cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tightrope walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tightrope walkings
form: tightrope-walking
form: tight-rope walking
form: tight-rope-walking
Senses: examples: text: Most of the novelties, including the aerial jumpings and the tightrope walkings, had been tapering off in preparation for this exciting final event.
ref: 1947 June, Consolata Carroll, “Three-ring Circus”, in Pray Love, Remember, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Company, published September 1947 (2nd printing), →OCLC, page 155:
text: The extant verses deal with the usual subject of love, cup-bearers, songs, dances, music; there is no shortage of tightrope walkings, virtuosity and artificiality typical of Arab poetry.
ref: 2007, Vito Salierno, “Arab-Norman Sicily”, in Islam and Pakistan’s Identity, Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan, →ISBN, page 131:
synonyms: funambulism
ropedancing
glosses: The acrobatic feat of walking on a tightrope.
Derived terms: tightrope-walk
Related terms: skywalking
slackrope walking
tightrope artist
tightrope artiste
tightrope walk
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tightrope-walking
form: tight-rope walking
form: tight-rope-walking
Senses: examples: text: Mary Ann could witness the intricacies, the pitfalls, and the tightrope walkings of marriage, and even handle them, but not Michael.
ref: 1971, Catherine Cookson, “The Lapse”, in The Lord and Mary Ann (Mary Ann; 2), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, published 1975, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Each show targets some facet of adult life that richly deserves to be questioned, such as sport hunting with assault weapons. Those are hot-button topics for adults, and the show’s writing is a miracle of tightrope walking in its handling of them.
ref: 1998 May 10, Stephen Eberhart, “‘South Park,’ Teachers and Kids”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
text: I have failed to find a single article in your newspaper about the "tightrope walking" that the Swiss were forced to perform between the Allies and the Nazis in order to survive as a country and avoid invasion.
ref: 1998 December 3, Donna Erismann-Foote, “Letters to the Editor: A Swiss Tightrope”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025:
glosses: present participle and gerund of tightrope walk
timberyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberyards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of timber yard.
timber yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timber yards
Senses: glosses: a place where wood is stored, and cut to size
Related terms: sawmill
toss one's cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tosses one's cookies
form: tossing one's cookies
form: tossed one's cookies
form: tossed one's cookies
Senses: examples: text: The cab I had was a real old one that smelled like someone’d just tossed his cookies in it. I always get those vomity kind of cabs if I go anywhere late at night.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 106:
synonyms: word: lose one's cookies
word: bait
word: barf
word: be sick
word: blow chunks
word: boak
word: boke
word: boot
word: bork
word: bow down before the porcelain god
word: cast
word: cast up one's accounts
word: chuck
word: chuck up
word: chunder
word: disgorge
word: drive the porcelain bus
word: erupt
word: gag
word: get sick
word: heave
word: honk
word: hurl
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: puke
word: puke up
word: purge
word: ralph
word: regurge
word: regurgitate
word: retch
word: shoot the cat
word: sick
word: sick up
word: spew
word: talk to God on the big white telephone
word: talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
word: throw up
word: toss
word: toss one's cookies
word: upchuck
word: vomit
word: woof one's cookies
word: whoops
word: worship the porcelain god
word: worship the porcelain goddess
word: yak
glosses: To vomit.
upchuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From up- + chuck, from chuck up.
Senses: glosses: Vomit.
upchuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upchucks
form: upchucking
form: upchucked
form: upchucked
Etymology: From up- + chuck, from chuck up.
Senses: examples: text: Joel began to upchuck all over the grandstand.
glosses: To vomit.
Synonyms: word: chuck up
Timbuktu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪm.bʌkˈtuː/
Forms: form: Timbuctoo
form: Timbouctou
form: Timbuctu
form: Timbuktoo
Etymology: Unclear. See Timbuktu § Toponymy.
Senses: glosses: A city in central Mali.
examples: text: You can try every shop from here to Timbuktu, but you won't find another one like this.
text: Now, my little pesky pets, you're going to travel first-class in your own private compartment all the way to Timbuktu. And this time, you'll never come back.
ref: 1970, The Aristocats (motion picture):
synonyms: Outer Mongolia
Faroffistan
glosses: Any proverbially distant or remote place.
time and a half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
law
qualifier: human resources
glosses: A rate of pay 50% greater than normal, commonly used for overtime work.
time and motion study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time and motion studies
form: motion and time study
form: time-motion study
form: time-and-motion study
Senses: topics: business
qualifier: industry
glosses: An analysis of the motions used in an industrial process with an aim to improve efficiency and productivity.
Related terms: time and motion expert
time of day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times of day
Senses: glosses: The time according to the clock.
examples: text: "At what time of day and year are the winds strongest?" / "Winter mornings, I think, or maybe at day’s end."
text: She would fold laundry at this time of day.
text: I love that time of day. The light is magical.
glosses: A loosely specified period of time, minutes or hours in duration, especially daytime, or point in time.
glosses: The greeting appropriate to the time of day.
examples: text: that's how it was in that time of day [ = at that time, back in that day]
glosses: era: time; day.
examples: text: ‘Never mind me, Sir,’ replied Sam. ‘Lend him a hand, Mr. Winkle, sir. Steady, sir, steady! That’s the time o’ day!’
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: The right thing; the ticket; that which is needed.
Synonyms: sense: time according to the clock
word: time
sense: time according to the clock
word: clock time
sense: time according to the clock
word: o'clock
topics: time
word: loosely specified period of time
sense: loosely specified point in time
word: time
sense: loosely specified point in time
word: hour
Coordinate terms: time of night
time of year
Derived terms: fair time of day
give the time of day
good time of day
know the time of day
pass the time of day
time of day animation
Related terms: give the time of day
time of the month
know what's o'clock
time of the month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times of the month
form: TOM
form: that time of the month
Senses: examples: text: I'm so, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just... I'm just a little bit, you know... Well, I've got you know at the moment, so... I've got Aunt Irma visiting.
Do you not like Aunt Irma? I've got an aunt like that.
It's my term for... my time of the month.
What time of the month? The weekend?
ref: 2006 Mar. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 6
text: You have to admit, however, that during that time of the month, we are not at our most likable. Let's face it. We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cry at the drop of a hat.
ref: 2014, Becky Rutledge, Miss Becky's Charm School, Citadel Press, →ISBN:
text: It’s that time, that time of the month / Well I woke up early and I got a hunch
ref: 2014, “Crimson Wave”, in NVM, performed by Tacocat:
glosses: Synonym of menstruation: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates.
synonyms: word: menstruation
extra: the monthly period during which a fertile woman menstruates
Derived terms: Tom
curse of Tom
time bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time bills
form: timebill
Senses: glosses: A bill of exchange that is to be paid at some future date.
glosses: A timetable.
time bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time bombs
form: timebomb
form: time-bomb
Etymology: From time + bomb.
Senses: examples: text: At 9.40 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, August 5, a ganger found what was thought to be a time bomb at a level crossing at Tempsford, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, […] Inside one box was a brick; the other contained the works of an old alarm clock.
ref: 1957 October 24, “Notes and News: Bomb Hoax at Tempsford”, in Railway Magazine, pages 735, 736:
glosses: A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
examples: text: Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.
ref: 1994, Peter G. Neumann, Computer-Related Risks, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.
examples: text: Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.
ref: 2014 June 6, Françoise Fressoz, “France’s Ticking Time Bomb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.
ref: 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:
text: The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: ticking bomb
ticking time bomb
glosses: A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.
Derived terms: Vietnamese time bomb
Related terms: accident waiting to happen
Niall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪəl/
ipa: /niːl/
rhymes: -aɪəl
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Niall or Scottish Gaelic Niall, ultimately from Old Irish Níall, of uncertain original meaning. Suggestions include nél (“cloud”) and nïa (“champion”), which is from Proto-Indo-European *h₃neyd- (“to revile”). Doublet of Neil.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish or Scottish Gaelic used in Ireland and Scotland since the Middle Ages.
Related terms: word: Neal
word: Neil
word: McNeil
english: son of Niall
translation: son of Niall
word: McNeill
time capsule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time capsules
Senses: examples: text: Rail Minister Lord Hendy has placed a time capsule at Ravensthorpe, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) project. Hendy was joined by Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, local schoolchildren and TRU apprentices at the burial of the time capsule, which will sit under foundations of a new viaduct.
ref: 2025 March 19, “News in pictures: Time capsule buried at Ravensthorpe”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 29, photo caption:
glosses: A sealed container, buried at a specific location, that contains records of contemporary life, to be rediscovered in the distant future.
examples: text: As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support.
ref: 2011, Francis Tapon, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us, page 135:
glosses: An object, place, or collection that encapsulates and preserves the characteristics, culture or essence of a particular time period, usually due to isolation or some specific external influence.
Related terms: memory box
in the mood
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Don’t start with me: I’m not in the mood.
text: He wasn't in the mood to tango.
text: I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me.
text: She said she's not "in the mood" tonight.
glosses: Disposed (to do something or for something; often romantic or sexual, without further context).
Related terms: the spirit moves one
timecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timecards
form: time card
form: time-card
Etymology: From time + card.
Senses: glosses: A paper card that is timestamped by a time clock to record the times when an employee starts and stops work.
glosses: A digital record representing the same concept.
Coordinate terms: word: timesheet
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: time sheet
Related terms: word: clock in
word: clock on
word: punch in
word: clock out
word: clock off
word: punch out
pictograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pictographs
Etymology: From Latin pictus + -o- + graph.
Senses: examples: text: The Seleucid and Dendera Zodiacs are illustrations of the pictograph tradition from the 5th phase, showing the zodiac plus the four ‘parazodiacal’ animals (crow, serpent, eagle, and southern fish).
ref: 1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy Association, volume 108, number 1, page 10, column 1:
synonyms: hieroglyph
pictogram
coordinate_terms: ideogram
logogram
glosses: A picture that represents a word or an idea.
glosses: A graphic character.
glosses: A graph that represents numerical data using pictures.
Derived terms: pictographic
plantar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæntɚ/
homophone: planter
Etymology: From Latin planta (“sole of the foot”). May be decomposed as plant + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: a plantar wart
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the sole of the foot.
Hypernyms: volar
Derived terms: calcaneoplantar
distoplantar
dorsoplantar
intradermoplantar
intraplantar
lateroplantar
medioplantar
midplantar
nonplantar
plantar fascia
plantar fasciitis
plantarflex
plantarflexion
plantarly
plantar wart
posteroplantar
proximoplantar
subplantar
Related terms: palmar
fresh water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fresh waters
Senses: glosses: Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.
Synonyms: freshwater
sweetwater
sweet water
Hypernyms: water
Coordinate terms: deionized water
distilled water
freshwater
fresh-water
hardwater
hard water
hard-water
mineral water
saltwater
salt water
salt-water
softened water
softwater
soft water
soft-water
springwater
spring water
spring-water
swampwater
swamp water
swamp-water
sweetwater
tapwater
tap water
tap-water
sleuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːθ/
ipa: /sluːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: sleuths
Etymology: Clipping of sleuthhound.
Senses: examples: text: 1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
text: “This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
ref: 2021 June 23, Carl Zimmer, quoting Michael Worobey, “Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: detective
gumshoe
investigator
dick
private eye
glosses: A detective.
glosses: A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
glosses: An animal’s trail or track.
Derived terms: sleuth dog
sleuthhound
sleuth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːθ/
ipa: /sluːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: sleuths
form: sleuthing
form: sleuthed
form: sleuthed
Etymology: Clipping of sleuthhound.
Senses: examples: text: We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary:
glosses: To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
Synonyms: shadow
sleuth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluːθ/
ipa: /sluːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: sleuths
Etymology: From Old English slǣwþ, corresponding to slow + -th.
Senses: synonyms: idleness
inertia
laziness
lethargy
sloth
slothfulness
glosses: Slowness; laziness, sloth.
examples: text: As quietly as if I were practicing to join a sleuth of bears, I crept out the door and went on home, eventually winding up in the garage…
ref: 1961, Noel Perrin, A Passport Secretly Green, page 89:
text: If these dainty adventurers weren’t being chased by a sleuth of bears or bogeys, they were being captured by Gypsies or thieves.
ref: 1995, Bobbie Ann Mason, The Girl Sleuth, page 13:
text: From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.
ref: 2007, Elinor DeWire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page 200:
synonyms: sloth
glosses: A group of bears.
Related terms: sloth
sleuth-hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleuth-hounds
Senses: examples: 1607: Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts - The Blood-hound differeth nothing in quality from the Scottish Sluth-hound, saving they are greater in quantity, and not alway of one and the same colour...
1876: May Agnes Fleming, The Midnight Queen - What a fool, idiot, and ninny I must have been, to have left her as I did, knowing those two sleuth-hounds were in full chase!
glosses: Alternative form of sleuthhound.
Synonyms: slot-hound
time clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time clocks
form: timeclock
Senses: glosses: A device that records, on (digital or paper) timecards, the times when employees begin and finish work.
Synonyms: punch clock
Related terms: word: clock in
word: clock on
word: punch in
word: clock out
word: clock off
word: punch out
word: overtime
word: quitting time
time-consuming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-consuming
form: most time-consuming
Senses: examples: text: However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
text: The de minimis exemption, as it’s known, allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the United States duty-free, often more or less skipping time-consuming inspections and paperwork.
ref: 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: Using significant amounts of time, especially in an unwanted and sometimes unwarranted manner.
Synonyms: word: chronophagous
english: neutral form
translation: neutral form
word: time-intensive
word: time-taking
Derived terms: time-consumingly
time deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time deposits
Senses: topics: banking
business
coordinate_terms: time account
glosses: A deposit in a bank that cannot be withdrawn before a specified date.
Synonyms: word: term deposit
word: fixed deposit
Derived terms: time deposit account
timed-release
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That releases its active ingredients gradually, in order to produce a sustained effect.
Derived terms: timed-release fertilizer
timed-release insecticide
diuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ(j)əˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
homophone: diarrhetic
homophone: diaeretic
Forms: form: more diuretic
form: most diuretic
form: diuretick
Etymology: From Middle English diuretyk, from Old French diuretique; ultimately from Ancient Greek διουρητικός (diourētikós). By surface analysis, diuresis + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.
ref: 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products, page 426:
text: Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.
ref: 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Increasing the amount or frequency of urination.
Derived terms: antidiuretic
diuretically
nondiuretic
osmodiuretic
diuretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ(j)əˈɹɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
homophone: diarrhetic
homophone: diaeretic
Forms: form: diuretics
form: diuretick
Etymology: From Middle English diuretyk, from Old French diuretique; ultimately from Ancient Greek διουρητικός (diourētikós). By surface analysis, diuresis + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.
ref: 2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products, page 426:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug or a substance that increases the rate of urine excretion.
Coordinate terms: carminative
laxative
Derived terms: loop diuretic
timed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of time
timed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Happening at a certain time.
glosses: Regulated by time.
time exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time exposures
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An exposure made by leaving a camera's shutter open for a period greater than a fraction of a second.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An image so obtained.
Related terms: time-exposed
time shutter
double exposure
multiple exposure
time-honored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-honored
form: most time-honored
form: time-honoured
Senses: examples: text: It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: Honored because of great age, or long usage.
time-honoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more time-honoured
form: most time-honoured
Senses: examples: text: It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:
text: The formation of sulphuric acid is inhibited in the presence of metallic oxides and the method of application in this instance would really be no more difficult than the time-honoured trick of sprinkling sand on the fire to clean the tubes.
ref: 1959 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Class "9" 2-10-0s”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 422–423:
text: I was also interested to hear that he is taking over the time-honoured Rail Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland, following Stuart Baker's death in November 2020.
ref: 2022 February 23, Barry Doe, “Liverpool & Manchester Atlas is excellent value”, in RAIL, number 951, page 61:
glosses: Alternative spelling of time-honored.
time out of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times out of mind
Senses: examples: text: But though this Kingdom of China doth often change its Lord and Name, the Chineſes however have time out of mind called it by two other particular names, as Chungchoa, and Chungque ; the firſt whereof ſignifies The Middle Kingdom ; and the other, the Middle Garden.
ref: 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 4–5:
text: Harvests at Boisveyrac had been gathered under arms since time out of mind, with sentries posted far up the shore.
ref: 1904, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 10, in Fort Amity:
text: And on the yew that has been green from the times out of mind
By the Steep Place of the Strangers and the Gap of the Wind.
ref: 1905, William Butler Yeats, “Red Hanrahan's Curse,”, in Stories of Red Hanrahan:
glosses: The distant past beyond anyone's memory.
examples: text: They were Episcopalians, and for time out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street.
ref: 1899, Frank Norris, chapter 1, in Blix:
glosses: A lengthy duration of time, longer than is readily remembered.
Synonyms: time immemorial
time out of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: times out of mind
Senses: examples: text: Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut / Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, / Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
text: Our constitution is a prescriptive constitution; it is a constitution, whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind.
ref: 1782 May 7, Edmund Burke, Speech on a motion made in the House of Commons, the 7th of May 1782, for a committee to enquire into the state of the representation of the Commons in Parliament:
text: The very solicitors’ boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner, may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
ref: 1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House:
text: I tell you that Cashel never was beaten, although times out of mind it would have paid him better to lose than to win.
ref: 1882, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 13, in Cashel Byron's Profession:
glosses: For a lengthy period of time; on numerous occasions.
time-lapse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪmˌlæps/
Etymology: From time + lapse.
Senses: examples: text: Operation London Bridge, also from 1975, tells the story of the busy station's redevelopment. Cutting neatly from the barrow boys of Borough Market to an aerial view of Borough Market Junction, the film uses time lapse photography to show the congestion rife in the area during the morning rush hour.
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 48:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Of or relating to a technique in which exposures are taken at fewer intervals than usual so that, on playback, a naturally slow process may be viewed at an accelerated pace.
Derived terms: time-lapse cinematography
time-lapse cinemicrography
time-lapse microscopy
time-lapse phonography
time-lapse photography
time-lapse seismic data
time-lapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtaɪmˌlæps/
Forms: form: time-lapses
form: time lapse
form: timelapse
Etymology: From time + lapse.
Senses: glosses: A film or video using this technique.
Related terms: stop-motion
sixths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪksθs/
rhymes: -ɪksθs
ipa: /sɪks(ː)/
ipa: /sɪkθs/
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth
timeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more timeless
form: most timeless
Etymology: From time + -less.
Senses: examples: text: When Worlds, that count his Circles now, unhing’d,
(Fate the loud Signal sounding) headlong rush
To timeless Night and Chaos, whence they rose.
ref: c. 1743, Edward Young, “Night 2: On Time, Death, and Friendship”, in The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality:
glosses: Eternal.
glosses: Not affected by time; ageless.
examples: text: Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death?
ref: c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act V, scene 4:
text: The lamp of day is quench’d beneath the deep,
And soft approach the balmy hours of sleep:
Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast
Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest.
ref: 1725, Alexander, transl. Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, book 3, London: Bernard Lintot, translation of The Odyssey by Homer, page 143, lines 427–430:
glosses: Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
examples: text: The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.
glosses: Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
examples: text: a timeless cricket match
glosses: Without a time limit; untimed.
Synonyms: sense: eternal
word: eternal
word: everlasting
word: immortal
word: infinite
word: never-ending
word: sempiternal
word: eternal
sense: not affected by time
word: ageless
sense: done at an improper time
word: ill-timed
word: untimely
sense: not decreasing over time
word: undiminishable
sense: not decreasing over time
word: unfading
word: achronic
word: atemporal
word: extratemporal
word: timeless
Hyponyms: word: ageless
Derived terms: timeless existence
timelessly
timeless moment
timelessness
timeless Test
untimeless
Related terms: word: timelessly
word: timelessness
timeless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From time + -less.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A gene encoding an essential protein that regulates circadian rhythm, normally written in italics: timeless.
Related terms: eternal now
time limit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time limits
form: time-limit
Senses: glosses: A time by which something must be finished.
glosses: A duration beyond which something may not exceed.
Derived terms: time limit order
ticket time limit
Related terms: time-limited
time loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time loans
Senses: glosses: A loan that must be repaid by a certain time.
otorhinolaryngologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑtoʊˌraɪnoʊˌlæɹɪŋˈɡɑləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌɒtəʊˌraɪnəʊˌlæɹɪŋˈɡɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌɒtə-/
ipa: /-raɪnə-/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: otorhinolaryngologists
Etymology: From otorhinolaryngology + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A doctor specializing in otorhinolaryngology, the study of the ear, nose, and throat.
Synonyms: ENT
otolaryngologist
time lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time locks
form: time-lock
Senses: glosses: A lock, typically on a door in a bank vault, that cannot be unlocked before a specified time.
time note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time notes
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A promissory note that specifies a date (or dates) when repayment must be made.
fandango
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fænˈdæŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /fænˈdæŋ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: fandangos
form: fandangoing
form: fandangoed
form: fandangoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fandango, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Portuguese fado, or of West African origin.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To dance the fandango.
glosses: To dance, particularly with a lot of energy.
retrospect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛtɹəˌspɛkt/
Forms: form: retrospects
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin retrōspectum, from retrōspicio (“to look back at”), equivalent to retro- + -spect. Compare review.
Senses: examples: text: My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
ref: 1853, Charlotte Bronte, Villette:
text: Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.
ref: 1976, Terry Kay, The Year the Lights Came On, University of Georgia Press, published 1989, →ISBN, page 298:
antonyms: prospect
glosses: Consideration of past times.
Derived terms: in retrospect
retrospectical
retrospection
retrospective
retrospect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛtɹəˌspɛkt/
Forms: form: retrospects
form: retrospecting
form: retrospected
form: retrospected
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin retrōspectum, from retrōspicio (“to look back at”), equivalent to retro- + -spect. Compare review.
Senses: examples: text: To give a correct idea of the circumstances which have gradually produced this conviction, it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
ref: 1800 October 24, Alexander Hamilton, “Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, volumes 25, July 1800 – April 1802, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1962, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:
glosses: To look or refer back to; to reflect on.
Related terms: hindsight
review
in retrospect
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: retrospectively
text: Trying to expand the business into the Middle East was doomed to failure. In retrospect, we shouldn't have bothered.
synonyms: in hindsight
glosses: When looked back upon as a past event; as can be seen now, but not at the time.
send-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛndˌʌp/
Forms: form: send-ups
form: sendup
Etymology: Deverbal from send up.
Senses: examples: text: The tired storyline, centered on a lesbian couple's search for a sperm donor, is irritatingly spoofish and lacks the subtlety that makes for great send-ups.
ref: 2006, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film, page 115:
text: Popstar doesn’t quite reach This Is Spinal Tap levels of satire (few things could), but as a send-up of the mores of today’s celebrity-obsessed culture, it largely succeeds.
ref: 2016 June 2, David Sims, “'Popstar': Celebrity Satire Done Right”, in The Atlantic:
text: The animated sitcom, long a magnet for controversy, incurred the wrath of the current US administration for its brutal and graphic send-up of Donald Trump as a petty, micro-penised dictator, as well as parent company Paramount’s cowardly capitulations to him.
ref: 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: lampoon
parody
takeoff
travesty
glosses: A satirical imitation of a work of art or a genre.
sendup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sendups
Senses: examples: text: The tongue-in-cheek sendup wasn’t far from Silicon Valley’s reality.
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of send-up (“parody”).
steeple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːpəl/
rhymes: -iːpəl
Forms: form: steeples
form: steple
Etymology: From Middle English stepel, from Old English stīpel, stȳpel, stīepel (“tower, steeple”), from Proto-West Germanic *staupil, from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (“that which is steep, tower, steeple”), equivalent to steep + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stǫpull (“tower, steeple”).
Senses: examples: text: Above the session-room of the Council is the steeple, and in the steeple is the belfry, where exists, and has existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village—the great clock of the borough of Vondervotteimittiss.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Devil in the Belfry:
text: So, the woman and the child had gone by, and gone on, and five had sounded from the steeples.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Little Dorrit’s Party”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), pages 126–127:
glosses: A tall tower, often on a church, normally topped with a spire.
glosses: A spire.
glosses: A high headdress of the 14th century.
Derived terms: Ainderby Steeple
rood-steeple
Steeple Aston
Steeple Bumpstead
steeple cab
steeplechase
Steeple Claydon
steeple engine
steeple-fingered
steeple hat
steeple keeper
Steeple Langford
steepleless
Steeple Morden
Steeple Mountain
Sturton le Steeple
steeple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːpəl/
rhymes: -iːpəl
Forms: form: steeples
form: steepling
form: steepled
form: steepled
form: steple
Etymology: From Middle English stepel, from Old English stīpel, stȳpel, stīepel (“tower, steeple”), from Proto-West Germanic *staupil, from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (“that which is steep, tower, steeple”), equivalent to steep + -le. Cognate with Old Norse stǫpull (“tower, steeple”).
Senses: examples: text: He steepled his fingers as he considered the question.
text: Mr. Ziegler is now angled forward with his elbows on his knees and his fingers steepled just under his nose.
ref: 2005, David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 341:
glosses: To form something into the shape of a steeple.
Derived terms: steepled
shoulder check
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoulder checks
form: shoulder checking
form: shoulder checked
form: shoulder checked
Senses: glosses: To look backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
glosses: To check (strongly bump into) with one's shoulder(s).
shoulder check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoulder checks
Senses: glosses: An instance of looking backwards over one's shoulder while driving or biking, before changing lanes or making a turn, to see if any vehicles are in one's blind spots.
glosses: An instance of checking (strongly bumping into) with one's shoulder(s).
rear-view mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rear-view mirrors
form: rearview mirror
Etymology: From rear-view + mirror.
Senses: synonyms: rear vision mirror
coordinate_terms: side-view mirror
glosses: A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
examples: text: Guilt is a powerful emotion in the moment, but it's easy to ignore once it's in the rear-view mirror.
glosses: The observer's perception of something that is past or has been surpassed.
guyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guylines
form: guy line
Etymology: From guy + line.
Senses: glosses: A rope or cable (a line) used to restrain the motion of something. As a cable used to prevent a mast from falling over.
Synonyms: guy
Related terms: guyed
guy line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guyline.
guylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy lines
Senses: glosses: plural of guyline
guy lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guylines
Senses: glosses: plural of guy line
hosiery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hōʹzhərē
ipa: /ˈhoʊʒəɹi/
Forms: form: hosieries
Etymology: From hosier + -y.
Senses: glosses: Undergarments worn on the legs, such as socks, stockings, and pantyhose.
glosses: The business or art of a hosier; the practice of making hose.
glosses: A shop selling such undergarments.
silver age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver ages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A historical period of great accomplishment in a field or a society; in storytelling archetypes, usually following, and not quite as favorable as, a golden age, and not unfavorable as an iron age.
Related terms: bronze age
stone age
ovulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒvjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ɑvjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ovulations
Etymology: From ovulate + -ion.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The release of an ovum from an ovary.
Derived terms: anovulation
concealed ovulation
cryptic ovulation
hyperovulation
induced ovulation
nonovulation
oligoovulation
ovulational
ovulationary
periovulation
polyovulation
post-ovulation
postovulation
preovulation
reovulation
superovulation
micturition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micturitions
Etymology: From Latin micturio (“to urinate”).
Senses: examples: text: For those unlucky enough to be on a service without lavatory provision, we can only speculate as to how passengers improvised if caught short. For men, it might be possible to urinate, albeit at the risk of offending fellow passengers - there were reports of passengers being hauled up before the courts for 'micturition' in coaches during the 19th century.
ref: 2020 January 2, Dr Mike Esbester, “Waste disposal...”, in Rail, page 36:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: call of nature
word: easement
word: emiction
word: leak
word: making water
word: miction
word: micturition
word: number one
word: pee
word: piss
word: pissing
word: tinkle
word: uresis
word: urination
word: wazz
word: wee
word: wee-wee
word: wiz
word: wizz
word: whiz
word: whizz
glosses: Urination.
Derived terms: intermicturition
micturition syncope
postmicturition
post-micturition convulsion syndrome
post-micturition syncope
premicturition
Related terms: micturate
micturitional
biddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: biddies
Etymology: Derived from Biddy, diminutive form of Bridget. It became a generic name for an Irish maid (US), and then for an old woman.
Senses: examples: text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
That Mich drag Loretta sent me about 10 pictures of her so I wouldn't think her a "decrepit old lady." But too bad—she looked like someone's biddy aunt.
text: After working a 65 hour week, men would spend their whole paycheck in saloons, drink the whole weekend, and ignore the needs of their families. The overwhelming participation of women in the [temperance] movement was prompted by motives of self preservation […] It is no accident that male historians have chosen to present these women as crazed biddies in an attempt to deny the real reason for their concern.
ref: 1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 11:
glosses: A woman, especially an old woman; especially one regarded as fussy or mean or a gossipy busybody.
glosses: An attractive girl.
glosses: An Irish maidservant.
glosses: An Irishwoman.
examples: text: Ay, biddy, come with me.
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 3, scene 4, line 115:
text: "Well, we'll see about it by and by," said Farmer Brown's boy. "There's the breakfast bell, and I haven't fed the biddies yet."
ref: 1915, Thornton W. Burgess, chapter XI, in The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
glosses: A name used in calling a hen or chicken, often as "biddy-biddy-biddy".
Derived terms: psycho-biddy
red biddy
biddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: more biddy
form: most biddy
Senses: examples: text: “Was it in buckets or them little biddy cans?”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 210:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bitty (“very small”).
biddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪdi/
rhymes: -ɪdi
Forms: form: biddies
Etymology: From the phrase "tig biddies", derived from "big tiddies".
Senses: examples: text: It ain't like you ain't never seen these tig ole biddies before.
ref: 2005 Rejected: You Never Know What You're Gonna Get - Page 29
glosses: Breasts.
front crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌfɹʌntˈkɹɑːl/
Forms: form: front crawls
Senses: glosses: A style of swimming where the swimmer is face-down in the water and moves the arms in alternating overhead strokes.
Synonyms: American crawl
Australian crawl
crawl
freestyle
back crawl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌkɹɔl/
ipa: /ˈbækˌkɹɔːl/
ipa: /ˈbækˌkɹɑl/
Senses: glosses: A style of swimming using the backstroke.
fabulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæbjəlɪst/
Forms: form: fabulists
Etymology: Borrowed from French fabuliste.
Senses: examples: text: That great fabulist and philosopher Aesop illustrated it by his fable of the bundle of sticks[…]
ref: 1843, Abraham Lincoln, Address to the People of Illinois:
text: La Fontaine, the French fabulist, has a tale, La Mandargore, dealing with the erotic impact of the root.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223:
glosses: A person who writes or tells fables.
examples: text: The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.
ref: 2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022:
glosses: A liar.
Derived terms: fabulistic
overbought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + bought.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a stock or commodity market condition: where there has been significant trading bidding up prices to higher levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis.
oversold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ō′vər-sōld′
ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈsəʊld/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsoʊld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Etymology: From over- + sold.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: In a stock or commodity market condition where there has been significant trading driving prices down to lower levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis.
technical analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technical analyses
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A stock or commodity market analysis technique which examines only market action such as prices, trading volume and open interest.
Related terms: technical analyst
technicals
fundamental analysis