cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Cameroun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former French and British territory in Central Africa, occupying the area of the modern-day country of Cameroon.
sussuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of susurration.
fishery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃəɹi/
Forms: form: fisheries
Etymology: From fish + -ery.
Senses: glosses: Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
examples: text: the collapse of the fisheries
text: While the present conservation of Maryland fisheries is largely concerned with the oyster, which promises such great future returns, the foodfishes should not be neglected.
ref: 1904, “Report of the Conservation commission of Maryland for 1908-1909”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 3:
text: This fishery, which at its peak produced more than 80,000 tons a year, is now in decline.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A place related to fishing
A place where fish or other seafood are caught: a fishing ground (for example, a territorial one).
glosses: A place related to fishing
A place where fish or other seafood are raised: a fish farm.
glosses: A place related to fishing
A place where fish or other seafood are processed: a seafood factory.
glosses: A right to fish in a particular location, such as territorial fishing waters.
glosses: A fishing company.
Synonyms: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
word: fishing
sense: place to capture fish
word: fishing ground
sense: place to capture fish
word: fishing space
sense: place to capture fish
word: piscary
sense: place to raise fish
word: fish farm
sense: right to capture fish
word: fishing right
sense: right to capture fish
word: piscary
sense: right to capture fish
word: piscage
Derived terms: codfishery
crayfishery
goldfishery
nonfishery
several fishery
shellfishery
silvofishery
sportfishery
swordfishery
strongback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongbacks
Etymology: From strong + back.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The fore-and-aft spar extending from stem to stern on a lifeboat and serving as a raised spreader for a boat cover. (FM 55-501)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong bar placed across a hatch opening to hold hatch boards or hatch covers. (FM 55-501)
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A load-bearing post with a T-shaped cross-section, where the short T-tail prevents bowing of the long post.
qualifier: sculpture
glosses: A backing pole used to reinforce and stabilize vertically-oriented sculptures.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted immediately before launch.
l2p
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Tips should always be welcome if given in a constructive way, saying "L2P noob your way of casting sucks" is NOT a tip.
ref: 2007, Shammy, “An angry player”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of learn to play; used in Internet games as a slur against weak or inexperienced players.
poignard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poignards
Senses: examples: text: Within, the palace is rarely still; there is a coming and going of great aristocrats in their brocades, silks and velvets, their chains of gold and silver, their filigree poignards, their ivory farthingales, cloaks and trains rippling behind them, sometimes carried by little boys and girls in such a weight of cloth it seems they can barely walk.
ref: 1978, Michael Moorcock, Gloriana; or, The Unfulfill'd Queen, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of poniard.
mouchoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muʃˈwɑɹ/
ipa: /muːʃˈwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mouchoirs
Etymology: From French mouchoir.
Senses: examples: text: Becky came down to him presently; whenever the dear girl expected his lordship, her toilette was prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gimcracks arranged, […].
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A handkerchief.
demandant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demandants
Etymology: French demandant, present participle of demander.
Senses: glosses: One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
Elton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛltən/
rhymes: -ɛltən
Etymology: From a number of sources, including:
# For the places in Cheshire, County Durham, and Derbyshire, England: from Old English ēl (“eel”) + tūn (“farm, village”) since the village is situated above a small stream. Less likely, from Old English personal name Ella + tūn.
# For the place in Cambridgeshire, England: from Middle English Adelintune, from Old English æþeling (“prince”) + tūn (“estate”).
# For the place in Gloucestershire, England: from Middle English Elwinton, from Old English personal name Ælfwine + tūn (“estate”).
# For the place in Herefordshire, England: from Middle English Elintona, from Old English *æling (“eel fishery”) + tūn (“estate”), in reference to nearby Wigmore Lake.
# For the place in Nottinghamshire, England, see Elton on the Hill.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A surname from Old English.
glosses: A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, on the boundary with Northamptonshire (OS grid ref TL0893).
glosses: Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4575).
glosses: Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4017).
glosses: Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2260).
glosses: Several places in England:
A suburb of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7910).
glosses: Several places in England:
A village and civil parish in north Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO4570).
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A town in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Elton on the Hill
Merthyr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːθə/
Senses: examples: text: After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
glosses: Ellipsis of Merthyr Tydfil.
glosses: A small settlement in Newchurch and Merthyr community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN3520).
Derived terms: Merthyr Mawr
Merthyr Vale
Merthyr Tydfil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɜːθə ˈtɪdvɪl/
rhymes: -ɪdvɪl
Senses: glosses: A large town in Merthyr Tydfil borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0506).
glosses: A county borough in Glamorgan, south Wales.
Glamorgan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From gwlad (“country”) + Morgan [Morgan's country] after Morgan Hen.
Senses: synonyms: Glamorganshire
glosses: A traditional county of Wales, bordered by Monmouthshire, Brecknockshire, and Carmarthenshire.
glosses: A former municipality in Tasmania, Australia, merged into Glamorgan-Spring Bay.
glosses: A neighbourhood in south-west Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Glamorgan sausage
Glamorgan-Spring Bay
Mid Glamorgan
South Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan
West Glamorgan
Graeme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪ.əm/
ipa: /ɡɹæm/
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English, a less common spelling of Graham.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
unpack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈpæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: unpacks
form: unpacking
form: unpacked
form: unpacked
Etymology: From Middle English unpakken, equivalent to un- + pack. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpakje (“to unpack”), West Frisian útpakke (“to unpack”), Dutch uitpakken (“to unpack”), German auspacken (“to unpack”).
Senses: examples: text: They didn't have time to unpack their bags before going out to dinner.
glosses: To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
examples: text: They didn't have time to unpack before going to dinner.
glosses: To empty containers that had been packed.
examples: text: There may be another argument here, if we had time to unpack it, about modernism and the rise of the middle classes.
ref: 2013 September 20, Anne Enright, “A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride – review”, in The Guardian:
text: Yet few Americans — including the president — understand how global trade works, both how it can help our economy and how some can be left behind. Let’s try to unpack a few of the complexities.
ref: 2019 October 17, Steven Rattner, “Unpacking the Trade Deficit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: From a gender reveal to a secret ceremony and rifts with other royal family members, there was a lot to unpack from the interview
ref: 2021 March 8, Helen Sullivan, “Meghan and Harry: 12 things we learned from the Oprah special”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
examples: text: The rounded vowels [y] and [œ/ə] in Russian seem to unpack as glide-vowel sequences in words borrowed from French and German, […]
ref: 2000, Language, volume 76, numbers 1-2, page 337:
text: Whereas the high vowels /ʏ, y/ unpack, the mid vowels /œ, ø/ are adapted as single segments in these languages (see examples in (36) for Vietnamese (Barker 1969) and (37) for Fon (Gbeto 2000)). […]
French /y/ → Vietnamese /wi/
accu [a'ky] → ac-quy [ak kwi]
ref: 2008, Katrin Dohlus, The Role of Phonology and Phonetics in Loanword Adaptation, page 73:
text: The objective of these corpora was to check whether vowels other than nasal vowels systematically unpack in L1s that do not allow them.
ref: 2011, John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu, editors, The Handbook of Phonological Theory:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
raw_tags: of a segment such as a vowel
examples: text: Packages […] are often archived and compressed using the zip utility; you can unpack these with the unzip command[…]
ref: 2005, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Matt Welsh, Running Linux:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: zip
glosses: To decompress (data).
selle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selles
Senses: examples: text: When he ended his verse he bade one of his pages saddle him his Nubian mare-mule with her padded selle.
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Night 20)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sell.
cordwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cordwoods
Etymology: From cord + wood.
Senses: examples: text: The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 7”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 40:
text: The barkeeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar. The centre of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood.
ref: 1902, Edward Stewart White, chapter 27, in The Blazed Trail, McClure, Phillips & Co.:
glosses: Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.
examples: text: In addition to being fuel, cordwood can also be used as a fairly pretty building material.
text: The price of the paper was two dollars a year, but he took in three subscriptions for half a dollar apiece on condition of them paying him in advance; they were going to pay in cordwood and onions as usual, but he said he had just bought the concern and knocked down the price as low as he could afford it, and was going to run it for cash.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 20”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 178:
text: In his earlier days he had been successful both as a small farmer and as a dealer in cordwood and hoop-poles; and many of his ventures in this line had sailed out of the tortuous rivers of South Jersey to Philadelphia, where the wood and the poles then found ready sale.
ref: 1899, T.G. Steward, chapter 1, in A Charleston Love Story, page 9:
glosses: Split and cut wood as an economic commodity.
coriaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coriaceous
form: most coriaceous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin coriāceus.
Senses: examples: 1997, JinShuang Ma, "New Species of Euonymus (Celastraceae) from East and South Asia", Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 93-111, Abstract.
This species is similar to E. vagans Wallich in the texture of the leaves, which are more thickly coriaceous and have fewer crenulations on margin; the large globose capsules are white spotted.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling leather; leathery.
Derived terms: semicoriaceous
subcoriaceous
corker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkers
form: cauker
form: caulker
Etymology: From cork + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in The Confidence-Man:
glosses: One who puts corks into bottles.
examples: text: Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, chapter XVI, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, page 124:
text: He had just had an absolute corker of an idea!
ref: 2012, Mark Griffiths, Space Lizards Ate My Sister!:
synonyms: whopper
glosses: A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
CDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDRs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.
glosses: Initialism of common data rate.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of commander.
examples: Coordinate term: VDR
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.
glosses: Initialism of carbon dioxide removal.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of cooldown reduction.
glosses: Committee for the Defense of the Revolution
carnelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑɹˈnil.jən/
Forms: form: carnelians
Etymology: From cornelian, the red form named carneolus under the influence of Latin carneus (“fleshy”) because of its color.
Senses: examples: ref: 1952, You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared., Ezekiel 28:13 RSV:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hard, reddish brown chalcedony used in jewelry.
Synonyms: cornelian
cornelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornelians
Etymology: From Old French corneline (French cornaline), from Medieval Latin cornus or cornum after the berry Cornus mas (cornelian cherry).
Senses: examples: text: This proceedeth from the variety of air (commonly found in islands) which sometimes being moist, sullies and renders the cornelian pale or albescent, after the manner of glass, which when breath'd upon, is clouded with a pale whitish colour, but upon change to a drier air, which will often happen in a moment, the cornelian recovers its former brisk red colour.
ref: 1726, The British Apollo: containing two thousand answers to curious questions in most arts and sciences, serious, comical, and humorous, approved of by many of the most learned and ingenious of both universities, and of the Royal-Society, 3rd edition, volume 1, the Bell in Little Britain: printed for Theodore Sanders, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of carnelian.
glosses: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Deudorix.
cornelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornelians
Senses: glosses: The cornelian cherry (fruit).
cornel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnəl/
Forms: form: cornels
Etymology: From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).
Senses: glosses: Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
examples: text: Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 292, lines 855–856:
text: Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows / The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows / The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around
ref: 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:
glosses: The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
Synonyms: sense: cherry-like fruit
word: cornelian cherry
sense: cherry-like fruit
word: cornel cherry
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cornus canadensis
word: Canadian dwarf cornel
taxonomic: Cornus mas
word: cornelian cherry
taxonomic: Cornus suecica
word: dwarf cornel
taxonomic: Cornus mas
word: European cornel
word: Japanese cornel
taxonomic: Cornus officinalis
word: Japanese cornelian cherry
taxonomic: Cornus amomum
word: silky cornel
Related terms: dogwood
cornelian cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornelian cherries
Senses: glosses: The cherry-like fruit of the cornel, Cornus mas.
glosses: The tree that bears this fruit.
Jen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛn/
homophone: Gen
homophone: gen
homophone: Jenn
Etymology: Usually a clipped or hypocoristic form of Jennifer, although also used for Jean, Jeanette, Jeannette, etc.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna in these secondary derivations.
Senses: examples: text: The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.
ref: 2021 April 27, Daniel Dale, “New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris’ book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: Middle English masculine personal name, a short form of Old French Jehan
Derived terms: Jenny
Jenna
Jenessa
Hereford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹɨfəd/
ipa: /ˈhɝfɚd/
Forms: form: Herefords
Etymology: From Middle English Hereford, from Old English Hereford, from Old English here (“army”) + ford (“ford”). Compare Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Senses: glosses: A city and civil parish (with a city council) in and the county town of Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5140).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A locality in Cochise County, Arizona, named after Frank Hereford.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Grant County, Minnesota, named for Hereford cattle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, supposedly named for a Hereford bull.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place therein, in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Meade County, South Dakota, named for Hereford cattle.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Deaf Smith County, Texas, United States, named for Hereford cattle raised there.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
glosses: A breed of cattle used for high-quality beef, see Hereford (cattle).
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Hereford and Worcester
Hereford disease
Little Hereford
Hereford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛɹɨfəd/
ipa: /ˈhɝfɚd/
Forms: form: Herefords
Etymology: From Middle English Hereford, from Old English Hereford, from Old English here (“army”) + ford (“ford”). Compare Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Senses: glosses: A cow of the Hereford breed.
mijnheer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mijnheers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mynheer.
gentilshommes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French gentilshommes.
Senses: glosses: plural of gentilhomme
whats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shall I continue this reproaching style, quote all the whats and whys out of Jeremiah's Lamentations, and then present you with some outlines of Job for consolation?
ref: 1871, Sarah N. Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson: Comp. from Family Letters and Reminiscences:
text: When learning about people and their circumstances, some tend to form generalizations surrounding the whats and wherefores of the people.
ref: 1955, George Burgess, Barriers and Bridges:
text: Now see if you can describe the whys behind some of your whats. In other words, write about why you look the way you do in terms of how you wear your hair or the kind of clothes you wear.
ref: 2004, Joe Caruso, The Power of Losing Control: Finding Strength, Meaning, and Happiness in an Out-Of-Control World:
glosses: plural of what; used as a stand-in to collectively pluralize arbitrary instances of things. Often used along with whys, hows, etc.
Roswell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒzˌwɛl/
Forms: form: Roswells
Etymology: Metathesized from Middle English Roweshill, from a contraction of either the Old English personal name Hrōþwulf or its Norman cognate Rolf, Rouf, Rou (in the genitive case, adding -es) + Old English hyll (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Fulton County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.
examples: (1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
examples: text: Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.
ref: 1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66:
text: Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.
ref: 2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272:
text: Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.
ref: 2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
The most significant ufological event of a region.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.
Derived terms: Roswellian
gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪn.(d͡)ʒəˌbɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪn.d͡ʒɚˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: gingerbreads
form: gingebred
Etymology: From Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserved ginger”), from Medieval Latin *gingimbrātus (“gingered”, presumably referring to ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), with the intrusive m added to gingiber, from Latin zingiber (“ginger”), of earlier Sanskrit origin, through Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis). The third syllable was earlier confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word: ginger + bread.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A type of cake whose main flavoring is ginger.
glosses: Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
examples: text: For a time modern architects took a starkly functional approach to the design of houses, emphasizing clean, uncluttered lines and rejecting most forms of wall ornamentation as dust-catching gingerbread.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: architecture
glosses: A flamboyant Victorian-era architectural style.
gingerbread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪn.(d͡)ʒəˌbɹɛd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪn.d͡ʒɚˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: gingerbreads
form: gingerbreading
form: gingerbreaded
form: gingerbreaded
form: gingebred
Etymology: From Middle English gyngebred, gyngebrede, from Old French gingembras, gingimbrat (“preserved ginger”), from Medieval Latin *gingimbrātus (“gingered”, presumably referring to ginger that perhaps had a pharmaceutical use for some medicinal preparation), with the intrusive m added to gingiber, from Latin zingiber (“ginger”), of earlier Sanskrit origin, through Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis). The third syllable was earlier confounded with bread, and the insertion of an r in the second syllable completed the semblance of a compound word: ginger + bread.
Senses: synonyms: gingerbread up
glosses: To decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way.
Derived terms: cake and gingerbread
genderbread person
gingerbread cookie
gingerbreaded
gingerbread house
gingerbread husband
gingerbread man
gingerbread nut
gingerbread office
gingerbread palm
gingerbread plum
gingerbread trap
gingerbread tree
gingerbread up
gingerbread work
gingerbready
lord of gingerbread
man of gingerbread
pepper-gingerbread
take the gilt off the gingerbread
Related terms: ginger
gingersnap
Microsoftian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Microsoftian
form: most Microsoftian
Etymology: From Microsoft + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: However, Apple’s online listing of .Mac System status for the last 30 days looks almost Microsoftian.
ref: 2006, Christopher Neher, “What's wrong with .Mac?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 13 Nov 2006:
text: In yearning for black plastic soul and adopting a naive fanboy perspective on music and videogames, Blandy replicates the Microsoftian rhetoric of frictionless capitalism […]
ref: 2006, Art Papers Magazine, volume 30, numbers 1-5, page 56:
synonyms: Redmondian
glosses: Of or relating to Microsoft, or its products.
step-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-throughs
form: step-thru
Senses: examples: text: A motor-scooter has a step-through frame, also known as an "open frame".
glosses: An open space in an otherwise solid object through which a person can step or walk.
color television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color televisions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colour television.
color TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color TVs
form: colour TV
Senses: examples: text: I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball
ref: 1979, “Rapper's Delight”, performed by Sugarhill Gang:
text: We got to move these refrigerators / We've got to move these color TVs
ref: 1985, “Money For Nothing”, in Brothers In Arms, performed by Dire Straits:
glosses: color television.
cornice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnɪs/
ipa: /ˈkoɹnɪs/
Forms: form: cornices
Etymology: From Middle French corniche or Italian cornice, from Latin cornīx (“crow”).
Senses: examples: text: It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
topics: architecture
glosses: A horizontal architectural element of a building, projecting forward from the main walls, originally used as a means of directing rainwater away from the building's walls.
examples: text: That ceiling was covered with square compartments,[...] It was supported by a gilded cornice, carved into a thousand curious shapes and emblems, among which the horned wolf, the crest of the Avonleigh family, was conspicuous.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 113:
text: Challenger looked up at the cornice and round at the skirting.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: A decorative element applied at the topmost part of the wall of a room, as with a crown molding.
examples: text: And blood was on the roof, and great gouts of blood on the walls and on the cornice of my bed.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A decorative element at the topmost portion of certain pieces of furniture, as with a highboy.
examples: text: Looking to the east we could see Api and the mountains of west Nepal, shapely snow peaks in the distance, while in the immediate foreground, much lower but still dramatic, were the peaks of Panch Chuli IV and V (III was hidden by the lip of a huge cornice), Telkot and Nagling, all of them unclimbed, all steep and challenging.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
topics: geography
hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
natural-sciences
sports
synonyms: snow cornice
glosses: An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain and along the sides of gullies.
Derived terms: cornice ring
cornicework
snow cornice
Related terms: eaves
fascia
cornice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnɪs/
ipa: /ˈkoɹnɪs/
Forms: form: cornices
form: cornicing
form: corniced
form: corniced
Etymology: From Middle French corniche or Italian cornice, from Latin cornīx (“crow”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish or decorate with a cornice.
rial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈɑːl/
Forms: form: rials
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian ریال (riyâl) (in the case of Iran) and a variant transliteration of Arabic رِيَال (riyāl) (in the case of Oman and Yemen), from Spanish real. Doublet of real, royal, and regal.
Senses: glosses: The official currencies of Iran, Oman, and Yemen.
glosses: A former currency of Morocco and Tunisia
glosses: An old gold coin of England.
Related terms: riyal
corniche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈniːʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɔːnɪʃ/
ipa: /kɔːɹˈniːʃ/
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹnɪʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: corniches
Etymology: From French corniche (“ledge”).
Senses: glosses: A road built on a ledge (cliff), especially along water (a river, sea, etc).
silverside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silversides
Etymology: From silver + side.
Senses: synonyms: sand smelt
friar
glosses: Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
synonyms: sand smelt
friar
sand smelt
friar
glosses: Any of several small fish, mostly in families Atherinidae and Atherinopsidae, both in order Atheriniformes, that are characterized by bright, silvery scales.
Such fish prepared as food.
glosses: The upper side of a round of beef.
glosses: The upper side of a round of beef.
Corned beef made with this type of meat.
Related terms: topside
silverback
riv'n
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Contraction of riven.
Senses: examples: Ding dong merrily on high, / In heav'n the bells are ringing: / Ding dong! verily the sky / Is riv'n with angel singing.
glosses: riven
rivaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rivalled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rival
rivalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rivaled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rival
rocambole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒkəmbəʊl/
/ˈɹəʊkəmbəʊl/
Forms: form: rocamboles
Etymology: Borrowed from French rocambole, from regional German Rockenbolle.
Senses: glosses: The sand leek, Allium scorodoprasum
glosses: A type of garlic, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon
reliction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: relictions
Senses: glosses: the gradual loss of water from a river, lake, etc. to leave permanent dry land
Albuquerque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.bə.kɚ.ki/
ipa: /ˈæl.bə.kəː.ki/
Forms: form: Albuquerques
Etymology: From Spanish Albuquerque, from Latin albus (“white”) + quercus (“oak”) (white oak). Compare translingual Quercus alba
* (New Mexico): From Spanish Alburquerque (a town in Spain), named after Spanish viceroy Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque (1619–1676).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: The largest city in New Mexico, United States; the county seat of Bernalillo County.
Synonyms: word: ABQ
word: Abq.
word: Abq
word: Alb.
word: Alb
word: Burque
word: Duke City
Derived terms: sense: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
word: Albuquerquean
sense: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
word: Albuquerque turkey
sense: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
word: Burqueño
sense: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
word: take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
Related terms: Quercus alba
Q. alba
Quercus
alba
lagobolon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagobolons
form: lagobola
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λᾰγωβόλον (lăgōbólon), from λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A hunter's stick for striking hares.
cornuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornuate
form: most cornuate
Etymology: From Latin cornuātus (“horn-shaped”), from cornū (“horn”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] that in the higher apes, Troglodytes, Pithecus, the posterior cavity of the tricornate ventricle becomes of larger dimensions than in Cercopithecus, although far inferior in size and diverse in shape, from the much deeper, and more incurved cornuate bay which forms the digital cavity of man.
ref: 1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature”, in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 117, page 557:
text: Five species of cornuate osteostracans have been discovered at Devils Hole, and a further three or four species are probably represented by indeterminate fragmentary material.
ref: 1999, David L. Dineley, Fossil fishes of Great Britain, page 121:
text: Surgical treatment consisted of excision of the accessory tarsal navicular or medial protuberance of a prominent cornuate-shaped navicular combined with simple replication of the tibialis posterior tendon without altering its course.
ref: 1990 July 24, Bennett GL, Weiner DS, Leighley B., “Surgical treatment of symptomatic accessory tarsal navicular”, in Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, volume 10, number 4, pages 445–9:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.
Derived terms: unicornuate
stepfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepfamilies
form: step family
Etymology: From step- + family.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers are finding that the incidence of violence and abuse is vastly greater in stepfamilies than in traditional families in which the children are biologically related to both parents and to one other.
ref: 1998 October 2, Jane E. Brody, “Genetic Ties May Be Factor In Violence in Stepfamilies”, in The New York Times:
text: Meanwhile, thanks to the huge number of second marriages, a third of all Americans are part of a stepfamily.
ref: 2006 May 17, Po Bronson, “Are Stepparents Real Parents?”, in Time:
synonyms: blended family
glosses: Any family having one or more stepchildren or stepparents.
glosses: The family of one's stepfather or stepmother; those immediate family members not related by blood.
Related terms: steprelative
blended family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blended families
Senses: examples: text: The new traditions established in a blended family are either a blend of traditions both mates have brought into the marriage or something completely new. Because of Adrienne's and my family backgrounds, the blend of most of our traditions […]
ref: 1984, Tom Frydenger, Adrienne Frydenger, The Blended Family, Chosen Books, →ISBN:
text: In a blended family you may have a stepmother, a stepfather, stepbrothers, stepsisters, half brothers, half sisters, and even step-pets! You've got all sorts of stuff mixed into one new, blended family—a family that you are an important part of!
ref: 2009, Kurt Johnston, Mark Oestreicher, My Family, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A stepfamily in which both new spouses have one or more living children from prior partners.
corpora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːpəɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹpəɹə/
Senses: glosses: plural of corpus
merveilleux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛɹ.veɪˈjə/
/-ˈju/
/-ˈjoʊ/
Forms: form: merveilleux
form: Merveilleux
Etymology: From the French merveilleux. Doublet of marvellous.
Senses: examples: text: The Ecrouelleux, the Inconcevables, the Merveilleux, with their chins sunk in their huge cravats.
ref: 1898, Octave Uzanne, chapter I, in Mary Loyd, transl., Fashion in Paris: The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Æsthetics from 1797 to 1897, page 8:
coordinate_terms: merveilleuse
glosses: Contemporary names for an extravagantly dressed French fop or ‘fine lady’ of the period of the Directory (1795–1799), who affected a revival of the classical costume of Ancient Greece.
cordage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːdɪdʒ/
Forms: form: cordages
Etymology: Borrowed from French cordage.
Senses: glosses: Cord (of any type) when viewed as a mass or commodity.
examples: text: So Juan stood, bewildered on the deck: / The wind sung, cordage strained, and sailors swore […]
ref: 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza 13:
text: […] as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: A lone river wind sighed in the cordage of the ship.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 151:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A set of ropes and cords, especially that used for a ship's rigging.
glosses: An amount of wood measured in cords.
Hyponyms: sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: buntline
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: clewline
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: cringle
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: cunningham
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: downhaul
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: footrope
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: guy
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: halyard
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: horse
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: lift
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: outhaul
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: sheet
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: shroud
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: stay
sense: a set of ropes used on a ship
word: tack
cottonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottonwoods
Etymology: From cotton + wood.
Senses: examples: text: Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: […] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
glosses: Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
glosses: A cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family.
examples: text: There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A tree of species Ceiba pentandra, native to the American tropics and west Africa; silk-cotton tree.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Populus balsamifera
word: balsam cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus trichocarpa
word: black cottonwood
word: coastal cottonwood
taxonomic: Talipariti tiliaceum
word: coast cottonwood
alt: Plectrodera scalator
word: cottonwood borer
taxonomic: Talipariti tiliaceum
word: cottonwood hibiscus
taxonomic: Chrysomela scripta
word: cottonwood leaf beetle
taxonomic: Zeugophora scutellaris
word: cottonwood leaf-mining beetle
taxonomic: Populus deltoides
word: eastern cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus fremontii
word: Fremont cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus sargentii
word: Great Plains cottonwood
taxonomic: Talipariti tiliaceum
word: green cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus × acuminata
word: lanceleaf cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus angustifolia
word: mountain cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus angustifolia
word: narrowleaf cottonwood
taxonomic: Bombax ceiba
word: northern cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus sargentii
word: plains cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus heterophylla
word: river cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus heterophylla
word: swamp cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus angustifolia
word: willow cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus wislizenii
word: Wislizenus's cottonwood
taxonomic: Populus deltoides
word: yellow cottonwood
Trenton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛn.tən/
rhymes: -ɛntən
Etymology: Originally named "Trent's town" in the 17th century, after a Quaker, William Trent.
The town in Nova Scotia is named after the capital of New Jersey.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The capital city of New Jersey, and the county seat of Mercer County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Gilchrist County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Dade County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Grundy County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village, the county seat of Hitchcock County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Jones County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Williams County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Gibson County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A community in Quinte West, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name.
Derived terms: West Trenton