cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hypertext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪpəɹˌtɛkst/
Forms: form: hypertexts
Etymology: From hyper- + text; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: We do not read hypertext the same way we read a novel, and browsing the Web is a different experience from reading a book or newspaper.
ref: 2009, Christian Vandendorpe, Phyllis Aronoff, and Howard Scott (Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott, transl.), From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library, University of Illinois Press, p 1
text: Further, hypertext systems, because of their ease of construction, are very rich in text, graphics and visual illustrations.
ref: 1999, Ray McAleese, Hypertext: Theory into Practice, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 2:
text: 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", WIRED
Did Nelson realize at the time that he had met Xanadu's second parent? Probably not. The inventor scattered his ideas as widely as possible, with little care about where they landed. But as the decades passed, it would be Gregory who oversaw the attempt to transform Xanadu into a real product. He never received much public notice, but through all the project's painful deaths and rebirths, Gregory's commitment to Nelson's dream of a universal hypertext library never waned. If Ted Nelson is Xanadu's profligate father, Roger Gregory is Xanadu's devoted mother, and in retrospect, his role appears to have been intertwined with a terrible element of sacrifice.
glosses: Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
examples: text: A hypertext system, then, is a memex-like device for creating and manipulating hypertexts, both for on-line browsing, and for reducing selected portions of such texts to . .
ref: 1969, S. Carmody, W. Gross, T. Nelson, D. Rice, and A. van Dam, “A Hypertext Editing System for the /360”, in Michael Faiman and Jurg Nievergelt, Pertinent Concepts in Computer Graphics: Proceedings, University of Illinois Press, p 296
glosses: A hypertext document.
Synonyms: non-linear text
Derived terms: hypertexted
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP
nonhypertext
Related terms: hyperlink
blockhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blockholes
form: block hole
form: block-hole
Etymology: From block + hole.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.
glosses: The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
take guard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes guard
form: taking guard
form: took guard
form: taken guard
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: (For a new batsman, with help from the umpire) to mark a point on the popping crease in front of his wicket so that he knows where it is behind him; to guard.
Synonyms: take block
yank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yăngk
ipa: /jæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: yanks
Etymology: Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: He unjammed the rope with a short yank.
glosses: A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
examples: text: He rested his hand on his bare chest, an innocent enough spot, but soon it drifted of its own accord down his stomach to slide beneath the waistband of his briefs. Fine. A quick yank would relieve the sexual tension that simmered in him.
ref: 2012, Bonnie Dee, Summer Devon, Serious Play, page 81:
glosses: A masturbation session.
examples: text: Tell my young bad, she can vouch for me
I was only thirteen with a yank on me
ref: 2024 September 7, “Movie Star” (0:57 from the start), #ALG Grimzo x Alsz Gambino (lyrics):
glosses: alternative form of shank (“stabbing weapon”).
Synonyms: sense: sudden, vigorous pull
word: jerk
sense: sudden, vigorous pull
word: tug
word: fap
yank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yăngk
ipa: /jæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: yanks
form: yanking
form: yanked
form: yanked
Etymology: Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose.
ref: 2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:
text: [Regarding risks of AI] And you just have to have somebody close to the power cord. [Laughs.]^([sic]) Right when you see it about to happen, you gotta yank that electricity out of the wall, man.
ref: 2016 October, Scott Dadich, quoting Barack Obama, “Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
examples: text: They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
glosses: To remove from distribution.
Synonyms: sense: pull with a quick strong action
word: jerk
sense: pull with a quick strong action
word: tug
sense: remove from circulation
word: pull
sense: remove from circulation
word: recall
Derived terms: rank and yank
yank around
yanker
yank off
yank one's crank
yank someone's chain
yank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yăngk
ipa: /jæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: yanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yank (“Yankee”).
omnis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omni
aliquot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/
Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.
Senses: examples: text: 1794, George Adams (Jr), Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, The Principal Phenomena of Nature, and Shewing, That They All Co-operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God,
If, therefore, every aliquot diviſion produced a ſenſible effect by it's vibration, we ſhould hear in every muſical ſtring an infinite variety of chords, diſſonant and conſonant, in ſharp and flat keys at the ſame time.
text: The United States standard yard … has a thin strip of silver, ¹⁄₅ inch broad, let into it through its entire length. It is divided into small divisions, each being an aliquot part of an inch.
ref: 1853, Joseph Whitworth, New York Industrial Exhibition: Official Report, page 166:
text: Prices or cost estimates are put on these commodities and services, and the aggregate sum of the prices being divided by the population gives the amount of the citizen's personal credit, which is simply his aliquot share of the commodities and services available for the year.
ref: 1897, Edward Bellamy, chapter IV, in Equality:
text: [T]he meal should be divided in aliquot parts among the members of the sick and indigent roomkeeper’s association as a token of his regard and esteem.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Contained in the whole an integral number of times, a factor or divisor.
aliquot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/
Forms: form: aliquots
Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: subaliquot
text: 1965 December 1, Martha Smith Richmond, Analysis of Uranium Concentrates at the National Bureau of Standards, National Bureau of Standards, NBS Misc. Publ. 260-8, page 26,
Two aliquots each of 57 sample solutions and 15 solutions of NBS Standard No. 950a were assayed.
text: 11.5.3 For each sample or sample batch (to a maximum of 20 samples) to be extracted during the same 12-hour shift, weigh two 10 g aliquots of the appropriate reference matrix (Section 7.6) into clean beakers or glass jars.
ref: 2002, Code of Federal Regulations, 40: Parts 136-149, Protection of Environment, Office of the Federal Register, page 244:
text: Composite samples are formed by physically mixing aliquots of individual samples. If aliquots of equal volumes are used, then the composite sample values are simply the arithmetic averages of individual sample values.
ref: 2011, Ganapati P. Patil, Sharad D. Gore, Charles Taillie, Composite Sampling, Springer, page 115:
topics: biotechnology
chemistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: aliquant
hypernyms: part
portion
subsample
glosses: A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
examples: Meronym: subaliquot
topics: biotechnology
chemistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: aliquant
hypernyms: part
portion
subsample
part
portion
subsample
glosses: A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
Such a portion that divides evenly into the total with no remainder.
coordinate_terms: aliquant
qualifier: strictly
Derived terms: subaliquot
aliquot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɑt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɒt/
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.kwɔt/
Forms: form: aliquots
form: aliquoting
form: aliquotting
form: aliquoted
form: aliquoted
form: aliquotted
form: aliquotted
Etymology: From French aliquote, from Latin aliquot.
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Patricia Viola Racenis, Phosphatidate Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, University of Michigan, page 34,
The nuclear pellet was resuspended in homogenizing buffer (about 25 ml), aliquoted into Eppendorf tubes and stored at -80°C.
text: The final solution is filtered, aliquoted into 150 μL portions, and stored at –70°C.
ref: 2002, Joachim Close, “20: Preparation of Protein Samples from Mouse and Human Tissues for 2-D Electrophoresis”, in John M. Walker, editor, The Protein Protocols Handbook, Humana Press, page 144:
text: Serum was aliquoted into 10 mL aliquants and frozen at -20°C until use.
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Ann Dille, Establishing an in Vitro Follicle Culture System to Study the Effect of Endometriosis on Infertility, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 105:
topics: biotechnology
chemistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots.
squamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskweɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˈskweɪ.məs/
ipa: /ˈskwɑː.məs/
rhymes: -eɪməs
Forms: form: more squamous
form: most squamous
Etymology: From Middle English squamous, from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale(of a fish or reptile)”).
Senses: examples: text: In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 180:
text: I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!
ref: 1933, H. P. Lovecraft, Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons:
text: We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level.
ref: 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 133:
text: (And we'll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, "It's squamous and rugose," or simply, "It's squamous!")
ref: 2001, Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive, trade paperback 2006 edition, page 66:
synonyms: word: squamose
word: squamulose
word: scaled
word: scaly
word: scarious
word: squamate
word: squamated
word: squamiferous
word: squamoid
word: squamous
word: squamulose
word: squarrose
antonyms: esquamulose
scaleless
glosses: Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
coordinate_terms: cuboidal
columnar
glosses: Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).
Derived terms: adenosquamous
basosquamous
neosquamous
nonsquamous
papulosquamous
petrosquamous
simple squamous epithelium
squammy
squamously
squamous suture
subsquamous
Related terms: squama
blase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In mid-February a colleague mentioned that for the first time in his life he was more concerned than his mother, who had been relatively blase about the risks of Covid-19.
ref: 2020 April 15, Helen Ward, “We scientists said lock down. But UK politicians refused to listen”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of blasé.
Derived terms: blasely
blaseness
vicissitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicissitude
Q-tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Q-tip
Q-tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Q-tip
Senses: glosses: Cottontop, a plant of species Micropus californicus
reparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reparations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis.
Senses: examples: text: I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: A feature of locomotive operation on the Region de l'Est of the French National Railways, not only on the old Alsace-Lorraine lines, but also on the Est proper, is the wide use still made of ex-German engines received as reparations after the 1914-19 war.
ref: 1950 January, “Notes and News: Est Locomotive Practice”, in Railway Magazine, page 58:
text: Biotic Leader: So how about if I kill Chairman Burns and finish this charade?
Chairman Burns: Please! I was trying to help you people!
Shepard: Let's not do anything we're all going to regret.
Biotic Leader: Why not? What have we got to lose?
Biotic Leader: Since the chairman here decided we didn't get reparations, we've got nothing left to live for!
Chairman Burns: But I've changed my mind! Seeing y-you all, it's c-clear that you all d-deserve...
Biotic Leader: You had your chance! Some L2s are nearly crippled from side effects of the implants, but you voted against reparations!
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: MSV Ontario:
glosses: A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
examples: text: the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
text: The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:
glosses: The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
Synonyms: sense: a payment
word: restitution
sense: a payment
word: compensation
sense: a payment
word: amends
sense: a payment
word: satisfaction
sense: a renewing
word: restoration
sense: a renewing
word: repair
Related terms: repair
reparative
microreparations
war reparations
bodyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodylines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of body line.
Derived terms: bodyliner
bodyline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 3:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.
interface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəfeɪs/
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)ɚˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: interfaces
form: interfacing
form: interfaced
form: interfaced
Etymology: From inter- (“between”) + face (“shape, figure, form”).
Senses: glosses: To construct an interface for.
glosses: To connect through an interface.
glosses: To serve as an interface.
examples: text: Let's interface on Wednesday.
topics: business
glosses: To meet for discussion.
Related terms: mixin
trait
cathedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈθiːdɹəl/
ipa: /kəˈtiːdrəl/
rhymes: -iːdɹəl
Etymology: From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.
Related terms: cathedratic
cathedral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈθiːdɹəl/
ipa: /kəˈtiːdrəl/
rhymes: -iːdɹəl
Forms: form: cathedrals
Etymology: Ellipsis of cathedral church, from Middle English chirche cathederall, cathedrall chirch, calque of Late Latin ecclēsia cathedrālis (“church serving as the bishop's or archbishop's office”), from Latin ecclēsia + cathedrālis. Displaced Old English hēafodċiriċe (literally “main church, head church”).
Senses: glosses: The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
glosses: A large or important church building.
examples: text: a cathedral of commerce
glosses: A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
glosses: A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
Derived terms: cathedral cactus
cathedral ceiling
cathedral church
cathedral city
Cathedral City
cathedral close
cathedraled
cathedralesque
Cathedral Falls
cathedralic
cathedralism
cathedrallike
cathedral mound
cathedral termite
Cathedraltown
co-cathedral
noncathedral
procathedral
pro-cathedral
the cathedral and the bazaar
Westminster Cathedral
basilica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈsɪlɪkə/
Forms: form: basilicas
form: basilicae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐκή (băsĭlĭkḗ), from βᾰσῐλῐκὴ στοά (băsĭlĭkḕ stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
glosses: A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
glosses: An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
Derived terms: archbasilica
basilical
basilican
chapel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: chapels
Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
examples: text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
glosses: A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant.
glosses: A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
glosses: A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
glosses: A printing office.
glosses: A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Derived terms: antechapel
apse chapel
Chapel Allerton
Chapel Brampton
chapel cart
Chapel Chorlton
chapel de fer
Chapel-en-le-Frith
chapeler
chapel-goer
chapelgoer
chapelgoing
Chapel Lawn
Chapel-le-Dale
chapelless
chapelman
chapelmaster
Chapel Milton
chapel of ease
chapel of rest
chapelry
Chapeltown
chapelward
chapelwarden
chapelwards
closet-chapel
father of chapel
freechapel
Heaton Chapel
Holmes Chapel
Lady chapel
minichapel
mortuary chapel
mother of chapel
St John's Chapel
Thomas Chapel
chapel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]
rhymes: -æpəl
Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Senses: examples: text: The village butcher is chapel.
glosses: Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
chapel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃæp.ɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛp.əl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.əɫ]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛp.ɫ̩]
rhymes: -æpəl
Forms: form: chapels
form: chapeling
form: chapelling
form: chapeled
form: chapeled
form: chapelled
form: chapelled
Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
examples: text: give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!
ref: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
vicar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vicars
form: vic.
Etymology: From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: priest, rector, curate
text: Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.
ref: 1997, Frank Muir, chapter 1, in A Kentish Lad, →ISBN:
hypernyms: cleric
clergymember
clergyman
coordinate_terms: parson
glosses: In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
hypernyms: cleric
clergymember
clergyman
coordinate_terms: abbé
canon#Etymology_2
curate
deacon
;
abbot
priest
rector
pastor
glosses: In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
examples: Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent
glosses: A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
Derived terms: lay vicar
parochial vicar
unvicar
vicarage
vicar apostolic
vicar choral
vicaress
vicar forane
vicar-general
vicar general
vicarial
vicarish
vicarless
vicarly
vicar of Bray
Vicar of Christ
vicarship
Related terms: vicarate
vicarian
vicariate
rector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛktɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛktə/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rectors
form: rectour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.
Senses: examples: text: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
hypernyms: cleric
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
glosses: A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
glosses: An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
Derived terms: lay rector
missionary rector
rector magnificus
Related terms: rectorate
rectorial
rectory
rectrix
regular
priory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪəɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪ.əɹ.i/
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
rhymes: -aɪ.əɹi
Forms: form: priories
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman priorie.
Senses: glosses: A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
Derived terms: alien priory
Related terms: prior
prioress
priorate
priorship
q-tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: q-tips
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Q-tip.
benefit of the doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefits of the doubt
form: BOTD
form: benefit of doubt
Senses: examples: text: Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
text: The former Manchester United player had handled outside his area to thwart Erling Haaland and if there was considerable doubt over his continued involvement, he was given the benefit of it.
ref: 2025 May 17, David Hytner, “Crystal Palace stun Manchester City to win FA Cup amid drama and Henderson controversy”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence.
examples: text: “We consider this to be an act of modern piracy. This is no way to treat transatlantic partners. Even in times of global crisis, we shouldn’t resort to the tactics of the wild west,” said Andreas Geisel, a leading Berlin politician. Significantly, Merkel has refused to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.
ref: 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A trust that something will turn out or happen as hoped for or expected despite concerns.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour.
Related terms: presumption of innocence
bottom edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottom edges
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bottom, edge.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The edge of a bat closest to the ground.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A deflection of a ball off of the bottom edge of a bat, onto the ground and potentially into the wicket.
bottom edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottom edges
form: bottom edging
form: bottom edged
form: bottom edged
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.
Related terms: top edge
inside edge
outside edge
rort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔː(ɹ)t/
homophone: wrought (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: rorts
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from rorty (“boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué”). Originally slang but now in common usage.
Senses: examples: text: 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 4067,
Not all of the projects were bad or rorts; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities.
text: It′s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
ref: 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 81:
text: The rort was that South Australia and Western Australia, who controlled their grounds, were allowed to double-dip. In Perth, for instance, the WACA sold season tickets, which they marketed in the form of memberships, to everything at the ground, including football. They had a huge membership and were rolling in money, but because they′d sold their tickets in memberships, they declared a loss on the cricket Test match. At the end of the season, though, they′d get the same twofourteenths^([sic]) of Pool Two as Queensland.
ref: 2011, Malcolm Knox, Greg Chappell, Fierce Focus, unnumbered page:
glosses: A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources.
rort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔː(ɹ)t/
homophone: wrought (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: rorts
form: rorting
form: rorted
form: rorted
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from rorty (“boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué”). Originally slang but now in common usage.
Senses: examples: text: He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system.
ref: 1992, Victorian Legislative Assembly, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 496:
text: SINGLE pensioners living together will come under scrutiny from Centrelink looking for same-sex couples rorting welfare.
ref: 2009 January 30, Ben Packham, “Same-sex couples accused of cheating system”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2009:
text: York is then alleged to have rorted the doctor out of his share.
ref: 2011, James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Kings of Stings: The Greatest Swindles From Down Under, page 118:
glosses: To cheat or defraud.
top edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top edges
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The edge of a bat farthest from the ground.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see top, edge.
top edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: top edges
form: top edging
form: top edged
form: top edged
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat.
Related terms: bottom edge
inside edge
outside edge
inside edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inside edges
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The edge of a bat closest to the body of the batsman.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A deflection of a ball off of the inside edge of a bat, sometimes to the wicket keeper for a catch.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The edge of the blade or side of the wheels facing towards the other foot.
inside edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inside edges
form: inside edging
form: inside edged
form: inside edged
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball with the inside edge of the bat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To place one's weight on the inside edge of the skate, thereby moving in a curve in that direction.
Related terms: top edge
bottom edge
outside edge
outside edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outside edges
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The edge of a bat farthest from the body of the batsman.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A deflection of a ball off of the outside edge of a bat, often to the slips or wicket keeper for a catch.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The edge of the blade or side of the wheels facing away from the other foot.
outside edge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outside edges
form: outside edging
form: outside edged
form: outside edged
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit the ball with the outside edge of the bat.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To place one's weight on the outside edge of the skate, thereby moving in a curve in that direction.
Related terms: top edge
bottom edge
inside edge
shindig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪn.dɪɡ/
Forms: form: shindigs
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).
Senses: examples: text: They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise.
ref: 1861, “Mr. and Mrs. Rasher”, in Godey's Magazine, volume 62, page 348:
text: "That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]"
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIX, in Babbitt, section III:
text: There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.
ref: 1950, 45:01 from the start, in Sunset Blvd.:
text: Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains.
ref: 2023 May 1, David Segal, “In Transylvania, Anyone With $200 Can Live Like a King. (Well, One Specific King.)”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A noisy party or festivities.
glosses: A noisy argument.
muri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murus
muri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moori.
muri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 無理.
Senses: topics: business
coordinate_terms: muda
mura
glosses: A form of waste, or deviation from optimal allocation of resources, that occurs when work processes have not been simplified through standardization.
feck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: fecks
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.
Senses: examples: text: some of which have earned a small academic following for their technical feck and for a pathos that was somehow both surreally abstract and CNS-rendingly melodramatic at the same time.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: Effect, value; vigor.
examples: text: I hae been a devil the feck o' my life
ref: a. 1786, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes:
glosses: The greater or larger part.
Derived terms: feckful
feckless
feckly
feck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: fecks
form: fecking
form: fecked
form: fecked
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.
Senses: examples: text: —But why did they run away, tell us?
 —I know why, Cecil Thunder said. Because they had fecked cash out of the rector's room.
 —Who fecked it?
 —Kickham's brother. And they all went shares in it. But that was stealing. How could they have done that?
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
text: And isn't it pure gangsters run the car parks, the price of them, and security cameras my arse, begging your pardon, sure it's watching videos they'd be, while some scut of a ten-year-old's fecking your tape machine and maybe going back to break off the aerial if they don't approve of your taste in music.
ref: 2009, Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet: A Novel:
glosses: To steal.
Hollywood Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Irish people and culture as stereotypically portrayed by the movie industry, particularly from the USA.
Hollywood Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Irish idiom as portrayed by film and television industry.
Related terms: Oirish
duomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdwəʊməʊ/
ipa: /duːˈəʊməʊ/
rhymes: -əʊməʊ
Forms: form: duomos
form: duomi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus.
Senses: examples: text: Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
ref: 1914, E. V. Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice:
glosses: A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.
Bristolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/
Forms: form: more Bristolian
form: most Bristolian
Etymology: From Bristol + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or relating to Bristol.
Bristolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/
Forms: form: Bristolians
Etymology: From Bristol + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bristol
Bristolian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪsˈtəʊ.li.ən/
Etymology: From Bristol + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The dialect sometimes spoken by the people of Bristol.
shipshape and Bristol fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp ən ˈbɹɪstəl ˈfæʃən/
Forms: form: more shipshape and Bristol fashion
form: most shipshape and Bristol fashion
form: ship-shape and Bristol-fashion
Etymology: The saying in today's form has been recorded as early as 1827 (see the quotation; shipshape alone being about 200 years older). Bristol was the most prosperous port of west-coast Britain, and its ship chandlery was of the highest quality. The term may have developed in view of the port of Bristol which had (before the floating harbour was constructed) a very high tidal range of 13 metres (43 ft), the second highest in the world. Ships moored in this area would be aground at low tide and, because of their keels, would fall to one side. If everything was not stowed away tidily or tied down, the results were chaotic and cargo could be spoiled.
Senses: examples: text: When we set out on the jolly voyage of life, what a brave fleet there is around us, as stretching our fresh canvas to the breeze, all "shipshape and Bristol fashion," pennons flying, music playing, cheering each other as we pass, we are rather amused than alarmed when some awkward comrade goes right ashore for want of pilotage!
ref: 1827, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 111:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: traditionally
glosses: Tidily tied down and secure.
examples: text: [Segovia] looks like a fine old clipper ship, there in the morning sun, full-rigged, full-blown, ship-shape and Bristol-fashion.
ref: 1964, Jan Morris, “Four Cities”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: Properly and neatly organized or arranged.
Related terms: all Sir Garnet
shipshape
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpʃeɪp/
ipa: /ˈʃɪpˌʃeɪp/
Forms: form: more shipshape
form: most shipshape
form: ship-shape
Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea.
Senses: examples: text: No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.
ref: 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XV, in The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 233:
text: I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.
ref: 1860 September, “The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.: Second Series. The Cottage on the North River.”, in Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume LVI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: John A. Gray, […], →OCLC, pages 293–294:
text: Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!
ref: 1897, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 48:
synonyms: handsomely
glosses: Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.
PIVKA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PIVKAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of protein induced by vitamin K absence.
glosses: Acronym of protein induced by vitamin K antagonist.
familiar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈmɪl.i.ə/
ipa: /fəˈmɪl.jɚ/
ipa: /fəˈmɪl.i.ɚ/
ipa: /fɚˈmɪl.jɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /fəˈmil(ɪ)jə(r)/
note: without stress shift from family
ipa: /ˈfam(ɪ)lɪjə(r)/
Forms: form: more familiar
form: most familiar
Etymology: From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a familiar face; that tune sounds familiar.
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
examples: text: I'm quite familiar with this system; she's not familiar with manual gears.
glosses: Acquainted.
examples: text: We are on familiar terms now; our neighbour is not familiar
text: Don’t be familiar with me, boy!
text: Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar:[…]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 156, column 1:
glosses: Intimate or friendly.
examples: text: 1822, Lord Byron, Werner
familiar feuds
glosses: Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
Synonyms: sense: acquainted
word: acquainted
sense: friendly
word: close
sense: friendly
word: friendly
sense: friendly
word: intimate
sense: friendly
word: personal
sense: inappropriately intimate or friendly
word: cheeky
sense: inappropriately intimate or friendly
word: fresh
sense: inappropriately intimate or friendly
word: impudent
word: accustomed
word: familiar
word: habitual
word: known
word: predictable
word: routine
word: wonted
word: wontish
Hypernyms: word: common
word: customary
word: everyday
word: normal
word: regular
Derived terms: confamiliar
familiar fraud
familiarisation
familiarise
familiarism
familiarity
familiarization
familiarize
familiarly
familiarness
familiar stranger
hyperfamiliar
nonfamiliar
on familiar ground
overfamiliar
semifamiliar
ultrafamiliar
Related terms: word: familial
word: accepted
word: approved
word: believed
word: recognized