cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paparazzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pă'pə-răʹtsō
ipa: /ˌpæ.pəˈɹæ.tsəʊ/
enpr: pä'pə-räʹtsō
ipa: /ˌpɑ.pəˈɹɑ.tsoʊ/
Forms: form: paparazzi
form: paparazzos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian paparazzo, from the name of Coriolano Paparazzo, a character in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita.
Senses: examples: text: That man with the camera over there is a paparazzo.
text: You may decide to shove the lens down the throat of your aggressor, in the style of an aggrieved celebrity seeking primal redress against a mischievous paparazzo; but then again, most ecstatic rituals are pacific in intent and you may find such violence inappropriate.
ref: 2005 April 30, Peter Aspden, “Bright Lights, Big Pity”, The Revolver, in FT magazine, number № 103 (election special), page 46:
glosses: A freelance photographer who sells photographs of celebrities to the media, especially one who pursues celebrities and attempts to obtain candid photographs.
wikipedia: Federico Fellini
La dolce vita
Derived terms: english: see there for further derivations
translation: see there for further derivations
word: paparazzi
Related terms: word: paparazza
access token
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: access tokens
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object that describes the security context of a process or thread, such as the user's identity and privileges.
hot line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot lines
Senses: examples: text: Later on, when he had loosened up considerably, he told an amusing story that he said took place during a Sino-Soviet border flare-up in 1969. "We had a hot line between the Soviet Union and ourselves then," he said, "but it had already become cold because the Kremlin never used it. At the time of the Chen Pao border incident, however, Kosygin picked it up and called us. When our operator answered, he said, 'This is Premier Kosygin. I would like to speak to Chairman Mao.' The operator, completely on his own, said, 'You are a revisionist, and therefore I will not connect you.' So Kosygin said, 'Well, if you will not try to reach the Chairman, will you please connect me with Prime Minister Chou.' But the operator gave the same unauthorized reply and broke the connection."
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 568:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hotline.
backing band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backing bands
Senses: glosses: A group of musicians who accompany an artist at a live performance or on a recording. This can either be an established group, or else an ad hoc group assembled for the purpose.
Synonyms: english: USA usage
translation: USA usage
word: backup band
core-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core-levels
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The energy level of the electrons (core electrons) occupying the completely filled shells under the valence shell.
anterolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From antero- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In front of the body, away from the midline.
Derived terms: anterolateral ligament
anterolaterally
distribution server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distribution servers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a network server that stores the installation files for distribution over a network.
zazzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æzi
Forms: form: zazzier
form: zazziest
Senses: examples: text: Below: The zazziest nylon tricot pettipants — a dazzle of yellows, blues, pinks and greens, scalloped at the edges.
ref: 1967, Harper's Bazaar, volume 100, page 240:
text: So who's this madman launching a new car from a brand-new company? He is John Z De Lorean, one-time Detroit executive, whose new car — the De Lorean — sells at $25000 a throw. For that price you get a zazzy, European-styled sports job […]
ref: 1981, Financial Mail, page 1338:
glosses: Shiny or flashy.
epibole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiboles
Senses: glosses: The irregular recurrence of the same expression within a verse or successive verses of scripture. Essentially random repetition.
midline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midlines
Etymology: From mid- + line.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The level of the top of the x-height of a typeface.
Derived terms: dorsomidline
midline theorem
cyclogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkləʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/
Forms: form: cyclogeneses
Etymology: From cyclo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process which leads to the formation of tropical storms, cyclones and hurricanes; typically involves an interaction that leads to vertical wind shear.
Derived terms: explosive cyclogenesis
bombogenesis
cyclogenic
shut up shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts up shop
form: shutting up shop
form: shut up shop
form: shut up shop
Senses: examples: text: The company decided to shut up shop in this country and move to America, where corporate taxes are lower.
text: Well, he then decided to manufacture everything as in the human body. I'll show you in the museum the bungling attempt it took him ten years to produce. It was to have been a man, but it lived for three days only. Then up came young Rossum, an engineer. He was a wonderful fellow, Miss Glory. When he saw what a mess of it the old man was making, he said: "It's absurd to spend ten years making a man. If you can't make him quicker than nature, you might as well shut up shop."
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
text: Instead of shutting up shop, Ghouneim relocated to humdrum Wittenau, a suburb of Berlin, and got some tape artists to decorate the facade of the new building.
ref: 2019 April 29, Philip Oltermann, “Are the hyper-specialist shops of Berlin the future of retail?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 26 Jul 2021:
text: But like almost every other business sector, the Coronavirus outbreak in March has forced every single heritage railway to shut up shop for several months... at a time when they would normally be at their busiest.
ref: 2020 July 1, Daniel Puddicombe, “How can heritage lines recover from enforced closures?”, in Rail, page 30:
text: After months of bitter disagreements and legal back-and-forth, he had finally given up and struck out on his own, but he'd met with a string of bad luck—a client who refused to pay, a flood, a false insurance claim—and he'd had to shut up shop; now he was working for a big construction firm as a gun for hire and telling anybody who would listen what a rotten hand he had been dealt.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 128:
glosses: To close up shop; to end a business activity.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bat defensively in the last innings of a match in order to force a draw when winning is not possible.
examples: text: Having taken a ninth-minute lead through the imperious Erling Haaland and seeing out the opening 45 minutes pretty comfortably, Guardiola decided to shut up shop in the second half, possibly with tiredness in mind.
ref: 2025 September 21, Shamoon Hafez, “Guardiola gamble almost pays off as Liverpool cash in”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: park the bus
glosses: To play extremely defensively
voël
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voëls
Etymology: From Afrikaans voël (“bird”). Doublet of fowl.
Senses: glosses: A penis.
pinniped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinnipeds
form: pinnipede
Etymology: From
Latin pinna (“fin”) + pes (“foot”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various large marine mammals belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia comprising walruses, eared seals and earless seals.
Synonyms: word: pinniped
Hypernyms: word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: eared seal
word: earless seal
word: hair seal
word: otary
word: phocid
word: true seal
word: walrus
word: fur seal
word: sea lion
word: common seal
word: elephant seal
word: grey seal
word: harp seal
word: hooded seal
word: leopard seal
word: monk seal
word: ribbon seal
word: ringed seal
Derived terms: nonpinniped
Related terms: word: :Category:en:Seals
pinniped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinniped
form: most pinniped
form: pinnipede
Etymology: From
Latin pinna (“fin”) + pes (“foot”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or similar to such a mammal.
Derived terms: pinnipedian
catenary bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catenary bridges
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: a bridge in which the horizontal deck is suspended from a reverse catenary to counteract bending
cocktail party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail parties
Senses: glosses: A party at which cocktails are served.
Synonyms: cocktailer
Derived terms: cocktail party deafness
cocktail party effect
cocktail party graph
cocktail party problem
Related terms: cocktail dress
cocktail hat
permethrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permethrins
Etymology: From Latin perme(ō) (“to pervade”) + -thrin.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic insecticide, C₂₁H₂₀Cl₂O₃, used to treat head lice, nits, and scabies; as an active ingredient in flea collars; and to eradicate woodworm infestations.
Derived terms: permethrinase
cocktail party effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail party effects
Etymology: Suggesting a party where many groups of people are talking at the same time.
Senses: glosses: The ability (or the difficulty) of focusing one's attention on a single auditory source in a jumble of noises.
cocktail party graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocktail party graphs
Etymology: So called because it can be visualised as the set of handshakes if n couples go to a party and each person shakes hands with every person except his or her partner.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph consisting of two rows of paired nodes in which all nodes except the paired ones are connected with straight lines; it is the complement of the ladder rung graph, and the dual graph of the hypercube.
Synonyms: hyperoctahedral graph
Hypernyms: Turán graph
cariogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more cariogenic
form: most cariogenic
Etymology: From cario- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to cariogenesis
glosses: Producing dental caries
Derived terms: anticariogenic
cariogenicity
noncariogenic
Related terms: cariogen
costard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒs.tə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: costards
form: coster
Etymology: From Middle English costard, perhaps from Old French coste (“rib”) + -ard, in reference to its ribbed appearance.
Senses: glosses: A large cooking apple.
glosses: The tree on which large cooking apples grow.
examples: text: Take him ouer the coſtard with the hilts of thy ſword,
 And then we wil chop him in the malmſey
 But in the next roome.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
text: Good Gentleman goe your gate, and let poore volke paſſe: and ’chud ha’ bin zwaggerd out of my life, ’twould not ha’bin zo long as ’tis, by a vortnight. Nay, come not neere th’old man: keepe out che vor’ye, or ice try whither your Coſtard, or my Ballow be the harder; chill be plaine with you.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304, column 2:
glosses: The human head.
Derived terms: costardmonger
Related terms: costermonger
cooking apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking apples
Senses: synonyms: cooker
hypernyms: apple
<
fruit
;
ingredient
coordinate_terms: eating apple
cider apple
glosses: Any apple primarily used for making pies, crumbles or sauces: such a cultivar; an individual apple (instance) of such type.
Related terms: apple cake
apple fritter
apple pie
apple sauce
eating apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eating apples
Senses: synonyms: table apple
dessert apple
hypernyms: apple
;
hand fruit
coordinate_terms: cooking apple
cider apple
glosses: Any apple primarily used for eating raw, rather than for use in cooking or cider-making: such a cultivar; an individual apple (instance) of such type.
duffel bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duffel bags
form: duffle bag
Etymology: After the Belgian town of Duffel, which produced the thick cloth from which early duffel bags were made.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: word: kitbag
glosses: A large, cylindrical, duffel cloth bag used to carry personal gear, especially by soldiers.
glosses: A smaller, cylindrical, cloth bag fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.
Related terms: duffel coat
duffle bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duffle bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duffel bag.
mill race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɹeɪs/
Forms: form: mill races
form: mill-race
form: millrace
Senses: examples: text: She liked the cold water of the mill-race, and without shame or hesitation would throw off her frock and float like a mermaid, almost invisible, in the watery element.
ref: 1935, Benedict Read, The Green Child, Capuchin, published 2010, page 36:
text: For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, though the wind still screamed in the rigging and the clouds scudded under us like flecks of foam in a mill race.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 162:
text: The mill race was a ditch that was cut which started along the river’s edge that ran past the mill to provide the water that would turn a wheel that would provide power to the saws. There was a gate on the ditch which could be raised or lowered to allow the water to run or to stop its flow down the ditch.
ref: 2000, Lewis J Swindle, The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mines of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt As Told by the Newspapers and Miners 1848-1875, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive the millwheel in a watermill.
Synonyms: word: lade
word: mill lade
word: millrun
word: watergang
Meronyms: headrace
wheel-race
tailrace
Related terms: mill dam
millpond
planula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planulae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin plānula, diminutive of plāna (“plane”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia.
Derived terms: coeloplanula
planular
planulate
planuliform
planuloid
planulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planula
muffin cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffin caps
Senses: glosses: A style of close-fitting cap or hat worn by women in the 16th century and later; a caul.
glosses: A low, loose cap resembling a beret, but with a brim that goes all the way around the head; popularized in the 19th century as a hat for children, especially in the lower classes.
keri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kere.
Suomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Suomi + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Finnish
glosses: of or pertaining to the Finnish people
oiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔɪɹən/
Forms: form: oiran
form: oirans
Etymology: From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.
Senses: examples: text: The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art.
ref: 2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea, Stone Bridge Press, page 192:
glosses: A high-status courtesan in Japan.
ambrotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambrotypes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄμβροτος (ámbrotos, “immortal”) and τύπος (túpos, “impression”).
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: amphitype
glosses: An early type of photograph in which a glass negative appears positive when displayed on a black background.
statement of claim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statements of claim
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statement issued in civil court proceedings by a plaintiff. It sets forth the complaints against the defendants, and the prayers for relief from the court.
Orphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːfɪk/
ipa: /ˈɔɹfɪk/
Forms: form: more Orphic
form: most Orphic
Etymology: From Orpheus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Orphic ideology mainly concerned the mysteries of Dionysos, which many Greeks took very seriously.
ref: 2004, Stephanie L. Budin, The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives, ABC-CLIO, page 307:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals.
examples: text: […] he intended to be a divine artist, a man of visionary states and enchantments, Platonic possession. He got a Rationalistic, Naturalistic education at CCNY. This was not easily reconciled with the Orphic. But all his desires were contradictory.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; mystic.
glosses: Hypnotic; entrancing.
Derived terms: Orphically
Orphicism
Orphic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːfɪk/
ipa: /ˈɔɹfɪk/
Forms: form: Orphics
Etymology: From Orpheus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In particular, Plato often refers to the “Orphics” and mentions the “Orphic life” (Orphikoi tines legomenoi bioi, Laws 782c). Plato clearly distinguished the Orphics and the Pythagoreans. To speak very generally, the Orphics believed that the soul had a divine beginning but fell from the gods due to an original crime.
ref: 2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A follower of Orphism.
boot-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot-trees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boottree.
boottree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boottrees
Etymology: From boot + tree.
Senses: glosses: A device, shaped like a divided leg with a wedge, used to stretch the leg of a boot.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: tree
structured wiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A planned cabling system which systematically lays out the wiring and wire management necessary for communications, including voice, data, and video.
bowstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊ.stɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.stɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: bowstrings
Etymology: From bow + string.
Senses: examples: text: For an instant he glanced along the polished shaft, drawing the bowstring far back, that the arrow might pierce through the heart for which it was aimed.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 191:
glosses: The string of an archer's bow.
glosses: The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.
Derived terms: sense: string of an archer's bow
word: bowstring bridge
sense: string of an archer's bow
word: bowstring girder
sense: string of an archer's bow
word: bowstring hemp
sense: string of an archer's bow
word: bowstring knot
bowstring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊ.stɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbəʊ.stɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: bowstrings
form: bowstringing
form: bowstrung
form: bowstrung
form: bowstringed
form: bowstringed
Etymology: From bow + string.
Senses: examples: text: When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade:
text: 1909, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), A Municipal Report
I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.
glosses: To strangle with a bowstring.
buzz bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz bombs
Senses: glosses: Any small, jet-propelled flying missile that carries a bomb.
examples: text: The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for the imminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
glosses: The V-1 flying bomb; the doodlebug.
sender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛndɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: senders
Etymology: From send + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The package was addressed to someone we didn't know, so we returned it to the sender.
glosses: Someone who sends.
glosses: A device or component that transmits, as in telegraphy or computer networks.
jet-propelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Moving by jet propulsion; Propelled by a jet engine
camphoraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more camphoraceous
form: most camphoraceous
Etymology: From camphor + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, similar to, or containing camphor.
Synonyms: camphrous
raisins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raisin
raisins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raisin
catacaustic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːstɪk
Forms: form: catacaustics
Etymology: From cata- + caustic.
Senses: glosses: a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the envelope of all rays that emanate from a specified point (the radiant point) and reflect from a given curve; the evolute of the orthotomic
Derived terms: cardioid catacaustic
circle catacaustic
cissoid of Diocles catacaustic
cycloid catacaustic
deltoid catacaustic
ellipse catacaustic
logarithmic spiral catacaustic
natural logarithm catacaustic
parabola catacaustic
Tschirnhausen cubic catacaustic
catechesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catecheses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin catēchēsis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κατήχησις (katḗkhēsis), from κατηχέω (katēkhéō, “sound through, instruct orally, catechise”).
Senses: glosses: Religious instruction given orally to catechumens.
Related terms: catechetics
catechise
catechism
catechist
catechize
catechumen
cataclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: describing a type of metamorphic rock that has undergone shearing and granulation by high mechanical stress
forts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fort
forts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fort
wouldst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /wʊdst/
/wʊtst/
/wədst/
/wətst/
Forms: form: wou'dst
form: would'st
form: wouldest
Senses: examples: text: Wouldst thou be so kind as to tell me thy name?
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of will
lit crit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of literary criticism.
confectionery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛkʃənəɹi/
ipa: /kənˈfɛkʃənɹi/
Forms: form: confectioneries
form: confectionary
Etymology: From confectioner + -y.
Senses: glosses: Foodstuffs that taste very sweet, taken as a group; candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
glosses: The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
glosses: A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner's shop.
Synonyms: sense: sweet foodstuffs
word: candy
sense: sweet foodstuffs
word: sweets
sense: business of manufacturing confectionery
word: sweet-making
sense: business of manufacturing confectionery
word: sweet manufacture
sense: shop where confectionery is sold
word: confectioner's
sense: shop where confectionery is sold
word: candy store
sense: shop where confectionery is sold
word: sweet shop
Derived terms: nonconfectionery
Related terms: confect
confection
confectionary
confectioner
listed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪst.ɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of list
listed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪst.ɪd/
rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: Entered on a list, especially an official one.
examples: text: The trams are fitted with lithium batteries, which has meant no requirement to fit infrastructure to listed buildings, including Birmingham Town Hall.
ref: 2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “Midlands Metro welcomes new catenary-free trams”, in Rail, page 16:
text: It’s a great hub for shopping: the high street is pedestrianised and many of the town’s 600-odd listed buildings house fabulous independents – speciality food stores, cafes, antique shops, clothing boutiques.
ref: 2022 November 25, Sarah Baxter et al., “Britain's 15 best high streets – where Christmas shopping is a pleasure”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Designated as of special architectural or historical interest and protected from demolition or alteration.
raw_tags: of a building or other structure
glosses: Having its shares traded on a Stock Exchange.
raw_tags: of a company
Derived terms: abovelisted
aforelisted
listed company
nonlisted
underlisted
cross-listed
listed building
Pedro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdɹəʊ/
ipa: /peɪdɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɛdɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpeɪdɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛdɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɛɪdɹəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Peter, Piers, Pietro, and Boutros.
Senses: glosses: An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.
glosses: The five of trumps in certain card games.
Pedro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdɹəʊ/
ipa: /peɪdɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɛdɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpeɪdɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛdɹəʊ
rhymes: -ɛɪdɹəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Peter, Piers, Pietro, and Boutros.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Peter.
Related terms: Don Pedro
Pedro Sancho
Sancho Pedro
San Pedro Masahuat
San Pedro Nonualco
San Pedro Perulapán
San Pedro Sula
São Pedro do Sul
semble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmbəl/
Forms: form: sembles
form: sembling
form: sembled
form: sembled
Etymology: From Middle English semblen, from Old French sembler (“to resemble”).
Senses: examples: text: Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.
ref: 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode humbly inscrib'd to the queen:
glosses: To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
topics: law
glosses: It seems; it appears that
semble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmbəl/
Etymology: From Middle English semble, from Old French semble.
Senses: examples: text: name and deede that bare the semble stile
ref: 1584, Thomas Hudson, Judith:
glosses: Like; resembling.
compressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compressible
form: most compressible
Etymology: Probably from French
Senses: glosses: able to be compressed
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
raw_tags: of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold
Derived terms: compressibility
compressibleness
compressibly
noncompressible
pseudocompressible
uncompressable
uncompressible
Related terms: compress
compressor
frill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: frills
form: frilling
form: frilled
form: frilled
Etymology: Of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: To make into a frill.
glosses: To become wrinkled.
examples: text: And I will be bold to ſay my two girls have had a pretty good education, and capacity, [...] they underſtand their needle, breadſtitch, croſs and change, and all manner of plain-work; they can pink, point, and frill; [...]
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The Family Still Resolve to Hold Up Their Heads”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 107:
text: 1863, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, Chapter 4, in All the Year Round, Volume 10, Extra Christmas Number, 3 December, 1863, p. 35,
Mrs. Sandham, formerly Kate Barford, is working at a baby’s frock, and asking now and then the advice of her sister, who is frilling a little cap.
glosses: To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits.
Derived terms: friller
frill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: frills
form: frilling
form: frilled
form: frilled
Etymology: From Old French friller.
Senses: topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To shake or shiver as with cold (with reference to a hawk).
examples: 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, Chapter 13, “Of the Voices of Birds,” p. 310,
The Eagle Frilleth, or Scriketh
The Hawk, as Falcon, Gawshawk, and all such Birds of Prey, cryeth, peepeth, or frilleth.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To cry (with reference to a bird of prey).
brighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪtən/
ipa: [ˈbɹaɪ̯ʔn̩]
rhymes: -aɪtən
homophone: Brighton
Forms: form: brightens
form: brightening
form: brightened
form: brightened
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: brighten
form: brighten
form: brightened
form: brighten
form: brightenest
form: brightened
form: brightenedst
form: brightens
form: brighteneth
form: brightened
form: brighten
form: brightened
form: brighten
form: brightened
form: brighten
form: -
form: brightening
form: brightened
Etymology: From bright + -en.
Senses: examples: text: We brightened the room with a new coat of paint.
glosses: To make bright or brighter in color.
examples: text: The preſent Queen is a Prince of as many and great Virtues as ever filled a Throne: How would it brighten Her Character to the preſent and after Ages, if She would exert Her utmoſt Authority to inſtill ſome Share of thoſe Virtues into Her People, which they are too degenerate to learn only from Her Example.
ref: 1709, [Jonathan Swift], A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. […], London: […] Benj[amin] Tooke, […], →OCLC, pages 58–59:
glosses: To make illustrious, or more distinguished; to add luster or splendor to
examples: text: to brighten one’s prospects
text: Having Mark around the place really brightens things up.
text: An Ecstasie, which Mothers only feel, / Plays round my heart and brightens up my sorrow.
ref: 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother:
text: Chances for the measure's success brightened considerably […] with the elimination of the term "sexual orientation" […] The new term, "sexual status," has caused several former opponents of the bill […] to change their votes.
ref: 1979 April 14, “Conn. Senate Votes Yes on SB 705”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven
examples: text: The sun starts to brighten around this time of the year.
text: The sky brightened as the storm moved on.
glosses: To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up
examples: text: She brightened when I changed the subject.
text: Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
glosses: To become brighter or more cheerful in mood
Derived terms: brightenable
brightener
brighten up
unbrightened
upbrighten
horned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/
ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪd
Etymology: From Middle English horned, hornyd, from Old English hyrned, ġehyrned (“having horns; horned”),
from Proto-Germanic *hurnidaz (“horned”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *hurnijaną (“to horn; provide or fit with horns”); equivalent to horn (“noun”) + -ed. Cognate with Dutch gehoornd (“horned”),
German gehörnt (“horned”), Danish hornede (“horned”).
Senses: examples: text: A goat is a horned animal.
text: a bull's head gules, horned argent
text: The horned moon with one bright star / Within the nether tip.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
glosses: Having horns.
glosses: Cuckolded.
Synonyms: cornigerous
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cucumis metuliferus
word: African horned cucumber
word: Alexander horned ball
word: Alexander horned sphere
word: greater one-horned rhinoceros
word: great horned owl
word: hickory horned devil
taxonomic: Bitis spp.
word: horned adder
word: horned coot
alt: Semotilus atromaculatus
word: horned dace
taxonomic: Cerastes cerastes
word: horned desert viper
word: horned frog
alt: †Ceratogaulus spp.
word: horned gopher
taxonomic: Podiceps auritus
word: horned grebe
taxonomic: Cassis cornuta
word: horned helmet
english: Babyrousa
translation: Babyrousa
word: horned hog
taxonomic: Connochaetes spp.
word: horned horse
taxonomic: Eremophila alpestris
word: horned lark
taxonomic: Phrynosoma spp.
word: horned lizard
taxonomic: Cucumis metuliferus
word: horned melon
word: hornedness
english: Bubo
translation: Bubo
word: horned owl
word: horned pansy
english: Bucerotidae
translation: Bucerotidae
word: horned pie
word: horned poison
english: Glaucium
translation: Glaucium
word: horned poppy
taxonomic: Ameiurus nebulosus
word: horned pout
taxonomic: Fratercula corniculata
word: horned puffin
taxonomic: Crotalus cerastes
word: horned rattlesnake
taxonomic: Anhima cornuta
word: horned screamer
taxonomic: Cerastes cornutus
word: horned snake
word: horned sphere
word: horned sungem
word: horned syllogism
word: horned toad
word: horned up
word: horned violet
taxonomic: Cerastes cornutus
word: horned viper
word: long-horned beetle
word: long-horned grasshopper
word: multihorned
word: ornate horned toad
word: regal horned lizard
taxonomic: Cerastes cerastes
word: Saharan horned viper
word: scimitar-horned oryx
word: short-horned grasshopper
word: slender-horned gazelle
word: spider-tailed horned viper
word: strange-horned toad
word: thick-horned nudibranch
word: three-horned
word: unhorned
word: well horned
word: well-horned
Related terms: horny
cuckold
horned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nd/
ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)nɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nd
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪd
Etymology: See horn (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of horn
ambassadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambassador
besought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈsɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beseech
glosses: simple past and past participle of beseek
Derived terms: unbesought
boule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: boules
Etymology: From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word.
Senses: examples: text: Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
glosses: A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means.
glosses: A round loaf of bread.
glosses: A round piece of dough.
examples: text: Behind him is lumber 'sawn in the boule.' Wood is more commonly sawn in this manner in Europe and is stacked in the order it comes from the log.
ref: 1986, Fine woodworking on wood and how to dry it, page 42:
text: Specialty lumber dealers can cut and sticker a log "in the boule," so that boards hold the same relative position they had before milling
ref: 1995 August, American Woodworker, number 46, page 41:
text: A live-sawn log kept as a unit is known as a boule
ref: 1991 August, American Woodworker, number 21, page 47:
text: IN THE BOULE. If you work with whole logs, allocate enough space for storing flitch-cut planks in the order they were sawn. Their sheer bulk helps keep them flat, and stacking in order makes sequential matching for color and grain much easier
ref: 2005, Andy Rae, Workshop Idea Book, page 94:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges.
boule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: boules
form: bouling
form: bouled
form: bouled
Etymology: From French boule. Doublet of bull (etymologies 2 and 4) and bulla, or of bowl and pulla, depending on the etymology of the French word.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball.
boule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: boules
Etymology: Alteration of Boulle. See buhl.
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: Alternative form of buhl.
boule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: boules
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουλή (boulḗ).
Senses: glosses: A council of citizens in Ancient Greece
Related terms: bouleuterion
bouleutes
fitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈfɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fitters
Etymology: From fit (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a fitter of clothing, or of machinery
text: But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.
ref: 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:
text: "They have gone past their sell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 8:
glosses: A person who fits or assembles something.
glosses: An epileptic.
glosses: A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
examples: text: For the fitter of film music in the silent era visual reference was the surest indicator of content.
ref: 2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood Reader, page 268:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.
Derived terms: carpet fitter
gasfitter
pipefitter
pipe fitter
shipfitter
ship fitter
shopfitter
squipper
steamfitter
stove fitter
upfitter
fitter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈfɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Etymology: From fit (adjective) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.
text: My bird's loads fitter than yours.
text: All stood together on the deck, / For a charnel-dungeon fitter: / All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
glosses: comparative form of fit: more fit
rickety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪk.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈɹɪk.e.ti/
rhymes: -ɪkɪti
rhymes: -ɪketi
Forms: form: ricketier
form: more rickety
form: ricketiest
form: most rickety
form: ricketty
form: rickedy
Etymology: From dialectal ricket (“unstable, rickety”) + -y, and/or ricket (“to move noisily and in a reckless way”) + -y.
Alternatively, and perhaps less likely, from rickets + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.
text: She now knew every article Mrs Dibble had to sell, and the large part of the stock that was unsaleable by reason of its damaged state. Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 61:
synonyms: precarious
rachitic
shaky
tottering
unsafe
unstable
unsteady
wobbly
glosses: Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
examples: text: The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.
glosses: Feeble in the joints; tottering.
raw_tags: of a person
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Affected with or suffering from rickets; rachitic.
Synonyms: word: bockety
word: bone-shaking
word: craichy
word: cranky
word: creaky
word: creaking
word: drooping
word: flimsy
word: precarious
word: unsteady
word: rickety
word: rottletrap
word: shackly
word: shaky
word: shoogly
word: tottering
word: tottersome
word: unsafe
word: unstable
word: wobbly
word: wonky
Hypernyms: word: fragile
word: ramshackle
word: weak
gallantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləntri/
Forms: form: gallantries
Etymology: From French galanterie, equivalent to gallant + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: 1926, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend', Penguin, Harmondsworth: 1992, p 98.
'I have the greatest respect for the young lady to whom you refer. She behaved on a certain recent occasion - on two recent occasions - with notable gallantry and resource, and I won't have her bally-ragged.'
text: Our men have fought with grim gallantry. The soldiers of the Republic of Korea have also been fighting fiercely.
ref: 1950 September 1, Harry S. Truman, 1:27 from the start, in MP72-73 Korea and World Peace: President Truman Reports to the People, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: courage.
examples: text: Of the three things that startle us in the feasts of nobles, there is not one here; no swords, no duels, no tables reeking blood. No faithless gallantries here bring dishonour on some intimate friend.
ref: 1863, Jules Michelet, translated by Lionel J. Trotter, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:
text: The Queen of Sheba has responded to Solomon's gallantry and accepted his one God . She is one who is ready to be guided . Her heart is open . The second part of the testing , the riddles , seem to be a more personal and human exchange .
ref: 1993, Barbara Black Koltuv, Solomon & Sheba: Inner Marriage and Individuation, Nicholas-Hays, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women.
glosses: an instance of gallant behaviour or speech.
Synonyms: gallanthood
gallantness
Derived terms: gallantry show
ingallantry
ungallantry
overdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overdraw
liquidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪkˈwɪdəti/
Forms: form: liquidities
Etymology: From liquid + -ity, from Latin liquiditas.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash.
glosses: The state or property of being liquid.
examples: text: Some stocks are traded so rarely that they lack liquidity.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
examples: text: This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld.
ref: 2011 July 8, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
Derived terms: funding liquidity risk
liquidity event
liquidity pool
liquidity provider
liquidity smile
liquidity trap
nonliquidity
overliquidity
semiliquidity
Related terms: liquid
liquidate
liquidation
liquidator
liquidizer
liquor
liquidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪkwəˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: liquidations
Etymology: From liquidate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
examples: text: The store is having a liquidation sale: everything must go as they go out of business.
glosses: The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
examples: Near-synonyms: devitalization, fatality; see also Thesaurus:death, Thesaurus:killing
glosses: The murder of dehumanized victims.
Derived terms: liquidationism
liquidationist
nonliquidation
preliquidation
reliquidation
Related terms: liquid
liquidate
liquidator
liquidity
liquidizer
liquor
el-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See en- § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: The form taken by en- before the consonant l like ellipse and elliptical)-->, as it assimilates place of articulation.
sucker punching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sucker punch
suicide jockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide jockeys
Etymology: In reference to the risk of death if the vehicle crashes.
Senses: examples: text: Listen, you wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
glosses: A semi-trailer driver pulling a tanker trailer with gasoline or other explosive or hazardous substance.
Supriya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi सुप्रिया (supriyā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.