cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hark back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːkbæk/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹkˌbæk/
Forms: form: hark backs
form: hark-back
Etymology: From hark (“to listen attentively”) + back (“to or in a previous condition or place”, adverb), originally a hunting command to hounds meaning “Listen! Go back!”.
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of hark-back.
An act of hounds retracing a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey.
glosses: Alternative form of hark-back.
An act of alluding, returning, or reverting (to a subject previously mentioned, etc.); also, an act of evoking, or longing or pining for (a past era or event).
shake up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes up
form: shaking up
form: shook up
form: shaken up
Senses: examples: text: If you shake up a can of cola and then open it, you get an explosion.
glosses: To agitate by shaking.
glosses: To restore to its original shape by shaking.
examples: text: Seeing the car accident really shook her up.
glosses: To upset or distress (a person).
examples: text: The new boss is going to shake things up, so be aware.
glosses: To reorganize, to make reforms in.
pneumatometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatometers
Etymology: From pneumato- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the force of inspiration or expiration of a person's lungs.
Related terms: pneumatometric
pneumatometry
spirometer
postage meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postage meters
Senses: synonyms: franking machine
glosses: A machine used to print prepaid labels onto pieces of mail, and to record total postage charges.
pulsometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulsometers
Senses: glosses: A vacuum pump or hydrotrope.
pycnometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɪkˈnɒmɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pycnometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”). By surface analysis, pycno- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: As Galileo showed in his tract La Bilancetta, or “The Little Balance,” a scientist of Archimedes’ stature could have achieved a far more precise result using his own law of buoyancy and an accurate scale, something far more common in the ancient world than a very precise pycnometer, which is used to measure displacement.
ref: 2006 December 8, David Biello, “Fact or Fiction?: Archimedes Coined the Term ‘Eureka!’ in the Bath”, in Scientific American:
topics: metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: specific gravity bottle
glosses: A vessel of precisely known volume used by weighing to determine the specific gravity or relative density of a liquid.
Related terms: pycnometric
pycnometry
no pain, no gain
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: no pains, no gains
form: no gain without pain
Etymology: Came into prominence around 1982 through the American actress Jane Fonda's aerobic workout videos.
Senses: glosses: One must be willing to endure some inconvenience or discomfort in order to achieve worthwhile goals.
wikipedia: Jane Fonda
Synonyms: sense: one must endure inconvenience
word: nothing ventured, nothing gained
sense: one must endure inconvenience
word: no guts, no glory
Related terms: no money, no honey
no tickee, no washee
there's no such thing as a free lunch
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you don't get something for nothing
lawn-mower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawn-mowers
Senses: examples: text: Nature of rubbish, almost entirely small pieces of grass as found in the box of a lawn-mower
ref: 1864, The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine:
text: soft rains have teased the daffodils into blossom along the and this morning I heard the first clicking of a lawn-mower.
ref: 1871, The Century: A Popular Quarterly:
text: I left my lawn-mower out, on the lawn, uncovered
ref: 1991, Graham Greene, Travels With My Aunt:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lawnmower.
golf shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf shirts
Etymology: Sometimes worn by golfers.
Senses: glosses: A polo shirt.
polo-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊləʊ ˌnɛk/
ipa: /ˈpoʊloʊ ˌnɛk/
Forms: form: polo-necks
form: polo neck
Etymology: From polo (“ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent’s goal”) + neck.
Senses: synonyms: turtleneck
glosses: A high collar covering the neck.
synonyms: turtleneck
glosses: A light type of shirt with such a collar.
Derived terms: polo-necked
Related terms: polo shirt
polo neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polo necks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polo-neck.
wakeboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪkbɔɹdɪŋ/
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, attached by a cable.
Related terms: wakeboard
waterskiing
snowboarding
wakeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeboards
Etymology: From wake + board.
Senses: glosses: The board one stands on for wakeboarding.
Derived terms: wakeboard tower
wakeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wakeboards
form: wakeboarding
form: wakeboarded
form: wakeboarded
Etymology: From wake + board.
Senses: glosses: To take part in wakeboarding.
Derived terms: wakeboarder
wakeboarding
wakeboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeboarders
Etymology: From wakeboard + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who takes part in wakeboarding.
anticommunism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntɪˈkɒmjʊnɪzəm/
Forms: form: anticommunisms
form: anti-communism
form: anti-Communism
Etymology: From anti- + communism.
Senses: examples: text: In the main, anticommunism in postwar America meant opposition to the kind of dictatorial state socialism that existed in Russia and that many Americans saw as a negation of everything America stood for. In the 1946 campaign, for example, when I talked about the "communist-dominated PAC," my remarks were generally understood in this context of dictatorial socialism versus free enterprise.
ref: 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
glosses: Opposition to communism.
kitesurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kite surfing
Etymology: From kite + surfing.
Senses: glosses: A type of kiteboarding that happens in the water, where the rider is on a surfboard and is propelled by a power kite.
Synonyms: kiteboarding
kitesurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kite surfing
Etymology: From kite + surfing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kitesurf
kitesurf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kitesurfs
form: kitesurfing
form: kitesurfed
form: kitesurfed
Etymology: From kite + surf.
Senses: glosses: To take part in kitesurfing.
canoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈnuɪŋ/
Forms: form: canoeings
Etymology: From canoe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Their adventures are much more thrilling than your summer hikes and canoeings.
ref: 1920, Charles H. Schnapps, Archag, the Little Armenian, page xx:
glosses: A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.
topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: When a cigar, cigarette, or joint burns unevenly, burning more on one side.
Derived terms: cabrewing
canuding
canoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈnuɪŋ/
Etymology: From canoe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canoe
water polo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˈpəʊləʊ/
Senses: glosses: A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.
water sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water sports
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watersport.
purple heron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəl ˈhɛɹən/
ipa: /ˈpɝpəl ˈhɛɹən/
Forms: form: purple herons
Etymology: From purple and heron.
Senses: glosses: A wading bird, Ardea purpurea, having reddish-brown plumage and found throughout southern Europe and Asia.
Philippians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Phil.
word: Philipp.
glosses: The eleventh book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Philippians.
Philippians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philippian
Cuban red macaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cuban red macaws
Senses: glosses: A small parrot (†Ara tricolor), formerly found in Cuba, and extinct since the late nineteenth century.
great green macaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great green macaws
Senses: glosses: An endangered parrot, Ara ambiguus, found in Central America.
Newby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Newbys
Etymology: From new + -by. Meaning "new settlement".
Senses: glosses: A placename; any of several places:
A small village in Clapham cum Newby parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD7270).
glosses: A placename; any of several places:
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ5012).
glosses: A placename; any of several places:
A village in Newby and Scalby parish, North Yorkshire, previously in Scarborough district (OS grid ref TA0189).
glosses: An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from one of these places.
Derived terms: Clapham cum Newby
Newby and Scalby
Newby Bridge
Newby Wiske
mhw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mean high water.
inexperience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French inexpérience, from Late Latin inexperientia.
Senses: examples: text: I failed to get the job due to inexperience.
glosses: A lack of experience.
Derived terms: inexperienced
eclipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈklɪpsɪs/
Forms: form: eclipses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis, “disappearance, abandoning”). Doublet of eclipse.
Senses: glosses: An omission of words needed to fully express the sense of a phrase.
glosses: A line or dash used to show that text has been omitted.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: nasalization
qualifier: Manx grammar
glosses: A mutation of the initial sound of a word by which voiceless sounds become voiced, voiced stops become nasal consonants, and vowels acquire a prothetic nasal consonant: see Appendix:Irish mutations#Eclipsis.
Related terms: ecthlipsis
ellipsis
crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: crakes
form: Crake
Etymology: From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Crex egregia
word: African crake
taxonomic: Rallina canningi
word: Andaman crake
word: Ascension crake
word: ash-throated crake
taxonomic: Porzana pusilla
word: Baillon's crake
word: banded crake
word: black crake
taxonomic: Amaurornis akool
word: brown crake
taxonomic: Neocrex colombianus
word: Colombian crake
word: corncrake
word: corn crake
taxonomic: Crex crex
word: corn-crake
alt: as syn. of corncrake
word: cracker
taxonomic: Empetrum spp.
word: crakeberry
taxonomic: Porzana palmeri
word: Laysan crake
word: marsh crake
taxonomic: Micropygia schomburgkii
word: ocellated crake
taxonomic: Neocrex erythrops
word: paint-billed crake
word: slaty-legged crake
word: spotless crake (Zapornia tabuensis
taxonomic: Porzana porzana
word: spotted crake
taxonomic: Amaurolimnas concolor
word: uniform crake
alt: Porzana porzana; Cinclus spp.; Rallus aquaticus
word: water crake
crake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: crakes
form: craking
form: craked
form: craked
form: Crake
Etymology: From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂-, itself onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to crake . Crake, crake, with all its might.
ref: 1854 October, “MIDNIGHT IN JULY”, in The Kerry Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Antiquities, Polite Literature, Poetry, volume 1, number 10, page 159:
text: 'How very disagreeable!' said Annie; 'perhaps the birds took it in turn to crake.'
ref: 1872, Bertha E. Wright, Marvels from nature; or, A second visit to aunt Bessie, page 175:
text: Of course, a corncrake, as its name suggests, likes to crake among the corn and hayfields, so that in fact you are unlikely ever to confuse it with the spotted crake, a bird to which dry land is almost anathema.
ref: 1951, The Listener - Volume 46, page 90:
glosses: To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
crake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: crakes
form: craking
form: craked
form: craked
form: Crake
Etymology: From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.
Senses: examples: text: I hyred the to fyght agaynste Alexander, and not to crake and prate.
ref: 1526, The Hundred Merry Tales; Or, Shakespeare's Jest Book:
text: Each man may crake of that which was his own.
ref: 1559, The Mirror for Magistrates:
text: With him I threatned to be quite, and great things did I crake.
ref: 1600, Phaer's Virgil:
text: And he that thus doth shal have smal pleasure in his awn rightwysnes, nor no gret lust to crake of his awn deserts or meryts.
ref: 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical memorials:
glosses: To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
Derived terms: craker
crake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: crakes
form: Crake
Etymology: From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.
Senses: glosses: A crack; a boast.
dentalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentalia
form: dentaliums
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dentalium, from Latin dentālis (“dental”), dēns (“tooth”), Proto-Italic *dents and Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.
Senses: examples: text: Apart from the two or three bird masks, the only other zoomorphic mask was a wolf frontlet of cedar decorated in micaceous black paint with dentalium teeth, dentalium being an important form of wealth with some of the attributes of a currency.
ref: 1999, Jonathan C. H. King, First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America, page 138:
glosses: Any of various tooth shells of the genus Dentalium.
Related terms: Dentalium
tooth shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tooth shells
Senses: glosses: Any of various molluscs, of the class Scaphopoda, that have curved, tapering shells and a spade-like foot
Synonyms: tusk shell
fairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹɪŋ/
homophone: faring
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: fairings
Etymology: From fair (“community gathering, market”). In the sense of food, because cakes and sweets were sold at fairs.
Senses: examples: text: She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [translating Jahrmarkt].
ref: 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 28:
glosses: A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair.
glosses: A present, especially given by a lover.
glosses: Something that is deserved; one's deserts.
examples: text: […] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2:
glosses: A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut.
Derived terms: Cornish fairing
get one's fairing
fairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹɪŋ/
homophone: faring
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From fair (“to smoothen or even a surface”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fair
fairing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹɪŋ/
homophone: faring
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: fairings
Etymology: From fair (“to smoothen or even a surface”).
Senses: examples: text: The fairing over the driving motion of this engine, and of the 4-6-2s, was removed subsequently, to give greater accessibility to the working parts.
ref: 1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:
glosses: A covering on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that streamlines it (i.e., produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag).
fairings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairing
fairyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairylands
form: fairy land
form: fairy-land
Etymology: From fairy + land.
Senses: examples: text: These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46:
text: Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 74:
text: Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.
ref: 2004, Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland, Kessinger Publishing, page 174:
glosses: The land or abode of fairies.
examples: text: No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: After months of darkness, mud and shuttered shops, what a delight to see gay streets filled with stores, all gorgeous in a Christmas fairyland of decoration.
ref: 2005, A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital, page 63:
glosses: Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere.
Synonyms: dreamworld
Derived terms: fairylandish
fairyland
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fairy land
form: fairy-land
Etymology: From fairy + land.
Senses: examples: text: The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.
glosses: Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.
falconer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɔːk.nə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfælkənɚ/
Forms: form: falconers
Etymology: From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).
Senses: examples: text: And to add force to his remonstrances, he conferred a cuff or two on the negligent attendant of the hawks, who, shouting rather louder than was necessary under all the circumstances, brought the master falconer to his assistance.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.
glosses: One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Synonyms: hawker
Derived terms: underfalconer
Related terms: falconry
falconers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falconer
illusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːsɪv/
homophone: elusive
Forms: form: more illusive
form: most illusive
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin illūsīvus.
Senses: examples: text: Testing software completely is an illusive goal.
text: […] he could not catch the illusive thing that had sadly perplexed as well as elevated his spirit.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to an illusion
word: illusory
Derived terms: illusively
illusiveness
unillusive
ninnyism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninnyisms
Etymology: From ninny + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He wondered at his own degree of ninnyism. How severe was it? How incurable was it? Could a man walk through life in a constant readiness to duck?
ref: 1962, John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, first edition, page 56:
glosses: predisposition to act like a ninny
learns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of learn
dancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dancer
cables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cable
cables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cable
susurrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: susurrates
form: susurrating
form: susurrated
form: susurrated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin susurrō, susurrātus.
Senses: glosses: To whisper.
Derived terms: susurration
submitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səbmĭtʹ
ipa: /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [səbˈmɪɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submit
submitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: səbmĭtʹ
ipa: /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/
ipa: /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/
ipa: [səbˈmɪɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: submittings
Senses: examples: text: With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.
ref: 1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara, volume 2, page 268:
text: Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?
ref: 1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review:
glosses: A submission.
ripples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ripple
ripples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ripple
ambiguously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ambiguously
form: most ambiguously
Etymology: From ambiguous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ambiguous manner.
Derived terms: nonambiguously
ambivalently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ambivalently
form: most ambivalently
Etymology: From ambivalent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ito continues his self-reinventions. Each time his turn seems suited to the moment ambivalently, equal parts progressive and defeated, and perhaps each time, but certainly this time, the fault rests not with him but the political moment.
ref: 2016 November 22, William Harris, “The Many Self-Reinventions of Toyo Ito”, in 3:AM Magazine:
glosses: In an ambivalent manner.
amorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.mə.ɹəs.li/
Forms: form: more amorously
form: most amorously
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English amorously, amerously; equivalent to amorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A unique anti-aphrodisiac was the heart of a turtle carried in a wolf's skin. It prevented a person from ever being tempted amorously.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 238:
glosses: In an amorous or loving manner.
amusingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈm(j)uzɪŋli/
Forms: form: more amusingly
form: most amusingly
Etymology: From amusing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amusing manner.
amphibiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more amphibiously
form: most amphibiously
Etymology: From amphibious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an amphibian.
glosses: In an amphibious manner.
anachronistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˌnækɹəˈnɪstɪkli/
Forms: form: more anachronistically
form: most anachronistically
Etymology: From anachronistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anachronistic manner; in the manner of an anachronism.
alluringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈl(j)ʊɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: more alluringly
form: most alluringly
Etymology: From alluring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alluring manner.
alphanumerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌælfən(j)uˈmɛɹɪkli/
Forms: form: more alphanumerically
form: most alphanumerically
Etymology: From alphanumerical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alphanumeric / alphanumerical manner; using alphanumeric / alphanumerical characters.
glosses: In a manner that is in numeric / numerical, then alphabetic / alphabetical, order.
reflectometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectometers
Etymology: From reflect + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the reflectance of a surface.
Derived terms: time-domain reflectometer
Related terms: reflectometric
refractometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refractometers
Etymology: From refract + -o- + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An optical instrument used to measure the refractive index of a substance.
Derived terms: Abbe refractometer
Related terms: refractometric
refractometry
trunk calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunk call
stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stack
stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With that 70-1 shot winning the second leg, this pick 5 is going to pay stacks.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A large amount of money, especially winnings.
stacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stack
Newton's third law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: Newton's first law
Newton's second law
glosses: Newton's observation that to every action (force applied) there is an equal and opposite reaction (equal force applied in the opposite direction).
Related terms: law of nature
excipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excipients
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage.
glosses: An exceptor.
Related terms: concipient
incipient
intercipient
recipient
excipient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excipient
form: most excipient
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.
Senses: glosses: Taking an exception.
ribaldry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribaldries
Etymology: From Middle English ribaldrie, from Old French ribaulderie, ribauderie, equivalent to ribald + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.
ref: 1629, Fra[ncis] Lenton, “Section XIV. The Young Gallant’s Whirlgig.”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, an Ancient Interlude. […], London: […] Shakespeare Society, published 1846, →OCLC, page 129:
text: His jargon of slang was a continuous joy and surprise to them. His gestures, his strange poses, his frank ribaldry of tongue and principle fascinated them.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 175, column 1:
text: Sometimes these sagas and anecdotes are touched with ribaldry, or with excessive obscenity, according to the times, and sometimes they are rooted in obscure but still verifiable deistic concepts.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88:
text: I remember girls with men's muscles flinging fish baskets while they yelled ribaldries at each other, and fishermen strutting among them in their oilskins, too grand to be bothered with anyone but themselves.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Joking or humorous language or behaviour used in a vulgar or lewd fashion.
Related terms: ribald
Newton's first law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: Newton's second law
Newton's third law
glosses: The observation that objects in motion tend to stay in motion, and objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless an outside force acts upon them.
Related terms: law of nature
respirometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respirometers
Etymology: From respire + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the rate of respiration of living organisms, such as plants or fish.
glosses: An apparatus for supplying air to a diver under water.
Related terms: respirometric
respirometry
rheogoniometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheogoniometers
Etymology: From rheo- + goniometer.
Senses: glosses: A type of rheometer that can be used to measure the viscous and elastic flow properties of a fluid, commonly called a Weissenberg Rheogoniometer.
Related terms: rheogoniometric
rheogoniometry
rheometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheometers
Etymology: From rheo- + -meter
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the flow properties of fluids with variable viscosity.
glosses: A device used to measure the flow of electric current: an ammeter.
glosses: A flowmeter, especially for water or blood.
Related terms: rheogoniometer
rheology
rheometric
rheometry
stage name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage names
Senses: synonyms: word: screen name
topics: television
broadcasting
media
film
glosses: The pseudonym of an entertainer.
Coordinate terms: sense: pseudonym
word: nom de plume
sense: pseudonym
word: pen-name
anns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ann
sink hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sink holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sinkhole.
sink holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sink hole
shambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmblɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shamble
shambling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmblɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Forms: form: more shambling
form: most shambling
Senses: examples: text: moving with a shambling gait
text: a shambling giant of a man
text: If there was any magic in the video clips, it was a weak spell. Lurching between slow zooms and jerky cuts, these videos brought vaguely aspirational images to uneasy, shambling life: petals on a bathroom floor; animals lumbering through a dewy garden; an unmanned treadmill running in an otherwise empty penthouse suite.
ref: 2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Who walks while dragging or shuffling the feet.
shambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæmblɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmblɪŋ
Forms: form: shamblings
Senses: glosses: An awkward, irregular gait.
Related terms: shamble
shambles
euphoriant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juˈfɔɹi.ənt/
Forms: form: euphoriants
Senses: glosses: A drug, stimulus, or other agent that produces feelings of euphoria.
euphoriant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /juˈfɔɹi.ənt/
Senses: glosses: Producing euphoria.
re-dyeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of re-dye
harks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hark
harking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hark
harking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harkings
Senses: examples: text: Despite such harkings to the Old Muscovite past, the trappings of European life inevitably followed once the Russians began to live in European settings.
ref: 1998, W. Bruce Lincoln, Between Heaven and Hell:
glosses: The act of harking back; a reversion or return.
harked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hark
contemptuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛmp.tʃu.əs.li/
ipa: /kənˈtɛmp.tju.əs.li/
ipa: /kənˈtɛmp.t͡ʃu.əs.li/
Forms: form: more contemptuously
form: most contemptuously
Etymology: From contemptuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He argued with the judge contemptuously, showing no respect or remorse for his actions.
text: Ralph, who was a thickset clownish figure, arrived at his full strength, and conscious of the most complete personal superiority, laughed contemptuously at the threats of the slight-made stripling.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 146:
text: 'They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.
ref: 1867, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Oliver Twist:
text: A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: He snapped his fingers contemptuously at the alarm clock. "I fear thee not, thou ticking tyrant."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 29:
text: Under the statute an individual who "publicly mutilates, tramples upon, defaces or treats contemptuously the flag of the United States[…]" was subject to criminal liability.
ref: 1986, Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure, volume 3, page 36:
text: The girl looked at Onisi contemptuously, then laughed jeeringly. He was then six years old and didn't know how to speak in English so he couldn't understand what she was saying but he sensed that it was derogatory.
ref: 1994, Joseph Veramo, Moving through the Streets: A Novel, page 39:
glosses: In a disrespectful or discourteous manner; condescendingly.
Synonyms: sense: in a disrespectful manner
word: condescendingly
sense: in a disrespectful manner
word: disdainfully
sense: in a disrespectful manner
word: disrespectfully
Related terms: contempt
contemptuous
measurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of measurement
sporks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spork
cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑzməˈpɑlɪtənɪzm̩/
Forms: form: cosmopolitanisms
Etymology: From cosmopolitan + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The philosophy of cosmopolitanism underlies theories of global citizenship. Cosmopolitanism is the ability to balance a local and global identity. A cosmopolitan individual engages meaningfully with different cultures and feels at home in the world.
ref: 2013 November 25, Caroline Ferguson, “What kind of global citizens are teachers creating?”, in The Guardian:
text: To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical.
ref: 2014 October, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, “World anthropologies. Anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics.”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 43:
antonyms: tribalism
nativism
glosses: The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
synonyms: cosmopolitanness
glosses: The quality of being cosmopolitan.
Related terms: cosmopolitanist
cosmopolitanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmopolitanism
bitch slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitch slaps
Senses: examples: text: Amanda’s remedy refrain, “just go out and meet someone new,” struck Frank like a bitch slap, even though she knew her sister meant no harm.
ref: 2000, Valerie Frankel, Smart Vs. Pretty, HarperCollins, pages 3–4
text: The Lie: “I was only out drinking with my best friend, Betty.” / Translation: “I bought my best friend, Betty, drinks while I was on my needs in the back room.” […] / Response: Your patented bitch slap. After all, how fucking stupid does he think you are?
ref: 2003, Joel Perry, That’s Why They’re in Cages, People!, Alyson Publishing, page 38
text: Top this all off with an occasional bitch slap or ass-chewing and you’ve got yourself a real recipe for breaking even the strongest spirit.
ref: 2006, Will Clarke, The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story, Simon and Schuster, page 132
glosses: An open-handed slap to the face.
Derived terms: benchslap
Hitchslap
bitch slap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitch slaps
form: bitch slapping
form: bitch slapped
form: bitch slapped
Senses: examples: text: “Maybe next time we just open the door and start out with some bitch slapping.” ¶ I gave Lula a horrified stare. ¶ “Just a suggestion,” Lula said.
ref: 1997, Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly, Scribner, page 16
text: Van had to resist the urge to bitch slap him, and said instead, “I know you are, but what about me?”
ref: 2002, Richard D. Ward, Metamorphosis in Blue, Trafford Publishing, page 50
text: Things are a little better when Doris ends up spending her “honeymoon” night in the tub with the sprinklers going off, and there is a genuinely amusing catfight between Ethel and Marcia in which Doris actually—there’s no other phrase for it—bitch slaps Marcia; it’s funny because Marcia is a loser, a whiny, imperious daddy’s girl, and worth neither Ethel’s time nor Winthrop’s attention.
ref: 2007, Tom Santopietro, Considering Doris Day, St. Martin's Press, page 72
glosses: Alternative spelling of bitch-slap.
Synonyms: pimp slap
homosexualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homosexual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: If we take the case of the person with the genitalia of one sex who nevertheless tries to imitate the sexual behavior of the opposite sex, we come upon the fairly frequent phenomenon of homosexualism, […]
ref: 1949, George Kingsley Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort:
text: Similar behavior is noted in unconscious homosexualism. The nearness of a person of the same sex may cause anxiety. This is guarded against by taking precautions that the body is not touched in any way suggestive of familiarity.
ref: 1953, Ellis Arthur Stephens, Lawless youth:
text: He was also a secret preacher of homosexualism; throughout his long literary career he, from time to time, as opportunities presented themselves, made subtle and votive references to homosexual orientation in his creative works.
ref: 2007, Sunil Kumar Sarker, A Companion to E. M. Forster, volume 1, page 145:
glosses: Homosexuality, the state of being homosexual.
examples: text: I agree with Christopher Wolfe's assessment of the social danger of the ideology of homosexualism : "The most significant harm of legitimizing active homosexuality — the way it would harm the family most — would be the educative[…]
ref: 2000, Christopher Wolfe, Same-sex Matters: The Challenge of Homosexuality, Spence Pub:
text: The Church is mounting an antimodernist defense against the assault from the Western “ideology of homosexualism” (sic) whereby the issue is being relocated from the field of human rights to the sphere of moralism.
ref: 2015 August 26, Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays and Governments, BRILL, →ISBN, page 56:
text: This probably reflects the platform's eager support for homosexualism (“gay rights”), since the statistics compiled by the U.S. Government itself have shown that it is male homosexuals who are the group most afflicted by HIV/AIDS.182[…]
ref: 2017 September 26, Stephen M. Krason, Catholicism and American Political Ideologies: Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Unlike the Libertine, who has no coherent philosophy, the Progressive in usually in the thrall of a rigid, comprehensive, sociopolitical ideology. Marxism, feminism, homosexualism, and environmentalism are the most common.
ref: 2018 April 24, Paul Gottfried, Theologies and Moral Concern, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: gayism
coordinate_terms: transgenderism
glosses: A purported ideology behind (and promoting) homosexuality; gayness viewed as an ideology rather than a sexual orientation.
Synonyms: gayness
homosexuality
Hyponyms: english: applied only to women
translation: applied only to women
word: lesbianism
Coordinate terms: heterosexualism
heterosexuality
Derived terms: anti-homosexualism
banhus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banhu
the long and short
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the long and the short
Senses: examples: text: The speech went on for hours, but the long and short of it is that not much has changed since last year.
text: Shepard: What's your relationship with Cerberus?
Zaeed: Easy. Cerberus is paying me a lot of money to help you on your mission. That's the long and short.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega:
text: NR explained: "The long and short of it is that there is too much concern that the timetable wouldn't work in practice.
ref: 2024 May 1, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Pathing issues see NR ditch ECML December timetable”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 7:
glosses: The gist; the essence or substance; the most important or salient features.
raw_tags: followed by of
Synonyms: digest
summary
upshot
Related terms: in a nutshell
long story short
chaogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chaogenous
form: most chaogenous
Etymology: From chao- + -genous.
Senses: examples: text: And after a time, the boiling sea of blood and all the lopped and all the hacked-up humanity that swam within it drained from mah head, and from it rose a pillar of chaogenous calculus, cold and hard.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
glosses: That which is born from chaos.
espalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈspalɪə/
ipa: /-ˈpæl.i.eɪ/
ipa: /ɛs-/
ipa: /ɪˈspæl.jɚ/
ipa: /-jeɪ/
ipa: /ɛsˈpæl-/
Forms: form: espaliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French espalier, from Italian spalliera, from spalla (“shoulder”).
Senses: examples: text: The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 223:
glosses: A latticework used to shape or train the branches of a tree or shrub into a two-dimensional ornamental or useful design, as along a wall or fence.
examples: text: It is on this rocky surface that one finds many of the growth forms associated with extreme life conditions: polsters, mat plants, espaliers.
ref: 1915 April, F. J. Smiley, “The alpine and subapline vegetation of the Lake Tahoe region”, in Botanical Gazette, volume 59, page 265:
glosses: A plant that has been shaped in this manner.
glosses: A row of plants that have been shaped in this manner.
espalier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈspalɪə/
ipa: /-ˈpæl.i.eɪ/
ipa: /ɛs-/
ipa: /ɪˈspæl.jɚ/
ipa: /-jeɪ/
ipa: /ɛsˈpæl-/
Forms: form: espaliers
form: espaliering
form: espaliered
form: espaliered
Etymology: Borrowed from French espalier, from Italian spalliera, from spalla (“shoulder”).
Senses: glosses: To train a plant in this manner.
Related terms: arborsculpture
bonsai
topiary
saccharimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharimeters
Senses: glosses: A polarimeter used to measure the sugar content of a liquid.
Related terms: saccharimetric
saccharimetry
saccharometer
saccharometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharometers
Etymology: From saccharo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A hydrometer used to measure the sugar content of a liquid.
Related terms: saccharimeter
saccharometry
salimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salimeters
Senses: glosses: A hydrometer used to measure the concentration of salt in a solution.
Synonyms: salinometer
salometer
saltometer
Related terms: salimetric
salimetry
salinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salinometers
Etymology: From saline + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A salimeter.
salometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salometers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salimeter.
sclerometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerometers
Etymology: From sclero- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the hardness of a material by applying pressure to a moving diamond stylus.
Related terms: sclerometric
sclerometry
seismometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismometers
form: seismometre
Etymology: From seismo- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the Hebgen Lake quake and the other known risks, Yellowstone didn't get permanent seismometers until the 1970s.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 205:
text: Researchers monitor the volcano through instruments and cables that extend from the coast. Among them are seismometers, which provide real-time data on the earthquakes occurring near the volcano, Chadwick said.
ref: 2025 August 20, Julia Jacobo, “Mile-deep underwater volcano off West Coast could erupt soon, scientists say”, in ABC News:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used by seismologists to detect and measure seismic waves and therefore locate earthquakes etc; a seismograph.
Related terms: seismometric
seismometry