cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Afro-pessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afropessimism
Etymology: From Afro- + pessimism.
Senses: examples: text: If “Afropessimism” is not to take hold, African nations still mired in autocracy, bureaucracy, and corruption must begin to democratize their political systems.
ref: 1990, Africa Report, vol 35/36, p. 97:
text: He and other African journalists warned that "Afro-pessimism" in the western media affected the way Africa was perceived, with knock-on effects on the continent's politics, tourism, and aid from western countries.
ref: 2000 November 17, Jessica Hodgson, The Guardian:
text: I wanted to examine the so-called “Afro-pessimism” that outsiders often feel concerning Haiti, because the country is seen as a chunk of that easily misunderstood continent, floating in the wrong seas.
ref: 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 22:
glosses: A pessimism or weariness over the chances of solving the political and social problems that Africa faces.
Afropessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Afro-pessimism.
logia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊɡiə
Senses: glosses: plural of logion
SSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of single sign-on.
glosses: Initialism of shared services organization.
glosses: Initialism of sub-stellar object.
glosses: Initialism of sun-synchronous orbit.
examples: text: Physical disorder measured in the SSO is only moderately correlated with rates of predatory crime measured by police-recorded rates of homicide, robbery, and burglary.
ref: 1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 3, page 637:
glosses: Initialism of systematic social observation.
Related terms: english: proto-stellar object
translation: proto-stellar object
word: PSO
english: quasi-stellar object
translation: quasi-stellar object
word: QSO
english: young stellar object
translation: young stellar object
word: YSO
scared shitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: word: shit scared
word: scared stiff
word: scared spitless
word: afraid
word: afeared
word: alarmed
word: anxious
word: apprehensive
word: chicken
word: fearful
word: frightened
word: frit
word: horrified
word: mortified
word: panicked
word: scared
word: terrified
word: timorous
word: worried
glosses: Very frightened, terrified, scared witless.
Related terms: chickenshit
give someone the shits
scare the shit out of
shirtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɝtləs/
ipa: /ˈʃɜːtləs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tləs
Forms: form: more shirtless
form: most shirtless
Etymology: From shirt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a shirtless wardrobe
text: shirtless sunbathing
glosses: Without a shirt.
glosses: Not wearing a shirt; having a bare torso, barechested
raw_tags: of a male
glosses: Very poor.
Derived terms: scared shirtless
shirtlessly
shirtlessness
skin and bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin and bone
Senses: examples: text: Look at that starving dog; he's nothing more than skin and bones.
text: "Eh, good evening, sir," she said to me, as she drew herself up to make the best of her own inflated bulky appearance, "come and sit down here and tell me how it fares with you; but, by my troth, you are nothing but skin and bones!"
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
glosses: A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.
Synonyms: bony
gaunt
lanky
scrawny
skinny
Related terms: osteocutaneous
Anishinaabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnɪʃɪˈnɑːbeɪ/
/ˌənɪʃɪˈnɑːbeɪ/
/ˌɑːnɪʃɪˈnɑːbeɪ/
Forms: form: Anishinaabe
form: Anishinaabes
form: Anishinaabeg
form: Anishinaabek
form: Nishnaabe
form: Neshnabé
form: Anishinabe
Etymology: From Ojibwe Anishinaabe/ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ. Doublet of Nishnaabe (from Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe) and Neshnabé (from Potawatomi).
Senses: examples: text: In speaking about these non-Indian authors, there are a couple of more points I should make concerning my identity as an Anishinaabe scholar, both of which are related to the picture I paint of Anishinaabe culture.
ref: 2016, Lawrence W. Gross, Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and Being, Routledge, →ISBN, page 4:
text: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
ref: 2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, page 4:
glosses: An Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi or Odawa.
examples: text: In Deborah McGregor's chapter, she relates key personal and professional experiences regarding Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge (AEK), based upon her own life as an Anishinaabe, as well as on conversations and interactions ...
ref: 2013, Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat, Young Young, Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies: A Curricula of Stories and Place, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: An Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquin, Potawatomi or Odawa.
An Ojibwe.
Derived terms: Nish
Related terms: Anishinaabemowin
Nishnaabe
Neshnabé
truncation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: truncations
Etymology: From Late Latin truncātiō, from Latin truncāre, past participle truncātus (“to cut off”). By surface analysis, truncate + -ion.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act of truncating or shortening (for example, words are shortened to form blend words or portmanteaus).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The removal of the least significant digits from a decimal number.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: rectification
glosses: An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each vertex.
Derived terms: bitruncation
cantitruncation
omnitruncation
runcicantitruncation
runcitruncation
tritruncation
Related terms: truncate
truncated
Chippewa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chippewas
form: Chippewa
form: Chippeway
form: Chippewe
Etymology: From Ojibwe ojibwe (“Ojibwe”)/ᐅᒋᑉᐌ, specifically an eastern dialect with a reduced initial vowel. Compare earlier Ojibwa. Attested in English from the mid 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy. […] The Bureau observed a considerable decrease between 1910 and 1930 in the number of Chippewa reported for Michigan.
ref: 2022 May 5, Arland Thornton, Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Eric Hemenway, Lindsey Willow Smith, Linda Young DeMarco, Anishinaabe Geography in the 1930 Decennial Census—and the Use of this Geography in Studying the 1900-1940 Attributes of Anishinaabe People, pages 4, 18:
glosses: A member of the Ojibwe people.
Derived terms: Chippewa County
Chippewa Falls
Chippewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chippeway
form: Chippewe
Etymology: From Ojibwe ojibwe (“Ojibwe”)/ᐅᒋᑉᐌ, specifically an eastern dialect with a reduced initial vowel. Compare earlier Ojibwa. Attested in English from the mid 18th century.
Senses: glosses: The Ojibwe language.
glosses: Any of four rivers, one each in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and a river in Ontario.
Related terms: Chipewyan
corruption of blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Congreſs shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or
Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
ref: 1787 September 17, Constitutional Convention, Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia, →OCLC, page 3:
topics: law
glosses: The doctrine in English common law that someone attainted of felony or treason has corrupt blood and so cannot inherit property and has no legal heirs.
Islamic fundamentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A revolutionary movement towards Islamism, with literal and traditional interpretations of their sacred texts. It is often used to describe Muslim groups that advocate the replacement of secular state laws with Islamic law, or Shari'a.
basset horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basset horns
Etymology: From German Bassetthorn, translation of French cor de bassette, from Italian corno di bassetto.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An alto instrument of the clarinet family, pitched in F below middle C, with a range reaching down to F below that.
Derived terms: basset hornist
counter-tenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-tenors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countertenor.
angels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of angel
angels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪn.d͡ʒəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of angel
ungainly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɡeɪnli/
ipa: /anˈɡæɪnli/
Forms: form: ungainlies
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + gainly (“graceful; becoming; proper, suitable; gracious, kindly”) (from gain (“dexterous; convenient, easy, handy; suitable”), from Old Norse gegn (“fit, serviceable; direct, straight; honest; kindly”) + -ly (suffix forming adjectives from nouns)). Compare dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk ugjegnleg (“stubborn; troublesome”).
Senses: examples: text: I was completely subdued:—hungry, cold, wet, and chilled, outside and inside, with the weather, and the place, and the people,—but that's a bull, for I saw nobody except two ungainly country footmen, and a fat groom of the chambers who took me to my room, and assigned me one of the ungainlies as valet.
ref: 1854, Henry W[hitelock] Torrens, “My Old Gun Screw. [Screw No. 4.]”, in James Hume, compiler, A Selection from the Writings, Prose and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens, Esq., B.A., Bengal Civil Service, and of the Inner Temple; with a Biographical Memoir, volume II, Calcutta: R. C. Lepage and Co., British Library; London: R. C. Lepage and Co., Whitefriars St., Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 151:
text: Long lists resulting from the listing technique will often become short poems after you and the student writer's classmates help cull out the unnecessaries, the ungainlies, and the unworthies.
ref: 1966, Stephen Dunning, Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Poetry, Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, →OCLC, page 32:
text: She'd never ridden him so fast, and the elation she felt was breathtaking. He was also lapping half the other horses; only the gray was ahead of him. One of the ungainlies came off, and there was a pile-up of horses in one corner, but she, the gray, and the brown mare avoided it neatly.
ref: 1987, Anne McCaffrey, The Lady, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An ungainly person or thing.
ungainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɡeɪnli/
ipa: /anˈɡæɪnli/
Forms: form: ungainlier
form: more ungainly
form: ungainliest
form: most ungainly
Etymology: ungain (from un- + gain (“dexterous; convenient, easy, handy; suitable”)) + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ungainly or unbecoming manner; improperly; undeservedly, unduly; unsuitably.
sicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: sickens
form: sickening
form: sickened
form: sickened
Etymology: From Middle English sekenen, equivalent to sick + -en. Cognate with Danish sygne (“to pine”), Swedish sjukna (“to fall ill; become sick”), Norwegian sykne, Icelandic sjúkna (“to sicken; become sick”).
Senses: examples: text: The infection will sicken him until amputation is needed.
glosses: To make ill.
examples: text: I will sicken if I don’t get some more exercise.
text: The judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended,[…] sickened upon it and died.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become ill.
examples: text: His arrogant behaviour sickens me.
text: In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”
ref: 2025 March 4, Sharon Otterman, “Trump Threatens Columbia With Millions in Cuts Over Antisemitism Claims”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025:
glosses: To fill with disgust or abhorrence.
examples: text: Whenever I get booed by opposition fans it only makes me more determined to sicken them.
ref: 2007, Euan Reedie, Alan Shearer: Portrait Of A Legend - Captain Fantastic, →ISBN:
text: But instead of giving up, the Rangers team managed to grab a dramatic later winner from Kenny Miller to sicken St Mirren and lift the cup
ref: 2011, Scott Burns, Walter Smith the Ibrox Gaffer: A Tribute to a Rangers Legend, →ISBN:
text: City took control, pinning a tiring Celtic back and threatening to sicken them with a winner.
ref: 2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To lower the standing of.
examples: text: Mine eyes did sicken at the sight.
ref: 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
glosses: To be filled with disgust or abhorrence.
examples: text: The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.
ref: 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village:
glosses: To become disgusting or tedious.
examples: text: All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.
ref: 1734, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man:
glosses: To become weak; to decay; to languish.
Derived terms: sickening
sawmill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawmills
Etymology: From saw + mill.
Senses: examples: text: He brought his portable sawmill and turned the old beams into interesting flooring.
text: The old sawmill still has its waterwheel but they took the saw away years ago.
text: The sawmill sells lumber to carpenters and sawdust to gardeners.
text: When I came to the saw-mill at Brække, the sky was overcast, it was already growing dark, only above the level of the north-western horizon there appeared a streak of light, which threw a subdued glimmer on the tranquil surface of the mill-pond.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:
text: My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A machine, building or company used for cutting (milling) lumber, or (rarely) other hard materials such as stone.
Derived terms: peckerwood sawmill
sawmill gravy
sawmill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sawmills
form: sawmilling
form: sawmilled
form: sawmilled
Etymology: From saw + mill.
Senses: glosses: To process (lumber) in a sawmill.
sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
Forms: form: sawdusts
Etymology: From saw + dust.
Senses: glosses: The fine particles (dust) created by sawing wood or other material.
Coordinate terms: excelsior
woodflour
wood flour
woodmeal
woodshavings
woodwool
wood wool
Derived terms: plait sawdust
sawdust circuit
sawdust joint
sawdust pudding
sawdust trail
sawdusty
sea sawdust
spit-and-sawdust
sawdust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːˌdʌst/
Forms: form: sawdusts
form: sawdusting
form: sawdusted
form: sawdusted
Etymology: From saw + dust.
Senses: examples: text: […] the raking out of yesterday's fire, the kindling of to-day's under the collegiate boiler, the filling of that Spartan vessel at the pump, the sweeping and sawdusting of the common room, and other such preparations.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 65:
glosses: To sprinkle with sawdust.
sawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saw
sawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɪŋ
Forms: form: sawings
Senses: examples: text: As said, these investigations generally do not pay attention to saw kerf width and green size of sawn timber. These studies have mainly been made by practical test sawings and subsequently checked by geometric calculations.
ref: 1966, Finnish Paper and Timber, volumes 17-20, page 168:
glosses: The act by which something is sawn.
examples: text: We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.
ref: 1892, The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry, volume 6, page 388:
glosses: A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
brevet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈvɛt/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛv.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛv.ɪt/
rhymes: (General American) -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛvɪt
Forms: form: brevets
Etymology: Inherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.
Senses: glosses: A military document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but without an increase in pay.
glosses: A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
examples: text: Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems—aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims had descended.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, chapter XXI, in The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity, as in France.
An authoritative grant or mark of recognition; a seal of approval.
glosses: An organized, long-distance bicycle ride — not a race, but a test of endurance — which follows a designated but unmarked route passing through check points.
Derived terms: brevetcy
brevet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəˈvɛt/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛv.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɹɛv.ɪt/
rhymes: (General American) -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛvɪt
Forms: form: brevets
form: brevetting
form: breveting
form: brevetted
form: brevetted
form: breveted
form: breveted
Etymology: Inherited from the Middle English brevet (“official letter”), from the Anglo-Norman diminutive of bref (“letter”), from the Latin brevis (“short”), whence brief.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To promote by brevet.
milling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: millings
Senses: hypernyms: processing#Noun
glosses: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
Such grinding, cutting, or shredding applied to grain to produce meal or flour.
hypernyms: processing#Noun
glosses: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
Such cutting to produce millwork (finely finished lumber).
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: processing#Noun
machining#Noun
glosses: Any of various grinding, cutting, or shredding processes using any of various types of mill.
A type of machining in which a rotary cutter is moved through a toolpath to cut away material.
coordinate_terms: grinding#Noun
drilling#Noun
turning#Noun
boring#Noun
broaching#Noun
shaping#Noun
planing#Noun
glosses: The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
glosses: The surface or other physical result produced by such a process.
The series of notches around the edge of a coin during minting so that it can be told if some of the metal from the edge is removed.
glosses: A circular or random motion of a herd or a crowd.
Derived terms: comilling
high milling
ion milling
low milling
micromilling
milling cutter
milling frolic
milling machine
paper-milling
watermilling
milling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mill
minting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mint
minting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mintings
Senses: examples: text: A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different.
ref: 1996, Don McNeil, Epidemiological Research Methods, page 83:
glosses: The act by which money is minted.
silane-modified polymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silane-modified polymers
Senses: glosses: a polymer, such as PVC, that has been treated with an organic silane; the material is used, in thin films, to remove contaminants from water by pervaporation and also in adhesives
beat parry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat parries
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The deflection of the incoming attack with a sharp striking motion
cap-a-pie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: cap-à-pie
form: cap-à-piè
form: cap-à-pié
form: cap-a-pe
form: cap-a-pee
form: cap-apée
form: capapie
Etymology: From Old French (de) cap a pié (Modern French de pied en cap).
Senses: examples: text: If twenty thousand naked Americans were not able to resist the assaults of but twenty well-armed Spaniards, I see little possibility for one honest man to defend himself against twenty thousand knaves, who are all furnished cap-a-pie with the defensive arms of worldly prudence, and the offensive, too, of craft and malice.
ref: 1661–67, Abraham Cowley, The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Company
text: I sallied forth cap-à-pie in my Madras regimentals, intending to accompany Brent to Westminster Abbey, and to take a coach at the first stand we came to.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 129
text: Miss Thorne when fully dressed might be said to have been armed cap-a-pie, and she was always fully dressed, as far as was ever known to mortal man.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
opposition parry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposition parries
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The deflection of the incoming attack without ever losing contact with the blade from the initial engagement.
yielding parry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yielding parries
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: deflecting the incoming attack by maintaining contact with the blade and changing the point of contact between the blades, moving from a position of poor leverage to one using the forte for strong leverage
point-in-line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point-in-lines
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An established threat made with the extended arm.
capitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kapɪˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: capitations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem, from caput (“head”).
Senses: glosses: Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
synonyms: poll tax
glosses: A head tax.
examples: text: Capitation started out as a popular method for reimbursing primary care physicians/gatekeepers. Now capitated contracts can be seen in every area of healthcare... ... because of varying volumes, not all specialty care providers should be capitated at the same time. For example, higher volume services (e.g., laboratory, radiology, orthopedics, and cardiology) are usually first to be capitated. Specialists and other medical services that are used infrequently (e.g., neonatologists, neurosurgeons) or "high ticket" specialists (e.g., open heart surgeons) are usually capitated last, if at all. The cost of their services is relatively high and a miscalculation in projected membership or actual utilization can have a large financial impact.
ref: 1996 The Capitation Sourcebook: a practical guide to managing at-risk arrangements ed. Peter Boland ISBN: 0-9652717-0-6
glosses: A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
glosses: A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.
Related terms: capitated
per capita
prise de fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prises de fer
Etymology: From French, literally "taking the steel".
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: An engagement of the blades that attempts to control the opponent's weapon.
pronation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: pronations
Etymology: From French pronation, from Latin pronatio.
Senses: glosses: Walking on the inner edge of the foot.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The action of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned down or back.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing down
Derived terms: overpronation
Related terms: pronate
prostrate
supination
supination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supinations
Etymology: From supine + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.
Derived terms: oversupination
Related terms: pronation
semi-supination
supine
Sunday school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sunday schools
Senses: examples: text: It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
text: Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
glosses: A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.
Coordinate terms: madrassah
Sabbath school
remise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmaɪz/
Forms: form: remises
form: remising
form: remised
form: remised
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
Senses: glosses: To send or give back.
glosses: To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.
remise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmaɪz/
Forms: form: remises
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
remise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmaɪz/
Forms: form: remises
Etymology: From French remise.
Senses: examples: text: long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head
ref: 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
text: [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […].
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
glosses: A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
examples: text: [H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
Related terms: remiss
reprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
other: /ˌɹiˈpɹaɪz/
rhymes: -iːz
rhymes: -aɪz
other: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
other: /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
Forms: form: reprises
Etymology: From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Senses: glosses: A recurrence or resumption of an action.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
examples: text: Your care about your banks infers a fear
Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
If so, a just reprise would only be
Of what the land usurped upon the sea
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: A taking by way of retaliation.
topics: law
glosses: Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
glosses: A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
reprise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
other: /ˌɹiˈpɹaɪz/
rhymes: -iːz
rhymes: -aɪz
other: /ɹɪˈpɹaɪz/
other: /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/
Forms: form: reprises
form: reprising
form: reprised
form: reprised
Etymology: From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Senses: examples: text: How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To take (something) up or on again.
examples: text: The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
text: The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 161:
glosses: To repeat or resume an action or a role.
glosses: To recompense; to pay.
Synonyms: sense: repeat an action
word: repeat
word: reiterate
sense: recompense
word: compensate
word: reimburse
Related terms: reprehend
reprieve
reprisal
Saint Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈmɛə.ɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: word: Holy Mary
word: Mary
word: mother of Jesus
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus.
glosses: Synonym of Mary Magdalene, follower of Jesus.
synonyms: word: Mary Magdalene
word: follower of Jesus
glosses: A parish of Antigua and Barbuda.
glosses: A parish of Jamaica.
Derived terms: Saint Mary Lake
frontispiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌn.tɪsˌpiːs/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒn.tɪsˌpiːs/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌn.tɪsˌpis/
ipa: /ˈfɹɑn.tɪsˌpis/
Forms: form: frontispieces
form: frontispice
Etymology: From Middle French frontispice, from Italian frontespizio or Medieval Latin frontispicium, from Latin frōns (“forehead”, oblique stem in front-) + -spic- (“to watch”, combining form of speciō) + -ium. Spelling altered due to folk etymology, influenced by piece.
Senses: examples: text: The viaduct was illustrated as a frontispiece to THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE of September, 1938. [In this case, the frontispiece is between the title page and the first article.]
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163:
topics: media
publishing
coordinate_terms: headpiece
glosses: An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: The title page of a book.
topics: architecture
glosses: A façade, especially an ornamental one.
topics: architecture
glosses: A small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.
examples: text: He carries on his frontispiece the indubitable marks of a money-dealer. His is one of those peculiar faces […]
ref: 1844, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The New Mirror, volume 3, page 99:
glosses: A person's face.
frontispiece
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌn.tɪsˌpiːs/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒn.tɪsˌpiːs/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌn.tɪsˌpis/
ipa: /ˈfɹɑn.tɪsˌpis/
Forms: form: frontispieces
form: frontispiecing
form: frontispieced
form: frontispieced
form: frontispice
Etymology: From Middle French frontispice, from Italian frontespizio or Medieval Latin frontispicium, from Latin frōns (“forehead”, oblique stem in front-) + -spic- (“to watch”, combining form of speciō) + -ium. Spelling altered due to folk etymology, influenced by piece.
Senses: examples: text: The novel was frontispieced with a portrait of the author.
glosses: To supply with a frontispiece.
trompement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trompements
Etymology: From French tromper (“to deceive”).
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The action of hitting an opponent at the end of a feint, after a successful deception.
French grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French grips
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A grip used for foil and épée that consists of a slightly curved block of wood or aluminum wrapped in a rubber or leather grip-tape.
Coordinate terms: Italian grip
pistol grip
Italian grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian grips
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A grip used for foil and épée that consists of a straight block of wood or aluminum wrapped in a rubber or leather grip-tape, with projecting prongs to aid grip.
Coordinate terms: French grip
pistol grip
quillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪ.lɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkwɪ.li.ən/
Forms: form: quillions
Senses: examples: text: [T]he simpler form of sword, with plain quillions, gives way to the more graceful rapier, or the English broadsword, with circular hand-guard.
ref: 1895, W. Kerr Smith, “Armour. A Paper Communicated to the Thoresby Society”, in The Publications of the Thoresby Society, volume IV (Miscellanea […]), Leeds, West Yorkshire: [Thoresby Society], →OCLC, page 123:
text: The Sword of State which is carried before the King at the opening of Parliament is quite a different weapon. It is a long, two-handed sword, with a gold hilt and quillion, and is encased in a crimson velvet scabbard. […] The quillion of the sword is formed of an elongated lion on one side, and a similarly maltreated unicorn on the other.
ref: 1921, George Younghusband, “The Regalia—continued”, in The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia […], London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: Then Arthur took the sword two-handed by its quillions. There was golden writing on the stone, but he did not stop to read it. The sword seemed to thrill under his touch as a harp thrills in response to its master's hand.
ref: 1981, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Sword in the Stone”, in The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, page 27:
text: 'You will remark the short quillion on this piece,' he added, touching the sword crosspiece. 'More to your sea tastes, I believe. And the grips—for a fighting sword we have ivory, filigree—'
ref: 2005, Julian Stockwin, chapter 2, in Tenacious, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Alternative form of quillon.
ricasso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈkæsoʊ/
Forms: form: ricassos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ricasso. Further etymology unknown.
Senses: glosses: The base of a sword or knife blade where it joins the tang.
glosses: The blunt area of a sword just above the hilt, used for grip and maneuverability.
glosses: The comparable portion of a knife.
Related terms: choil
avertissement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avertissements
Etymology: Borrowed from French avertissement.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A warning; used to indicate a minor rule infraction by one of the fencers
fasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːstɪŋ/
rhymes: -æstɪŋ
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, fast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fast
fasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæstɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɑːstɪŋ/
rhymes: -æstɪŋ
rhymes: -ɑːstɪŋ
Forms: form: fastings
Etymology: By surface analysis, fast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Long vigils—fastings that wore away the strength of day—prayers that banished sleep from night—hoarded vengeance, that, like a fire, consumed its abode—affections crushed to the very earth—a memory whose love was with the grave,—a faith that had coloured itself with mortal passion,—all these had pressed too heavily on the springs of life and thought;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 269–270:
text: Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.
ref: 1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth:
glosses: Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.
examples: text: an obese patient while he was undergoing fasting for weight reduction
ref: 1967 November 17, United States Navy Medical News Letter, volume 50, number 10, page 13:
glosses: Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.
Derived terms: fasting blood sugar
fasting glucose
fasting spittle
nonfasting
prefasting
skin fasting
unfasting
body cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body cords
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The insulated wire that runs under a fencer's jacket, connecting the Electrical Competition weapon to the reel, and thence to the scoring machine.
Synonyms: body wire
corps-a-corps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French corps-à-corps (literally “body to body”). Compare corps, corpse, corpus.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The action of two fencers coming into physical contact with one another with any portion of their bodies or hilts.
Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Christian
Christians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christian
salut des armes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French salut des armes.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A sort of a choreographed demonstration of arms, consisting of sets of fencers saluting, attacking, parrying, drilling and performing set routines in chorus.
broken time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A sudden change in the tempo of one fencer's actions, used to fool the opponent into responding at the wrong time.
vta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of verb transitive animate.
Related terms: vai
vii
vti
debenture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɛntjʊə/
ipa: /dɪˈbɛntʃə/
Forms: form: debentures
Etymology: Originally debentur, from Latin debentur (“there are owing”), supposedly the first word of such a document in early times.
Senses: glosses: A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.
examples: text: Madame Corre, who made the important decisions after her plodding husband had spent hours on the ledger, sold the family debentures and put the money into Dutch decurities.
ref: 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 72:
glosses: A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A type of debt instrument secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, not involving any physical assets or collateral, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.
examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A document granting lenders a charge over a borrower’s physical assets, giving them a means to collect a debt, as part of a secured loan.
Derived terms: debenture bond
debentured
debenture holder
debentureholder
debenture stock
bouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of bout
bouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bout
half-jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-jackets
Etymology: From half- + jacket.
Senses: glosses: A short coat or jacket.
glosses: A short bullet jacket which leaves some of the bullet in contact with the bore.
inboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈbɔːɹd/
rhymes: -ɔːɹd
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: outboard
glosses: Situated within the hull of a vessel.
examples: text: The Airbus A380 only has thrust reversers on its inboard engines.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
antonyms: outboard
glosses: Positioned nearer to the centre line of a vessel.
inboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈbɔːɹd/
rhymes: -ɔːɹd
Forms: form: inboards
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: outboard
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An engine located within the hull of a ship.
examples: Coordinate term: outboard
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat with such an engine.
inboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈbɔːɹd/
rhymes: -ɔːɹd
Forms: form: inboards
form: inboarding
form: inboarded
form: inboarded
Senses: glosses: To discount a product in order to increase sales.
Burushaski
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brushaski
form: Burucaki
form: Burucaski
form: Burushaki
form: Burushki
form: Brugaski
form: Brushas
Etymology: Borrowed from Burushaski بروشسکی (burū́šaskī).
Senses: synonyms: Biltum
Khajuna
Kunjut
Werchikwar
glosses: A language of northwestern Kashmir, not known to be related to any other language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Burushaski terms
AS-level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AS-levels
form: AS level
form: AS Level
Senses: qualifier: except for Scotland
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary level, an exam sometimes taken in the first year of sixth form, as a first stage in completing an A-level qualification.