cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
allative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈælətɪv/
Etymology: Composed from Latin ad + lātus + -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place.
Derived terms: allatively
allative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈælətɪv/
Forms: form: allatives
Etymology: Composed from Latin ad + lātus + -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The allative case, or a word in that case.
essive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From New Latin casus essīvus (from Latin esse), coined in New Latin by Rasmus Rask.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates existence in a state or capacity.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: stative
qualifier: Indo-European linguistics
glosses: designating being in a state as opposed to entering into a state.
glosses: indicating a temporary state of being.
Derived terms: antessive
exessive
postessive
essive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: essives
Etymology: From New Latin casus essīvus (from Latin esse), coined in New Latin by Rasmus Rask.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the essive case, or a word in that case.
Derived terms: adessive
essive-formal
essive-modal
inessive
superessive
Related terms: fientive
factitive
adessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From ad- (“at”) + essive.
Senses: examples: text: Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.
ref: 2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: abessive
inessive
glosses: Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location.
Derived terms: adessively
adessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: adessives
Etymology: From ad- (“at”) + essive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: abessive
inessive
glosses: The adessive case, or a word in that case.
fixer-upper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixer-uppers
Etymology: From a reduplicating suffixation of fix up, equivalent to fix + -er + up + -er.
Senses: examples: 2003, Jay P. DeCima, Investing in Fixer-Uppers: A Complete Guide to Buying Low, Fixing Smart, Adding Value, and Selling (or Renting) High, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN.
glosses: A house, property, car, or other object that needs to be fixed up or repaired, often purchased as an investment.
examples: text: Don't be seduced into a relationship with someone who seems to be a "fixer-upper." Attempts at renovating people usually fail.
ref: 2000, Susan Curtin Kelley, Dale Burg, The Second Time Around:
glosses: A potential romantic partner who may need some motivation to improve their personality or habits.
glosses: A person who tinkers or fixes things up; in particular, someone who fixes up houses, properties, etc. as an investment.
Synonyms: word: doer-upperer
word: fix-it-upper
Related terms: handyman's special
repaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɹd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛəd/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: I repaired your automobile for you.
text: We repaired to the mountains for the summer.
glosses: simple past and past participle of repair
stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stoʊnz/
ipa: /stəʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of stone
stones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stoʊnz/
ipa: /stəʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
Senses: glosses: Testicles; balls.
glosses: Courage.
stones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stoʊnz/
ipa: /stəʊnz/
rhymes: -əʊnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stone
Christina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪsˈtiːnə/
Forms: form: Kristina
form: Xtina
Etymology: Name of an early martyr, shortened from Latin Chrīstiāna (“Christian (woman)”). Doublet of Kirsten.
Senses: examples: text: For never yet that maiden's woes
To check our social pleasure rose,
Her joy she shares, her grief's her own,
CHRISTINA CHRISTIAN weeps alone.
ref: 1811, Mary Mitford, Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, London: A.J.Valpy, page 26:
text: Her name "Christina" was derived from one of the Bonaparte family, Lady Dudley Stuart
ref: 1900, Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Rossettis:Dante Gabriel and Christina., Putnam's Sons, page 230:
text: She was born on Christmas Day. I wanted to name her Holly. But with the last name of Wood, your mama wouldn't go for that. So we named her Christina.
ref: 2006, Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: word: Christian
word: Christiana
word: Christine
word: Kirsten
word: Kirsty
word: Kristen
word: Kristin
word: Kristine
word: Chris
word: Chrissie
word: Chrissy
word: Christie
word: Christy
word: Kristi
word: Kristie
word: Kristy
word: Tina
rocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: more rocking
form: most rocking
Etymology: From rock + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Shaking, swaying or moving back and forth.
glosses: Excellent; great.
rocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Etymology: From rock + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rock
rocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: rockings
Etymology: From rock + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Every part of a tree will not do for this purpose, as some branches may not be sufficiently forked; others may not be sufficiently strong; and others may be too much exposed to the rockings of the wind.
ref: 1823, John Wesley, Charles Bonnet, Louis Dutens, A survey of the wisdom of God in the creation, page 181:
glosses: The motion of something that rocks.
glosses: The abrading of a copper plate with a rocker, preparatory to mezzotinting.
glosses: The motion by which the design on a steel mill is transferred to a copper cylinder.
Derived terms: word: rocking chair
word: rocking horse
word: rocking stone
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: gray rocking
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: grey rocking
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: rocking beam
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: rocking grate
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: rocking pier
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: rocking stool
sense: other senses (unsorted)
word: rocking tree
e-books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-book
electronic book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic books
Senses: glosses: A book published in electronic form.
Synonyms: e-book
niblets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪbləts/
rhymes: -ɪbləts
Senses: glosses: plural of niblet
throw out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/
ipa: /ˌθɹəʊ ˈaʊt/
Forms: form: throw outs
Etymology: From throw + out.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw-out.
agogo bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agogo bells
Etymology: From Portuguese agogô, from Yoruba agogo (“bell”).
Senses: glosses: A percussion instrument consisting of two or three small conical bells, similar to a cowbell, and typically played by striking them with a drumstick.
fire-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire-eaters
form: fire eater
form: fireeater
Senses: glosses: A performer who pretends to swallow fire.
examples: text: "But he is a regular fire eater!"
"He's a bad man—a blamed bad man!" fluttered Danny Griswold.
"That's right," nodded Lewis Little. "He really wants to fight with swords, I believe."
ref: Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten)
glosses: A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
examples: text: Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 103:
glosses: An extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War.
Synonyms: sense: performer
word: firebreather
sense: performer
word: fire-breather
sense: performer
word: fire breather
Related terms: fire-eating
popularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of popularize
helioseismology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + seismology.
Senses: examples: text: Helioseismology, like terrestrial seismology, provides information about the interior of the body under study by using observations of slight motions on the surface.
ref: 1989, John N. Bahcall, Neutrino Astrophysics, Cambridge University Press, page 104:
text: Helioseismology provides unique information about the global dynamics of the Sun and local flows in active regions in the upper convection zone.
ref: 2003, Alexander Kosovichev, “Helioseismic Observations of Plasma Motions in the Solar Convection Zone”, in R. Erdélyi, K. Petrovay, B. Roberts, Markus Aschwanden, editors, Turbulence, Waves and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma: Proceedings of the NATO Research Workshop, Kluwer Academic, page 57:
text: 2012, T. L. Duvall, Jr., S. M. Hanasoge, Subsurface Supergranular Vertical Flows as Measured Using Large Distance Separations in Time-Distance Helioseismology, Solar Physics, reprinted in 2014, Nagi N. Mansour, Alexander G. Kosovichev, Rudolf Komm, Dana Longcope (editors), Solar Dynamics and Magnetism from the Interior to the Atmosphere, Springer, page 71,
We find that the large-separation travel times associated with supergranulation cannot be studied using the standard phase-speed filters of time–distance helioseismology.
glosses: The study of the propagation of pressure waves in the Sun.
Derived terms: helioseismologist
Related terms: helioseismic
helioseismological
asteroseismology
astroseismology
Doppler effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Doppler effects
Etymology: From Christian Andreas Doppler, the scientist who first proposed this effect.
Senses: examples: text: Along the street, a delivery van’s pop music approaches and recedes with a faint Doppler effect, the cheerless band lifting and dipping a microtone.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 85:
glosses: The apparent change in frequency or wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves.
Synonyms: Doppler shift
Related terms: blueshifted
redshifted
near-Earth object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-Earth objects
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small Solar System body (ie. asteroid, comet, or large meteoroid) whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth's orbit.
Hypernyms: astronomical object
celestial body
minor planet
small Solar System body
Hyponyms: alt: NEA
word: near-Earth asteroid
alt: NEC
word: near-Earth comet
alt: PHO
word: potentially hazardous object
Derived terms: NEO
Related terms: alt: NEA
word: near-Earth asteroid
alt: NEC
word: near-Earth comet
NEO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEOs
form: N.E.O.
form: N. E. O.
form: neo
Senses: examples: text: Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that follow horseshoe paths, and approach our planet at close range and low relative velocity, may undergo mini-moon events in which their geocentric energy becomes negative for hours, days or months, but without completing one revolution around Earth while bound. An example of NEO experiencing such a temporarily captured flyby is 2022 NX₁, which was a short-lived mini-moon in 1981 and 2022.
ref: 2024 September, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT₅ Captured by Earth from September to November”, in Research Notes of the AAS, American Astronomical Society, →DOI:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of near-Earth object.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of new engine option.
Hypernyms: sense: near-Earth object
english: minor planet
translation: minor planet
word: MP
sense: near-Earth object
english: small Solar System body
translation: small Solar System body
word: SSSB
Hyponyms: sense: near-Earth object
english: near-Earth asteroid
translation: near-Earth asteroid
word: NEA
sense: near-Earth object
english: near-Earth comet
translation: near-Earth comet
word: NEC
Coordinate terms: sense: near-Earth object
english: potentially hazardous object
translation: potentially hazardous object
word: PHO
Related terms: sense: new engine option
word: CEO
meteoroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteoroids
Etymology: From meteor + -oid.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively small (sand- to boulder-sized) fragment of debris in a star system that produces a meteor when it hits the atmosphere
Hypernyms: celestial object
Hyponyms: micrometeoroid
Derived terms: micrometeoroid
meteoroidal
Related terms: meteor
meteorite
meteoritic
meteoriticist
meteoritics
meteorology
masochist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæ.səˌkɪst/
Forms: form: masochists
Etymology: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch + -ist. Coined by Richard von Krafft-Ebing and popularized by Freud in relation to sadomasochism.
Senses: glosses: Someone who enjoys pain or humiliation, or who derives pleasure from harming oneself or being harmed by others.
wikipedia: Freud
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Derived terms: masochistic
masocore
nonmasochist
sadomasochist
Related terms: glutton for punishment
masochism
glum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: glummer
form: glummest
Etymology: Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Senses: examples: text: I[…]frighten people by my glum face.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
text: […] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.
ref: 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz:
text: A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23:
text: U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.
ref: 2024 June 28, Mark Walsh, “Consider the wild gray squirrel, Kagan rebukes her colleagues as court overrules Chevron”, in SCOTUSblog:
synonyms: word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: glum
word: gloomy
word: grouchy
word: gruff
word: ill-tempered
word: ill-humored
word: moody
word: morose
word: sulky
word: sullen
glosses: Despondent; moody; sullen.
Derived terms: glumly
glumness
glum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: glums
form: glumming
form: glummed
form: glummed
Etymology: From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: upon me he gan to loure and glum,
Enforcing him so for to ryse withall,
But that I shortly unto hem did cum,
With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum
ref: 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure:
glosses: To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
glum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: That they be deaf and dumb,
And play silence and glum
ref: c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute:
glosses: sullenness
blogster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogsters
Etymology: From blog + -ster.
Senses: glosses: One who blogs.
Synonyms: word: blogger
word: blogmaster
consense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛns/
ipa: /kənˈsens/
Forms: form: consenses
form: consensing
form: consensed
form: consensed
Etymology: Back-formation from consensus.
Senses: examples: text: We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.
ref: 1970, Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PatzOnRJCf4C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&sig=CFk9r9_qCI7TL5Gysdtc6bDw1SE, 2003
text: It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?
ref: 1999, Mary Walton, Car http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=3xmDzzNiwiUC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&sig=hxc7iKJixjH3VehPwG1jsRB3JL8
text: 2003, Milan Daniel, “Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs,” in Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty, Thomas D. Nielsen and Nevin L Zhang edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=lOfqrvKD42oC&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&sig=KXvU9mUgD13v7aZSyIUhEB17N4A
Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed (i.e. combined by the consensus operator) is Bayesian.
glosses: To agree; to form by consensus.
consense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛns/
ipa: /kənˈsens/
Forms: form: consenses
Etymology: Back-formation from consensus.
Senses: examples: 1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=EfP7-iYd120C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&sig=Qiq-5jwSChtKCR2Qz46lReOjk9g
In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: …
1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9N4t8Tq6jzQC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&sig=jY0OLldJtQl3G_R6hJisDOfAjWE
Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.
2001, Azizah Y al-Hibri, “Standing at the Precipice,” in Religion in American Public Life, Azizah Y al-Hibri et al. edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ZBgr7CSZD1wC&sig=vAchrx2BflWr03qE8wt0lphAlcI
If one raises the bar too high—seeking, say, civil harmony and unity rather than the possibility of working and shifting consenses and a comingling of pluralities and commonalities—religious differences are always going to be problematic at best.
glosses: agreement
pleasantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛzəntli/
Forms: form: more pleasantly
form: most pleasantly
form: pleasauntlie
form: plesantlie
form: pleasauntly
form: plesantly
form: plesauntly
Etymology: From Middle English pleasauntly; equivalent to pleasant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He smiled pleasantly at passersby.
text: They were pleasantly surprised at the result.
glosses: In a pleasant manner; so as to achieve a pleasant result.
qualifier: degree
glosses: Lightly
examples: text: In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Midas”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
text: Mr Venus, reminded of the duties of hospitality, produced some rum. In answer to the inquiry, 'Will you mix it, Mr Wegg?' that gentleman pleasantly rejoined, 'I think not, sir. On so auspicious an occasion, I prefer to take it in the form of a Gum-Tickler.'
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
glosses: Ludicrously; facetiously.
egomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iɡoʊˈmeɪniæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: egomaniacs
Etymology: From ego + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: He's a raving egomaniac: all he ever talks about is himself and how important he is.
glosses: A person obsessed with their own (supposed) importance.
fancier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanciers
Etymology: From fancy (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She's definitely a cat fancier: she has nine of them in her home and the walls are covered with pictures of more.
text: Even so, most lily fanciers would rather have a colony of goldbands than any other species or hybrids in existence.
ref: 1956, Popular Gardening and Living Outdoors, volume 7, page 59:
synonyms: aficionado
glosses: One who fancies; a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something.
glosses: A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.
glosses: One who fancies or imagines.
Derived terms: dog fancier
fancier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fancy (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fancy: more fancy
fated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˈfeɪ̯ɾɨd]
homophone: faded
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: examples: text: This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 89:
text: Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.
ref: 2024 April 29, Martin Pengelly, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Kristi Noem’s story of killing her dog points to class two misdemeanor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: fateful
predestined
glosses: Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
Synonyms: word: destined
word: doomed
word: fated
word: fateful
word: fatidic
word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: predevote
word: preordained
word: weird
Hyponyms: word: auspicious
word: ominous
word: confated
Derived terms: confated
fatedly
fatedness
ill-fated
unfated
Related terms: word: fateful
word: in the cards
word: in the stars
word: written in the stars
word: certain
fated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪtɪd/
ipa: [ˈfeɪ̯ɾɨd]
homophone: faded
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fate
apple tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpl̩ tɹiː/
ipa: /ˈæpl̩ tɹi/
Forms: form: apple trees
form: appletree
form: apple-tree
Etymology: From Middle English appeltre, appiltre, appultre, from Old English æppeltrēow, corresponding to apple + tree. Cognate with Danish æbletræ, Swedish äppelträd, Norwegian epletre, Icelandic eplatré.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any tree that bears apples, principally Malus domestica but also certain wild species.
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: apple tree borer
Menno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mennos
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Mennonite.
Menno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A town in South Dakota.
Mennonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnəˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: Mennonites
Etymology: Eponymous to Menno Simons, the second-generation leader of the denomination, + -ite. Menno's own name is of West Frisian origin and was originally spelled Minne (compare the name Mein, itself ultimately related to *magan (“to be able”)).
Senses: glosses: A member of any of a group of Protestant churches or denominations in the Anabaptist tradition, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, many of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.
Synonyms: word: Mennist
word: Mennonist
english: informal term for a Mennonite; also male given name
translation: informal term for a Mennonite; also male given name
word: Menno
Derived terms: Amish Mennonite
anti-Mennonite
ex-Mennonite
German Mennonite
Mennonite German
Mennonite Low German
Mennonitic
Mennonitish
Mennonitism
non-Mennonite
pro-Mennonite
pseudo-Mennonite
quasi-Mennonite
Russian Mennonite
semi-Mennonite
Mennonite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnəˌnaɪt/
Forms: form: more Mennonite
form: most Mennonite
Etymology: Eponymous to Menno Simons, the second-generation leader of the denomination, + -ite. Menno's own name is of West Frisian origin and was originally spelled Minne (compare the name Mein, itself ultimately related to *magan (“to be able”)).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or related to a Mennonite or Mennonites or to their movement and church(es).
Related terms: english: longer form: Amish Mennonite
translation: longer form: Amish Mennonite
word: Amish
word: Anabaptism
word: Hutterite
nature morte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natures mortes
Etymology: Borrowed from French nature morte (literally “dead nature”).
Senses: glosses: An image depicting inanimate objects; a still life.
L-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Shaped like the letter L or its mirror image
Derived terms: L-shaped curve
L-shaped recession
Related terms: A-shaped - B-shaped - C-shaped - D-shaped - E-shaped - F-shaped - G-shaped - H-shaped - I-shaped - J-shaped - K-shaped - L-shaped - M-shaped - N-shaped - O-shaped - P-shaped - Q-shaped - R-shaped - S-shaped - T-shaped - U-shaped - V-shaped - W-shaped - X-shaped - Y-shaped - Z-shaped
L game
mindbogglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mindbogglingly
form: most mindbogglingly
form: mind-bogglingly
Etymology: From mindboggling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Space […] is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely mindbogglingly big it is.
ref: 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 8, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 62:
text: It is barrenness on such a mind-bogglingly enormous scale that it takes your breath away.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 165:
glosses: In a mindboggling manner; in such a way as to boggle the mind; so as to be beyond comprehension or understanding.
mindboggling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mindboggling
form: most mindboggling
Senses: examples: text: Davie opened his eyes but had no idea where he was or if in fact he was still alive. After the realization of lying in his truck bunk had taken hold, he quickly turned to see if he'd dreamt up the whole mindboggling affair and by the grace of God was still parked in Wales.
ref: 2017, J. M. MacDonald, “Mindboggling Revelations”, in The Coins of Cyrus: A Novel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 659:
glosses: Alternative form of mind-boggling.
Derived terms: mindbogglingly
esa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ESA (trademark stylisation)
alumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈl(j)uːmɪnə/
Forms: form: aluminas
form: aluminia
Etymology: From the combining form of Latin alumen + -a.
Senses: examples: text: The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
ref: 1875, Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volumes 7-8, page 133:
glosses: Aluminum oxide, especially when used in mining, material sciences or ceramics, a refractory solid compound.
Derived terms: activated alumina
alumian
aluminate
aluminiform
aluminium
aluminous
alundum
aluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminates
Etymology: From aluminic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound, containing aluminium and oxygen with more electropositive elements, that is a salt of the hypothetical aluminic acid
Derived terms: barium aluminate
beryllium aluminate
boroaluminate
hydroxyaluminate
lithium aluminate
lithium hexafluoroaluminate
lithium tetrafluoroaluminate
lithium tetrahydridoaluminate
magnesium aluminate
orthoaluminate
potassium aluminate
potassium hexachloroaluminate
potassium hexafluoroaluminate
potassium tetrachloroaluminate
potassium tetrafluoroaluminate
silico-aluminate
silicoaluminate
sodium aluminate
sodium hexachloroaluminate
sodium tetrachloroaluminate
strontium aluminate
sulfoaluminate
zinc aluminate
Related terms: alumina
aluminium foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminium foils
form: aluminum foil
Senses: synonyms: tinfoil
tin foil
glosses: A very thin, pliable, easily torn sheet of aluminium used for cooking, packaging, cosmetics, and insulation.
miffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪft/
enpr: mĭft
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: more miffed
form: most miffed
Etymology: From miff + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I was miffed at Rick for his behavior. I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity.
ref: 2003, Jim Brewington, Let There Be Light Please!, →ISBN, page 130:
text: And also, it's generally not a good idea to prank someone who's already miffed at you.
ref: 2018, Josh Scorcher, Taking "28 Pranks Later" too Seriously:
text: Donors might be miffed to find that a magnificent gift was not earmarked for rescue.
ref: 2021 November 27, “In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices”, in The Economist:
glosses: Somewhat indignant, irritated, angry, in a snit, put out or annoyed.
glosses: Confused; unable to understand.
Derived terms: miffedly
miffedness
unmiffed
miffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪft/
enpr: mĭft
rhymes: -ɪft
Etymology: From miff + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miff
aasvogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːsˌfəʊ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ˈɑsˌfoʊ.ɡəl/
Forms: form: aasvogels
form: aasvoel
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans aasvogel (“vulture”) (obsolete form of aasvoël), from Dutch aasvogel, from aas (“carrion”) + vogel (“bird”).
Senses: examples: text: As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.
ref: 1912, H. Rider Haggard, Marie:
glosses: Vulture.
Related terms: Aegypiinae
sandfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandflies
form: sand fly
Etymology: From sand + fly.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small flies of the genera Lutzomyia and Phlebotomus whose females suck the blood of vertebrates and thus spread leishmaniasis.
synonyms: namu
glosses: A small fly of the genus Austrosimulium.
glosses: A biting midge (family Ceratopogonidae).
Derived terms: sandfly fever
Related terms: midge
no-see-um
punkie
punky
sand flea
spermatheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspɜːməˈθiːkə/
rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: spermathecas
form: spermathecae
Etymology: From sperma- + theca.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.
Derived terms: spermathecal
apologeticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologeticisms
Etymology: From apologetic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An instance of the use of apologetics.
Related terms: apologetic
apologia
apologism
apologist
apologize
apology
apple worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple worms
form: appleworm
form: apple-worm
Senses: glosses: The larva of the codling moth (Cydia pomonella).
codling moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codling moths
Senses: glosses: A small moth, Cydia pomonella, whose larvae (the apple worms) are destructive to apples and other fruit
Related terms: apple worm
codling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Forms: form: codlings
Etymology: From Middle English codling, codeling, equivalent to cod + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Here a couple of old men in whiskers and spectacles leant over us, making strange sounds. Some codling had got caught in the net the same time as we were. These the old men threw back into the sea; but us they seemed to think very precious. …
ref: 1922, Hugh Lofting, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, part 4, chapter 2, The Fidgit's Story
glosses: A young small cod.
glosses: A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis.
Derived terms: red codling
codling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Etymology: From codle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of codle
codling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒdlɪŋ/
Forms: form: codlings
form: codlin
Etymology: * Some dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster online, list Middle English querdlyng, -lyng as equivalent to modern -ling.
* Some dictionaries, including Collins Online, state that the etymology is unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Malvolio: Not yet old enough for a man, nor yong enough
for a boy: as a squash is before tis a pescod, or a Codling
when tis almost an Apple: Tis with him in standing water,
betweene boy and man. He is verie well-fauour'd,
and he speakes verie shrewishly: One would thinke his
mothers milke were scarse out of him
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: To make Codling Cream.
Take twenty fair codlings, core them, beat them in a mortar with a pint of cream, strain it into a dish, put into it some crumbs of brown bread, with a little-sack, and dish it up.
ref: 1800, Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson, “The Complete Confectioner”, in Creams, &c.:
glosses: A small, immature apple
glosses: Any of various greenish, elongated English apple varieties, used for cooking
Derived terms: codling moth
loose cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loose cannons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cannon that breaks loose from its moorings on a ship during battle or storm, with the potential to cause serious damage to the ship and her crew.
examples: text: Jack is considered a loose cannon due to his volatile personality and his track record of being unable to maintain his composure.
text: Sooner or later this party gets busted and all your friends stumble back home
But you're the loose cannon who could never be trusted so you'll hide from the cops all alone.
ref: 2013, “Post Party Depression”, in Rogue Taxidermy, performed by Days N' Daze:
text: Even in MAGA circles, Loomer is regarded as a loose cannon who loves to get attention from inflammatory comments that undermine the Republican Party.
ref: 2024 September 13, Jeet Heer, “How Donald Trump Got Loomered”, in The Nation:
glosses: An uncontrolled or unpredictable person, especially considered liable to cause unintentional or indiscriminate damage.
loose cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loose cannons
form: loose cannoning
form: loose cannoned
form: loose cannoned
Senses: examples: text: Gerald's loose cannoning triggered a volley of faithfully quoted media coverage which blasted a hole in his company's profits […]
ref: 2006, Gerry McCusker, Public Relations Disasters: Talespin--Inside Stories and Lessons Learnt, page 179:
glosses: To behave in a way such as to cause unintentional or indiscriminate damage.
chadless punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chadless punches
Senses: glosses: A paper tape punch that does not produce little pieces of paper. Instead, "the perforations are not completely cut out but the chads are permitted to remain attached to the perforated material (for example, tape)". (U.S. Patent 2,255,794, filed May 20, 1939)
Related terms: chad
paper tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper tapes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: punched paper tape
punched tape
glosses: An early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes.
punched tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌnt͡ʃt ˈteɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: punched tapes
Etymology: From punched (adjective) + tape.
Senses: examples: text: Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: punched paper tape
word: paper tape
extra: an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes
coordinate_terms: punch card
punched card
glosses: Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”).
wikipedia: Bletchley Park
The National Museum of Computing
cross-fertilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-fertilisations
Etymology: From cross- + fertilisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-fertilization.
Related terms: cross-fertilise
strangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: strangles
form: strangling
form: strangled
form: strangled
Etymology: From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
Senses: examples: text: She strangled her husband and dissolved the body in acid.
text: And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.
ref: 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
glosses: To kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply; to choke, suffocate or throttle.
examples: text: He strangled a scream.
glosses: To stifle or suppress.
examples: text: The cat slipped from the branch and strangled on its bell-collar.
glosses: To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
examples: text: Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, / […] And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]
ref: 1626, Ovid, “The Eighth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: To be stifled, choked, or suffocated in any manner.
Derived terms: strangleable
stranglehold
stranglement
strangler
strangle the parrot
strangling
strangling angel
strangling angel of children
strangling fig
Related terms: strangulate
strangulation
strangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæŋɡ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈstɹæŋɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: strangles
Etymology: From Middle English stranglen, from Old French estrangler, from Latin strangulō, strangulāre, from Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to be strangled”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “twisted”) and string. Displaced Middle English wirien, awurien (“to strangle”) (> English worry).
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A trading strategy using options, constructed through taking equal positions in a put and a call with different strike prices, such that there is a payoff if the underlying asset's value moves beyond the range of the two strike prices.
Related terms: asphyxiate
choke
gag
querk
suffocate
throttle
cross-fertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-fertilizations
form: cross-fertilisation
Etymology: From cross- + fertilization.
Senses: glosses: Fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species).
examples: text: His fame led to some curious cultural cross-fertilizations. In Japan, the Yamamoto-clad singer stirred up a singular fanaticism—so much so that Japanese charter flights traveled all the way to Kinshasa, while in Tokyo, clone bands skilled at his kind of soukous multiplied.
ref: 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: The mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit.
strangulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strangulations
Etymology: From Latin strangulatio (“choking, suffocation”), from strangulare (“to choke, suffocate”); see strangle.
Senses: examples: text: Road congestion in the Manchester and Liverpool areas has already reached strangulation point and it is regarded as impossible for the roads to handle this displaced traffic; buses already take up to three times as long as the trains to cover the same distance.
ref: 1963 June, “News and Comment: The North-West and the Plan”, in Modern Railways, page 365:
glosses: The act of strangling or the state of being strangled.
glosses: The constriction of the air passage or other body part that cuts off the flow of a fluid.
Related terms: strangle
strangulate
computerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: computerisations
Etymology: From computer + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of computerization.
computerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˌpjuːtəɹaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: computerizations
form: computerisation
Etymology: From computerize + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: informatisation
glosses: The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.
Related terms: computerize
computerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: computerizes
form: computerizing
form: computerized
form: computerized
form: computerise
Etymology: From computer + -ize.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To equip with a computer or a computer system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To enter data into such a system.
examples: text: I wonder how human she is. These are the days when computers humanize and humans computerize.
ref: 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To become computerlike.
Derived terms: computerizability
computerizable
computerizer
Related terms: computerization
computerized
computerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: computerises
form: computerising
form: computerised
form: computerised
Etymology: From computer + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: More recently, in the past five years, there has been the effort to collect, computerise, and analyse a million-word corpus of both written and spoken Singapore English.
ref: 1999, National University of Singapore, Singapore Studies: Critical Surveys of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol II, page 78
text: The "Becoming Real" remix of the track adds dubby space and bleeps to the mix and computerises the draggy beat and robotises the vocals – Veronica appears to be chanting "black lesbian" over and over, which is cool.
ref: 2010 June 15, Paul Lester, “Teeth (No 808)”, in The Guardian:
text: This column is going to be about the NHS computer system – you know, that attempt to computerise everyone's medical records, which has cost such a lot of money and doesn't work.
ref: 2011 December 10, David Mitchell, “I want to talk to you about the NHS. And its IT system. Wait, come back…”, in The Guardian:
text: The template was repiloted by the same four surgeons and recovery ward nurses to see if opinions and the usability of the template had improved, with the eventual aim of computerising the template.
ref: 2015 August 6, M. Sayma et al., “From Inpatient Notes to Outpatient Followup: Enhancing the Rhinology Service in a Tertiary Centre through Student Led Projects”, in International Journal of Otolaryngology, volume 2015, →DOI:
text: More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
ref: 2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of computerize.
Derived terms: computerisable
imperia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Senses: examples: text: Imperia, Social Power, and Scale
Imperia are important keys to understanding past, present, and future cultural development. Imperia is the plural of imperium, the Latin word for command over others, rule by an individual, or rule by an elite few. […] Imperia include antidemocratic command structures. Imperia exist wherever control is permanently exercised by an individual or an elite minority who are fewer than half of the members of any social group. Clans and lineages can be organized as imperia. […] Where there are cultural opportunities for elites to construct large imperia, and effective limits on power are absent, power elites may become a privileged minority who are able to impose their will on the majority.
ref: 2002, John H. Bodley, The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, page 4, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of imperium
back road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk ˌɹəʊd/
ipa: /ˈbæk ˌɹoʊd/
Forms: form: back roads
Senses: examples: text: There was too much traffic on the highway, so I used a back road. It was very scenic, but I had to keep the speed down.
text: I knew it all. I knew every back road and every truck stop.
ref: 1988, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green:
glosses: A secondary road, a little-used road, a road through rural areas sometimes used as an alternative to main roads.