cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
long-ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That optimistic baby had come on so like the private eye in any long-ago radio drama, believing all you needed was grit, resourcefulness, exemption from hidebound cops' rules, to solve any great mystery.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Fortunately, their nicknames give them away: All are figures associated with the Mafia, that fetishistically documented secret society responsible for long-ago crime waves, more recent cinematic masterpieces and, above all, an enduring modern marketing bonanza.
ref: 2007 October 21, Michael Brick, “The Mafia, an F.B.I. Agent and Murder: Mr. Scorsese, Your Next Film Awaits”, in New York Times:
text: She remembered a long-ago dinner they shared at Chasen's, one of Hollywood's most clubbish and exclusive restaurant […]
ref: 2009, Shawn Levy, Paul Newman: A Life:
text: The answer, according to James Moore, who as minister of Canadian heritage is in charge of the campaign, is that the government simply wants the long-ago war, which few Canadians know well, to be remembered.
ref: 2012 October 7, Ian Austen, “Canada Puts Spotlight on War of 1812, With U.S. as Villain”, in New York Times:
text: Long-ago stonecrafters had carefully carved a set of steps that led to nothing, save a striking vista.
ref: 2014, Christie Golden, War Crimes (World of Warcraft), New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, pages 82–83:
text: As a teen, I remember going to 70s-themed discos in outrageous flared trousers bought from charity shops and feeling that it was a distant historical era. But now I realise there’s a pile of Gen-Zedders who feel the same way about the 90s and are no doubt making fun of my music taste and long-ago penchant for combat trousers, friendship bracelets and straightening my hair to within an inch of its life like the Appleton sisters did.
ref: 2020 March 1, Elizabeth Day, “Oh my God… I’m retro!”, in You:
text: The big gun rights case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday presents the justices with a tricky problem.
They must start to clear up the confusion they created last year in a landmark decision that revolutionized Second Amendment law by saying that long-ago historical practices are all that matter in assessing challenges to gun laws. That standard has left lower courts in turmoil as they struggle to hunt down references to obscure or since-forgotten regulations.
ref: 2023 November 6, Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court’s Devotion to Gun Rights Faces a Challenging Test”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2023, Politics:
glosses: Alternative form of long ago.
long-ago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the long-ago
Senses: examples: text: He cast his time into the long-ago, because already the long-ago had a special poetical attraction.
ref: 1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 20:
glosses: The distant past; the days of yore.
ellick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellicks
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a clipping of elixir.
Senses: qualifier: North Carolina
glosses: Coffee, usually sweetened with sugar and/or cream.
florilegiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florilegium
vassal-in-chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vassals-in-chief
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tenant-in-chief.
synonyms: word: tenant-in-chief
anti-al-Qaeda
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Opposing al-Qaeda.
al-Qaedaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ideology of al-Qaeda.
aqidah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
'aqidah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
aqeeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
aqeedah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
'aqeeda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
'aqeedah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'aqida.
automod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automods
Senses: glosses: Clipping of automoderator.
bio-crude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio-crudes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biocrude.
boxship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boxships
Etymology: box + ship
Senses: glosses: Synonym of container ship.
synonyms: word: container ship
nonridiculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonridiculous
form: most nonridiculous
Etymology: From non- + ridiculous.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unridiculous.
synonyms: word: unridiculous
Turners Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In West Sussex, from either Turner or Turnour. The village lost its apostrophe (Turner's) circa 1930, the hill still has one, according to the Ordnance Survey.
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Mid Sussex district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ3435).
glosses: A hill 269 metres high in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England, the highest hill in the county (OS grid ref SO9688).
by-gone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill / You had drawne Oathes from him, not to ſtay: you (Sir) / Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are ſure / All in Bohemia’s well: this ſatisfaction, / The by-gone-day proclaym’d, ſay this to him, / He’s beat from his beſt ward.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 277, column 2:
text: The Regal, or perhaps the hypercritical will have it the Reginal Kennel I am acquainted with in by-gone days, even before Bagshot Heath and its environs were enclosed; […]
ref: 1838 October 7, “Quartogenarian” [pseudonym], “Suggestions on Kennel Lameness”, in The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize and Spirit, volume XVIII, number CIII (November 1838), second series, London, published 1839, page 40:
text: […] as we rode on, we saw gigantic pine, cedar, and hiccory trees, torn up by the roots, and scattered over the surrounding country, by by-gone hurricanes, many of them hundreds of yards from the spot that nurtured their roots—while the gnarled branches lying across our track, scorched black with the lightning, or from long exposure to a burning sun, impeded our advance, and made the journey anything but pleasant.
ref: [1853], J[ohn] Benwell, chapter V, in An Englishman’s Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States, London: Binns and Goodwin, […], →OCLC, pages 157–158:
text: By-gone Tourist Days
ref: 1900, Laura G. Collins, By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Robert Clarke Company, title page:
text: Two centuries of German poetry lived in this old German flower garden, from the crude florilegiums of Baroque lyric to Eichendorff, who in its after-life, while looking back on so much by-gone glory, became its truest expression, as formulated by a new spirit, since poetry is the first and final need of the human soul, for which reality does not suffice.
ref: 2006, Rudolf Borchardt, translated by Henry Martin, “The Garden and the Human Being”, in The Passionate Gardener, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 50–51:
glosses: Dated form of bygone.
Chuhai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 珠海 (Zhūhǎi) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu¹-hai³.
Senses: examples: text: His company, a textile conglomerate, has signed an agreement with China to set up a yarn spinning mill in Chuhai, Kwangtung, near Macao.[…]
Engineers, management personnel and skilled workers will initially be sent from Hong Kong to Chuhai to train their Chinese counterparts, Mr. Chao said in an interview.
ref: 1978 November 27 [1978 November 26], “Peking and Hong Kong Setting Up Joint Ventures”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2018, Section D, page 1:
text: The “Hsinhua News Agency,” in a wire report from Canton, said that “Yeh Chien-ying, accompanied by Wang Cheng, member of the politburo, has visited Chuhai and other places in Kwangtung province.”
ref: 1981 April 19, “Yeh, Teng far apart”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Beijing Review, no. 13, p. 23, March 1985, which reviews the Chuhai development at the Western end of the Pearl River Delta. Chuhai and Shantou are the other two special economic zones in Guangdong Province, while Xiamen, the fourth special economic zone, is located in Fujian province.
ref: 1988, David Wen-Wei Chang, China under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285:
text: The first four SEZs were Shantou (Swatow) and Xiamen (Amoy) in the north, and Shenzen^([sic – meaning Shenzhen]) (Shentsen) and Zhuhai (Chuhai) in the south. The SEZs became China’s chief commercial outlets.
ref: 2008, Michael Lynch, “China After Mao: The Deng Revolution 1978-97”, in The People's Republic of China 1949-76, 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 160-161:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhuhai.
The Gorge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The parish is named after the Ironbridge Gorge, see also Ironbridge.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England.
wikipedia: Ironbridge Gorge
Balkan Egyptians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Balkan Egyptian
GRDDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: griddle
Senses: qualifier: web
glosses: Initialism of Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages.
Appel reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Appel reaction
minds one's own business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mind one's own business
minded one's own business
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mind one's own business
network adapters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of network adapter
AoVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AoV
daylight-saving times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daylight-saving time
geological time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of geologic time.
amorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: October 31, 1989 : Cupid Tells All...: Everything you ever wanted to know about love in the Weekly World News
text: What is love? According to the first International Conference on Love and Attraction, it's "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feeling by the object of the amorance."
ref: Page 41
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The condition of being in love.
Related terms: enamored
unenamored
limerence
Șirineasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șirineasa.
Senses: glosses: A village and commune of Vâlcea County, Romania.
missing time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missing times
Senses: examples: text: The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode.
ref: 1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:
text: We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives.
ref: 1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:
text: There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account.
ref: 1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:
text: Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.
ref: 1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8:
text: While Johnson doesn't display many of the indications of alien abduction, he does have a period of missing time which can be absolutely verified, unlike most abductees' cases.
ref: 1999, Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions and Aliens - What's Really Going On, page 153:
text: If not for the contact and encounters, I would never have thought the missing times in childhood might have been for the purpose of meetings with ETs.
ref: 2001, Dana Redfield, ET-Human Link, We Are the Message:
text: According to Zerbe, while he and his team were out at the crash site, they experienced a period of what in alien abduction terminology has become known as missing time.
ref: 2018, Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know, page 127:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
parapsychology
philosophy
pseudoscience
psychology
sciences
ufology
glosses: A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.
topics: business
management
glosses: An operational metric which measures the total amount of time on a timeclock that is unassigned to any task, whether productive or not.
Falkland foxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Falkland fox
gate time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate times
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The moment in time at which an aircraft pulls back from the gate, or passes a certain point on the track.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A prescheduled time at which a flight will enter a new area of controlled airspace.
gate times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate time
methods to one's madness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of method to one's madness
randomized polynomial times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of randomized polynomial time
prothrombin time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothrombin times
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: one-stage prothrombin time
pro time
Quick's prothrombin time
glosses: The amount of time required for the plasma of one's blood to clot.
prothrombin times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prothrombin time
pro time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of prothrombin time.
synonyms: word: prothrombin time
Russell's viper venom clotting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dilute Russell's viper venom time.
synonyms: word: dilute Russell's viper venom time
Russell's viper venom time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dilute Russell's viper venom time.
synonyms: word: dilute Russell's viper venom time
travel time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travel times
Senses: synonyms: time of travel
glosses: The duration of time spent travelling.
glosses: The duration of time required to travel from one location to another.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of traveltime.
travel times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travel time
heiress presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heiresses presumptive
form: heiress-presumptive
Senses: examples: text: Still maintaining an outward appearance of friendship with Elizabeth, he quietly spread among his own people copies of his pedigree, wherein he represented himself as the true heir to the crown of England, by descent from his ancestresses Philippa and Katherine of Lancaster: ignoring the facts—that, though the heir general of Katherine, he was not so of her elder sister Philippa; and that if he had been, the law which would have made these two sisters heiresses presumptive had been altered while they were children.
ref: [1876?], Emily Sarah Holt, “The Invincible Armada”, in Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada (English Life in the Olden Time), new edition, London: John F. Shaw and Co. […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: Catherine did not suffer for her inadvertant^([sic]) part in that treason, but was made a maid of honor and lived at Court as one of several heiresses presumptive during Mary Tudor’s reign.
ref: 1984, Kathy Lynn Emerson, “GREY, CATHERINE (1539-1568)”, in Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England, Troy, N.Y.: The Whitston Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 97:
text: On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.
ref: 2002, Susan Child, “[Parliament and the Constitution] House of Lords Reform”, in Politico’s Guide to Parliament, 2nd edition, London: Politico’s Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
coordinate_terms: heiress apparent
glosses: A female heir presumptive.
heiresses presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heiress presumptive
heiress-presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heiresses-presumptive
Senses: examples: text: The terms of the Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh’s Annuities Act (11th February, 1948) call for no special comment. The Act is of constitutional interest mainly because there was no recent precedent for such provision having to be made for an heiress-presumptive, and for her husband, upon their marriage.
ref: 1949 autumn, J[ohn] A[rkas] Hawgood, “The British Constitution in 1948”, in Stephen King-Hall, Sydney D[awson] Bailey, editors, Parliamentary Affairs: The Journal of the Hansard Society, volume II, number 4, London: The Hansard Society, page 340:
text: The prospect of a Catholic heir was repugnant to the heiresses-presumptive, as well as to the populace, for religious reasons; for Mary and Anne were as devout in their religious views as James was in his.
ref: 1954, George Hilton Jones, “[Revolutioners and Jacobites: Compounders and Non-Compounders (1688–1694)] The Revolution”, in The Main Stream of Jacobitism, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, pages 4–5:
text: How long the King would linger, even the duke could not guess, but in view of the altered succession, physical possession of the two heiresses-presumptive was vital.
ref: 1971, Mary M. Luke, “A King and His Sisters”, in A Crown for Elizabeth, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 295:
text: Speakers of the House of Commons ranked only slightly below heiresses-presumptive in Toland’s list of proper recipients of flattery.
ref: 1982, Robert E. Sullivan, “John Toland: A Portrait”, in John Toland and the Deist Controversy: A Study in Adaptations (Harvard Historical Studies; CI), Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Alternative form of heiress presumptive.
heiresses-presumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heiress-presumptive
rockfinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockfinch
Darnétal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
sound shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound shifts
Etymology: Likely a calque of German Lautverschiebung.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Vowel Shift was the main sound shift shaping modern English.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a regular sound change, especially when several phonemes are synchronously affected in analogous ways, and/or when there are several interlinked phases
Judeo-Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Judeo- + Persian.
Senses: glosses: An Iranian language, spoken by the Mountain Jews
Synonyms: Dzhidi
grand-daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand-daughters
Senses: examples: text: Highly tenacious of preserving over the mind of Sir Aubrey an undisputed sway, Lady De Brooke had seen with great reluctance the ascendency his grand-daughters were acquiring, which she artfully hoped to repress by throwing discountenance on the visits of their father,[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 92:
text: She is the grand-daughter of poor Caroline Matilda, and he the grandson of her persecutrix, the Dowager Queen.
ref: 1861, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight:
text: The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter’s head.
ref: 1892, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Sweater”, in Children of the Ghetto […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I (The Children of the Ghetto), page 34:
text: Sometimes the budding is so rapid, that, before a fresh pair of leaves have become free they have already budded out a second pair, which we may call the grand-daughters of the parent leaf.
ref: 1892 July 23, L.C. Miall, “The surface-film of water and its relation to the life of plants and animals”, in Pharmaceutical Journal, page 79:
text: About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow.
ref: 1969, Arthur Waley, The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D., London: George Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
text: My grand-daughter goes to the same school as your twin-daughter, so that is how I know you. Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name — Marilyn.
ref: 1993, Nuruddin Farah, Gifts, Arcade Publishing, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71:
text: On 27 March, the House agreed to the recommendations of the Committee’s Fourth Report (HL 45) of that Session which proposed some revisions to the other categories of those allowed to sit on the steps of the Throne. Four categories of heirs to the peerage were allowed to sit on the steps: eldest sons of peers; eldest daughters or grand-daughters of peers if they were heiresses presumptive; grandsons of peers when heirs apparent and eldest sons of those having disclaimed a peerage.
ref: 2002, Susan Child, “[Parliament and the Constitution] House of Lords Reform”, in Politico’s Guide to Parliament, 2nd edition, London: Politico’s Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Dated form of granddaughter.
grand-daughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand-daughter
side gigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side gig
side quests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side quest
Nesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniːʒən/
Forms: form: Nesians
Etymology: Common element of and back-formation from Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian.
Senses: examples: text: Nesian Nation
glosses: A Pacific Islander.
Nesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈniːʒən/
Forms: form: more Nesian
form: most Nesian
Etymology: Common element of and back-formation from Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian.
Senses: examples: text: Nesian pride
glosses: Of Pacific Islanders or their culture.
kipper time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A period of time in which fishing was illegal, during which salmon was spawning.
Serqueux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Haute-Marne department, Grand Est, France.
glosses: A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
forest-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.
ref: 1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 238:
text: ...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny.
ref: 1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120:
glosses: Having been born in a forest.
Blargies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
Wappenham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in South Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP6245).
butterfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a person with a butterface.
Twywell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire, England, previously in East Northamptonshire district (OS grid ref SP9578).
battled it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of battle it out
battles it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of battle it out
battling it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of battle it out
bawled out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bawl out
is down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be down with
was down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be down with
been down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be down with
been in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be in for
is in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be in for
was in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be in for
been on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be on to
is on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be on to
was on to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be on to
been onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be onto
is onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be onto
was onto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be onto
been out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of be out for
is out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of be out for
was out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of be out for
blared out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blare out
blares out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blare out
blaring out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blare out
blasted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blast out
blasts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blast out
blasting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blast out
bleeped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bleep out
bleeps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bleep out
bleeping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bleep out
bends down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bend down
bending down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bend down
bent down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bend down
betting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bet out
bets out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bet out
betting round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bet round
bets round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bet round
bears in upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bear in upon
bore in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear in on
bears in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bear in on
bearing in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bear in on
bore in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bores in
form: boring in
form: bored in
form: bored in
Senses: qualifier: rugby union
glosses: For a prop to turn in on an opposing prop, in a forbidden move.
bore in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear in
bears in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bear in
bearing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bear in
bears off from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bear off from
bearing off from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bear off from
bore off from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear off from
bore on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear on
bore upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of bear upon
beaten out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of beat out
beats out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beat out
beating out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beat out
bellowed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bellow out
bellows out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bellow out
bellowing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bellow out
blown upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow upon
blows upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow upon
blowing upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow upon
blew upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow upon
blown past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow past
blows past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow past
blowing past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow past
blew past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow past
blossomed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blossom out
blossoms out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blossom out
blossoming out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blossom out
blocked out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of block out
blocks out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of block out
blocking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of block out
blipped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blip out
blips out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blip out
blipping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blip out
bootied down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of booty down
booties down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of booty down
bootying down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of booty down
booked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of book in
books in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of book in
booking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of book in
bowed to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bow to
bows to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bow to
bowing to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bow to
bowed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bow down
bows down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bow down
bowing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bow down
broken it down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of break it down
braved out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brave out
braves out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brave out
braced in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brace in
braces in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brace in
bracing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brace in
braced by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brace by
braces by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brace by
bracing by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brace by
boxed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of box off
boxes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of box off
boxing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of box off
brought over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring over
brings over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring over
bringing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring over
brought under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring under
brings under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring under
bringing under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring under
brought with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring with
brings with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring with
bringing with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring with
brought together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring together
brings together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring together
bringing together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring together
brought to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bring to
brings to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring to
bringing to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bring to
brings in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bring in
breezed through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breeze through
breezes through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breeze through
breezing through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breeze through
breezed past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breeze past
breezes past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breeze past
breezing past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breeze past
breathed upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breathe upon
breathes upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breathe upon
breathing upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breathe upon
built out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of build out
builds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build out
building out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of build out
built into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of build into
builds into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build into
building into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of build into
building in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of build in
builds in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of build in
brushed up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brush up to
brushes up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brush up to
brushing up to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brush up to
brushed past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brush past
brushes past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brush past
brushing past
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brush past
bought over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy over
buys over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buy over
buying over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buy over
buzzed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzz in
buzzes in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buzz in
buzzing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buzz in
buzzed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzz up
buzzes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of buzz up
buzzing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buzz up
buzzed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzz off
buzzing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buzz off
bought off on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy off on
busied around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of busy around
busies around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of busy around
busying around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of busy around
bursting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burst up
bursts up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burst up
bursting into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burst into
bursts into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burst into
burned through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn through
burns through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burn through
burning through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burn through
burnt through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of burn through
separated out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of separate out
separates out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of separate out
separating out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of separate out
on death's doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably a shortening of the phrasal verb sit on death's doorstep.
Senses: examples: text: By the time she decided to seek help from a Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center near her village, she was on death's doorstep: dizzy and unable to walk, much less work.
ref: 2017, Anat Rosenthal, Health on Delivery:
text: But in my family, you follow through on your commitments and show up at school or work unless you are on death's doorstep. But maybe I was on death's doorstep, because Mom and I didn't even discuss the idea of my leaving the house.
ref: 2018, Leila Sales, If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say:
text: Look, we all know that some of the things that we do will put us on death's doorstep one day.
ref: 2020, Peter J. Adams, Reflecting on the Inevitable, page 218:
glosses: Almost dead.
noisebands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noiseband
non-libidoists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-libidoist
nonhomopolymers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhomopolymer
nonheathens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonheathen
nonsaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsaccharide
Noetherian modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Noetherian module
noetherian modules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noetherian module
nonadoptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadoption
nonadecasaccharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonadecasaccharide
noncoleopterans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncoleopteran
nonconformitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonconformitan
nondimensionalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nondimensionalisation
noneutherians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noneutherian
nonentrenchments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonentrenchment
nonodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonode
nonoligodendrocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonoligodendrocyte
non-price competitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-price competition
nonpolydonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpolydont
nonpigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonpigment
nonops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonop
non-pecuniary benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-pecuniary benefit
sit on death's doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sits on death's doorstep
form: sitting on death's doorstep
form: sat on death's doorstep
form: sat on death's doorstep
Senses: examples: text: You can sit on death's doorstep, And rest your weary bones.
ref: 1982, Lyrical Iowa, page 109:
text: From the Otherworld she hopes, as a shaman, to retrieve the soul of her dead or dying intended husband, who sits on Death's doorstep.
ref: 2002, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 3778:
text: Even when I had an excellent diet, within 5 years of drinking Ocean Spray juices, sodas, Gatorade and sugar sweetened tea every day, I had blown out my kidneys and was sitting on death's doorstep.
ref: 2015, Terry Cooksey, The Cure For All Disease:
text: The soldiers, officers, and priests all devoted considerable time and effort to nursing the ill men back to health, but too many of them still sat on death's doorstep.
ref: 2020, Rick Walker, Calafia: The Untold Story of California's Beginnings:
glosses: To be on the brink of death; to be almost dead.
sits on death's doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sit on death's doorstep