cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
layup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪˌʌp/
Forms: form: layups
form: lay-up
Etymology: From lay + up.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.
examples: text: Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
glosses: A relatively easy task.
examples: text: The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
glosses: The state of being laid up.
examples: text: The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
text: The City Hall station on the BMT line [...] has a lower level that was never put into service. Yet the platforms have been maintained, are well illuminated, and serve as a layup and storage area for the MTA.
ref: 2005, Julia Solis, New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City, New York City: Routledge, →ISBN, page 83:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A track used to store train cars.
examples: text: Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago.
text: A nonmoving empty train, or a layup, was easiest to pin down at night or on weekends when trains would park on the dormant stretches of express tracks.
ref: 2010, Michele Carlo, Fish Out of Agua: My Life on Neither Side of the (Subway) Tracks, New York City: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 88:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.
examples: text: Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup.
text: In addition to employing flax fibres for polymer-coated sutures, more recently, flax fibres have been proposed for reinforcing polymer composites, such as hand layup laminated scaffolds in tissue engineering.
ref: 2015, Fong, T. C.; Saba, N.; Liew, C. K.; De Silva, R.; Enamul Hoque, M.; Goh, K. L., “Yarn Flax Fibres for Polymer-Coated Sutures and Hand Layup Polymer Composite Laminates”, in Salit, M., Jawaid, M., Yusoff, N., Hoque, M., editors, Manufacturing of Natural Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites, Cham: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 155:
qualifier: materials science
glosses: The process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material.
Related terms: reverse layup
slam dunk
reverse layup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse layups
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A running in which the shooter dives under the basket and shoots the ball straight away from the basket.
lay-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay-ins
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the ball is tossed directly into the basket from near the rim.
qualifier: prison
glosses: Permission to sleep in late, typically for health reasons and granted by a doctor or nurse.
glosses: An instance of sleeping in.
Related terms: layup
lie-in
scoop shot
scoop shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoop shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot taken underhanded from an unusually low position (as though scooping up the ball).
held ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: held balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A situation in which players of opposing teams both hold the ball, with neither clearly possessing it outright.
corundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹʌn.dəm/
Forms: form: corundums
Etymology: From Tamil குருந்தம் (kuruntam, “ruby, sapphire”) First attested in the early 18th century.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al₂O₃, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive.
Derived terms: alundum
carborundum
silundum
crossover dribble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossover dribbles
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A maneuver in which a dribbling player rapidly switches the ball from one side to the other in order to move around a defender.
Synonyms: word: crossover
Related terms: urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20050404020100/http://www.coachesclipboard.net/VideoClips.shtml
word: Coach's Clipboard Video Clips of basketball maneuvers
knockdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockdowns
Etymology: From knock + down.
Senses: glosses: An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
glosses: An overwhelming blow.
glosses: Very strong ale or beer.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A genetically modified organism that carries one or more genes in its chromosomes that have been made less active or had their expression reduced.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of a reagent such as an oligonucleotide with sequence complementary to an active gene or its mRNA transcript, to interfere with the expression of said gene.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The condition of a sailboat being pushed abruptly to horizontal, with the mast parallel to the water surface.
examples: text: Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown.
ref: 2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
examples: text: We shot 'The Caterpillar' at General Service Studios, and the dressing rooms for the actors were what they call knockdowns: wooden frames covered in grungy, dirty red canvas. It looked like a circus tent.
ref: 1999, Scott Skelton, Jim Benson, Rod Serling's Night Gallery: An After-hours Tour, page 294:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A shelter erected for use as a temporary dressing room.
synonyms: KD
glosses: A collection of parts required to assemble a product, typically manufactured in one region and exported elsewhere for assembly.
knockdown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knockdowns
form: knockdowning
form: knockdowned
form: knockdowned
Etymology: From knock + down.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To employ the knockdown technique
knockdown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From knock + down.
Senses: examples: a knockdown argument
a knockdown blow
glosses: Powerful enough to overwhelm.
glosses: Reduced in price, originally to a price below which an article would not be sold by the auctioneer.
examples: knockdown furniture
glosses: Capable of being taken apart for packing or removal.
glosses: To be formed into a head by upsetting in fastening.
raw_tags: of a rivet head
Derived terms: knockdown-dragout
knoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊl/
ipa: /nɒl/
enpr: nōl
ipa: /noʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: knolls
Etymology: From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).
Senses: examples: text: On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
ref: 1813, Walter Scott, “Canto Second”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza VI, pages 62-63:
text: In the northern hemisphere, June 21 has the most daylight hours. Pack a picnic—a chilled bottle of Sancerre, cheese, olives, and a nice baguette—and hit the grassy knoll.
ref: 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: A small mound or rounded hill.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
coordinate_terms: seamount
glosses: A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.
Derived terms: Brent Knoll
knoller
knolly
Maryknoller
microknoll
Oak Knoll
reef knoll
Related terms: dale
hill
rill
knoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊl/
ipa: /nɒl/
enpr: nōl
ipa: /noʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: knolls
Etymology: Imitative, or variant of knell.
Senses: glosses: A knell.
knoll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊl/
ipa: /nɒl/
enpr: nōl
ipa: /noʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: knolls
form: knolling
form: knolled
form: knolled
Etymology: Imitative, or variant of knell.
Senses: glosses: To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
examples: text: If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll: [...]
ref: 1816 February 13, [Lord Byron], “Parisina”, in The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem, London: […] [T[homas] Davison] for John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 81, lines 394–395:
text: [A]ll that night I heard / The heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Gardener’s Daughter; or, The Pictures”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
examples: text: Their office now was to guide the monster choruses and Sunday hymns; and like the trumpets of silver made of a whole piece “for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps,” to knoll the people in to church.
ref: 1851, Charles Mackay, The Mormons, Or Latter-day Saints. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mohomet", page 206:
text: The parishioners were not, however, to be permanently deprived of this means of grace, and for many a year they have been “knolled to church” by the bells of the Town Hall, a comely building […]
ref: 1891, Thomas George Bonney, Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial, page 769:
glosses: To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).
knoll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊl/
ipa: /nɒl/
enpr: nōl
ipa: /noʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: knolls
form: knolling
form: knolled
form: knolled
Etymology: Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.
Senses: glosses: To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.
knell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛl/
ipa: /nel/
rhymes: -ɛl
homophone: Nell
Forms: form: knells
form: knelling
form: knelled
form: knelled
Etymology: From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).
Senses: examples: text: I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee,
And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing,
Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]
ref: 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Spanish Curate, act V, scene 2:
text: “[…] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!”
ref: 1816, Walter Scott, “Chapter 7”, in The Black Dwarf:
text: The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling,
The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling
For the year
ref: 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Posthumous Poems, London: John & Henry L. Hunt, Autumn: A Dirge, page 166:
text: Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word—ALONE!
ref: 1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The New Timon. A Poetical Romance, 4th edition, London: Henry Colburn, Part II, page 86:
glosses: To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
examples: text: Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,
And build to them a final tomb;
Let the starred shade that nightly falls
Still celebrate their funerals,
And the bell of beetle and of bee
Knell their melodious memory.
ref: October 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Woodnotes, Number II”, in The Dial, volume 2, number 2, page 212:
text: The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.
ref: 1909 [1895], Alfred Allinson, The Well of Saint Clare, London: John Lane, translation of original by Anatole France, Prologue:
text: His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh’s ears knelled his soul’s departure.
ref: October 1931, Robert E. Howard, “The Gods of Bal-Sagoth”, in Weird Tales, volume 18, number 3, Chapter 3:
glosses: To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
glosses: To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.
Derived terms: unknelled
knell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛl/
ipa: /nel/
rhymes: -ɛl
homophone: Nell
Forms: form: knells
Etymology: From Middle English knyllen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-West Germanic *knuʀlijan, from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijaną (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).
Senses: examples: text: […]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
text: I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
ref: 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, line 1:
glosses: The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
examples: text: But at the close of the war there was less thought of what [Britain] had retained than of what she had lost. She was parted from her American Colonies; and at the moment such a parting seemed to be the knell of her greatness.
ref: 1879, John Richard Green, “Chapter 2”, in History of the English People, volumes 8, Modern England, 1760-1815, London: Macmillan, published 1896, pages 41–42:
text: At Ballymacarrett, the main line diverges to the right on its way to Newcastle. All services were discontinued on it in 1950, and the abandonment order finally rang the knell of faint hopes that services would be restored as far as Comber, […].
ref: 1954 October, A. Trevor Hodge, “Railways at Belfast”, in Railway Magazine, page 684:
text: The internet sounds the knell for conventional brands, predicts Professor Alec Reed, who has set up an Academy of Enterprise to chart the emerging individual economy. By making price and other comparisons ever easier, the internet strips them of mystique and turns them into commodities.
ref: 1 October 2000, Simon Caulkin, “Taking over by talking back”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
Derived terms: death knell
soul knell
reorganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorganizations
form: reorganisation
Etymology: From re- + organization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of rearranging. See reorganize.
glosses: The end result of such an act.
Synonyms: rearrangement
rearranging
reordering
resorting
restructuring
Derived terms: quasi-reorganization
Reorganizationist
Related terms: organization
organize
reorganize
arrange
order
sort
knotweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knotweeds
Etymology: From knot + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Polygonum, with jointed stems and inconspicuous flowers
Derived terms: Chinese knotweed
Japanese knotweed
Japanese knotweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "We got into this because we were looking at invasive species at the roadside, such as Japanese knotweed. A lot of rail embankments have been solidified by knotweed because the roots are so strong.
ref: 2022 June 29, Paul Clifton, “Using AI technology to manage lineside vegetation”, in RAIL, number 960, page 32:
glosses: A large, herbaceous perennial plant, Fallopia japonica, native to Asia; it is a highly invasive colonizer outside of its native territory.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aphalara itadori
word: Japanese knotweed psyllid
Related terms: english: leafspot fungus
translation: leafspot fungus
word: Mycosphaerella
word: Puccinia polygoni-weyrichii
word: Gallerucida nigromaculata
knowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /nɑːɪn/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: more knowing
form: most knowing
Etymology: From know + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.
glosses: Deliberate, wilful.
examples: text: a knowing rascal
glosses: Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.
examples: text: ‘I was a raw boy from College, and fancied it very knowing to marry a girl that all the young fellows of my acquaintance reckoned so confounded handsome.’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:
text: Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic.
examples: text: Jon and Tyrion greet each other with the words that have been used against them as weapons, sharing a knowing smile.
ref: 2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding.
Synonyms: knowful
knowing
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /nɑːɪn/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: From know + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.
glosses: Given my knowledge about someone or something.
knowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /nɑːɪn/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: From know + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know
knowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /nɑːɪn/
ipa: /ˈnoʊɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: knowings
Etymology: From know + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
glosses: The act or condition of having knowledge.
Derived terms: all-knowing
foreknowing
knowingly
knowingness
overknowing
self-knowing
unknowing
zeedonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zē′dŏnk′
enpr: -dônk′
ipa: /ˈziːˌdɒnk/
ipa: /-dɔːnk/
ipa: /ˈziˌdɑnk/
ipa: /-dɔnk/
rhymes: -iːdɒnk
rhymes: -iːdɔːnk
Forms: form: zeedonks
form: zedonk
Etymology: Blend of zebra + donkey.
Senses: examples: text: Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.
ref: 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:
text: One might have imagined that it could only have been Dr. Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!
ref: 1997, Thomas Fensch, Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=iDR_UvtiD_sC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&sig=qB-nL70ow8Z_m8e1cm9518ykKX4
text: 2003, Colin Bell, GCSE Applied Science Student Book http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=WIBBzP4MtvcC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=SVuPX8k4sQZ0y2HPWbm68LKgzQU
Suggest which animals are the parents of the cross breeds, zedonk and tiglion.
text: 2004, Kevin O'Hara, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=IFUBfHAkYmoC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&sig=BaUIPzeYmdCHT2sMYfzqa4NPPsI
I could have told him about zedonks and zebrasses; donkey cures for whooping cough and gout, how an onager is a wild ass from Central Asia; that the Australian kookaburra is nicknamed “the laughing donkey”; …
synonyms: zebrass
hypernyms: zebroid
glosses: A cross between a zebra and a donkey.
zorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɔɹs/
ipa: /zɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: zorses
form: zeehorse
Etymology: Blend of zebra + horse
Senses: coordinate_terms: hebra
glosses: The offspring of a male zebra and a female horse.
zeehorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeehorses
Etymology: Blend of zebra + horse
Senses: glosses: A zorse.
ZIP Code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ZIP Codes
Etymology: Trademark of United States Postal Service, from ZIP (“Zone Improvement Plan”), introduced 1963.
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of zip code.
wikipedia: Zone Improvement Plan
zoophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoophobias
Etymology: From zoo- + -phobia. Piecewise doublet of biophobia.
Senses: examples: text: The girl who had zoophobia didn't like animals, domestic or wild.
glosses: An unusual fear of animals.
zoological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəʊəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
ipa: /zuːəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
ipa: /zoʊəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/
ipa: /zuəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more zoological
form: most zoological
Etymology: From zoology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, animals.
glosses: Of, or relating to, zoology.
Derived terms: zoological garden
zoological name
zoological park
zoom lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zu(ː)m lɛnz/
Forms: form: zoom lenses
Senses: examples: text: Now I’m looking at a flashback Sunday.
Zoom lens feelings just won’t disappear.
Close-up darkroom sweet-talk in my ear.
ref: 1981 October 26, The J. Geils Band, “Freeze-Frame”, in Freeze-Frame:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lens containing a mechanical assembly of inner lenses, allowing the focal length to be changed rapidly.
Derived terms: telezoom
Related terms: normal lens
prime lens
telephoto lens
wide-angle lens
clodhopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑdˌhɑpɚ/
ipa: /ˈklɒdˌhɒpə/
Forms: form: clodhoppers
Etymology: Compound of clod + hopper (agentive form of the verb hop). Perhaps affected by analogy with grasshopper. Attested in the sense of "peasant" since the seventeenth century; the extended sense of "boot" or "shoe" dates from the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: ...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.
ref: 1830, Margaret Hundy, “First Epistle from Mrs. Margaret Hundy”, in The Lady's Magazine:
glosses: A strong shoe for heavy-duty use, a boot.
examples: text: We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now
ref: 1959, Claude F. Koch, A Matter of Family:
glosses: Any shoe construed (within a particular context) as ungainly.
examples: text: Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."
ref: 1943 August 16, “Senators go global: Five will fly to all fronts”, in LIFE Magazine:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: United States Navy ankle length work shoes, distinct from dress shoes or combat boots.
examples: text: […] now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book […]
ref: 1719, René Le Bossu, translated by Pierre François le Courayer and Peter Anthony Motteux, Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem, J. Knapton and H. Clements, →OCLC, page 332:
text: 'Nephew Jack,' he cried, looking at me when I was thinking what to say, and finding only emptiness, 'you are a heavy lout, sir; a bumpkin, a clodhopper; and I shall leave you nothing, unless it be my boots to grease.'
ref: 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “ch. 14”, in Lorna Doone:
glosses: A peasant or yokel.
examples: text: All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.
ref: 1826 August, P.H. Clias, “Gymnastics”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume XX, number CXV:
glosses: A clumsy or foolish person.
examples: text: ...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names.
ref: 1834, Robert Mudie, The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, volume 1:
glosses: Wheatear: any of various passerine birds.
Synonyms: clodknocker
Related terms: word: clodhopperish
sense: shoe construed as ungainly
english: a person's feet construed as big, clumsy, and intrusive
translation: a person's feet construed as big, clumsy, and intrusive
word: hooves
convergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
ipa: /kɒnˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns
Forms: form: convergences
Etymology: From converge + -ence (after Latin convergentia).
Senses: examples: text: In that sense there has been, and there will be, a steady convergence of the West and the East, including China. Every factory built in some isolated Chinese town reduces the time, the cultural, the economic, and the social gap between, let us say, Chikurting and Chicago. But the question is, does it reduce the political difference?
ref: 1963, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington, “Conclusion”, in Political Power: USA/USSR, New York: The Viking Press, →OCLC, Political Science, page 420:
glosses: The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
examples: text: We built a homestead at the convergence of two rivers
glosses: A meeting place.
glosses: The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
glosses: The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
Synonyms: convergency
Derived terms: Antarctic convergence
convergence box
deconvergence
domain of convergence
enantioconvergence
equiconvergence
hyperconvergence
intertropical convergence zone
misconvergence
monotone convergence theorem
nonconvergence
postconvergence
radius of convergence
reconvergence
semiconvergence
stereoconvergence
superconvergence
time-space convergence
unconvergence
uniform convergence
Related terms: converge
convergent
chiarivari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiarivaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charivari.
pull a Homer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a Homer
form: pulling a Homer
form: pulled a Homer
form: pulled a Homer
Etymology: From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To succeed despite idiocy.
parp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːp/
ipa: /pɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: Representing the sound of a car horn, a trumpet, or breaking wind.
parp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːp/
ipa: /pɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: parps
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: The sound of a horn or breaking wind.
parp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːp/
ipa: /pɑɹp/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: parps
form: parping
form: parped
form: parped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To sound a horn.
glosses: To make the sound of a horn.
glosses: To break wind.
glosses: To talk nonsense.
tig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: tigs
form: tigging
form: tigged
form: tigged
Etymology: Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.
Senses: glosses: To touch lightly or playfully; to trifle, dally.
tig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: tigs
Etymology: Dialectal variant of tick, from Middle English ticken, tiken. More at tick.
Senses: glosses: A light touch; a tap or pat.
examples: text: One evening when playing tig she had put her hands over his eyes: long and white and thin and cold and soft.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: The children's game of tag.
tig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: tigs
form: tyg
Senses: glosses: A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
Related terms: english: etymologyically unrelated
translation: etymologyically unrelated
word: tig bitties
english: etymologyically unrelated
translation: etymologyically unrelated
word: tig ol' bitties
charivari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːɹɪˈvɑːɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: charivaris
form: shivaree
form: chivari
form: chivaree
Etymology: From French charivari.
Senses: examples: text: The marriage ceremony was given primordial significance over folkloric pre-marriage engagement rituals and wild charivaris.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 94:
glosses: The noisy banging of pots and pans as a mock serenade to a newly married couple, or similar occasion.
glosses: Any loud, cacophonous noise or hubbub.
Synonyms: rough music
skimmington
skimmity
skimmity-ride
Derived terms: charivaric
Related terms: shivaree
pass away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes away
form: passing away
form: passed away
form: passed away
Senses: examples: text: After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday.
text: Her great grandmother passed away yesterday.
text: He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: To die.
examples: text: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,
Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 21:4:
text: Though the writer has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 200:
glosses: To disappear; to cease to be; to be no more.
examples: text: Lest she pass away the flower of her age.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Wisdom of Sirach of Sirach-Chapter-42/#9 42:9:
glosses: To spend; to waste.
restroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛstˌɹum/
Forms: form: restrooms
form: rest room
Etymology: From rest + room.
Senses: examples: text: Could you tell me where I can find the restroom?
glosses: A room containing a public toilet: a public lavatory.
Synonyms: bathroom
Hyponyms: bathroom
Derived terms: go to the restroom
use the restroom
pass wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes wind
form: passing wind
form: passed wind
form: passed wind
Senses: examples: text: Did someone just pass wind?
glosses: To break wind; fart.
Synonyms: break wind
pass gas
cut the cheese
what's the matter
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Why are you crying? What's the matter?
text: What's the matter with you? Why would you do a thing like that?
glosses: What is wrong? What's the problem?
glosses: What's happening? What's the news?
Synonyms: s'matter
tooth-to-jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Most Latinos don’t live tooth-to-jowl because they love each other so much. In fact, new census data (again, statistics) show that Latinos in the Pajaro Valley have some of the highest crowding problems in the state.
ref: 2002 April 7, Heather Boerner, “Gimme Shelter Rethinking California’s housing needs”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel:
text: Having no safe, private sanitation facilities in areas where people are living tooth-to-jowl means going the whole day without relieving oneself and then risking exposure at night.
ref: 2004, Millennium Project, Interim Report of Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation, 02-01:
glosses: Very close together
Related terms: cheek by jowl
crotch to butt
crotch-to-butt
cheek by jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: cheek-by-jowl
form: cheek to jowl
form: cheek-to-jowl
Senses: examples: text: We shared the long hours, the often rough seas, the successes and the disappointments in a close companionship with the captains and crews of the Italian boats and also with the little clique of fishermen whose small draggers were moored cheek by jowl with us in Annisquam Harbor.
ref: 2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page 140:
text: Wee see Merchants, countrey-Justices, and Artificers to march cheeke by joll with our Nobilitie, in valour, and militarie discipline.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: he had made his peace with the idea of spending half-term cheek-by-jowl on a cruise ship with the world's biggest Titanic enthusiasts.
ref: 2012 April 8, Helen Pidd, The Guardian:
glosses: In very close physical proximity, crowded together.
examples: text: By so doing you will certainly profit the art of fiction. For books have a way of influencing each other. Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.
ref: 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own:
text: Exit and voice, social theorist Albert O. Hirschman's famous dichotomous strategies, collided in the South Carolina countryside, where renewed commitment to the nation existed cheek by jowl with exit from it.
ref: 2009, John Fabian Witt, Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law:
glosses: In very close or intimate association.
cheek by jowl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheek by jowl
form: most cheek by jowl
form: cheek-by-jowl
form: cheek to jowl
form: cheek-to-jowl
Senses: examples: text: Books on etymology lay among Tamil poetry and volumes on religion were cheek by jowl with science fiction.
ref: 2010, Manorama Mathai, Love and Dr. Aiyar, page 121:
text: The universal bohios (palm-leaved, thatched huts) are cheek by jowl with each other, right to the water's edge where they are often linked to each other by narrow planks across inlets and creeks.
ref: 2012, Roger Lovegrove, Islands Beyond the Horizon, page 62:
text: For the magazine format, bringing together as it does a range of authors, topics and kinds of article into a single but serialized text, offers to twentieth-century readers a cheek by jowl structure which alerts us to the nuances of difference — categories of gender, genre, class, ideology, discourse — which allegedly more seamless texts are claimed to repress.
ref: 2014, J.B. Bullen, Writing and Victorianism, page 54:
text: It was sprinkled with houses, some dilapidated, some newer, some cheek by jowl, others sitting on wide parcels of land.
ref: 2014, Marlo Thomas, It Ain't Over . . . Till It's Over, page 306:
glosses: Tightly packed.
Related terms: chockablock
proximity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /pɹɑkˈsɪm.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [pɹɑkˈsɪm.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /pɹɔkˈsɪm.ə.ti/
ipa: [pɹɔkˈsɪm.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: proximities
Etymology: From proxim(ate) + -ity, from Middle French proximité, from Latin proximitās, proximitāt-, from proximus.
Senses: examples: text: The proximity of the heat source allowed it to be detected by the sensor.
text: You and I live in close proximity.
glosses: Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.
Synonyms: closeness
nearness
nighness
propinquity
Derived terms: airprox
ground proximity warning system
proxemics
proximity effect
proximity fuse
proximity fuze
proximity mine
visual proximity
Related terms: approximate
approximation
approximator
proximate
proximity fuze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proximity fuzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of proximity fuse.
automatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtəʊˌmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/
ipa: /ˈɔːtəˌmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)i/
ipa: /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/
ipa: [ˌɔː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪ.k(ə.)li]
ipa: /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪ.k(ə.)li/
ipa: [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪ.k(ə.)li]
Forms: form: more automatically
form: most automatically
Etymology: From automatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:
text: The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it will no longer automatically withhold 100% of the overpayment amount from recipients’ monthly benefits. Instead, it will collect 10% – or $10, whichever is greater – to recover the overpayment.
ref: 2024 March 29, Tami Luhby, “Social Security slashes amount of overpayments beneficiaries must pay back”, in CNN:
glosses: In an automatic manner.
Derived terms: semi-automatically
softwarematically
intervenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervenors
form: intervener
Etymology: From intervene + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who intervenes, especially in a legal sense.
brillig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Supposedly from bryl or broil.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
ref: 1871, Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky:
glosses: A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
fag hag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag hags
Etymology: From fag + hag. First use appears c. 1965 in the publication The Guild Dictionary of Homosexual Terms.
Senses: examples: text: Susan "Suki" Eagan, manager of the Boston bar Chaps, describes her own personal odyssey as "local debutante to fag hag to fag bar owner."
ref: 1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8:
text: Becoming a glam fag hag was not about money or privilege. Au contraire. Any working-class girl was eligible. All she had to do was get a job in a fag-rich environment, be it a hair salon or a department store.
ref: 2012, Simon Doonan, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: fruit fly
glosses: A woman who enjoys the company of gay men.
Coordinate terms: dyke tyke
fag stag
lesbro
lupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lupes
Senses: glosses: The Pacific imperial pigeon (Ducula pacifica).
Peleus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.li.əs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πηλεύς (Pēleús).
Senses: glosses: A Greek hero, son of Aeacus and Endeïs, brother of Telamon, and father of Achilles.
glosses: A rare surname.
anabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈbɑlɪk/
ipa: /ˌænəˈbɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Men may also have fertility challenges, especially if their hypogonadism was caused by anabolic steroid use.
ref: 2018 June 25, James Roland, “What is Hypergonadism?”, in Healthline:
antonyms: catabolic
glosses: Of or relating to anabolism.
Derived terms: anabolically
anabolic steroid
anabolic window
antianabolic
bolasterone
neuroanabolic
nonanabolic
osteoanabolic
proteoanabolic
Related terms: ergogenic
anabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəˈbɑlɪk/
ipa: /ˌænəˈbɒlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: anabolics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An anabolic steroid.
hexastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑξάστυλος (hexástulos), from ἕξ (héx) + στῦλος (stûlos). hexa- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: having six columns at the front on the portico
Related terms: tetrastyle
octostyle
decastyle
hexastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexastyles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑξάστυλος (hexástulos), from ἕξ (héx) + στῦλος (stûlos). hexa- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
related: word: hexastylos
glosses: A temple or portico with six columns in front.
convent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.vɛnt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.vənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.vɛnt/
Forms: form: convents
Etymology: From Middle English convent, variant of covent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventus, perfect participle of the verb convenio (whence ultimately convene), see con- + venio. Doublet of coven.
Senses: hypernyms: community#Noun
glosses: A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
examples: text: One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent.
ref: 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
hypernyms: residence#Noun
home#Noun
glosses: The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
hypernyms: residence#Noun
home#Noun
glosses: The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
synonyms: word: nunnery
extra: a female religious community and its residence
glosses: A Christian school.
glosses: A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
examples: text: ...an usual ceremony at their [the witches'] convents or meetings...
ref: 1609, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Queens:
glosses: A coming together; a meeting.
Derived terms: convent school
Convent Station
Related terms: convenance
convene
convenient
conventicle
convention
covenant
Covent Garden
covin
commune
rectory
seminary
convent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.vɛnt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.vənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.vɛnt/
ipa: /kənˈvɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
ipa: /ˈkɒn.vɛnt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.vənt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.vɛnt/
Forms: form: convents
form: conventing
form: convented
form: convented
Etymology: From Latin convenio (past participle conventus), whence also convene; so of the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow morning to the Council board
 He be convented.
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 V, scene i], line 52:
glosses: To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
examples: text: We convent nought else but woes
ref: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To meet together; to concur.
examples: text: When that is known and golden time convents.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 379:
glosses: To be convenient; to serve.
graphical user interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphical user interfaces
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text.
Synonyms: GUI
Hypernyms: user interface
tough shit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: tough luck
tough titty
tough tuchus
tough toodles
tough cookies
hard cheese
qualifier: moderately vulgar
glosses: An unsympathetic retort to someone suffering misfortune.
Related terms: shit out of luck
off the cuff
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Purported to be from the habit by after-dinner speakers of jotting a few notes on the cuff of the sleeve.
Senses: examples: text: Nor was there anything off the cuff about their insistence that Manuel Pellegrini was happy to make the name of his replacement public knowledge, echoing his sentiment that they were “not doing anything behind me” from a press conference earlier in the same day.
ref: 2016 February 2, Lee Roden, “Premier League: From Pellegrini to Pep - Why the Engineer made City the ideal destination for Guardiola”, in Yahoo Sport:
glosses: In an off-the-cuff manner.
Derived terms: word: off-the-cuff
Related terms: on the cuff