cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pinpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: more pinpoint
form: most pinpoint
form: pin-point
Etymology: From pin + point.
Senses: examples: text: The machine assembles parts at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy.
text: The 28-year-old not only hassled the visitors' midfield but also delivered pinpoint balls with alarming accuracy as far as the east Londoners were concerned.
ref: 2011 January 5, Saj Chowdhury, “Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham”, in BBC:
glosses: Extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location.
pinpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: pinpoints
form: pinpointing
form: pinpointed
form: pinpointed
form: pin-point
Etymology: From pin + point.
Senses: examples: text: The investigators tried to pinpoint the source of the flames.
text: It would defeat the purpose of secret surveillance if individuals were able to pinpoint exactly when the police were likely to be listening in on their conversations and adapt their behaviour accordingly, and the [European] Court [of Human Rights] has not interpreted Article 8 to require that this information should be provided to individuals, either before, during, or after they have been the subject of surveillance measures.
ref: 2017 July 11, Bernadette Rainey, Elizabeth Wicks, Clare Ovey, Jacobs, White, and Ovey. The European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 411:
glosses: To identify or locate (someone or something) precisely or with great accuracy.
Derived terms: pinpointable
pinpointedly
pinpointer
unpinpointed
preoccupied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preoccupied
form: most preoccupied
Senses: glosses: Prepossessed; biased.
examples: text: Terrified at this uproar, which disconcerted the magician himself, she ran for shelter into the place which was preoccupied by the other lady […].
ref: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle:
text: Scythrop, retiring to his tower, found his study preoccupied.
ref: 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section X:
text: Presently the gudeman […] with much bowing and many respectful compliments, managed to tell the guest that the room was preoccupied for that night, as two dykers had come and, according to prearrangement, were to sleep in the bed!
ref: 1888, William Angus Knight, Principal Shairp and His Friends, John Murray, page 358:
glosses: Already occupied.
examples: text: In 1924 J. D. Tothill revised the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella, a name proposed by Bezzi in 1906 to replace Fabricia Rob. D. which is preoccupied.
ref: 1931, John Allen Rowe, “A revision of the males of the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella (Tachinidae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volume 24:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
examples: text: I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
glosses: Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
Derived terms: preoccupied name
preoccupied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preoccupy
coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊts/
ipa: /koʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
homophone: Coates
Senses: glosses: plural of coat
coats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊts/
ipa: /koʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
homophone: Coates
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coat
urns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urn
hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hog
hogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hog
SR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Slovak Republic.
glosses: Initialism of Seaman Recruit, formerly Seaman Third Class, is the lowest rank in the U.S. Navy
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Southern Railway.
glosses: Initialism of Saudi riyal.
glosses: Abbreviation of West Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
Synonyms: topics: finance
business
word: SAR
Related terms: CR
SR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of scoping review.
glosses: Initialism of semen retention.
glosses: Initialism of special relativity.
glosses: Initialism of speculative realism.
glosses: Initialism of speculative realist.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of speech recognition.
glosses: Initialism of state road.
glosses: Initialism of state route.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of state resolution.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of senate resolution.
glosses: Initialism of systematic review.
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: STT
Related terms: topics: law
politics
government
word: AB
topics: law
politics
government
word: AR
topics: law
politics
government
word: HB
topics: law
politics
government
word: HR
topics: law
politics
government
word: SB
preoccupy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈɒkjupaɪ/
ipa: /pɹiˈɑkjupaɪ/
Forms: form: preoccupies
form: preoccupying
form: preoccupied
form: preoccupied
Etymology: From pre- + occupy, after Middle French preoccuper, and its source, Latin praeoccupo, praeoccupare. Doublet of preoccupate, now obsolete.
Senses: examples: text: The father tried to preoccupy the child with his keys.
text: Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Passed to you, Mr. Macmillan”, in Modern Railways, page 220:
glosses: To distract; to draw attention elsewhere.
examples: text: It always preoccupies me when he acts like this.
synonyms: exercise
glosses: To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them.
examples: text: Terrified at this uproar, […] she ran for shelter into the place which was pre-occupied by the other lady […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
Related terms: preoccupation
catenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.ən.eɪt/
ipa: /kæt.ə.neɪt/
Forms: form: catenates
form: catenating
form: catenated
form: catenated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin catēnātus (“chained”), from catēnāre, from catēna (“chain”).
Senses: glosses: To connect things together, especially to form a chain.
Related terms: cat
catenary
catenative
catenator
concatenate
concatenative
decatenate
intercatenated
noncatenated
digression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
ipa: /dɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
ipa: /daɪˈɡɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: digressions
form: degression
form: disgression
Etymology: From Old French digressiun or disgressiun, from Latin dīgressiōnem, from dīgressus + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs), the past passive participle of dīgredior (“to step away, to digress”), from dis- + gradior (“to step, walk, go”).
Senses: examples: text: The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
text: History tells us stodgy, cautious stuff, cardigan-football is the way to go here. The 1966 World Cup kicked off with 0-0 draw against Uruguay so tedious the Guardian match report contains a whimsical digression on the writer’s urge to drift off to sleep in the second half.
ref: 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
examples: make digression... by way of digression...
qualifier: generally uncountable
glosses: The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, (rhetoric) particularly for rhetorical effect.
examples: text: Nature...
More stronger hadde her operacyon
Than she hath nowe in her dygressyon.
ref: 1517, Stephen Hawes, Pastime of Pleasure, i, ll. 12 ff:
glosses: A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
examples: text: By this little digression into Gascony, the Duke had an opportunity... to re-inforce himself with some particular Servants of his.
ref: 1670, Guillaume Girard, translated by Charles Cotton, History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon, Bk. i, Ch. iv, p. 144:
glosses: A deviation, an act of straying from a path.
examples: text: This digression [of the Sun] is not equall, but neare the Æquinoxiall intersections, it is right and greater, near the Solstices, more oblique and lesser.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bk. VI, Ch. iv, p. 288:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
Synonyms: sense: rhetorical device
word: digressio
sense: rhetorical device
word: ecbole
Derived terms: digressional
digressionary
Related terms: digress
detour
digressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digression
digressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of digress
chalybeate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəˈlɪbi.ət/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups, “steel”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "Situated on the River Cherwell", Banbury also benefits from "sulphurated water" and close by "a spring of chalybeate water".
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:
glosses: Containing dissolved salts of iron.
examples: text: chalybeate mineral water
glosses: Tasting of iron.
chalybeate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈlɪbi.ət/
Forms: form: chalybeates
Etymology: Clipping of chalybeate water. Equivalent to Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A mineral water containing iron, a voguish general remedy during the 17th-19th century.
distraught
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹɔːt/
rhymes: -ɔːt
Forms: form: more distraught
form: most distraught
Etymology: From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.
Senses: examples: text: His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
text: […]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: word: distressed
word: heartsore
word: pained
word: agonised
word: tortured
glosses: Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
synonyms: word: cracked
word: demented
word: 5150
word: bananas
word: barking
word: barking mad
word: buggish
word: buggy
word: bughouse
word: barmy
word: batchy
word: batpoop
word: bats
word: batty
word: bonkers
word: bread baskets
word: cracked
word: crackers
word: cra-cra
word: cray
word: cray-cray
word: crazed
word: crazy
word: crazy as a bedbug
word: crazy as a cootie
word: crazy as a cootie bug
word: crazy as a pet coon
word: cuckoo
word: daffy
word: daft
word: demented
word: deranged
word: distraught
word: disturbed
word: doolally
word: dotty
word: eccentric
word: fruit loops
word: gaga
word: hatstand
word: harebrained
word: insane
word: kooky
word: loon
word: loco
word: loony
word: loony tunes
word: loopy
word: lunatic
word: mad
word: mental
word: mentally ill
word: meshigener
word: meshugge
word: moonsick
word: non compos mentis
word: nonsane
word: nucking futs
word: nut job
word: nutballs
word: nut
word: nuts
word: nutso
word: nutty
word: nutter
word: off the beam
word: off the chain
word: over the edge
word: potty
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: psychotic
word: sicko
word: screwy
word: squirrelly
word: starkers
word: tonto
word: unbalanced
word: unsane
word: wackadoodle
word: weird
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: whacky
word: wode
word: yampy
word: zany
word: apeshit
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bat-shit
word: fucked in the head
word: fucked up
word: ripshit
glosses: Mad; insane.
Derived terms: distraughtly
distraughtness
undistraught
weeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weep
gaon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaonim
form: gaons
form: geonim
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Gaon.
gaon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaons
Etymology: From Hindi गांव (gāmv).
Senses: glosses: A village.
saddened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sadden
soon-to-wed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soon-to-weds
Senses: glosses: A person or couple due to be married in the near future.
soon-to-wed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Due to be married in the near future.
Coordinate terms: newlywed
caracole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəkəʊl/
Forms: form: caracoles
form: caracol
Etymology: Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).
Senses: glosses: A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage.
examples: text: How the chargers neigh and champ, / (Their riders weary of camp,) / With curvet and with caracole!
ref: 1866, Henry Howard Brownell, “Abraham Lincoln (Summer, 1865)”, in War-Lyrics and Other Poems, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 127:
text: The caracole played a role well into the Thirty Years' War.
ref: 1975, Hans Delbrück, History of the Art of War Within the Framework of Political History, Volume 4, Greenwood Press, page 124:
text: The battle tactic of these cavalry was called the caracole, an attack with pistols. There were four main varieties which may be called the simple caracole, the true caracole, the limacon, and the Protestant caracole.
ref: 2001, William P. Guthrie, Battles of the Thirty Years War, Bloomsbury Academic, page 12:
qualifier: cavalry
glosses: A combat maneuver where riders of the same squadron turn simultaneously to their left or to their right.
topics: architecture
glosses: A spiral staircase.
caracole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkæɹəkəʊl/
Forms: form: caracoles
form: caracoling
form: caracoled
form: caracoled
form: caracol
Etymology: Borrowed from French caracole (noun, literally “snail's shell”), caracoler (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Prince John, upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey, caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party, laughing loud with his train, and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: 1884, Robert Black (translator), François Guizot, Henriette Elizabeth Guizot de Witt, The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848, Volume 1, John B. Alden, page 259,
Finally he went out of church and caracoled about on the open, at the foot of the castle, in presence of the people eager to have their share in the spectacle.
text: […]the noble bishop caracolled in the presence, on a well-trained war-horse, which the right reverend father in God bestrode in a lay habit of purple, jack-boots, his hat cocked, and his black wig tied up behind in true military fashion.
ref: 1877, John Doran, London in the Jacobite Times, Volume 1, Richard Bentley & Son, page 364:
text: Sir Charles Oman's book mentions no instance where caracoling cavalry succeeded unaided in breaking a resolute body of infantry standing firm to receive them.
ref: 1937, The Cavalry Journal, Volume 27, page 601:
text: 2010, Peter H. Wilson (translator and editor), The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook, Macmillan Publishers (Palgrave Macmillan), page 67,
The proper way, which I often explained to them, was too reject the bad habit of caracolling when facing the enemy.
glosses: To execute a caracole.
cottar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cottars
Senses: examples: text: Here, then, we have a description which, with the exception of what relates to the reciprocal services, would be applicable to the modern cottar where he is not an unlicensed squatter
ref: 1885, Lord Colin Campbell, The Crofter in History:
glosses: Alternative form of cotter (“peasant inhabiting a cottage”).
cotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒtə/
ipa: /kɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cotters
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: The High Level Bridge, Newcastle”, in Railway Magazine, page 407:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
glosses: A cotter pin.
Derived terms: cotterless
Related terms: cotter pin
cotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒtə/
ipa: /kɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cotters
form: cottering
form: cottered
form: cottered
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 39:
glosses: To fasten with a cotter.
cotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒtə/
ipa: /kɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cotters
form: cottar
Etymology: From Middle English cotter, cotere, kottere, koter, cotier, equivalent to cot (“cottage”) + -er, from Old English cot. Compare Old French coter, cotier.
Senses: examples: text: The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes,— / This night his weekly moil is at an end,— / Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, […]
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night:
glosses: A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
Synonyms: coscet
cottager
Kristianstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪstʃənstɑːd/
enpr: krĭs􂀽'chən-städ
Etymology: Swedish Kristianstad, named after King Christian IV of Denmark (1577–1648). Doublet of Christiansted.
Senses: glosses: A city in north-eastern Scania, southern Sweden.
baseboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsˌbɔɹd/
Forms: form: baseboards
Etymology: From base + board.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: word: skirting board
qualifier: interior decoration
glosses: A panel or molding between the floor and the interior wall of a structure.
glosses: A similar panel at the base of a piece of furniture or equipment.
Derived terms: baseboarded
baseboard heating
globus pallidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin globus pallidus (“pale body”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The inner part of the lenticular nucleus of the brain.
Synonyms: paleostriatum
Related terms: pallidal
baseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsləs/
homophone: bassless
Etymology: From base + -less.
Senses: examples: text: baseless accusations; baseless rumors
text: But Rodríguez says, “Neither the law nor the facts support Senator Grassley’s baseless allegations and extrapolated conclusions.
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
text: Speaking to RAIL, a DfT spokesman said: "We do not recognise these baseless, false figures. Just last month we provided an update to Parliament on the costs of the project and confirmed that it would be delivered within the funding envelope. […]."
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: DfT dismisses Berkeley's HS2 claims”, in Rail, page 24:
synonyms: groundless
unfounded
unsupported
glosses: Of reasoning: based on something that is not true, or not based on solid reasons or facts; unfounded; without a basis.
examples: text: More significant still — and most obviously in debt to the painterly imagination — this floating statue is the first baseless statue ever made. It is as though Bernini had taken Michelangelo's 'Pieta' and made it fly.
ref: 2009, Penelope Curtis, On the meanings of sculpture in painting, volume 1, page 18:
glosses: Without a physical base.
Synonyms: word: baseless
word: idle
word: footless
word: groundless
word: unfounded
word: ungrounded
word: unjustified
word: unproved
word: unproven
word: unsubstantiated
word: unsupported
Derived terms: baselessly
baselessness
Related terms: word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 463. Experiment
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 478. Demonstration
gloried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glory
gloried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gloried
form: most gloried
Senses: examples: text: [...] [I]f old reſpect,
 As I ſuppoſe, towards your once gloried friend,
 My Son now Captive, hither hath inform'd
 your younger feet, [...]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 26–27, lines 334–337:
glosses: illustrious, honourable
Derived terms: ungloried
gloss over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glosses over
form: glossing over
form: glossed over
form: glossed over
Senses: examples: text: They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.
text: Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.
ref: 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
synonyms: paper over
glosses: To cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.
examples: text: This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.
text: We glossed over the petty small talk and got directly into the problem.
synonyms: slur
glosses: To treat something with less care than it in some ways deserves; to ignore, or at least to discount or dismiss for the current purposes.
Related terms: glaze over
make light of
basement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsmənt/
rhymes: -eɪsmənt
Forms: form: basements
Etymology: From base + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
topics: architecture
glosses: A floor of a building below ground level.
topics: architecture
glosses: A floor of a building below ground level.
Ellipsis of semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Last place in a sports conference's standings.
Derived terms: bargain basement
bargain-basement
basement apartment
basement battler
basement dweller
basement-dweller
basement-dwelling
basemented
basementful
basementless
basementlike
basement membrane
basementward
English basement
iceberg basement
Michigan basement
nonbasement
semi-basement
semibasement
subbasement
fyrd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɝd/
ipa: /fɚd/
ipa: /fɪɹd/
Forms: form: fyrds
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd.
Senses: examples: text: Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
ref: Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation
glosses: In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
Related terms: fyrdman
landfyrd
shipfyrd
ferd
retention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: retentions
Etymology: From Middle English retencioun, borrowed from Latin retentiō, retentiōnis, from retentus, the perfect passive participle of retineō (“retain”) (from re- (“back, again”) + teneō (“hold, keep”)).
Senses: examples: text: No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 95:
glosses: The act of retaining or something retained.
glosses: The act or power of remembering things.
examples: text: "Still," Suit echoed. "The way she handles the gun jamming." Suit shook their head in admiration. "Tap, rack, bang, without hesitation. That's extraordinary retention."
ref: 2015 March 25, thedeadlymoose, “The Seed of an Idea”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2024:
glosses: Memory; what is retained in the mind.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
examples: text: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character’d with lasting memory,
[…]
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 122”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
examples: text: His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 79:
glosses: The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
glosses: A place of custody or confinement.
examples: text: The right of retention, which bears a near resemblance to compensation, is chiefly competent where the mutual debts, not being liquid, cannot be the ground of compensation
ref: 1754, John Erskine of Carnock, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: law
glosses: The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
Derived terms: colour retention agent
deposit interest retention tax
hydraulic retention time
lake retention time
retention basin
retention line
retention pond
retention tank
retention time
silver retention
fingerprint analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerprint analyses
Senses: glosses: The comparison of fingerprints left at the scene of a crime with those of suspects to provide evidence of the presence of a particular person at a particular place.
Synonyms: dactylography
ab ovo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈboʊˌvoʊ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ab ōvō (literally “from the egg”).
Senses: examples: text: We should be led too far, nor would it possess sufficient interest for our readers, were we, in this place specially, to discuss this important and complicated question, and to show ab ovo why this notion has been rejected.
ref: 2011, Ludwig Büchner, J. Frederick Collingwood, Force and Matter: Empirico-Philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: in medias res
glosses: From the beginning.
questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənz/
Forms: form: quæstions
Senses: glosses: plural of question
questions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənz/
Forms: form: quæstions
Senses: glosses: A game in which players must only say questions, and if they don't they lose.
questions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃənz/
Forms: form: quæstions
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of question
a little
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The door was opened a little.
text: Helping not a little was a squad of volunteers.
text: How are you feeling? ~ A little better, thanks.
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Hi, Amelia! Are you busy? — I’m a little busy.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
text: Scrooge McDuck "A little salty."
Zeus "Dip not good enough for you mortal? You offend Olympus!"
ref: 2018, “The Spear of Selene”, in Duck Tales:
synonyms: a bit
a little bit
a tad
antonyms: a lot
a tad
glosses: To a small extent or degree.
examples: text: She's a little strange, but nice enough.
glosses: Slightly.
examples: text: It's a little big, don't you think?
glosses: Very.
glosses: A lot.
examples: text: It could do with a little work, that's for sure.
glosses: A lot of.
a little
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: A little water has spilled.
text: All we need is a little time and money to carry this idea to fruition.
text: All that is left is a little bacon and a few eggs.
antonyms: zero#Determiner
no#Determiner
;
a lot of#Determiner
much#Determiner
hypernyms: any#Determiner
some#Determiner
coordinate_terms: word: a few#Determiner
english: [[countable]] counterpart
translation: [[countable]] counterpart
glosses: A small amount of (an uncountable thing).
a little
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: "Would you like some water?" "Just a little, please."
glosses: A small amount of an uncountable thing.
Derived terms: a lottle
glisten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪsən/
rhymes: -ɪsən
Forms: form: glistens
form: glistening
form: glistened
form: glistened
Etymology: From Middle English glisnen, glistnen, from Old English glisnian, itself from Proto-West Germanic *glisnōn, while ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *glisnōną.
Senses: examples: text: The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202:
glosses: To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash.
raw_tags: of a wet or greasy surface
Synonyms: word: coruscate
word: flash
word: gleam
word: glitter
word: glisten
word: luster
word: sheen
word: shimmer
word: shine
word: sparkle
Hypernyms: word: illuminate
word: reflect
Hyponyms: word: glint
Derived terms: aglisten
beglisten
glistener
glisteny
glisten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪsən/
rhymes: -ɪsən
Forms: form: glistens
Etymology: From Middle English glisnen, glistnen, from Old English glisnian, itself from Proto-West Germanic *glisnōn, while ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *glisnōną.
Senses: examples: text: In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice.
ref: 1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love:
glosses: A glistening shine from a wet surface.
glaze over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glazes over
form: glazing over
form: glazed over
form: glazed over
Senses: examples: text: Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.
glosses: To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
raw_tags: of eyes
glosses: To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
examples: text: An important issue that is often glazed over.
qualifier: viewed as catachrestic
glosses: To gloss over.
Derived terms: mego
glamorisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: glamorisations
form: glamourisation
Etymology: From glamorise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of glamorization.
superfetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəfəˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: superfetations
form: superfoetation
Etymology: From Latin superfetare (“conceive while pregnant”), from super- + fetus.
Senses: glosses: The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
examples: 1992, Geoffrey Wall, translator of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
These gentlemen were greatly astonished at Bovary's romantic ideas, and the pharmacist hurried in to say to him: "This velvet looks to me rather a superfetation. Besides, the expense..."
glosses: An excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition.
Related terms: superfetate
superfetatious
Larvik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town with bystatus and municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
Tønsberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.
Akershus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Akershus.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Aust-Agder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Aust-Agder.
Senses: glosses: A former county in southern Norway.
Buskerud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Buskerud.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Hedmark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Hedmark.
Senses: glosses: A former county in southeastern Norway.
Hordaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Hordaland.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Finnmark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪn.mɑːk/
ipa: /fɪn.mɑɹk/
Etymology: From Norwegian Finnmark, from Finn (“Finn”) + mark (“land”).
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Related terms: Troms og Finnmark
Finnmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪn.mɑːk/
ipa: /fɪn.mɑɹk/
Forms: form: Finnmarks
Senses: glosses: The Finnish markka (currency unit).
Møre og Romsdal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Møre og Romsdal.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Nordland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian nord + land.
Senses: glosses: A county in Northern Norway.
Oppland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Oppland.
Senses: glosses: A former county in eastern Norway.
Rogaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian Rogaland, from Old Norse Rogaland.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Sogn og Fjordane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Sogn og Fjordane.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Telemark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Telemark.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
Derived terms: Midt-Telemark
Troms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Troms.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway (between 2020 to 2024 Troms and Finnmark were merged into Troms og Finnmark county).
Vest-Agder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Vest-Agder.
Senses: glosses: A former county in southern Norway.
Østfold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Eastern Norway.
Vestfold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Vestfold.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
svengali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /svɛŋˈɡɑːli/
rhymes: -ɑːli
Forms: form: svengalis
form: Svengali
Etymology: Named for the hypnotist character Svengali in George du Maurier's novel Trilby. More at citations.
Senses: examples: text: She also offers a fascinating glimpse into a more innocent age before svengalis began colluding with marketing men and TV execs to promote talentless wannabes to overnight success.
ref: 2005 October 15, Hamilton Spectator:
text: The Tam Paton of today is nothing like the fearsome Svengali you would see on television during the Roller years. (It is used in multiple other occasions in this book)
ref: 2014 March 31, in Jon Ronson’s “Lost at Sea”
text: Donald's daughter and Svengali Ivanka is a smart, smart, smart lady with an extraordinary intellect and influence on her father.
ref: 2016 February 2016, in Hugh Hewitt's "Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton" in the Washington Examiner
text: We have Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart known for his open ties to white supremacists, anti-Semites, and foreign reactionaries in France and Russia. Bannon is a Svengali of sorts for the ugliest forces in American and international politics, a man who believes the Western world is in a fundamental struggle with Islam and who sees multiculturalism and liberal openness as a threat to the future of the West.
ref: 2016 November 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Government by the Worst Men”, in Slate:
glosses: One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
wikipedia: George du Maurier
Trilby (novel)
Related terms: manipulator
spin doctor
éminence grise
power broker
kingmaker
puppet master
string-puller
glamorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glamorizations
form: glamorisation
form: glamourisation
form: glamourization
Etymology: From glamor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of glamorizing, or something glamorized.
Derived terms: deglamorization
overglamorization
grandbabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandbabes
Etymology: From grand- + babe.
Senses: glosses: a grandchild
grandbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandbabies
Etymology: From grand- + baby. Attested 1850s US.
Senses: glosses: A young grandchild.
grade school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grade schools
Etymology: In contrast to high schools, the subsequent secondary school type, classes of this kind of school do not have typical nicknames.
In a grade school all classes are simply enumerated 1st to 8th grade (called form or year in British English).
In a high school, on the other hand, school year groups are in everyday parlance referred to as freshman/sophomore/junior/senior year.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Elementary school; primary school.
Derived terms: gradeschooler
arsy varsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arsey varsey
form: arsy varsey
form: arsey varsy
form: arsy versy
Etymology: Alteration of arsy versy, from arse + vice versa
Senses: glosses: Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards.
Synonyms: sense: backwards
word: ass over teakettle
sense: backwards
word: ass backwards
sense: backwards
word: back asswards
guitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guitary
form: most guitary
Etymology: From guitar + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a guitar.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Predominantly featuring guitars.
gunky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: gunkier
form: gunkiest
Etymology: From gunk + -y.
Senses: glosses: greasy, messy or dirty.
Related terms: gunk
grab-bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grab-bags
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grab bag.
SER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of state emergency relief.
bulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bulgur.
EITC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EITCs
Senses: examples: text: In 2018, the EITC and CTC kept 10.6 million people out of poverty, according to the CBPP, and the evidence shows they improve health, education and long-term employment outcomes, especially among children.
ref: 2021 July 14, Sherrod Brown, Peter Edelman, “It’s time to make these expanded tax credits permanent”, in CNN Business:
text: The IRS may audit an EITC claim or deny all or part of the credit if there are errors on a tax return.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 44:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of earned income tax credit.
gentrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.faɪ/
Forms: form: gentrifies
form: gentrifying
form: gentrified
form: gentrified
Etymology: From gentry + -fy.
Senses: examples: text: Club neighbor Joe Gegis told the board that he was concerned about the licenses due to the problem of drunk drivers and that he believed the bar would lower property values, which have been rising in the area as it becomes increasingly gentrified.
ref: 1986 February 1, Kim Westheimer, “Board Hears Testimony on Saints' Liquor License”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 3:
glosses: To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
Derived terms: gentrification
gentrifier
regentrify
goy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: goyim
form: goys
form: goyem
form: goyin
form: Goy
form: goi
form: Goi
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”).
Compare Exodus he:T:6: מַמְלֶכֶת כֹּהֲנִים וְגֹוי קָדֹושׁ (mamleḵeṯ kohănīm wəḡōy qāḏōš, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word goy does not technically refer to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a goy. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.
ref: 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
synonyms: word: gentile
word: non-Jew
word: akum
word: shegetz
word: shkotz
glosses: A non-Jew, a gentile.
Derived terms: anti-goy
anti-goyish
antigoyism
goybait
goyish
goyslop
groyper
shabbos goy
goys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goy
Synonyms: goyim
goyim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪ.ɪm/
Senses: examples: text: “Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote.
ref: 2015 December 22, Justin Wm. Moyer, “Donald Trump’s ‘schlonged’: A linguistic investigation”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2015:
synonyms: goys
glosses: plural of goy
genii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒi(ː)niaɪ/
Senses: examples: text: On the 11th Century glass bowl above, the painted figures—winged genii, nude athletes and brawny soldiers—resemble mythological characters but may be only lighthearted mimicry of ancient Greek or Roman subjects.
ref: 1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 40:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: plural of genius
Guardian spirits.
examples: text: "According to the old wives' tales that are related about this race of genii who inhabit Iceland and its vicinity, they have a political form of government modelled after the same pattern as that which the inhabitants themselves are under.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 253:
glosses: plural of genius
Any similar beings of other mythologies.
examples: text: Quiz kids of Senior Class announced today. Jack Daniels, Valedictorian; Mary Lou Shaw, Salutatorian; Irvin Nachman, Third Honor Student; Boots Cumming, Highest Average, and Janet Davis, Second Highest Average. Just a bunch of genii that’s all.
ref: 1945 February, “Calendar”, in Mary Lou Shaw, Shirley Boulds, editors, The Anchor of February 1945, Newport News, Va.: Newport News High School, →OCLC:
text: It aint oftin that you’s git a more better group of genii as was collected this year at good old Melrose High. To the credit of they, it can be said them didn’t do nothin’.
ref: 1973, “Honor Society”, in Kathie Ahern et al., editors, Log, Melrose, Mass.: Melrose High School, →OCLC, page 54:
text: As Hutchinson saw it, his role was always “that of a student trying to learn quietly and unobtrusively from this extraordinary group of genii. G.B. and M.M. [Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead] were of course close personal friends. Wiener liked to hear about any branch of science.[…]”
ref: 1980 October 14, G[eorge] Evelyn Hutchinson, letter to Sharon Kingsland (Hutchinson Papers, MSSA, Yale University Library); quoted in Nancy G[uttmann] Slack, “Good Friends: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, in G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2010, →ISBN, page 237:
text: As far as we’re concerned, having our piece of this country’s rich literary history is our birthright. As such, we have a list of literary demands. Because we are genii, we expect this won’t be a problem.
ref: 2015, Tara Flynn, “L is for … Literature”, in Giving Out Yards: The Art of Complaint, Irish Style, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, published 2016, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: plural of genius
People possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill.
genii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒi(ː)niaɪ/
Forms: form: genies
Senses: examples: text: The latter are not elementals but spirits of the Genii order, and correspond to the inferior "gods" of the invisible world.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 196:
glosses: plural of genie
genii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒi(ː)niaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of genus
GBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
examples: Coordinate term: GAS
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of group B streptococcus.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of grain boundary sliding.
genetic drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic drifts
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.