cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cayman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caymans
Senses: examples: text: We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.
ref: 1862, The Quiver, volumes 1-6, page 451:
text: With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the caymans.
ref: 1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor, Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest, page 326:
text: Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.
ref: 2002, Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico, page 157:
glosses: Alternative spelling of caiman.
chickweed wintergreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a plant of species Trientalis europaea, in the Primulaceae family
Synonyms: arctic starflower
curries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curry
glosses: plural of currie
curries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curry
disharmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪshɑːˈmɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more disharmonic
form: most disharmonic
Etymology: From dis- + harmonic.
Senses: glosses: Not harmonic.
examples: 1979, Barry J. Blake & R. M. W. Dixon, The Handbook of Australian Languages
A person is 'harmonic' with respect to his own generation and all even-numbered generations counting away from his own, and 'disharmonic' with respect to odd-numbered generations. Thus a man is disharmonic with respect to his father and his son but harmonic with respect to his grandfather and his grandson.
1995, Alan Dench, Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia
[…] there is also a special set of (non-singular first person) pronoun forms for use with disharmonic kin: those in the opposite generation set. […] The two disharmonic pronouns are used as polite forms when the addressee and speaker are in different alternate generation sets.
qualifier: Australianist linguistics
glosses: Of or relating to a generation that is an odd number of generations distant from a particular person.
smoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsməʊldə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Forms: form: smoulders
form: smouldering
form: smouldered
form: smouldered
Senses: examples: text: Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XI, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of smolder.
examples: text: They preassed forward vnder their ensignes, bearing downe such as stoode in their way, and with their owne fire smouldered and burnt them to ashes
ref: 1577, Raphael Holinshed, Historie of England:
text: Time Which lays its hand on battlements and towers, And smoulders them all to dust has committed its ravages upon this ancient castle.
ref: 1876, Rev. J. Bailey, “Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight”, in The Christian messenger, volume 12, page 35:
text: Individual grievance will continue to smoulder him.
ref: 1963, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Debates, page 7015:
text: Before kindling the fire of jealousy remember it will consume others afterwards but first it will fill your heart and soul with a suffocating bitter smoke and smoulder every pore of your body.
ref: 2015, Gopal Das. Sonkia, 110 Lessions to Live Life Blooming:
text: In any event Scheurs (1997: 188) acknowledged that the Stockholm conference recognized and respected sovereignty but also mentioned that it sought to restrict it and not smoulder it.
ref: 2019, Muhammed Haron, Connecting South-South Communities, page 287:
glosses: To smother; to suffocate; to choke.
smoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsməʊldə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -əʊldə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: The smoulder stops our nose with stench.
ref: 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres:
glosses: smoke; smother
examples: text: Dry and wormeaten, a spark upon them became a smoulder, and a smoulder a blaze.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
text: The smoulder in his eyes dimmed, and he winced, half bending in agony.
ref: 2016, K. M. Frontain, The Disposition of Ashes:
glosses: Alternative form of smolder.
examples: text: When grown as ornamentals it is important to inspect crops and physically remove rogue cultivars and other off-types, but whatever narcissus are grown for they should be inspected for signs of stem nematod lesions ('spickels'), disease 'primaries' (such as smoulder) and virus symptoms.
ref: 2002, Gordon R Hanks, Narcissus and Daffodil: The Genus Narcissus, page 116:
glosses: A disease of narcissus and related flowers caused by the fungus Botrytis narcissicola, and characterized by dark brown lesions on the leaves.
enmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enmeshed
form: most enmeshed
Senses: glosses: tangled or twisted together.
Derived terms: unenmeshed
enmeshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enmesh
Vienna loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vienna loaves
Senses: glosses: An oval loaf of bread with slits cut obliquely on the top.
enmesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕnmĕsh
ipa: /ɛnˈmɛʃ/
Forms: form: enmeshes
form: enmeshing
form: enmeshed
form: enmeshed
Etymology: From en- + mesh.
Senses: glosses: To mesh; to tangle or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated, particularly in a mesh- or net-like manner.
glosses: To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
examples: text: They take their time sizing each other up since they both know their motives might not be entirely honest. Tentatively they find warmth and companionship in each other. However, before long, they get enmeshed in Hale’s diabolical schemes.
ref: 2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club:
glosses: To involve in difficulties.
Derived terms: enmeshment
Related terms: inmesh
curried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more curried
form: most curried
Senses: examples: text: We had curried fish for dinner last night.
glosses: Cooked or flavoured with curry.
Derived terms: uncurried
curried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curry
logical fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical fallacies
form: logic fallacy
Senses: synonyms: word: fallacy
word: incorrect argument
word: misargument
word: non-argument
word: pseudoargument
hyponyms: formal fallacy
informal fallacy
glosses: A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.
examples: text: A valid syllogism contains three terms; with four it commits the logical fallacy known as quaternio terminorum.
glosses: A formal fallacy.
calp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calps
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A dark shaly limestone occurring in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland.
curry powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry powders
Senses: glosses: A mixture of spices, usually including turmeric, commonly used in Asian-style cooking.
Related terms: curry paste
garam masala
curry paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curry pastes
Senses: glosses: A moist blend of vegetables and spices ground together and used as a base for curries, especially in Thai and Cambodian cuisines.
curry pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curry paste
asafetida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asafetidas
Senses: examples: text: If one of her chickens got the snuffles one day, rubbing asafetida in butter on their nostrils would set them straight.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 220:
glosses: Alternative spelling of asafoetida.
hold up one's end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds up one's end
form: holding up one's end
form: held up one's end
form: held up one's end
Senses: examples: text: I'm holding up my end and you had better hold up yours.
glosses: To hold up one's end of a bargain; to fulfill one's promise or obligation.
Related terms: hold one's own
celandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛləndaɪn/
Forms: form: celandines
Etymology: From Middle English celidoine, Old French celidoine, French chélidoine, from Latin chelīdonia, from chelīdonius (“relating to the swallow”), from Ancient Greek χελιδόνιος (khelidónios), χελιδών (khelidṓn). It was traditionally supposed to flower when the swallows appeared, and to perish when they departed.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Chelidonium.
examples: text: So men haue learned many precious remedies for many diseases euen by brute [beasts], as we see by the swallow, who hath taught vs that the ioice of Celandine is singuler for the eies, for that she restoreth sight to her yong ones with Celandine.
ref: 1595, Thomas Johnson, Cornucopiæ, London: William Barley:
text: If your mouth waters now, what had it done, / Cou’d you have seen our delicate fine thrushes / Hot from the spit, with myrtle-berries cramm’d, / And larded well with celandine and parsley, / Bob at your hungry lips, crying—Come eat me!
ref: 1786, “From The Miners of Pherecrates”, in Richard Cumberland, transl., The Observer, volume 3, number 78, page 175:
text: Buttercups, that will be seen,
Whether we will see or no;
Others, too, of lofty mien;
They have done as worldlings do,
Taken praise that should be thine,
Little, humble Celandine!
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, “To the Small Celandine”, in Poems, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, page 25:
text: Coming suddenly round a corner into a glade of silver birch trees Edmund saw the ground covered in all directions with little yellow flowers—celandines.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, published 1998:
text: The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 26:
glosses: Either of two not closely related flowering plants
glosses: Either of two not closely related flowering plants:
Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus).
glosses: Either of two not closely related flowering plants:
Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria).
synonyms: pilewort
Derived terms: taxonomic: Stylophorum diphyllum
word: celandine poppy
greater celandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greater celandines
Senses: glosses: A European perennial herb, Chelidonium majus, a flower of the poppy family with yellow flowers, native to Europe and western Asia.
Synonyms: swallowwort
Related terms: lesser celandine
benefactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactor
lesser celandine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser celandines
Senses: glosses: A European perennial herb (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria), having heart-shaped leaves and solitary yellow flowers
Synonyms: pilewort
figwort
Ficaria verna
Ficaria grandiflora
Related terms: greater celandine
centrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹɪˌfjuːdʒ/
Forms: form: centrifuges
Etymology: From French centrifuge, from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”). Equivalent to centri- + -fuge.
Senses: glosses: A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
glosses: An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.
glosses: By extension, any device which rotates in order to produce artificial gravity (in the form of centrifugal force)
Related terms: centrifugal force
centripetal
centrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹɪˌfjuːdʒ/
Forms: form: centrifuges
form: centrifuging
form: centrifuged
form: centrifuged
Etymology: From French centrifuge, from Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”). Equivalent to centri- + -fuge.
Senses: glosses: To rotate something in a centrifuge, typically in order to separate its constituents.
Derived terms: centrifugable
centrifugal
centrifugate
centrifugation
cytocentrifuge
gas centrifuge
microcentrifuge
microfuge
minicentrifuge
nanocentrifuge
recentrifuge
ultracentrifuge
vacufuge
centrifugally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more centrifugally
form: most centrifugally
Etymology: From centrifugal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Away from a centre or axis.
glosses: Using centrifugal force.
glosses: In a centrifuge.
Derived terms: ultracentrifugally
Related terms: centripetally
centripetally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From centripetal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Towards a centre or axis.
glosses: Using centripetal force.
Related terms: centrifugally
chanticleer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/
enpr: chänʹtĭklĭr'
ipa: /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/
enpr: chănʹtəklĭr'
enpr: shănʹtəklĭr'
Forms: form: chanticleers
Etymology: ]
From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”).
Attested in English since 1250–1300.
Senses: examples: text: When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…].
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7:
text: It is happily some particular sense that unto cockes or chanticleares discovereth the morning and midnight houre, and moveth them to crow[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A domestic rooster or cock, especially in fables and fairy tales.
chanticleer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːntɪˌklɪə/
enpr: chänʹtĭklĭr'
ipa: /t͡ʃæntəˌklɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈʃæntəˌklɪɹ/
enpr: chănʹtəklĭr'
enpr: shănʹtəklĭr'
Forms: form: chanticleers
form: chanticleering
form: chanticleered
form: chanticleered
Etymology: ]
From Middle English Chauntecleer, from Old French Chantecler (modern French Chanteclair), the proper name of the cock in the literary cycle of Reynard the Fox, that also gave origin to chantecler, the name of a chicken breed; from chanter (“to sing, to crow”) + cler (“clear, clearly”).
Attested in English since 1250–1300.
Senses: glosses: To make the crowing sound of a cock.
glosses: To crow in exultation.
chapeaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chapeau
political asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The protection, by a sovereign state, of a person who is persecuted in their own country for their political opinions or activity
charades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
Senses: glosses: plural of charade
charades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
Senses: examples: text: […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
ref: 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party:
glosses: A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
charades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of charade
Synonyms: sense: game
word: acting charades
sense: game
word: dumb charades
chateaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chateau
checkerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkerboards
form: chequerboard
Etymology: From checker + board.
Senses: glosses: A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
glosses: A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 8×8 squares, used to play chess and draughts/checkers.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A style of negative cutting that avoids visible splice marks.
Synonyms: sense: board for draughts
word: draughtboard
Derived terms: checkerboard rendering
Croatian checkerboard
checkerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checkerboards
form: checkerboarding
form: checkerboarded
form: checkerboarded
form: chequerboard
Etymology: From checker + board.
Senses: glosses: To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.
chickweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickweeds
form: chick-weed
Etymology: From Middle English chykwed, chykewode, chike wed, chikewed, chekwede, a variant of chykynwede, chekyn-wede, cheken-wede (literally “chicken-weed”), equivalent to chick + weed.
Etymonline claims the name was apparently applied to many plants fit for chicken feed, which were called in Old English cicene mete (“chicken food”).
Senses: examples: text: I look at the little sprigs of chickweed trembling among the bean shoots and I am strangely moved. Such steadfastness! Such yearning! They want to live too. That is all they ask: to have their little moment in the world.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
especially common chickweed (Stellaria media), a common, edible weed in North America and Europe.
glosses: Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
Stellaria pro parte
glosses: Any of several small-leaved herbs of the genera Cerastium and Stellaria.
Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed)
glosses: Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Ageratum conyzoides
glosses: Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Holosteum (jagged chickweed)
glosses: Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Moenchia (upright chickweed)
glosses: Other plants of similar appearance and habit, including those of species:
Paronychia spp. (nailwort, whitlow-wort)
Derived terms: alt: Trientalis europaea
word: chickweed wintergreen
word: red chickweed Anagallis arvensis
word: sea chickweed
chid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: simple past of chide
Synonyms: chided
chode
chid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chidden
form: chided
Senses: glosses: past participle of chide
Derived terms: unchid
chided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪd/
rhymes: -aɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chide
Synonyms: word: chid
word: chode
word: chid
word: chidden
Derived terms: unchided
chidden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chid
form: chided
Senses: glosses: past participle of chide
chidden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: chided, reproved, rebuked, scolded
Derived terms: unchidden
chiffonier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɪf.əˈnɪə/
ipa: /ˌʃɪf.əˈnɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chiffoniers
form: chiffonnier
Etymology: Borrowed from French chiffonnier.
Senses: examples: text: "There is nothing of the kind even within view," cried Helen, warmly, "nor any one object that could offend the most fastidious eye, as Mrs. Palmer observed; a duchess might delight in it; every thing is so clean without, and so good within: such beautiful carpets and rugs to match! such handsome chiffoniers, and elegant books!...
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 219–220:
text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: From the half-open drawers of this chiffonnier hung laces, ribands, stockings, ladies' underclothing and an abdominal brace, which gave the impression that the feminine finery had suffered venery.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 71:
glosses: A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
glosses: One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
glosses: A receptacle for rags or shreds.
Synonyms: cheffonier
Derived terms: chifforobe
cheffonier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheffoniers
Senses: glosses: a tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached
Synonyms: chiffonier
chiffonnier
chlordane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlordanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A very toxic chlorinated polycyclic hydrocarbon once used as an insecticide.
Derived terms: oxychlordane
tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tub
tubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tub
choirboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choirboys
form: choir boy
Etymology: From choir + boy.
Senses: coordinate_terms: choirgirl
glosses: A boy chorister.
examples: text: Kordic is no choirboy. The tribunal has accused him of crimes against humanity for helping to orchestrate a massive campaign of persecution against Muslims in the Lasva valley in central Bosnia.
ref: 2004, Pierre Hazan, Justice in a Time of War, page 108:
glosses: A piously innocent person.
Derived terms: choirboyish
cocaines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocaine
cocaines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cocaine
joseki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: josekis
form: joseki
Etymology: From Japanese 定石 (jōseki), literally 定 set + 石 stone.
Senses: qualifier: go
glosses: A studied and standardized sequence of moves in game of Go, especially at a corner of the board, in the opening phase of a game. Joseki have a variety of outcomes and can be beneficial or detrimental based on the situation. However, Joseki theoretically include the best moves locally for each player.
Related terms: fuseki
univallate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Rathmichael is a fine example of a univallate ringfort.
glosses: Having one raised edge or wall surrounding a depression.
Related terms: bivallate
multivallate
rusticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rusticities
Etymology: From rustic + -ity, from Latin rusticitas.
Senses: examples: text: The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.
ref: 1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
glosses: The quality of being rustic.
glosses: That which makes something rustic.
rubberize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubberizes
form: rubberizing
form: rubberized
form: rubberized
Etymology: From rubber + -ize.
Senses: examples: rubberized silk
glosses: To coat with rubber or a similar material.
rumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rumpled
form: most rumpled
Senses: examples: text: A demure-looking woman, in a dress rather tawdry and rumpled, here drew her veil well down and rose; but, marking every eye upon her, thought it advisable, upon the whole, to sit down again.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
text: The rumpled octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate [Bernie Sanders] has no plans to seek the Oval Office again.
ref: 2025 March 21, Francine Kiefer, Caitlin Babcock, “As Democrats look for a fighter, Bernie Sanders is striking a chord – again”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: word: rumply
word: crumply
word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinkly
word: bewrinkled
word: creased
word: crinkly
word: purfly
word: pruny
word: rimpled
word: rouched
word: ruckly
word: rugate
word: rugose
word: rugous
word: rumpled
word: wrinkled
word: wrinklesome
word: wrinkly
word: writhled
word: wurlie
word: wurly
glosses: Wrinkled or crumpled.
rumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rumple
crumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crumple
crumpled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crumpled
form: most crumpled
Senses: examples: text: The crumpled paper was used as packing material.
text: This is the Cow with the crumpled Horn, that tossed the Dog, that worried the Cat[.]
ref: 1784, The House that Jack Built, page 7:
synonyms: word: crumply
word: rumply
word: rumpled
word: wrinkled
word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinkly
word: bewrinkled
word: creased
word: crinkly
word: purfly
word: pruny
word: rimpled
word: rouched
word: ruckly
word: rugate
word: rugose
word: rugous
word: rumpled
word: wrinkled
word: wrinklesome
word: wrinkly
word: writhled
word: wurlie
word: wurly
glosses: Squeezed into a compact mass by irregular folds.
Derived terms: word: crumpledness
word: ĉifita
sense: Korean
roman: gugyeojida
word: 구겨지다
roman: močâle
word: مچاله
ruddiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruddinesses
Etymology: From ruddy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being ruddy.
Related terms: reddening
redness
mobile library
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile libraries
Senses: glosses: A library housed in a large van that provides a library service to those unable to attend their nearest local library.
Synonyms: bookmobile
gateway drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gateway drug
dissociative drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissociative drug
Berta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Bertha.
Berta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Nilo-Saharan ethnolinguistic group native to the border of Ethiopia and Sudan.
glosses: The language spoken natively by the Berta.
Berta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Bertha
form: Bertat
form: Burta
form: Barta
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Berta people, culture or language.
Bramley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæmli/
Forms: form: Bramleys
Etymology: Named after butcher Matthew Bramley, who owned the tree from which cuttings were taken in the mid-1800s.
Senses: examples: text: Bramleys are a good choice when making pies.
glosses: A cultivar of apple, used especially as a cooking apple.
Synonyms: Bramley's Seedling
Bramley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹæmli/
Etymology: From Old English brom (“broom”) + leah (“wood clearing, meadow”), like Bromley. Equivalent to broom + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several places in England:
A village in Eckington parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4079).
glosses: Any of several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU6559).
glosses: Any of several places in England:
A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK4892).
glosses: Any of several places in England:
A village and civil parish in Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0144).
glosses: Any of several places in England:
A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE2434).
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
glosses: A small townsite in the South West Region of Western Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
close to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: closer to
form: closest to
Senses: examples: text: It lasted close to an hour.
text: It rained for close to forty days and forty nights.
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Approximately.
raw_tags: of quantifiers of nouns
examples: text: The project is close to finished.
glosses: Nearly; almost.
close to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The chair was close to the window.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Near.
choreograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹiəɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹjəɡɹæf/
Forms: form: choreographs
form: choreographing
form: choreographed
form: choreographed
Etymology: Back-formation from choreography, equivalent to choreo- + -graph.
Senses: examples: text: So he choreographs each event depending on the crowd, starting with something to learn the drill, like “Marching Through Georgia,” working in something to loosen people up like the hokeypokey, and probably a contra dance (long lines, not squares) like the Virginia reel.
ref: 2008 June 19, Peter Applebome, “At 91, He Isn’t Ready for the Last Dance Just Yet”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2021:
text: She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
ref: 2019 September 5, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2019:
glosses: To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet.
examples: text: Fight sequences fall into one of three categories: “MAMs” (many against many), “OHMs” (one hits many), and “triple O′s” (one on one). Group fights — MAMs and OHMs — are more difficult to choreograph than triple O′s, and TV shows that included well-choreographed MAMs and OHMs received higher marks than those devoid of mass attacks.
ref: 1994 February, Black Belt, page 42:
text: England’s response came in the form of the brilliantly choreographed move that concluded with Wayne Rooney’s second goal and the kind of outstanding football that was beyond their opponents.
ref: 2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate.
glosses: To work as a choreographer.
Derived terms: choreographable
overchoreograph
rechoreograph
Related terms: choreographer
choreography
choreographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choreographers
Etymology: From choreograph + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
ref: 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:
text: Chandralekha, a choreographer from Madras, India, has been described as a counterculturalist who draws on elements of classical Indian dance like Bharata Natyam and on Western modern dance.
ref: 1994 December 9, Jennifer Dunning, “DANCE REVIEW; Merging Body and Spirit To Produce a Single Essence”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who choreographs.
Synonyms: choreographist
London Underground
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the London Underground
Senses: glosses: The London underground railway system.
Synonyms: word: Oxo cube
word: Tube
word: Underground
shepherd's pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shepherd's pies
form: shepherds' pie
Senses: examples: text: Here am I / Tiny Fly / May I share your Shepherd's Pie?
ref: 1968, “The Hungry Intruder”, in Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, performed by Small Faces:
coordinate_terms: cottage pie[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
;
shepherdess pie
shepherdless pie
;
Admiral's pie
Cumberland pie
fisherman's pie
fish pie
pâté chinois
;
potpie
glosses: A meat pie having a mashed potato crust, especially one made with lamb or mutton.
shepherds pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shepherd's pie.
cream pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream pies
form: creampie
Senses: examples: text: The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days.
ref: 1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.
glosses: A pie filled entirely with cream, used as a prop in slapstick films and television.
examples: text: The best thing about cream pie cookies? You have permission to eat two cookies instead of one, since it takes two to make a proper sandwich. But now there's a new problem: limiting yourself to just one cream pie. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cream Pies[…] To make the cookies, […] To make the filling, […] To assemble the cream pies, spread about 1 tablespoon of buttercream filling on the flat (bottom) side of 1 cookie. Top with another cookie.
ref: 2013 July 10, Bianca Phillips, Cookin' Crunk: Eating Vegan in The Dirty South, Book Publishing Company, →ISBN:
text: ASSEMBLE THE CREAM PIES: Place about 1 to 2 tablespoons of filling on the underside of one cookie and top with an additional cookie.
ref: 2013 October 8, Monica Holland, Lick the Bowl Good: Classic Home-Style Desserts with a Twist, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A cookie (dessert) consisting of two soft cookies (especially oatmeal cookies) with a layer of creamy or marshmallowy filling in the middle.
glosses: Alternative spelling of creampie.
cream pies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cream pie
Tube
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tube
Senses: examples: text: But 'Tube' is used as shorthand for the whole network, not least by London Underground itself, [...] It tends to be older people who hold on to the distinction. A friend of mine was visiting his mother who lives about 500 yards from Parsons Green station on the District, which is a cut-and-cover line [not a tube line]. At the end of the evening she said, "How are you getting back?" He said, "Oh, on the Tube", and she looked at him absolutely blankly. "What Tube?" she said, "There is no Tube here."
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page unnumbered: A note on the title:
text: Still, it’s not just the decline of civilisation that worries me, nor the (related) effect on Tube manners (Candy Crushers are rarely very chivalrous).
ref: 2014 March 26, Richard Goodwin, “Candy Crush is the crystal meth of the commute”, in Evening Standard, page 17:
glosses: The London Underground.
Derived terms: tube train
cottage pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottage pies
Senses: examples: text: Cottage Pie.— Mince any kind of cold meat together (beef, mutton, veal, pork, or lamb), put it about an inch or and inch and a half deep in a pie dish, and cover it with gravy; don't spare salt and pepper; cover it over with mashed potatoes smooth at the top, and cut it across in diamonds with a knife; bake till it is crisp and brown at the top.
ref: 1873, Godey's Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 82:
text: The recipes are of dishes suitable to the varying means of working men, such as cottage pie, haricot beans, scrap-bread pudding, Exeter stew, poor man's goose, and many others, combining economy and palatableness.
ref: 1883, Fanny L. Calder, “Practical Cookery in Elementary Schools”, in Good Words, page 60:
text: When cold they are used for russoles, minced cutlets, croquettes, cottage pies, and souffles.
ref: 1903 January, Mary Caldwell, “The Diet Kitchen”, in The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, volume 32, page 184:
text: So it was the Kawaki Tribe's intention to bake a cottage pie on an open campfire to scare off the queen of the witches, and without Moussaka to give orders, the witches would have no idea what to do, working with their own initiative.
ref: 2013, Lauren West, The Wrath of Margaret, page 81:
coordinate_terms: shepherd's pie[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous>
;
shepherdess pie
shepherdless pie
;
potpie
glosses: A meat pie having a mashed potato crust covering a mixture of beef (typically minced) and vegetables.
IPv4
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Internet Protocol version 4.
Related terms: IPv6
ICMP
IP address
TCP
TCP/IP
UDP
clarified butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarified butters
Etymology: From clarified + butter, from Middle English clarifien and buter. Earliest attestation of clarified in this sense from the 14th century.
Senses: examples: text: The means whereby the sailors do this, is, first to dress the meat, then cut it into slices; and laying them regularly one upon another in a close cask, they pour clarified butter thereon to fill up all the interstices
ref: 1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq, page 52:
text: […]when they are cold, put them into potting-pots and pour over them clarified butter, and keep them in a dry place.
ref: 1795, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced Housekeeper, page 146:
text: This recipe calls for clarified butter which is easily made and reduces the chances of burning the butter during the sautéing process.
ref: 1992, Grace Howaniec, Encore Wisconsin: Chef's Recipes Designed to Bring You Ovations, page 112:
glosses: A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
Hyponyms: ghee
Related terms: butter oil
biryani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biryanis
form: baryani
form: biriani
Etymology: From Hindustani بِرْیَانی (biryānī) / बिरयानी (biryānī), from Classical Persian بریانی (biryānī), from بریان (biryān, “roast”) (from برشتن (birištan, “to roast”)) + the suffix ـی (-ī).
Senses: examples: text: Thereafter, the menu is divided into a number of sections: Syrian Christian specialities from Kerala; coastal seafood dishes; Malabar biryanis; vegetable curries; and special dosas.
ref: 2008, Charles Campion, London Restaurant Guide 2009, page 8:
glosses: A spiced dish of rice, blended with meat and/or vegetables.
Derived terms: Pakki biryani:Thalassery biryani
Kacchi biryani:Hyderabadi biryani
biriani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birianis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of biryani.
SCAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
tew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuː/
ipa: /tuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tews
form: tue
Etymology: From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.
Senses: glosses: Prep work; labour.
glosses: Trouble; worry.
glosses: Constant work; bustling; worry, excitement.
tew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuː/
ipa: /tuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: tews
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *tewe, *teoȝ, from Old English *tēog (“utensil, tackle, rigging”), from Proto-West Germanic *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“gear, utensil”). If so, then cognate with West Frisian túch (“rigging, tackle”), Dutch tuig (“rigging, tackle”), German Zeug (“equipment, stuff”). More at toy.
Senses: glosses: Fishing tackle; a rope or chain for towing a boat; a net.
glosses: A cord; a string.
tew
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuː/
ipa: /tuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: examples: text: bollywood was tew good this year it was refreshing that it made it to my top genres
ref: 2023 November 29, @Rateekification, Twitter:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of too
phal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phall.
phal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phals
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: phalaenopsis
pakora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pakoras
form: pakore
form: pakoda
form: pakodi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पकोड़ा (pakoṛā).
Senses: glosses: A piece of vegetable, or sometimes meat, deep-fried in a batter flavoured with spices.
Related terms: bhaji
lassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæsi/
ipa: /ˈlɑsi/
ipa: /ˈlʌsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: lassis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani लस्सी / لسی (lassī).
Senses: examples: text: Karam stirred his lassi as if trying to unchurn the yoghurt.
ref: 2012, Priya Basil, Ishq and Mushq, page 329:
glosses: A drink made with yogurt diluted with water and flavoured with salt or fruit juice.
Derived terms: bhang lassi
special lassi
Quebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quebecois
form: most Quebecois
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Québécois.
Quebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quebecois
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Québécois.
Quebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Québécois.
choreographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From choreography + -ic or choreo- + -graphic.
Senses: examples: text: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis have been marching to their own choreographic drummer for a long time now.
ref: 1992 January 30, Jennifer Dunning, “Review/Dance; Premiere Opens Season For Nikolais and Louis”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
glosses: Of or pertaining to choreography.
glosses: Balletic.
Derived terms: choreographically
choreographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more choreographically
form: most choreographically
Etymology: From choreographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: as if choreographed.
glosses: with reference to choreography
coaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/
ipa: /koʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/
Forms: form: co-axial
Etymology: From co- + axial.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a common central axis
Derived terms: coaxial cable
coaxially
microcoaxial
noncoaxial
quasicoaxial
coaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/
ipa: /koʊˈæk.sɪi.əl/
Forms: form: coaxials
form: co-axial
Etymology: From co- + axial.
Senses: glosses: A coaxial cable
Related terms: biaxial
monoaxial
runout
chronologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɹəˈnɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: chronologists
Etymology: From French chronologiste. By surface analysis, chronology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§183”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person skilled in chronology.
Synonyms: chronologer
Derived terms: dendrochronologist
geochronologist
glottochronologist
tephrochronologist
chronicler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chroniclers
Etymology: From chronicle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:
glosses: A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.
Synonyms: historian
Related terms: chronicle
chrysalides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysalis
Synonyms: chrysalises
waged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wage
truest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of true: most true
hollows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of hollow
hollows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hollow
romances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romance
romances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of romance
regrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of regret
regrets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regret
recruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recruit
recruits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recruit
tiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tile
tiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tile
figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of fig
buys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of buy