cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chorister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹɪstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹɪstɚ/
ipa: /ˈkwɪɹɪstəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkwɒɹɪstəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkwæɹɪstəɹ/
Forms: form: choristers
Etymology: Derived from late Middle English queristre, from an Anglo-Norman variant of Old French cueriste, from cuer (see Middle French cuer). Equivalent to choir + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: None of the new choristers can sing in tune but they will learn soon enough.
text: These be my querysters
To helpe me to synge,
My hawkes to mattens rynge!
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 122–124:
text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: And a Salisbury Cathedral chorister complained that after working late into Christmas Day, an absence of trains meant he and his brother would not be able to get home for "our proper Christmas" until the 27th.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30:
glosses: A singer in a choir.
examples: text: Jane was the chorister of her congregation's choir, and that occupied much of her time on the weekends.
glosses: A director or leader of a choral group.
Synonyms: quirister
portapotty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portapotties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of porta-potty.
pet door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet doors
Senses: glosses: An opening in a door for pets to come in and out of the house without requiring a human to open the door.
Related terms: cat flap
doggie door
air bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of airbag.
garbage disposal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garbage disposals
Senses: synonyms: garbage disposal unit
garburator
waste disposal
waste disposal unit
glosses: An electric device in a kitchen drain that gets rid of food waste by shredding it to tiny bits that can be washed away.
dinosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinosaur
fish slice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish slices
Etymology: From fish + slice (“spatula”).
Senses: examples: text: Would you pass me that fish slice, please; I'm making a mess trying to turn this omelette.
text: Truly the sign of an evolved person who has their shit together is that they’ve graduated beyond using a fish slice for everything (which they erroneously call a spatula).
ref: 2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: fish trowel
word: turner
word: pancake turner
word: spatula
glosses: A kitchen utensil used to turn foodstuffs (commonly, burgers and omelettes) in a frying pan; a spatula.
dragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragon
potto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtəʊ/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒtəʊ
Forms: form: pottos
Etymology: From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.
Senses: examples: text: The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 147:
glosses: A small primate of the genus Perodicticus, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.
glosses: The kinkajou.
Derived terms: word: golden potto
word: false potto
taxonomic: Pseudopotto martini
word: Martin's false potto
walkmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkman
toastie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toasties
Etymology: From toast + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: I much prefer cheese-and-onion toasties to those with bacon.
glosses: A toasted sandwich.
glosses: toaster or toastie maker
Derived terms: cheese toastie
toastie maker
acrobatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌækɹəˈbætɪk/
Forms: form: more acrobatic
form: most acrobatic
Etymology: From acrobat + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an acrobat.
glosses: vigorously active
Derived terms: acrobatically
acrobatic cavy
acrobatic gymnastics
aerobatic
unacrobatic
hypothec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɒθ.ɪk/
ipa: /hɪˈ-/
ipa: /haɪˈpɑ.θɪk/
ipa: /hɪˈ-/
rhymes: -ɒθɪk
Forms: form: hypothecs
Etymology: From Latin hypothēca (“pledge, mortgage”), from Ancient Greek ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē, “warning, pledge”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.
topics: law
glosses: In Québec, a legal right over property used as security for an obligation, such as a mortgage.
examples: ...saddle and all, the whole hypothec turned round and grovelled in the dust below the donkey’s belly.
glosses: Everything; the whole lot.
Related terms: hypothecate
hagiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagiography
Loris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
sycomores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sycomore
olfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒlˈfak.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɒlˈfak.tɹi/
ipa: /ɑlˈfæk.təɹ.i/
ipa: /oʊlˈfæk.təɹ.i/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Etymology: From Latin olfactus (“an act of smelling; the sense of smell”) + -ory, from olfaciō (“to sniff, smell, scent”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: Concerning the sense of smell.
Derived terms: nonolfactory
olfactome
olfactoric
olfactorily
olfactorize
olfactory bulb
olfactory capsule
olfactory kiss
olfactory lobe
olfactory nerve
olfactory organ
olfactory reference syndrome
subolfactory
Related terms: olfacto-
olfact-
olfactometer
olfactible
olfaction
olfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒlˈfak.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɒlˈfak.tɹi/
ipa: /ɑlˈfæk.təɹ.i/
ipa: /oʊlˈfæk.təɹ.i/
rhymes: -æktəɹi
Forms: form: olfactories
Etymology: From Latin olfactus (“an act of smelling; the sense of smell”) + -ory, from olfaciō (“to sniff, smell, scent”) + -tus (action noun suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Ellipsis of olfactory organ.
glosses: The sense of smell.
volte face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volte faces
Senses: examples: text: Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.
ref: 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Psychoanalysis vs. Morality”, in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of volte-face.
jap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: japs
form: japping
form: japped
form: japped
form: Jap
Etymology: Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
Senses: glosses: To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).
jap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: japs
form: japping
form: japped
form: japped
form: Jap
Etymology: From or related to Scots jaup, jap (“of liquid: dash, splash”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the yelp of the girl as the hot water japped her legs. I The big fellow bore me across the kitchen.
ref: 1947, The Bell, volume 15, page 38
text: The oilcloth on the kitchen table / an olive green thing - retro surface / japped with little bits of water / or if you like with bits 'v watter / […]
ref: 2012, Tom Paulin, Love's Bonfire:
glosses: (of a liquid) To spatter or splash over a surface.
musette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈzɛt/
ipa: /mjʊ-/
ipa: /mjuˈzɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: musettes
Etymology: From both of the following:
* Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).
* Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century.
Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: pastoral oboe
shepherd's pipe
glosses: Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: pastoral oboe
shepherd's pipe
glosses: Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: oboe musette
piccoloboe
glosses: A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
examples: text: The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.
ref: 1923, [Ernest Hemingway], “Out of Season”, in Three Stories […] & Ten Poems […], [Paris]: [Contact Publishing Company]; printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière, →OCLC, page 13:
text: I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.
ref: 1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 23, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 156:
text: Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Yo-Yo’s Roomies”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 362:
hyponyms: bonk bag
glosses: In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
Related terms: bal musette
musar
bluster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌs.tə/
ipa: /ˈblʌs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blusters
Etymology: From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).
Senses: examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
glosses: Pompous, officious talk.
glosses: A gust of wind.
glosses: Fitful noise and violence.
Synonyms: sense: pompous talk
word: bombast
Derived terms: all bluff and bluster
blusteration
blustersome
blustrification
outbluster
bluster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌs.tə/
ipa: /ˈblʌs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ʌstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: blusters
form: blustering
form: blustered
form: blustered
Etymology: From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).
Senses: examples: text: When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.
glosses: To speak or protest loudly.
examples: text: Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants.
ref: 1774 April 19, Edmund Burke, Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774, 2nd edition, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1775, →OCLC:
text: He bloweth and blustereth out […] his abominable blasphemy.
ref: 1532, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer:
text: As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
examples: text: And ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To blow in strong or sudden gusts (refers to winds).
Derived terms: abluster
blusterer
blustering
blusterous
blustery
Cardiff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːdɪf/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdɪf/
Etymology: From Middle Welsh Caerdyf, equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort”) + Taf (“(River) Taff”) = fortified city on the River Taff. Compare Welsh Caerdydd.
Senses: examples: text: The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18.
ref: 2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales.
glosses: The Welsh government.
glosses: A suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A community in the township of Highlands East, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in Sturgeon County, in central Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A small rural settlement in the region of Taranaki, New Zealand.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A tiny town in Jefferson County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
Synonym of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
synonyms: word: Cardiff-by-the-Sea
word: California
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A small hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Roane County, Tennessee.
Derived terms: Cardiff Bay
Cardiff-by-the-Sea
Cardiffian
counsellor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counsellors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counselor.
Derived terms: counsellorship
-phage
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Etymology: From Latin -phagus, from Ancient Greek φάγος (phágos, “glutton”), from φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”), aorist active infinitive of ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I ate, devoured”).
Senses: glosses: Something that eats, or consumes.
Related terms: phage
-phagist
-phagous
-phagy
-philiac
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Forming nouns: Someone with a tendency towards something, or an abnormal attraction to something.
glosses: Forming adjectives: Relating to a tendency towards something, or an abnormal attraction to something.
Synonyms: word: -phile
word: -philic
word: -philous
Related terms: -phile
-philic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ic. By surface analysis, -phile + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of -philous.
synonyms: word: -philous
-philous
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos, “love”) + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: -phile
-philic
antonyms: -phobiac
-phobic
glosses: having an affinity, attraction, preference or love of something
Related terms: -philia
-phily
get on like a house on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on like a house on fire
form: getting on like a house on fire
form: got on like a house on fire
form: got on like a house on fire
form: gotten on like a house on fire
Etymology: By metaphor, reflecting the notion that housefires are archetypally roaringly quick and robust.
Senses: examples: text: Those two met last Saturday at the party, and because they were both into juggling they got on like a house on fire.
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:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To immediately start a good relationship with someone.
Related terms: like a house afire
get along like nobody's business
hit it off
get by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets by
form: getting by
form: got by
form: got by
form: gotten by
Senses: examples: text: Do you think they can get by on only one salary?
text: Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it
ref: 2013, Tim Myers, Melissa Sheppard, “Bad Things”, in Dear You, performed by Meiko:
synonyms: get along
make do
make ends meet
glosses: To subsist; to succeed, survive, or manage, at least at a minimal level.
joggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From joggle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joggle
joggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jogglings
Etymology: From joggle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by violent jogglings up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together.
ref: 2008, Craig Chalquist, Deep California:
glosses: The act by which something is joggled, or shaken up and down.
joggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of jogging + juggling.
Senses: glosses: The act of juggling while jogging.
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: joggle
slumberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slumber + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Sunday is gloomy / My hours are slumberless / Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless.
glosses: Without slumber; sleepless, unsleeping.
filthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filthinesses
Etymology: From filthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, as yee loue your ovvne life, peace, vvelfare; Rouze vp your ſpirits, avvaken your Chriſtian courage, and ſet your ſelues heartily againſt the traitorly ſinnes of theſe times, vvhich threaten the bane of all theſe. Cleanſe yee theſe Augean ſtables of our drunken Tauernes, of our profane ſtages, and of thoſe blinde Vaults of profeſſed filthineſſe, VVhoſe ſteppes goe dovvne to the chambers of Death; yea, to the deepe of Hell.
ref: 1613 April 3 (Gregorian calendar), Jos[eph] Hall, “An Holy Panegyrick. A Sermon Preached at Paules-Crosse, vpon the Anniuersary Solemnity of the Happie Inauguration of Our Drad Soueraigne Lord, King Iames, March 24. 1613.”, in A Recollection of Such Treatises as Haue Bene heretofore Seuerally Published and are Nowe Reuised, Corrected, Augmented. […], London: […] [Humfrey Lownes] for Arthur Iohnson, Samuel Macham and Laurence Lisle, published 1615, →OCLC, page 711:
text: The Deformity, and Filthyneſs of Svvine, make them the Beauty-ſpot of the Animal Creation, and the Emblem of all Vice.
ref: 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Ends of Providence. And First, in this Life.”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 3rd book, paragraph 49, page 102:
text: Look at the filthiness of this compound!
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 274:
synonyms: dirtiness
glosses: The property of being filthy.
anti-globalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + globalism.
Senses: glosses: A philosophy which rejects the current global economic and trade system because of the belief that it undermines the environment, labor rights, national sovereignty, and the interests of third world states.
Synonyms: anti-globalization
Related terms: antiglobalist
anti-globalization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-globalization
form: most anti-globalization
Etymology: From anti- + globalization.
Senses: glosses: antiglobalist
anti-globalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + globalization.
Senses: glosses: anti-globalism
courtiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹtiɚz/
ipa: /ˈkɔːtɪəz/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈko(ː)ɹtiɚz/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈkoətɪəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of courtier
constitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑnstɪtuts/
ipa: /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constitute
constituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of constitute
effortlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛf.ət.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.li/
Forms: form: more effortlessly
form: most effortlessly
Etymology: From effortless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She hoisted the child effortlessly and plopped him in bed.
text: Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
ref: 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: at a canter
in a walk
glosses: Without effort; without difficulty or struggle.
stumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmblɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stumble
stumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmblɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstʌmbl̩ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmblɪŋ
Forms: form: stumblings
Senses: examples: text: Some evolutionary theorists stress that cultural innovation allows human beings to overcome the blind stumblings of natural selection: we deliberately solve a problem and pass on that solution to our descendants, who improve on it in turn.
ref: 2008 March 16, Alexander Star, “I Feel Good”, in New York Times:
glosses: The motion of one who stumbles.
Derived terms: stumbling block
stumbling stock
stumbling stone
glories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɔːɹiz/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈɡlo(ː)ɹiz/
Senses: examples: text: He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glory
glories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɔːɹiz/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈɡlo(ː)ɹiz/
Senses: examples: text: Shaoyang, in the southwest of central China's Hunan province, is an almost forgotten city despite past glories in a history spanning more than 25 centuries, dating back to the Spring and Autumn period.
ref: 2012 June 16, Shi Jiangtao, “Stubborn courage of Shaoyang dissidents”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2014, Latest:
glosses: plural of glory
sūtra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sūtras
Senses: examples: text: The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang), sometimes called the “dragon scales” binding (longlin zhuang), to describe the overlapping sheets of paper within the book; the “fold” binding (zhezhuang), also known as the “folding sūtra” binding (jingzhe zhuang) or “Sanskrit” binding (fanjia zhuang), given its common use in the presentation of Buddhist texts; the “butterfly” binding (hudie zhuang), whose appellation derives from the effect of fluttering papers that accompanies the opening of the book; and the “thread” binding (xianzhuang), a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles. (For diagrams of these fabrications, see Fig. 30.)
ref: 2005: Cynthia Joanne Brokaw & Kai-wing Chow, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, essay ten: Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, by Anne Burkus-Chasson, p371 (The University of California Press; →ISBN (10) (13))
glosses: Alternative spelling of sutra.
yantra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jəntɹə/
Forms: form: yantras
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit यन्त्र (yantra, “instrument”).
Senses: glosses: A geometrical diagram used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any object used as a meditation aid in tantric worship.
carriage bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriage bolts
Senses: synonyms: coach bolt
glosses: A type of bolt with a rounded head and a square shank which will not turn.
dimmer switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimmer switches
Senses: examples: text: Elder Price: "Well, Elder McKinley, I think it's okay that you're having gay thoughts just so long as you never act upon them."
 Elder McKinley: "No, because then you're just keeping it down, like a dimmer switch on low (on low), thinking nobody needs to know (Uh-oh!)"
ref: 2011, Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone, “Turn It Off” (track 5), in The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording:
glosses: A light switch which can adjust the brightness of the switched lamp from dim to bright, as well as turning it on and off.
glosses: A switch that changes the headlamps on a motor vehicle from low to high and from high to low beam; a high-beam switch; a brights switch.
Synonyms: dipswitch
dipper switch
three-way switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-way switches
Etymology: Named after its three electrical connections, as opposed to the two connections of a normal light switch.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A type of light switch that can be arranged in pairs to control lights from two locations, as at either end of a stairway or long hallway; a double-throw switch. (British): two-way switch.
occlusive ileus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the intestines become completely blocked or occluded.
azur
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of azure (“blue tincture in heraldry”).
Zalika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain. Suggestions include a Swahili Muslim name meaning "ahead, brilliant", or an Egyptian Arabic name meaning 'well-born' or 'born into power'.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Krystina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek. A rare modern spelling of Christina.
Kirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːɡɪz/
ipa: /kɪɹˈɡiːz/
rhymes: (US) -iːz
Forms: form: Kirghiz
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кирги́з (kirgíz).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
Kirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːɡɪz/
ipa: /kɪɹˈɡiːz/
rhymes: (US) -iːz
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кирги́з (kirgíz).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
Kirghiz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːɡɪz/
ipa: /kɪɹˈɡiːz/
rhymes: (US) -iːz
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кирги́з (kirgíz).
Senses: examples: text: In September of 1937, two regiments of Soviet Kirghiz troops and one regiment of Russian troops equipped with forty airplanes and twenty tanks entered Sinkiang from Atushe and attacked Pa-ch'u, dividing Ma Hu-shan's 36th Corps into two sections. In October one Kirghiz regiment entered P'i-shan, and Ma Hu-shan fled to India. Kirghiz and Russian forces were now in occupation of Hami and poised to strike at Ho-t'ien in the extreme south of Sinkiang.
ref: 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 102–103:
glosses: Alternative form of Kyrgyz.
gelded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From geld + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of geld
gelded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gelded
form: most gelded
Etymology: From geld + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The gelded man answered Philip and sayde: I praye the off whom speaketh the prophet this?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
glosses: Castrated.
Derived terms: ungelded
gelds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of geld
gelds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geld
trade-wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade-winds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of trade wind.
lovestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From love + stone, in reference to the way that ivy grows over and clings to stone walls, etc.
Senses: glosses: ivy
adornment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɔːnm(ə)nt/
Forms: form: adornments
Etymology: From adorn + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.
synonyms: word: adornment
word: decoration
word: embellishment
word: ornament
word: ornamentation
glosses: A decoration; that which adorns.
glosses: The act of decorating.
Derived terms: nonadornment
overadornment
unadornment
maltier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of malty: more malty
add up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adds up
form: adding up
form: added up
form: added up
Senses: examples: text: Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
text: When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.
glosses: To take the sum of; to total.
raw_tags: of a numerical amount
examples: text: If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.
text: It all keeps adding up / I think I'm cracking up / Am I just paranoid? / Or am I just stoned?
ref: 1994, Green Day, “Basket Case”, in Dookie:
text: The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]
ref: 2016, Christopher Walker, The First 49:
glosses: To accumulate; to amount to.
examples: text: His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?
glosses: To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
Synonyms: sense: take a sum
word: sum up
word: tally
word: summate
sense: amount to
word: accrue
word: mount up
word: accumulate
sense: make sense
word: compute
sense: make sense
word: hang together
word: add
word: add together
word: add up
word: cast
word: count up
word: foot up
word: reckon up
word: sum
word: tally up
word: tot
word: tot up
word: total
word: tote
word: tote up
Hypernyms: word: calculate
athame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈθeɪmeɪ/
ipa: /əˈθɑːmeɪ/
ipa: /ɑˈθɑ.meɪ/
ipa: /əˈθɑ.meɪ/
ipa: /ˈæ.θəˌmeɪ/
Forms: form: athames
form: athamé
Etymology: From French athamé in a 1929 passage from É.-J. Grillot de Givry (see 1931 citation below), apparently from Medieval Latin artavus (“quill-sharpening knife”). Artavus was also mistranslated into artauo in an Italian manuscript. The arthame was conflated with the cortel nero (“black knife”) by Grillot de Givry, and that conflation was passed on to Gerald Gardner (whose 1954 book Witchcraft Today introduced Wicca to the public).
Senses: examples: text: She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.
ref: 1931, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, chapter 7, in JC Locke, transl., Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy:
text: Agia was quicker, making a cut at my neck with an athame before his weapon was free of the scabbard.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 60:
text: The athame is a black-handled ritual knife—one of the most common distinguishing marks of the Neopagan Witch.
ref: 1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions, page 22:
text: Tradition says an athame should never have drawn blood.
ref: 2023, Skye Alexander, The Kitchen Witch, Simon & Schuster (Adams Media), page 60:
glosses: A ceremonial pointed knife or dagger, used especially in Wicca and other neopagan traditions and typically having a black handle with magical symbols on it.
wikipedia: Gerald Gardner
Witchcraft Today
Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry
melancholia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊliə
Forms: form: melancholias
Etymology: From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”), from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of melancholy.
Senses: synonyms: word: gloom
word: melancholy
word: sadness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
Derived terms: melancholiac
Related terms: melancholy
melancholic
pertussal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pertussis + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] the friendly and eloquent monarch would be interrupted by a pertussal "backdraucht" in a crowd of school-children.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: Pertaining to pertussis or whooping-cough.
abortion pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abortion pills
Senses: glosses: A drug, such as mifepristone (Mifegyne), used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage.
Related terms: abortion
morning-after pill
-phyte
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɪt/
ipa: /faɪt/
Forms: form: -phytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).
Senses: examples: text: arthrophyte, cyanophyte
glosses: A member of a taxonomic group of plants or algae, chiefly one whose taxonomic name ends (or ended) in -phyta.
examples: text: acrophyte
glosses: A plant that grows in a specified habitat.
examples: text: anthophyte, macrophyte
glosses: A plant that grows in a specified form or habit.
examples: text: osteophyte
glosses: A pathological growth.
Related terms: phyto-
about turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: about turns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of about-turn.
about turn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: about turns
form: about turning
form: about turned
form: about turned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of about-turn.
about face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: about faces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of about-face.
about face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: about faces
form: about facing
form: about faced
form: about faced
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative spelling of about-face.
-thermy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: heat
Derived terms: homeothermy
but who's counting
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: who's counting
Senses: examples: text: There are only 258 more shopping days until Christmas, but who's counting?
text: You've made that mistake eight times now. But who's counting?
text: I've been looking for a job for six months now, but who's counting?
glosses: Used as a retort or comeback, often to deprecate oneself or another for excessive concern or attention to detail.
Related terms: what do I know
skating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skate
skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: skatings
Senses: examples: text: In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Prudence”, in Essays: First Series:
text: My merry Christmas and first matrimonial plum-pudding, which I had a hand in compounding — the sprig of mistletoe which I bought for home-consumption, the walks in the parks and the skatings on the Serpentine during the two days' holiday[…]
ref: 1854, Charles Manby Smith, The working-man's way in the world, page 283:
text: It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
ref: 2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation:
glosses: The action of moving along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
glosses: The sport of moving along a surface using skates.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A method of propulsion, where one moves similar to how a skater propels themselves. A technique in skiing, where a ski is planted diagonally, to push off of, and one slides forward on the ski facing straight forward, and then repeats the process with the swapping of the feet's actions.
Coordinate terms: striding
double poling
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: figure skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: free skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: ice skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: in-line skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: park skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: roller skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: skating on thin ice
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: skating rink
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: ski skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: speed skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: street skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: synchronised skating
sense: terms derived from skating (noun)
word: synchronized skating
conjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conjure
conjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjurings
Senses: examples: text: In between conjurings, Jan and Anka swap cures for insomnia[…].
ref: 1988 March 11, Anthony Adler, “Nervous Chatter”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An act in which something is conjured.
raw_tags: of conjure
Derived terms: conjuring trick
letter of marque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of marque
form: letter of mart
Senses: examples: text: A letter of marque came from the King / to the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen / God damn them all! I was told / We'd cruise the seas for American gold / We'd fire no guns, shed no tears.
ref: 1976, Stan Rogers, “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: letter of marque and reprisal
glosses: An official commission from a government authorizing someone to seize the property or people of another nation; especially to attack merchant shipping of another nation.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship that has been armed for such a task.
Related terms: privateer
letter of countermarque
in other words
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He has another appointment on Thursday. In other words, I don't think he'll be attending your gathering.
text: On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of the Stamford paper, requesting that, as the "mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain,"—or, in other words, that the printer would call upon him, and receive an order for executing some hand-bills announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival, and his desire to see company.
ref: 1809 July, “LINCOLNSHIRE.”, in The Universal Magazine (New Series), volume XII, number LXVIII, page 78, column 1:
text: Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: Stated or interpreted another way; Used to introduce an explanation, simplification, or clarification.
Synonyms: sense: introducing an explanation etc
word: to put it another way
word: put differently
word: that is to say
word: i.e.
Hyponyms: sense: introducing an explanation etc
word: to wit
sense: introducing an explanation etc
word: namely
sense: introducing an explanation etc
word: viz.
Related terms: paraphrase
in so many words
or words to that effect
sandpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændˌpeɪpɚ/
Forms: form: sandpapers
Etymology: From sand + paper.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: emery paper
text: They like to finish it off with a piece of 600-grit sandpaper before cleaning and painting.
synonyms: sanding paper#Noun
hypernyms: abrasive#Noun
coordinate_terms: emery cloth
;
emery board
glosses: Strong paper coated with (traditionally) sand or (today) manufactured aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, or other abrasive material, used for smoothing and polishing.
examples: text: I need a scraper and a sandpaper over here.
glosses: A sheet of such paper.
Derived terms: liquid sandpaper
sandpapery
Related terms: grit
sandpaper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændˌpeɪpɚ/
Forms: form: sandpapers
form: sandpapering
form: sandpapered
form: sandpapered
Etymology: From sand + paper.
Senses: synonyms: sand#Verb
sand down#Verb
coordinate_terms: buff#Verb
buff out#Verb
glosses: To polish or grind (a surface) with or as if with sandpaper.
Derived terms: sandpapered nails
purging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English purgynge; equivalent to purge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of purge
purging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Forms: form: purgings
Etymology: From Middle English purgynge; equivalent to purge + -ing.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing
A removal of undesirable people.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing
The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
glosses: The removal of waste from the human body
The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomiting, etc.
qualifier: premodern medicine
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of waste from the human body
The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
examples: text: He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
ref: 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
glosses: That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
glosses: Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
synonyms: word: purgation
extra: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed
Synonyms: sense: removal of undesirables
word: purge
sense: removal of undesirables
word: witchhunt
sense: defecation
word: defecation
sense: vomiting
word: vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate
sense: thing purged
word: blood
word: sin
word: vomit
word: and Thesaurus:feces
Derived terms: purging cassia
purging nut
purging place
Philadelphia lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Philadelphia lawyers
Etymology: Possibly derived from Andrew Hamilton's skillful defense of John Peter Zenger in 1735, though, as the phrase is not attested until 1788, this is uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A clever, crafty, or otherwise extremely adroit practitioner of law.
Synonyms: legal beagle
legal eagle
wimper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of whimper.
salt cellar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt cellars
form: saltcellar
form: salt-cellar
Etymology: From salt + cellar, from 15th Century Middle English saler, from Middle French salier, from Latin salārius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”). Modified based on originally unrelated English cellar.
Senses: examples: text: Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlour, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 259–260:
text: And she had no love for the sea specially, regarding all winds as nuisances excepting such as had been raised by her own efforts, and thinking that salt from a saltcellar was more convenient than that brought to her on the breezes.
ref: c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter XXVII, in The Claverings:
glosses: A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.
glosses: Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”).
synonyms: word: salt shaker
extra: a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt
Synonyms: word: salt
salting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salt