protuberant.
examples: text: Place the slogan in a more prominent position.
synonyms: attention-grabbing
eye-catching
flashy
glosses: Likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous.
examples: text: prominent members of the press
synonyms: word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: noteworthy
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: markworthy
word: mentionable
word: nameable
word: namely
word: nameworthy
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: extraordinaire
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: pass-remarkable
word: ponderable
word: prominent
word: remarkable
word: signal
word: sovereign
glosses: Eminent; distinguished above others.
Derived terms: improminent
prominently
prominent moth
ultra-prominent
Related terms: prominence
imminent
eminent
prominent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒmɪnənt/
Forms: form: prominents
Etymology: From obsolete French prominent (compare proéminent), from Latin prōminēns, present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, to project”), from prō (“before, forward”) + mineō (in compounds, “jut, project”).
Senses: synonyms: notodontid
prominent moth
glosses: Any of various moths having a conspicuous projection on the inner margin of the wings.
examples: text: […] dynamics that replaced the erstwhile condemnation of all or most of the prominents in the camps by a more nuanced understanding.
ref: 2019, Leona Toker, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps, page 234:
glosses: In Nazi concentration camps, an inmate entrusted with minor supervisory duties and rewarded with perquisites.
Derived terms: lobster prominent
rough prominent
tawny prominent
white-dotted prominent
facade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
ipa: /fəˈseɪd/
Forms: form: facades
form: façade
Etymology: Borrowed from French façade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (“front”), from Latin faciēs (“face”); compare face.
Senses: examples: text: In Egypt the façades of their rock-cut tombs were[…]ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.
ref: 1865, James Fergusson, A History of Architecture in All Countries:
text: Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental façade.
ref: 1880, Charles Eliot Norton, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages:
text: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade.
ref: 2005, Peter Brandvold, “Ghost Colts”, in Robert J. Randisi, editor, Lone Star Law, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 179:
topics: architecture
synonyms: face
front
frontage
glosses: The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.
glosses: The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as the prospect of an organ.
synonyms: appearance
cover
front
guise
pretence
glosses: A deceptive or insincere outward appearance.
examples: text: Facades are widely used for tasks like simplifying complex APIs.
ref: 2017, Evan Burchard, Refactoring JavaScript: Turning Bad Code Into Good Code, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 311:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
Derived terms: counterfacade
facadal
facadectomy
facaded
facade pattern
facadism
cultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɐltʃ(ʉ)ɾɐl/
Forms: form: more cultural
form: most cultural
Etymology: From culture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
ref: 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: Pertaining to culture.
examples: text: cultural lighting
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: Due to human activity.
Derived terms: acculturalization
acultural
anticultural
bicultural
biocultural
chronocultural
cocultural
contracultural
countercultural
cross-cultural
cross-cultural communication
cultural anthropologist
cultural anthropology
cultural appropriation
cultural appropriator
cultural arbitrary
cultural barbiturate
cultural Bolshevism
cultural capital
cultural center
cultural centre
cultural Christian
cultural cringe
cultural diffusion
cultural divide
cultural ecology
cultural evolutionism
cultural genocide
cultural identity
cultural imperialism
culturalism
culturalist
culturality
culturalization
culturalize
cultural learning
cultural literacy
culturally
cultural marxism
cultural Marxism
cultural Marxist
cultural mosaic
culturalness
cultural patrimony
cultural pessimism
cultural phylogenetics
cultural practitioner
cultural script
cultural shock
cultural studies
cultural wealth
cybercultural
deculturalization
ecocultural
econocultural
ethnocultural
extracultural
geocultural
herpetocultural
historico-cultural
intangible cultural heritage
intercultural
intracultural
linguacultural
linguocultural
medicocultural
metacultural
monocultural
morphocultural
multicultural
neurocultural
noncultural
occultural
omnicultural
pancultural
phytocultural
pluricultural
polycultural
pop-cultural
precultural
pseudocultural
psychocultural
pyrocultural
religiocultural
sociocultural
socio-cultural anthropology
spacio-cultural
spatiocultural
subcultural
supercultural
supracultural
technocultural
transcultural
tricultural
uncultural
fabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæbjʊləs/
Forms: form: more fabulous
form: most fabulous
Etymology: From Late Middle English fabulous, fabulose, from Latin fābulōsus (“celebrated in fable”); Equivalent to fable + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fable, myth or legend.
examples: text: [F]abulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: […]
ref: 1949, Joseph Campbell, “The Hero and the God”, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces:
glosses: Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible.
glosses: Fictional or not believable; made up.
glosses: Known for telling fables or falsehoods; unreliable.
glosses: Very good; outstanding, wonderful.
glosses: Camp, effeminate.
glosses: Fashionable, glamorous.
Synonyms: excellent
Derived terms: fab
FAB
F.A.B.
fabulicious
fabulize
fabulous invalid
fabulously
fabulousness
fantabulous
FOBulous
ghetto fabulous
nonfabulous
semifabulous
spectabulous
superfabulous
uber-fabulous
ultrafabulous
unfabulous
Related terms: fable
gross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəʊs/
ipa: /ɡɹoʊs/
ipa: /ɡɹɔs/
ipa: /ɡɹos/
homophone: Gross
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: gross
form: grosses
Etymology: From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
Senses: examples: text: We need to order three gross of torx screws for next week.
glosses: Twelve dozen = 144.
coordinate_terms: net
glosses: The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.
glosses: The bulk; the mass.
gross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹəʊs/
ipa: /ɡɹoʊs/
ipa: /ɡɹɔs/
ipa: /ɡɹos/
homophone: Gross
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: grosses
form: grossing
form: grossed
form: grossed
Etymology: From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
Senses: examples: text: The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.
text: The film grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her in the Hollywood A-list.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: To earn money, not including expenses.
Derived terms: adjusted gross income
great gross
gross adventure
gross anatomy
gross domestic product
grossen
grossification
gross income
gross indecency
grossly
gross margin
gross motor skill
gross national happiness
gross national product
gross negligence
grossness
gross out
gross pay
gross profit
gross receipts
gross register ton
gross sales
gross time
gross up
gross vehicle weight rating
gross weight
half gross
highest-grossing
in gross
long gross
outgross
outside gross area
overgross
short gross
small gross
Related terms: engross
grocer
grocery
groceries
weathering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherings
Etymology: From Middle English wederyng, equivalent to weather + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
examples: text: At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.
ref: 1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Furthermore, changes in continental weathering and riverine contributions to the oceans may also be linked with climate, and hydrothermal inputs vary with tectonism.
ref: 1997 August 15, John N. Christensen et al., “Climate and Ocean Dynamics and the Lead Isotopic Records in Pacific Ferromanganese Crusts”, in Science, volume 277, number 5328, →DOI, pages 913–918:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
topics: architecture
glosses: A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
glosses: The action of weather on objects exposed to it.
Derived terms: space weathering
weathering pan
weathering steel
weathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wederyng, equivalent to weather + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weather
Tasmanian devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tasmanian devils
Etymology: From Tasmanian + devil.
Senses: glosses: A carnivorous marsupial (Sarcophilus harrisii) found exclusively on the island of Tasmania.
Synonyms: sarcophiline
Derived terms: Taz
Related terms: Tasmanian tiger
Tasmanian wolf
thylacine
sarcophile
Dasyuridae
dasyuromorph
wombat
dingo
chuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Etymology: From dialectal (northern England, not Scotland) chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. First attested in 1957.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chuff
chuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: more chuffed
form: most chuffed
Etymology: From dialectal (northern England, not Scotland) chuff, originally meaning “puffed with fat”. First attested in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: Then when Karen got him on her morning show he was chuffed as a haemophiliac with a foolproof razor
ref: 1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories:
text: Got to the video shop in a state / But chuffed it wouldn't be late
ref: 2004, “It Was Supposed to Be So Easy”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), A Grand Don’t Come For Free, performed by The Streets:
text: “I'm chuffed,” she said, putting the kettle on. He gave her that wonderful smile. “Why, exactly?” “Why do you suppose we drink so much strong tea?” “Habit. It's a drug within the bounds of the law.” “Very true!” “Why are you so chuffed, Edda?”
ref: 2014, Colleen McCullough, Bittersweet: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 131:
text: As he arrived on the red carpet Michael said: 'It is my first nomination and I could not be more chuffed.' Well, he could be more chuffed. And that was if he was to win the Olivier honour.
ref: 2015, Willie Robertson, Michael Ball - The Biography, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:
text: I sold a rug to someone on marketplace and they just sent me this picture with the message “little man is chuffed”
ref: 2023 April 5, Travis Greenwood, quoting lucindalvngstn, Cuteness, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024:
antonyms: dischuffed
displeased
glosses: Very pleased or satisfied; delighted.
Derived terms: unchuffed
chuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
rhymes: -ʌft
ipa: /ˈtʃʌft/
rhymes: -ʌft
Forms: form: more chuffed
form: most chuffed
Etymology: From chuff, "a coarse or stupid fellow".
Senses: glosses: Displeased; gruff.
helping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlpɪŋ
Forms: form: helpings
Etymology: From Middle English helping, helpinge, helpynge, equivalent to help + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She finds great joy in helping people.
glosses: The act of giving aid or assistance (to).
examples: text: She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.
glosses: A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself.
examples: text: Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An amount or quantity.
Derived terms: double helping
helping profession
oath-helping
second helping
Related terms: help oneself
helping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlpɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English helpinge, helpynge, helpinde, helponde, helpand, from Old English helpende, present participle of Old English helpan (“to help”), equivalent to help + -ing. Cognate with Dutch helpend, German helfend, Swedish hjälpande.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of help
initially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəli/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃli/
Etymology: From initial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.
text: In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
ref: 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:
text: Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: At the beginning.
Synonyms: word: at first
word: initially
word: in the first place
word: originally
word: to begin with
word: to start with
Related terms: word: betimes
word: earlily
word: early
word: early doors
word: early on
word: beginning
stories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈstɔɹ.iz/
Senses: glosses: plural of story
examples: text: Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “satta”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
-bhūmaka (pāsāda) (a palace) with 7 stories Mhvs 37, 11; J i.58; iv.378; DhA i.180, 239; iv.209.
glosses: plural of storey
stories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː.ɹiz/
ipa: /ˈstɔɹ.iz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of story
initial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈniʃ(ɪ)jal/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /-s(ɪ)jal/
Etymology: From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: Our initial admiration for their efficiency gave way to disgust about their methods.
text: The initial stages of a syndrome may differ vastly from the final symptoms.
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: While the first part to Manchester is level after the initial climb out of Liverpool, the section over the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds is very difficult, with steep gradients as well as many slowings over junctions and curves.
ref: 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 58:
glosses: Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
examples: text: The initial letter of names is usually printed with a capital letter.
text: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
Synonyms: word: incipient
word: inceptive
word: opening
word: beginning
word: commencing
word: earliest
word: first
word: initial
word: maiden
word: nascent
word: original
word: primary
word: prime
word: primeval
word: primordial
word: starting
Hypernyms: word: early
Hyponyms: word: emergent
word: elementary
word: inchoate
word: immature
word: unripe
word: aboriginal
word: introductory
word: prefatory
word: preliminary
word: premisory
word: preparatory
word: prolusory
Derived terms: coinitial
head-initial
initial caps
initial coin offering
initial condition
initially
initial mass function
initialness
initial object
initial point
initial public offering
initial reject
initial setting time
initial topology
initial-value problem
initial value problem
noninitial
peninitial
preinitial
wordinitial
Related terms: word: former
word: natal
initial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈniʃ(ɪ)jal/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /-s(ɪ)jal/
Forms: form: initials
Etymology: From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: The point of interest about this particular specimen was that it must have remained intact for at least a quarter of a century, as it had embossed in the frosted glass the initials of the old Great North of Scotland Railway in the form of a scroll, the sort of relic of pre-grouping days that can still be found here and there if one is observant.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
glosses: The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
topics: arts
calligraphy
communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
typography
writing
glosses: A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
Synonyms: topics: typography
publishing
media
calligraphy
arts
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
word: drop cap
topics: typography
publishing
media
calligraphy
arts
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
word: versal
Derived terms: initialese
initialism
initialist
initial teaching alphabet
middle initial
preinitial
Related terms: monogram
initial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈniʃ(ɪ)jal/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /-s(ɪ)jal/
Forms: form: initials
form: initialing
form: initialling
form: initialed
form: initialed
form: initialled
form: initialled
Etymology: From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: Please initial each page and sign the contract in full at the bottom.
glosses: To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.
Related terms: init
initialize
initiate
initiation
initiative
middle
controversial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.sjəl/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
ipa: [ˌkɑn.t͡ʃɹəˈvɝ.ʃɫ̩]
ipa: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.sjəl/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.si.əl/
ipa: /ˌkɔn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/
ipa: /ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvøː.ʃəl/
ipa: [ˌkɔ̟n.tɹəˈvøː.ʃɫ̩]
Forms: form: more controversial
form: most controversial
form: controversional
Etymology: From Latin controversia (“controversy”) + -al; see controversy.
Senses: examples: text: Whole libraries of controversial books.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society. So, a new national anthem? Fine. I'll go for that. But not two. Because that leads down a road we don't wanna go. Applause.
KIMMEL: Do you feel like...
MAHER: Thank you.
KIMMEL: Hey there's a lot of fear in the air and generally, you don't want to be caught applauding something that might be controversial.
MAHER: I couldn't give a fuck.
KIMMEL: I wasn't talking about you.
ref: 2021 September 16, Bill Maher, 7:52 from the start, in Bill Maher on Getting Anger from Both Sides, Our Divided Country & Norm Macdonald’s Passing, Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
glosses: Arousing or likely to arouse controversy.
glosses: Engaging in or given to controversy; disputatious, argumentative.
Synonyms: contentious
contested
Derived terms: controversialism
controversialize
controversially
controversialness
postcontroversial
precontroversial
Related terms: controversialist
controversiality
controversy
controvert
controverter
controvertible
officially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪʃəli/
Forms: form: more officially
form: most officially
Etymology: From official + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]here was nothing to drink except orange crush - officially.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
text: Wearing his best suit and sunglasses, the sultan of Slowjamastan officially declared independence from the United States of America at 12:26 p.m. on December 1, 2021 as he broadcast the secession live from his open-air government “office” in Dublândia, the capital of the Republic of Slowjamastan.
ref: 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN:
antonyms: inofficially
unofficially
glosses: In an official manner; according to official rules or regulations.
examples: text: That’s it! I’m officially outraged.
glosses: Thoroughly, completely.
Derived terms: nonofficially
officially known as
Related terms: formally
helpful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/
Forms: form: more helpful
form: most helpful
form: helpfull
form: helpefull
Etymology: From Middle English helpful; equivalent to help + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: a helpful clue
text: a helpful person
text: […]inſtructe the yonge Chyrurgiane, becauſe that vvithout making any great delaye, he might be adiuvable & helpefull to the patient vvith theſe remedyes vvhich conſequently follovve.
ref: 1597, Jacques Guillemeau, translated by A. M., The Frenche chirurgerye, Dort: Iſaac Canin, page 48:
antonyms: unhelpful
glosses: Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
Synonyms: obliging
Derived terms: helpfully
helpfulness
nonhelpful
overhelpful
unhelpful
unhelpfully
helpfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlp.fəl.i/
Forms: form: more helpfully
form: most helpfully
Etymology: From helpful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: In a helpful manner.
helpfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlp.fʊl.nəs/
ipa: /ˈhɛlp.fəl.nəs/
Forms: form: helpfulnesses
Etymology: From helpful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being helpful.
titled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Bearing a title.
examples: text: a titled family
glosses: Specifically, having a title of nobility; belonging to the peerage.
Derived terms: self-titled
titled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of title
estimated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more estimated
form: most estimated
Senses: examples: text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: That is an estimate.
Synonyms: word: estd.
Derived terms: coestimated
estimated date of delivery
estimated position
estimated time of arrival
estimated time of departure
unestimated
estimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛstəˌmeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of estimate
NPOV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.piː.əʊ.viː/
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: point-of-viewlessness; eticness
text: The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.
ref: 2007, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, “From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld”, in Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors, Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, section 147:
text: Similarly, it is also important to understand the fundamental operation of NPOV in full detail: contrary to the synthesis commonly required for the coverage of topics in conventional encyclopedias, NPOV does not require the establishment of a universally accepted consensus description of the topic at hand—a kind of graveyard peace between opposing factions, achieved through arrival at a compromise which satisfies no one and omits any controversial points not acceptable to one of the participants.
ref: 2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, section 120:
text: Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.
ref: 2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332:
antonyms: POV
point of view
viewpoint
;
worldview
;
emicness
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of neutral point of view - the guideline of all Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles.
sounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: soundʹĭng
ipa: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: soundings
Etymology: From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
ref: c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service:
text: In the course of his soundings, Sir Herbert Walker had heard favourable reports of O.V.S. Bulleid, currently Principal Assistant to Gresley on the LNER.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 394:
glosses: The action of the verb to sound.
sounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: soundʹĭng
ipa: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology: From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The sounding bell woke me up.
glosses: Emitting a sound.
examples: text: sounding words
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
text: In her tomb by the sounding sea.
ref: 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee:
glosses: Sonorous.
sounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: soundʹĭng
ipa: /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Etymology: From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.
text: "Assist"'s sense ‘to be present (at a ceremony, entertainment, etc.)’, now uncommon and sounding affected, is a Gallicism.
glosses: present participle and gerund of sound