cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
windgall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windgalls
Etymology: From wind + gall.
Senses: examples: text: It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs […]
ref: 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12
synonyms: windpuff
glosses: A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse, generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
Mishna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Mishnah.
trickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trickinesses
Etymology: From tricky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tricky.
tassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tassas
Senses: examples: text: African men in the district also excelled on the tassa drums at the Indian weddings and hosay festivals, playing alongside their Indian fellow villagers.
ref: 1999, Kenrick P. Thomas, Panriga: Tacarigua's Contribution to the Evolution of the Steelband Phenomenon in Trinidad and Tobago:
text: He was widely recognized as the finest tassa player in the area. Some may be skilled, but his was a gift.
ref: 2006, Hemchand Gossai, River Crossings: Memories of a Journey, →ISBN:
text: Together, the four tassa players produced an intoxicating rhythm that held the visitors almost entranced. A group of old Indian women in bright coloured saris were waiting for the tassa group to finish their performance so that they might start singing the traditional wedding songs.
ref: 2013, King Liar, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A large Indian drum, traditionally played at weddings.
sperma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermata
Senses: examples: text: The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
ref: 1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344
glosses: Obsolete form of sperm.
missional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more missional
form: most missional
Etymology: From mission + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Churches should develop a missional posture for engaging in God's mission.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a religious mission; missionary.
Derived terms: missionality
missionally
let rip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets rip
form: letting rip
form: let rip
form: let rip
Senses: examples: text: When she heard the news, she let rip a tirade heard throughout the office.
text: Ok, it’s all clear. Let ’er rip.
text: He let rip a fart that emptied the elevator at the next floor.
text: Now is the time for a bully trip,
So shake her up and let her rip!
ref: c. 1870, anonymous (lyrics and music), “Mississippi Boat Song”, published by H. De Marsan
glosses: To unleash, let loose, uncork; to allow (something) to happen or proceed without restraint.
examples: text: Near-synonym: let loose
text: She let rip with a tirade everyone heard.
text: She let rip about Mary’s flirting with Lizzie’s boyfriend.
coordinate_terms: open the floodgates
glosses: To utter or release without restraint.
raw_tags: with a prepositional phrase
examples: text: I would also urge you never to let rip within 50 metres of your mother-in-law
ref: 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: let loose
word: rip ass
word: badger
word: blow off
word: break ass
word: break wind
word: crepitate
word: curmur
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: drop a bomb
word: fart
word: flatulate
word: grunt
word: guff
word: let fluffy off the chain
word: let one go
word: let one rip
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: poop
word: poot
word: pump
word: rip ass
word: rip one
word: step on a duck
word: step on a frog
word: toot
word: trump
glosses: To fart.
nullable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From null + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Then you regard as nullable and voidable the laws of Titius and Apuleius, because they are unjust.
ref: 1841, F. Barham, The political works of Marcus Tullius Cicero:
glosses: That may be nullified; nullifiable.
examples: text: You want to perform an aggregation on a column, but the column is nullable.
ref: 2006, Anthony Molinaro, SQL Cookbook:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is allowed to have a null value.
raw_tags: of a variable or object
Derived terms: nullability
nullable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nullables
Etymology: From null + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A variable, etc. that is allowed to have a null value.
Templar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Templars
Etymology: From Middle English templer, from Old French templier; cf. the Medieval Latin templarius, from Latin templum (“temple”).
Senses: glosses: A Knight Templar, one of the Knights Templar.
Derived terms: neo-Templar
neo-Templarism
retrogaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retro gaming
form: retro-gaming
Etymology: From retro- + gaming.
Senses: topics: video-games
hypernyms: retrocomputing
glosses: The hobby of playing or collecting older video games and computer games.
Related terms: retrogamer
nullified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nullify
nullified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has been declared null
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Whose value has been set to null
Derived terms: unnullified
nullifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nullify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able, or allowed to be nullified.
signboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪnˌbɔɹd/
Forms: form: signboards
Etymology: From sign + board.
Senses: glosses: A board carrying a sign, or on which signs may be posted.
Synonyms: noticeboard
Derived terms: signboarded
signboarding
main drag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main drags
Senses: examples: text: Many of the seafront and main drag businesses specialize in snacks, junk food and British staples such as fish and chips or fry-ups.
ref: 2003, John Gill, Nick Edwards, Rough Guide to the Ionian Islands, page 244:
text: As well as being prime bookworm territory, Charing Cross Road is one of the main drags through the West End, flanked by theatres, clubs and rock venues.
ref: 2003, Rob Humphreys, Judith Bamber, The Rough Guide to London, page 118:
ref: 2008, Shay A. Mace, Smithsburg Historical Society, Smithsburg: Chapter Two: Main Street: The Main Drag, page 21:
text: She kept an eye on the house and straightened up as a mail truck appeared on the main drag and began stopping at the houses, delivering packets of mail.
ref: 2009, Lisa Scottoline, Look Again, unnumbered page:
text: Hudson is the main drag of Vinegar Hill, but without a main drag′s typical traffic.
ref: 2010, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Brooklyn, page 29:
glosses: The main street of a town or suburb, or the principal highway passing through a rural area.
examples: text: In free-spool mode, the main drag is disengaged, so the spool revolves against minimal resistance, feeding line to a fish that has taken your bait.
ref: 2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, page 101:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, drag.
Synonyms: sense: main street of a town
word: high street
non-maskable interrupts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-maskable interrupt
continuative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to continuation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: durative.
Derived terms: continuatively
continuativeness
continuative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuatives
Senses: glosses: Something that causes a continuation.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a durative.
durative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratif (“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure (“to last, to continue”) + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to duration.
glosses: Long-lasting.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the aspect of a verb that expresses continuing action; continuative. Part of the imperfective aspect, as opposed to the perfective aspect, of verbs.
Synonyms: sense: long-lasting
word: diuturnal
word: prolonged
word: lasting
Derived terms: duratively
durativeness
durativity
durative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duratives
Etymology: From duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratif (“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure (“to last, to continue”) + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
remainderman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remaindermen
Etymology: From remainder + -man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person entitled to receive a remainder interest in any property.
topics: law
glosses: A person entitled to the assets of a trust at the end of some specified period or after some event. For instance a man's will might put his assets into a trust with the income to go to his wife until she dies (being a life interest), at which time the capital (remainder interest) goes to their children. The children are remaindermen.
smartphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/
Forms: form: smartphones
Etymology: From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
hypernyms: mobile phone
hyponyms: iPhone
glosses: A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
Derived terms: flip smartphone
modular smartphone
smartphone zombie
railway station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railway stations
Senses: examples: text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.
ref: 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
text: We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.
ref: 1953 April, Henry Maxwell, “Abandoned Railway Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 270:
text: Committed infrastructure improvements and delivery of Heathrow's rail vision has the potential to increase the number of railway stations directly connected to the airport by a multiple of six, to 36 [not including London Underground stations], while the number of stations accessible by a single interchange could increase from 125 today to 697 by 2040.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:
glosses: A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.
Synonyms: word: railroad station
word: train station
hardpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardpans
Etymology: From hard + pan.
Senses: glosses: A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.
glosses: Synonym of dry lake.
synonyms: word: dry lake
Hypernyms: pan
Derived terms: hardpanned
Related terms: salt pan
saltpan
lipo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlai.poʊ/
Senses: examples: text: She complained about the lip of fat creeping over the waist of her jeans. "Maybe I'll get lipo, too, next time," she said.
ref: 2005, Cap Lesesne, Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon:
text: You're the one who told me I couldn't get lipo like I wanted, so this is the next best thing. But to do it, it has to be now. Tonight.
ref: 2009, Greg Liberman, Aging with Grace:
glosses: Clipping of liposuction.
lipo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlai.poʊ/
Forms: form: lipos
form: lipoing
form: lipoed
form: lipoed
Senses: examples: text: The doctor seemed to be saying that going into shock was a post-operative complication probably due to lipoing off too much fat — which he implied was my fault because I nagged him to take off the maximum amount.
ref: 2011, Karen Hanson Stuyck, Do You Remember Me Now?:
glosses: Clipping of liposuction.
Related terms: antilipo
glissade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪˈseɪd/
ipa: /ɡlɪˈsaːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: glissades
Etymology: Borrowed from French glissade.
Senses: glosses: A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A gliding step beginning and ending in a demi-plié in second position.
glosses: A move in some dances such as the galop.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A fencing move that may disarm the opponent.
Derived terms: glissader
glissade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪˈseɪd/
ipa: /ɡlɪˈsaːd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: glissades
form: glissading
form: glissaded
form: glissaded
Etymology: Borrowed from French glissade.
Senses: examples: text: Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 5, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: To perform a glissade.
cohabitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cohabitates
form: cohabitating
form: cohabitated
form: cohabitated
Etymology: Back-formation from cohabitation.
Senses: examples: text: Rabbits can be housed with other species; pet birds such as parakeets cohabitate well with rabbits.
ref: 2020, Katherine Quesenberry, Christoph Mans, Connie Orcutt, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents:
glosses: To cohabit.
witch-hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch-hunt
living fossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of living fossil
catmint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætmɪnt/
Forms: form: catmints
Etymology: From Middle English catt mynte, kattesminte, equivalent to cat + mint. The word’s appearance in early Middle English (c. 1230) and other Germanic languages (German Katzenminze, Icelandic kattarminta, Swedish kattmynta) means that it is very likely to have existed in Old English (as *cattes minte) as well.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of catnip (the plant Nepeta cataria, or other members of the genus)
synonyms: word: catnip
extra: the plant Nepeta cataria, or other members of the genus
karyogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karyogamies
Etymology: From karyo- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fusion of two nuclei within a cell, especially as the second stage of syngamy.
Coordinate terms: somatogamy
syngamy
Derived terms: karyogamic
autograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: autographed
Forms: form: autografts
Etymology: From auto- + graft.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A tissue graft taken from one part to another of the same individual's body.
Coordinate terms: alt: homograft
word: allograft
word: isograft
alt: heterograft
word: xenograft
autograft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: autographed
Forms: form: autografts
form: autografting
form: autografted
form: autografted
Etymology: From auto- + graft.
Senses: examples: text: During this time surgeons began experimenting with autografting, which involved removing bone from one part of the body of a patient and transferring it to another.
ref: 2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 50:
glosses: To graft in this manner.
somatogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somato- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fusion of two cells (but not their nuclei), especially as the first stage of syngamy.
Related terms: karyogamy
syngamy
diverticulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diverticulites
Senses: examples: text: He had a slight fever and thought he had appendicitis. So did his doctor, who sent him to the emergency room, where an M.R.I. revealed not appendicitis but diverticulitis, an infection in an outpouching of his colon he never knew he had.
ref: 2019 October 28, Jane E. Brody, “Fiber in Fruits and Grains Protects Against Diverticulitis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection of the diverticulum.
Ge'ez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡiːɛz/
Forms: form: Geez
form: Gi'iz
form: Giiz
form: Geʿez
form: Gəʿəz
Etymology: From Ge'ez ግዕዝ (gəʿz).
Senses: examples: text: He takes out a leather-bound Bible, written in Ge'ez, illuminated by drawings of angels with large, soulful eyes.
ref: 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 328:
glosses: An Ethiopian language which is extinct but still used liturgically.
glosses: The writing system originally used for the Ge’ez language.
Synonyms: Ethiopic
hypocotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocotyls
Etymology: Shortening of hypo- + cotyledon
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling between the root and cotyledons.
Related terms: cotyledon
epicotyl
hypocotyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypocotyl
epicotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicotyls
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling above the cotyledons.
Related terms: cotyledon
hypocotyl
epicotyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicotyl
bluebottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluebottle
w.r.t.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of WRT.
wrt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of WRT.
w/r/t
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of WRT.
bottle brush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle brushes
form: bottlebrush
Senses: glosses: A brush, having bristles that radiate from a central stem, used for cleaning bottles.
glosses: Any of several plants having a similar appearance, especially Anthephora or Callistemon.
bottle brushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle brush
bottlebrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlebrushes
form: bottle brush
form: bottle-brush
Etymology: From bottle + brush.
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles.
examples: text: ‘But look, there's some grass up till this bottlebrush which looks like it's bin trampled.’
ref: 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 23:
glosses: Any of various trees or shrubs of the myrtle family, especially of the genera Callistemon and Melaleuca, native to Australia and adjacent areas, having spikes of flowers with numerous conspicuous stamens.
glosses: An uncommon cave formation resulting from a rise in water level such that a stalactite becomes immersed in water that is supersaturated with calcium carbonate, causing the stalactite to become coated with pool spar.
bottlebrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottlebrush
bespatter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈspætɚ/
rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bespatters
form: bespattering
form: bespattered
form: bespattered
Etymology: From be- + spatter.
Senses: glosses: To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.
examples: text: The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:
text: [D]azed and blinded, she bent her head as if to let the pelt of jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.
ref: 1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 54:
glosses: To soil by spattering.
examples: text: Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.
Derived terms: bespatterer
bespatters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bespatter
bespattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bespatter
bespattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bespatterings
Senses: glosses: The action or result of something being bespattered.
bespattered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She had been even bespattered with praise, so abundantly had it been showered upon her;
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 255–256:
text: Soon King-of-the-Sky appeared sauntering, mud-bespattered, through Leeward Village, the shotgun on his shoulder and the sandpiper swinging in his hand.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 111:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bespatter
bespattered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: covered in spots of splashed liquid
Derived terms: unbespattered
Tantalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæntələs/
Etymology: From Latin Tantalus, from Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos). Doublet of tantalus.
Senses: examples: text: He will not mannage her, although he mount her, / That worse then Tantalus is her annoy
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: But like still pining Tantalus he sits / And vselesse barnes the haruest of his wits
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Phrygian king who was condemned to remain in Tartarus, chin-deep in water, with fruit-laden branches hanging above his head; whenever he tried to drink or eat, the water and fruit receded out of reach.
Derived terms: tantalize
tantalus
Related terms: tantalum
burgles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burgle
burgling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burgle
burgled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burgle
jemmies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jemmy
paraffine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraffines
Senses: examples: text: He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop.
ref: 1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The History of Mr Polly, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 214:
glosses: Dated form of paraffin.
paraffine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paraffines
form: paraffining
form: paraffined
form: paraffined
Senses: glosses: Dated form of paraffin.
cardiopulmonary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + pulmonary.
Senses: examples: text: A DNR decision determines whether or not patients receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
ref: 2005, Ralph L Piedmont, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the heart and the lungs.
Derived terms: cardiopulmonary arrest
cardiopulmonary bypass
cardiopulmonary murmur
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
noncardiopulmonary
transcardiopulmonary
tea trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea trolleys
form: tea trollies
Senses: examples: text: About this, he is, as ever, humorous and self-deprecating, attributing his employment to the fact that the tea trolley arrived during his interview and “I'd been so well brought-up that I just naturally leaned over and said, ‘Would anyone like a cup of tea?’.[…]”
ref: 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: tea cart
tea wagon
glosses: A table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
Related terms: drinks trolley
teabag
tea caddy
teacake
tea cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea carts
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tea trolley.
synonyms: word: tea trolley
tea wagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea wagons
Senses: synonyms: word: tea cart
word: tea trolley
raw_tags: in Commonwealth English
glosses: A table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An audio mixing console on wheels.
promissory note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑmɪsɔɹiˌnoʊt/
Forms: form: promissory notes
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: IOU
topics: business
finance
synonyms: note payable
hypernyms: negotiable instrument#Noun
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instrument#Noun
note#Noun
coordinate_terms: bill of exchange#Noun
glosses: A document saying that someone owes a specific amount of money to someone else, often with the deadline and interest fees; the primary purposes of a promissory note are to evidence the debt obligation incurred, and to establish terms for payment thereof.
Related terms: draft
careerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪɹɪst/
Forms: form: careerists
Etymology: From career + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A careerist is a square-filler, a time-server. His talents and imagination have been circumscribed to perform managerial duties.
ref: 1980, Alfred Kern, “Waiting for Euripides”, reprinted in Malham M. Wakin (editor), Military Ethics, DIANE Publishing (1994), page 121
text: Liu Hsin's famous jibe seems to have been directed not against Yang Hsiung but against the intellectual limitations of contemporary careerists. […] Yang's writings and personal character did not appeal to the careerists of his time
ref: 1995, Michael Nylan and Nathan Sivin, An Introduction to Yang Hsiung's "Canon of Supreme Mystery" (T'ai Hsüan Ching, ca. 4 B.C.):
text: You’ve got a lot of elite careerist women in the officer corps who have a certain set of desires usually related to their career.
ref: 1997, Anita Blair, quoted in U.S. Society & Values, June 1997: The Changing Roles of Women in the United States, DIANE Publishing, page 27
glosses: A person who pursues the advancement of their career at the expense of other values.
glosses: A person who takes a job, especially in the military, for a long time rather than temporarily.
Derived terms: noncareerist
Related terms: careerism
careerist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪɹɪst/
Forms: form: more careerist
form: most careerist
Etymology: From career + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to such a person or way of life
careerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careerisms
Etymology: From career + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: More than most of his flag officer peers, he understood how to navigate Washington politics and news media, helping him rise through the ranks and obtain resources he needed, although fellow Army leaders often resented what they saw as a grasping careerism.
ref: 2012 November 9, Michael D. Shear, “Petraeus Quits; Evidence of Affair Was Found by F.B.I.”, in New York Times:
text: Fear of the other and the future, anger at what had been done to oneself and one’s compatriots, simple ambition and careerism all could be found among those who murdered Armenians.
ref: 2015, Ronald Grigor Suny, "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The overwhelming desire or urge to advance one's own career or social status, usually at the expense of other personal interests, social growth, or ethics.
examples: text: In addition, military aviators' concerns about careerism as well as their lack of professionalism and personality clashes added to the friction against program.
ref: 2002 Air & Space Power Journal fall 02
glosses: The perception that being a member of the military is a career, rather than an obligation to serve one's country.
Related terms: careerist
carpet burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpet burns
Senses: examples: text: More unusual marks occur when a child is pushed against a patterned object, such as the imprint of a carpet or a carpet burn where the child's body skids along the carpet.
ref: 1996, Kim R.Oates, The Spectrum of Child Abuse: assessment, treatment, and prevention, page 51:
text: Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain
We're like how we were again
I'm in the tub you're on the seat
Lick your lips as I soak my feet
Then you notice lickle carpet burn
My stomach drops and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst
Who truly stuck the knife in first?
ref: 2007 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good(verse 3)
glosses: A skin injury caused by friction with a carpet or similar surface.
scolex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolices
form: scoleces
form: scolexes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκώληξ (skṓlēx, “worm”).
Senses: examples: text: The head, with the circle of hooklets and the four suckers, is then formed at the anterior part of the embryo, constituting now the scolex of Van Beneden.
ref: 1859, Robert Bentley Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.
carfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carfares
Etymology: From car + fare.
Senses: examples: text: Last year, organized crime was directly responsible for more than one hundred murders, and mafiosi participated indirectly in several hundred more, either by lending the killers carfare or by holding their coats.
ref: 1971, Woody Allen, Getting Even:
text: Anyhow, I'll have to keep out lunch money and carfare, and so will Edith.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, A Poor Wise Man:
glosses: The passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar, bus or similar public transit.
busfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busfares
Senses: examples: text: […] young girls take free rides in exchange for sex and also as a way of saving their busfare for their out of pocket spending (Balmer).
ref: 1997, Ruth Nduati, Wambui Kiai - Communicating With Adolescents With AIDS:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bus fare.
carhop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːˌhɒp/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌhɑp/
Forms: form: carhops
Etymology: Blend of car + (bell)hop
Senses: examples: text: I ended my aimless-roaming-short-term-odd-jobs lifestyle and joyfully went to work at a local restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland, as a carhop.
ref: 2005, H Reese Scott, Embracing Emily:
glosses: A waiter or waitress who serves customers, especially in their vehicles, at a drive-in restaurant, sometimes on rollerskates.
carhop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːˌhɒp/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌhɑp/
Forms: form: carhops
form: carhopping
form: carhopped
form: carhopped
Etymology: Blend of car + (bell)hop
Senses: glosses: To work as a carhop.
caricaturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/
Forms: form: caricaturists
Etymology: From caricature + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But, the power of the caricaturist lies in exhibiting with increased ugliness personal and natural defects . . .
ref: 1828, Amelia Alderson Opie, Detraction Displayed:
glosses: A person who draws caricatures.
carnality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnalities
Etymology: From Middle English carnalitee, carnalyte, carnalite, from Latin carnālitās, equivalent to carnal + -ity. Compare Old French charnalité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being carnal.
glosses: A preoccupation with sexual desire.
bus fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus fares
form: busfare
Senses: examples: text: In Los Angeles, residents are provided with bus fare, while in Denver's North Lincoln the resident community resource specialist sometime drives residents to their appointments.
ref: 1997, Theodore M. Hammett, Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Resource Document:
glosses: The passenger fare charged for riding on a bus.
carnivorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carnivorous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: . . . Shows ample evidence carnivorousness Is not impaired by conjugal estate; The flesh consumed, the beefy brethren speed'ly separate.
ref: 1854, John Coventry, Viator: a poem:
synonyms: carnivory
coordinate_terms: frugivorousness
herbivorousness
omnivorousness
glosses: The quality of being a carnivore.
caroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carollers
Etymology: From carol + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of caroler; a carol singer
synonyms: word: caroler
extra: a carol singer
glosses: A bard.
carouser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carousers
Etymology: From carouse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Equally persuaded I am that he was in the habit of receiving, in early youth, certain dicteria — perchance odd heads and tails of rhyming ballads — from some hoary headed sage who had been a carouser at the "merrie court" of James V. of Scotland.
ref: 1836, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life:
glosses: A person who carouses; a reveller.
carpet-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carpet-bombs
form: carpet-bombing
form: carpet-bombed
form: carpet-bombed
Senses: examples: text: The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.
ref: 1946, The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945, United States Army, page 700:
text: Heavy bombers of the British Bomber Command carpet-bombed the positions of the 276. Infanterie-Division four times.
ref: 2011, Wolfgang Schneider, Tigers in Normandy, page 167:
text: To win wars you need to carpet-bomb civilians. And to get away with carpet-bombing civilians.
ref: 2012, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Legend of Pradeep Mathew: A Novel:
text: There was nothing to do but fuck lazy sluts so I carpet-bombed the city with my dick.
ref: 2012, Gavin McInnes, How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, page 77:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carpet bomb.
car-pooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car-poolers
form: car pooler
form: carpooler
Senses: examples: text: The cars could be used in any of three different ways: for the driver's sole use; shared with a car-pooler; or for short-term hourly use during the day.
ref: 2001, Brian Richards, Future Transport in Cities:
glosses: A member of a carpool.
car pooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car poolers
Senses: examples: text: This letter will list the names, distance in miles, and business telephone numbers of each potential car pooler, and request that each member of the group . . .
ref: 1973, United States Congress, Senate. Committee on Commerce - Truth in Energy and Car Pooling:
glosses: Alternative spelling of car-pooler.
carpooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carpoolers
Etymology: From carpool + -er or car + pooler.
Senses: examples: text: […] according to her coworker and carpooler, Bill Parker: […]
ref: 1997, Albert Gore, Scott Adams, Businesslike Government:
glosses: Alternative spelling of car-pooler.
pavee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavees
Etymology: From Shelta.
Senses: glosses: A traveller, a member of Ireland's nomadic ethnic minority.
Synonyms: word: itinerant
word: tinker
pavees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavee
Ciara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈki(ə)ɹə/
ipa: /ˈki(ə)ɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈki(ə)ɹə/
ipa: /ˈki(ə)ɹɑ/
ipa: /siˈærə/
ipa: /siˈærɑ/
rhymes: -iːɹə
rhymes: -iːɹɑ
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, a new Irish feminine form of Ciaran.
Related terms: Chiara
Cierra
Keara
Keira
Kiara
Kiera
Kira
Kyra
rosé wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosé wines
Senses: glosses: A pale pink wine made by removing the dark grape skins at the required point during fermentation.
Synonyms: blush
blush wine
rosé
pink wine
Related terms: rosé
rosé sauce
wine
toner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊnɚ/
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: toners
Etymology: From tone + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The printer needs more black toner.
glosses: Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper.
examples: text: She applied a facial toner after washing her skin.
glosses: Cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face.
glosses: A musician, particularly one who plays a wind instrument.
glosses: A hair product used to reduce brassiness and increase shine in bleached and dyed hair.
windowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windowings
Etymology: From window + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The windows of a building; fenestration.
examples: text: NeWS was an early windowing system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The multiplication of a signal by a window function, restricting the signal to a specific time segment.
windowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From window + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of window
symbolics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪks
Etymology: From French symbolique or Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”).
Senses: glosses: The study of ancient symbols.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The study of that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith.
glosses: Symbolism.
Related terms: word: symbol
word: symbolic
word: symbolical
word: symbolically
word: symbolicism
alt: Br.
word: symbolisation
alt: Br.
word: symbolise
word: symbolism
word: symbolist
word: symbolistic
word: symbolization
word: symbolize
word: symbology
word: symbolology
waterboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterboardings
Etymology: From waterboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A torture technique in which the victim is immobilized, has towels or rags wrapped over their face, and has water poured onto them, causing them to experience the sensation of drowning.
waterboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From waterboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waterboard
symbolicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symbolicisms
Etymology: From symbolic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An approach to understanding human cognition that is committed to language like symbolic processing as the best method of explanation.
Related terms: symbol
symbolic
symbolical
symbolically
symbolics
symbolisation
symbolise
symbolism
symbolist
symbolistic
symbolization
symbolize
symbology
symbolology
dufus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dufuses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doofus.
margent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: margents
Senses: examples: text: Nothing but this! Yes, as much love in rime
As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper
Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,
That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content
And what obscured in this fair volume lies
Find written in the margent of his eyes.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell
By slow Meander's margent green
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: All the ancient Inscriptions are entertoilees with Snakes, e. g. as in the margent.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 38:
glosses: margin; edge
margent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: margents
form: margenting
form: margented
form: margented
Senses: glosses: To note in the margin.
patristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin patristica, from Latin pater (“father”).
Senses: glosses: The study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers.
Synonyms: patrology
Coordinate terms: matristics
Vulpecula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vʌlˈpɛkjələ/
Etymology: Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. From Latin vulpēcula (“little fox”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A faint autumn constellation in the northern sky.
Derived terms: Vulpeculae
Vulpeculid
Serpens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɚpənz/
Etymology: From Latin serpēns (“a snake”). Doublet of serpent.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large summer constellation of the northern sky said to resemble a snake. It is the only constellation consisting of two parts (Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda) separated by the constellation Ophiuchus, representing the snake handler Asclepius.
Derived terms: Serpentis
autografts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autograft
pace setter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pace setters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pacesetter.
missie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missies
Etymology: From miss + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.'
Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition By Cecil Gray
text: "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie—that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. […]"
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
glosses: A young woman; miss.
packaged forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Forces of varying size and composition preselected for specific missions in order to facilitate planning and training
Ophiuchus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑf.iˈjuː.kəs/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.fiˈjuː.kəs/
Forms: form: ⛎︎
Etymology: From Latin Ophiūchus, from Ancient Greek ὀφιοῦχος (ophioûkhos, “serpent-handler”), from ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to hold”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A zodiacal constellation of the northern summer said to depict a man (Asclepius) holding a serpent; the serpent is the constellation Serpens.
Synonyms: word: Serpentarius
word: Ophiuchus
word: Serpent Bearer
Hypernyms: word: constellation
Meronyms: word: Rasalhague
word: Cebalrai
word: Yed Prior
word: Yed Posterior
word: Han
word: Sabik
word: Marfik
Derived terms: Ophiuchi
Related terms: Asclepius
Serpens
Sculptor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. Originally called Apparātus Scūlptoris,
Latin for "sculptor's apparatus" but later shortened.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.
wikipedia: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Derived terms: Sculptoris