cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cozenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌzənɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: cozenages
form: cousenage
Etymology: From cozen + -age.
Senses: examples: text: They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: […]
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 87, column 1:
text: I ask you, What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with a baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter tomorrow?
ref: 1896, Frederick Locker-Lampson, My Confidences, An Autobiographical Sketch Addressed to my Descendants, London: Smith, Elder & Co., pages 413–14:
glosses: The fact or practice of cozening; cheating, deception.
examples: text: When I receive your Lines, my dear Princess, and find there Expressions of a Passion; though Reason and my own Immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the Cozenage so pleasing to me, that I (brib'd by my own Desires) believe them still before the other.
ref: 1646, John Suckling, Fragmenta Aurea, Letter I, reprinted in The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays (Dublin: O. Nelson, 1766), p. 109
glosses: An instance of cozening; a scam.
cozening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cozen
cozening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cozenings
Senses: examples: text: Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under, / Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss;
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, l. 387:
glosses: fraud; deception; the acts of one who cozens
well-spoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-spoken
form: most well-spoken
Senses: examples: text: You give the well-spoken young man the time. The well-spoken young man, keeping well up with you, resumes: "I am aware sir that it is a liberty to intrude a further question on a gentleman walking for his entertainment […]
ref: 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 3, page 231:
text: To get a minimum-wage employee, the company settled for a woman barely out of high school who was not well-spoken, and while she didn't cost much, the problem was that she was the first impression callers had of this multimillion dollar company.
ref: 2001, Mark F. Beck, Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage:
text: However well spoken a lawyer might be and however powerful an orator he may be, at the end the judge will make a decision based on legal statutes.
ref: 2009, Ata Akiner, Burhan Apaydin, In Pursuit of Justice, page 153:
text: They've obviously never met before, but are getting on like a house on fire. Both are well-spoken and versed in the Queen's English.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:
synonyms: articulate
eloquent
glosses: Eloquent and able with regards to speech.
Related terms: outspoken
plainspoken
softspoken
crackerjack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɚd͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: more crackerjack
form: most crackerjack
form: crackajack
form: crack-a-jack
form: cracker-jack
form: cracker jack
Etymology: From crack (“highly skilled, excellent”) + -er + jack (“man”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: cracking
glosses: Exceptionally fine or excellent; top-notch; high quality.
examples: Near-synonym: cracking
glosses: Expert, top-rated or high-performing.
crackerjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɚd͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: crackerjacks
form: crackajack
form: crack-a-jack
form: cracker-jack
form: cracker jack
Etymology: From crack (“highly skilled, excellent”) + -er + jack (“man”).
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally fine or excellent thing or person.
glosses: An expert or top-rated individual (e.g., a marksman).
crackerjack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɚd͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: crackajack
form: crack-a-jack
form: cracker-jack
form: cracker jack
Etymology: From the trademark Cracker Jack popcorn snack featuring a blue sailor-suited man on the box.
Senses: glosses: Referring to clothing items (pants, jersey, collar) that constitute the traditional blue uniform of the enlisted men of the US Navy.
crackerjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɚd͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: crackerjacks
form: crackajack
form: crack-a-jack
form: cracker-jack
form: cracker jack
Etymology: From the trademark Cracker Jack popcorn snack featuring a blue sailor-suited man on the box.
Senses: glosses: The traditional blue uniforms of the enlisted men of the US Navy.
hypernyms: jack
sailor#Noun
glosses: A U.S. Navy sailor.
examples: text: "Here, here's the popcorn man," Sid said as a vendor passed, pushing a cart. Sid bought a package of crackerjack and opened it while Mickey jumped up and down, unable to wait.
ref: 1946, James T. Farrell, Bernard Clare, page 280:
glosses: Popcorn candied in molasses-flavored caramel and peanuts.
well-meaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-meaning
form: most well-meaning
Etymology: From well + meaning.
Senses: examples: text: The professor is well-meaning enough, but he usually ruins things one way or another.
text: In the first scene, he bites the arm of a well-meaning counselor at the group home and dashes out of the building, all in a vain attempt to locate the father who abandoned him.
ref: 2012 March 15, Scott Tobias, “The Kid With A Bike [Review]”, in AV Club:
glosses: With good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.
Derived terms: well-meaningly
well-meaningness
eventuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛntjuːeɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛntʃuːeɪt/
Forms: form: eventuates
form: eventuating
form: eventuated
form: eventuated
Etymology: American English, from Latin ēventu(s) (“an event, happening”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), perhaps modeled after actuate.
Senses: examples: text: Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat.
ref: 1847, Karl Marx (Writing in Northern Star), Marx Engels Collected Works, volume 6, page 290:
text: Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:
text: These efforts would eventuate in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, yet another piece of legislation that struck at a principle of the New Deal order.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
synonyms: end up
result
turn out
occur
develop
ensue
materialize
glosses: To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in.
examples: text: Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.
ref: 2004, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, Fiji Senate Speech, 22 October 2004
synonyms: word: come to pass
word: occur
word: transpire
word: bechance
word: befall
word: belimp
word: betide
word: betime
word: chance
word: come about
word: come to pass
word: crop up
word: evene
word: eventuate
word: go on
word: hap
word: happen
word: hold
word: occur
word: pass
word: take place
word: tide
word: transpire
glosses: To happen as a result; to come about.
Related terms: event
eventualize
eventually
well-thought-of
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-thought-of
form: most well-thought-of
Senses: examples: text: He is a well-thought-of and endearing old fellow.
glosses: Highly esteemed; well regarded.
ravishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ravishingly
form: most ravishingly
Etymology: From ravishing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a ravishing or beautiful manner.
ravening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹævənɪŋ/
Forms: form: more ravening
form: most ravening
Etymology: Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
text: 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116,
They eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde.
text: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
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 III, scene ii]:
text: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 7:15:
text: […] then, when sunk on the down of usurped pomp, he shall have sufficiently indulged his meditations with what King he shall next glut his ravening maw […]
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington], page 11:
text: “Heart of wrought steel!” murmured Starbuck gazing over the side, and following with his eyes the receding boat—“canst thou yet ring boldly to that sight?—lowering thy keel among ravening sharks, and followed by them, open-mouthed to the chase; and this the critical third day? […]”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 135, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114:
glosses: Voracious and greedy.
examples: text: To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin,
And might went for oppressed right […]
ref: 1567, “Hippolytus”, in John Studley, transl., edited by Thomas Newton, Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh, published 1581, act 2:
text: Away with him into the open fields, To be a rauening pray to Crowes and Kites:
ref: c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC:
glosses: Subject to the voracity of a predator.
ravening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹævənɪŋ/
Forms: form: ravenings
Etymology: Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
Senses: examples: text: Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.
ref: 1532, Desiderius Erasmus, “Of maners at table”, in Robert Whittington, transl., A Lytell Booke of Good Maners for Chyldren, London:
text: Consider whether the lusty person were in foretyme geuen to moche drynkyng, eatyng and rauenyng, tomoch ease, to no exercise or bathinges in his helth, or no.
ref: 1552, John Caius, A Boke, or Conseill against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse, London, page 34:
text: Diascorides sayth, that this roote being stamped to poulder, and being bespiced or bestrewed vpon their meate, as flesh, and such other things wherwith they liue, destroyeth and killeth the Panther, the Libard, the Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening, and that whilst their meate so ordred is in their mouth.
ref: 1567, John Maplet, “Of Libardbaine”, in A Greene Forest, London:
text: […] with his shovel he had fed
The roaring and insatiable red
Ravening of the furnace […]
ref: 1943, Wilfrid Gibson, “The Floe”, in The Searchlights, Oxford University Press:
text: [B]ut his fate that night
was due to change, his days of ravening
had come to an end.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 24:
glosses: Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.
examples: text: We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.
ref: 1550, Thomas Cranmer, A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of our Sauiour Christ, London, Book 5, Chapter 8, p. 109:
text: And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 11:39:
text: Thus lived this lazy Drone upon the Labours of the Industrious Bees; to his high Content, and their no small Trouble: to whom his Company was as Offensive, as his Ravening was Oppressive: nor could they get any Relief, by their complaining of him to the Keepers.
ref: 1714, Thomas Ellwood, The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood, London: J. Sowle, page 186:
glosses: Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
ert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: erts
form: erting
form: erted
form: erted
form: art
Etymology: From Middle English erten, ertin, from Old Norse erta (“to provoke, incite, tease”), from Proto-Germanic *artijaną (“to excite, tease”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erdi-, *h₂erd- (“sharp point, stinger”). Cognate with Icelandic erta (“to irritate”), Norwegian erta (“to taunt”), Swedish ärta (“to tease, jibe”), Old Irish aird (“point, ord, end point”), Ancient Greek ἄρδις (árdis, “arrowhead”).
Senses: glosses: To incite; urge on; encourage.
glosses: To irritate; provoke.
glosses: To be eager; hurry.
glosses: To make as if to strike; argue (with).
glosses: To strive after; try to obtain.
glosses: To strive onward and upward.
Derived terms: erter
erting
crash-land
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crash-lands
form: crash-landing
form: crash-landed
form: crash-landed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crash land.
crash land
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crash lands
form: crash landing
form: crash landed
form: crash landed
Etymology: Back-formation from crash landing.
Senses: glosses: To land an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency, either in an inappropriate place or under dangerous conditions; usually results in damage to the craft and the possibility of loss of life.
Related terms: auger in
lithobraking
crash-landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash-landings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crash landing.
crash landing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash landings
Senses: glosses: The landing of an aircraft or spacecraft in an emergency, either in an inappropriate place or under dangerous circumstances, usually with damage to the aircraft.
Related terms: deadstick landing
hard landing
soft landing
forced landing
crematoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crematorium
crewelwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crewelworks
Etymology: From crewel + -work.
Senses: glosses: embroidery made using a crewel
crinoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪnəlɪn/
Forms: form: crinolines
Etymology: Borrowed from French crinoline.
Senses: glosses: A stiff fabric made from cotton and horsehair.
examples: text: These standards have not just been oppressive but deadly. In the nineteenth century, stiff crinoline petticoats puffed out skirts so far that the cheap materials often brushed against open flames and caught fire. This arbitrary convention of dress caused three thousand women to be burned alive.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 4, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A stiff petticoat made from this fabric.
glosses: A skirt stiffened with hoops.
glosses: Any of the hoops making up the framework used to support cladding over a boiler.
glosses: Netting placed around ships to guard against torpedoes.
Derived terms: crinolette
crinolined
crossfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsfaɪə/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔːsfaɪɹ/
Forms: form: crossfires
Etymology: From cross- + fire.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An arrangement of two or more weapons so each can fire diagonally at something in front of a line between them.
examples: text: The two factions were either side of the road. A civilian lorry was caught in the crossfire and became collateral damage
glosses: The danger to a third party passing between two belligerents firing at one another.
examples: text: A woman who was caught in the crossfire of a drive-by shooting in north London on Tuesday evening was not the intended target, police have said.
ref: 2024 May 15, Geneva Abdul, “Woman hit in London drive-by shooting was not intended target, police say”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The danger to a third party passing between a gunman and his target.
glosses: A heated confrontation between opposing factions.
nim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
homophone: nym
Etymology: From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme (“to take”), West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
Senses: glosses: A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.
Derived terms: nimber
nim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
homophone: nym
Forms: form: nims
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”).
Related terms: cu-nim
balrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balrog
crosscurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosscurrents
Etymology: From cross- + current.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A turbulent stretch of water caused by multiple currents.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A current in a body of water running counter to the main current or direction of travel.
glosses: A situation in which there are conflicting opinions.
Related terms: crosswind
crosstown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cross-town
Etymology: From cross- + town.
Senses: glosses: Extending across a city or town.
examples: 1968 Simon and Garfunkel - "At the Zoo" on "Bookends"
But you can take the crosstown bus / If it's raining or it's cold, / And the animals will love it / If you do.
qualifier: public transportation
glosses: Connecting different areas of a city or town without passing through downtown.
examples: text: The football team beat our crosstown rivals last night.
glosses: Situated at the other end of town.
crosswind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɑːs.wɪnd/
Forms: form: crosswinds
form: xwind
Etymology: From cross- + wind.
Senses: examples: text: Correlation of the DFDR and CVR recordings disclosed that the flightcrew had set the flaps and stabilizer trim at 10° and about 5° aircraft noseup, respectively, for takeoff. A rolling takeoff was made, takeoff thrust was stabilized at 80 KIAS, and left rudder and right aileron were used to compensate for the right crosswind. The V₁ and V_R callouts were made about 2 sec after these speeds were recorded by the DFDR.
ref: 1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.11 Flight Recorders”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2022, page 4:
text: As part of its application, Macy's submitted "balloon control plans" describing how handlers, under the direction of a "pilot," were to navigate through intersections, where crosswinds can destabilize the balloons.
ref: 2005 November 27, Sewell Chan, “Site of Balloon Accident Is Known for Its Crosswinds”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A wind blowing across a line of travel, especially perpendicularly.
Related terms: crosscurrent
crudites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crudités
form: cruditees
Etymology: Borrowed from French crudités.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crudités.
crudites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crudités
form: cruditees
Etymology: From crudite + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of crudite
cryosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryosurgeries
Etymology: From cryo- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.
Related terms: cryosurgeon
cryosurgical
culottes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuːˈlɒts/
note: elsewhere
ipa: /ˈkuːlɑts/
rhymes: -ɒts
Forms: form: culotte
Etymology: Borrowed from French culottes f pl.
Senses: synonyms: culotte
glosses: A type of loose shorts which look like a skirt; a divided skirt.
Related terms: sans-culottes
pantdress
east-northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːst
Forms: form: east northeast
form: east-north-east
form: ENE
Senses: antonyms: west-southwest
glosses: The compass point halfway between northeast and east; specifically at a bearing of 67.5°.
Derived terms: east-northeastwards
east-northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːst
Forms: form: east northeast
form: east-north-east
form: ENE
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the east-northeast; east-northeastern.
examples: text: An east-northeast course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the east-northeast; east-northeastward; east-northeasterly.
examples: text: An east-northeast wind.
glosses: Coming from the east-northeast; east-northeasterly.
east-northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -iːst
Forms: form: east northeast
form: east-north-east
form: ENE
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling east-northeast at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the east-northeast; east-northeastwards.
east-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: east southeast
form: east-south-east
form: ESE
Senses: antonyms: west-northwest
glosses: The compass point halfway between east and southeast; specifically at a bearing of 112.5°.
Derived terms: east-southeastwards
east-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: east southeast
form: east-south-east
form: ESE
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the east-southeast; east-southeastern.
examples: text: An east-southeast course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the east-southeast; east-southeastward; east-southeasterly.
examples: text: An east-southeast wind.
glosses: Coming from the east-southeast; east-southeasterly.
east-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: east southeast
form: east-south-east
form: ESE
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling east-southeast at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the east-southeast; east-southeastwards.
south-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south southeast
form: south-south-east
form: sou'-sou'-east
form: SSE
Senses: antonyms: north-northwest
glosses: The compass point halfway between southeast and south; specifically at a bearing of 157.5°.
south-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: south southeast
form: south-south-east
form: sou'-sou'-east
form: SSE
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the south-southeast; south-southeastern.
examples: text: A south-southeast course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the south-southeast; south-southeastward; south-southeasterly.
examples: text: A south-southeast wind.
glosses: Coming from the south-southeast; south-southeasterly.
south-southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: south southeast
form: south-south-east
form: sou'-sou'-east
form: SSE
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling south-southeast at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the south-southeast; south-southeastwards.
south-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: south southwest
form: south-south-west
form: sou'-sou'-west
form: SSW
Senses: antonyms: north-northeast
glosses: The compass point halfway between south and southwest; specifically at a bearing of 202.5°.
south-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: south southwest
form: south-south-west
form: sou'-sou'-west
form: SSW
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the south-southwest; south-southwestern.
examples: text: A south-southwest course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the south-southwest; south-southwestward; south-southwesterly.
examples: text: A south-southwest wind.
glosses: Coming from the south-southwest; south-southwesterly.
south-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: south southwest
form: south-south-west
form: sou'-sou'-west
form: SSW
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling south-southwest at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the south-southwest; south-southwestwards.
west-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: west southwest
form: west-south-west
form: WSW
Senses: antonyms: east-northeast
glosses: The compass point halfway between southwest and west; specifically at a bearing of 247.5°.
west-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: west southwest
form: west-south-west
form: WSW
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the west-southwest; west-southwestern.
examples: text: A west-southwest course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the west-southwest; west-southwestward; west-southwesterly.
examples: text: A west-southwest wind.
glosses: Coming from the west-southwest; west-southwesterly.
west-southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: west southwest
form: west-south-west
form: WSW
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling west-southwest at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the west-southwest; west-southwestwards.
west-northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: west northwest
form: west-north-west
form: WNW
Senses: antonyms: east-southeast
glosses: The compass point halfway between west and northwest; specifically at a bearing of 292.5°.
west-northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: west northwest
form: west-north-west
form: WNW
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the west-northwest; west-northwestern.
examples: text: A west-northwest course.
glosses: Situated toward or in the direction of the west-northwest; west-northwestward; west-northwesterly.
examples: text: A west-northwest wind.
glosses: Coming from the west-northwest; west-northwesterly.
west-northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: west northwest
form: west-north-west
form: WNW
Senses: examples: text: We are travelling west-northwest at the moment.
glosses: Towards or in the direction of the west-northwest; west-northwestwards.
sou'-sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
sou'-sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
sou'-sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
sou'-sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
sou'-sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
sou'-sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
nor'-nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
nor'-nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
nor'-nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
nor'-nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
nor'-nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
nor'-nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sou'-easts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southeast.
sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sou'-east
form: most sou'-east
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southeast.
sou'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sou'-east
form: most sou'-east
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southeast.
nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nor'-wests
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northwest.
nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nor'-west
form: most nor'-west
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northwest.
nor'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nor'-west
form: most nor'-west
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northwest.
nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nor'-easts
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northeast.
nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nor'-east
form: most nor'-east
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northeast.
nor'-east
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nor'-east
form: most nor'-east
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of northeast.
sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sou'-wests
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sou'-west
form: most sou'-west
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
sou'-west
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sou'-west
form: most sou'-west
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of southwest.
Derived terms: sou'wester
alla marcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian alla marcia.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in the style of a march, usually with a 2/4 or 4/4 beat with an accent on the downbeat
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
alla marcia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian alla marcia.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in the style of a march
alla marcia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian alla marcia.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: describing a passage having this mark
hecatomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛkətuːm/
ipa: /-tɒm/
ipa: /ˈhɛkətoʊm/
Forms: form: hecatombs
form: hecatombing
form: hecatombed
form: hecatombed
Etymology: The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin hecatombē (“great sacrifice of a hundred oxen, hecatomb”), from Ancient Greek ἑκατόμβη (hekatómbē, “great sacrifice of a hundred oxen, hecatomb; any animal sacrifice or large sacrifice”, from ἑκᾰτόν (hekătón, “hundred”) + βοῦς (boûs, “cattle, cow, ox”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To provide (someone or something) with a hecatomb.
cuckoldry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoldries
Etymology: From cuckold + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: How many such-like cuckoldries are there in histories, procured by the Gods against seely mortall men?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: An act of adultery committed by a married woman against her husband.
examples: text: By the end of 2017, it was clear that Homo politicus, like his allies in Hollywood and the media, tends not towards cuckoldry but a 21st-century equivalent of the droit du seigneur.
ref: 2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022:
glosses: The state of being a cuckold.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Among certain male fish, the practice of interrupting a mating pair to release sperm in an attempt to fertilize the female.
Synonyms: word: adultery
word: cheating
word: cuckoldry
word: infidelity
word: promiscuity
word: two-timing
word: unfaithfulness
Derived terms: cuckoldize
Related terms: word: cuckoldize
word: cuckold
word: cuckquean
word: cuckolder
culs-de-sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cul-de-sac
cumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cumulus
curbstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curbstones
Etymology: From curb + stone.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of kerbstone.
Derived terms: curbstoner
kerbstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerbstones
form: curbstone
Etymology: From kerb + stone.
Senses: examples: text: You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act I, page 115:
text: Gabriel often saw him on the streets, playing on the curbstone with other boys his age.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
glosses: A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
Derived terms: kerbstoned
curettage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjʊəɹɪˈtɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹɪˌtɑːʒ/
ipa: /kjʊəˈɹɛtɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˌkjʊəɹɪˈtɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹɪˌtɑːʒ/
Forms: form: curettages
Etymology: From French curettage.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette.
Derived terms: D&C
dilatation and curettage
dilation and curettage
suction curettage
exhilarated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exhilarated
form: most exhilarated
Senses: glosses: In a state of high spirits.
Synonyms: stoked
Derived terms: unexhilarated
exhilarated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exhilarate
CDN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian.
CDN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDNs
Senses: examples: text: A CDN can also help absorb spikes in traffic, for example, during times of peak weather or financial news, or during popular sporting or entertainment events.
ref: 2007, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: Initialism of content delivery/distribution network.
CDN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Côte-des-Neiges A district of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
examples: text: A 2024 Justice Department indictment against several members of the organization accused CDN and Los Zetas of “using terroristic violence to control large swaths of Northern Mexico, including along the border between Mexico and the United States.”
ref: 2025 February 22, Max Saltman, Avery Schmitz, Sebastian Jimenez Valencia and Rocio Munoz-Ledo, “The US now considers these cartels and gangs terrorist groups. Here’s what to know about them”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Cártel del Noreste.
Gumery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English surname of French topographic derivation.
Related terms: Montgomery
tetrapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɒd/
ipa: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɑd/
Forms: form: tetrapods
Etymology: From tetra- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Any vertebrate with four limbs.
glosses: Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods; especially any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
glosses: A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.
Hypernyms: stegocephalian
Hyponyms: batrachomorph
reptiliomorph
tetrapod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɒd/
ipa: /ˈtɛ.tɹəˌpɑd/
Etymology: From tetra- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Having four limbs or feet
Synonyms: four-footed
tetrapodal
tetrapodic
tetrapous
Related terms: quadruped
nitrofurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitrofuran
Firefox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəfɒks/
ipa: /ˈfaɪɚfɑks/
Etymology: Renamed from Firebird in 2004. The reasoning given for the name, explained as another name for the red panda (see firefox), was, “It's similar to Firebird. It's easy to remember. It sounds good. It's unique. We like it. And we weren't able to find any other project or company even remotely similar to a web browser that uses the same name.” The logo depicts a fox (hence the name is equivalent to fire + fox); its original designer, Jon Hicks, has stated, “A firefox is actually a cute red panda, but it didn’t really conjure up the right imagery. The only concept I had done that I felt happy with was […] inspired by seeing a Japanese brush painting of a fox”.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: FF
Fx
glosses: A free, open-source, cross-platform, graphical web browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
wikipedia: Mozilla Foundation
Windows 11
Derived terms: Firefoxer
STEREO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From "Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory".
Senses: glosses: A solar observation mission, consisting of two identical spacecraft, that will provide stereoscopic imaging of the Sun.
mourning dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mourning doves
Senses: glosses: A grey-coloured dove, Zenaida macroura, that has a mournful call, native to North America
Synonyms: sense: Zenaida macroura
english: Carolina pigeon, Carolina turtledove
translation: Carolina pigeon, Carolina turtledove
alt: dated
word: American mourning dove,
Derived terms: taxonomic: Streptopelia decipiens
word: African mourning dove
stereo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: stere-
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-), combining form of στερεός (stereós, “firm, solid”).
Senses: examples: text: stereo- + -phonic → stereophonic
text: stereo- + -scope → stereoscope
glosses: Solid, three-dimensional.
examples: text: stereo- + blind → stereoblind
text: stereo- + -opsis → stereopsis
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Relating to the binocular contribution to three-dimensional vision.
examples: text: stereo- + lithography → stereolithography
text: stereo- + type → stereotype
glosses: Solid, hard.
paternal grandmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paternal grandmothers
Senses: coordinate_terms: paternal grandfather
maternal grandfather
maternal grandmother
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
stereobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereobates
Senses: glosses: The foundation, typically of a stone building.
glosses: The steps of the platform beneath the stylobate.
Derived terms: stereobatic
farmor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmors
Etymology: From farm + -or.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: An owner of oil or gas leases that exchanges part of them to a farmee for services.
stereochromy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The painting of murals using pigments mixed with water glass
Related terms: stereochrome
stereochromic
stereochromically
stereogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereograms
Etymology: From stereo + gram.
Senses: glosses: An early stereophonic music centre containing a gramophone and radio, and often storage space for records
glosses: A stereoscopic image; a stereograph
Derived terms: autostereogram
hyperstereogram
stereograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereographs
Etymology: From stereo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A pair of stereoscopic images that give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope or similar device; a stereogram.
stereograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stereographs
form: stereographing
form: stereographed
form: stereographed
Etymology: From stereo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: To create a stereograph of.
stereography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: stereographies
Etymology: From stereo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Any technique for representing solid objects in two dimensions
glosses: stereoscopic photography, and the production of stereographs (images that convey depth)
stereology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Any technique used to obtain three-dimensional information from two-dimensional images
Related terms: stereologic
stereological
stereologically
stereologist
white man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white men
form: White man
form: White Man
Senses: examples: text: Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198:
synonyms: word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A man of European descent or having that appearance.
examples: text: The arrival of the white man brought new things and new ideas, but also new wars and new diseases.
text: Savages are commonly supposed to be the slaves of custom to a far greater degree than the White Man, who by contrast appears as the child of reason.
ref: 1927, A. M. Hocart, Are Savages Custom-Bound?, in Man, vol. 27
text: […] very little attempt seems to have been made so far to deal with the whole problem of the African in contact with white man’s law, […]
ref: 1933, G. St. J. Orde Browne, British Justice and the African, in the Journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 32, no. 127
text: Island girl,
What you wanting with the white man's world?
Island girl,
Black boy want you in his island world.
ref: 1975, “Island Girl”, in Bernie Taupin (lyrics), Rock of the Westies, performed by Elton John:
text: Well the Aboriginals are trying to step forward a little but in a lot of ways the white man is still keeping them down, in a politeful sort of way.
ref: 1992, Bruce Shaw, When the Dust Come in Between, page 149:
glosses: White people collectively; white culture.
examples: text: The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row 1, and the black men are placed opposite.
ref: 1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4:
text: We will suppose that you are the player of the white men, and that your opponent[,] the player of the black men[,] is sitting opposite to you, ready for battle.
ref: 1908, The Chess Amateur, volume 2, page 39:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, man.
Coordinate terms: black man
Derived terms: play the white man
white man’s burden
stereophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stereophonic
form: most stereophonic
Etymology: From stereo- + -phonic, by analogy with stereoscopic.
Senses: examples: text: […] this 1953 Hansel und Gretel is a classic example of how a well produced mono recording can seem more stereophonic than many of its later stereophonic rivals.
ref: 2000, Richard Osborne, Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music, page 349:
coordinate_terms: monophonic
quadraphonic
glosses: Of or pertaining to sound reproduction using two channels to give a more natural two-dimensional sound distribution.
Derived terms: stereo
stereophonically
Stereophonics
stereophony
Related terms: binaural
stereophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + -phony.
Senses: glosses: The reproduction of stereophonic sound.
stereopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + -opsis.
Senses: glosses: Stereoscopic vision.
Derived terms: chromostereopsis
stereotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stereo- + taxis.
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques that use computer data from medical imaging to direct the motion of equipment so as to deliver some therapy (such as radiotherapy, radioablation, laser ablation, or others) to a precise anatomic location.
glosses: The movement of an organism when touched; thigmotaxis.
Related terms: word: stereotactic
word: stereotactical
word: stereotactically
word: stereotaxial
word: stereotaxic
word: stereotropism