cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: crackles
Etymology: From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
Senses: examples: text: I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.
text: There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.
text: Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise, flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roar, but no crackle.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The best clothes which every one put on helped the general effect; it seemed that no lady could sit down without bending a clean starched petticoat, and no gentleman could breathe without a sudden crackle from a stiff shirt-front.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
synonyms: crepitation
glosses: A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
examples: text: The Chinese attach great value to their crackle, which, though it looks like damaged glaze, is produced by art; […].
ref: 1871, Henry George Bohn, A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu […] , London: G. Bell & sons, page xx:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
examples: text: By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this. I bet I asked for another piece once I was done.
ref: 2017, Edgar Maranan, Len Maranan-Goldstein, A Taste of Home: Pinoy Expats and Food Memories:
glosses: Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).
synonyms: word: crackling
extra: crispy rind of roast pork
Derived terms: chocolate crackle
crackle glass
crackleware
pork crackle
Related terms: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: craze
crackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: crackles
form: crackling
form: crackled
form: crackled
Etymology: From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
Senses: examples: text: a crackling fire
text: the unknown ice that crackles underneath them
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.
ref: 1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XIV, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
examples: text: The last scenes of the film crackle with repressed sexual energy.
synonyms: fizzle
sizzle
glosses: To be full of tension or emotion.
Derived terms: crackling
cracklingly
crackling microstar
crackly
castaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsʹtəwā
ipa: /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/
ipa: /ˈkæstəweɪ/
Etymology: Deverbal from cast away.
Senses: examples: text: After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
glosses: Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
examples: text: The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
glosses: Shipwrecked.
glosses: Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
castaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsʹtəwā
ipa: /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/
ipa: /ˈkæstəweɪ/
Forms: form: castaways
Etymology: Deverbal from cast away.
Senses: examples: text: Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shipwrecked sailor.
examples: text: This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
glosses: A discarded person or thing.
examples: text: These homeless people are society's castaways.
glosses: An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
Derived terms: Blastaway
Lostaway
Related terms: cast away
outside world
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside worlds
Senses: examples: text: The people of Tibet represent a separate case. Conquered by the Chinese in 1950, occupied brutally by troops who killed thousands, desecrated local cultural and religious sites, and denied reasonable demands for autonomy, Tibetans have elicited much sympathy but little support from the outside world.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 179–180:
glosses: The rest of the world outside of some closed, restricted, or remote environment.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The world external to the human mind.
Synonyms: sense: philosophy: world external to the mind
word: external world
homophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊb/
ipa: /ˈhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊməfəʊb
rhymes: -ɒməfəʊb
Forms: form: homophobes
Etymology: Back-formation from homophobia, equivalent to homo- + -phobe (notice in Greek it would refer to a self-hater).
Senses: examples: text: That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
ref: 1997, Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
text: If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, "I am a homophobe!"
ref: 2001 April 23, Henry Rollins, Talk Is Cheap, Volume I, published 3 January 2003:
text: To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie — culturally and psychologically — but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
ref: 2006, Robert Ordona, quoting Ang Lee, “"Brokeback Mountain" — as gay as it gets: An interview with Ang Lee”, in Gay.com, archived from the original on 19 May 2006:
text: Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.
ref: 2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:
synonyms: heterosexist
antonyms: gayphobe
lesbophobe
coordinate_terms: biphobe
transphobe
glosses: One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia.
Derived terms: homophobephobe
homophobophobe
homophobophobia
Related terms: homophobia
homophobic
homophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊb/
ipa: /ˈhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊməfəʊb
rhymes: -ɒməfəʊb
Forms: form: homophobes
Etymology: From homo- (“man; same”) + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who fears sameness.
glosses: A person who fears men.
high altar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high altars
Senses: examples: text: In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:
glosses: The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.
ultrametamorphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + metamorphosis.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of metamorphosis that occurs at a temperature and pressure just below the fusion point of the rock
Related terms: ultrametamorphic
ultrametamorphism
homophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˈhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊ.bɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: more homophobic
form: most homophobic
Etymology: From homo- (“homosexual”) + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: homophobic abuse
text: The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
ref: 2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.
examples: text: My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me!
text: It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now.
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Inconvenient, annoying, irritating.
Derived terms: antihomophobic
homophobically
nonhomophobic
Related terms: homophobe
homophobia
homophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊ.məˌfəʊ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˈhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˈhoʊ.məˌfoʊ.bɪk/
rhymes: -əʊbɪk
Forms: form: homophobics
Etymology: From homo- (“homosexual”) + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide.
ref: 1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."
ref: 2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:
text: When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).
ref: 2016, Ralph Erber, Maureen Erber, Intimate Relationships: Issues, Theories, and Research, Second Edition:
glosses: A homophobe.
alt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlt/
ipa: /ɒlt/
ipa: /ɑlt/
note: altitude
ipa: /ælt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Etymology: From Latin altus (“high”). Doublet of old and alto.
Senses: examples: text: Sop[hy] Moderato! moderato! Madam. Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt. / L[ady] Scr[ape] In alt! Madam? / Sop[hy] Yes, in alt- Give me leave to tell your Ladyship, that you have raised your voice a full octave higher since you came into the room.
ref: 1762, George Colman, The Musical Lady:
text: The duet was in alt; one stormed, the other half crying, half scolding, made up in volubility what her aunt possessed in authority, and it was not 'till Lady Meredith had twice raised her mild voice, either party could be silenced.
ref: 1794, Mrs. Bennett (Agnes Maria), Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel: A Novel, volume 1:
text: And he began, — "Poor insect! born to flutter and to die;" — falling into the second, directly Helen took the first, till he got down to such unreasonable bass that he suddenly gave a shriek in alt that made Olga stop her ears.
ref: 1857, Anne Manning, Helen and Olga: a Russian tale, page 194:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a voice or instrument, high pitch; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.
examples: text: I was, however, glad at my heart, that Mrs. Moore came up so seasonably with notice, that dinner was ready. The fair fugitive was all in alt. She had the game in her own hands; and by giving me so good an excuse for withdrawing, I had time to strengthen myself; the Captain had time to come; and the Lady to cool.
ref: 1748, Samuel Richardson, The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters:
text: "Not," added she, as her eyes glittered with anger, and she sidled near the door for an exit—" not but, in the estimation of others, you may be quite an Adonis—a young gentleman of wit and fashion —a beau of the first water; I have no doubt Mary Jane thinks so— you old wretch!" This, in alt, and a bang of the door that brought down an oil picture that hung over it, closed the scene.
ref: c. 1875, Charles James Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad:
text: He had no wish to pry or listen; but if people would talk in alt, whilst he moved, like a mole, about his business, family matters would cleave the ear which, however it tried, could not be deaf.
ref: 1891, Douglas William Jerrold, Tales: now first collected, page 113:
text: That lady was in alt at Loxsleigh's high station and had spent the morning making inquiries of her friends, which also allowed her to spread the word about her interesting new acquaintance.
ref: 2011, Jo Beverley, “The Marrying Maid”, in Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, page 50:
glosses: A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition.
alt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlt/
ipa: /ɒlt/
ipa: /ɑlt/
note: altitude
ipa: /ælt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: alt key
text: […]Adele, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Frank Ocean, Drake, and Ed Sheeran are among many artists who don't appear to spend a lot of time online (or if they do, it's using alt accounts).
ref: 2021, Rhian Jones, Lucy Heyman, Sound Advice: The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music, Shoreditch Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of alternate.
examples: text: alt medicine
text: alt text
text: Fearn is thoughtful and deeply alt (“I’ve always been an oddball”), less demonstrative but more confident.
ref: 2023 March 5, Miranda Sawyer, “Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: alt-#Prefix
glosses: Clipping of alternative, especially as a cultural phenomenon seen as being outside the mainstream of its genre.
Derived terms: alt fashion
alt key
alt lit
alt text
alt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlt/
ipa: /ɒlt/
ipa: /ɑlt/
note: altitude
ipa: /ælt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: alts
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of altitude.
examples: text: Of these alts, how many of them are a gender other than your own?
ref: 1996, Jonobie D. Baker, “Survey of MUSHers.”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):
text: Yes, I have many alts, and no, none of the others have any unusual capitalisation.
ref: 2000, KaVir, “Code Bases - why release buggy crap?”, in alt.mud (Usenet):
topics: games
gaming
glosses: An alternate or secondary character.
examples: text: You've been here four days and you already know about the incident from last year? You're such an obvious alt.
hyponyms: sock puppet
glosses: An alternate account.
examples: text: liquid alts
topics: business
finance
glosses: An alternative investment or alternative fund.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An alternate version of a piece of art, especially without much changes beyond a specific thing.
glosses: Ellipsis of alt text.
Derived terms: altazimuth
alt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlt/
ipa: /ɒlt/
ipa: /ɑlt/
note: altitude
ipa: /ælt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: alts
Etymology: From German Alt.
Senses: examples: text: Top-fermenting ales are still brewed, notably the alts of Düsseldorf and kölsches of Cologne.
ref: 1999, Brian Glover, The Complete Guide to Beer, Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 146:
text: On average, the mash temperatures used in the NHC second-round alts and kölschs were higher, at 153 °F (67 °C) and 151 °F (66 °C) respectively.
ref: 2000, Ray Daniels, Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles, Brewers Publications:
text: In the last two days I have drunk 10 different beers in each city and feel the Kölsches were within a narrower flavor profile, being relatively similar to each other, whereas Alts had more range of aroma and flavor.
ref: 2015, Mark Dredge, The Best Beer in the World: One Man’s Globe Search for the Perfect Pint, Dog ‘n’ Bone Books, →ISBN:
text: Ale yeasts are often described as top fermenting, but top cropping would probably be a better description: the yeast ferments at all levels throughout the liquid, but once its work is done it collects at the top of the fermenting vessel (traditionally these vessels would have been open at the top). Family members include bitters, porters, stouts, alts and kölschs.
ref: 2016, Tim Hampson, The 50 Greatest Beers of the World, Icon Books:
glosses: Synonym of altbier.
synonyms: word: altbier
ultramundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin ultrāmundānus.
Senses: glosses: extraordinary; abnormal
examples: text: We have received the following letter, purporting to come from an ultramundane correspondent:
ref: 1959 January, Rudolf Lipschitz, “Correspondence”, in Annals of Mathematics, volume 69, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 247–251:
glosses: extraterrestrial; outside of earth or the universe
Afro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæfɹoʊ-/
Etymology: From Latin Āfri, Āfer + -o-. Abstracted from Afro-American (attested 1902) and becoming generally popular from the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: African
Related terms: afro
coolbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolboxes
form: cool box
Etymology: From cool + box.
Senses: glosses: A box used to keep provisions cool.
Synonyms: word: cooler
word: ice box
word: chilly bin
word: esky
open sesame
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: open, Sesame
form: open, sesame
form: open Sesame
Etymology: From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.
Not, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!.
Senses: glosses: open up (especially referring to doors)
open sesame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open sesames
form: open, Sesame
form: open, sesame
form: open Sesame
Etymology: From its use in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, translating French Sésame, ouvre-toi in Antoine Galland's version of the Ali Baba story in the One Thousand and One Nights, possibly based on an oral Arabic source.
Not, as some have purported, a corruption of Open, says me!.
Senses: examples: text: "The blue topaz was bought by me, from the chieftain of the tribe to which Quacal belongs. It is an ‘open sesame’ to his favor."
ref: 1899, William Wallace Cook, “Aquastor”, in Overland Monthly, page 15:
text: He who can read a true book aright has an open sesame to audiences with the great and wise of all time.
ref: 1905, John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, page lv:
text: Relevancy not always an open sesame having in mind the over-all authority and discretion of the trial judge.
ref: 1963, William J. Palmer, Trial Tactics in California, page 57:
text: When Mussolini was a young chap, he dabbled with socialism, imagining it to be an open sesame to a better society.
ref: 2001 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Sympathy for a devil”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any successful means of achieving a result, especially means that are magical or technical, or otherwise beyond the understanding of most people.
sesame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛsəmi/
ipa: /ˈsɛzəmi/
ipa: /ˈsɛsəmi/
ipa: /ˈsɛsəm/
ipa: /ˈsiːsəm/
rhymes: -ɛsəmɪ
Forms: form: sesames
form: sesamé
form: sesamë
Etymology: From late Middle English sisamie, from Latin sīsamum, sēsamum, from Ancient Greek σήσαμον (sḗsamon), from Aramaic שושמא (šūššmā), shortening of שומשומא (šumššumā), from Akkadian 𒊭𒈦𒌑𒈬 (šamaššammū, “oil plant”), compound of 𒉌𒄑 (šaman, “oil”) and 𒌑 (šammum, “plant”). The modern pronunciation is perhaps influenced by (transliterations of) Greek σησάμη (sisámi). Doublet of sesamum.
Senses: synonyms: beniseed
benne
gingelly
glosses: A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil.
examples: text: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
ref: 2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
synonyms: sesame seed
glosses: The seed of this plant.
Derived terms: black sesame soup
open sesame
sesame dot
sesame grass
sesame leaf
sesame oil
sesame seed
trombone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/
ipa: /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
ipa: /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/
ipa: /tɹəmˈboʊn/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊn
rhymes: (US) -oʊn
Forms: form: trombones
form: tromboni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Senses: examples: text: Jim plays the trombone very well.
text: This trombone is very expensive.
text: Horns, trumpets, and trombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.
ref: 2003, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 598:
text: Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
ref: 2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
glosses: The common European bittern.
examples: text: The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.
ref: 1983, Alan Wurtzel, Television Production, page 131:
text: The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.
ref: 2013, Harry Box, Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, page 480:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
Derived terms: word: superbone
word: tromboner
word: tromboning
word: trombonist
sense: Compound words
word: alto trombone
sense: Compound words
word: bass trombone
sense: Compound words
word: double trombone
sense: Compound words
word: rusty trombone
sense: Compound words
word: sad trombone
sense: Compound words
word: slide trombone
sense: Compound words
word: tenor trombone
sense: Compound words
word: trombone-player
sense: Compound words
word: valide trombone
sense: Compound words
word: valve trombone
trombone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹɒmˈbəʊn/
ipa: /tɹəmˈbəʊn/
ipa: /ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn/
ipa: /tɹəmˈboʊn/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊn
rhymes: (US) -oʊn
Forms: form: trombones
form: tromboning
form: tromboned
form: tromboned
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
examples: text: […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]
ref: 2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357:
text: He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]
ref: 2014, Henry K. Miller, The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page 71:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹīl
ipa: /ˈmɪs.aɪl/
enpr: mĭsʹīl
enpr: mĭsʹəl
ipa: /ˈmɪs.(ə)l/
ipa: /-aɪl/
homophone: missal (GA, Canada)
rhymes: -ɪsaɪl
rhymes: -ɪsəl
Forms: form: missiles
Etymology: From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.
Senses: examples: text: The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
text: And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.
ref: 2012, Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126
glosses: Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
examples: text: That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
Derived terms: air-to-air missile
air-to-surface missile
anti-ballistic missile
antiballistic missile
antimissile
antiship missile
anti-ship missile
ballistic missile
cruise missile
Euromissile
guided missile
hypermissile
intercontinental ballistic missile
missileer
missile farm
missile gap
missilelike
missileman
missileproof
missilery
missile silo
nonmissile
Patriot missile
steely-eyed missile man
submissile
supermissile
surface-to-air missile
surface-to-surface missile
TOW missile
Related terms: mess
message
messenger
mission
missionary
missive
projectile
rocket
contribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɹɪˈbjuːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: contributions
Etymology: From Middle English contribucioun, contribucion, from Old French contribution, from Latin contribūtiōnem, contribūtiō, from Latin contribuēre. By surface analysis, contribute + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
examples: text: He made a contribution of $100 for the victims of the flood.
glosses: An amount of money given toward something.
glosses: The act of contributing.
glosses: The taking part, often with the idea that it has led to (scientific etc.) progress.
Derived terms: contributional
contribution base
cuntribution
defined contribution
defined contributions
microcontribution
noncontribution
overcontribution
recontribution
rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.kət/
rhymes: -ɒkɪt
Forms: form: rockets
form: rocketing
form: rocketed
form: rocketed
Etymology: From Italian rocchetta, from Old Italian rocchetto (“rocket”, literally “a bobbin”), diminutive of rocca (“a distaff”), from Lombardic rocko (“spinning wheel”), from Proto-West Germanic *rokkō, from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”). Cognate with Old High German rocco, rocko, roccho, rocho ("a distaff"; > German Rocken (“a distaff”)), Swedish rock (“a distaff”), Icelandic rokkur (“a distaff”), Middle English rocke (“a distaff”). More at rock⁴.
For the meaning development, compare fuselage, ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”).
Senses: examples: text: With Free Guy, Reynolds gets just a little more in touch with his Carrey side via nothing less than his own version of The Truman Show, shorn of its daydream dread and rocketed into the age of Fortnite.
ref: 2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
glosses: To fly vertically.
examples: text: The project was attractive because of the ability to maximise the use of existing and decommissioned railways, minimise land take, and decrease the amount of disruption during the project. With London land prices rocketing, there was also a significant financial incentive.
ref: 2020 May 20, Paul Bigland, “East London Line's renaissance”, in Rail, pages 48–49:
text: The cost of food in the UK had rocketed by 25% since 2019, the researchers calculated, but if the post-Brexit trade restrictions were not in place then this increase would be only 17% – nearly a third lower.
ref: 2023 May 24, Phillip Inman, “Brexit food trade barriers have cost UK households £7bn, report finds”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To rise or soar rapidly.
examples: text: After spending years in obscurity, the band finally rocketed last week.
glosses: To experience sudden fame, popularity, or success.
glosses: To carry something in a rocket.
glosses: To attack something with rockets.
rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒk.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.kət/
rhymes: -ɒkɪt
Forms: form: rockets
Etymology: Borrowed from French roquette, from Italian ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, from Latin eruca. Cognate to arugula, rucola, eruca, roquette.
Senses: synonyms: arugula
rocket salad#Noun
eruca
glosses: A leaf vegetable of species Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
examples: text: And avoid certain aphrodisiac foods, such as onions and rockets.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 16:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Eruca.
glosses: Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis, syn. Delphinium consolida).
Derived terms: english: Aconitum
translation: Aconitum
word: blue rocket
word: dame's rocket
taxonomic: Hesperis matronalis
word: sweet rocket
word: dyer's rocket
english: Reseda
translation: Reseda
word: bastard rocket
taxonomic: Sisymbrium irio
word: London rocket
word: wild rocket
word: perennial wall rocket
word: sand rocket
taxonomic: Diplotaxis tenuifolia
word: white rocket
word: yellowrocket
word: rocketcress
word: winter rocket
taxonomic: Barbarea vulgaris
word: wound rocket
projectile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/
ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktɪl/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.taɪl/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.tl̩/
Forms: form: projectiles
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”).
Senses: glosses: An object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.
Derived terms: projectile point
projectile vomit
projectile-vomit
Related terms: missile
rocket
projectile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/
ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktɪl/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.taɪl/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.tl̩/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”).
Senses: examples: text: a projectile force; a projectile weapon
glosses: Projecting or impelling forward.
examples: text: A free and strong Projectile Motion of the Blood must occasion a florid Appearance upon the Skin in such Constitutions
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
Derived terms: projectile vomiting
carnival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkɑːnɪvl̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩]
other: /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/
ipa: /ˈkaːnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkaːnɪvl̩]
Forms: form: carnivals
form: carnaval
Etymology: From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval.
Senses: examples: text: Carnival of Brazil
text: Venice Carnival
glosses: Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
examples: text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
examples: text: We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
text: When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
glosses: A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
examples: text: The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order.
ref: 2010, Gulnara Karimova, “Jackass, South Park, and 'Everyday' Culture”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 33, page 37:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
examples: text: a carnival of idiocy
glosses: A gaudily chaotic situation.
Coordinate terms: mardi gras
Derived terms: blog carnival
carnivalesque
carnival glass
carnivalic
carnivalistic
carnivalize
carnivallike
carny
noncarnival
precarnival
surf carnival
winter carnival
carnival
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkɑːnɪvl̩]
ipa: /ˈkɑɹnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkɑɹnɪvl̩]
other: /kɑɹnəˈvɑl/
ipa: /ˈkaːnɪvəl/
ipa: [ˈkaːnɪvl̩]
Forms: form: carnivals
form: carnivaling
form: carnivalling
form: carnivaled
form: carnivaled
form: carnivalled
form: carnivalled
form: carnaval
Etymology: From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval.
Senses: glosses: To participate in a carnival.
examples: text: The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi.
ref: 1870 July, “Life in the Mexican Capital”, in The Old Guard, volume VIII, number VII, [New York, N.Y.]: [C. Chauncey Burr & Co.], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 507:
text: Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow.
ref: 1983, Alan Stratton, The Hunters, London; Sydney, N.S.W.: Futura, →ISBN, page 161:
text: A sudden bright white flash exploded before me. A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy.
ref: 2007, Jonny Glynn, The Seven Days of Peter Crumb, New York, N.Y.; […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: To move about playfully or wildly.
salvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: salvations
form: salvatioun
Etymology: From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu.
Senses: examples: text: Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
examples: text: Though this is not meant as a medical advice, smoking grass was an occasional salvation; it reduced the nausea, raised my spirits and even gave me a small appetite.
ref: 1981 December 5, Tom Wilson, “Hepatitis”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 14:
glosses: The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.
raw_tags: with allusion to the previous sense
examples: text: If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
Derived terms: salvationism
salvation Jane
Related terms: salvage
salvatic
salvational
salvationary
salvatory
salvation
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sælˈveɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: salvations
form: salvationing
form: salvationed
form: salvationed
form: salvatioun
Etymology: From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu.
Senses: glosses: To save, in the religious sense; to bring to salvation.
cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: cramps
Etymology: From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Senses: examples: text: He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.
text: August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
coordinate_terms: twinge#Noun
glosses: A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
examples: text: A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear!
ref: 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Truth”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 96:
synonyms: restraint
shackle
hindrance
glosses: That which confines or contracts.
glosses: A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
glosses: A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Derived terms: bather's cramp
brain cramp
cramp ball
crampbark
cramp bone
crampet
cramp fasciculation syndrome
crampfish
cramp iron
crampish
cramp ring
crampy
menstrual cramp
musician's cramp
uncramp
wanker's cramp
writer's cramp
cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: cramps
form: cramping
form: cramped
form: cramped
Etymology: From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Senses: glosses: (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
examples: text: The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
ref: 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
glosses: To affect with cramps or spasms.
examples: text: You're cramping my style.
text: But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
ref: 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon:
glosses: To prohibit movement or expression of.
examples: text: You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
text: when the gout cramps my joints
ref: 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck:
glosses: To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
glosses: To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
examples: text: The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
ref: 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics:
glosses: To bind together; to unite.
examples: text: to cramp boot legs
glosses: To form on a cramp.
Derived terms: crampingly
cramp someone's style
cramp up
cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: more cramp
form: most cramp
Etymology: From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Senses: examples: text: […] the result was those folio volumes of MSS. now in the British Museum, in which inquirers into the history of that period find so much interesting material in such a confused state and in such a dreadfully cramp handwriting.
ref: 1871, David Masson, The Life of John Milton:
glosses: cramped; narrow
minstrel gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minstrel galleries
Senses: glosses: A balcony or loft for musicians in a hall or church.
troupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: troop
Forms: form: troupes
Etymology: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in The Guardian:
text: Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.
ref: 2020 April 24, Oscar Holland, “How North Korea’s ideology is built on song and dance”, in CNN:
glosses: A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
glosses: Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
Derived terms: ballet troupe
troupe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: troop
Forms: form: troupes
form: trouping
form: trouped
form: trouped
Etymology: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Senses: glosses: To tour with a troupe.
Derived terms: trouper
super trouper
Related terms: trooper
recite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: recites
form: reciting
form: recited
form: recited
Etymology: From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.
Senses: examples: text: Janice is able to recite pi to 100 decimals.
text: "I feel the seat. I feel the seat against my arm. I feel my hands," recites Edmonds, her eyes still closed.
ref: 2010 December 22, Allan Chernoff, “Overcoming the fear of flying”, in CNN:
text: It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts.
ref: 2019 February 19, Doug Criss, “Here’s why students don’t have to recite the Pledge of Allegiance”, in CNN:
text: Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.
ref: 2019 October 8, Christina Maxouris and Doug Criss, “Everything you wanted to know about Yom Kippur”, in CNN:
text: Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate who gained national acclaim at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday.
ref: 2021 January 27, Wayne Sterling, “Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman to recite poem before Super Bowl LV”, in CNN:
glosses: To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
glosses: To list or enumerate something.
glosses: To deliver a recitation.
Synonyms: sense: repeat aloud
word: declaim
sense: repeat aloud
word: go through
sense: repeat aloud
word: spout
sense: list or enumerate something
word: tabulate
word: tick off
Related terms: recit
recitation
recite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /ˌɹiˈsaɪt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: recites
form: reciting
form: recited
form: recited
Etymology: From re- + cite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-cite (which is the preferred spelling, to avoid needless homography).