cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stabiliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabilisers
Etymology: From stabilise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another interesting feature of the Falaise is that she is provided with a Denny Brown stabiliser to minimise rolling, and amenities for the passenger include the provision of a radio telephone service, which is available on passage.
ref: 1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:
text: The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work.
ref: 2021 December 29, “Network News: RAIB: tighten up supervision after 27mph train sideswipe incident”, in RAIL, number 947, page 8:
qualifier: non-Oxford British English
glosses: Alternative spelling of stabilizer.
Derived terms: gyrostabiliser
horizontal stabiliser
soil stabiliser
stabilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /sʈɛb(ɪ)ˈlaɪzə(ɾ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsʈeb(ɪ)laɪzə(ɾ)/
Forms: form: stabilizers
form: stabiliser
Etymology: From stabilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any person or thing that brings stability.
Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
glosses: Any person or thing that brings stability.
An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
synonyms: training wheel
glosses: Any person or thing that brings stability.
A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
glosses: Any person or thing that brings stability.
An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Any person or thing that brings stability.
A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
Derived terms: gyroscopic stabilizer
gyrostabilizer
horizontal stabilizer
mood stabilizer
orbit-stabilizer theorem
stabilizer subgroup
vertical stabilizer
gelling agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelling agents
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to a food product to provide the texture of a gel.
Related terms: stabilizer
thickener
improper fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improper fractions
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A vulgar fraction of which the numerator has a greater magnitude than the denominator, such as 3/2.
wikipedia: Fraction#Proper and +s
Synonyms: top-heavy fraction
proper fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper fractions
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A vulgar fraction in which the magnitude of the numerator is less than or equal to that of the denominator, such as 2/3.
wikipedia: Fraction#Proper and im+s
vulgar fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgar fractions
Etymology: Calque of New Latin fractiō vulgāris, from Latin vulgāris (“common”), originally in contrast to specialised forms such as “astronomical” (sexagesimal) fractions.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A fraction in the form of one integer divided by another, non-zero, integer.
Synonyms: common fraction
arsanylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsanylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the arsenic analogue of a carbene R-As
Synonyms: arsinediyl
arsinidene
arsinediyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsinediyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an arsanylidene
arsinidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsinidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An arsanylidene.
common fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common fractions
Etymology: Originally a calque of New Latin fractiō vulgāris. See vulgar fraction.
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A fraction in the form of one integer divided by another, non-zero, integer.
Synonyms: simple fraction
vulgar fraction
arsanylium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsanylium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the cation H₂As⁺ derived from arsine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic derivative of this cation
greda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gredas
form: greda
Senses: glosses: Synonym of paha (“type of landform”).
synonyms: word: paha
extra: type of landform
grob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɒb/
ipa: /ɡɹɑb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: grobs
form: grobbing
form: grobbed
form: grobbed
Etymology: From Middle English grobben, variant of grubben. More at grub.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grub.
Derived terms: grobble
kakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaka
kob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: kobs
form: kob
form: koba
Senses: glosses: An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
glosses: Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.
Canarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /kəˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Canary + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the Canary Islands, Spain.
Canarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /kəˈnɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Canarians
Etymology: From Canary + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Canary Islands, Spain.
Synonyms: Canary Islander
cochleariform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kɒklɪˈɛːɹɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more cochleariform
form: most cochleariform
Etymology: From Latin cochlear + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The floor of this canal bulges laterally to form a spoon-shaped hook, the cochleariform process.
ref: 2005, Andras Csillag, Atlas of the Sensory Organs, Humana, page 5:
glosses: spoon-shaped
on the double
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, help arrived on the double, and the victim's injuries were soon treated.
text: My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble. / You see him comin'; better cut out on the double.
ref: 1963, “My Boyfriend's Back”, in My Boyfriend's Back, performed by The Angels:
text: Liara: We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in!
Shepard: Joker! Get the Normandy airbone and lock in on my signal. On the double, mister!
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therum:
glosses: Rapidly or immediately.
Related terms: at the double
double-quick
double time
dig in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs in
form: digging in
form: dug in
form: dug in
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to say grace before dinner, but the kids were already digging in.
synonyms: chow down
fall to
tuck in
glosses: To begin eating.
examples: text: I've got to dig in for a couple of weeks to secure my promotion.
text: Mancini's men were far from their best but dug in to earn a 10th win in 11 league games and an eighth successive victory in all competitions to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: fall to
go for it
glosses: To engage in a burst of hard work.
examples: text: If Russia choses to dig in, then the military balance – which typically favours the defender on a 3-1 ratio – is reversed.
ref: 2022 April 4, Dan Sabbagh, “Routing of Russian forces from Kyiv area will be hard to repeat in eastern Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To dig trenches to resist an enemy attack.
raw_tags: in sports
examples: text: to dig in one's feet, heels, etc.
glosses: To adopt a resolute state of mind.
glosses: To cover over by digging.
Derived terms: dig in one's heels
Related terms: dig into
liquified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquified
form: most liquified
form: liquefied
Senses: glosses: Converted into a liquid state.
Derived terms: liquified natural gas
unliquified
liquified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: liquefied
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liquify
liquify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: liquifies
form: liquifying
form: liquified
form: liquified
Etymology: Perhaps from liquid + -fy, or more probably a variant spelling of liquefy to match other words in -ify.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liquefy.
Derived terms: reliquify
at the double
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In double time.
examples: text: Arsenal 0 Barcelona 2: Messi at the double to down brave Gunners
ref: 2016, FourFourTwo staff, “Arsenal 0 Barcelona 2: Messi at the double to down brave Gunners” at FourFourTwo
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: scoring a brace
Related terms: on the double
double time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fast marching pace of 180 steps per minute, 36 inches in length for the Marine Corps and Navy, 30 inches in length for the Army. It is not really double the speed of quick time as quick time is 112-120 steps per minute.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical rhythm twice as fast as the overall beat, with this pattern of note lengths: 3/16 3/16 1/4 3/16 3/16.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance step pattern with six steps.
glosses: A rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
Coordinate terms: half-time
triple time
Derived terms: word: double-time
Related terms: at the double
kut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goot
form: gut
Etymology: From Korean 굿 (gut), romanized as kut under the McCune-Reischauer romanization system.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
thugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thug
arsine oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsine oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The derivative of arsine H₃As=O, or its organic derivatives.
Related terms: arsine imide
arsine sulfide
Ben Wa ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛn ˈwɑː ˌbɔːl/
Forms: form: Ben Wa balls
form: Ben-Wa ball
Etymology: From the earlier ben-wa which was borrowed from Japanese. Compare the synonym rin-no-tama, also from Japanese.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of marble-sized metal or plastic balls, usually hollow and containing a small weight that rolls around, used for vaginal or anal sexual stimulation.
Synonyms: geisha ball
French tickler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French ticklers
Senses: glosses: A latex condom that is designed with additional protrusions to enhance the sexual pleasure of the receiver.
arsinous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsinous acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid H₂AsOH derived from arsine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives.
outercourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtə(ɹ)ˌkɔː(ɹ)s/
Etymology: Blend of outer + intercourse.
Senses: glosses: Sexual activity without vaginal or anal penetration.
Related terms: intercourse
nonpenetrative sex
columned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From column + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The columned great hall seemed smaller because there were no straight lines of sight not blocked by a column.
text: […] the wall that bounds it on the side of the Palace, the one-columned portico at its southern end, and the paved ways that lead to it, […]
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 59:
glosses: Having columns.
rimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rim
rimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: The act of performing a rim job; anilingus.
arsonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the acid HAs(=O)(OH)₂ derived from arsine
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydrocarbyl derivative of this compound
Related terms: english: the conjugate base
translation: the conjugate base
word: arsonate
word: arsenic acid
word: arsinic acid
word: diarsonic acid
word: triarsonic acid
arsonium compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsonium compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing a cation of general formula R₄As⁺; the arsenic analog of quaternary ammonium compounds.
Related terms: onium compound
snobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snobberies
Etymology: From snob + -ery – doubled ‘b’ to clarify pronunciation of ‘o’.
Senses: glosses: The property or trait of being a snob.
Synonyms: snobbism
Derived terms: inverted snobbery
snobbery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snobbery
form: most snobbery
Etymology: From snob + -ery (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The only thing Volksworld acts snobbery about is the amount of dangerously built shit they have had to put with over the years.
ref: 1999 March 30, Nick Howarth, “Volksworld^([sic]) stinks”, in uk.rec.cars.vw.aircooled (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
text: When I was at college, studying music, ALW [Andrew Lloyd Webber] music was frowned upon. In fact all show-type music was seen as non-classical, and non-innovative! Looks were given by staff, if someone were heard jamming ALW tunes. […] It is just so snobbery!! I think attitudes have changed slightly since I was there.
ref: 2001 July 26, Nicky, “OFF: Steve Barton”, in alt.fan.lea-salonga (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
text: He seemed all right to me. Didn't act snobbery like so many Kappins.
ref: 2016, C. D. Moulton, chapter 10, in A Strange Place (Flight of the Maita; 14), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Synonym of snobby.
synonyms: word: snobby
snobberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snobbery
coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coordinated
form: most coordinated
Senses: glosses: Organized, working together, cooperating
glosses: Physically graceful or skillful
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having coordinate bonds
Hyponyms: well-coordinated
Derived terms: coordinatedly
heptacoordinated
hexacoordinated
incoordinated
miscoordinated
monocoordinated
noncoordinated
octacoordinated
pentacoordinated
precoordinated
tetracoordinated
tricoordinated
undercoordinated
coordinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coordinate
gick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Senses: examples: text: If I did a gick in me pants he'd kill me!
ref: 1993, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Penguin Books, page 1:
glosses: Excrement.
architectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/
Forms: form: more architectonic
form: most architectonic
Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”).
Senses: examples: text: architectonic wisdom
ref: 1684, Robert Boyle, On the High Veneration Man’s Intellect owes to God:
text: [T]he great Creator hath likevviſe ſignalized his Care and Skill, by giving Animals an architectonick Faculty, to build themſelves convenient places of Retirement, in vvhich to repoſe and ſecure themſelves, and to nurſe up their Young.
ref: 1713, W[illiam] Derham, “[A Survey of the Terraqueous Globe.] Of the Houses, and Habitations of Animals.”, in Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of Animals in General), page 226:
text: these architectonic functions
ref: 1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of architecture, design and construction.
examples: text: We do not of course always, or even often, find the moral principles clearly and consciously expressed or consistently supported, but we cannot but feel that they are present in the shape of instincts, and those instincts pervading and architectonic.
ref: 1874, Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Introduction, page 15:
glosses: Foundational, fundamental; supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture.
glosses: Relating to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge.
Derived terms: angioarchitectonic
architectonically
chemoarchitectonic
cytoarchitectonic
myeloarchitectonic
architectonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹ.kə.tɛkˈtɑ.nɪk/
Forms: form: architectonics
Etymology: From Latin architectonicus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτεκτονικός (arkhitektonikós), from ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”).
Senses: examples: text: Because the poems are an investigation into the nature of time, it is important to be aware of the overall temporal architectonic of the love-cycle.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 167:
text: The question of commandeering social space and, by extension, reviving a public sphere could well be developed within the architectonic of Bakhtin's theory.
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 71:
glosses: The design, structure, or architecture of something.
Related terms: architectonics
receptorarchitectonic
ligger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: liggers
form: liggar
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English liggere; equivalent to lig + -er. Doublet of ledger.
Many senses (especially sense 5) are likely formed anew from lig rather than continuations of the preceding senses.
Senses: glosses: The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
glosses: A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge.
glosses: A nether millstone.
glosses: A coverlet for a bed.
examples: text: Peaches Geldof may be a top showbiz ligger – but now she’s got a group of her own.
ref: 2006 August 29, “Peaches gets own band”, in The Sun:
text: The ligger caused a scene when he begged one reveller to find him some gear – and offered sexual favours in return.
ref: 2005 January 29, “Wicked Whispers”, in The Mirror:
text: I'm a lone wolf ligger, but I ain't no pretty boy. I'm a backbone shiver and I'm a bundle of joy
ref: 1984 September 1, “Killed by Death”, in BBC:
glosses: A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.
glosses: A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”).
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: ledger
ledger line
glosses: A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc.
glosses: One who lies in bed.
glosses: A layer.
Derived terms: liggerati
outrigger
dire wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɚ wʊlf/
ipa: /ˈdaɪə wʊlf/
Forms: form: dire wolves
form: direwolf
Etymology: Calque from taxonomic name †Canis dirus.
Senses: examples: text: Colossal scientists have created three dire wolf pups by using ancient DNA, cloning and gene-editing technology to alter the genes of a gray wolf, the prehistoric dire wolf’s closest living relative, the company announced Monday. […] The three dire wolves are living on a 2,000-acre site at an undisclosed location enclosed by 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) “zoo-grade” fencing, where they are monitored by security personnel, drones and live camera feeds.
ref: 2025 April 7, Katie Hunt, “Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf”, in CNN:
glosses: An extinct canine (†Aenocyon dirus) from the Pleistocene epoch, heavier and slightly larger than the modern grey wolf.
topics: fantasy
glosses: Synonym of warg (“type of wolf”).
synonyms: word: warg
extra: type of wolf
cloud-cuckoo-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /klaʊdˈkʊkuːlænd/
Forms: form: cloud cuckoo land
form: cloudcuckooland
form: cloud cuckoo-land
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek Νεφελοκοκκυγία (Nephelokokkugía), from Aristophanes.
Senses: examples: text: That glabrous dome that lifts itself so grand, / There in the marish, is the omphalos, / The navel, umbo, middle, central boss / Of the unique, sole, true Cloud-Cuckoo Land.
ref: 1916, Aldous Huxley, “The Walk”, in The Burning Wheel:
glosses: An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.
wikipedia: Aristophanes
Synonyms: never-never land
Related terms: nephelococcygia
wetback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕtbăk
ipa: /ˈwɛtbæk/
Forms: form: wetbacks
Etymology: First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.
Senses: examples: text: 1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,
Mr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.
The CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?
Mr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously.
text: The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.
ref: 1950 March 27, “United Nations: Objectivity”, in Time:
text: He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.
ref: 1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual, New York: Viking, page 12:
text: A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.
ref: 2015, John Irving, chapter 2, in Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf:
synonyms: mojado
glosses: A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
glosses: A person of the mestizo race; a mojado.
Derived terms: whiteback
Related terms: illegal alien
illegal
cracklins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracklin (“cracklings”)
mojado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /moʊˈhɑdoʊ/
Forms: form: mojados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mojado (literally “wet”), from espalda mojada.
Senses: examples: text: “They're trying to mess around with us,” said a 33-year-old carpenter who identified himself as Alfredo. “But there will still be work, and as long as there's work there will still be ‘mojados.’”
ref: 1984 June 24, Richard J. Meislin, “To Mexicans, Law on Aliens Is Cruel Joke”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Mr. Davis provides his own (at times overly folksy) narration, telling us that since a 1994 federal law stepped up immigration patrols in urban centers, people like these mojados have been forced to reroute through the desert, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths from exposure, dehydration and injury in the last 10 years.
ref: 2005 May 18, Dana Stevens, “Pilgrimage Across the Border That Tempts but Dodges Fate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: wetback
Related terms: illegal alien
wetbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States
hang, draw and quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs, draws and quarters
form: hanging, drawing and quartering
form: hanged, drew and quartered
form: hung, drew and quartered
form: hanged, drawn and quartered
form: hung, drawn and quartered
Etymology: From hang + draw and quarter.
Senses: examples: text: […]- and The Postgate, an inn named after a local priest, Father Nicholas Postgate, who was one of England's last Roman Catholic martyrs. He was hung, drawn and quartered at York in 1679 after baptising a child into the Roman faith.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 171, about Egton Bridge:
glosses: To execute (someone) by hanging until nearly dead, followed by castration, disembowelling, beheading and quartering; especially as a punishment for high treason.
examples: text: hanged, drawn and quartered by the press
text: One ASLEF representative believed: "We have been made to a degree the scapegoat of many politicians. We have been hanged, drawn and quartered by Dr Beeching in order that some people can prove the failure of public ownership."
ref: 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 39:
related: word: draw and quarter
glosses: To savagely attack, or attempt to utterly destroy.
make haste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes haste
form: making haste
form: made haste
form: made haste
Senses: examples: text: Since I have your good leave to go away,
I will make haste: but, till I come again,
No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Bid the players make haste.
Will you two help to hasten them?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: “The second will be to promise me upon pain of death that you will permit no word of this affair to get into the newspapers. If you do not do both, neither of you will be alive when I pass next through that doorway. Do you understand?” And, without waiting for a reply: “Make haste; there is ink before you, and paper and a pen.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 47:
glosses: To hurry or hasten.
Derived terms: make haste slowly
destroys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destroy
lowlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lowland
lowland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowlands
Etymology: From low + land.
Senses: examples: text: The lowland region was prone to flooding during the rainy season.
glosses: An area which is considered particularly low or lower than surrounding areas.
Derived terms: lowlander
lowland paca
Lowlands
Lowland Scots
St Minver Lowlands
Related terms: netherlands
McNaughton rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: M'Naghten rule
Etymology: 1843, from the trial of Daniel McNaughton, who shot and murdered Edward Drummond, the Private Secretary to the then British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.
Senses: qualifier: criminal law
glosses: A test of criminal insanity by which "it must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong".
wikipedia: Daniel M'Naghten
kaross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karosses
Etymology: From Afrikaans karos, from Khoekhoe karo.s (“dried skin”).
Senses: examples: text: In South Africa, where the caracal abounds, its hide is made by the Kaffres into skin cloaks, known as karosses.
ref: 1878, "The Caracal" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 81
text: The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.
ref: 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa, page 90:
text: “Our bedroom had a sweeping view of the water and clean sheets and towels had been laid out for us on a kaross of jackal pelts.”
ref: 1992, Mark Owens et al., Cry of the Kalahari, →ISBN:
text: “For the first two years, of life a baby was carried in a carrier, lined with absorbent grass, inside her kaross, (a treated animal skin made into a cape...)”
ref: 1996, E Hausen, Human History at the Crossroads: Where Do We Go from Here?, →ISBN:
glosses: A treated animal-skin cloak or blanket with the hair still left on.
Scotland Yard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the address, originally at Great Scotland Yard off Whitehall, then at New Scotland Yard on the Embankment, and (currently) at New Scotland Yard in Westminster.
Senses: examples: text: I, for my part, drew up as full a précis of the case as I deemed advisable, and as time permitted, which I despatched by one of the company’s police to Scotland Yard.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: The headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police Force.
glosses: The police in London.
psychopathological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪ.kəʊˌpæθ.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.k(ə)l/
ipa: /saɪ.koʊˌpæθ.əˈlɑːd͡ʒ.ɪ.k(ə)l/
Etymology: From psychopathology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to psychopathology.
institutionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɪˌtjuːʃnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: institutionalizations
form: institutionalisation
Etymology: From institutional + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The government began the institutionalization of background checks for internet users.
glosses: The process of establishing a practice as a norm.
examples: text: The institutionalization of Syd Barrett was a major event in the history of the rock group Pink Floyd.
glosses: The process of committing a person to a facility where their freedom to leave will be restrained, usually a mental hospital.
synonyms: institutional syndrome
glosses: The presence of social deficits or disabilities as a result of a long period spent in a prison, mental hospitals, etc.
Derived terms: transinstitutionalization
Related terms: institutionalize
institutionalise
commitment
mental hospital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mental hospitals
Senses: synonyms: psychiatric hospital
glosses: A hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body.
Synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
Hypernyms: word: building
word: hospital
Coordinate terms: word: asylum
word: prison
Related terms: word: mad person
insane asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insane asylums
Senses: synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A facility where persons with serious mental disorders are housed.
emits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emit
crankle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæŋkəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: crankles
Etymology: From crank + -le.
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
Senses: glosses: A bend, twist or crinkle.
Derived terms: crinkle-crankle
crankle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæŋkəl/
rhymes: -æŋkəl
Forms: form: crankles
form: crankling
form: crankled
form: crankled
Etymology: From crank + -le.
Coined by Michael Drayton in 1596. According to the Poly-Olbion project, "Drayton probably derived ‘crankling’ from ‘crank’, a word which had its first recorded usage in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1594) where it describes a hare which ‘crankes and crosses with a thousand doubles’."
Senses: examples: text: Meander, who is said so intricate to bee,
Hath not so many turnes, nor crankling nookes as shee.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 7 p. 105:
text: Along the crankling path.
ref: 1603, Michael Drayton, The Barons' Wars:
glosses: To bend, turn, or wind.
examples: text: Old Vaga's stream […] drew her humid train aslope, / Crankling her banks.
ref: 1708, John Philips, Cyder:
glosses: To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
ELL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ELLs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of RNA polymerase II elongation factor: an enzyme found in Cajal bodies.
topics: education
coordinate_terms: EAL
EFL
EIL
ESL
TEFL
TESL
TESOL
glosses: Initialism of English-language learner.
lunatic asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunatic asylums
Senses: synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A facility where persons with serious mental disorders are housed.
owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊlz/
ipa: /ˈæ.wʉlz/
rhymes: -aʊlz
Senses: glosses: plural of owl
how've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊv/
rhymes: -aʊv
Etymology: how + -’ve
Senses: examples: text: How’ve you been?
glosses: Contraction of how have.
institutionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: institutionalizes
form: institutionalizing
form: institutionalized
form: institutionalized
form: institutionalise
Etymology: From institutional + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Gary Orlando, legislative aid to McDonald, told GCN that the congressman sponsored the bill because "he does not want to institutionalize homosexual acts. We can't use funds to promote, legitimize, or accept this kind of behavior.
ref: 1980 August 16, Bennett Klein, “House Passes Anti-Gay Clause”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 6:
glosses: To establish as a normal practice.
glosses: To commit a person to confinement in an institution.
Derived terms: deinstitutionalize
institutionalizable
institutionalization
institutionalizer
overinstitutionalize
reinstitutionalize
transinstitutionalize
masquerading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of masquerade
masquerading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masqueradings
Senses: examples: text: At supper, the same evening, after his return, the emperor was relating to Berthier, Mortier, Duroc, and other officers present, the history of his unfortunate masqueradings, at the same time laughing very heartily at his want of success in un-playing the emperor.
ref: 1838, John Smythe Memes, Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, page 330:
glosses: The act of one who masquerades.
institutionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of institutionalize
institutionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more institutionalized
form: most institutionalized
Senses: examples: text: It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.
glosses: Having been established as an institution.
examples: text: Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job.
glosses: Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
Derived terms: noninstitutionalized
postinstitutionalized
uninstitutionalized
regular expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular expressions
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.
Synonyms: regex
regexp
Derived terms: grep
PCRE
re
regex
regexp
divided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From divide.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divide
divided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more divided
form: most divided
Etymology: From Middle English divided, devided, devidid, past participle of Middle English dividen (“to divide”), equivalent to divide + -ed.
Senses: glosses: separated or split into pieces
examples: text: divided opinions
glosses: having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
examples: text: divided nation
glosses: disunited
glosses: (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
Derived terms: a house divided against itself cannot stand
divided highway
dividedly
dividedness
divided skirt
house divided
individed
nondivided
semidivided
scobberlotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɒbəlɒt͡ʃə/
Forms: form: scobberlotchers
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: An idle person.
tiredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tirednesses
form: tirednesse
Etymology: From Middle English tiredness, terednesse, equivalent to tired + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being tired.
Synonyms: fatigue
Derived terms: brain tiredness
jousting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊstɪŋ
Forms: form: joustings
Senses: glosses: A medieval European sport in which mounted knights charged at each other bearing lances.
glosses: Any activity in which two people spar with each other verbally.
jousting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒaʊstɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joust
there're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈðɛəˌɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈðɛɹɚ/
rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: No, my prince. It's less than truthful. There are princes among men. There're men endowed with a special quality. It’s a quality for which they are loved—it may be by those who scarcely know them. As you were loved in Navarre.
ref: 1974, Philip Freund, “Charles IV”, in More Off-Broadway Plays, page 34:
text: There're a few blacks and Hispanics in town, but you somehow don't notice them.
ref: 1988, Hillary Waugh, A Death in a Town, page 166:
glosses: Contraction of there are.
Related terms: there's
in the pink
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere. Then again, maybe we were simply a nation literally “in the pink” with postwar prosperity[…]
ref: 2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Ellipsis of in the pink of health.
examples: text: I said to Daddy, 'Can you swim?' He said, 'You're not going, and that's that.' I asked him again, later on, when he was drinking his Horlicks, and he said they used to swim from one pier IN THE PINK - Laurie Graham.
ref: 1999, Nicholas Royle, Neonlit: The Time Out Book of New Writing:
text: [I] Somehow believed / That her shit didn't stink / Until I caught her / In the pink / Making her tight / Asshole wink / Turns out this slimy bitch / Had done me grimy for years […]
ref: 2011 September 15, Donald T. Williams, The Devil Made Me Do It Too: Pressing, Personal, Poetic, Purview, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Nude, naked.
Related terms: two in the pink, one in the stink
kithless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭth'lĭs
ipa: /ˈkɪθ.lɪs/
Etymology: From kith + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances or family.
Derived terms: kithlessness
Related terms: kith
kith and kin
blackbirding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blackbird + -ing, perhaps from the putative slang blackbird (“indigenous Pacific islander”).
Senses: examples: text: Burns Philp was to incur public odium in the most notorious case in Queensland concerning blackbirding.
ref: 1995, John Gunn, Taking Risks, QBE 1886-1994: A History of the QBE Insurance Group, page 9:
text: Douglas Oliver, in Black Islanders, tells the story of a blackbirding party which, in 1871, captured a group of eighty-five unsuspecting Bougainvilleans who had taken their twenty-man canoes to the blackbirding ship out of curiosity or a desire to trade.
ref: 2004, Lawrence McCane, Marist Brothers, Melanesian stories: Marist Brothers in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea 1845–2003, page 120:
text: Blackbirding was the euphemism given to the slave-trading that occurred in the Pacific from the mid-1800s through to the early-1900s. According to one study, blackbirding, [as] “the practice of luring Melanesians and Polynesians to toil for next to nothing was called”, involved upwards of 60,000 people between 1863 and 1904 (Horne, 2007, p. 2).
ref: 2008, Andrew David Grainger, The Browning of the All Blacks: Pacific Peoples, Rugby, and the Cultural Politics of Identity in New Zealand, page 326:
glosses: The practice of kidnapping Pacific Islanders, or kanakas, for sale as cheap labour.
Related terms: blackbirder
blackbirding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From blackbird + -ing, perhaps from the putative slang blackbird (“indigenous Pacific islander”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackbird
spatulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/
ipa: /ˈspa.tʃʊ.lət/
Forms: form: more spatulate
form: most spatulate
form: spathulate
Senses: examples: text: “I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting. Of course, it is obvious that it is music. You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions?[…]”
ref: 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling (so it seemed) and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 804:
synonyms: spatular
spatuloid
spatulous
glosses: Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a leaf: having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
Derived terms: subspatulate
spatulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspa.tjʊ.lət/
ipa: /ˈspa.tʃʊ.lət/
Forms: form: spatulates
form: spatulating
form: spatulated
form: spatulated
form: spathulate
Senses: glosses: To treat or mix with a spatula.
glosses: To incise the end of (a pliable cylindrical structure) such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened.
Related terms: spatula
holstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holsteins
Senses: examples: text: The farm bureau, through subscriptions from members, was able to give a holstein bull calf and a trio of fowls as prizes in a contest among the winners of the six districts.
ref: 1915, Floyd S. Barlow, Otsego County, in the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, page 2173:
text: For Sale—Three registered holstein cows. Due to freshen the first of Jan. February and March. Prices that will sell. Age three and five years. Eugene Gibson, Smyrna.
ref: 1919 January, in The Chenango County Farm Bureau News, volume 5, number 1, page 7
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Holstein (“breed of cattle”).
splotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /splɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: splotches
form: splatch
Etymology: From a variation of splot (“a spot”) (compare blotch, from blot). More at splot.
Senses: glosses: An irregular-shaped spot or stain.
Synonyms: splodge
Derived terms: splotchy
splotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɒt͡ʃ/
ipa: /splɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: splotches
form: splotching
form: splotched
form: splotched
form: splatch
Etymology: From a variation of splot (“a spot”) (compare blotch, from blot). More at splot.
Senses: glosses: To mark with splotches.