cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: trounces
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trance with the same senses), possibly either:
* from Middle English trauncen, transen (“to pass from life to death, die”), from Old French transir (“to cut through, pass through”), from Latin trānsīre, present active infinitive of trānseō (“to cross, traverse; to go over (to a side or faction); to pass over; to exceed, surpass; of time: to elapse, pass; (figuratively) to cease, pass away”), from trāns (“across; beyond”) + eō (“to go”); or
* a blend of Middle English tramplen (“to tread on, trample”) + dauncen (“to dance”) or prauncen (“to prance”).
The noun is probably derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: An' what a trounce it's bin! I declare to goodness I'm as out o' wynt as an owd pair o' ballis, wi' walkin so far.
ref: 1882, Ben[jamin] Brierley, “[The Bride of Cherry Tree Cottage] Chapter II”, in Popular Edition of Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life: Daisy Nook Sketches, Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
examples: text: Sec a trounce we've hed ower t' fells!
ref: 1878, William Dickinson, “Troonce, c[entral], n[orth], Tràwwnce, s[outh]w[est]”, in A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland (Series C (Original Glossaries, and Glossaries with Fresh Additions); VIII), London: Printed for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC, page 106:
english: Such a trounce we've had over the fells!
translation: Such a trounce we've had over the fells!
bold_translation_offsets: 7
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synonyms: word: trance
english: obsolete except dialectal
translation: obsolete except dialectal
glosses: A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
personnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝ.səˈnɛl/
ipa: /pɝsˈnɛl/
ipa: /pɜː.səˈnɛl/
ipa: /pɜːsˈnɛl/
ipa: /pɵː.sɘˈnɛl/
ipa: /pɵːsˈnɛl/
ipa: /-el/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: personnels
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal.
Senses: examples: text: People like to see such friendly relationship existing between the respective personnels of their Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
ref: 1924, U.S. Army Recruiting News, page 10:
text: Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:
text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
glosses: Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
examples: text: An army personnel has been killed in action in a gunfight after security forces intercepted terrorists making an infiltration attempt near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said today.
ref: 2025 April 12, “Soldier Killed In Action As Army Stops Infiltration Attempt Along Line Of Control”, in India News, NDTV:
text: An army personnel was seen to torture an injured protester.
ref: 2025 July 17, “Army, police shoot dead 4 protesters in Bangladesh”, in Daily Finland:
qualifier: plural personnel
glosses: A member of an organization such as an army.
examples: text: I've just had a letter from personnel.
glosses: A human resources department.
Derived terms: antipersonnel
anti-personnel
armored personnel carrier
armoured personnel carrier
military personnel
nonpersonnel
personnel basket
personnel carrier
personnel transfer basket
max
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæks/
rhymes: -æks
Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum.
Senses: glosses: Maximum; maximal.
Synonyms: maxi
Derived terms: infomax
max Q
supermax
supramax
max
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæks/
rhymes: -æks
Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum.
Senses: examples: text: Four days max, then, to get them to safety.
ref: 1962, Poul Anderson, Time and Stars, published 1966, page 88:
glosses: at the most; maximum.
max
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: maxes
Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of maximum.
examples: text: He pushed himself to the max.
glosses: An extreme, a great extent.
examples: text: Oh! for a glass of max!
ref: 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
text: 'I remember,' said the pale man, 'the fust night as the Dandy ever came to this crib; he sat at this very table, and drank max with Charley Chatfield. […]
ref: 1861, The Old Roman Well, page 243:
glosses: Gin.
max
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: maxes
form: maxing
form: maxed
form: maxed
Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum.
Senses: examples: text: He maxed out his odds of dating Rebecca.
text: She maxed out all her credit cards while she was out of work.
glosses: To reach the limit; to reach the maximum.
raw_tags: with out
glosses: To relax.
raw_tags: in present particple
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: alpha max
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: devo max
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max chrysanthemum
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max fac
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max facs
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max-min fairness
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max out
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max-Q
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: max q
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: min-max
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: pro max
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: Q-max
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: to the max
Olympics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Olympics
Etymology: From Olympic + -s.
Senses: examples: text: According to Russian deputy prime minister Dmitrii Kozak, every ruble spent on preparations for the Sochi Olympics has been justified.
ref: 2014 February 13, Thomas Remington, “10 explanations for Russia’s coming fiscal squeeze”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2017:
glosses: The Olympic Games.
Derived terms: Deaflympics
Paralympics
Special Olympics
Summer Olympics
Winter Olympics
Related terms: Olympiad
Olympic
Olympics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Olympic + -s.
Senses: examples: text: A champion in the beauty Olympics
glosses: Any real or perceived competition.
Derived terms: Oppression Olympics
woke Olympics
increasingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: encreasingly
Etymology: From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.
ref: 1954 November 24, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
text: Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 15:
text: As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:
text: Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
text: They will remind you that rail already faces fierce competition from cars, coaches, airlines, and (increasingly) remote working and videoconferencing.
ref: 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 32:
text: So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?
ref: 2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN:
glosses: Increasing in amount or intensity.
Synonyms: more and more
agri-entertainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪnmənt
Etymology: From agri- + entertainment.
Senses: glosses: diversification of farming to non-productive activities that entertain the public, such as children's petting areas
glosses: Allowing customers to pick their own produce, thereby reducing labour costs
Synonyms: sense: entertainment on farms
word: agritainment
peoples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːpəlz/
Senses: examples: text: The course studies the history of Africa and the peoples who lived there.
glosses: plural of people (“a race, group or nationality”)
examples: text: "There's been a misunderstanding, that's all," Franklin explained. "As soon as I get you off of my back, my peoples are gonna start sending out product just like before."
ref: 1997, Thomas Wade Oliver, To Watch the River, New York, N.Y.: Vantage Press, →ISBN, page 374:
text: I was cool with everybody. That was a major thing, because at that time Park Hill peoples couldn't go to Stapleton, and vice versa.
ref: 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 50:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: plural of person
peoples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːpəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of people
Mexican standoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mexican standoffs
Etymology: First use appears c. 1876 in the US. Three-way gun standoffs, popularized in spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), have come to be called Mexican standoffs, though this usage appears to date to the 1990s, notably in reference to Reservoir Dogs (1992); earlier usage refers to this as a three-way standoff or triangular standoff.
Senses: examples: text: “Go-!” said he sternly then. “We will call it a stand-off, a Mexican stand-off, you lose your money, but you save your life!”
ref: 1876 March 19, F. Harvey Smith, “Mexican Stand-Off”, in Sunday Mercury, New York, page 2/col. 5:
text: ‘Monk’ Cline, who got a Mexican stand-off from Dave Rowe has signed with Louisville.
ref: John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Mexican standoff”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
glosses: A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.
glosses: A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.
An inconclusive standoff, ending in mutual retreat.
glosses: A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.
A confrontation among two or more armed parties, none of which wants to attack first (fearing that the other could retaliate), but neither of which will disarm (for fear the other will attack).
examples: text: Looks like we got us a Mexican Standoff.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Natural Born Killers, spoken by Mickey (Woody Harrelson):
text: [About Reservoir Dogs] In this scene, and in the three-way shootout, a Mexican standoff, the extreme, almost operatic violence is grazed with black comedy
ref: 1999, Foster Hirsch, Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-noir, page 259:
glosses: A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.
A three-way or more standoff.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A stalemate, or a confrontation among two or more sides that no side can win.
A pot that is split among the players because of a tie.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A near-collision between two trains; an averted cornfield meet.
Related terms: circular firing squad
pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪntɪŋ
Forms: form: pointings
Etymology: From point + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.
ref: 1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning:
glosses: The action of the verb to point.
examples: text: The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Southeastern Commercial Restoration Award: Appledore”, in RAIL, number 946, pages 56–57:
glosses: The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
glosses: Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
glosses: The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
glosses: The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: In Anglican chant:
The practice of placing metrical marks in a text (typically a psalm), which indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note, as well as features such as pauses.
examples: text: Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: In Anglican chant:
A particular arrangement of such marks within a given text.
examples: text: In this chapter, for any word from the Hebrew component of Yiddish, the spelling of the corresponding Hebrew etymon is given, with the diacritical signs corresponding to its vowels according to the Tiberian pointing.
ref: 2015, Alexander Beider, Origins of Yiddish Dialects, Oxford University Press, page 245, note 45:
glosses: Synonym of nikud.
synonyms: word: nikud
Derived terms: bone pointing
definition by pointing
depointing
Earth-pointing
finger-pointing
pointing device
pointing mark
pointing stick
pointing-stock
pointing-trowel
point-to-pointing
Sun-pointing
tuck pointing
vowel pointing
pointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪntɪŋ
Etymology: From point + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of point
Derived terms: pointingly
Americophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Americophiles
Etymology: From Americo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: a lover of the United States or their way of life
Synonyms: english: Twitter slang
translation: Twitter slang
word: freeaboo
Related terms: Americophilia
consistent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪstənt/
Forms: form: consistents
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnsistēntem, present participle of cōnsistō (“to agree with; to continue”), from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by, near, with”)) + sistō (“to cause to stand; to place, set”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up; to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).
Senses: examples: text: The Diurnal motion of the primum mobile, is it not from Eaſt to Weſt? And the annual motion of the Sun through the Ecliptick, is it not on the contrary from Weſt to Eaſt? How then can you make theſe motions being conferred on the Earth, of contraries to become conſiſtents?
ref: 1661, Galileo Galilei, “Galilæus: Galilæus Lincæus, His Systeme of the World. The Second Dialogue.”, in Thomas Salusbury, transl., Mathematical Collections and Translations, volume I, part I, London: William Leybourne, →OCLC, pages 234–235:
glosses: Objects or facts that are coexistent, or in agreement with one another.
examples: text: [F]rom the fourth century onwards, the Eastern Church divided penitents into four classes. […] The consistentes (the last class—συστάντες, consistentes) "stand together with the faithful, and do not go out with the catechumens. Last comes participation in the sacraments (ἁγιασμάτων)."
ref: [1884, William E[dward] Addis, Thomas Arnold, “PENITENTIAL DISCIPLINE AND BOOKS”, in A Catholic Dictionary: Containing Some Account of the Doctrine, Discipline, Rites, Ceremonies, Councils, and Religious Orders of the Catholic Church, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 651:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
Hypernyms: sense: kind of penitent
word: penitent
coaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
homophone: combing
Forms: form: coamings
form: combing
Etymology: From earlier coming, apparently from comb (“crest”) + -ing; however, exact origin uncertain.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit.
examples: text: Creepers threaded the wrecked windows of the coaches, ancient and chalky brown with their riveted seams and welted coamings like something proofed for descents into the sea.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 92:
glosses: A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck.
Angela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænd͡ʒələ/
Etymology: Feminine form of Church Latin Angelus, from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger, angel”).
Senses: examples: text: Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:
text: And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
ibid., page 39:
The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela, behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is Angela? I didn't know the Irish had any Angelas.
ref: 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter I, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins., →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Angie
sense: pet form
word: Ang
sense: pet form
word: Ange
word: Angel
word: Angelica
word: Angelina
word: Angeline
word: Angelique
sense: male names
word: Angel
sense: male names
word: Angelo
Alfred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælfɹəd/
note: Appalachians, dated
ipa: /ˈælfɚd/
Etymology: From Middle English Alfred, from Old English Ælfrǣd, from ælf (“elf”) + rǣd (“counsel”). Doublet of Alfredo and Avery.
The modern pronunciation with /f/ is a spelling pronunciation; the name in Old English was pronounced with [v], as shown in its Middle English descendant Alured (in which u stands for modern v).
Senses: related: word: Ælfred
qualifier: individuals
glosses: Alfred the Great, early king of England.
examples: text: Unfortunately for me my father had combined diplomacy with a study of Anglo-Saxon history and, of course with my mother's consent, he gave me the name of Alfred, one of his heroes ( I believe she had boggled at Aelfred ). This Christian name, for some inexplicable reason, had become corrupted in the eyes of our middle-class world; it belonged exclusively now to the working class and was usually abbreviated to Alf. Perhaps that was why Doctor Fisher, the inventor of Dentophil Bouquet, never called me anything but Jones, even after I married his daughter.
ref: 1980, Graham Greene, Doctor Fisher of Geneva, or the Bomb Party (fiction), →OCLC:
text: You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life.
ref: 1998, Steven Herrick, A Place Like This (fiction), University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A town, the county seat of York County, Maine, United States.
glosses: A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
glosses: A community in Alfred and Plantagenet township, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Alf
Alfie
Alfred and Plantagenet
Alfredian
Ælfredian
Alfred Nzo
Doral
King Alfred's cake
Related terms: word: Alfreda
word: Alfredo
word: alfredo
word: fettuccine Alfredo
word: Avery
Karl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: Carl
Etymology: From German and North Germanic (Scandinavian) Karl, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles.
Senses: examples: text: “We are pleased that LSST has now been named the Vera C. Rubin Observatory,” said Rubin’s sons Allan Rubin, David Rubin, and Karl Rubin in a statement.
ref: 2020 January 7, Ashley Strickland, “First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
Related terms: Carlos
Carlo
Karl Fischer reagent
Franklin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋklɪn/
Forms: form: Franklins
Etymology: From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), see franklin. The place names are mostly named after American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790).
Senses: examples: text: That night, I bought a stack of spirit money. In U.S. currency, of course. I would make it rain Franklins in the spirit world.
ref: 2018, Ling Ma, chapter 8, in Severance, →ISBN:
synonyms: Ben
Ben Franklin
Benjamin
Benjamin Franklin
glosses: A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
qualifier: numismatic slang
glosses: A Franklin half dollar.
examples: text: Nixon beat a Franklin for student body president. [He had] learned that being hated by the right people was no impediment to political success.
ref: 2008, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland:
glosses: A member of the Franklin society, a social club at Whittier College founded in 1921.
Related terms: dead president
Washington
Lincoln
Hamilton
Jackson
Orthogonian
crack whore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack whores
form: crackwhore
Etymology: crack + whore. First use appears c. 1990. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: A crack whore nicknamed Princess from the Forties Houses in South Jamaica had turned up dead.
ref: 1990, Mike McAlary, Cop Shot, The Murder of Edward Byrne, page 68:
text: A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
ref: 2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:
synonyms: strawberry
glosses: A person addicted to crack cocaine who finances the habit through prostitution.
glosses: Any sexually promiscuous or adulterous woman.
Hypernyms: dope whore
coke whore
periderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periderms
form: periderma
form: peridermis
Etymology: From peri- + -derm.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The perisarc; the hard outer layer of hydroids and other marine animals.
Derived terms: peridermic
partly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹtli/
ipa: /ˈpɑːtli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tli
Etymology: From part + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They had partly finished the house, so they could move in before winter; the car was partly visible in the garage.
text: Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2-2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Clara's cultural cache soon gave way to Betty Boop, the iconic cartoon flapper created partly in her image by animator Grim Natwick.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
synonyms: word: feckly
word: in part
word: imperfectly
word: incompletely
word: partly
word: partially
word: partwise
word: somedeal
word: somewhat
word: to an extent
word: to some extent
word: unfully
antonyms: word: after a fashion
word: barely
word: half-assedly
word: hardly
word: in a sense
word: in a way
word: incompletely
word: inconsistently
word: moderately
word: partially
word: partly
word: poorly
word: somewhat
word: spottily
word: to an extent
glosses: In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
Related terms: partially
pirate articles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The standard operating procedures for buccaneers in the late 17th century; covered division of plunder, behaviour, punishment and compensation etc.
Synonyms: pirate code
radio frequency integrated circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio frequency integrated circuits
Senses: glosses: An integrated circuit containing analog circuitry operating at frequencies in and above the ultrahigh frequency band.
stopgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒpɡæp/
ipa: /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/
Forms: form: stopgaps
form: stop-gap
form: stuff gap
Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.
ref: 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 347:
synonyms: fillgap
glosses: That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
glosses: Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
examples: text: The small company used their old product with a few kludged enhancements as a stopgap until they could develop a new product.
text: Perhaps I shall be told that this wintry exhibition is a mere stopgap and makeshift, until a fresh supply of bright new paintings can be procured, and that it is ultra vires to obtain such for love or money before the merry month of May.
ref: 1897, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, “Chapter 4”, in Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A.:
text: It is often argued that the HST saved BR's InterCity market. It was only ever intended as a stopgap, but it proved to be a winner.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The Next King of Scotland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50:
synonyms: word: band-aid
word: bandaid
word: quick fix
word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
glosses: A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
examples: text: As witness the following. Mr Strudwick, the regular master of the form, happened on one occasion to be away for a couple of days, and a stop-gap was put in in his place. The name of the stop-gap was Mr Somerville Smith. He and Farnie exchanged an unspoken declaration of war almost immediately.
ref: 1903, P. G. Wodehouse, “Chapter 4”, in A Prefect's Uncle:
synonyms: word: band-aid
word: bandaid
word: quick fix
word: band-aid
word: band-aid solution
word: bodge
word: cludge
word: fiddle
word: hack
word: hack job
word: jugaad
word: kludge
word: kluge
word: lash-up
word: make-do
word: makeshift
word: patch
word: patch-up
word: put-together
word: quick-and-dirty
word: quick fix
word: stopgap
word: workaround
glosses: A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
stopgap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒpɡæp/
ipa: /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/
Forms: form: stop-gap
Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: They put a stopgap solution in place, but need something more permanent.
glosses: Short-term; temporary.
glosses: Filling a gap or pause.
Synonyms: interim
Related terms: tideover
impromptu
stopgap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒpɡæp/
ipa: /ˈstɑpˌɡæp/
Forms: form: stopgaps
form: stopgapping
form: stopgapped
form: stopgapped
form: stop-gap
Etymology: The noun is derived from stop (“to close or block (an opening)”) + gap, from the phrase to stop a gap. The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun, and the verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To stop up or fill (a physical gap or hole, or a hiatus).
glosses: To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
glosses: To use something as a short-term fix or temporary measure until a better alternative can be obtained.
To work at a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire is made.
Related terms: hold over
tide over
burgher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
homophone: burger
Forms: form: burghers
form: burger
Etymology: From Middle English burger, burgher, burghere, equivalent to burgh + -er (“inhabitant of”). Likely merged with and reinforced by Middle Dutch burgher (Modern Dutch: burger); from Middle High German burger (Modern German: Bürger); from Old High German burgāri (“inhabitant of a fortress”); derivative of burg (“fortress, citadel”), from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“fortified elevation”).
Compare also Old English burgwaras (“inhabitants of a burg, burghers, citizens”) and Serbo-Croatian purger. More at borough.
Senses: glosses: A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
A member of the medieval mercantile class.
glosses: A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
A citizen of a medieval city.
glosses: A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
Derived terms: antiburgher
burgherdom
burgherhood
burgherly
burghermaster
burghership
Related terms: bourgeois
burgess
burgomaster
heritage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: heritages
form: hæritage
Etymology: From Middle English heritage, from Old French eritage, heritage (modern French héritage), ultimately derived (through suffixation) from Latin hērēs. By surface analysis, herit + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Now unſpeakable happy are all thoſe that have ſuch an heritage: can we thinke they will part with it? No verily, […] they will not part with ſuch an inheritance as Chriſt is, rich, fat, alwayes fruitfull, and never decaying.
ref: 1652, John Robotham, chapter III, in An Exposition: On the whole Book of Solomons Song; Commonly called The Canticles., London, →OCLC, page 413:
glosses: An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
examples: text: In fact it was a multifarious agglomerate of many little countries, gathered by marriage, heritage and luck, in the course of centuries, and now united in the hand of this Duke Wilhelm.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XIII, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III, page 247:
text: The first is that learning, continuous learning, is an intrinsic part of the American tradition. In some ways it constitutes the core of our social heritage, and no doubt accounts for the tremendous organizational and productive achievements which have taken place in this country. However, it is possible to move away from, even to lose one's heritage.
ref: 1947, Norris E. Class, chapter VII, in Marjorie Bell, editor, Redirecting the Delinquent: 1947 Yearbook, New York: National Parole and Probation Association, page 234:
text: When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script.
ref: 2007, J. N. Adams, “The Republic: inscriptions”, in The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, page 105:
glosses: A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
glosses: A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
examples: text: a heritage speaker; a heritage language
text: The university requires heritage Spanish students to enroll in a specially designed Spanish program not available to non-heritage students.
glosses: Having a certain background, such as growing up with a second language.
Derived terms: bioheritage
dual heritage
geoheritage
heritage interpretation
heritage language
heritage railway
heritage river
heritage speaker
heritage tomato
intangible cultural heritage
Meritage
mixed heritage
multiheritage
nonheritage
phytoheritage
Related terms: word: heir
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
word: heirloom
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
word: landrace
regional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rē′jənəl
enpr: rēj′nəl
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəl/
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒnəl/
Etymology: From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: intraregional, locoregional
text: regional playoffs
coordinate_terms: local
localized
;
municipal
;
interregional
transregional
;
national
nationwide
countrywide
federal
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.
examples: text: regional rainfall patterns
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.
examples: text: Near-synonym: locoregional
text: regional nerve block
antonyms: systemic
bodywide
coordinate_terms: local
localized
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.
examples: text: The new Remoteness Structure covers the whole of Australia and classifies Australia into regions which share common characteristics of remoteness. There are six Remoteness Areas in the Structure: Major Cities of Australia, Inner Regional Australia, Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia, Very Remote Australia and Migratory.
ref: 1988, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia, volume Issue 71, page 94:
text: The wheatlands region stretching across Australia offers a graphic illustration of the processes of social and economic change in rural and regional Australia.
ref: 2005, Joy McCann, “Chapter 3: History and Memory in Australia′s Wheatlands”, in Graeme Davison, Marc Brodie, editors, Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth-Century Australia, page 03-1:
text: HEMA produces four-wheel-drive and motorbike road atlases and many regional four-wheel-drive maps—good if you plan to go off the trails—an atlas of Australia′s national parks, and maps to Kakadu and Lamington national parks.
ref: 2011, Lee Mylne, Marc Llewellyn, Ron Crittall, Lee Atkinson, Frommer′s Australia 2011, unnumbered page:
glosses: Of a state or other geographic area, denoting those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.
Derived terms: bioregional
biregional
Capital Regional District
complex regional pain syndrome
ecoregional
extraregional
georegional
interregional
inter-regional
intraregional
macroregional
megaregional
microregional
midregional
multiregional
nonregional
panregional
regional converter
regional economics
regional insourcing
regionalise
regionalism
regionalist
regionality
regionalize
regional jet
regional lockout
regionally
regional metamorphism
regional Mexican
regional municipality
regionalness
regional power
socioregional
subacute regional lymphadenitis
superregional
supraregional
transregional
triregional
regional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē′jənəl
enpr: rēj′nəl
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəl/
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒnəl/
Forms: form: regionals
Etymology: From Middle French régional, from Latin regiōnālis.
Senses: examples: text: In the CPE^([Customer Premises Equipment]) market, all seven regionals are selling several sizes of private branch exchanges (PBX) and key systems for smaller customers.
ref: 1985 March 11, James Connolly, “CPE big item on regionals′ omnivorous market menu”, in Computerworld, page 125:
text: Regionals are among the fastest growing companies and, as the name implies, are those carriers that for the most part provide service to only one region of the country and generate revenue of under $100 million.
ref: 2001, Harold L. Vogel, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis, page 44:
text: Regional magazines are general interest publications for readers who live in a particular area of the country. Most major cities have their own regionals: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Miami […]
ref: 2006, Franklynn Peterson, Judi Kesselman-Turkel, The Magazine Writer′s Handbook, page 12:
glosses: An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.
championship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmpi.ənʃɪp/
Forms: form: championships
Etymology: From champion + -ship.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A competition to determine a champion, especially the final of a series of competitions.
glosses: The position of champion, or winner.
examples: text: His championship of civil rights eventually bore fruit.
text: They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: Defense or support of some cause.
Derived terms: League Championship Series
prechampionship
mainstream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪn.stɹiːm/
Forms: form: more mainstream
form: most mainstream
Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).
Senses: examples: text: They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media.
text: As unsubstantiated claims receive significant backing, skeptics and defenders of mainstream science enter the fray.
ref: 2011, Taner Edis, Science and Nonbelief, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 153:
text: The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
text: If Ms. Le Pen looks more mainstream now, it’s because the mainstream looks more like her.
ref: 2022 April 20, Rim-Sarah Alouane, “Marine Le Pen Is as Dangerous as Ever”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of population, market, scientific community, etc.
Synonyms: sense: used or accepted broadly
word: common
sense: used or accepted broadly
word: usual
sense: used or accepted broadly
word: widespread
sense: used or accepted broadly
word: conventional
mainstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪn.stɹiːm/
Forms: form: mainstreams
Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).
Senses: glosses: The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
examples: text: ideas outside of the mainstream
text: George Herbert Walker Bush of Phillips Andover Academy and Yale University proclaimed in the first Presidential candidates' debate that he was “in touch with the mainstream of America.”
ref: 1988 September 30, Tom Wicker, quoting George H. W. Bush, “Ol' Man Mainstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Long content with being the BMW of the computer industry, suppying finely crafted machines to a relatively small number of fanatic customers, Apple now wants to become a Ford or Toyota, to move into the mainstream.
ref: 1991 July 14, Andrew Pollack, “A Quirky Loner Goes Mainstream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "Railways seldom slavishly followed styles to be seen in the mainstream of contemporary architecture," HE [Historic England] explains.
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 55:
glosses: That which is common; the norm.
raw_tags: with the
mainstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪn.stɹiːm/
Forms: form: mainstreams
form: mainstreaming
form: mainstreamed
form: mainstreamed
Etymology: From main + stream. Cognate with Icelandic meginstraumur (“a main current, mainstream”).
Senses: examples: text: Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.
ref: 2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420:
text: Acknowledging the role X plays in mainstreaming the worst constituencies makes for awkward conversations with those who continue to use it.
ref: 2025 May 23, Charlie Warzel, “What Are People Still Doing on X?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
examples: text: In a nonchurch context, we can look more explicitly at formerly New Age practices to see if and how they have mainstreamed.
ref: 2013, Catherine L. Albanese, America: Religions and Religion, 5th edition, Boston: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 262:
glosses: To become mainstream.
examples: text: Despite these beliefs, the decision to send my son to a regular school was not made easily. I didn't know of any child as disabled as he who had been mainstreamed.
ref: 1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: education
glosses: To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.
Derived terms: antimainstream
blackstream
fakestream
gaystream
lamestream
mainsleaze
mainstreamable
mainstream consciousness
mainstreamer
mainstreaming
mainstreamish
mainstreamism
mainstreamist
mainstreamization
mainstreamize
mainstreamness
mainstreamy
malestream
popstream
whitestream
asf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: JanEdoeSN87: asf
SumLAguy19: 18/m/California
synonyms: asl
glosses: Initialism of age-sex-from: what is your age, what sex are you, and where are you from?
raw_tags: in chat rooms
asf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of and so forth.
examples: text: "My dad trying to take panoramics of me. I'm mad asf," Simran tweeted alongside two photos of herself looking like an optical illusion.
ref: 2018 September 17, Nicole Gallucci, “Dad attempts a nice – but absurdly unsuccessful – panoramic photo of his daughter”, in Mashable:
related: word: af
word: AF
synonyms: asl
glosses: Initialism of as fuck.
asf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: ASF on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
prosperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.p(ə.)ɹəs/
rhymes: -ɒspəɹəs
rhymes: -ɒspɹəs
Forms: form: more prosperous
form: most prosperous
Etymology: From Middle French prospereus, from Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“I cause to succeed”), from Old Latin pro spere (“according to expectation”), from pro (“for”) + spes (“hope”).
Senses: examples: text: Trading Babe Ruth was far more prosperous for the Yankees than for the Red Sox.
glosses: Characterized by success.
examples: text: He was raised in a very prosperous household.
text: He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
glosses: Well off; affluent.
examples: text: He chose a prosperous lottery number that evening.
text: So draw him home to those that mourn
⁠In vain; a favourable speed
⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead
Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Favorable.
Synonyms: sense: characterized by success
word: successful
sense: well off
word: affluent
word: rich
word: well off
word: well-to-do
word: wealthy
sense: favorable
word: favorable
word: lucky
word: auspicious
word: bustling
word: flourishing
word: fortunate
word: privileged
word: prosperous
word: roaring
word: thriving
word: wealful
Hyponyms: word: wealthy
Derived terms: prosperously
prosperousness
prosperity
Related terms: word: prosper
word: auspicious