cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tokoyama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tokoyama
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 床山.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A hairdresser who makes the rikishi's topknot; they have their own ranks.
unga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ungas
Senses: examples: text: One species in particular, the fissi (Sarotherodon caroli), is close to the unga.
ref: 1993, Endangered Wildlife of the World, volume 10, page 1317:
glosses: Sarotherodon linnellii, a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
Related terms: unga bunga
toku-dawara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 徳俵 (tokudawara, “special rice bale”).
Senses: examples: text: In fact, the sumo ring is not exactly round. Instead, the ring is broadened at four points by the width of a small rice bag (see fig. 1). These four rice bags placed at the cardinal points of the ring are called toku-dawara (lucky straw bags).
ref: 1976, The East, volume 12:
text: Just outside the circle the cardinal directions are marked by four tokudawara. It is only on these that the contestant can step outside the ring and not be deemed to have lost.
ref: 2000, Tony Allan, Realm of the Rising Sun: Japanese Myth, page 51:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: Small enlargements at the cardinal points of the dohyo; originally the entry and exit points.
price is right
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Usage began in the second half of the 1900s.
Senses: examples: text: The price is right for this used car.
text: The Government has thrown a lifeline to Alstom's Derby Works, with an offer of an order for ten Class 345 nine-car electric multiple units (EMUs) for the Elizabeth line - but only if the 'price is right'.
ref: 2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: Elizabeth line '345s' offer a lifeline for Derby Works”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 8:
glosses: The cost of a thing is reasonable and represents good value.
torinaoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torinaoshi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 取り直し.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a rematch; ordered by the judges if unable to determine a winner
toshiyori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toshiyori
Etymology: From Japanese 年寄り (“an elder”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: An elder.
Derived terms: ichidai toshiyori
toshiyori-kabu
Related terms: myoseki
pour oil on troubled waters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pours oil on troubled waters
form: pouring oil on troubled waters
form: poured oil on troubled waters
form: poured oil on troubled waters
Etymology: From the ancient practice of pouring oil on the seawaves in order to calm them.
Senses: examples: text: Tom Street deemed it his duty to pour oil upon the troubled waters, being, as it were, officially responsible for the welfare of the chowder-plates and tobacco-pipes which were hired for the occasion.
ref: 1885, Beverley Ellison Warner, a Troubled Waters: A Problem of To-day, page 40:
text: I remember him taking umbrage when he thought I was doubting his grandmother's skills so I am quick to pour oil on troubled waters.
ref: 2013, Jane Cable, The Cheesemaker's House, page 95:
synonyms: cast oil on troubled waters
antonyms: add fuel to the fire
glosses: To calm, appease or quiet a person or situation.
Related terms: clear the air
toshiyori-kabu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toshiyori-kabu
Etymology: From Japanese 年寄株 (toshiyori-kabu).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: One of the 105 licenses to coach, and the associated name of an elder.
Related terms: jun-toshiyori
tsukebito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsukebito
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 付け人.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: An attendant of a higher-ranked rikishi or gyoji.
tsuki-oshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 突き押し.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a style of fighting involving only thrusts or pushes
tsuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(t)suːnə/
Forms: form: tsuna
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 綱 (つな, tsuna, “rope”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the wide ceremonial belt, with hanging zigzag ribbons, worn by a yokozuna
Derived terms: tsunauchi
û
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the GOOSE vowel, as in the word "rude".
examples: + r
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ʉ
ė
glosses: An element of the digraph ûr, a dictionary transcription for the NURSE vowel
tsunauchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(t)suːnɑːˈuːt͡ʃi/
Etymology: From Japanese 綱打ち (tsuna-uchi).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the ceremony in which a yokozuna's tsuna belt is made and presented
tsuyuharai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌ(t)suːjuːˈhɑːɹaɪ/
Forms: form: tsuyuharai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 露払い, literally "dew sweeper".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a heralding attendant who walks in front of a yokozuna at his dohyo-iri ceremony
uchiage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uchiage
Etymology: From Japanese 打ち上げ (uchiage).
Senses: glosses: A party or banquet held in Japanese culture after a performance or sumo competition.
yagura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yagura
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 櫓 (“tower, turret, keep, scaffold”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A high wooden tower in front of a sumo arena from which a yobidashi beats the taiko drum each day before and after each tournament.
yakata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yakata
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese やかた.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The structure, suspended over the sumo dohyo, that resembles the roof of a Shinto shrine.
Synonyms: tsuriyane
yotsu-zumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yotsusumo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 四つ相撲.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A style of sumo centred on gripping the mawashi.
yumitori-shiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yumitori-shiki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 弓取り式.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The bow-twirling ceremony that closes each day of a tournament.
zensho yusho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 全勝優勝 (zenshō yūshō).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the act of winning a tournament and not losing a single bout
Related terms: zenpai
zenpai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 全敗 (zenpai, “utter defeat”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the act of losing every bout in a tournament
Related terms: zensho yusho
gharry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæɹi/
Forms: form: gharries
form: garry
form: gharri
form: gharrie
form: garee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गाड़ी (gāṛī) / Urdu گاڑی (gāṛī, “wheeled cart, carriage; car, truck, bus”), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟 (gaḍḍa), 𑀕𑀟𑁆𑀟𑀻 (gaḍḍī), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀕𑀸𑀟𑁆𑀟- (*gāḍḍa-).
Senses: examples: text: “I shall stand, always with that mauve and white ‘cloud’ over my head, while the wet soaks into my dear, old, venerable feet and Tom swears and shouts for the mem-sahib's gharri.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 19:
text: A ramshackle gharry, all dust and venetian blinds, pulled up short opposite the group, and the driver, throwing up his right foot over his knee, gave himself up to the critical examination of his toes.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 5, in Lord Jim:
text: He thought of Rosa McFee, the Eurasian girl he had seduced in Mandalay in 1913. The way he used to sneak down to the house in a gharry with the shutters down […]
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 10, in Burmese Days:
text: There were ranks of gharries that appeared to do no serious business, although occasionally a group of Shans would wake up a driver, bundle into one and go for a quick spin round the bazaar, much as in the old days one took a five shilling flip around the aerodrome in a plane.
ref: 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
text: My British friends saw me in a gharry, a little horse-drawn cab used mainly for ephemeral trysts in transit, and offered me the kindly advice that a consul should never use these vehicles for any purpose.
ref: 1977, Pablo Neruda, chapter 4, in Hardie St. Martin, transl., Memoirs, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 86:
glosses: A wheeled cart or carriage, usually horsedrawn.
examples: text: Once, during the last campaign we were in a great strait, to get up to Lahore from Allahabad, and, on applying one afternoon at the Post Office for a horsed palkee-garee we were informed... "Well, then, when ever can we have it," we rather angrily asked—"Oh!" said the dear Baboo, "on Saturday next" (that day being Wednesday) "if a lady and gentleman, at Mr. Berrill's hotel, do not take it..." Even in these "piping times of peace," we hear of people having to wait two or three days to get a public garee, along the main road of India.
ref: 1850 March, “Journeys in India”, in The Benares Magazine, volume III, number III, page 231:
glosses: Ellipsis of palkigari.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A jeep or small truck for conveying troops.
Related terms: palkigari
puttee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌtiː/
ipa: /pʌˈtiː/
Forms: form: puttees
form: puttie
form: putty
Etymology: From Hindi पट्टी (paṭṭī, “bandage, strip of cloth”), from Sanskrit पट्टिका (paṭṭikā) of similar meaning.
Senses: examples: text: he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 113:
text: From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
glosses: A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
Related terms: puttywalla
puttee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌtiː/
ipa: /pʌˈtiː/
Forms: form: puttees
Etymology: From put + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).
ref: 2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: putter
glosses: Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
puttee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌtiː/
ipa: /pʌˈtiː/
Forms: form: puttees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of patti (“Punjab residential subdivision”).
adroitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɹɔɪtli/
Forms: form: more adroitly
form: most adroitly
Etymology: From adroit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Adroitly the ewe led the way to the creek, and the lamb followed.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:
text: She held out her empty glass and it was adroitly whisked from her hand.
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:
glosses: Deftly; in an adroit manner.
glosses: In a manner exhibiting skill at handling situations, particularly difficult situations.
amicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more amicably
form: most amicably
Etymology: From amicable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: By 1849, they agreed amicably to disagree, and McCormick bought the Ogden and Jones half of the business for $65,000.
ref: 1931, Cyrus Hall McCormick III, The Century of the Reaper, page 29:
glosses: Friendly; in an amicable manner.
glosses: characterized by an absence of antagonism, especially in commonly difficult situations
glosses: out-of-court
moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔθs/
ipa: /mɑθs/
note: noun form only
ipa: /mɔðz/
ipa: /mɒθs/
ipa: /mɑθs/
note: noun form only
ipa: /mɑðz/
rhymes: -ɔθs
rhymes: -ɑθs
rhymes: -ɔðz
rhymes: -ɒθs
rhymes: -ɑðz
Senses: glosses: plural of moth
moths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔθs/
ipa: /mɑθs/
note: noun form only
ipa: /mɔðz/
ipa: /mɒθs/
ipa: /mɑθs/
note: noun form only
ipa: /mɑðz/
rhymes: -ɔθs
rhymes: -ɑθs
rhymes: -ɔðz
rhymes: -ɒθs
rhymes: -ɑðz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moth
amiably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɪə.blɪ/
Forms: form: more amiably
form: most amiably
Etymology: From amiable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'You're right so far,' agreed the pastor amiably.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 53:
glosses: In an amiable manner; in a friendly or pleasant manner.
Hyperborea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pə(ɹ)ˈbɔ(ː).ɹi.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπερβόρεος (huperbóreos), i.e. ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + βόρειος (bóreios, “northern”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the land of sunshine and plenty, beyond the northern wind, home to the hyperboreans, a race of giants
glosses: The extreme north of the Earth; an area in a northerly region.
Derived terms: hyperborean
hyperboreal
Columbus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
Etymology: From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A village in Adams County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A town in Chenango County, New York.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:
A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.
Synonyms: sense: capital city of Ohio
word: Col's
Derived terms: Columbian
Columbian Exchange
columbium
Columbus Channel
Columbus County
Knight of Columbus
Columbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
Forms: form: Columbuses
Etymology: From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.
Senses: examples: text: "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who makes a great discovery.
Columbus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlʌmbəs/
Forms: form: Columbuses
form: Columbusing
form: Columbused
form: Columbused
Etymology: From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.
Senses: examples: text: "But, boy the powers of mud, I belayve you fellers mane to make an indepindint cruise in the Orient, and go Columbusing all over the ocean boy the way ye's talk!"
ref: 1893, American Boys Afloat: Or, Cruising in the Orient, page 150:
text: Callous as the old mummy was about anything and everything save his pet hobby, archaeology, he would sit up and take notice of such a vision ; and Peter felt that, having Columbused the discovery, he had the better right to it.
ref: 1908, Out West, volume 28, page 90:
text: To the west of the river lay the country in which I went Columbusing — the enchanted desert whose southern boundary was where the sky reached down and merged with the earth curve, and whose northern limit was the Harqua Hala range […]
ref: 1908, Sunset, volume 20, page 271:
text: No street car line passes it, so you'll have to do a little Columbusing on your own account-to find it-—but it's worth discovering, and President Gardner's phophecy sounds conservative.
ref: 1921, Forest Leaves, volume 15, page lxx:
glosses: To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
examples: text: When his black friend tells him that many people knew about the bar before he did, his white friend retorts by saying that he “Columbused it”; i.e., discovered it for white people before a gaggle of hip white people flooded in.
ref: 2014, Justin Simien, Dear White People, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Of course, there is no bouncer, but we can be careful not to Columbus other culture's traditions.
ref: 2014 July 6, Brenda Salinas, “‘Columbusing’: The Art Of Discovering Something That Is Not New”, in NPR:
text: He then lists other things that have been Columbused, such as twerking by Miley Cyrus and hummus by “health conscious whities.”
ref: 2015, Frederic Charles Schaffer, Elucidating Social Science Concepts, Routledge, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: To appropriate; to lay claim to something, especially a discovery, which is perceived as belonging to someone else.
pish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).
Senses: glosses: Expressing disdain.
Synonyms: pht
feh
meh
pooh
pshaw
bah
poh
Derived terms: pish posh
pish tosh
pish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: pishes
Etymology: Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).
Senses: glosses: A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
glosses: Synonym of pish posh (“nonsense, poppycock”).
synonyms: word: pish posh
extra: nonsense, poppycock
pish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: pishes
form: pishing
form: pished
form: pished
Etymology: Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).
Senses: glosses: To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
examples: text: Piſh for thee, Iſland dogge: thou prickeard cur of Iſland.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 73, column 1:
glosses: To express contempt.
pish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
Forms: form: more pish
form: most pish
Etymology: Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).
Senses: glosses: Of poor quality; very bad.
Related terms: english: etymlogically unrelated
translation: etymlogically unrelated
word: pish pash
cuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
cuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuniforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cuneiform.
cuneiformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuneiformists
Etymology: From cuneiform + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A specialist or expert in cuneiform.
infringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: infringes
form: infringing
form: infringed
form: infringed
form: enfringe
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: flout
text: The patent situation, too, played a part in this, as often a firm sought to produce something which would achieve a given result, and yet not infringe a patent held by another; or a railway engineer would think of a device of his own that would free him of obligation to some manufacturer.
ref: 1951, T. S. Lascelles, “British Railway Signalling Since 1925”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 226:
text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
examples: text: Near-synonym: impinge
text: A well regulated Militia, being neceſsary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
ref: 1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:
glosses: To break in or encroach on something.
glosses: To furnish or embellish with a fringe.
Derived terms: infringeable
infringed
infringee
infringement
infringer
Related terms: infraction
encroach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: encroaches
form: encroaching
form: encroached
form: encroached
form: incroach
Etymology: From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook.
Senses: glosses: to seize, appropriate
examples: text: [D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface.
ref: 1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “The Louer Exhorteth His Ladie to Take Time, while Time is”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folios 32, verso – 33, recto:
text: Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228
text: Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252d:
text: I won’t encroach on your time any longer.
text: He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
text: Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.
glosses: To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.
glosses: To advance gradually beyond due limits.
Derived terms: encroachable
encroacher
encroachment
unencroachable
unencroached
encroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: encroaches
Etymology: From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook.
Senses: examples: text: All that we see, all colours of all shade,
 By encroach of darkness made?
ref: 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, What is Life?:
text: Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
ref: 2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press, published 2002, page 116:
glosses: Encroachment.
inviolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪələbl̩/
Forms: form: more inviolable
form: most inviolable
Etymology: From Middle French inviolable, from Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”), from violō (“violate”).
Senses: examples: text: But come, for thou, be ſure, ſhalt give account / To him who ſent us, whoſe charge is to keep / This place inviolable, and therefore theſe from harm.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 842–844:
text: But honeſt men’s words are Stygian oaths, and promiſes inviolable.
ref: a. 1682, Sir Thomas Browne, “Christian Morals”, in Henry Gardiner, editor, Religio Medici, together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals, London: W. Pickering, published 1845, part III, page 337:
text: One more request, and I am lost, / If you its earnest prayer deny ; / It is, that you preserve the most / Inviolable secrecy / As to my plan.
ref: 1828, Thomas Castaly, “The Recorder”, in Fanny with Other Poems, page 87:
text: "Now, Mr. Jones, having obtained your promise of inviolable secrecy, I come down to the essential point."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: "As defined by the first founders of Aya, this world and all who live on it agree to abide by the laws, customs, and regulations of a civilized society that has existed for centuries on other worlds. These rules of conduct ensure a voice for each family within our society and gives them certain inviolable rights..."
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Charter Governing Citizens of Aya, Revised, Task: Laws and Customs:
synonyms: unbreakable
unbreachable
infrangible
antonyms: word: incompliable
english: incapable of being complied
translation: incapable of being complied
word: violable
english: capable of being violated
translation: capable of being violated
word: breakable
english: capable of being violated
translation: capable of being violated
glosses: Not violable; not to be infringed.
synonyms: holy
sacred
sacrosanct
antonyms: violable
glosses: Not susceptible to violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured.
synonyms: invincible
unassailable
antonyms: invadable
glosses: Incapable of being injured or invaded; indestructible.
Derived terms: inviolability
inviolableness
inviolably
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berwick-on-Tweed
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + wīc (“settlement”) + name of river.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, and the northernmost town in England (OS grid ref NT9953).
glosses: A former local government district in Northumberland, England, abolished on 1 April 2009 and merged into the Northumberland unitary authority.
Related terms: North Berwick
MOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛm.əʊ.tiː/
Forms: form: MOTs
Senses: examples: I can’t drive over this week, the car is in for its MOT.
synonyms: word: vehicle inspection
glosses: Ministry of Transport test; an annual test of roadworthiness for British cars over three years old.
examples: It will need some MOT at the bottom and then a layer of washed sand.
glosses: An aggregate which meets the Ministry of Transport standard as a compact subbase.
topics: business
glosses: management of technology.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: microwave oven transformer
examples: text: And, of course, she and her family would be welcome in our home too, with bagels, crembos—and even the kind of four course meal we were lucky enough to enjoy with them, our fellow MoTs.
ref: 2012, Gil Troy, “Finding Members of the Tribe”, in The Daily Beast:
text: This isn’t the first time American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who is Jewish, has gotten himself in hot water with his fellow MOTs.
ref: 2013, Stephanie Butnick, “American Apparel’s Black Nail Polish Color is Called 'Hassid'”, in Jewcy:
glosses: A member of the tribe; i.e. a Jew
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: magnetooptical trap
Related terms: DMV
RTA
Blackpool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækpuːl/
Senses: glosses: A town, seaside resort, borough and unitary authority in Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3136).
glosses: A hamlet in Brixton parish, South Hams district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5654).
glosses: A hamlet in Ilsington parish, Teignbridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8174)
glosses: A hamlet in Martletwy community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN0614).
glosses: A suburb of Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
glosses: A settlement on Waiheke Island, Auckland region, New Zealand.
Derived terms: like Blackpool Illuminations
Bournemouth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːnməθ/
Etymology: From Bourne (“name of a local stream”) + mouth. Doublet of Burnmouth.
Senses: glosses: A large town, part of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.
Bradford
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹædfəɹd/
ipa: /ˈbɹadfəɹd/
ipa: /ˈbɹædfɚd/
Forms: form: Bradfords
Etymology: * Various place names in England, from Old English brād (“broad”) + ford (“ford”).
* (shaken martini)
Senses: glosses: A shaken martini.
bedraggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdɹæɡl̩/
Forms: form: bedraggles
form: bedraggling
form: bedraggled
form: bedraggled
Etymology: From be- + draggle.
Senses: glosses: To make (something) wet and limp, especially by dragging it along the ground.
Derived terms: bedraggled
travelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævl̩d/
Forms: form: more travelled
form: most travelled
form: traveled
Senses: glosses: Standard spelling of traveled.
travelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævl̩d/
Forms: form: traveled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of travel
unpredictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpredictable
form: most unpredictable
Etymology: From un- + predictable.
Senses: examples: text: Sharks are not unpredictable; for the most part, they do exactly what an apex predator is expected to do.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 146:
synonyms: nonpredictable
vagabond
antonyms: predictable
hyponyms: temperamental
glosses: Unable to be predicted.
Derived terms: unpredictability
unpredictableness
unpredictably
Related terms: unpredicted
unpredictive
unpredictable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpredictables
Etymology: From un- + predictable.
Senses: examples: text: Other unpredictables, like the recent unexpected blizzards and those of 2 years ago, or a hurricane can cost us many thousands of dollars, and have a severe impact on equipment and facilities.
ref: 1960, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Motor Vehicle Safety: Hearing..., page 12:
glosses: An unpredictable thing.
Sunita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /suːˈniːtə/
/sʊˈniːtə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit of Hindi and Sanskrit origin, meaning: reliable one, one of good character, one with good morals, good behaviour, a daughter of Dharma or goddess of divine bliss.
parasang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəsaŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəsæŋ/
Forms: form: parasangs
form: parasang
Etymology: From Latin parasanga, from Ancient Greek παρασάγγης (parasángēs), from unattested Old Persian *frasanhva- (indigenously attested only in Middle Iranian onwards); compare Middle Persian [script needed] (frasang /⁠plsng⁠/, “frasang (4 Roman miles)”) (whence Persian فرسنگ (farsang)). Doublet of farsang.
Senses: examples: text: To see so much difference betwixt words and deeds, so many parasangs betwixt tongue and heart […].
text: We were told that we still had to drive six or sixty parasang.
ref: 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 44
glosses: A historical Iranian unit of itinerant distance used throughout the Western Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity, originally the distance travelled in one hour, and generally assumed to be equivalent to about six kilometres.
reemerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.iˈmɝd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ɹi.iˈmɚd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: reemerges
form: reemerging
form: reemerged
form: reemerged
form: re-emerge
form: reëmerge
Etymology: From re- + emerge.
Senses: glosses: To emerge again; to come into view after having hidden.
examples: text: Soon after it submerged, the submarine reemerged from the ocean.
glosses: To come out of a situation, object or a liquid after having entered it.
Derived terms: reemergence
reemergent
re-introduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-introduces
form: re-introducing
form: re-introduced
form: re-introduced
form: reintroduce
Etymology: From re- + introduce.
Senses: glosses: To introduce again.
skylight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: skylights
Etymology: From sky + light.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: oculus
glosses: A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Diffuse sky radiation—solar radiation reaching the earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or suspensoids in the atmosphere.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A hole in the upper part of a lava tube, yielding a view of the lava within.
glosses: A region of flat, thin ice allowing a submarine to surface.
Hypernyms: light
patches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ætʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of patch
patches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ætʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of patch
whisker pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whisker poles
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A removable spar extending from the mast to the jib clew used to control the position and shape of the sail when broad reaching or running.
Related terms: spinnaker pole
world-weariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Call me blasé—I do not mind, if by blasé is meant the world-weariness, intellectual, artistic, sensational, which can come to a young man of thirty. For I was thirty, and I was weary of all these things—weary and in doubt.
ref: 1914, Jack London, chapter 8, in The Mutiny of the Elsinore:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being world-weary.
Synonyms: apathy
jadedness
weltschmerz
Related terms: weight of the world
farklempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farklempt
form: most farklempt
Senses: examples: text: Aunt Tilly had told her of our tradition, and it made me split between farklempt, and being overwhelmed with delight.
ref: 2006, J. Lee Kline, chapter 1, in Bramble Days: On the Road of Life, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Oh like you, I got all farklempt when I watched her [Michelle Obama] in that dazzling one-shouldered gown dancing cheek-to-cheek with President [Barack] Obama.
ref: 2009 January 23, Antonia Zerbisias, “Tricks up her sleeveless gown”, in Toronto Star, Toroto, Ont., archived from the original on 30 Mar 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of verklempt.
slapdash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpdæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: more slapdash
form: most slapdash
Etymology: From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Senses: examples: text: They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 114:
text: When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible attitude. If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
text: Valérie Pisano, the chief executive of Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute – said the slapdash approach to safety in AI systems would not be tolerated in any other field.
ref: 2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
slapdash
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpdæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: more slapdash
form: most slapdash
Etymology: From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Senses: glosses: In a hasty or careless manner.
examples: text: Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
glosses: Directly, right there; slap-bang.
examples: text: And yet, slap dash, is all again
In every sinew, nerve, and vein;
Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
glosses: With a slap; all at once; slap.
Synonyms: sense: in a hasty manner
word: carelessly
sense: in a hasty manner
word: haphazardly
sense: in a hasty manner
word: hastily
sense: directly
word: directly
slapdash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpdæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: slapdashes
form: slapdashing
form: slapdashed
form: slapdashed
Etymology: From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Senses: examples: text: to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
text: to slapdash a wall
glosses: To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
thingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thingnesses
Etymology: From thing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Shadia B Drury, Alexandre Kojève http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312120923&id=zQRKXLwDPc4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=zR0NpFT9gF4Mo_VTIPTm1274piI
To live as a thing, to live for another and as the other expects, is to live unauthentically or in bad faith. To be true to oneself, one must reduce others to thingness and resist being so reduced.
text: Whether we dwell in the thingness of fixity or the thingness of wujūd, we are “at” the wujūd of the Real.
ref: 1998, William C Chittick, The Self-Disclosure of God:
text: The thingness of a thing precedes the conscious perception of its sensual properties.
ref: 2002, Kai Hammermeister, The German Aesthetic Tradition:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of a material thing; objectivity; actuality; reality.
Related terms: thinghood
lunchtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/
Forms: form: lunchtimes
form: lunch-time
form: lunch time
Etymology: From lunch + time.
Senses: glosses: The time or hour at or around which lunch is normally eaten.
examples: text: It's almost lunchtime, so I think I'll finish up later this afternoon.
glosses: A break in work or school to eat lunch.
Derived terms: gone by lunchtime
legend in one's own lunchtime
lunchtime abortion
battler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt.lə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: battlers
Etymology: From Middle English batailloure, from Old French batailleor; equivalent to battle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general.
examples: 1900, Henry Lawson, The Shanty-Keeper′s Wife, Over the Sliprails, Gutenberg eBook # 1313,
“But look here!” interrupted the Pilgrim, desperately, “we can′t afford to wait! We′re only ‘battlers’, me and my mate, pickin′ up crumbs by the wayside. We′ve got to catch the——”
glosses: An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
examples: text: In an earlier era Australia was a nation of battlers, of working people who were hardened by the rigours of economic depression and war, and, if not proud of their penury, certainly not ashamed of it. The Aussie battler became an icon of Australian political folklore, and the image persists into the present even though, as a result of sustained economic growth for the last five decades, the number of people who truly struggle has shrunk to a small proportion of the population. For every genuine battler there are three or four who imagine they fit the description. That is why our political leaders keep alive and exploit the myth of the Aussie battler.
ref: 2006, Clive Hamilton, What′s Left? The Death of Social Democracy, page 27:
glosses: One who works hard in the face of adversity.
Derived terms: Aussie battler
basement battler
battler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæt.lə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: battlers
Etymology: See batteler.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of batteler.
have an eye for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has an eye for
form: having an eye for
form: had an eye for
form: had an eye for
Senses: examples: text: He has an eye for fine porcelain dishes and figurines.
glosses: To notice, discern, or appreciate easily.
with an eye towards
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: He began saving all the money he could, with an eye towards someday buying a house.
glosses: With an intention, goal, or consideration to.
Synonyms: with an eye to
with a view to
half-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more half-hearted
form: most half-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halfhearted.
Derived terms: half-heartedness
veggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veggie
city slicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city slickers
Senses: examples: text: Look at the city slicker pulling up in his fancy German car.
text: See, I'm a city slicker, I, I ain't no townie / Right now, I wish I had another hash brownie
ref: 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
synonyms: urbanite
urban dweller
townie
glosses: One accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle or unsuited to life in the country.