cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tricky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪk.i/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: trickier
form: trickiest
Etymology: From trick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They were in a tricky situation.
text: Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett.
ref: 1964 September, “News: Fewer diesels for NER in 1965”, in Modern Railways, page 201:
text: "The trickiest we ever get," he continued, "is in the short-answer questions like, 'Why do you want to come to the University of Chicago?' or, 'What books have you read?'
ref: 1995 December 27, William H. Honan, “Personal Essay Questions: Turning Torture Into Fun”, in The New York Times:
text: That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
text: It was as comfortable an afternoon as Arsène Wenger could have wished for in a situation that can be tricky in between internationals and the upcoming Champions League.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Hard to deal with, complicated.
examples: text: A tricky salesman can sell anything.
text: Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
ref: 2003, “The Package”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: Adept at using deception.
examples: text: I don't want any of your tricky money, thank you!
glosses: Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick.
Derived terms: trickily
trickiness
tricky racket
tricky slave
Related terms: trick
sneaky
bogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊɡən/
rhymes: -əʊɡən
Forms: form: bogans
Etymology: Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).
Senses: examples: text: Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.
ref: 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, page 6:
text: The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.
ref: 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 47:
synonyms: word: adlay
word: bam
word: Barry boy
word: bazza
word: benny
word: bogan
word: bopper
word: brush
word: charva
word: charver
word: chav
word: dobber
word: dresser
word: dumbo
word: eshay
word: gazza
word: gippo
word: herbert
word: hood rat
word: kev
word: knacker
word: mev
word: ned
word: nob
word: ocker
word: pikey
word: pleb
word: poor white trash
word: prole
word: puffy
word: radgie
word: redneck
word: rudeboy
word: rudie
word: scally
word: scanger
word: schemie
word: scobe
word: scoundrel
word: scratter
word: scrote
word: scrub
word: scrubber
word: scuffer
word: scumbag
word: scunner
word: scutter
word: sham
word: skanger
word: skeet
word: smackhead
word: smick
word: snoopy
word: spide
word: steek
word: stig
word: sweeper
word: thug
word: thugette
word: townie
word: trailer trash
word: trev
word: vic
word: Westie
word: white trash
word: wigger
word: yarco
word: yob
word: yobbo
qualifier: derogatory stereotype
glosses: An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
glosses: An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
glosses: A petrolhead.
Synonyms: sense: poor Anglo-Celtic person
alt: Queensland
word: bevan
sense: poor Anglo-Celtic person
alt: Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)
word: westy
sense: poor Anglo-Celtic person
alt: Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)
word: westie
sense: poor Anglo-Celtic person
alt: Canberra
word: booner
sense: poor Anglo-Celtic person
word: white trash
Related terms: cashed-up bogan
hoon
booner
chav
boogan
bogan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊɡən/
rhymes: -əʊɡən
Forms: form: bogans
form: boganning
form: boganned
form: boganned
Etymology: Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).
Senses: examples: text: If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.
ref: 2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To act like a bogan.
bogan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊɡən/
rhymes: -əʊɡən
Forms: form: bogans
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of pokelogan influenced by bog (or bogue), or a blend of logan (from pokelogan) + bog.
Senses: examples: text: All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.
ref: 2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:
glosses: Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
examples: text: Negative Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […]
ref: 2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2016, page 68:
text: Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.
ref: 2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star:
text: "There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.
ref: 2017 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News:
text: Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?
ref: 2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News:
glosses: An indigenous person.
harsh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑɹʃ/
ipa: /hɑːʃ/
ipa: /hæʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ
Forms: form: harsher
form: more harsh
form: harshest
form: most harsh
Etymology: From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
Senses: synonyms: word: coarse
word: scabrous
word: abrasive
word: asperous
word: coarse
word: gimped
word: harsh
word: irregular
word: jagged
word: jaggy
word: rough
word: rugged
word: rugose
word: salebrous
word: scabrous
word: scraggy
word: shagged
word: squarrose
word: uneven
word: unsmooth
glosses: Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
examples: text: harsh decision
text: harsh penalty
text: harsh teacher
text: harsh rule
text: harsh ruling
text: Partly because of the heavy burden of government debt built up during his stewardship, and the uncurbed recklessness of the country’s banks, Britain’s recession is already the harshest in Western Europe.
ref: 2009 March 29, John F. Burns, “Anglo-American Capitalism on Trial”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2015:
text: There were harsher comments from Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: "The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's backpedalling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon."
ref: 2009 November 2, Ian Black, “Arab anger as Hillary Clinton backs Israel on settlements”, in The Guardian:
text: Great news for City, but the result was harsh on Neil Warnock's side who gave as good as they got even though the odds were stacked against them.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: callous
word: severe
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
antonyms: genteel
glosses: Severe or cruel.
Derived terms: harshen
harshish
harshly
harshness
harsh noise
overharsh
unharsh
harsh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑɹʃ/
ipa: /hɑːʃ/
ipa: /hæʃ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃ
Forms: form: harshes
form: harshing
form: harshed
form: harshed
Etymology: From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
Senses: examples: text: Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
text: Stop harshing on yourself. Who said you're the ugly sister?
ref: 2008, An Na, The Fold:
text: “Stop harshing on me, Daddy.” “Harshing?” “Don't yell at me. I didn't do anything.”
ref: 2009, Richard Powers, Gain:
glosses: To negatively criticize.
examples: text: Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
text: They're always harshing on the plan, but we're still going through with it.
text: On their third date, Lizzie had actually said to him, "You're sort of harshing my mellow." It made him wonder if she might be stupid, and not just young.
ref: 1999, Kurt Andersen, Turn of the century, page 508:
text: "They're mostly mercenaries these days. But whose?" "Serbian mercenaries? You're harshing my groove, man. I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that...."
ref: 2003, Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive, page 355:
text: "Getting back to the issue of the child," Tina said, harshing our buzz as usual, "I really think you should reconsider...."
ref: 2006, MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unpopular, page 776:
text: He's totally harshing my vibe," Lila said airily. "Someone should tell him to get over himself. He's lucky I even invited him!"
ref: 2008, Kate William with Francine Pascal, Secrets - Page 70:
glosses: To put a damper on (a mood).
Synonyms: rough
Derived terms: harsh down
harsh one's mellow
Francie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Frances or Francine.
exacerbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæsɚˌbeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪkˈsæs-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: exacerbations
Etymology: From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate.
Senses: glosses: An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)
Synonyms: aggravation
Derived terms: pseudoexacerbation
Related terms: word: exacerbate
word: exacervation
topics: neurology
medicine
neuroscience
sciences
english: in medicine
translation: in medicine
word: paroxysm
sodium lactate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium lactates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of lactic acid; used as a food additive and ingredient in lotions etc.
Synonyms: E325 when used as an antioxidant
acidity regulator
unchain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: unchains
form: unchaining
form: unchained
form: unchained
Etymology: From un- + chain.
Senses: examples: text: unchain workers
text: They worked to unchain the prisoners from their shackles.
glosses: To remove chains from
examples: text: unchain the mind
text: unchain creativity
text: The reform movement sought to unchain society from old prejudices.
glosses: to free; to liberate.
Synonyms: unfetter
hopeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊplɪs/
ipa: /ˈhoʊplɪs/
rhymes: -əʊplɪs
Forms: form: more hopeless
form: most hopeless
Etymology: From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.
Senses: examples: text: I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:
text: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:
glosses: Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
examples: text: a hopeless cause
glosses: Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
examples: text: He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
text: " It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice." "Not they," said Mailey. "The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Without talent, not skilled.
examples: text: She is a hopeless romantic.
text: He is a hopeless idler.
glosses: Incurable.
raw_tags: of an adverse condition
Synonyms: desperate
unhopeful
forlorn
Derived terms: hopelessly
hopelessness
catena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈtiːnə/
Forms: form: catenas
form: catenae
Etymology: From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.
Senses: examples: text: And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank [...]
ref: 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street:
glosses: A series of related items.
examples: text: The changes in soil characteristics from the crest to the foot of a slope are together known as a catena.
ref: 2000, Ewan Anderson, Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55:
qualifier: soil science
glosses: A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
Derived terms: catena compound
Related terms: catenal
catenary
catenative
chain
concatenate
concatenation
block level element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block level elements
Senses: glosses: An HTML element that normally begins on a new line, and may or may not contain other block level elements or inline elements.
cryonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From cryo- + -n- + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.
Derived terms: cryonic
cryonicist
Related terms: cryogenics
transpire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: transpires
form: transpiring
form: transpired
form: transpired
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.
Senses: glosses: To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
synonyms: sweat
glosses: To perspire.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
examples: text: It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
text: The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.
ref: 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
text: Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.
ref: 1839, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register of World Events:
synonyms: come to light
emerge
develop
glosses: To become known; to escape from secrecy.
examples: text: Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 166:
text: But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
ref: 2018 September 21, Mark Rice-Oxley, “Don't mention the R-word”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: come about
word: come to pass
word: occur
word: bechance
word: befall
word: belimp
word: betide
word: betime
word: chance
word: come about
word: come to pass
word: crop up
word: evene
word: eventuate
word: go on
word: hap
word: happen
word: hold
word: occur
word: pass
word: take place
word: tide
word: transpire
glosses: To happen, take place.
Derived terms: transpiration
silk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭlk
ipa: /sɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: silks
Etymology: From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge.
Senses: examples: text: The thread made of silk was barely visible.
glosses: A fine fiber excreted by the silkworm or other arthropod (such as a spider).
examples: text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: A fine, soft cloth woven from silk fibers.
examples: text: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Dangerous Lady”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: Anything which resembles silk, such as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize, or the seed covering of bombaxes.
glosses: The gown worn by a Senior (i.e. Queen's/King's) Counsel.
glosses: A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
topics: arts
circus
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pair of long silk sheets suspended in the air on which a performer performs tricks.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The garments worn by a jockey displaying the colors of the horse's owner.
Derived terms: ahimsa silk
cornsilk
corn silk
crow-silk
desilk
floss-silk
floss silk
flox silk
glass silk
golden silk orb-weaver
hit the silk
make a silk purse of a sow's ear
nonsilk
oiled silk
peace silk
raw silk
sea silk
silk-cotton tree
silk elevator
silken
silker
silkette
silkgrass
silkgrower
silkgrowing
silkless
silklike
silkman
silk moss
silkmoth
silkness
silk-oak
silk oak
silk paper
silk press
silkscreen
silk screen effect
silk-screen printing
silk serge
silk shag
silk-stocking
silkstone
silktail
silktassel
silk tree
silkware
silkwear
silkweaver
silkweaving
silkweed
silkwoman
silkwork
silkworks
silkworm
silky
smooth as silk
soft as silk
Sri Lankan tussar silk moth
take silk
widow's silk
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
silk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭlk
ipa: /sɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: silks
form: silking
form: silked
form: silked
Etymology: From Middle English silk, sylk, selk, selc, from Old English sioloc, seoloc, seolc (“silk”). The immediate source is uncertain; it probably reached English via the Baltic trade routes (cognates in Old Norse silki (> Danish silke, Swedish silke (“silk”)), Russian шёлк (šolk), obsolete Lithuanian zilkai̇̃), all ultimately from Late Latin sēricus, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós), ultimately from an Oriental language (represented now by e.g. Chinese 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”)). Compare Seres. Doublet of seric and serge.
Senses: examples: text: While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]
ref: 2013, Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came, page 17:
glosses: To remove the silk from (corn).
Related terms: sericin
slope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sloʊp/
ipa: /sləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: slopes
Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.
text: a steep slope
glosses: An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
examples: text: The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.
glosses: The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
examples: text: The slope of this line is 0.5
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points lying on the line.
raw_tags: of a line
with respect to a fixed coordinate system
examples: text: The slope of a parabola increases linearly with x.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: see Usage notes
glosses: The slope of the line tangent to the curve at the given point.
raw_tags: of a curve at a given point
examples: text: The slope of an asphalt shingle roof system should be 4:12 or greater.
glosses: The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
glosses: A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Synonyms: sense: area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
word: bank
sense: area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
word: embankment
sense: area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
word: gradient
sense: area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
word: hill
sense: area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward
word: incline
sense: degree to which a surface tends upward or downward
word: gradient
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: first derivative
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: gradient
word: Chinaman
word: Chink
word: cant
word: elevation
word: grade
word: slope
Related terms: word: horizontal
word: gentle
word: inclined
word: slanted
word: sloped
word: tilted
word: acclivous
word: steep
word: sheer
word: precipitous
word: vertical
slope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sloʊp/
ipa: /sləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: slopes
form: sloping
form: sloped
form: sloped
Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: The road slopes sharply down at that point.
text: If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: St. Lawrence Station is very prettily situated, high cliffs on the left, and the lush vegetation of the Undercliff sloping down to the sea on the right.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
glosses: To tend steadily upward or downward.
examples: text: to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment
glosses: To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
examples: text: I sloped in through the back door, hoping my boss wouldn't see me.
text: She watched him disappear out of sight, before sloping back to her room.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To try to move surreptitiously.
raw_tags: followed by a preposition
examples: text: The order was given to "slope arms".
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
Derived terms: word: beginner slope
word: bunny slope
word: continental slope
word: footslope
word: glide slope
word: hillslope
word: low-slope roof
word: midslope
word: North Slope Borough
word: nursery slope
word: recurrent slope linea
word: sideslope
word: ski slope
word: ski-slope nose
word: ski slope nose
word: slippery slope
word: slope bunny
word: Slope County
word: slope dragonet
word: slope field
word: slope off
word: sloping
word: South Western Slopes
word: South West Slopes
word: steep-slope roof
word: toeslope
slope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sloʊp/
ipa: /sləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: more slope
form: most slope
Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: A bank not steep, but gently slope.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Down the slope hills.
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:
glosses: Sloping.
slope
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sloʊp/
ipa: /sləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: more slope
form: most slope
Etymology: From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Senses: examples: text: So promis'd he; and Uriel to his charge
Return'd on that bright beam , whose point now rais'd ,
Bore him slope downward to the sun
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, 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:
glosses: slopingly
fuckspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuck + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Bond traders are notorious for their use of fuckspeak.
glosses: An aggressive manner of speech making frequent use of the word fuck and its derivatives.
Related terms: fuck
-speak
vend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: vends
form: vending
form: vended
form: vended
Etymology: From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).
Senses: examples: text: Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.
ref: 1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.
ref: 2020 October 6, Saritha Rai, “Amazon Launches Month-Long Sale in Battle for Indian Wallets”, in Bloomberg.com:
glosses: Synonym of sell, now especially to sell through a vending machine.
synonyms: word: sell
word: now especially to sell through a vending machine
examples: text: As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
ref: 2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
Derived terms: vending machine
Related terms: revend
venal
venality
vendor
vendue
vend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: vends
Etymology: From French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum (“(something for) sale”) + dare (“to give”).
Senses: glosses: The act of vending or selling; a sale.
glosses: The total sales of coal from a colliery.
vend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: vends
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.
Senses: examples: text: [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...
ref: 1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707:
text: In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.
ref: 2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
foamy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊmi/
ipa: /ˈfoʊmi/
rhymes: -əʊmi
Forms: form: foamier
form: foamiest
Etymology: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
text: Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation
ref: 1835, William Wordsworth, “(please specify the poem)”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Full of foam.
Synonyms: frothy
spumescent
effervescent
Derived terms: foamily
foaminess
nonfoamy
foamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊmi/
ipa: /ˈfoʊmi/
rhymes: -əʊmi
Forms: form: foamies
Etymology: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foamie.
accomodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accommodate.
accomodate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: accommodated
adjust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʌst/
ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɐst/
rhymes: -ʌst
Forms: form: adjusts
form: adjusting
form: adjusted
form: adjusted
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: adjust
form: adjust
form: adjusted
form: adjust
form: adjustest
form: adjusted
form: adjustedst
form: adjusts
form: adjusteth
form: adjusted
form: adjust
form: adjusted
form: adjust
form: adjusted
form: adjust
form: -
form: adjusting
form: adjusted
Etymology: From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent to ad- + just. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus; if so, it is a doublet of adjute.
Senses: examples: text: Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: To modify.
examples: text: He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
text: But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
glosses: To improve or rectify.
glosses: To settle an insurance claim.
examples: text: Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
text: She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
glosses: To change to fit circumstances.
Synonyms: sense: to modify something
word: change
sense: to modify something
word: edit
sense: to modify something
word: modify
sense: to modify something
word: set
sense: to modify something
word: measure
Derived terms: adjustability
adjustable
adjustage
adjuster
adjusting entry
adjustive
adjustment
adjustor
autoadjust
coadjust
disadjust
maladjust
misadjust
nonadjusting
overadjust
preadjust
quality-adjusted life year
readjust
self-adjusting
underadjust
well-adjusted
Middle English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The ancient or older language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD.
Synonyms: Medieval English
Related terms: word: Classical English
word: Middle English [ME]
word: Medieval English
word: Early New English
word: Late Modern English [LModE]
word: New English [NE]
english: Anglo-Saxon
translation: Anglo-Saxon
word: Old English
word: Standard English [StE]
word: Anglo-Saxon
word: Germanic
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle English terms
in the nick of time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time.
text: In the nick of time he lassoed with a trounce / the low-down villains who had stubbed our toes.
ref: 1990, James Broughton, Special Deliveries: New and Selected Poems, Seattle, Wash.: Broken Moon Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Sir Frances stopped midrant, and just in the nick of time, for his next words would have been "veriest whipster,"
ref: 2004, Lover's Knot, pages 194, 202:
text: Happily for the Lakers, who were mincemeat without him, Nash is back in the nick of time, with the Knicks, who walked all over them in New York two weeks ago, in town for a Christmas Day game.
ref: 2012 December 24, Mark Heisler, “After Looking East to the Knicks, Nash Cut West to the Lakers”, in New York Times:
synonyms: eleventh hour
under the wire
just in time
glosses: At the last possible moment; at the last minute.
Derived terms: nick-of-time
infuriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/
Forms: form: infuriates
form: infuriating
form: infuriated
form: infuriated
Etymology: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
Senses: examples: text: What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,
Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?
ref: 1615, Edwin Sandys, “Psalm 2”, in Sacred Hymns, Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse, London, page 2:
text: 1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105,
They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
text: He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “11”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings.[…] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
ref: 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 131:
text: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.
ref: 2022 August 3, Zaheena Rasheed, “Pelosi in Taiwan live news: Tsai slams ‘unnecessary’ China drills”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2022:
synonyms: enrage
madden
glosses: To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
Derived terms: infuriable
infuriated
infuriating
infuriation
infuriator
infuriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹieɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈfjʊəɹɪət/
Forms: form: more infuriate
form: most infuriate
Etymology: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
Senses: examples: text: These [materials] in thir dark Nativitie the Deep
Shall yeild us, pregnant with infernal flame,
Which into hallow Engins long and round
Thick-rammd, at th’ other bore with touch of fire
Dilated and infuriate shall send forth
From far with thundring noise among our foes
Such implements of mischief as shall dash
To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands
Adverse,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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 482-490:
text: […] the steady tyrant man,
Who with the thoughtless insolence of power
Inflam’d, beyond the most infuriate rage
Of the worst monster that e'er howl'd the waste,
For sport alone takes up the cruel tract,
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 26, lines 392-396:
text: […] she housed and sheltered Mrs. Posky, who fled from her bungalow one night, pursued by her infuriate husband, wielding his second brandy bottle […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 32, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.
ref: 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280:
text: Until Peyton was born, bleak doubt assailed him. He looked at his wife’s body with suspicion and his own with infuriate guilt.
ref: 1951, William Styron, chapter 2, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 51:
synonyms: enraged
furious
raging
glosses: Filled with, characterized by or expressing fury.
hiatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈeɪtəs/
ipa: /hɐˈjaː.t̪ʊs/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: hiatus
form: hiatuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).
Senses: examples: text: Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.
ref: 1912, Robert Louis Stevenson, Records of a Family of Engineers:
synonyms: break
glosses: A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
examples: text: The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.
text: It is wonderful that you should have slipped back into your American life so easily after your English hiatus.
ref: 1895, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: After a ten-year dividend hiatus, shareholder payments only re-started in July 2022.
ref: 2023 December 13, Mel Holley, “Open access operations help to boost First's figures”, in RAIL, number 998, page 20:
synonyms: word: breather
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: break
word: breather
word: cessation
word: demurral
word: gap
word: caesura
word: hiatus
word: halt
word: halting
word: interregnum
word: interruption
word: lapse
word: moratorium
word: pause
word: recess
word: respite
word: resting
word: stoppage
word: stopping
word: suspension
glosses: An interruption, break, pause or absence.
glosses: An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
examples: text: The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, in In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page 33:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gap in geological strata.
examples: text: Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An opening in an organ.
examples: text: A hiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.
ref: 1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
Derived terms: adductor hiatus
hiatal
hiatic
hiatus hernia
hiatus magnus
prehiatus
slander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːndə/
ipa: /ˈslandə/
ipa: /ˈslændɚ/
ipa: /ˈslaːndə/
ipa: /ˈslændə/
ipa: /ˈslaːndə/
ipa: /ˈslɛndə/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːndə
Forms: form: slanders
form: slandre
Etymology: From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Senses: glosses: A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
Synonyms: word: aspersion
word: calumniousness
word: calumny
word: character assassination
word: defamation
word: detraction
word: disparagement
word: libel
word: obloquy
word: slander
word: traducement
word: vilification
Hypernyms: word: statement
Related terms: word: defame
word: defamatory
word: offend
slander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːndə/
ipa: /ˈslandə/
ipa: /ˈslændɚ/
ipa: /ˈslaːndə/
ipa: /ˈslændə/
ipa: /ˈslaːndə/
ipa: /ˈslɛndə/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːndə
Forms: form: slanders
form: slandering
form: slandered
form: slandered
form: slandre
Etymology: From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Senses: examples: text: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
 Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
 Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
glosses: To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.
Synonyms: word: defame
english: always in writing
translation: always in writing
word: libel
Related terms: defamation
slanderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslændəɹəs/
Forms: form: more slanderous
form: most slanderous
Etymology: From slander + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”
ref: 2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, anonymous quotee, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost:
glosses: Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
raw_tags: of something said
Synonyms: defamatory
libelous
Related terms: slander