cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beneficial owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beneficial owners
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person who takes all or most of the returns of a property's equity or monetary gains.
MOTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOTDs
Senses: examples: text: When I connected to the IRC server, the MOTD included an apology for the recent downtime.
glosses: Initialism of message of the day.
MOTD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 55 years in, save for the odd hiatus when ITV rather rudely claimed the exclusive top-flight highlights rights, MOTD represents the then, now and seemingly forever for the free-to-air armchair football fan.
ref: 2019 July 26, Adam Hurrey, “55 years in, the culturally bulletproof Match of the Day can handle the latest threat from its rivals”, in The Daily Telegraph:
topics: broadcasting
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
television
glosses: Initialism of Match of the Day: a British football-themed television programme introduced in 1964.
boricua
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boricua
form: most boricua
form: Boricua
Etymology: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Senses: examples: text: She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 55:
glosses: Puerto Rican.
boricua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boricuas
form: Boricua
Etymology: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Senses: glosses: A Puerto Rican.
blip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: blips
form: blipping
form: blipped
form: blipped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The door blipped as I showed my electronic identity card and passed through.
glosses: To make a short beep sound.
examples: text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
We got a call that Pat still on the respirator & that the doc said that now because the EEG was blipping, they couldn't unhook him from the respirator.
text: And yet, they pulsed and glowed and shimmied and flared and stared at you, just like now—staring in at his and Whitey's own lights as they blipped past on the expressway, just one more set of red and yellow lights streaking along amid a current of red and yellow lights that blipped, blipped, blipped through an unremarkable Sunday dusk.
ref: 2001, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN:
text: The screen blipped out as the connection was terminated. […] A few seconds passed before the screen again blipped to life, but instead of Melissa's radiant face there was a man in obvious security garb staring at him.
ref: 2005, Craig Lansford, Stephen Chamberlin, “Scene III”, in Broken Angel (Tales from Salome; 1; The Sorian Chronicles; book I), rev. edition, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
examples: text: […] even walking off his own show once after an NBC censor had arbitrarily blipped a mildly risque joke from the day's tape.
ref: 2003, Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, page 155:
glosses: Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”).
synonyms: word: bleep
extra: to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To apply the throttle briefly when downshifting, to provide a smoother gear transition and prevent wheelspin.
Derived terms: blip out
blipper
cochlear implant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochlear implants
Senses: glosses: A surgically implanted electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
Synonyms: bionic ear
Bellard's formula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Discovered by Fabrice Bellard in 1997.
Senses: glosses: A formula used to calculate the nth digit of pi in base 2.
wikipedia: Fabrice Bellard
love life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love lives
Senses: examples: text: Marigold and Dale have a very active love life. I am encouraging them to invest in a new bedframe.
ref: 2015, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 2962: Daily Life:
text: William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana's Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: An individual's amorous or sexual relationships.
Related terms: love of one's life
sex life
brown eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown eyes
Senses: glosses: an eye of which the iris is brown
glosses: the anus
Arkhangelsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Арха́нгельск (Arxángelʹsk).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in northwestern Russia.
synonyms: Archangel
glosses: A city, the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, in northwestern Russia, on the White Sea.
poutine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːˈtiːn/
ipa: /puˈtin/
ipa: /puːˈtiːn/
ipa: /puːˈtɪn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: poutines
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
* from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.
glosses: A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
examples: text: In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.
glosses: Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
Derived terms: breakfast poutine
Italian poutine
pizza poutine
poutine pizza
poutinery
Related terms: poutinerie
disco fries
Rosicrucianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rosicrucianists
Etymology: From Rosicrucian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a member of any modern group or organization, e.g. Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (A.M.O.R.C.), formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
deleted scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deleted scenes
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A scene removed from, or replaced by another scene in, the final version of a motion picture or television program episode.
director's cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: director's cuts
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A specially edited version of a piece of media, especially a film, that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit of the media, and is released some time after the original release of the media.
greenscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenscreens
form: green screen
Etymology: From green + screen.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue.
glosses: The display of an IBM 3270 or similar monochrome monitor.
Synonyms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: bluescreen
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: blue screen
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: chromakey
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: chroma-key
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: chroma key
greenscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: greenscreens
form: greenscreening
form: greenscreened
form: greenscreened
form: green screen
Etymology: From green + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Chroma-keying, often called "bluescreening" or "greenscreening", is the process of filming actors, set pieces, and other foreground elements in front of a large solid green or blue-colored screen.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), RD King, Web Video Tips:
glosses: To film a subject in front of a greenscreen.
examples: text: In this tutorial I will be showing you how to do greenscreening in Blender’s Compositor.
ref: 2012 December 26, blendercrazy, “VIDEO: Greenscreening in Blender”, in blenderartists.org:
text: Fünke shows off an action-packed highlight clip addressed to Howard that emphasizes his imagined versatility, greenscreening him into scenes where he’s being fired out of a cannon, brandishing dual assault rifles, ineptly playing pick-up football, going Western as a cowboy sheriff and riding a tiger – all set to an aggressive dubstep soundtrack.
ref: 2013 May 15, RJ Cubarrubia, “Tobias Funke’s ‘Arrested Development’ Sizzle Reel”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Baum makes short and long-form videos showcasing striking and intricate visual effects—like greenscreening himself walking the plank off a skyscraper, editing his friend to look like he’s flying through the clouds, or making an illusion of the “world’s largest tape measure.”
ref: 2022 November 8, Grace Stanley, “Visual effects creator Brandon Baum shares advice for crafting a personal video style”, in The Daily Dot:
glosses: To remove the background from a video and replace it with a different image or scene; to composite.
copy and paste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copies and pastes
form: copying and pasting
form: copied and pasted
form: copied and pasted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of copy-paste.
copy and paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy and pastes
Senses: examples: text: Note that the console listings are straight copy and pastes from the machines used to actually run this exploit—you see exactly what I saw while I ran it.
ref: 2010, Ryan Trost, Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
text: The log should include links, screenshots, or copy and pastes of the specific commands you ran as well as a short explanation for why you did this.
ref: 2015, Megan Squire, Clean Data: Save Time by Discovering Effortless Strategies for Cleaning, Organizing, and Manipulating Your Data (Community Experience Distilled), Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 4:
text: One of the concerns I had when considering adopting PeerWise was in relation to students doing a copy and paste of questions and not creating their own.
ref: 2019, Suzanne Fergus, “Using PeerWise to support the transition to higher education”, in Michael K. Seery, Claire Mc Donnell, editors, Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton, Creathach Press, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: Alternative form of copy-paste.
copy-and-paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy-and-pastes
Senses: examples: text: We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move.
ref: 2008, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 1493:
text: I am not arguing for a copy-and-paste of Orkney future-making practices to urban centers of design and innovation.
ref: 2014, Laura Watts, “Liminal Futures: Poem for Islands at the Edge”, in James Leach, Lee Wilson, editors, Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 34:
text: The KPA’s works were beyond copy-and-pastes of the Soviet works.
ref: 2018, Youngjun Kim, Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War (Cold War History), Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of copy-paste.
copy-and-paste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copy-and-pastes
form: copies-and-pastes
form: copy-and-pasting
form: copying-and-pasting
form: copy-and-pasted
form: copy-and-pasted
form: copied-and-pasted
form: copied-and-pasted
Senses: examples: text: Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette.
ref: 1997, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Photoshop 4 for Macintosh, Peachpit, →ISBN, page 265:
text: But instead of designing new work for this new offering, Hirst, do-nothing artist of our time, simply copy-and-pasted his old stuff.
ref: 2013 October 4, Mallika Rao, “Damien Hirst's Children's Book, Reviewed By A Six-Year-Old Painter (PHOTOS)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
text: Even the very title of Proclamation No. 23/1992 was simply copy-and-pasted onto Proclamation No. 37/1993.
ref: 2014, Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R[ezene] Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea, James Currey, →ISBN, page 30:
text: I simply copy-and-pasted it from the original pilot-project article – the one I had turned over to Dr. Bhattacharya last fall because I could no longer bear looking at it.
ref: 2016, Kakali Bhattacharya, Norman K. Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative (Teaching Race and Ethnicity), Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 167:
text: Called in Japanese language “matome [meaning “compilation”] site”; it designates a round-up and add-up site which collects and “copy-and-pastes” information from other websites, SNS or anonymous textboards,.
ref: 2017, Yuriko Haga, “Right to be Forgotten: A New Privacy Right in the Era of Internet”, in Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick, Nikolaus Forgó, editors, New Technology, Big Data and the Law (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., →ISBN, part I (Purpose and Limitation), page 117:
text: Following his aim of linguistically adapting the quote to its new Young Avestan context, he replaced the Old Avestan stem drəguuaṇt- by its regular Young Avestan equivalent druuaṇt- and removed the characteristic Old Avestan final long vowels, which are usually maintained when an Old Avestan passage is simply ‘copy-and-pasted’ into a Young Avestan environment.
ref: 2022, Benedikt Peschl, The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā: The Avestan Text of Yasna 28–30 and Its Tradition, Brill, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: Alternative form of copy-paste.
choking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Forms: form: chokings
Etymology: By surface analysis, choke + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children.
ref: 1988, American Academy of Pediatrics, Policy Reference Guide, page 150:
text: The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons.
ref: 1998, Christina Elston, Safe and Secure: The Loving Parent's Guide to Child Safety, page 248:
text: Choking occurs when the respiratory passage in the throat or windpipe is blocked.
ref: 2001, Mayo Clinic Guide to Self-care, page 4:
glosses: The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
examples: text: Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings.
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, page 98:
text: The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time.
ref: 1848, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Domett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences, page 40:
text: "I applied,” says he in his first memoir, “a large plate of copper upon the pit of the stomach and a ring of the same metal around each limb: and in three or four minutes the chokings, palpitations, and vomitings ceased.
ref: 1853, The Zoist, page 127:
glosses: The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
examples: text: She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered.
ref: 1966, Reports of Cases in Law and Equity Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, page 933:
text: This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women.
ref: 1972, Burton M. Atkins, Henry R. Glick, Prisons, Protest, and Politics, page 52:
text: Judges should not decide which police chokings are acceptable, and which are not, based on Orwellian newspeak.
ref: 2016, California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs:
glosses: The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
examples: text: This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:
glosses: The result of something being choked.
Derived terms: choking game
choking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃəʊkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃoʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, choke + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of choke
LXX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Medieval Latin LXX, a calque of Koine Greek οἱ Ο′ (hoi O′, “the 70”), used as an abbreviated title for the Septuagint, q.v.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Septuagint.
roughshod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌfʃɒd/
ipa: /ˈɹʌfʃɑd/
Etymology: From rough + shod.
Senses: examples: text: The horses fell down three times, the roads being slippery, and we walked three miles to Linlithgow. There we waited two hours, to have the fresh horses roughshod.
ref: 1814 November 10, Miss Berry [Mary Berry], edited by Lady [Maria] Theresa Lewis, Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the year 1783 to 1852. … In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1865, →OCLC, page 36:
text: Those who have followed a French army well know that their horses are always rough-shod. [...] Horses can bear cold when properly fed, and if they had not been rough-shod there were farriers attached to the army.
ref: 1875, C. Joyneville [pseudonym; Catherine Laura Johnstone], “The French Retreat and the Russian Pursuit”, in Life and Times of Alexander I. Emperor of All the Russias. … In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, 8, Catherine Street, Strand, →OCLC, page 227:
text: A horse is roughshod when the nails are left protruding out of its shoes so that the animal does not slip and fall. Consequently, being ridden over by a roughshod horse would be quite agonizing.
ref: 1996, Sandra L. Olsen, “Introduction”, in Sandra L. Olsen, editor, Horses through Time, Boulder, Colo.: Roberts Rinehart Publishers for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: Of a horse: having hooves shod with horseshoes that have calks or projecting parts to prevent slipping.
examples: text: She proved to be completely defenseless against her husband, both because of her own culture that demanded abject submission to the male, and because of her fearful reaction to his roughshod behavior toward her.
ref: 1995, Leanne Payne, “Matthew's Story: Identity Crisis”, in The Broken Image: Restoring Personal Wholeness through Healing Prayer, Hamewith Books, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 36:
text: In the roughshod horny world of boys, I had studied my companions closely to make sure that I wasn't being too "queer" for them.
ref: 2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in The New Yorker, volume 81, New York, N.Y.: F-R Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 120:
text: A story about the way he handled a threatened strike at his Hawthorne track was indicative of the roughshod way he did business. He invited four strike negotiators to his office, where he dealt a knockout blow to each, laying them out unconscious on the floor. Then he went outside and announced that the pending strike was off.
ref: 2010, Maryjean Wall, “Old Money Meets the Arrivistes”, in How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Brutal or domineering.
Derived terms: ride roughshod over
run roughshod over
Related terms: reshod
slipshod
unshod
cleat
crampon
Japonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Japonian
form: most Japonian
Etymology: From Japon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: This appeared at Frenoiama, a famous Vniuerſitie of thoſe Bonzij, nine miles from Meaco, wherein eight hundred yeares paſt, a Iaponian King had erected three thouſand and eight hundred Temples, with houſes adioined for the Bonzij: […]
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 443:
text: Induſtrious of the needle and the chart / They run full ſail to their Japponian Mart: […]
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “The Second Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 64:
text: After his death the Japonian Army withdrew from Coria.
ref: 1738, Curious Relations: or, The Entertaining Correspondent […], volume II, London: […] [F]or G. Smith, […] and sold by T[homas] Cooper, […], page 278; quoted in “† Japo·nian, a. and sb.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 553, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of Japanese (“of or relating to Japan”).
synonyms: word: Japanese
extra: of or relating to Japan
Japonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japonians
Etymology: From Japon + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ſayd gunnes beeing able to hurt but a ſmall diſtance off, and the Iaponians being furniſhed with bꝛazen oꝛdinance vnknowen vnto the Corayans, they pꝛeſently dꝛaue them from their walles, […]
ref: 1600, Richard Hakluyt, “The Second Testimonie Containing the Huge Leuies and Preparations of Quabacondono, […]”, in The Third and Last Volume of the Voyages, Nauigations, Traffiques, and Discoueries of the English Nation, […], 2nd edition, London: […] George Bishop, Ralfe Newberie, and Robert Barker, →OCLC, page 857:
text: And the Iaponians, are longer liv’d, than the Chineſes; […]
ref: 1638, Francis [Bacon], translated by W[illiam] R[awley], “Length and Shortnesse of Life in Man. The Historie.”, in History Naturall and Experimentall, of Life and Death. Or Of the Prolongation of Life. […], London: […] Iohn Haviland for William Lee, and Humphrey Mosley, →OCLC, paragraph 25, page 141:
text: His Neighbours ſlight him, and there’s not a Man, / But looks as ſtrange, as a Japonian.
ref: 1679, [Charles Cotton], The Confinement. A Poem, […], London: […] [F]or C. C. […] by J. C., →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Synonym of Japanese (“a native or inhabitant of Japan”).
synonyms: word: Japanese
extra: a native or inhabitant of Japan
lenns
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Giv'is back me kets man, that's propa lenns that is!
glosses: unfair
Synonyms: word: shan
word: unfair
word: unjust
Lindenbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lindenbaums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lindenbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
halla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallas
form: hallot
form: halloth
form: hallos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of challah.
weddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding
weddings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wedding
athel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/
/ˈeɪθəl/
Forms: form: more athel
form: most athel
form: athil
form: athill
form: aethel
form: æthel
form: ethel
Etymology: From Middle English athel, ethel, hathel (“noble; nobleman, hero”), from Old English æþele (“noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *aþal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz, *aþaljaz, *aþiluz (“noble, of noble birth”), from *aþalą (“nature; nobility”).
Cognates
Akin to Saterland Frisian eedel (“noble”), Oadel (“nobility”), West Frisian eal (“noble”), Dutch adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), German Adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), Yiddish אַדל (adl, “nobility”), איידל (eydl, “noble”), Elfdalian aðel (“noble; nobility”), Faroese aðal (“noble; nobility”), Icelandic aðal (“speciality, hallmark, characteristic”), aðall (“nobility”). Middle English form hathel due to conflation with Old English hæleþ (“hero”). See heleth.
Senses: glosses: noble, highborn
glosses: excellent, splendid, fine
glosses: genuine, sincere, devout
athel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/
/ˈeɪθəl/
Forms: form: athels
form: athil
form: athill
form: aethel
form: æthel
form: ethel
Etymology: From Middle English athel, ethel, hathel (“noble; nobleman, hero”), from Old English æþele (“noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *aþal, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz, *aþaljaz, *aþiluz (“noble, of noble birth”), from *aþalą (“nature; nobility”).
Cognates
Akin to Saterland Frisian eedel (“noble”), Oadel (“nobility”), West Frisian eal (“noble”), Dutch adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), German Adel (“nobility”), edel (“noble”), Yiddish אַדל (adl, “nobility”), איידל (eydl, “noble”), Elfdalian aðel (“noble; nobility”), Faroese aðal (“noble; nobility”), Icelandic aðal (“speciality, hallmark, characteristic”), aðall (“nobility”). Middle English form hathel due to conflation with Old English hæleþ (“hero”). See heleth.
Senses: examples: text: To tell of his deir weid war doutles delite,
 And alse ter for to tell the travalis war tight.
 His name and his nobillay wes noght for to nyte;
 Thair wes na hathill sa heich, be half ane fute hicht.
ref: 1508, Golagros and Gawane:
text: Proclamation in that place,
 was plainely declared,
 That every hatell should him hie,
 in hast that he might,
 To Bolton in Geldowre,
 all in godly haste.
ref: c. 1515, The Scottish Field:
glosses: A chief or lord.
Derived terms: atheldom
atheling
Ethelwolf
athel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæθəl/
/ˈeɪθəl/
Forms: form: athels
form: athil
form: athill
form: aethel
form: æthel
form: ethel
Etymology: From Arabic أَثَل (ʔaṯal).
Senses: glosses: A kind of tamarisk native to northern Africa and the Middle East, Tamarix aphylla, planted widely elsewhere as a shade tree and a windbreak due to its tolerance of heat and of alkaline soils, but tending to become invasive outside of its native range.
sloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɑθs/
rhymes: -ɑθs
Senses: glosses: plural of sloth
cooking with gas
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: cooking on gas
Etymology: From the suggestion, heavily advertised in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stoves using natural gas as a fuel cook more effectively than, for instance, wood-burning or electric stoves.
Senses: examples: text: She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.'
The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. That's good,' he said. 'Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn't think you could. But you can, can't you? You're cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?'
ref: 1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral (short story)
text: With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time.
glosses: Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.
Related terms: now you're cooking
now you're cooking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: Alice: "Why are you still using that old software? You should try out the new version."
Bob: "Hey, this is really nice; much better than that crusty stuff we were using before."
Alice: "Now you're cooking!"
glosses: A phrase, often given in response, meaning that the subject has switched to a more suitable or more efficient approach.
Related terms: cooking with gas
now you're talking
confidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kənˈfaɪdəbəl/
Forms: form: more confidable
form: most confidable
Etymology: From confide + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information.
glosses: Able to keep silent concerning other's secrets, or private information.
now you're talking
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: Alice: "I think we should stop coding and go grab a couple of pints."
Bob: "Now you're talking!"
glosses: A phrase indicating agreement with a previously stated suggestion to change a course of action.
Related terms: now you're cooking
now that's what I'm talking about
domineer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːm.ɪnˌɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: domineers
form: domineering
form: domineered
form: domineered
Etymology: From Dutch domineren, from Middle French dominer.
Senses: glosses: To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize.
Derived terms: domineerer
piss like a racehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses like a racehorse
form: pissing like a racehorse
form: pissed like a racehorse
form: pissed like a racehorse
Etymology: An emphatic form of the earlier expression piss like a horse, due to the great volume of urine produced by horses every four hours or so.
Senses: examples: text: Pull over as soon as you can. I need to piss like a racehorse!
synonyms: piss like a horse
piss like a Russian racehorse
glosses: To urinate profusely, especially in reference to a profound need to do so.
Hypernyms: urinate
Related terms: word: horse piss
word: work like a horse
word: eat like a horse
english: to urinate, used of horses and cattle
translation: to urinate, used of horses and cattle
word: stale
word: my back teeth are floating
Judahite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.də.aɪt/
Forms: form: Judahites
Etymology: From Judah + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A descendant of Judah (the patriarch).
glosses: A descendant or member of the tribe of Judah.
glosses: An inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.
Judahite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.də.aɪt/
Etymology: From Judah + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Judah (the patriarch), to the tribe of Judah, or to the ancient kingdom of Judah, or its inhabitants.
Related terms: word: Abraham
word: Isaac
word: and Jacob
sense: descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel
alt: Asherite
word: Asher
alt: Benjaminite
word: Benjamin
alt: Danite
word: Dan
alt: Gadite
word: Gad
alt: Issacharite
word: Issachar
alt: Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)
word: Joseph
alt: Judahite
word: Judah
alt: Levite
word: Levi
alt: Naphtalite
word: Naphtali
alt: Reubenite
word: Reuben
alt: Simeonite
word: Simeon
alt: Zebulunite
word: Zebulun
word: Israel
word: Israeli
word: Israelite
word: Israelitic
word: Israelitish
word: Jew
word: Jewish
word: Judah
word: Judean
hokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊki/
rhymes: -əʊki
ipa: /ˈhoʊki/
Forms: form: hokier
form: hokiest
form: hokie
form: hoaky
form: hoky
Etymology: From the verb hoke (“to give an artificial feel to”), from hokum.
Senses: examples: text: When asked for his book report, Chad came up with a series of hokier and hokier excuses.
text: I thought the windshield wiper blades were a little hokey when I saw their cheap packaging.
glosses: Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.
examples: text: Terry hated going to the cinema with Pat; she always chose hokey romantic comedies that made him want to gag.
text: After the chant, we bowed our heads and closed our eyes, as Bob administered the recitation, part prayer and part affirmation—an ever-changing hokey thing that he improvised on the spot.
ref: 2018, Ling Ma, chapter 4, in Severance, →ISBN:
synonyms: cheesy
kitschy
glosses: Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental.
Derived terms: hokeyness
Related terms: hokiness
hoke
hokum
Hokey Cokey
hokeypokey
hokey-tokey
Judea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuˈdeɪ.ə/
ipa: /d͡ʒuˈdiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Judæa
form: Judaea
Etymology: From Latin Iūdaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá).
Senses: examples: text: In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Maccabees 1:10:
glosses: Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.
Derived terms: balm of Judea
balsam of Judea
bitumen of Judea
Judayah
Judean
silver dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver dollars
Senses: examples: text: In Las Vegas, many of the slot machines use silver dollars.
text: And the road goes on forever / And I've got one more silver dollar / But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no
ref: 1970, “Midnight Rider”, performed by The Allman Brothers Band:
glosses: A dollar coin, whether made from silver or not.
examples: text: Alice went to the diner and ordered a stack of silver dollars with butter and blueberry syrup.
glosses: A small pancake.
glosses: Several species of tropical freshwater fish of the genus Metynnis, of the family Characidae or Serrasalmidae, of which Metynnis argenteus is one; popular for aquariums; so named from their shape and flashing silver color.
Hyponyms: english: quarter clipped silver dollar
translation: quarter clipped silver dollar
word: macaroni
silver dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver dollar
beg off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begs off
form: begging off
form: begged off
form: begged off
Etymology: beg + off
Senses: examples: text: I wonder if I can beg off going to the meeting that day, since it will take me an extra two hours out of my way.
text: That's an issue that I have not discussed with the legal people. I don't know what authority we have to prevent insurance companies from setting criteria for those people that they would insure. Whether that rests with us or with the Commissioner of Insurance, I don't know. I'm going to have to beg off that question.
ref: 1985 December 7, Christine Guilfoy, Bailus Walker, “Quarantine Is No Way To Fight AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 8:
glosses: To obtain somebody's permission to skip or cancel an event that one has previously arranged with them.
Synonyms: cry off
medina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdiːnə/
Forms: form: medinas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَدِينَة (madīna, “town, city”).
Senses: examples: text: Although Hicham usually worked in the new town, he still lived in the medina.
glosses: The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town.
Related terms: Medina
scribacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more scribacious
form: most scribacious
form: scribaceous
form: scribatious
Etymology: Blend of scribe + loquacious.
Senses: examples: text: VVe have ſome Letters of Popes, (though not many; for Popes vvere then not very ſcribacious, or not ſo pragmatical;[…])
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: Prone to excessive writing.
world religion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world religions
Senses: examples: text: Christianity is a world religion consisting of Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestants.
text: It is seen that religious evolution through the ages has been practically One thing - that there has been in fact a World-religion, though with various phases and branches.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 16:
text: While vast barriers may seem to stretch between a local, single-focus contention of pseudoscience and something like a world religion, the partitions are very thin.
ref: 1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations.
prostration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹɒsˈtɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: prostrations
Etymology: From Latin prōstrātiō, from prōstrātus, past participle of prōsternō.
Senses: glosses: The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility.
examples: text: The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. — Diocese of Rochester, NY
glosses: A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God.
glosses: The state of lying face down (prone).
examples: text: I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
examples: text: Their faith can be seen in their mannerisms on the pitch – cupping hands in silent pre-kick-off prayer or prostration after hitting the back of the net.
ref: 2018 March 1, Tusdiq Din, “Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool Striker’s Success Improving Engagement with Muslim Fans?”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: sujud
glosses: A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
Derived terms: heat prostration
nervous prostration
falling out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallings out
form: falling outs
form: falling-out
Senses: examples: text: Since the falling out with his neighbor, they have kept their distance.
glosses: A rift between people or groups, often following a disagreement or quarrel
glosses: A culture-bound syndrome primarily reported in the southern United States and the Caribbean, described as a constricted consciousness as a psychological response to anxiety and stress.
falling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falling-out
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fall out
silverback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverbacks
Etymology: From silver + back.
Senses: examples: text: To be clear, there’s no reason to hate the actual Harambe. After the silverback gorilla was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016, people used “RIP Harambe” to… comment on the irony of why we mourn animals but are quick to blame humans?
ref: 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
topics: biology
mammalogy
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: blackback
glosses: A mature male gorilla leading a troop, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
examples: text: Courageously (given Ranger's status in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and his status as a silverback in North Atlantic Academe), Kriger dissents from their arguments.
ref: 2001, Peter Burke, New Perspectives on Historical Writing, page 145:
text: "Have you met Professor Dolan, Bishop Blackie?" an Asian child with a beatifically innocent face asked me. "Is he that skinny silverback ape down on the first floor?"
ref: 2003, Andrew W. Greeley, The Bishop goes to the University, page 121:
text: "That's peanuts. I'm talking about real money," replied [Senator] Ted [Kennedy], who in fact had no idea how much the developer would pay, as that detail had yet to be worked out. / "What are your other main reasons?" Liedell asked, persisting with the old silverback.
ref: 2008, Wendy Williams, Robert Whitcomb, Cape Wind: Celebrity, Energy, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future, page 127:
text: There's a story I've been told several times of a dinner at London's Balthazar several years ago, at which assembled guests fell silent as Larry Gagosian—by pretty much any estimation the presiding silverback of the art market—visibly choked on his food.
ref: 2025 June 14, Orlando Whitfield, “How to survive a gallery dinner (and not embarrass yourself)”, in FT Weekend, Collecting, page 10:
glosses: A dominant or powerful older human male.
glosses: Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.
Related terms: silver fox
Oregon grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: holly-leaved barberry
blue barberry, holly barberry, holly mahonia, mountain-grape
glosses: An evergreen shrub (Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium) native to the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, having broadly serrated, glossy leaves and clusters of yellow flowers that develop into dark bluish-purple fruits.
glosses: Any of various related shrubs of the now often deprecated genus Mahonia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Berberis nervosa
alt: syn. Mahonia nervosa
word: Cascade Oregon grape
taxonomic: Berberis repens
alt: syn. Mahonia repens
word: creeping Oregon grape
taxonomic: Berberis nervosa
alt: syn. Mahonia nervosa
word: dwarf Oregon grape
taxonomic: Berberis aquifolium
alt: syn. Mahonia aquifolium
word: tall Oregon grape
disloyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪsˈlɔɪ(j)əɫ]
Forms: form: more disloyal
form: most disloyal
Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial, equivalent to dis- + loyal.
Senses: examples: text: 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383,
Good your Grace, let not any light fancy, or bad Counsel of mine enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyall heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutifull Wife, and the Infant Princesse your daughter […]
text: […] Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: He told his mother he was glad to be back again. He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs. Erlich.
ref: 1923, Willa Cather, One of Ours, Book One, Chapter 15:
text: Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.
ref: 1998, Tawfiq al-Hakim, “My Donkey and Hypocrisy”, in William Maynard Hutchins, transl., In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, page 65:
text: “In my opinion, they want us to lose,” Mr. Trump said, accusing the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, and its secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, of being disloyal and trying to make life difficult for him.
ref: 2024 August 4, Neil Vigdor, “Trump Says Georgia’s Governor Is Hampering His Efforts to Win There”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Not loyal, without loyalty.
Synonyms: faithless
perfidious
treacherous
unfaithful
unloyal
recreant
Derived terms: disloyally
disloyalness
Related terms: disloyalty
loyal
percipience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪp.i.əns/
ipa: /pɚˈsɪp.i.əns/
rhymes: -ɪpiəns
Forms: form: percipiences
Etymology: From percipient, itself from the Latin percipiens, the past participle of percipere (“to perceive”).
Senses: glosses: perception
examples: text: She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles., archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
text: Percipience is sometimes increased, with individuals observing that they are more astute in judging people, in seeing patterns in data, or in reading “micro-expressions of people” and nonverbal interpersonal nuances (e.g., “I think everyone is a lot happier,” “I judge people’s body language more accurately”).
ref: 2014, Gordon Parker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
Derived terms: omnipercipience
pink snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink snappers
Etymology: From pink + snapper.
Senses: examples: text: These traps are used in southern Australia to take leatherjackets (Monocanthidae) in deeper waters of the continental shelf and pink snappers (Pagridae) and other bottom-dwelling fish in shallower waters.
ref: 2001, R. J. Slack-Smith, Fishing with Traps and Pots, Food and Agriculture Organization, page 33:
text: Like the dhufish, the pink snapper is high up on the list of popular species that anglers love to catch.
ref: 2006, Kurt Blanksby, Fishing Guide to Western Australia, Revised edition, page 52:
synonyms: Australasian snapper
pinky
snapper
schnapper
silver seabream
squirefish
glosses: The fish Chrysophrys auratus (or Pagrus auratus).
most significant byte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: most significant bytes
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance: that is, the byte stored first on a big-endian system or last on a little-endian system.