cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
layperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laypeople
form: laypersons
form: lay person
Etymology: A lay (“non-clergy, nonclergy”) + person, along the lines of layman.
Senses: glosses: A person who is not a cleric.
examples: text: The book was written for professionals, but an intelligent layperson could understand most of it.
glosses: One who is not intimately familiar with a given subject or activity.
Synonyms: nonexpert
nonspecialist
Related terms: laity
lay
layman
laywoman
amateur
have it in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has it in for
form: having it in for
form: had it in for
form: had it in for
form: got it in for
Senses: examples: text: My boss must really have it in for me; that was the third lecture this week!
glosses: To be very angry with; to have a grudge against; to intend revenge against.
inosculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/
Forms: form: inosculates
form: inosculating
form: inosculated
form: inosculated
Etymology: First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: word: blend
word: blend
word: fuse
word: homogenize
word: inosculate
word: uniformize
glosses: To homogenize; to make continuous.
examples: text: The party left the town of Martaban on the 20th March; they passed two grassy and level islands just above the junction of the Gyein river with the main one. […] This inosculating river is about half the breadth of the Sanloon.
ref: 1826 November 24, “Survey of the River Sanloon”, in The Asiatic Journal, volume 22, number 131, page 550:
glosses: To open into.
examples: text: Clouds sometimes inosculate with smoke. Howard mentions several cases in his Journals. "The smoke of London," he observes, "when passing away in a body swelled up into distinct heaps, each of which inosculated at its summit with a small Cloud. Groups of Cumulo Stratus, the Cumulus and Cirro Stratus occupied the South part of the sky attracting smoke."
ref: 1834, George Harvey, “On Clouds”, in A Treatise on Meteorology, page 161:
synonyms: word: interosculate
word: affix
word: attach
word: join
word: put together
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bewed
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: connect
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fay
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: unite
word: wed
word: yoke
glosses: To unite.
examples: text: But that, alas! is impossible. Hearken to the nature of the fix in which I find myself, and say if you ever heard of a worse. Under ordinary circumstances, if one outruns the usual allowance of space, one has but to say at the foot of the paper, To be continued, and all is healed. Any paper may be adjourned from month to month,—true, but not from volume to volume; and, unhappily for me, this very week's number, in which I am now writing, closes a volume. The several monthly divisions of the journal may inosculate, but not the several volumes.
ref: 1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, volume 8, Edinburgh: James Hogg, page 404; reprinted in The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, volume 5, London: A & C Black, 1897, page 316:
glosses: To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
inosculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɒs.kjʊˌleɪt/
Forms: form: more inosculate
form: most inosculate
Etymology: First attested in 1672; from in- + osculate or its Latin etymon ōsculātus, perfect active participle of Latin osculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from ōsculum (“a kiss”). The adjective is a back-formation from inosculation, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: However, not all physicians of that age were convinced about the inosculate nature of these diseases, and debate continued unabated until the tragic self-experimentation of John Hunter in 1767.
ref: 1971, Frederick Tice, Tice's practice of medicine - Volume 3:
text: The choice between normal, inverse, and inosculate strategies required some attention if only to emphasize the difference between the inosculate approach and much early work on numerical taxonomy.
ref: 1973, Australian Journal of Botany, page 272:
text: This study proposes to trace the inosculate nature of the mask theme in Nietzsche's philosophy.
ref: 1983, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences:
text: The trunks of inosculate, or self-grafting, trees, such as Elm, Live Oak, and Dogwood, are the load-bearing structure, and the branches from a continuous lattice frame for the walls and roof.
ref: 2005, Kjersti Monson, Alex Duval, Emily Abruzzo, 306090 08: Autonomous Urbanism, →ISBN:
glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by inosculation.
Related terms: inosculation
anvil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.vəl/
ipa: /ˈæn.vɪl/
ipa: /ˈæn.vɪl/
Forms: form: anvils
Etymology: From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.
Senses: examples: text: My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow,
Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers […]
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I]:
text: I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a tailor’s news […]
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: 1794, William Blake, “The Tyger,” lines 15-16,
What the anvil? what dread grasp / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
text: Thus at the flaming forge of life / Our fortunes must be wrought; / Thus on its sounding anvil shaped / Each burning deed and thought!
ref: 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] w:The Village Blacksmith.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 102:
text: With an anvil-ding / And with fire in him forge thy will / Or rather, rather then, stealing as Spring / Through him, melt him but master him still: [...]
ref: 1875–1876, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, part 1, stanza 10, page 14:
glosses: A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The incus bone in the middle ear.
glosses: A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
glosses: The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
Synonyms: stithy
Derived terms: anvil cloud
anvilicious
anvillike
anvilsmith
between the hammer and the anvil
diamond anvil cell
hammer and anvil
on the anvil
anvil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.vəl/
ipa: /ˈæn.vɪl/
ipa: /ˈæn.vɪl/
Forms: form: anvils
form: anviling
form: anvilling
form: anviled
form: anviled
form: anvilled
form: anvilled
Etymology: From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.
Senses: examples: text: I Have anvil’d out this Iron Age,
Which I commit, not to your patronage,
But skill and Art […]
ref: 1648, Abraham Cowley, The Foure Ages of England, or, The Iron Age with Other Select Poems, London, Postscript:
text: The Family Tang caus’d an Iron Pillar to be erected there of three Rods high, and of a proportionable thickness, Anvil’d out of an intire Piece.
ref: 1671, “A Third Embassy to the Emperor of China and East-Tartary”, in John Ogilby, transl., Atlas Chinensis, London, page 291:
text: I never started a roguery, that did not come out of thy forge in a manner ready anvilled and hammered for execution […]
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XCII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 341:
glosses: To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
Related terms: hammer
ossicle
stirrup
cohabit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈhæbɪt/
rhymes: -æbɪt
Forms: form: cohabits
form: cohabiting
form: cohabited
form: cohabited
Etymology: From Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“I dwell, I live in”).
Senses: glosses: To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
glosses: To coexist in common environs with.
glosses: To have sex; see coition.
examples: text: An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to “cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege
ref: 2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To cooperate with an opposing political party.
Synonyms: sense: to live together with someone else
word: cohabitate
sense: to engage in sexual intercourse
word: fornicate
word: have sex
word: make love
word: copulate
Derived terms: cohabitee
cohabitor
noncohabiting
Related terms: cohabitation
unconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more unconditional
form: most unconditional
form: inconditional
Etymology: From un- + conditional.
Senses: examples: text: We demand your unconditional surrender.
text: So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.
ref: 1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 10:06 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
synonyms: absolute
categorical
antonyms: conditional
glosses: Absolute; without conditions, limitations, reservations or qualifications.
Derived terms: conditional unconditional
unconditional election
unconditionality
unconditional love
unconditional surrender
unconditional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnkənˈdɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: unconditionals
form: inconditional
Etymology: From un- + conditional.
Senses: examples: text: The me, the world, and God, are the three unconditionals, the three absolutes […]
ref: 1854, Victor Cousin, A. G. Henderson, The Philosophy of Kant: Lectures, page 90:
glosses: That which is not conditional.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A conditional-like structure expressing that the consequent holds true regardless of the particular value of the antecedent.
unconfirmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + confirmed.
Senses: examples: text: We are hearing unconfirmed reports of an explosion.
glosses: Not finally established, settled or confirmed.
examples: text: In the ecumenical world a cry is heard for the admission of unconfirmed children to communion...
ref: 2001, Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley, The encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Not having undergone the ritual of confirmation.
thorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thôr'aks
ipa: /ˈθɔɹæks/
Forms: form: thoraces
form: thoraxes
Etymology: From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).
Senses: examples: Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
Meronym: chest
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
examples: Holonym: body
Meronyms: prothorax, mesothorax, metathorax
topics: arachnology
biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
related: word: head
word: abdomen
glosses: The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body to which the legs are attached.
Derived terms: aerothorax
bithorax
cephalothorax
cholothorax
chylothorax
endothorax
enterothorax
entothorax
extrathoracic
fibrothorax
haemothorax
hematothorax
hemithorax
hemothorax
hydrothorax
mesothorax
metathorax
midthorax
opisthothorax
pneumatothorax
pneumothorax
prothorax
pyothorax
synthorax
thoracal
thoracic
thoracic vertebra
thoracoplasty
trithorax
unconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconnected
form: most unconnected
Etymology: From un- + connected.
Senses: examples: text: The light wouldn't work because the cable was unconnected.
glosses: Not connected or joined.
examples: text: He talked in an unconnected series of short sentences.
glosses: Confused or disconnected.
glosses: Without connections of family, etc.
Synonyms: word: arbitrary
word: betwixt and between
word: incoherent
word: independent
word: irrelative
word: irrespective
word: neither here nor there
word: self-standing
word: separate
word: unallied
word: unconnected
word: unimportant
word: unrelated
Hyponyms: word: disconnected
word: irrelevant
word: separated
skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
Forms: form: more skilled
form: most skilled
Etymology: From skill (noun) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In the Ming Dynasty, a man named Zhang Weiyan in Jiangyin, of Jiangsu Province, was a skilled writer. He was quite well-known in his region.
ref: 2008 February 27, Zhi Zhen, “Correcting One's Wrongdoings Changes One's Fate”, in Minghui:
glosses: Having or showing skill; skillful.
examples: text: The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.
ref: 2024 November 4, Terese Eriksen Eldholm, “Norway increases minimum wage rates across key industries”, in Magnus Legal:
glosses: Requiring special abilities or training.
Synonyms: word: able
word: artful
word: habile
word: accomplished
word: adept
word: adroit
word: apt
word: capable
word: competent
word: consummate
word: conversant
word: crack
word: crafty
word: deft
word: dexterous
word: expert
word: facile
word: fluent
word: gain
word: handy
word: maestrolike
word: masterful
word: masterlike
word: masterly
word: masterous
word: professional
word: proficient
word: qualified
word: quick
word: ready
word: skilled
word: skillful
word: thoroughbred
word: tight
word: practiced
word: versed
Coordinate terms: word: low-skilled
word: semiskilled
word: semi-skilled
Derived terms: a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
low-skilled
multiskilled
multi-skilled
semi-skilled
Related terms: word: knowledgeable
word: skill
word: efficient
word: excellent
word: forte
skilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
Etymology: From skill (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skill
unconscionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənˈkɔn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ənˈkɔnʃ.nə.bəl/
ipa: /ənˈkɔn.ʃən.bəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɑn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɑnʃ.nə.bəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɑn.ʃən.bəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɒn.ʃən.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ʌnˈkɒn.ʃən.bəl/
Forms: form: more unconscionable
form: most unconscionable
Etymology: From un- + conscionable.
Senses: examples: text: When Roger assured him that prospects "looked very good" for a retrial, even a reversal of the verdict, since Roger had discovered "unconscionable errors" in the trial, Jackson grunted in bemusement and smiled with half his mouth.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 364:
glosses: Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
examples: text: The effective rate of interest was unconscionable, but not legally usurious.
text: [...] and the agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in claiming the due right whereof he is frustrated, then to piece up his lost contentment by visiting the Stews, or stepping to his neighbours bed, which is the common shift in this mis-fortune, or els by suffering his usefull life to wast away and be lost under a secret affliction of an unconscionable size to humane strength.
ref: 1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
text: He amazed the pretty hostess by refusing breakfast; however, flinging down double the amount of her already unconscionable bill, consoled her for his want of appetite.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Past”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
protective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈtek.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more protective
form: most protective
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin prōtēctīvus. By surface analysis, protect + ive.
Senses: examples: text: The fighter dropped into a protective stance.
text: The castle's moat served a protective function.
text: Pour a solvent such as paint thinner, mineral spirits, or a liquid sandpaper product in a metal can or enamel bowl. Wear protective gloves.
ref: 2004, Mickey Baskett, Fabulous Painted Furniture, page 13:
glosses: Serving or intended to protect.
examples: text: Mother bears are famously protective of their cubs.
glosses: Wishing to protect; defensive of somebody or something.
Derived terms: atheroprotective
autoprotective
axoprotective
bioprotective
bronchoprotective
canceroprotective
carcinoprotective
cardioprotective
carioprotective
cerebroprotective
chemoprotective
chondroprotective
cryoprotective
cytoprotective
dermatoprotective
ecoprotective
endothelioprotective
enteroprotective
excitoprotective
fertoprotective
fibroprotective
gastroprotective
genoprotective
geroprotective
glioprotective
hepatoprotective
hyperprotective
immunoprotective
luteoprotective
lyoprotective
mechanoprotective
metalloprotective
mitoprotective
mucoprotective
myeloprotective
myoprotective
nephroprotective
neuroprotective
nonprotective
oligoprotective
oncoprotective
organoprotective
osmoprotective
osteoprotective
otoprotective
overcurrent protective device
overprotective
ovoprotective
personal protective equipment
pharmacoprotective
photoprotective
phytoprotective
pneumoprotective
protective briefs
protective custody
protectively
protectiveness
protective order
protective pants
protective reaction
protectivity
radioprotective
renoprotective
retinoprotective
self-protective
semiprotective
seroprotective
subprotective
superprotective
thermoprotective
thromboprotective
thyroprotective
tubuloprotective
ultraprotective
unprotective
uroprotective
vasculoprotective
vasoprotective
venoprotective
protective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɛk.tɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈtek.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: protectives
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin prōtēctīvus. By surface analysis, protect + ive.
Senses: glosses: Something that protects.
glosses: A condom.
razz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæz/
rhymes: -æz
Etymology: Clipping of raspberry.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).
razz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: razzes
form: razzing
form: razzed
form: razzed
Etymology: Clipping of raspberry.
Senses: examples: text: No need to look like you're sat on a brush, man, we're only razzin' ya.
ref: 2003 October 3, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “On the Pull” (6:35 from the start), in Peep Show, season 1, episode 3, Channel 4:
glosses: To tease playfully; to heckle.
glosses: To tease playfully; to heckle.
To heckle by blowing a raspberry.
examples: text: Consider, for example, the word razz, used by younger speakers with the meaning 'riding around with friends in a car (or a snowmobile), with no particular goal'. This meaning is not generally familiar to older residents of the province, and is largely unknown in North America. A very similar meaning does, however, occur in Britain and Australia, as in the following British online posting: 81. We find about an exciting new craze that is seeing kids clad in leather from Leamington razzing around on motorbikes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/motor/mini-moto-crazy.shtml).
ref: 2010, Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, page 151:
qualifier: Labrador
glosses: To drive a vehicle around aimlessly.
Related terms: razz someone's berries
razzed
on the razz
ratify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹætɪfaɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹætəfaɪ/
rhymes: -ætɪfaɪ
Forms: form: ratifies
form: ratifying
form: ratified
form: ratified
Etymology: From Old French ratifier, from Medieval Latin ratifico, from Latin ratus (“reckoned”).
Senses: examples: text: They ratified the treaty.
text: Thus the workmen decide the principle, the Executive carry it out. The agent provides information and negotiates. The Conference finally ratifies or disapproves.
ref: 1912, Noah Ablett, The Miners' Next Step:
text: If the Senate ratifies the covenant on human rights and the Supreme Court upholds it under the established principles outlined above, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of peaceful assembly may be destroyed by our own Government at any time by an official proclamation of a state of emergency.
ref: 1950, William H. Fitzpatrick, Government by Treaty:
glosses: To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.
Synonyms: sense: give formal consent to
word: approve
Related terms: ratification
ratifier
bowdlerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowdlerises
form: bowdlerising
form: bowdlerised
form: bowdlerised
Etymology: From Bowdler + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bowdlerize.
Derived terms: bowdleriser
Jaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑfə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæfə/
rhymes: -æfə
Forms: form: Joppa
form: Yafo
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic يَافَا (Yāfā), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יָפוֹ (Yāfō), equivalent to Hebrew יָפָה (yafá, “beautiful”), related to Akkadian 𒅀𒁍 (yapu, “beautiful”).
Senses: glosses: A port in western Israel.
Jaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑfə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæfə/
rhymes: -æfə
Forms: form: Jaffas
form: Joppa
form: Yafo
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic يَافَا (Yāfā), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יָפוֹ (Yāfō), equivalent to Hebrew יָפָה (yafá, “beautiful”), related to Akkadian 𒅀𒁍 (yapu, “beautiful”).
Senses: examples: text: They were together, at the flicks on Saturday night, eating Jaffas and smiling at each other occasionally in the dark.
ref: 2005, Barbara Anderson, Collected stories:
glosses: A Jaffa orange.
Related terms: Jaffa cake
Jaffa orange
Jaffa cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jaffa cakes
Etymology: Named after Jaffa oranges.
Senses: glosses: A small, biscuit-like cake with a base of firm sponge, a layer of orange jelly, and a chocolate covering.
Jaffa orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jaffa oranges
Etymology: Named after Jaffa, where it was first produced for export.
Senses: glosses: A sweet, nearly seedless variety of orange.
keep wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps wicket
form: keeping wicket
form: kept wicket
form: kept wicket
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: wicketkeep
glosses: To act as wicket-keeper.
king pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king pairs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The score of zero runs, having been out on the first ball faced in each innings of a two-innings match; a golden duck in each innings
golden duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden ducks
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced
Related terms: diamond duck
duck
king pair
pair
platinum duck
royal duck
knee roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knee rolls
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the thick part of a batsman's pads that protects the knee
contributor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹɪb.jə.tɚ/
ipa: /-ju-/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪb.jə.tə/
ipa: /-juː-/
ipa: /-jʊ-/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɹɪb.juː-/
Forms: form: contributors
form: contributour
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman contributour (from Latin contribuō); equivalent to contribute + -or.
Senses: examples: text: I am a longstanding financial contributor to Amnesty International.
glosses: A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause.
examples: text: He was a regular contributor to Greenpeace protests.
text: The nation lost two major contributors to the cause of human rights in the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk on Nov. 27.
ref: 1978 December 9, George Mendenhall, “Harvey Milk, Mayor Moscone Slain in Shooting”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 1:
glosses: A person who backs, supports or champions a cause, activity or institution.
examples: Methane is a major contributor to global warming
glosses: A person (or thing) instrumental in the creation or growth of something.
examples: William Safire has been a notable contributor to the op-ed pages of The New York Times for many years.
glosses: A person who produces articles published in a newspaper, magazine, online publication, etc.
Derived terms: contributorial
contributorship
contributress
multicontributor
noncontributor
supercontributor
unconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconsciousnesses
Etymology: From unconscious + -ness or un- + consciousness.
Senses: examples: text: I was roused from unconsciousness by the alarm clock.
glosses: The state of lacking consciousness, of being unconscious
glosses: ignorance or innocence; the state of being uninformed or unaware
uncontested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontested
form: most uncontested
Etymology: From un- + contested.
Senses: glosses: Not contested or disputed; not made the object of competition.
Related terms: acclamation
unconvinced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconvinced
form: most unconvinced
Etymology: From un- + convinced.
Senses: examples: text: They tell me the world is round, but I am unconvinced.
glosses: not convinced or lacking conviction
unconvinced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconvince
unconvincing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconvincing
form: most unconvincing
Etymology: From un- + convincing.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: uncompelling
text: He gave me an unconvincing explanation of the fault, but I have my doubts.
synonyms: flimsy
antonyms: convincing
compelling
glosses: not convincing, plausible or believable
unconvincing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + convincing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unconvince
uncooked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊkt
Forms: form: more uncooked
form: most uncooked
Etymology: From un- + cooked.
Senses: glosses: Raw and not cooked, especially of something that should be, or is sometimes cooked.
Derived terms: uncooked rice
uncooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncook
uncouple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkʌpəl/
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: uncouples
form: uncoupling
form: uncoupled
form: uncoupled
Etymology: From Middle English uncouple; equivalent to un- + couple.
Senses: examples: text: We uncoupled the trailer and left it behind.
text: The railway workers uncoupled the cars near the tail end of the train.
text: On arrival at Spiez, the locomotive (No. 206) was immediately uncoupled and drew ahead to enable an Italian through coach from Interlaken to Milan to be loose shunted (with passengers aboard and controlled by means of its handbrake) on to the front of the train.
ref: 1953 August, J. G. Click, “The Lötschberg Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 515:
text: The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
text: The driver remained at his post, while telling fireman Jim Nightall to get down on the track and run back to uncouple the burning wagon from the rest.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948:
synonyms: decouple
unpair
;
dispair
hypernyms: separate
;
disassociate
disjoin
disunite
;
split up
break up
break apart
take apart
glosses: To disconnect or detach one thing from another.
glosses: To come loose.
glosses: To loose, as dogs, from their couples.
Derived terms: uncoupled
uncoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + coupled.
Senses: glosses: Not coupled to something; disconnected; detached.
uncoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncouple
uncovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkʌvɚd/
ipa: /ʌnˈkʌvəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncover
uncovered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkʌvɚd/
ipa: /ʌnˈkʌvəd/
Forms: form: more uncovered
form: most uncovered
Etymology: From un- + covered.
Senses: glosses: Not covered or protected from the weather, etc.
glosses: Lacking insurance or security.
glosses: Bareheaded.
Synonyms: revealed
hyem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: heyem
form: hjem
form: yem
Etymology: From Northern Middle English hame, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Swedish hem, Dutch heem, heim- and West Frisian hiem. Note that this pronunciation is not derived from Old Norse, as is sometimes assumed on the basis of Danish and Norwegian hjem - the pronunciation in Geordie is directly derivable from the Old English form by regular rules. Compare traditional styen (“stone”) [stjɛn] from stān, or clem (“stone, cloam”) [klɛm] from clām. It can also be found in some other northern dialects like Yorkshire.
Senses: examples: text: [19th c.] 1993, Ned Corvan, “Yer Gannin to be a Keelman,” in Visions of the People, Patrick Joyce http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=z_nMtyp7XCEC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&sig=SHwbkD-bXZaWxJharfiXxajyEGU
Ye’ll be comin’ hyem at neets, with yor fyece all ower black,
And ye’ll lie an snore aside the fire, and never gis yor crack, …
text: “He had just come in,” he said, “to see if his mate was come hyem yet; but as he had not, he thought he could guess right weel where he wad be, and wad just step o’er to Brown’s (the gin-shop) and see.”
ref: 1848, Sinks of London Laid Open:
text: 1985, David Wright tr. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=hXCi_DViuqwC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&sig=3KRd23dvj1DbGak23VXz2q-VDDc
And so Aah’s cum, and also brought Alan,
To grind wor corn, and bring it hyem again;
Aah begs ye de the job fast as ye can.
glosses: home
Related terms: word: home
word: hyim
myriagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myriagrams
form: myriagramme
Etymology: From myria- + gram.
Senses: glosses: A unit of mass of ten thousand grams, or ten kilograms. Adopted as an equivalent of the French avoirdupois XX.
Related terms: quintal
tiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tire
tiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: tirings
Senses: glosses: The action of tiring.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.
Derived terms: tiring-house
tiring-room
tiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more tiring
form: most tiring
Senses: examples: text: Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.
synonyms: word: draining
word: tiresome
word: draining
word: exhausting
word: exhaustive
word: fatiguing
word: tiresome
word: tiring
word: weariful
word: wearing
word: wearisome
word: weary
glosses: That tires or tire.
Derived terms: untiring
uncritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncritical
form: most uncritical
Etymology: From un- + critical.
Senses: examples: text: an uncritical review
text: Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]
ref: c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket:
text: More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 55:
glosses: Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
glosses: Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.
examples: text: uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model
glosses: Slow to criticize.
Related terms: noncritical
uncultured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncultured
form: most uncultured
Etymology: From un- + cultured.
Senses: glosses: Not cultured or civilized; lacking in delicacy or refinement; philistine
topics: sciences
glosses: Not cultured or artificially developed.
uncut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unkut, uncutte, unkyt, unkutt, equivalent to un- + cut.
Senses: glosses: Not cut.
examples: text: But now a handful of houses are keen to master all stages of a stone’s journey from rough to final jewel. In September, for example, British luxury jewelers Graff Diamonds bought the uncut Lesedi La Rona, the world’s second largest diamond, for $53 million.
ref: 2017 October 29, Ming Liu, “Why high-end jewelers are investing in rough diamonds”, in CNN:
glosses: Not cut or ground to the desired shape.
raw_tags: of a gemstone
examples: text: Monroe had apparently not finished it, for the pages were uncut beyond the third chapter.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 31:
glosses: Not having the page edges trimmed.
raw_tags: of a book
qualifier: film etc
glosses: Not edited or abridged by a censor.
raw_tags: of a play
examples: text: You give them your requirements (or pick a model from the brochure) and await delivery of a massive plastic container filled with uncut gin.
ref: 2016, Tristan Stephenson, The Curious Bartender's Gin Palace:
glosses: Not diluted.
examples: text: All I'm saying is, uncut men are the best. They try harder. I should know. I've slept with five of them.
ref: 1999 August 1, Jenny Bicks, “Old Dogs, New Dicks”, in Sex and the City, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:
synonyms: word: foreskinned
word: intact
word: uncirced
word: un-circed
word: uncircumcised
word: unclipped
word: uncut
word: unsnipped
glosses: Not circumcised.
Related terms: unedited
uncensored
saved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of save
saved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Senses: examples: text: The second servant, however, was not only not "saved." She could not even be classified as "questing." She was an Anglican who was in the household from charity, having been deserted by her navvy husband and been denied Poor Relief by two parishes, each of whom claimed she was the other's responsibility.
ref: 1998, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Rescued from the consequences of sin.
examples: text: A penny saved is a penny earned.
glosses: Retained for future use rather than spent.
Related terms: saved by the bell
undamaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + damaged.
Senses: glosses: not damaged, harmed or injured
undaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undaunted
form: most undaunted
Etymology: From Middle English ondauntit, undauntdid; equivalent to un- + daunted.
Senses: examples: text: Undaunted in the court stands Didymus, virtuously proud of rescued innocence.
ref: 1750, “Theodora”, Thomas Morell (lyrics), George Frideric Handel (music):
text: […] for even the undaunted faith and energy of the Chicagoese cannot greatly accelerate the processes of nature in making' trees, or robing their trunks with moss.
ref: 1881, Edwin Hodder, Cities of the world, page 318:
glosses: Showing courage and resolution.
glosses: Not shaken, discouraged or disheartened.
Derived terms: undauntedly
undauntedness
Related terms: dauntless
undated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Etymology: From un- + dated.
Senses: synonyms: nondated
antonyms: dated
glosses: Not marked with a date.
synonyms: nondated
antonyms: dated
coordinate_terms: classic
timeless
glosses: Not out of fashion.
Related terms: undatable
undated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more undated
form: most undated
Etymology: From Latin undatus, past participle of undare (“to rise in waves, to wave, to undulate”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf; waved.
swingometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɪŋˈɒmɪtə/
enpr: swĭng-ämʹĭ-tər
ipa: /swɪŋˈɑmɪtɚ/
Forms: form: swingometers
Etymology: From swing + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A graphic device used to illustrate swing in an election.
Related terms: clapometer
undecided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undecided
form: most undecided
Etymology: From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- + decided.
Senses: examples: text: The question of man's destiny is still undecided.
synonyms: indeterminate
unresolved
unsettled
indecisive
glosses: Open and not yet settled or determined.
examples: text: The result of the election is in doubt because of a large number of undecided voters.
text: First, you say, you do
And then you don't
And then you say, you will
And then you won't
You're undecided now
So what are you gonna do?
Now you want to play
And then it's no
And when you say, you'll stay
That's when you go
You're undecided now
So what are you gonna do?
ref: 1939, “Undecided”, performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb and his Orchestra:
text: Perot was witty and comfortable in his own skin, which I thought would reassure his supporters and perhaps sway some of the undecided voters.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, →ISBN, page 439:
text: But she’s on text chains with scores of Jewish voters in this swing state who are still undecided and open to arguments from Republicans aggressively pursuing them.
ref: 2024 October 22, Dana Bash and Courtney Pence, “In battleground Pennsylvania, undecided Jewish voters could help swing the election”, in CNN:
synonyms: ambivalent
irresolute
of two minds
indecisive
unsure
glosses: Uncommitted, not having reached a decision.
undecided
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undecideds
Etymology: From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- + decided.
Senses: examples: text: The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds, who literally found themselves in the middle.
ref: 2008 February 17, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “At the Maine Caucuses, a Tough Nut to Crack”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: […] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.
ref: 2016, Herb Asher, Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know:
text: “Independents opposed the bill by around a 3-to-1 margin … The KFF and Fox News polls – the ones with the fewest undecideds – showed 7 in 10 independents opposed it,” Blake wrote.
ref: 2025 June 27, Zachary B. Wolf, “Trump is losing support among independent voters. Who are they?”, in CNN:
glosses: A voter etc. who has not yet come to a decision.
undecided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English undecided, equivalent to un- + decided.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undecide
uncommitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommitted
form: most uncommitted
Etymology: From un- + committed.
Senses: glosses: Not inclined toward either side in a matter under dispute.
examples: text: Something about his bearing was uncommitted, as though he were checking not for some bad quality he knew Feldman had, but for some good quality he was afraid he might have.
ref: 2010, Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man:
glosses: Not bound or pledged to a cause, party etc.
examples: text: Any uncommitted changes will be lost if you disconnect from the source control system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not yet written to disk and logged.
raw_tags: of an update to a database etc.
Derived terms: uncommitted logic array
bork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /boɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: borks
Etymology: From the species name of Pagothenia borchgrevinki.
Senses: examples: text: Near the water surface, Mayflower hunted for larger prey in the form of "borks." Pagothenia borchgrevinki "bork," for short—are buggy-eyed, dark-spotted fish with a Mohawk ridge of fins along the top. They live among the ice crystals formed by the platelet ice, hiding just below the frozen surface of the sea in -3°C (27°F) water.
ref: 2004, Terre M. Williams, The Hunter’s Breath: On Expedition with the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic, New York, N.Y.: M. Evans and Company, →ISBN, page 199:
text: On entering the Aquarium Building, I bumped into John Janssen, a biologist studying the behavior and physiology of Antarctic fish, and now a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. John stood near a large circular seawater tank containing a school of "borks" (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), silvery, foot-long, trout-shaped Antarctic fish that feed on plankton. The majority of Antarctic fish live on the seafloor, but borks live in the water column, hiding from sea predators in the cracks and crevices of the sea ice.
ref: 2012, James McClintock, “Life Adrift: The Small Organisms Matter”, in Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
bork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /boɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: borks
Etymology: Mutation of bark.
Senses: examples: text: Understanding doggo memes requires a previous knowledge of doggo meme jargon, including words such as bamboozled (a word that basically signifies confusion in any context) and bork (for a dog’s bark).
ref: 2017 October 19, Rachel Henry, “Heckin’ bamboozled”, in The Daily Californian:
glosses: The sound that a dog makes.
bork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /boɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: borks
form: borking
form: borked
form: borked
Etymology: Mutation of bark.
Senses: examples: text: Dogs become “doggo”, “floofs” and “puppers” and they “bork” rather than bark.
ref: 2016 September 6, Elena Cresci, “Cats v dogs: which animal owns the internet?”, in The Guardian:
text: And now, a Doge can bork — Tumblr doggo slang for barking or being aggressive.
ref: 2016 December 8, Jay Hathaway, “The very longevity of Doge, the Shiba Inu meme that is still such popular”, in The Daily Dot:
glosses: Of a dog, to bark.
bork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /boɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: borks
form: borking
form: borked
form: borked
Etymology: Perhaps from a blend of boink + pork.
Senses: examples: text: It was Oscar Wilde who remarked on the phenomenon of Life imitating Art . What with the tabloid Press, and Princess Di borking her riding instructor in a high-life, contemporary update of Lady Chatterley's Lover, we may soon not need fiction […]
ref: 1994, The Book Review, volumes 18-19, page 34:
glosses: To boink; to have sex with.
bork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːk/
ipa: /boɹk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: borks
form: borking
form: borked
form: borked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, representing the sound of vomiting. Possibly related to boak.
Senses: examples: text: He tweeted: “Barf!! @BurgerKingUK thanks for [sic] Hygeine standards. How many hairs did I eat b4 realising?? Borked!!!”
ref: 2016 January 8, Christina Criddle, quoting Si Foster, “Actor finds stomach-churning greasy black hair in his Burger King”, in Liverpool Echo:
text: She told the ECHO : "I can't open my windows because it makes me want to bork."
ref: 2019 September 4, Olivia Williams, quoting Diane Jones, “People unable to open windows due to lingering 'revolting' smell”, in Liverpool Echo:
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: To retch or vomit.