cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
offline
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈlaɪn/
ipa: /ɔfˈlaɪn/
ipa: /ɑfˈlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: off-line
form: off line
Etymology: From off- + line.
Senses: examples: text: The 2000 also emulates Diablo, Qume and NEC letter-quality printers, and has a large enough buffer memory to operate off line from the host computer for an hour.
ref: 1982, “Hardware News”, in InfoWorld, volume 4, number 26, page 89:
text: If you want to keep the phone bill down you can set up your Newsreader to operate offline. This means that your Newsreader will fetch new message headers, collect messages you wish to read, and send any responses you may have set up all in one go. You can then read news offline, while you are not running up the phone bill[…].
ref: 2000, Syndey S. Chellen, The Essential Guide to the Internet for Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Men like to play games online, and they also like to find out about the games that they play offline.
ref: 2008, Vickie Taylor, The Complete Guide to Writing Web-Based Advertising Copy to Get the Sale, Atlantic Publishing,, →ISBN, page 230:
antonyms: online
glosses: While offline; with an offline system.
examples: text: At meetings, people cut off discussion by saying “Let’s continue that conversation offline,” even though they are meeting face to face, not online; “offline” is a new synonym for “in private,” as though everything public were now on the Internet.
ref: 2001, Rosabeth Moss Kantner, Evolve!, Harvard Business Press,, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The person running the meeting also has the important job of saying “Take it offline.” Whenever two or more people get off on a tangent that doesn’t require everybody’s attention, instruct them to continue the conversation outside the boundaries of the meeting.
ref: 2002, Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, SelectBooks,, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Offer to discuss the topic offline or table the discussion until things cool down.
ref: 2009, Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, The Introverted Leader, Berrett-Koehler,, →ISBN, page 95:
topics: business
glosses: Outside the current meeting, in a more private setting.
offline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈlaɪn/
ipa: /ɔfˈlaɪn/
ipa: /ɑfˈlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: offlines
form: offlining
form: offlined
form: offlined
form: off-line
form: off line
Etymology: From off- + line.
Senses: examples: text: Offlining a memory processor can be accomplished by using the flexible interleaving capability described earlier to interleave segments across subsets of the memory processors, avoiding the faulty one(s).
ref: 1986, Kai Hwang, Steven M. Jacobs, Earl E. Swartzlander, Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, page 462:
text: Traditionally, you fixed the problem by offlining the disk and re-creating the disk's extents on a different disk using redundant extent copies and then dropping the failed disk.
ref: 2008, Sam Alapati, Expert Oracle Database 11g Administration, page 908:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To take (a system, etc.) offline; to demote from an active or online state.
topics: video-games
qualifier: Rust
glosses: To raid another player's base while that player is not currently playing.
ploughman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaʊ.mən/
rhymes: -aʊmən
Forms: form: ploughmen
form: plowman
Etymology: From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plough + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plowman.
Derived terms: ploughmanship
ploughman's lunch
ploughman's sandwich
ploughman's spikenard
ploughman's-spikenard
Related terms: ploughboy
ploughgirl
ploughshare
ploughwoman
tiller
tillerman
anglicised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.lɪ.saɪzd/
Forms: form: more anglicised
form: most anglicised
form: Anglicised
form: anglicized
form: Anglicized
Senses: examples: When he immigrated he changed his name to the anglicised form so the natives could pronounce it correctly.
glosses: Made into a form similar to that used by the English.
Synonyms: Englished
anglicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.lɪ.saɪzd/
Forms: form: Anglicised
form: anglicized
form: Anglicized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anglicise
Related terms: Anglicisation
anglicisation
Anglicise
anglicise
Anglicization
anglicization
Anglicize
anglicize
rock up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rocks up
form: rocking up
form: rocked up
form: rocked up
Etymology: From rock (“to move back and forth”) + up.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: To turn up at a place or function spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning.
rock up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rocks up
form: rocking up
form: rocked up
form: rocked up
Etymology: From rock (“stone”) + up.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement.
topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: To turn powder cocaine into crack cocaine by cooking.
Israelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪz.ɹi.əˌlaɪts/
ipa: /ˈɪz.ɹɪˌlaɪts/
ipa: /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.əˌlaɪts/
enpr: ĭzˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ-rē-ə-lītsˌ
enpr: ĭzˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ-rĭ-lītsˌ
enpr: ĭzˈˈˈˈˈˈˈ-rā-ə-lītsˌ
Senses: glosses: plural of Israelite
cargo pallet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo pallets
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A flat wooden tray used for hoisting cargo into and out of a ship's hold.
Carley float
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Carley floats
Etymology: From Horace Carley, American inventor.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: an early life raft consisting of a large oval ring of copper tubing covered with kapok and painted waterproof canvas.
castrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsˈtɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkæstɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more castrated
form: most castrated
Senses: synonyms: neutered
glosses: Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females).
Derived terms: hemicastrated
noncastrated
self-castrated
uncastrated
castrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæsˈtɹeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkæstɹeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of castrate
masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsks/
ipa: /mæsks/
rhymes: -æsks
rhymes: -ɑːsks
Senses: glosses: plural of mask
masks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːsks/
ipa: /mæsks/
rhymes: -æsks
rhymes: -ɑːsks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mask
finishing move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finishing moves
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: In media such as one-on-one fighting video games and professional wrestling, a dedicated special attack used to knock out an enemy on the brink of defeat in a flashy and spectacular manner.
finishing moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finishing move
left, right and centre
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The forwards smashed the All Blacks left, right, and centre, and they were switched on from the first whistle.
ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:
glosses: Alternative form of left and right.
gasogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasogenes
form: gazogene
Etymology: From gas + -o- + -gene.
Senses: glosses: A type of Victorian seltzer bottle, consisting of two mesh-encased glass globes arranged so that a reaction between tartaric acid and sodium bicarbonate produced carbon dioxide gas which carbonated the enclosed beverage and expelled it through a siphon valve.
Synonyms: seltzogene
seltzer bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seltzer bottles
Senses: synonyms: soda siphon
glosses: A bottle for producing or dispensing seltzer water (soda water) or other carbonated beverages.
actualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actualisms
Etymology: From actual + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: possibilism
glosses: The belief that actuality and existence are co‐extensive: i.e., that only actual things exist, and merely possible things do not.
accountants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accountant
anguine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡwɪn/
rhymes: -æŋɡwɪn
Forms: form: more anguine
form: most anguine
Etymology: From Latin anguinus, from anguis (“snake”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to snakes or serpents
glosses: Snakelike.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to snakes
word: ophidian
word: serpentine
word: snakelike
Derived terms: anguinous
serpents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpentes
Senses: glosses: plural of serpent
serpents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: serpentes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of serpent
mirrour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹə/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹɚ/
rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mirrours
Senses: examples: text: This skeleton was deposited a little to the south of the center of the tumulus; and about 20 feet to the north of it was another, with which were-- 5th. A large mirrour about 3 feet in breadth and 1-1/2 inches in thickness.
ref: 1880, H. C. Yarrow, Introduction to the study of mortuary customs amongst the North American Indians:
text: RIGHT Honourable, It was my good happe not longe since, in a Friends House, to light vpon a briefe History of the Life, Arraignement, and Death of that Mirrour of all true Honour, and Vertue Syr Thomas More, who by his Wisdome, Learning, & Santity, hath eternized his Name, Coutrey, & Profession, throughout the Christian World, with immortall Glory, and Renowne.
ref: 1626, William Roper, The Mirrour of Vertue:
text: To the Mirrour of her Sex Mrs. Ellinor Pargiter [...]
ref: 1664, Robert Codrington, The second Part of Youth's Behaviour, or Decency in Conversation amongst Women:
glosses: Archaic spelling of mirror.
mirrour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪɹə/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹɚ/
rhymes: -ɪɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mirrours
form: mirrouring
form: mirroured
form: mirroured
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of mirror.
central vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central vacuums
Senses: glosses: a vacuum cleaner built into the fabric of a building, with a central motor and dirt bag and distributed points where a hose and appliances may be plugged in
remarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remarriages
Etymology: From re- + marriage.
Senses: glosses: a second or subsequent marriage
Related terms: remarry
Chinese dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese dragons
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A legendary creature, usually depicted as long and snake-like, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A large snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag, and the claws of a tiger; known for its benevolent behavior in ancient Oriental mythology.
Synonyms: sense: legendary creature
word: loong
pows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of pow
POWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of POW
captain's servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: captain's servants
Senses: examples: text: "When one reads of a distinguished naval officer having been "a captain's servant," it does not mean that he blacked the captain's boots, mixed his grog, and emptied his slops, but that he entered the service under a captain's protection."
ref: 1905, John Masefield, Sea Life in Nelson's Time:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Before 1796, the rating of a boy entering the Royal Navy at about the age of twelve before becoming a midshipman.
careenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: careenages
Etymology: From careen + -age.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A beach with a steep, sandy shoreline on which a ship may be careened.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The expense of careening a ship.
cargo jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo jacks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A large screw jack used to stow a cargo (such as hides or cotton) by compressing them into a smaller volume.
cargo net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo nets
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a large square net, made of rope, used to sling cargo into and out of a ship's hold
Asperger syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Asperger's syndrome.
H2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The second half of a calendar year (July to December).
glosses: The second half of a financial year.
Coordinate terms: sense: quarters of the year
word: Q1
sense: quarters of the year
word: Q2
sense: quarters of the year
word: Q3
sense: quarters of the year
word: Q4
Related terms: H1
H-2
HII
N2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N2s
Senses: examples: text: The inputs into the computerized JT9D condition monitoring program for this engine from September 10 through 16 likewise reflected adverse changes in trends of vital operating parameters which were indicative of the possibility of a serious engine malfunction. These data points showed a progressive increase of EGT and fuel flow while N2 showed a progressive decrease over the same period of time.
ref: 1971 February 3, National Transportation Safety Board, “Analysis and Conclusions”, in Aircraft Incident Report: American Airlines, Inc., Boeing 747-121, N743PA, San Francisco, California, September 18, 1970, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022, page 12:
text: A test to evaluate the slight increases (25 to 30 pounds per square inch gauge [psig]) in core-driven hydraulic pump pressure indications showed that hydraulic pump pressure would begin to indicate on the FDR with about 35 rpm of core rotation. Another test showed that N2 signals would begin to indicate on the FDR and in the cockpit with about 70 rpm of core rotation.
ref: 2007 January 9, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.16.3 Engine Tests”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N8396A, Jefferson City, Missouri, October 14, 2004, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2022, page 27:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rotational speed of the high-pressure spool of a two-spool gas turbine engine or the intermediate-pressure spool of a three-spool gas turbine engine, expressed as a percentage of a certain reference rotational speed.
glosses: Alternative form of N₂.
Coordinate terms: N1
N3
monopolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monopolises
form: monopolising
form: monopolised
form: monopolised
form: monopolize
Senses: examples: text: Lord Norbourne wished to stay with the party till his nephew arrived, fully intending then to monopolise Lord Marchmont, and thus to leave Ethel to Courtenaye.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s Continued”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of monopolize.
SO2
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SO₂
form: SO2s
Senses: glosses: Initialism of oxygen saturation (blood oxygenation).
Related terms: english: molecular oxygen
translation: molecular oxygen
word: O2
word: molecular oxygen
word: oxygen
word: saturation
chums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: plural of chum
chums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chum
chumming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chum
chumming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: The use of a lit aeroplane to draw enemy fire so that the enemy can be destroyed by another aeroplane whose lights are off.
chummed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʌmd/
rhymes: -ʌmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chum
gangbangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gangbanger
desitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desitive
form: most desitive
Senses: examples: text: desitive propositions
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
glosses: Final or conclusive.
desitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desitives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An argument that leads to a conclusion.
five W's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initial letters.
Senses: synonyms: five W's and one H
five W's and an H
5W1H
glosses: The questions who, what, when, where and why, useful in gathering information and solving problems.
Related terms: 5W
deeks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deek
deekin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of deek
deeked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deek
carline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
Forms: form: carlines
form: carlin
form: carling
Etymology: From Old Norse karling, feminine of karl (“carl”).
Senses: examples: text: While honest men slept in their beds, the auld rudas carlines took their pleasure.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
synonyms: word: old woman
word: babushka
word: bag
word: bat
word: beldame
word: biddy
word: bluehair
word: bubbe
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
word: carline
word: carlin
word: crone
word: gammer
word: geezer
word: gogo
word: grandam
word: granny
word: grimalkin
word: hag
word: maum
word: old lady
word: old maid
word: prune
word: spinster
word: tabby
word: trot
word: trout
word: witch
glosses: A woman; a hag or witch.
Derived terms: gyre-carlin
carline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
Forms: form: carlines
Etymology: From car + line.
Senses: glosses: A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.
carline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: carlines
Etymology: From French carline, from Medieval Latin carlina, probably from cardina, a diminutive of Latin carduus (“thistle”), with influence from Carolus Magnus due to an association with Charlemagne.
Senses: glosses: Carline thistle.
carline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
Forms: form: carlines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caroline (“an old silver Italian coin”).
carline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹlɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑːlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹlɪn/
rhymes: -ɑːlɪn
Forms: form: carlines
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of carling (“deck planking”).
carling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carlings
Etymology: See carline.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carline (“old woman”).
carling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carlings
Etymology: Compare French carlingue, which may be from the English.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking.
carling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carlings
form: carlin
form: carl
form: carle
Etymology: From care + -ling (synchronically), being connected to the custom of serving these peas to the poor on Care Sunday, called also Carling Sunday after the peas.
Senses: synonyms: carling pea
glosses: A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried.
carosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carosses
Senses: glosses: A European state coach.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The open space underneath the poop deck of a galley where the captain had his bed; it evolved into the cabin.
carous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carouses
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A form of gallery or bridge, pivoted in the middle, fitted to ancient ships as a means of boarding an enemy vessel.
naa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knaa.
past participles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of past participle
Caerphilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kəɹˈfɪli/
Etymology: From Welsh Caerffili (literally “Ffili’s fort”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Caerphilly borough county borough, in the old county of Glamorgan, South Wales.
glosses: A county borough in Wales formed in 1996.
wake up and smell the coffee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪk ʌp n̩ ˈsmɛl ðə ˈkɒfi/
ipa: /ˈweɪk ˌʌp n̩ ˈsmɛl ðə ˈkɔfi/
rhymes: -ɒfi stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: wakes up and smells the coffee
form: waking up and smelling the coffee
form: woke up and smelled the coffee
form: woke up and smelt the coffee
form: woken up and smelled the coffee
form: woken up and smelt the coffee
Etymology: Probably a humorous elaboration of wake up (“to become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand”), alluding to the fact that coffee is often consumed at breakfast time after waking up in the morning. The term was popularized by the American writer Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer (1918–2002), who used the pen name Ann Landers, in the syndicated newspaper advice column Ask Ann Landers.
Senses: examples: text: Your paper gains "notice" as an example of the use of English as it should not be written nor spoken. Wake up and smell the coffee.
ref: 1927 June 4, Purist [pseudonym], “Smelling the coffee [letter]”, in John S[hivley] Knight, editor, Akron Beacon Journal, number 157, Akron, Oh.: Beacon Journal Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 5:
text: A few years back, when a wife told her husband to "wake up and smell the coffee," it usually was said in utter derision. Now, when there is coffee to smell, she shouts it to him in supreme delight.
ref: 1943 January 18, Guy Finamore, “Rationing dept.”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CII, number 15, Chicago, Ill.: Wheeler, Stewart & Scripps, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
text: Wake up and smell the coffee, Dummy. You're a comfort station on a back-street detour. Send him on his way.
ref: 1970 November 29, Ann Landers [pseudonym; Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer], “Wake up, smell the coffee”, in The News & Observer, volume CC, number 152, Raleigh, N.C.: News & Observer Pub. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, section III (Today’s Woman), page 20, column 4:
text: Dear God, was she going to look at everybody who owned a truck with this sort of suspicion? “Come on, Heskell. Wake up and smell the coffee. They've become the singles bars of the nineties.[…]”
ref: 1997 October, Joanna Elm, chapter 6, in Delusion, 1st mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, published January 1999, →ISBN, page 51:
text: He had opened his eyes, which was what his first wife was always telling him to do—open your eyes, Al, wake up and smell the coffee—and seen that Rosalind was at least as unhappy as he was, […]
ref: 2000, Jane Smiley, “Breeders’ Cup”, in Horse Heaven, 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 2001, →ISBN, book 2 (1998), page 319:
synonyms: word: open one's eyes
word: take the hint
word: wake up and smell the ashes
word: wake up and smell the decaf
word: wake up and smell the roses
glosses: Often in the infinitive or imperative: to face reality and stop deluding oneself.
wikipedia: Ask Ann Landers
kayaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kayak
tetroxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: plural of tetroxide
tetrodotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrodotoxins
Etymology: From German Tetrodotoxin, corresponding to Tetrodon (tetr- + --odon) + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: Both creatures belong to a large pan-tropical order of fish, many of which have tetrodotoxin in their skin, liver, ovaries, and intestines.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 118:
text: The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
text: Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).
ref: 2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2021:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
neurotoxicology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: A neurotoxin, originally discovered in Tetraodontiformes, and found in pufferfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc.
Synonyms: word: TTX
Derived terms: word: TTX
bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪz/
homophone: Bayes
homophone: baize
rhymes: -eɪz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of bay
bays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪz/
homophone: Bayes
homophone: baize
rhymes: -eɪz
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bay
bays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪz/
homophone: Bayes
homophone: baize
rhymes: -eɪz
Etymology: From French baies, feminine plural form of bai (“reddish-brown”).
Senses: glosses: Baize.
carrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carracks
form: carack
form: carrick
form: carract
Etymology: From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic قَرَاقِير (qarāqīr).
Senses: examples: text: They [the English] are all on fire / To purchaſe from the Spaniard. If their Carracks / Come deeply laden, vvee ſhall tugge vvith them / For golden ſpoile.
ref: c. 1597–1603 (date written), Thomas Heywood, The Fair Maid of the West. Or, A Girle Worth Gold. The First Part. […], London: […] [Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Faith, he to night hath boarded a Land Carract, / If it proue lawfull prize, he's made for euer.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312:
text: The name of the ship was Dawn Treader. She was only a little bit of a thing compared with one of our ships, or even with the cogs, dromonds, carracks and galleons which Narnia had owned when Lucy and Edmund had reigned there under Peter as the High King, for nearly all navigation had died out in the reigns of Caspian's ancestors.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
text: Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.
ref: 1993, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28:
synonyms: nau
glosses: A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
nutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutter
sorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɹaɪtiːz/
Forms: form: sorites
Etymology: From the Latin sōrītēs, from the Ancient Greek σωρῑ́της (sōrī́tēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Senses: examples: text: Why?—he would ask, making use of the sorites or syllogism of Zeno and Chrysippus without knowing it belonged to them.—Why? why are we a ruined people?—Because we are corrupted.——Whence is it, dear Sir, that we are corrupted?—Because we are needy […] ——And wherefore, he would add,—are we needy?——From the neglect, he would answer
ref: 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 130:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A series of propositions whereby each conclusion is taken as the subject of the next.
Derived terms: destructive sorites
Goclenian sorites
sorites paradox
Related terms: syllogism
sorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɹaɪtiːz/
Etymology: From the Latin sōrītēs, from the Ancient Greek σωρῑ́της (sōrī́tēs, “fallacy of the heap”), from σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Senses: glosses: plural of sorite
APIX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæpɪks/
Etymology: Acronyms.
Senses: glosses: Aggregate path index.
glosses: Automotive pixel link.
cafone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafones
Etymology: From Italian cafone.
Senses: glosses: A boorish, uneducated Italian-American.
calice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calices
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of chalice.
dei ex machinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Is our salvation to be dependent upon machines; are we to become dei ex machinis?
ref: c. 1910, George Robert Stow Mead, Some Mystical Adventures, republication edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 1993, →ISBN, →OL, page 11:
text: The dei ex machinis and the bug-eyed monsters are both products of man’s imagination — extensions and projections of his own desires, fears and hopes about himself, often revealing more about the sorts of things he believes in — or unconsciously wants to believe in — than he himself recognises.
ref: 1954, Meanjin Quarterly, University of Melbourne, page 211:
text: Apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and various dei ex machinis endow these true-life fictions with spiritual qualities, useful as new secular verification that God’s plan is[…]
ref: 2007, Susan Miller, Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: plural of deus ex machina
mini-moto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mini-motos
form: minimoto
Senses: glosses: A miniature motorcycle, with a wheelbase in the range of 1000 mm and an engine displacing as little as 40cc.
Synonyms: pocket bike
white coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwaɪt ˈkoʊt/
Forms: form: white coats
Senses: glosses: A white, knee-length coat worn by laboratory workers etc. as protection.
Derived terms: whitecoat
white coat effect
white-coater
white coat high blood pressure
white coat hypertension
white coat rule
white coat syndrome
Related terms: lab coat
minimoto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimotos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mini-moto.
pocket bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket bikes
Senses: glosses: A miniature motorcycle, with a wheelbase in the range of 1000 mm and an engine displacing as little as 40cc.
Synonyms: mini-moto
camion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkamɪən/
Forms: form: camions
Etymology: Borrowed from French camion.
Senses: examples: text: There were small gray motor cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back seat. They splashed more mud than the camions even […]
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 12:
glosses: A truck or wagon, especially one used to transport ordnance.
carrick bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrick bends
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong bend knot commonly used to join two lines, ropes, and hawsers when required. A reliable safe knot if tied correctly, but unsafe if tied incorrectly, which is easily done. It is a basic knot which forms part of many other knots, hitches, bends, etc.
carry away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carries away
form: carrying away
form: carried away
form: carried away
Senses: examples: text: to carry away a child
glosses: To steal; to take away.
raw_tags: as of a thing or person
glosses: To be so excited that one is no longer in control of one's actions or behavior.
glosses: To move away, as physically or emotionally.
examples: text: to be carried away by music, or by temptation
glosses: To take possession of the mind of; to charm, transport, or delude.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To break under sudden pressure of violent wind.
raw_tags: of a mast or rigging
carvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːvɪl/
ipa: /-əl/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹvɪl/
ipa: /-əl/
Forms: form: carvels
form: karvel
Etymology: From Middle English carvel, carvelle, carvile, kervel (“small ship; caravel”), from Old French caruelle, carvelle, kirvelle, see further at caravel. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch karveel.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”).
synonyms: word: caravel
extra: a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship
glosses: A jellyfish (e.g. Medusozoa).
Derived terms: carvel-built
carvel-planked
carvel-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: carvel-planked
glosses: Of a wooden vessel: having the planks of the hull laid flush and caulked to make a smooth finish.
Related terms: clinker-built
sea blubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea blubbers
Senses: synonyms: carvel
glosses: A jellyfish; a medusa.
examples: text: GENUS Cyanea / C. arctica, the sun-jelly or sea-blubber. This is the largest jellyfish known. Some individuals measure seven and a half feet across the disk and have tentacles more than one hundred feet long.
ref: 1903, Augusta Foote Arnold, The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide: A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found Between Tide-marks, page 138:
text: No less remarkable for its beauty is Cyanea fulva. This species may well be termed the "little brown brother" of the more widely known C. arctica, or sea blubber, the largest jellyfish in existence.
ref: 1923, William Crowder, Dwellers of the Sea and Shore:
text: The venomous golden-or reddish-brown sea blubber (or lion's mane) jellyfish Cyanea capillata occurs in large numbers within coastal waters. […] The sea blubber, compass, and cabbage bleb jellyfishes also may sting.
ref: 1984, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) for the North Sea and Baltic Sea, page 111:
glosses: A lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata).
case-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A mixture of stones and old iron, put into a wooden case and fired from a cannon as an anti-personnel weapon.
Synonyms: canister
cast off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts off
form: casting off
form: cast off
form: cast off
form: casted off
form: casted off
Senses: examples: text: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.
ref: 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To discard or reject something.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
examples: text: To conserve type, copy was "cast off"; that is, type needed for the initial pages was estimated so that the pages need not be composed in the same sequence as the copy.
ref: 2012, Christa Jansohn, Problems of Editing, page 102:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
Synonyms: topics: knitting
textiles
manufacturing
business
word: bind off
Related terms: cast on
castoff
offthrow
cephalothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛfələˈθɔɹæks/
ipa: /ˌsɛfələˈθɑɹæks/
enpr: sĕf'ə-lə-thōr'ăks'
enpr: sĕf'ə-lə-thôr'ăks'
ipa: /ˌsɛfələˈθɔɹæks/
Forms: form: cephalothoraxes
form: cephalothoraces
Etymology: From cephalo- + thorax.
Senses: examples: text: "Come in!" says the gray spider to the house-fly; "I have entertained a great many flies. I have plenty of room, fine meals and a gay life. [...] Philosophers have written volumes about my antennae and cephalothorax."
ref: 1874, T. De Witt Talmage, Around the tea-table:
glosses: The fused head and thorax of spiders and crustaceans
Derived terms: cephalothoracic
Related terms: cephalon
cephaloprothorax
thorax
cast on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts on
form: casting on
form: cast on
form: cast on
form: casted on
form: casted on
Senses: examples: text: Cast on 100 stitches; knit back plain.
ref: 1878, “High Vest for an Infant of Four Months”, in Godey's Lady's Book, and Ladies' American Magazine:
text: With two wooden needles, No. 7 and 4 ply fleecy, cast on twenty-nine stitches for the middle of the sole, and for six rows increase one at the beginning and end of each needle, to slightly shape both the toe and heel end.
ref: 1892, Charles Peters, The Girl's Own Indoor Book, page 75:
text: Although patterns call for a needle of a certain size, you may find that you cast on more tightly or loosely than the project specifies.
ref: 2012, Cap Sease, Cast On, Bind Off: 211 Ways to Begin and End Your Knitting:
text: With waste yarn and crochet hook, make a slipknot and chain 2 stitches more than required to cast on, fasten off.
ref: 2016, Margeau Soboti, Margeau Chapeau: A New Perspective on Classic Knit Hats, page 12:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To start the first row of knitting by putting stitches on a needle.
Related terms: cast off
bind off
cathead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæthɛd/
ipa: /ˈkætˌ(h)ɛd/
Forms: form: catheads
form: catheading
form: catheaded
form: catheaded
form: cat-head
Etymology: The noun is derived from cat + head.
Sense 1.1 (“heavy piece of timber projecting from a ship on which an anchor is raised or lowered, and secured”) is from the fact that such a timber traditionally had a cat or lion’s head carved on its end. Sense 4 (“ellipsis of cathead biscuit”) is apparently from the fact that the biscuit is similar in size to a cat’s head.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he whole canvass of the ship was loosed, and with the greatest rapidity possible, everything was sheeted home and hoisted up, the anchor tripped and catheaded, and the ship under headway.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXV, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 270:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Synonym of cat (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)
synonyms: word: cat
extra: (“to hoist (an anchor) so that it hangs at the cathead (noun sense 1.1)”)
catharping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætˌhɑː(ɹ)pɪŋ/
Forms: form: catharpings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: any of the short ropes under the tops at the lower end of the futtock shrouds of a square-rigged vessel used to secure other ropes in place
cathole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catholes
form: cat hole
form: cat-hole
Etymology: From cat + hole.
Senses: examples: text: It is still generally best to deposit feces in catholes, but the slow decomposition rate emphasizes the need to disperse catholes widely and far from water, campsites and other frequently used places.
ref: 1989, David N. Cole, Low-impact Recreational Practices for Wilderness and Backcountry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, page 121:
glosses: A small pit, dug in the earth by hikers etc. in order to bury feces.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Either of two circular holes cut in the stern of a sailing man of war on the level of the capstan, used for the passage of stern hawsers.
caulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːk/
homophone: cork
ipa: /kɔk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: cock
note: some US
ipa: /kælk/
homophone: calc
homophone: calk
homophone: calque
rhymes: -ɔːk
rhymes: -ɑːk
rhymes: -ælk
Forms: form: caulks
form: calk
Etymology: From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicāre (“to fill in with limestone, caulk”), derived from calx (“limestone, chalk”). Related to calx, cauk, chalk, and calculus.
Senses: glosses: Caulking.
glosses: A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
glosses: Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”).
examples: text: […] & we went for a long walk & fatigued ourselves so that I, for one, took a caulk in the afternoon.
ref: 1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 242:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short sleep; a nap.
Related terms: word: adhesive
word: filler
word: mastic
word: sealant
word: sealer
alt: cs
word: tmel
sense: Danish
word: kalfatring
alt: nl
word: kit
sense: Finnish
alt: fi
word: tiiviste
sense: Finnish
alt: fi
word: kitti
sense: Hungarian
alt: hu
word: fuga
sense: Hungarian
roman: hu
word: tömítő
sense: Malay
alt: ms
word: pakal
word: herepuru
word: puru
word: purupuru
alt: sh
word: brtvilo
word: brtvena masa
word: fugirna masa
sense: Turkish
alt: tr
word: silikon
caulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːk/
homophone: cork
ipa: /kɔk/
ipa: /kɑk/
homophone: cock
note: some US
ipa: /kælk/
homophone: calc
homophone: calk
homophone: calque
rhymes: -ɔːk
rhymes: -ɑːk
rhymes: -ælk
Forms: form: caulks
form: caulking
form: caulked
form: caulked
form: calk
Etymology: From Old Northern French cauquer, from Late Latin calicāre (“to fill in with limestone, caulk”), derived from calx (“limestone, chalk”). Related to calx, cauk, chalk, and calculus.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e might be disturbed during the night by an order being given to "go about," and by hearing in the quiet hours of the morning the familiar inquiry of "How's her head?" Mine often ached with the din of the men caulking all day long!
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
glosses: To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.
glosses: To copulate.
examples: text: There was the goggle-eyed daughter a blowing the Grampus [throwing a bucket of water upon a person] with the platter-faced planter, whenever he caulked upon deck; […]
ref: 1829, William Nugent Glascock, Sailors and Saints: Or Matrimonial Manœvres, page 179:
text: […] and as sleep is about the only thing there is for a sailor at sea to get in the way of recreation, he prizes it accordingly and gets all he can. It is technically called "caulking," and a man will brag of having "caulked" the whole four hours of his watch on deck […]
ref: 1897, Herbert Elliott Hamblen, William Stone Booth, On Many Seas: The Life and Exploits of a Yankee Sailor, page 40:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To take a short sleep; to nap.
Derived terms: caulker
caulklike
caulk off
caulky
recaulk
caulking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caulk
caulking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulkings
Senses: examples: text: Oakum was used for the caulking of the hulls of wooden ships.
text: Marina's bedroom was a small charming room with small charming windows of aged glass, dating to the mid-1800s, windowpanes badly in need of caulking, overlooking St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church with its heraldic spire floating on the night sky, and its ancient bumpy churchyard.
ref: 2001, Middle Age: A Romance, Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 17)
text: It might just be the caulking. This whole tub needs to be re-caulked. Did you take a bath or shower in the last couple of hours?
ref: 2016, Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea, spoken by Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck):
glosses: A sealing material used to seal joints between heterogeneous materials in many kinds of construction and manufacture.
glosses: An act/process of sealing using this material.
Synonyms: caulk
Derived terms: caulking gun
caulking iron
caulking iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caulking irons
form: calking iron
Senses: glosses: a tool, rather like a chisel, used to caulk a ship, tighten seams in ironwork and other things
centre of buoyancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centres of buoyancy
form: center of buoyancy
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: the point through which the resultant of all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act; the centre of mass of the displaced water.
Synonyms: centre of cavity
centre of displacement
centre of flotation
Related terms: centre of gravity
centre of inertia
centre of mass
centre of effort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centres of effort
form: center of effort
Senses: glosses: The point through which the resultant of all the wind forces on a sailing vessel's sails is assumed to act.