cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
causal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.zəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰoː.z̥əl]
ipa: /ˈkɔ.zəl/
ipa: [kʰɒː.z̥əl]
ipa: /ˈkɑ.zəl/
rhymes: -ɔːzəl
Forms: form: more causal
form: most causal
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin causalis, from Latin causa (“cause”), equivalent to cause + -al, see cause.
Senses: examples: text: There is no causal relationship between eating carrots and seeing in the dark.
text: No matter how often B follows A, and no matter how initially obvious the causality of the connection seems, the hypothesis that A causes B can be overturned by an over-arching theory which shows the two as distinct effects of a common underlying causal process.
ref: 1982, Frank Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”, in The Philosophical Quarterly (1950–), volume 32, Oxford University Press, page 133:
text: Time changes attitudes, and while Hart's actions in driving when not fit to do so were certainly in the causal chain of the Great Heck accident, how many other drivers were out there driving when too fatigued to do so?
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 44:
glosses: of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing
Derived terms: acausal
anticausal
bicausal
causalism
causalist
causal link
causal ontology
causal set
causal verb
causet
intercausal
isocausal
monocausal
multicausal
noncausal
omnicausal
polycausal
retrocausal
uncausal
Related terms: cause
causal-final
causality
causation
causal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː.zəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰoː.z̥əl]
ipa: /ˈkɔ.zəl/
ipa: [kʰɒː.z̥əl]
ipa: /ˈkɑ.zəl/
rhymes: -ɔːzəl
Forms: form: causals
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin causalis, from Latin causa (“cause”), equivalent to cause + -al, see cause.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause.
bird's-eye view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird's-eye views
Senses: examples: text: Looking down from the seventh floor balcony gave them a bird's-eye view of the street below.
text: “What makes you think there is a mouse in this room?” “The evidence points that way.” [...] “And why were you standing on a chair?” “Sort of just trying to get a bird's-eye view, as it were.” “Do you often go looking for mice in other people's rooms?”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: The view from directly or high above.
glosses: A general overview or summary of a topic.
Related terms: worm's-eye view
frog's-eye view
top-down
outflank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outflanks
form: outflanking
form: outflanked
form: outflanked
form: out-flank
Etymology: From out- + flank.
Senses: glosses: To maneuver around and behind the flank of (an opposing force).
examples: text: Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics.
ref: 1977, Desmond Christopher Martin Platt, Business Imperialism, 1840-1930, page 148:
text: Few expect the unrest to stop anytime soon. The government may hope to outflank the protest movement by painting them as unwilling to accept compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.
ref: 2019 September 4, James Griffith, “Hong Kong government’s attempt to outflank protesters is doomed to fail”, in CNN:
glosses: To gain a tactical advantage over (a competitor, for example).
Derived terms: outflanker
get the hang of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the hang of
form: getting the hang of
form: got the hang of
form: got the hang of
form: gotten the hang of
form: have the hang of
Senses: examples: text: Driving feels awkward when you’re new to it, but it’s easy once you get the hang of it.
text: We got the hang of [caring for a baby], Kate and I, with some quiet, surprising guidance from a gentle male nurse whose touching lack of intrusion was so instinctive as to seem part of the pattern.
ref: 1995, Gill Van Hasselt, Childbirth: Your Choices for Managing Pain, Taylor Pub, →ISBN:
text: He felt like he was playing a new board game and was just getting the hang of the rules.
ref: 2002, Shelby Lewis, Simply Marvelous, page 83:
text: I'd hardly used them either, do you know what I mean; I was just getting the hang of them when the Lord and Master decided they had to come off. There was no consultation, no let's sit down and chat about the pros and cons, just woof, off with his bollocks.
ref: 2008, Fabian Black, The Stationmaster's House, →ISBN, page 83:
text: The shotlist should be short — if you find yourself typing up more than one page per scene, you're not really getting the hang of it. Use common terminology whenever possible. From the shotlist, the DP can figure out, to some extent, how many lighting changes each scene will require.
ref: 2013, Arthur Vincie, Preparing for Takeoff: Preproduction for the Independent Filmmaker:
text: But just when I thought I’d gotten the hang of things, a snake chased me into a deeper level of the labyrinth! Everything’s on hard mode down here.
ref: 2018 March, Okina Baba, translated by Jenny McKeon, So I’m a Spider, So What?, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, →ISBN, back cover:
glosses: To begin to understand or manage at a basic level; to learn to handle with some skill.
thoroughgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/
ipa: /-ɹoʊ/
Forms: form: more thoroughgoing
form: most thoroughgoing
form: thorough-going
Etymology: From thorough + going (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.
text: It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature.
ref: 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 50:
text: I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.
ref: 1927, T. S. Eliot, “The Humanism of Irving Babbitt”, in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1964, page 425:
text: Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 182:
text: 1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101358/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844332,00.html
After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.
synonyms: word: abject
word: frightful
word: absolute
word: arrant
word: categoric
word: categorical
word: complete
word: consummate
word: downright
word: full
word: full-blown
word: full-bore
word: full-on
word: mere
word: outright
word: out-and-out
word: perfect
word: proper
word: pure
word: rank
word: regular
word: right
word: root and branch
word: sheer
word: straight-out
word: thorough
word: thoroughgoing
word: total
word: unadulterated
word: unalloyed
word: unattenuated
word: uncompromising
word: unconditional
word: unfettered
word: unmitigated
word: unqualified
word: unreserved
word: unrestricted
word: utter
word: wholesale
glosses: With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.
Hypernyms: going
Derived terms: thoroughgoingly
Related terms: word: thoroughgo
word: thoroughgoer
isosceles
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈsɒsəliːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īsoscelēs, from Ancient Greek ἰσοσκελής (isoskelḗs, “equal-legged”), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + σκέλος (skélos, “leg”) + -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).
See also iso-.
Senses: examples: text: Upon each exterior side draw an Isosceles Triangle of 480 Fathoms.
ref: 1693, Abel Swall, transl., The New Method of Fortification, as Practised by Monsieur de Vavban, Engineer General of France, 2nd edition, "A New Treatise of Fortification", page 96:
text: A right double pyramid is isosceles when the extremities of the vertex-edge are at the same distance from the plane of the base.
ref: 1914, Henry Parker Manning, Geometry of Four Dimensions, page 204:
text: To prepare for the application of his method, Saccheri made use of a figure with which we are already acquainted. This is the isosceles quadrilateral with the two base angles right angles.
ref: 1945, Harold E. Wolfe, Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry, page 31:
text: The polygon advantageously is an isosceles trapezoid or rectangle with the pivotal connections between the deck or superstructure and four hulls respectively at its corners.
ref: 1965 April 8, Newton B. Dismukes, “Multihull vessels (Patent US3316873A)”, in Google Patents:
text: The flowers were stuck inside a flower pot that was shaped like an isosceles polygon with a rectangular "edge."
ref: 2019 January 23, Altered Book Lover, “Funky Flowers”, in Blogspot:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having (at least) two sides of equal length, used especially of a triangle or trapezoid.
Derived terms: isosceles trapezoid
isosceles triangle
deagglomeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːæˈɡlɒməɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deagglomerations
Etymology: From de- + agglomeration.
Senses: glosses: The process of breaking up or dispersing that which has agglomerated, or aggregated, or clustered together.
dispersing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disperse
clustered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Grouped into a cluster.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used as the clustering key of a clustered index.
raw_tags: of a primary key
Derived terms: biclustered
clustered column
clusteredness
clustered toughshank
hyperclustered
metaclustered
miniclustered
misclustered
nanoclustered
overclustered
preclustered
subclustered
unclustered
clustered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cluster
blackcap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækˌkæp/
Forms: form: blackcaps
Etymology: From black + cap.
Senses: glosses: A small Old World warbler, Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), which is mainly grey with a black crown.
examples: text: Other times the cat would run off to the hunting grounds, either the swamps or the Astroni, and when the hunters shot down an oriole or a great tit or a blackcap [translating capofuscolo], she collected them and presented them to the king with the same message.
ref: 2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, II.4:
glosses: Any of various species of titmouse (of the family Paridae), including the black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus, syn. Parus atricapillus).
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An apple roasted until black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
related: word: black cap
glosses: The blackcap raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
Derived terms: word: blackcap raspberry
taxonomic: Lioptilus nigricapillus
word: bush blackcap
taxonomic: Sylvia atricapilla
word: Eurasian blackcap
taxonomic: Wilsonia pusilla
word: Wilson's blackcap
disagreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈɡɹiːmənt/
ipa: /ˌdɪsəˈɡɹimənt/
Forms: form: disagreements
Etymology: From dis- + agreement or disagree + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: They had a bit of a disagreement about what color to paint the bedroom, but they have reached a compromise.
text: In any event, agreement or disagreement, joke or no joke, in my 28 years on the court I did not hear a voice raised in anger in that conference, nor were snide or personal remarks ever made. The discussion was professional, disagreements reflected legal differences on the merits, and the justices tried to find ways to reach court agreements.
ref: 2024 March 4, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An argument or debate.
examples: text: The theory shows considerable disagreement with the data.
text: The two sides were in disagreement.
glosses: A condition of not agreeing or concurring.
Derived terms: nondisagreement
predisagreement
requirements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwʌɪəm(ə)nts/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənts/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɑɹmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of requirement
bluethroat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluethroats
Etymology: From blue + throat.
Senses: glosses: A small Old World passerine bird, of species Luscinia svecica, the male in spring having a bright blue throat.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Luscinia svecica svecica
word: red-spotted bluethroat
taxonomic: Luscinia svecica cyanecula
word: white-spotted bluethroat
cut it close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts it close
form: cutting it close
form: cut it close
form: cut it close
Senses: examples: text: Driving 300 miles on one tank of gas was cutting it close, but we arrived safely.
synonyms: cut it fine
glosses: To barely complete something.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, it, close.
Related terms: cut it
clodhoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clodhopper (especially referring to heavy or clumsy shoes)
fulmar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fulmars
Etymology: From Old Norse fúll (“foul”) + már (“gull”) (cognate to English mew), evidently in reference to the foul-smelling vomit it ejects to deter predators.
Senses: examples: text: In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.
ref: 2004, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Tinna Møbjerg, Nipisat - A Saqqaq Culture Site in Sisimiut, Central West Greenland, page 104:
text: In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.
ref: 2009, Gary Latter, “Scottish Rock”, in North, volume 2, page 383:
text: And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.
ref: 2010, Roger D. Taylor, Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing, page 290:
glosses: Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.
Synonyms: fulmar-petrel
stinker
Derived terms: alt: F. glacialis
word: northern fulmar
alt: F. glacioides
word: southern fulmar
word: fulmar prion
Related terms: Fulmarus
bloodshot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bloodshot
form: most bloodshot
Etymology: From blood + shot.
Senses: examples: text: She said she was perfectly fine but I could tell she was tired; her eyes were all bloodshot.
text: Her back was toward the jungle, and so she did not see the grasses part, or the savage face that peered from between. Little, bloodshot, close-set eyes scanned her intently, roving from time to time about the open beach for indications of the presence of others than herself.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 193:
glosses: Reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels.
raw_tags: of the eyes
BMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Medical Association, a trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom.
there, there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: There, there. Even though you broke up with her, you'll be fine.
glosses: Conveys comfort; used to calm somebody or urge somebody to relax, especially when the person is crying.
Related terms: now, now
twite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: twites
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The Twite has the distinction of being the only European bird derived from the Tibetan fauna type.
ref: 1976, J. T. R. Sharrock, The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 420:
text: Twites also breed in southwest and central Asia – at up to 3,500 m asl in Tibet – and it is supposed that the European relict populations became isolated during the retreat of the ice age (Voous 1960).
ref: 1986, Valerie M. Thom, Birds in Scotland, page 331:
text: With subsequent climate warming, Twites in Europe followed the tundra north and became isolated.
ref: 2007, Simon Wood, The Birds of Essex, page 557:
glosses: A small passerine bird, Linaria flavirostris (syn. Carduelis flavirostris), that breeds in northern Europe and across central Asia.
Synonyms: sense: Linaria flavirostris
word: heather lintie
sense: Linaria flavirostris
word: mountain linnet
Related terms: linnet
twite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /twaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: twites
form: twiting
form: twited
form: twited
form: twit
form: twit
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of twit.
wheatear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍiːtɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈwiːtɪəɹ/
Forms: form: wheatears
form: white-ear
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably a back-formation from Middle English whit ers (“white arse”), after the prominent white rump of many species. Compare dialect forms white rump, white-tail. Possibly a compound of wheat + ear or white + ear. Attested since the seventeenth century as wheat-ears or wheatgear.
Senses: examples: text: What abundance of Hens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Pigeons, and Larks? [...] Maychit, Stint, Sea-Plover, Pewits, Redshanks, Rayles, and Wheat-ears, Herrons, Cranes, Bitterns, Bustards, Puffins, God-wits,
ref: 1669, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia; or, The Present State of England, London: T.N. for John Martyn, →OCLC, page 6:
text: great plenty of the birds so much admired at Tunbridge under the name of wheat-ears. By-the-bye, this is a pleasant corruption of white-a—se, the translation of the French name cul blanc, taken from their color; for they are actually white towards the tail.
ref: 1796, Tobias Smollett, The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. With memoirs of his life and writings, Edinburgh: J. Mundell, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Any of various passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe that feed on insects,
glosses: Any of various passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe that feed on insects,
especially, the northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Synonyms: clodhopper
fallow-chat
fallow-smiter
Derived terms: taxonomic: Oenanthe seebohmi
word: Atlas wheatear
word: desert wheatear
word: isabelline wheatear
word: northern wheatear
word: pied wheatear
word: western black-eared wheatear
word: wheatear stitch
wheatear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍiːtɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈwiːtɪəɹ/
Forms: form: wheatears
form: white-ear
Etymology: From Middle English whete-ere, equivalent to wheat + ear.
Senses: glosses: An ear of wheat.
glosses: A decorative pattern resembling an ear of wheat.
glosses: An anomalous form of carnation, producing small green ears instead of flowers.
drum up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drums up
form: drumming up
form: drummed up
form: drummed up
Senses: examples: text: The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort to drum up support before the election.
text: From 1910, to drum up custom, the Metropolitan would operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction to Aldgate.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: To generate or encourage; to campaign for.
glosses: To prepare food or drink with improvised implements, e.g. while camping; especially, to make tea in something other than a tea kettle.
had better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'd better
form: better
Etymology: See better (adverb)
Senses: examples: text: You had better finish that homework on time, if you want to get a good grade.
text: “Will we get it finished?” / “We had better.”
text: The project had better get finished by the current deadline.
text: I ought to go and see Mike one of these days. - Well, you'd better do it soon, because he’s leaving for Tanzania at the end of the week.
glosses: Should; ought to; need to; must.
Synonyms: had best
go over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes over
form: going over
form: went over
form: gone over
Senses: examples: text: I'm going over to my friend's house.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
examples: text: Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything.
glosses: To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
examples: text: Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers.
glosses: To create a response or impression.
topics: arts
graffiti
visual-arts
glosses: To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
examples: text: In first period, we're going over the basics of cell biology.
glosses: To encompass or cover (a subject).
examples: text: But in the closing stages Bishop spotted a gap to go over and Hook converted to set up a nervous finish for the Blues, who managed to hold on.
ref: 2010 December 31, “Magners League: Cardiff Blues 27-25 Osprey”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To score a try.
examples: text: That's who went over the butcher.
glosses: To pat down (someone) and then rob them.
examples: text: That song really went over with the audience.
text: The sex lottery went over big in its first try with number runners selling tickets and making the entire affair a very hush-hush production.
ref: 1953 August 6, Jet, volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22:
glosses: To turn out successful; to be well-received.
glosses: To convert to Roman Catholicism.
examples: text: He went over to the finance department's side in this dispute.
glosses: To convert or switch sides.
fly on the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flies on the wall
Senses: examples: text: James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers.
ref: 1918 August 9, “Clark Would Draft Even Men of 68”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Oct 2008, page 11:
text: I wish I'd been a little fly on his chamber wall when he found out that he had to go through the Michigan Child Custody Act!
ref: 1979 February 3, Jil Clark, quoting Margareth Miller, “Major Court Decision Allows Lesbian Mother to Retain Custody”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 1:
glosses: A quiet, non-participating, or unseen observer; an eavesdropper or witness.
like rats from a sinking ship
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: like a rat from a sinking ship
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Quickly but futilely, away from a failing project.
Related terms: abandon ship
ratmageddon
serein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹeɪn/
ipa: /səˈɹæn/
rhymes: -eɪn
rhymes: -æn
Senses: examples: text: "She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!"
ref: 2000, Raphael Confiant, Mamzelle Dragonfly:
glosses: Alternative form of serene (“light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset”).
every man for himself
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi mæn fɔː(ɹ)hɪmˈsɛlf/
Senses: examples: text: Men, you have done your full duty. You can do no more. Abandon your cabin. Now it's every man for himself.
ref: 1955, Walter Lord, quoting RMS Titanic Captain Edward Smith, A Night to Remember, page 86:
topics: nautical
transport
antonyms: women and children first
coordinate_terms: every woman for herself
glosses: A command, issued in case of shipwreck, that crew members are relieved of all duties and should try to save themselves.
glosses: An expression of indifference, describing or advocating selfishness, lack of comradeship etc.
Related terms: look out for number one
selfishness
selflessness
every man for himself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛv.(ə.)ɹi mæn fɔː(ɹ)hɪmˈsɛlf/
Forms: form: every-man-for-himself
Senses: examples: text: I quit show business because there was too much of an every-man-for-himself attitude going on.
text: There was an every-man-for-himself attitude during the time of the Great Depression in 1930s America.
glosses: Selfish.
take it up the ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it up the ass
form: taking it up the ass
form: took it up the ass
form: taken it up the ass
form: take it up the arse
Senses: examples: text: She doesn't take it up the ass? Dealbreaker.
glosses: To be the recipient of anal sex.
examples: text: I've really been having to keep my head down to avoid really having to take it up the ass too hard at work.
glosses: To be cheated or treated unfairly.
bleen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: blēn
ipa: /bliːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Blend of blue + green; coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.
Coordinate terms: topics: philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: grue
brown noser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown nosers
form: brown-noser
form: brownnoser
Etymology: A metaphorical image: when kissing the buttocks of another person, one's nose is liable to be covered in brown feces.
Senses: examples: text: “Unbelievable. Boimler's cozying up with those brownnosers to get out of trash day? Such a great call.” “More trash for the rest of us. I smell adventure.”
ref: 2021 September 16, John Cochran, “The Spy Humongous” (4:58 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):
text: “W-wait, why isn't Gumball in here with us?” [Laszlo chuckles] “Because Guillermo is the only one out of all of you that has ever shown me any kindness.” “[coughs] Brownnoser.” “And yet you all treat him so shabbily that even after all this time of waiting to become one of you... he's force to give up and take matters into his own hands.”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (19:48 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: One who brownnoses (flatters or humors somebody in an obsequious manner for personal gain); one who sucks up; a bootlicker, dickrider, ass-kisser, sycophant.
Synonyms: brown-nose
Belfast confetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Slang, dating from the late 19th century. Much later made the title of a poem by Ciaran Carson.
Senses: glosses: Large ship-building rivets, nuts, bolts and other metal scrap used as missiles by Protestant shipyard workers during sectarian rioting in Belfast.
wikipedia: Ciaran Carson
backhanded compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backhanded compliments
form: back-handed compliment
Etymology: Compound of backhanded + compliment. Similar figurative uses of backhanded are attested from at least the early 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] regardless of what he may say to you, he respects your great learning, and, therefore, has immense confidence in your judgment. The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom." Mr. Philander, with a mildly puzzled expression on his face, turned to pursue Professor Porter, and in his mind he was revolving the question of whether he should feel complimented or aggrieved at Miss Porter's rather back-handed compliment.
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 17, in Tarzan of the Apes:
text: Perhaps, finally, the Netherlands will shed itself of the backhanded compliment of being the best team never to win a world championship.
ref: 1998 June 29, Jere Longman, “World Cup '98: Dutch Fans Are Orange (Hair, Dresses, Clogs and Faces) With Envy”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
text: In a backhanded compliment, Markopolos said the SEC is a "bad regulator, but the best of a very sorry lot."
ref: 2009 February 4, Robert Chew, “A Madoff Whistle-Blower Tells His Story”, in Time, retrieved 07 Oct 2013:
glosses: An insult disguised as a compliment; a compliment which can be interpreted as an insult.
Synonyms: asteism
left-handed compliment
poisonous compliment
poisoned compliment
Related terms: damn with faint praise
BNWT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of brand new with tags.
Tubigrip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trade name, from tube and grip.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An elasticated tubular bandage designed to provide support for sprains, strains and weak joints.
whinchat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whinchats
Etymology: From whin + chat (“type of songbird”).
Senses: synonyms: word: tick
word: furzechat
glosses: A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects.
cameo lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sort of spotlight that accentuates a single person and possibly a few props in the scene.
tricameral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈkaməɹəl/
Etymology: From tri- + Latin camera (“chamber”) + -al.
Senses: topics: government
antonyms: unicameral
bicameral
glosses: Having three legislative chambers.
Coordinate terms: bicameral
unicameral
Derived terms: tricameralism
cable box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable boxes
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.
Hypernyms: box
set-top box
Related terms: satellite receiver
television converter
carcinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From carcino- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
Synonyms: cancerphobia
Hyponyms: carcinomatophobia
Derived terms: carcinophobic
carbon sequestering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a process whereby trees and other plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and through photosynthesis, turn it into plant material
Related terms: carbon fixation
capital grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital grants
Senses: glosses: A grant that helps to cover initial costs.
business record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business records
Senses: glosses: A recording of business dealings that must be retrievable at a later date so that the business dealings can be accurately reviewed as required.
stonechat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonechats
Etymology: From stone + chat.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus Saxicola that feed on insects.
Derived terms: European stonechat
Siberian stonechat
brown bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown bags
form: brown-bag
Etymology: (presentation): From the brown paper bag traditionally used to carry one's own packed lunch from home.
Senses: glosses: A brown paper bag.
examples: text: Did you attend the brown bag Tuesday on healthy exercise habits?
text: So what student would choose to work in Washington for zero compensation, with benefits listed as "brown-bags," "farewell reception" and "athletic and service opportunities"?
ref: 1994 November 6, William Goss, “Interning For Pleasure And Profit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: lunch-and-learn
glosses: A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime.
Derived terms: brownbagger
brown-bagger
brown bag test
brown paper bag party
Related terms: potluck
brown bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brown bags
form: brown bagging
form: brown bagged
form: brown bagged
form: brown-bag
Etymology: (presentation): From the brown paper bag traditionally used to carry one's own packed lunch from home.
Senses: examples: text: I'm brown bagging it again this month because the combination of healthy plus inexpensive is hard to beat otherwise.
glosses: To carry one's packed lunch from home, either literally or figuratively in a brown paper bag or a lunchbox, rather than purchase it from a cafeteria or restaurant.
examples: text: I'm brown bagging it again today because I haven't managed to kick this habit yet.
glosses: To consume alcohol in public from the bottle or can, while it is held concealed inside a brown paper bag, so as to avoid attention e.g. from the police.
examples: text: I'm brown bagging it again this year because I don't need to be spending money on expensive hybrids.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To plant seed saved from one's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.
Related terms: packaged goods
package store
bricker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brickers
Etymology: From brick + -er.
Senses: glosses: A brickmaker.
glosses: A bricklayer.
Related terms: brickie
bretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: bretches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of breach.
brain worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain workers
form: brainworker
Senses: glosses: Synonym of knowledge worker.
synonyms: word: knowledge worker
brahmadanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɹɑː.məˈdʌn.də/
/ˌbɹʌh.məˈdʌn.də/
Forms: form: brahmadandas
form: brahmadaṇḍa
Etymology: From Sanskrit ब्रह्मन् (brahman, “Brahma”) + दण्ड (daṇḍa, “rod, staff”).
Senses: glosses: Literally, the rod of Brahma; also used of bamboo rods carried by Indian ascetics.
glosses: A form of punishment, apparently social excommunication.
qualifier: Indian mysticism
glosses: The spine.
tatties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatty
homespun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/
Etymology: From home + spun.
Senses: hypernyms: homemade
glosses: Spun in the home.
raw_tags: of yarn
hypernyms: homemade
glosses: Woven in the home.
raw_tags: of fabric
examples: text: homespun country garbs
ref: 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington:
text: He became more and more excited; he rose from the sofa, walked up and down the floor with hurried steps and fought with his hands in the air, till the light flickered hither and thither, while the sweeping tail of his long grey home-spun coat described long circles every time he swung himself round and raised himself on his longer leg, for, like Tyrtaeus and Peter Solvold of our parish, he was afflicted with a limp.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:
text: The woman was dressed in a long broad kaftanlike homespun shirt decorated with thin strips of reindeer fur, leather braiding, small gleaming plates of metal, and lots of little bells which made a rather pleasant melodic sound at every jolt of the train.
ref: 1996 [1994], Andrew Bromfield, transl., The Tambourine of the Upper World, translation of original by Victor Pelevin:
hypernyms: homemade
glosses: Made from homespun fabric.
raw_tags: of clothing
examples: text: homespun wisdom
text: our homespun English proverb
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: our homespun authors must forsake the field
ref: 1707, Joseph Addison, Prologue to Phaedra and Hippolitus (spoken by Mr. Wilkes, written by Edmund Smith)
text: The McCains, by contrast, dole out such homespun wisdom as "in Arizona, the only way to get around the state is by small private plane" and understand that in this crazy modern world where the typical family owns eleven homes and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on household staff, you can't possibly expect transportation alternatives to gain popularity.
ref: 2008 July 15, Matthew Yglesias, “Obama's Elitism Problem, Continued”, in The Atlantic:
text: The new cardinal was no theologian – his approach was more homespun – but his commitment to poor people was every bit as strong as that of the liberation theologians. He would simply say he did what the Jesus of the gospels told him to do.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: down-home
cracker-barrel
coordinate_terms: plainspoken
glosses: Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.
Derived terms: homespunness
homespun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/
Forms: form: homespuns
Etymology: From home + spun.
Senses: examples: text: There are four men, heavily bearded and more than a little dirty, and two young women, all of them busy with shovels in or around an opened grave and all dressed identically in shirts and trousers of tattered homespun.
ref: 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
examples: text: What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 152, column 1:
glosses: An unpolished, rustic person.
Related terms: down-home
homegrown
roughspun
Homer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊməɹ/
Forms: form: Homers
Etymology: From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).
Senses: glosses: Ancient Greek poet; author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Banks County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A town, the parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Homer Township.
Derived terms: even Homer nods
Homeric
pull a Homer
Homer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊməɹ/
Forms: form: Homers
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], an occupational name for a helmet maker, or a variant of Holme.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Hispanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hispanisms
Senses: glosses: The study of the Spanish language or culture.
synonyms: Hispanicism
Castilianism
glosses: A Spanish word, phrase or idiom used in another language.
Derived terms: pan-Hispanism
Hindostan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hindustan.
Hindustan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hindostan
form: Hendostan
form: Hindoostan
form: Hendoostan
form: Indostan
form: Hindusthan
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتان (hindūstān) / हिंदुस्तान (hindustān), itself from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَان (hindūstān, “Indian subcontinent”). By surface analysis, Hindu + -stan.
Senses: synonyms: Bharat
glosses: India (Republic of India).
examples: text: He did not wish to steal anything. He only desired to know what to steal, and, incidentally, how to get away when he had stolen it. He thanked all the Gods of Hindustan, and Herbert Spencer, that there remained some valuables to steal.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter XIII, in Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 341:
text: “The Government of Her Majesty the Queen, Empress of India, […] says the movement is ‘for the remission of tax, the advancement of Hindustan, and the strengthening of the British Government.’
ref: 1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Enlightenments of Pagett, M.P.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 206:
text: There, floor piled upon floor above the chattering throngs, were these less gregarious units, each something of a mystery to his fellow-guests, each in his separate cell; and each as remote from real human companionship as if that cell were fashioned, not in the bricks of London, but in the rocks of Hindustan!
ref: 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 15, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
glosses: The entire region of the Indian subcontinent.
glosses: The northern (properly north central) region of India.
Related terms: Hindustani
Bharat
Hinduland
hellion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛliən/
rhymes: -ɛliən
Forms: form: hellions
Etymology: An alteration, under the influence of hell, of northern English/Scottish dialectal hallion (“scamp, worthless fellow”), of unknown origin.
Senses: synonyms: rapscallion
scamp
rascal
glosses: An unruly, rowdy or mischievous person, especially a child.
glosses: An evil person.
synonyms: hellgramite
glosses: The larva of the dobsonfly.
Related terms: hellraiser
hellion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛliən/
rhymes: -ɛliən
Etymology: An alteration, under the influence of hell, of northern English/Scottish dialectal hallion (“scamp, worthless fellow”), of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: Cursed, ill-fated.
hellacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛˈleɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more hellacious
form: most hellacious
form: helatious
Etymology: Unclear origins; perhaps from hell + -acious
Senses: examples: text: Because he throws so many hellacious punches, he has the chance of knocking out any fighter on any given night.
ref: 2007, Dan Horgan, Bringing Back Boxing: A Young Journalist's Attempt to Revive the Sweet Science, page 86:
glosses: horrible, awful, hellish, agonizing
glosses: nasty, repellent.
glosses: Remarkable, unbelievable, unusual.
Derived terms: hellaciously
hellaciousness
eat humble pie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eats humble pie
form: eating humble pie
form: ate humble pie
form: eaten humble pie
Etymology: The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was rebracketed as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed.
Senses: examples: text: They were good-natured enough out of their cups, and ate their humble-pie with very good appetites at a reconciliation dinner which Colonel W. had with the 44th, and where he was as perfectly stupid and correct as Prince Prettyman need be. Hang him!
ref: 1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, chapter XII, in The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC:
text: Polly had a spice of girlish malice, and rather liked to see domineering Tom eat humble-pie, just enough to do him good, you know.
ref: 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:
text: Angela shook her head. “Men are dull creatures.”
“I have already granted that, and I am eating humble pie in asking for an explanation.”
ref: 1879, Henry James, Confidence, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: You square the G.V., and go home before you have to. That’s my advice. If you don’t eat humble-pie now you may live to fare worse later.
ref: 1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin:
text: But there seems little doubt that Fukuyama has had to eat rather a lot of humble pie.
ref: 2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Should the economists who sounded the alarm — the same people who got so many high-profile predictions wrong in recent years — be sitting down to eat another course of humble pie? Well, it’s not that simple.
ref: 2025 July 31, Jason Furman, “The Tariffs Kicked In. The Sky Didn’t Fall. Were the Economists Wrong?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.
Related terms: swallow one's pride
eat crow
pass under the yoke
get into someone's pants
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets into someone's pants
form: getting into someone's pants
form: got into someone's pants
form: got into someone's pants
form: gotten into someone's pants
form: get in someone's pants
form: get inside someone's pants
Senses: examples: text: Remember that day? First day I was there. I knew that I couldn't get into your pants unless I said… um… what did I say? Oh yeah, “May I have my bill please, I have to leave?”
ref: 1972, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli, Last Tango in Paris, spoken by Paul (Marlon Brando):
text: The call had come to her at the diner where she worked, and in her dreams, Norville, the short-order cook who had always been trying to get into her pants in those days, turned to her again and again, holding out the telephone.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: To have sex with someone, especially for the first time.
Synonyms: coitize
go to bed with
sleep with
copulate with
core hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fixed block of time during which an employee is expected to be at work; excludes flexitime and leave.
hypnotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hypnotisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypnotization.
hypercorrect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypercorrect
form: most hypercorrect
form: hyper-correct
Etymology: Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.
Derived terms: hypercorrectism
hypercorrective
hypercorrectly
hyper-correctness
hypercorrectness