cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underinflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underinflate
underinflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underinflate
underinflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəɹɪnˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underinflate
uninflated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inflated.
Senses: glosses: Not inflated.
undermaintain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermaintains
form: undermaintaining
form: undermaintained
form: undermaintained
Etymology: From under- + maintain.
Senses: examples: text: For some years locomotives and coaches have been overworked and undermaintained to a degree without precedent in British railway history, and the leeway in maintenance now to be made up is very great.
ref: 1945 November snd December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:
text: The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
ref: 2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To maintain inadequately; to allow to fall into disrepair.
undermaintains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undermaintain
undermaintaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undermaintain
undermaintained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermaintain
undoglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undoglike
form: most undoglike
Etymology: From un- + doglike.
Senses: examples: text: This overemphasis on the looks of a dog — whether it's up to the breed standard, whether it's adorable or whether it's "in" — is so undoglike.
ref: 2007 February 18, “Letters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not doglike.
Synonyms: uncanine
unstrange
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstrange
form: most unstrange
Etymology: From Middle English unstraunge, equivalent to un- + strange.
Senses: examples: text: What’s more, “it did so in a notably unstrange manner.”
ref: 2007 February 18, Kathryn Harrison, “Lives in the Arts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not strange.
unstrange
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstranges
form: unstranging
form: unstranged
form: unstranged
Etymology: From un- + strange.
Senses: examples: text: When I was with you, I forgot about Mum and it made me less strange. It unstranged me.
ref: 2018, Julia Prendergast, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, page 29:
text: Most specifically, to make visible is to unstrange what was once unknown into a series of knowable components, which the viewer's eye can then use to identify parts as one builds the whole.
ref: 2021, Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storying the Media World:
glosses: To remove the strangeness from; to make less strange; make familiar.
untedious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untedious
form: most untedious
Etymology: From un- + tedious.
Senses: examples: text: Even his dreams, of which he recounts a good half dozen (one involving Alan Bennett, another involving Roger Moore), are surprisingly untedious.
ref: 2007 February 18, Jim Holt, “Self Centered”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not tedious; interesting.
Sahiwal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːhiːvɔːl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ساہِیوَال (sāhīvāl).
Senses: glosses: A town in western Pakistan.
Sahiwal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔːhiːvɔːl/
Forms: form: Sahiwals
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ساہِیوَال (sāhīvāl).
Senses: glosses: Any of a breed of short-horned dairy cattle originating from the Sahiwal district.
Sahiwals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sahiwal
sahlinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sahlinites
Etymology: From Carl Sahlin, Swedish scientist + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A mineral composed of an arsenide, oxide and chloride of lead.
sahlinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sahlinite
precontest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + contest.
Senses: examples: text: Alternating off-season and precontest cycles in bodybuilding over a period of years will result in the relatively quick development of a championship physique.
ref: 1983, Joe Weider, The Weider System of Bodybuilding, page 4:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to the phase of preparation in the weeks prior to a competition.
Saho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sahos
form: Saho
Senses: glosses: A member of a Hamitic people of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Saho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Cushitic language spoken by this people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Saho terms
Sahos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saho
benchpress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benchpresses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bench press.
sahuaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sahuaros
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saguaro.
sahuaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sahuaro
get up someone's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets up someone's nose
form: getting up someone's nose
form: got up someone's nose
form: got up someone's nose
form: gotten up someone's nose
Senses: glosses: To annoy someone; to get on someone's nerves.
uncastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncastable
form: most uncastable
Etymology: From un- + castable.
Senses: examples: text: Colleen Dewhurst, though in many ways wrong for the virtually uncastable Josie, is as lucid and luminous […]
ref: 1974 January 21, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 3:
text: […] that he would, like many actors, become so stereotyped in the public mind as to be uncastable in other roles […]
ref: 1996, Scott Donaldson, The Cambridge companion to Hemingway:
glosses: That cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role).
examples: text: They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers […]
ref: 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).
examples: text: ...internal fixation in children with open, unstable, or otherwise uncastable forearm fractures […]
ref: 2005, Mercer Rang, Maya E Pring, Dennis Ray Wenger, Rang's children's fractures:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That cannot be set in a cast.
examples: text: Casting must be done within a day or two of moulding or the moulds will begin to wind-dry and become uncastable […]
ref: 1943, The Mining Magazine:
text: This allows the casting of otherwise uncastable materials, with acceptable rejection rates, and can increase ductility by as much as a factor of six.
ref: 1982, Production engineering:
glosses: That cannot be used for, or produced through, casting (manufacturing with a mould).
Pécs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Pécs.
Senses: synonyms: word: Five Churches
glosses: A city in Hungary.
Xiao'erjing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 小兒經 /小儿经 (Xiǎo'érjīng).
Senses: glosses: A variant of the Arabic alphabet used for Chinese languages, especially Mandarin and Dungan, by Chinese Muslims also known as Hui Chinese.
glosses: The use of this script to write Sinitic languages.
Synonyms: Xiaojing
deictically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deictic + -ally.
Senses: hypernyms: exophorically
coordinate_terms: homophorically
glosses: In a deictic way.
nonfunctionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonfunctional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonfunctional way.
unfunctionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unfunctional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unfunctional way.
bureau-ocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of bureaucracy.
fender skirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fender skirts
Senses: glosses: A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tires of an automobile.
Synonyms: word: spat
web television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Television programming produced for original distribution through the internet.
codeina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The possibility that 15 grains of codeina daily should be taken […] is sufficient to cause alarm.
ref: 1888, Birmingham Medical Review, volume 24, page 37:
glosses: Obsolete form of codeine.
constellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.stɛll.e͜ɪt/
Forms: form: constellates
form: constellating
form: constellated
form: constellated
Etymology: From Latin constēllātus (“starred”), past participle of constēllō. Equivalent to Latin constēllō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] he who is solicitous for his own improvement, must not suffer his endeavours to be limited by local reputation, but select from every tribe of mortals their characteristical virtues, and constellate in himself the scattered graces which shine single in other men.
ref: 1752 February 18, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, volume 6, number 201, page 229:
glosses: To combine as a cluster.
examples: text: What Artist now dares boast that he can bring
Heaven hither, or constellate any thing,
So as the influence of those starres may bee
Imprisond in an Herbe, or Charme, or Tree,
And doe by touch, all which those starres could do?
ref: 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham:
text: The abbot was not merely accused of rape and murder; the crime of sorcery was laid to his charge, as well as to Matilda’s. […] To criminate the monk, the constellated mirror was produced, which Matilda had accidentally left in his chamber.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, chapter 12, in The Monk, volume 3, London: J. Bell, pages 277–278:
text: There grew pied wind-flowers and violets,
Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated flower that never sets;
ref: 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Question”, lines 9–11:
text: […] even the constellated glories of Paradise Lost are less moving than the plain words wherein Samson [Agonistes] forecasts his approaching end […]
ref: 1897, Walter Raleigh, Style, “Sincerity”, page 91:
glosses: To fit, adorn (as if) with constellations.
examples: text: It’s no surprise that so much fiction constellates around the subject of Henry and his wives.
ref: 2013, Hilary Mantel, “Royal Bodies”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 4:
glosses: To (form a) cluster.
examples: text: […] the several things which are wont most to Engage and Heighten our affections, do, in a peculiar and transcendent manner, Shine forth and Constellate in God.
ref: 1660, Robert Boyle, Seraphick Love, 4th edition (published under the title Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God), London: H. Herringman, published 1665, page 52:
glosses: To shine with united radiance, or one general light.
Derived terms: unconstellated
Related terms: constellation
constellatory
stellar
stellate
stelliform
stellify
stellion
stellify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛl.ɪ.faɪ/
Forms: form: stellifies
form: stellifying
form: stellified
form: stellified
Etymology: From Middle English stellifien (“to make into a star; glorify, deify”), from Middle French stellifier, from Medieval Latin stellificāre, itself from Latin stella (“star”) + faciō (“make, do”).
Senses: examples: text: In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal.
text: By the 'hissing snake' Spenser presumably means the scorpion sent by Diana that killed Orion. Like Orion it, too, was stellified. But since, as Scorpio, it rises in the east as Orion's sign sets in the west, the two were regarded as being kept forever apart, Orion perpetually avoiding in the heavens his vanquisher on earth.
ref: 1983, Douglas Brooks-Davies, The Mercurian Monarch: magical politics from Spenser to Pope, page 31:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To transform from an earthly body into a celestial body; to place in the sky as such
examples: text: An alternative way to stellify the planet may be to not collapse Jupiter, but instead to introduce a collapsed object into its core.
ref: 1989, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 109: 75:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To turn into a star.
opposite side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposite sides
Senses: examples: My brother fought on the opposite side.
glosses: A side, party (e.g. a team or armed force) seen as adversary, enemy etc. opposite one (or more) other(s), as in a battle or team sports competition.
glosses: The side (or more specifically, leg) of a right triangle that is opposite (or not adjacent to) a given angle.
Synonyms: opponent
catatonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catatony
fomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊmiːz/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.miːz/
Forms: form: fomites
Etymology: From medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs.
Senses: examples: text: If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed.
ref: 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, number 43, page 554:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The morbid matter created by a disease.
examples: text: Toys are common fomites.
text: I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites.
ref: 1803, Medical & Physical Journal, number 10, page 213:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
synonyms: word: fomite
extra: a substance able to communicate infection between people
examples: text: Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.
ref: 1658, John Owen, Of Temptation, page 126:
glosses: Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
tropo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of tropospheric.
Senses: qualifier: amateur radio
glosses: Tropospheric propagation.
visco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name, from polyviscose.
Senses: glosses: A kind of fuse used for consumer fireworks and to create delays between firings in firework displays.
turning points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turning point
dapatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dapatical
form: most dapatical
Etymology: From Latin dapaticus, from daps (“feast, banquet”).
Senses: examples: text: [M]en / and women who enjoy the cloop of corks, appreciate / dapatical fare, yet can see in swallowing / a sign act of reverence, / in speech a work of re-presenting / the true olamic silence.
ref: 1965, W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden, “Thanksgiving for a Habitat. Tonight at Seven-thirty (for M. F. K. Fisher).”, in About the House, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Random House, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: Sumptuous in cheer.
figulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin figulātus, perfect passive participle of figulō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Made of potter's clay.
double-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-quicks
Senses: glosses: The double time, a marching cadence (pace) approaching running speed.
Synonyms: sense: shortening
word: the double
double-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-quicks
form: double-quicking
form: double-quicked
form: double-quicked
Senses: glosses: To double-time, march (or rather run) at the above speedy pace.
double-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Very quickly; at once; on the double.
double-quick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And you have to be careful. If you don't book your parking in double-quick time, you risk a fine, so always double-check that your payment has gone through. Some operators don't even send you an email or text to say you've paid.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 53:
glosses: Very quick; often used in the phrase in double-quick time.
meteorograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteorographs
Etymology: From meteoro- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure various meteorological conditions, usually the temperature and humidity.
Derived terms: aerometeorograph
radiometeorograph
telemeteorograph
meteorographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteorograph
acromia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acromion
methodologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methodologists
Etymology: From method + -ologist or methodology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Reliability, as a main index of measurement quality, has attracted an enormous amount of interest among methodologists and substantive researchers over the past century (e.g., McDonald, 1999).
ref: 2019, Tenko Raykov with George A. Marcoulides, “Thanks Coefficient Alpha, We Still Need You!”, in Educational and Psychological Measurement:
glosses: A person who studies methodology, or applies its principles.
methodologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methodologist
PNV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of present, not voting: of a vote that may be cast in some legislatures to indicate abstention.
hebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hebras
Etymology: Blend of horse + zebra.
Senses: coordinate_terms: zorse
glosses: The offspring of a cross between a horse sire and a zebra dam.
Kalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalias
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਕਾਲੀਆ (kālīā).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
Kaila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yiddish קיילה (kaila)), In modern use a spelling variant of Kayla or Kyla.
Senses: examples: text: How we got to Kate I don't know. My mother must have sought it to keep as clear as possible the link to her grandmother Kaila, not realizing how intensely Catholic a name it then was.
ref: 1982, Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A female given name.
air ambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air ambulances
Senses: examples: text: An air ambulance hovered overhead before landing on the track. Frank held his father’s hand through the wreckage, as the firemen tried to cut him out of the car.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: An aircraft (especially a form of helicopter) equipped as an ambulance.
aerobus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerobuses
form: aerobusses
Senses: glosses: airbus; passenger airliner
banneret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbænəɹɪt/
/ˌbænəˈɹɛt/
Forms: form: bannerets
form: bannerette
Etymology: From French banneret, from bannière (“banner”) + -et (“-et, -ette: forming diminutives”). Equivalent to banner + -et.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
examples: text: […] yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: His armor and his horse were black; there was no device on his shield and no banneret on his spear.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A small banner.
examples: text: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […O]ne may regret “Banneret”, which has a flavour and associations, more especially as the leader of a formation in the air went into battle flying a streamer which formed a rallying mark as did the banner of the knight for his vassals.
ref: 1936, The Periodical, volumes 21-22, Oxford University Press, page 67:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
glosses: A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
Related terms: knight bachelor
feudal lord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feudal lords
Senses: glosses: A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.
Synonyms: word: lord
word: liege lord
english: chiefly Scottish contexts
translation: chiefly Scottish contexts
word: laird
english: chiefly French contexts
translation: chiefly French contexts
word: seigneur
Hyponyms: lord paramount
mesne lord
chief lord
castellan
chatelain
knight banneret
sociopathically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sociopathically
form: most sociopathically
Etymology: From sociopathic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sociopathic way.
civies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of civie
civies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of civvies.
Hintikkian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hintikkian
form: most Hintikkian
Etymology: From Hintikka + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Hintikkian erotetic logic is thoroughly intentional and hence adapts well to the intentional contexts of teaching.
ref: 1988, Charles J. B. Macmillan, James W. Garrison, A Logical Theory of Teaching: Erotetics and Intentionality, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 80:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the work of Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician.
apropos of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Calque of French à propos de. See apropos
Senses: examples: text: Apropos''' of pruning the grape, it may be pointed out here that this can be done when the season's growth has lost its green appearance and assumed a brown or greyish color.
ref: 1901 July 5, Claude Fuller, “Some Winter Reminders”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 262:
glosses: Concerning; with regard to; about; apropos; in relation to.
Derived terms: apropos of nothing
with regard to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: I am writing with regard to the advertisement that you placed in last week's Daily News.
text: The Last Wish has a lot on its mind with regard to its characters, especially Puss himself.
ref: 2022 December 20, Leigh Monson, “Puss In Boots: The Last Wish review: Antonio Banderas leads the best film yet in the Shrek franchise”, in AV Club:
glosses: Concerning; about.
Synonyms: with respect to
WRT
in regard to
Derived terms: WRT
portacabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portacabins
form: port-a-cabin
Etymology: From the trademark Portakabin, itself from portable cabin.
Senses: examples: text: It was a standard port-a-cabin, twenty by twelve feet, with two small beds at either end, two lockers, and a table and chair between them.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 55:
text: At least I'm not in a portacabin. Whenever I find myself heading towards a peripheral portacabin, I experience the same visceral feeling that the French aristocrats had when they rode the tumbrels to Madame Guillotine.
ref: 2007, S.A.S.: Special Ace Supply (teacher), Quick Brown Fox Publication, →ISBN, page 11:
text: We have done our portacabin out with balloons, paper chains and “Support troop is One Step Beyond.” It looks all Christmassy, with the snow, it is quite good.
ref: 2009, Julian Beirne, Diary of a Sapper, Julian Beirne, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: A prefabricated hut that is transportable, often used as an office or for storage.
portacabins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portacabin
mouse pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouse pad
jumping jacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumping jack
crumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crump
luigi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: luigis
form: luigiing
form: luigied
form: luigied
form: Luigi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Luigi
Grizelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Griselda.
dunce hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunce hats
Senses: glosses: A conical hat that a school pupil is made to wear to indicate that he/she is a dunce.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: dunce cap
dunce cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunce caps
form: dunce's cap
Senses: glosses: A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
glosses: The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: dunce hat
dunce caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunce cap
dunce hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunce hat
knight's tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knight's tours
Senses: glosses: A sequence of positions on a chessboard, which sequence includes each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
glosses: A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.
knight's tours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight's tour
rindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪndəl/
Forms: form: rindles
Etymology: From Middle English rendel and other variants with d of rinel, whence also the more common form runnel: see that entry for more.
Senses: examples: text: … a rindle o' wetur wur wheem, …
ref: 1850 (originally 1740?), Dialect of south Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and …, page 17
text: … sweat running down i' greight rindles …
ref: c. 1893, George Milner (editor), Edwin Waugh (author), Heather, in Lancaster Sketches Second Series, page 284 (quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary)
glosses: A small stream or rivulet; a watercourse or gutter.
traffic cones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traffic cone
ashes of rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ashes-of-rose
Etymology: From the fading color of wilted roses.
Senses: examples: text: There are star-fish, sea-urchins, and sea-anemones, — gorgeous creatures in ashes of rose and orange, or in pink and brown with dashes of yellow.
ref: 1883 (December), Julia C. R. Dorr, "Bermudian Days", The Atlantic Monthly, page 789
text: White and black added to the above combinations result in the quieter tones and tints of these — such as old rose, ashes of rose, salmon, red-brown, terra-cotta, brick red and the series of pinkish to orange greys.
ref: 1922, Edward Stratton Holloway, The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment, page 47:
glosses: A pinkish gray color.
ashes-of-rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ashes of rose.
crew chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crew chiefs
Senses: glosses: The leader or the head of a crew.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the chief umpire, referee or other official.
crew chiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crew chief
typoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of typo
typoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of typo
typo'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of typo
Aquitania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪ.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌæ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/
ipa: /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˌɑ.kwɪˈteɪn.jə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Latin Aquitania. Doublet of Aquitaine and Guyenne.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Gallia Aquitanica: an ancient province of the Roman Empire.
glosses: Synonym of Aquitaine.
synonyms: word: Aquitaine
Derived terms: Aquitanian
Latter Day Saint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latter Day Saints
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Latter-day Saint.
Latter Day Saints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latter Day Saint
chantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chantable
form: most chantable
Etymology: From chant + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] a chantable chorus of “Wooy-yooy-yooy.”
ref: 2013, Harry L. Watson, Jocelyn Neal, Southern Cultures: 2013 Global Southern Music Issue, page 23:
glosses: Suitable for being chanted.
cantabiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantabile
percents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of percent
aerophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + physics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of the design and construction of aerodynamic devices
Chrysler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chryslers
Etymology: From the motor company founded by and named after Walter Chrysler in 1925. Surname derives from German Kreißler.
Senses: examples: text: a Chrysler dealership
glosses: A motor vehicle brand (a make) owned by the Chrysler Corporation (1925–1998) and its successor corporations, most recently Stellantis.
examples: text: From the 1920s through the 1960s, Chrysler was known within the automotive industry for impressive engineering.
glosses: A former motor vehicle manufacturer, the Chrysler Corporation (1925–1998); its successor corporations still informally called by that name, most recently Stellantis's North American subsidiary.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: FCA
Chrysler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chryslers
Etymology: From the motor company founded by and named after Walter Chrysler in 1925. Surname derives from German Kreißler.
Senses: examples: text: He was driving a brand-new Chrysler.
text: Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale
And it's about to set sail
I got me a car, it seats about twenty, so come on
And bring your jukebox money
The love shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Love shack baby
ref: 1989, the B-52s, “Love Shack”, in Cosmic Thing, performed by the B-52s:
coordinate_terms: Cadillac
Buick
Lexus
glosses: An automobile of this make. (Formerly, often used as an example of a luxury car (mid-20th century).)
Chryslers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chrysler
wire cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wire cutters
Senses: glosses: A hand tool resembling pliers, intended for cutting wires.
Synonyms: diagonal pliers
diags
side cutters
hedge trimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedge trimmers
form: hedge-trimmer
Senses: synonyms: shrub trimmer
glosses: A gardening tool or machine used for trimming hedges.
hedge trimmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge trimmer
starting points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of starting point
station throats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of station throat
bubble blower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble blowers
Senses: glosses: A children's toy for making bubbles by passing air through a membrane of a liquid bubble solution, typically soapy water.
Related terms: bubble wand
bubble pipe
bubble maker
bubble machine
spoofable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spoof + -able.
Senses: glosses: that can be spoofed
hit the bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the bricks
form: hitting the bricks
form: hit the bricks
form: hit the bricks
Senses: examples: text: [T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work.
ref: 1949 June 18, Victor Riesel, “Inside Labor”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 24 Jun 2009, page 30:
text: [H]undreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park.
ref: 2002 October 17, Jeff Larsen, “Short Trips: Shoreside walks in green and glittering Vancouver”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 24 Jun 2009:
glosses: To travel about, especially on foot.
examples: text: Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks.
ref: 2004 September 20, “No NHL? No NHL!!!”, in Washington Post, retrieved 24 Jun 2009, page D02:
text: On Friday and Saturday nights, the old-timers who usually populate the enormous room hit the bricks as an army of young people storm the hall to play "Cosmic Bingo."
ref: 2009 April 3, Tom Horgen, “Nightlife: Bingo is the game-o”, in Minneapolis Star-Tribune, retrieved 24 Jun 2009:
glosses: To leave or depart; to get out.
examples: text: When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect.
ref: 1947 March 31, “National Affairs: Waterfront Conchie”, in Time:
text: Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises.
ref: 2002 December 16, Pete Donohue et al., “MTA and union push against strike deadline”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 24 Jun 2009:
glosses: To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.
Synonyms: sense: travel or search about
word: perambulate
sense: travel or search about
word: pound the pavement
sense: travel or search about
word: ramble
sense: leave or depart
word: hit the road
sense: leave or depart
word: hit the trail
sense: participate in a job action or public protest
word: take to the bricks
sense: participate in a job action or public protest
word: picket
sense: participate in a job action or public protest
word: protest
sense: participate in a job action or public protest
word: strike
sense: participate in a job action or public protest
word: walk out
suavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suavity
take a licking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a licking
form: taking a licking
form: took a licking
form: taken a licking
Senses: glosses: To suffer a defeat or a beating.
Derived terms: take a licking and keep on ticking
takes time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take time
taking time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take time
took time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take time
taken time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take time
reap hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reap hooks
Senses: glosses: A sickle.
reaping hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaping hooks
form: reaphook
form: reap hook
form: reaping-hook
Senses: glosses: A sickle, particularly a small one with a short handle used for cutting grass or crops.
cotehardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotehardies
form: coat-hardy
Etymology: From Old French cote-hardie, from cote (“coat”) + hardie (“hardy”).
Senses: examples: 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
glosses: A mid to late 14th century unisex garment tailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve from the elbow to the wrist. Women's coathardies trailed on the floor, but those for men could be cut very short.
cotehardies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotehardie
forprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of for-profit.
forprofit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forprofits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of for-profit.
Panama Canal Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpænəmɑː kəˈnæl ˌzəʊn/
Senses: examples: text: On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
glosses: A United States concession within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979. Former postal code: CZ
Synonyms: english: common shortening
translation: common shortening
word: Canal Zone
Related terms: panama
Panama hat
Panamanian
Guppy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: english: the fish
translation: the fish
word: guppy
Canal Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Panama Canal Zone.
glosses: The Suez Canal Zone.
Related terms: canalboat
canaliculate
canaliculus
canalize
temperate zone
torrid zone
war zone
Suez Canal Zone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The territory stretching around the course of the Suez Canal.
raw_tags: from 1936 until 1956
Synonyms: english: shortening
translation: shortening
word: Canal Zone
Related terms: Gulf of Suez
Port Suez
Panama Canal Zone
Sues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sue
Sues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sue
tondino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tondinos
form: tondini
Etymology: From Italian tondino.
Senses: examples: text: Iznikware tondinos survive with other styles of decoration: […]
ref: 2002, Rosamond E. Mack, Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, page 207:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A small ceramic plate in the Italian style.
Mishnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mishnic
form: most Mishnic
Etymology: From Mishna + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Mishnaic.
Related terms: Mishnical
Biblical
Talmudic
Mishnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mishnical
form: most Mishnical
Etymology: From Mishnic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Mishnaic
Related terms: Mishnic
Biblical
Talmudic
performance arousal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A phenomenon experienced before or while one performs, manifested either positively, as excitement, or negatively, as anxiety.
Related terms: performance anxiety
fir-cone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fir-cones
Senses: examples: text: Fir-cones and snakes from their very forms were emblems of male fertility; snakes, too, from their habit of gliding out of their own skins with renewed brightness and color were suggestive of resurrection and re-vivification[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:
glosses: The conical fruit of a fir tree.
Related terms: fir-tree
pine-cone
pinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pineries
Etymology: From pine + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…]
ref: 2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN:
text: while Margam was exceptional in the scale of its orangery, it was not alone […] There was, for example, a peach house at Stradey Castle, a melon house and vinery at Nanteos, while Middleton Hall had both a peach house and a pinery. Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance.
ref: 2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.
examples: text: Early in the Moon of Popping Trees they [High Back Bone, Yellow Eagle, and Crazy Horse] began tantalizing the woodcutters in the pinery and the soldiers guarding the wagons which brought wood to Fort Phil Kearny. [Red Cloud's War, 1866]
ref: 1972, Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
glosses: A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.
retraits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrait
retraits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrait
pineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinery
rejoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejoints
form: rejointing
form: rejointed
form: rejointed
Etymology: From re- + joint.
Senses: antonyms: disjoint#Verb
disarticulate#Verb
glosses: To reunite the joints of; to joint anew.
topics: architecture
business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
synonyms: repoint
glosses: to fill up the joints of, as stones in buildings when the mortar has been dislodged by age and the action of the weather.
Related terms: rejoin
unjointed
baryes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barye
trip up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trips up
form: tripping up
form: tripped up
form: tripped up
Senses: glosses: To commit an error, make a mistake.
glosses: To cause (someone) to commit an error, trick into a mistake.
glosses: To fall or stumble.
glosses: To cause (someone) to fall or stumble.
trips up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trip up
tripping up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trip up
tripped up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trip up
bogs off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bog off
bogging off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bog off
bogged off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bog off
lay brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay brothers
form: lay brethren
form: lay-brother
Senses: examples: text: In feudal days lay brothers were usually uneducated commoners, who did most menial, manual labor while the learned priestly monks held the more spiritual jobs.
text: 2010, WHY A LAY BROTHER?, Franciscan Friars
The male branch of the Franciscan family, a community of Lesser Brothers, is made up of men who are both clergy and consecrated laity traditionally called "lay brothers".
topics: Christianity
synonyms: conversus
glosses: A layman who is a member of a religious congregation or monastic order without the intention to become a priest.
Related terms: brotherly
laicity
terrasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terrasses
Etymology: From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Senses: glosses: Terrace, patio.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A representation of the ground, serving as the base for another object; a terrace.
terrasse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: terrasses
form: terrassing
form: terrassed
form: terrassed
Etymology: From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Senses: examples: text: However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.
ref: 1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:
text: Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.
ref: 1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
terrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrasse
terrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of terrasse
haitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hāitch
ipa: /ˈheɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
Forms: form: haitches
form: aitch
Etymology: From earlier aitch with an initial h- restored, from Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unidentified source. The restoration reflects the pronunciation of the letter name in several dialects of English. See the Wikipedia article about the letter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aitch.
clickstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickstreams
Etymology: From click + stream.
Senses: examples: text: “My clickstream data is sensitive information,” she told Mr. Zaneis, “and it belongs to me.”
ref: 2007 May 12, Dan Mitchell, quoting Kaliya Hamlin, “Online Ads vs. Privacy”, in New York Times:
text: Clickstream analytics are usually monitored on an aggregate basis. Server-based clickstream analysis provides valuable insight into visitor behavior. For instance, by learning which paths users most frequently take on a site and which routes lead to sales, you can make changes in content and calls to action[…]
ref: 2017, Jan Zimmerman, Deborah Ng, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: business
computing
engineering
marketing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: click path
glosses: A profile of a user's activity in a web browser or other software, based on what is clicked.