cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bogged down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was Mr. Womble that tied the rope to the car that was bogged down, and I was the one that tied the other end of it to the end of the truck...
ref: 1922, The Southwestern Reporter:
glosses: Stuck, as if in a bog.
examples: text: However, if the project manager has a sense that the project is getting bogged down, there is one additional strategy that can be employed...
ref: 2003, Patrick W O'Carroll, et al: Public Health Informatics and Information Systems:
glosses: Stuck; mired, as in detail, difficulty; delayed or made slower.
mired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mire
mired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more mired
form: most mired
Senses: glosses: Stuck in mud; plunged or fixed in mud.
glosses: Involved in trouble or difficulty.
glosses: Confused or perplexed.
Derived terms: unmired
mired
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: mireds
Etymology: From micro reciprocal degree.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measurement for color temperature.
Derived terms: decamired
Related terms: mirek
clothespin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothespins
Etymology: From clothes + pin.
Senses: examples: text: At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl.
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
Synonyms: clothes peg
Derived terms: clothespin vote
clothespin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clothespins
form: clothespinning
form: clothespinned
form: clothespinned
Etymology: From clothes + pin.
Senses: glosses: To affix with a clothespin.
sitophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sito- + -phobia < Ancient Greek, σῖτος (sîtos, “wheat, bread”) + -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A morbid or insane dread of eating. An aversion to food.
Synonyms: cibophobia
anorexia nervosa
epoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epoches
form: epoché
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin epocha or German Epoche, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ). Doublet of epoch.
This term was introduced by Husserl and other phenomenologists, although it also seems to be present in Aristotelian philosophy (as the concept did originate with Aristotle).
Senses: glosses: Moment of theoretical suspension of all action.
glosses: Moment of theoretical suspension of belief.
babaylan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babaylans
Senses: glosses: A Philippine shaman.
Suzanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈzæn/
ipa: /-zɑːn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: From French Suzanne. Doublet of Susanna.
Senses: examples: text: 'Suzanne' was the name given to the baby. It was Vivian's choice, but she had doubts about it later. Wasn't it a shade on the exotic side? Perhaps 'Susan' was preferable.
ref: 1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A female given name from French.
Susanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ænə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σουσάννα (Sousánna), the New Testament form of Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (šōšannā, “lily”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of Jesus (Luke 8:3)
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A book of the Apocrypha.
mitigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitigators
Etymology: From mitigate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that mitigates.
Derived terms: radiomitigator
tue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tues
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tui (species of honeyeater).
Related terms: tue-iron
be-all and end-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: be-alls and end-alls
form: be-all end-all
form: end-all be-all
form: end-all and be-all
Senses: examples: text: He thought that cars were the be-all and end-all of life.
text: Profit is the be-all and end-all of business.
text: That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all!
ref: a. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 1, scene 7, lines 4–5:
text: The compulsory tests in reading, writing and maths at the end of years 2 and 6 are often mistakenly seen as the be-all and end-all of a child's chances in life, and the quality of their school.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
text: Back in the day, pore strips were the be-all and end-all for removing blackheads and buildup around the nose. These days, there are gentler and more effective ways to unclog the pores around the nostrils, but some have found success with strips and experience no irritation. If you're looking to try some, consider these six Byrdie-approved pore strips.
ref: 2025 April 23, Julia A. Siegel, MD, “12 Methods to Unclog Pores That Dermatologists Swear By”, in Byrdie:
glosses: Something considered to be of the utmost importance; something essential or ultimate.
Related terms: end in itself
raison d'être
abodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abode
abodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abode
aboded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abode
abominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abominate
abominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abominate
abomine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: abomines
form: abomining
form: abomined
form: abomined
Etymology: From French abominer.
Senses: glosses: To abominate.
abomines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abomine
abomining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abomine
abomined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abomine
abords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abord
abords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abord
abording
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abord
aborded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abord
abraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abraid
abraiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abraid
abraids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abraid
abrases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrase
abrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrase
abrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrase
unluckily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlʌkɪli/
Forms: form: more unluckily
form: most unluckily
Etymology: From unlucky + -ly or un- + luckily.
Senses: glosses: Without luck; unfortunately.
Synonyms: unfortunately
abreact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɹiˈækt/
Forms: form: abreacts
form: abreacting
form: abreacted
form: abreacted
Etymology: Partial calque of German abreagieren, from ab (“away from, off, down from”) + reagieren (“to react”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
Derived terms: abreactive
abreacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abreact
abreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abreact
abreacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abreact
abrenounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrenounce
abrenouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrenounce
abrenounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrenounce
abrooked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrook
abrooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrook
abrooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrook
abrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abrupt
abrupting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abrupt
abrupts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abrupt
abrupts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abrupt
hygienic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/
ipa: /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
ipa: /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/
rhymes: -iːnɪk
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more hygienic
form: most hygienic
Etymology: From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
examples: text: Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.
ref: 2014, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
raw_tags: of a macro
Derived terms: antihygienic
hygenicist
hygienically
nonhygienic
zoohygienic
haulier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːliə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔːliə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hauliers
Etymology: From Middle English halyer, haliere, halere, equivalent to haul + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: DB Cargo is the haulier for the Immingham-Drax flow. Its trains comprise purpose-built covered hoppers that can run at 60mph loaded and 75mph empty.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Shannon, “Freight train speeds: do they matter?”, in Rail, page 72:
text: Hauliers are up in arms over higher tolls, while some doctors – including, from 9 January, specialists – could decide to close surgeries in support of the medical profession’s demands for more state support for an overloaded system.
ref: 2024 January 5, Jon Henley, “Why is Germany’s economy struggling – and can the government fix it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
Synonyms: hauler
abscinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abscind
abscinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abscind
abscinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abscind
abscise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsaɪz/
ipa: /æbˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: abscises
form: abscising
form: abscised
form: abscised
Etymology: From Latin abscīsus, perfect passive participle of abscīdō (“cut off”); formed from abs- + caedō (“cut”).
Senses: glosses: To cut off.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To separate by means of abscission; to shed or drop off.
Derived terms: abscisic
abscises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abscise
abscising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abscise
abscised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abscise
all very well
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That's all very well, but how're we supposed to move 900 pounds of equipment out there, at all?
text: It’s all very well for you to laugh: you didn’t fall over.
text: Puttin' that eight ball in the side pocket is all very well, but it still don't explain what I'm doin' in this booby hatchery, or how I'm gettin' out.
ref: 1955 October 1, Knight-Mare Hare, spoken by Bugs Bunny:
glosses: All right to a certain extent, but problematic beyond that, or for other people.
glosses: True, as far as it goes.
Synonyms: sense: all right
word: dandy
sense: all right
word: all well and good
FCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of free cash flow.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of feature control frame.
abscissed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absciss
abscissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absciss
abscisses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absciss
in re
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From Latin in rē, literally meaning "in the matter [of]".
Senses: examples: text: Various groups throughout the country are thinking in terms of having a counter-demonstration in re the Fundamentalists' March to Return Morality to America.
ref: 1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 5:
topics: law
glosses: In the matter of; with regard to.
Synonyms: re
Related terms: in rem
envisage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɪzɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: envisages
form: envisaging
form: envisaged
form: envisaged
Etymology: From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.
Senses: examples: text: From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.
ref: 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated:
text: The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.
ref: 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 262:
text: Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would have envisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guided busway?
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
Derived terms: envisagable
envisagement
Related terms: envision
evidence
reenvisage
reenvisagement
visage
vision
visionary
visual
visualization
visualize
absolutize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluː.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈæb.sə.ljuː.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlu.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈæb.sə.lju.taɪz/
Forms: form: absolutizes
form: absolutizing
form: absolutized
form: absolutized
form: absolutise
Etymology: From absolute + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make absolute.
Derived terms: absolutizable
absolutization
absolutise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sə.lu.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈæb.sə.lju.taɪz/
Forms: form: absolutises
form: absolutising
form: absolutised
form: absolutised
Etymology: From absolute + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of absolutize.
Derived terms: absolutisation
absolutizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absolutize
absolutizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: absolutises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absolutize
absolutising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absolutise
absolutized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: absolutised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absolutize
absolutises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: absolutizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absolutise
absolutised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: absolutized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absolutise
absquatulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absquatulate
absquatulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absquatulate
absquatulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absquatulate
absterges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absterge
absterging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absterge
absterged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absterge
absterses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absterse
abstersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absterse
abstersed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absterse
absumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of absume
absuming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absume
absumed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absume
markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkɪts/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of market
markets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːkɪts/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹkɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of market
manifestoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifesto
marksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marksman
abying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aby
glosses: present participle and gerund of abye
abyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abye
abyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abye
merchant bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant banks
Senses: glosses: A bank which provides financial services for businesses.
Derived terms: merchant banker
merchant banking
Related terms: investment bank
accends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accend
accending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accend
accended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accend
accessorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accessorises
form: accessorising
form: accessorised
form: accessorised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of accessorize.
Derived terms: unaccessorised
accessorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accessorises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accessorize
accessorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accessorizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accessorise
accessorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accessorising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accessorize
accessorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accessorise
accessorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accessorise
moorage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorages
Etymology: From moor + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of mooring.
glosses: A place where a ship or an aircraft may be moored.
glosses: The fee for mooring.
accinges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accinge
accinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accinge
accinge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: accinges
form: accinging
form: accinged
form: accinged
Etymology: From Latin accingō (“to gird”).
Senses: examples: text: Æſchylus alſo never accinged himſelf to write Tragedies, unleſs he had firſt imbibed himſelf with Wine.
ref: 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, “Of Wine”, in A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […], London: […] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, page 219:
text: 1829, Thomas Love Peacock, The Misfortunes of Elphin,
"Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I have accinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;
text: 1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle,
He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.
text: …but we must now accinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.
ref: 1855, James John Garth Wilkinson, War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58
text: 1898, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town,
Peter, instead of adjuring Miss Limpenny to fear no more the heat o' the sun, accinged himself to the practical difficulty.
text: 1943, Sir Arthur Thomas, Cambridge Lectures, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton, page 241,
when those doors had been re-opened as sluíces to admit the mud and garbage of Restoration drama, the old man gallantly accinged himself to his old task and wrote Samson Agonistes'.
text: "I am accinging myself to a meeting with the enemy leader, Dr. Harrison Royce, among others — to discuss peace, perhaps, although my own feeling is that the dinner will be used by both sides in the traditional fashion,..."
ref: 1973, Leo Simpson, The Peacock Papers: A Novel, page 94:
glosses: To prepare oneself for action.
accinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accinge
pincers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnsəɹz/
Etymology: From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).
Senses: glosses: plural of pincer
pincers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnsəɹz/
Etymology: From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).
Senses: examples: text: Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:
glosses: A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
glosses: The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.
Synonyms: forceps
chelae
claws
nippers
pair of pincers
pinchers
Related terms: tongs
tragedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈd͡ʒidiən/
Forms: form: tragedians
Etymology: From Middle English tragedyen, from Old French tragediane (French tragédien), equivalent to tragedy + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Euen thoſe you were wont to take such delight in the Tragedians of the City.
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 II, scene ii], page 261:
text: And as for the separation scene from the child, while Becky was reciting it, Emmy retired altogether behind her pocket-handkerchief, so that the consummate little tragedian must have been charmed to see the effect which her performance produced on her audience.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
ref: 1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, page 242:
glosses: An actor who specializes in tragic roles.
glosses: A playwright who writes tragedies.
Synonyms: tragedist
Coordinate terms: comedian
Related terms: tragedienne
tragedienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tragediennes
form: tragédienne
Etymology: Borrowed from French tragédienne.
Senses: glosses: a female tragedian; a woman who acts in tragic drama
-ienne
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from French -ienne, feminine of -ien (“-ian”).
Senses: glosses: indicates a female variant of a noun ending in -ian
Derived terms: comedienne
equestrienne
guardienne
Parisienne
pedestrienne
tragedienne
comedienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˌmiːdɪˈɛn/
ipa: /kəˌmiːdiˈɛn/
Forms: form: comediennes
form: comédienne
Etymology: Borrowed from French comédienne. Compare doyenne.
Senses: qualifier: slightly dated
glosses: A female comedian.
Hypernyms: english: male and female comedian
translation: male and female comedian
word: comedian
word: comic
Derived terms: tragicomedienne
Related terms: english: male comedian
translation: male comedian
word: comedian
equestrienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equestriennes
Etymology: From equestrian + -ienne.
Senses: examples: text: Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185:
text: Horsewomen, lesbian feminists: would you like to gather a group together dressage, driving, trail riding, shows sharing equestrienne activity
ref: 1981 February 7, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 14:
synonyms: equestrianess
hypernyms: equestrian
glosses: A female equestrian.
poncho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒn.tʃəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒntʃəʊ
Forms: form: ponchos
form: ponchoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish poncho, from Quechua punchu. In sense “rubber rain poncho”, attested 1845, used for non-South American garments in the United States and England from 1850s, popularized by US Western expeditions and military from 1850s, particularly after World War II (1940s).
Senses: examples: text: Garibaldi, with his cowboy's poncho, red shirt and the black ostrich feathers in his wide hat […]
ref: 1975, Margery Turner Fisher, Who's Who in Children's Books, page 203:
text: It was a gringo in a poncho. It was not really accurate to his suits worn today, but Julia would understand the symbolism that he was adapting to the culture and expectations while far away from home.
ref: 2011, Bruce N. Anderson, Wingtips Under a Bolivian Poncho, page 130:
glosses: A simple garment, made from a rectangle of cloth, with a slit in the middle for the head.
examples: text: […] spreading over my bedding an indian-rubber poncho to exclude the rain.
ref: 1845, William Jameson, “Botanical Excursion to Salinas, an Indian Village on Chimborazo”, in The London Journal of Botany, volume 4, page 382:
text: I […] took my seat between Juan and Ambrosio, protected from the rain by an India-rubber poncho.
ref: 1850, Romance of Modern Travel, page 43:
text: 1857, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West, p. 48 (1857), p. 48 (1858):
text: I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.
text: The following list of articles is deemed a sufficient outfit for one man upon a three months’ expedition, viz.: […] 1 gutta percha poncho
ref: 1859, Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler, page 39:
text: […] when near the old church in Manchester he was run against by a man whom he supposed to be a drunken man, who was dressed in a poncho overcoat.
ref: 1858, “Robbery in a Railway Carriage” (1858 March 29), Edmund Burke ed., Annual Register (collected 1859), March p. 59
text: It is about the size of the rubber poncho used in the United States, […]
ref: 1888, William Eleroy Curtis, The capitals of Spanish America, page 505:
text: If you have to hike all day in a poncho, your pants will be wet thigh-high before long (never mind how fast you'll get wet if you have to go through wet brush or grass).
ref: 2001, Michael Rutter, Camping Made Easy, 2nd edition, page 98:
glosses: A similar waterproof garment, today typically of rubber with a hood.
Derived terms: ponchoed
poncho liner
Related terms: ruana
slicker
multinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æʃənəl
Etymology: From multi- + national.
Senses: examples: text: AS a young student at the multinational Aramco school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred his American classmates’ cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’s pastries: knafah, qatayef and baklawah.
ref: 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: Of, or involving more than two nations (externally between countries or internally in a country).
examples: text: By operating within many nations, but ouside them at the same time, multinational firms create possibilities of change even in the world political structure
ref: 1970, Martyn, Howe, “Foreward”, in Multinational Business Management, Rowman & Littlefield (imprint Lexington Books), →ISBN:
text: Some managers seemed sympathetic to the study, although they encouraged me to recast it as a technical issue, such as the "problem of executive succession in multinationals."
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 14:
glosses: Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
raw_tags: of a business organization
Derived terms: multinationalism
multinationalize
multinationally
multinational
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: multinationals
Etymology: From multi- + national.
Senses: examples: text: The G8 leaders also called on multinationals to make a full disclosure to the taxman over how much tax they pay in different countries.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2020, page 68:
glosses: A multinational company.
psaltery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɒl.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɔːl-/
ipa: /ˈsɔl.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɑl.tə.ɹi/
Forms: form: psalteries
form: psaltry
form: sawtry
Etymology: A learned alteration of Middle English sauterie, sautrie (rarely psautry), from Old French psalterie, from Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion, “stringed instrument, psaltery, harp”), from ψάλλω (psállō, “to touch sharply, to pluck, to pull, to twitch” and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, “to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not with the plectron”). Doublet of psalter, psalterion, and psalterium. Cognate of psalm and psalmody.
Senses: examples: text: And at the dedication of the wall of Ieruſalem, they ſought the Leuites out of all their places, to bꝛing them to Ieruſalem, to keepe the dedication with gladneſſe, both with thankeſgiuings and with ſinging, with cymbals, pſalteries, and with harpes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 12:27:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: psalterion
word: psalterium
word: psalter
glosses: A zither-like musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with multiple strings, played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.
Derived terms: bowed psaltery
psalterist
psalteryist
Related terms: psalm
toxicologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxicologists
Etymology: From toxicology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Toxicologists at the Taft Laboratory at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) here are dosing mice with poppers to solve the baffling mystery of diseases which are killing gay men.
ref: 1982 April 10, John Zeh, “Mice Test Poppers”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: A scientist or physician who specializes in toxicology.
toxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒksɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: toxicologies
Etymology: From French toxicologie, equivalent to toxico- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature, effect, detection and treatment of poisons and poisoning.
Derived terms: biotoxicology
chronotoxicology
cytotoxicology
ecotoxicology
endotoxicology
genotoxicology
ichthyotoxicology
immunotoxicology
mycotoxicology
nanotoxicology
neuropsychotoxicology
neurotoxicology
pharmacotoxicology
radiotoxicology
zootoxicology
Related terms: toxicologist
paintwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paintworks
Etymology: From paint + work.
Senses: examples: text: The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
text: At night, some nap on their stretchers. High up on a wall, stuck to peeling paintwork, are photographs of eight drivers killed in service.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
text: Despite somewhat faded paintwork, 87017 Iron Duke is clearly very much operational, as confirmed here on September 4.
ref: 2022 December 14, “News in pictures: Class 87 soldiers on in Bulgaria”, in RAIL, number 972, page 26, photo caption:
glosses: The painted surface of a car, building, etc.
Related terms: paint job
Toyland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: toyland
Etymology: From toy + -land.
Senses: glosses: An imaginary land inhabited by living toys.
glosses: The world of the design, manufacture and marketing of toys.
toyshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyshops
form: toy shop
Etymology: From toy + shop.
Senses: examples: text: There have always been cheap clockwork animals in toyshops since clockwork was utilised for making moving toys.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 51:
text: You and I in a little toyshop / Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
ref: 1984, “99 Red Balloons”, Kevin McAlea (lyrics), performed by Nena:
glosses: A shop that sells toys.
Synonyms: toystore
toystore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toystores
form: toy store
Etymology: From toy + store.
Senses: glosses: a toyshop
trachyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪkʌɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹakʌɪt/
Forms: form: trachytes
Etymology: From French trachyte, from Ancient Greek τρᾱχύς (trākhús, “rough”).
Senses: examples: text: The type of rock that results is often described as trachyte and contains abundant crystals of a different kind of alkali-rich feldspar, such as sanidine, rather than plagioclase.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 52:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pale igneous rock consisting mostly of potassium feldspar and plagioclase.
Derived terms: quartz-trachyte
soda trachyte
Related terms: trachytic
trachytoid
tracing paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracing papers
Senses: glosses: A translucent paper on which may be traced the design of whatever it is placed on.
Synonyms: word: fodder
trackless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtrækləs/
rhymes: -ækləs
Etymology: From track (noun) + -less (suffix meaning ‘lacking or without something’).
Senses: examples: text: a trackless desert    a trackless forest
text: Associates! Solitude in trackless deserts, / Where locusts, ants, and lizards poorly thrive,— / […] / Were to an honest heart endurable, / Rather than such associates.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, “The Bride: A Drama. In Three Acts.”, in Dramas, […], volume III, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 296:
text: In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada’s Transcontinental Routes”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 127:
text: "You got two feet, Sethe, not four," he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; trackless and quiet.
ref: 1987 September 16, Toni Morrison, Beloved […], New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published October 1987, →ISBN, page 165:
text: At about this point, Seivarden and her two Amaats had made it into a cramped and dim access corridor behind the governor's residence. It had probably at one point been meant for servants to use to go unobtrusively back and forth, but hadn't been used in years; the floor was dusty and trackless.
ref: 2015 October, Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy, New York, N.Y.: Orbit Books, →ISBN, page 233:
text: The two structures remain in a remarkable state of preservation, despite finding themselves adrift and trackless in the County Down countryside, after the closure of the station and the line in the 1950s.
ref: 2021 November 3, Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: Of a place: not having tracks or paths; pathless, untrodden; also, having had all tracks removed.
examples: text: What was it that I loved so well about my childhood's home? / It was the wide and wave-lashed shore, the black rocks crowned with foam! / It was the sea-gull's flapping wing, all trackless in its flight, / Its screaming note, that welcomed on the fierce and stormy night!
ref: 1853, Eliza Cook, “The Waters”, in The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook. […], new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Locken, […], pages 97–98:
glosses: Leaving no track or trace when moving; also, not following any track or path.
examples: text: a trackless trolley
topics: rail-transport
railways
road
transport
synonyms: railless
glosses: Of a train, tram, etc.: not running on tracks.
Derived terms: tracklessly
tracklessness
trackless train
traction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: tractions
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis).
Senses: glosses: The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.
glosses: The condition of being so pulled.
glosses: Grip.
glosses: The pulling power of an engine or animal.
glosses: The adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface.
topics: business
qualifier: get or have
glosses: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
The extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved.
raw_tags: after forms of gain
topics: government
politics
qualifier: get or have
glosses: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
Popular support.
raw_tags: after forms of gain
examples: text: Despite this somewhat late start, the field of study has gained great traction globally, and since 2015 has even had its own journal: Linguistic Landscape: An International Journal.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 2:
topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
qualifier: get or have
glosses: Progress in or momentum toward achieving a goal, especially in gaining support, recognition, or popularity.
Scholarly interest and research.
raw_tags: after forms of gain
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb.
topics: transport
glosses: Collectively, the locomotives of a railroad, especially electric locomotives.
Derived terms: gain traction
non-traction
re-tractioning
retractioning
traction alopecia
traction battery
traction engine
traction motor
tractive
Related terms: contraction
subtraction
traction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: tractions
form: tractioning
form: tractioned
form: tractioned
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tractio, from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of verb trahere (“pull”), + noun of action suffix -io (genitive -ionis).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc.).
accites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accite
acciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accite
accited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accite
trade dispute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade disputes
Senses: glosses: a dispute between workers and their employer
trade-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from trade in.
Senses: glosses: property used as part payment for a new purchase
examples: text: The Alco design, although the least powerful of the three, claims an economy advantage in its use of a V-12 engine instead of the usual V-16; moreover, Alco offers excellent trade-in terms.
ref: 1962 October, “The Latest in U.S. Main Line Diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 234, photo caption:
glosses: a transaction including such payment
Related terms: trade in
acclimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acclimate
acclimating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acclimate
trade in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trades in
form: trading in
form: traded in
form: traded in
Senses: glosses: To give a piece of merchandise as part of the payment or trade for something new.
Related terms: word: trade away
word: trade down
english: deverbal noun
translation: deverbal noun
word: trade-in
word: trade off
word: trade up
Arian heresy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arianism.
synonyms: word: Arianism
AIUI
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of as I understand it.
abands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aband
abanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aband
abanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aband
tarsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)siə
Forms: form: tarsias
Etymology: From Italian, from intarsiare.
Senses: examples: text: 1849, Mary Philadelphia Merrifield, Original Treatises: Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting, in Oil, Miniature, Mosaic, and on Glass, republished 1999 [1967], Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English Translations, page lviii,
Tarsia work was frequently employed in decorating the choirs of churches, as well as the backs of the seats and the wainscotings. It was also used in the panels of doors.
text: Andrea del Castagno portrays him, Vasari tells us, among the famous men and women painted in the Casa de' Carducci, and Benedetto da Maiano, he also notes, portrays Dante on a tarsia door in the Palazzo della Signoria.
ref: 1990, Paul Barolsky, Michelangelo's Nose: A Myth and Its Maker, page 96:
text: It only remained for him to teach his method to those who worked in tarsia, which is the craft of inlaying coloured pieces of wood, and he stimulated these artisans so much that they developed excellent procedures and useful techniques from his teaching, for both then and afterwards many excellent works brought fame and profit to Florence for many years.
ref: 1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, transl., The Lives of the Artists, page 113:
glosses: Intarsia.
intarsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intarsias
form: intarsio
form: tarsia
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian intarsio.
Senses: examples: text: The steps of the raised temple in which the saint and the basilisk perform have a beautiful intarsia of foliage similar to that on the Giants' Staircase at the Doges' Palace.
ref: 1914, Edward Verrall Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice, New York: Macmillan:
synonyms: tarsia
tarsiatura
glosses: A decorative form of Italian wood inlaying.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A knitted design resembling a mosaic.
Related terms: marquetry
theatromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From theatre + -o- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An excessive love of the theatre.
Related terms: theatrophobia
Triestino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Triestinos
form: Triestini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian triestino.
Senses: synonyms: Triestine
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
Triestino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian triestino.
Senses: synonyms: Triestine
glosses: A form of the Venetan language used in Trieste, Italy.
tropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: tropias
Senses: glosses: A visual defect of the eye; strabismus or squint.
tradesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tradesmen
Etymology: From trade + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A skilled manual worker (implied male).
examples: text: Tradesmen should use the rear entrance.
glosses: A manual worker (implied male) who visits private premises to perform his job.
glosses: One who trades; a shopkeeper.
Hypernyms: word: skilled worker
word: tradesperson
word: tradie
Derived terms: master tradesman