cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
piece of work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pieces of work
Etymology: First use appears c. 1473. The idiomatic second sense came about due to Hamlet’s monologue. See cite from sense 1 below.
Senses: examples: text: What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty!
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: 1996, David Ansen "The Killer And The Nun (film review)," Newsweek, 8 Jan.,
“Dead Man Walking” is a powerful and intelligent piece of work.
glosses: A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.
examples: text: Ugh! She's a piece of work.
"A rotten, bad piece, I'd call it," answered Wheedles under his breath.
ref: 1911, Gabrielle Emilie Jackson, Peggy Stewart at home, page 259:
text: She built a reputation as a piece of work; if she didn't like a crowd, sometimes she'd walk off stage in midset and call a cab home.
ref: 1991 April 29, “Music: The Ballads Of Shirley Horn”, in Newsweek:
text: Known as Pixie for his fresh looks, and Dr Death for his cold stare of disapproval, Rudd was said to have few friends in Canberra. Former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Mark Latham described him, respectively, as "a menace" and "a terrible piece of work".
ref: 2007 November 25, Elizabeth Keenan, “Australia's New Order”, in Time:
glosses: A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws.
Synonyms: labor
Related terms: workpiece
disapproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disapprove
curry comb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɹiˌkəʊm/
ipa: /ˈkəɹiˌkoʊm/
Forms: form: curry combs
form: currycomb
form: curry-comb
Senses: synonyms: horse comb
glosses: A flat comb used to brush down a horse.
general aviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The section of the aviation industry that excludes both military and commercial passenger transport; for example, sightseeing, pleasure flights, etc.
Related terms: GA
no harm, no foul
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From informal instances of sports, in which a foul is a formal violation of the rules.
Senses: examples: text: He parked in my space, but I was away at the time: no harm, no foul.
synonyms: NHNF
injuria sine damno
glosses: Although technically a breach of some code or law may have occurred, there was no actual damage meriting punishment, apology or retribution.
Related terms: the ends justify the means
shami kebab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shami kebabs
Senses: qualifier: Indian cuisine
glosses: A round patty of minced lamb and lentils cooked in a tandoor; often served with a small salad with a yoghurt and mint dressing
dupiaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dupiazas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dopiaza.
jalfrezi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jalfrezis
form: jalfrazi
form: jhalfrezi
Etymology: From Bengali ঝালফ্রেজী (jhalfreji).
Senses: glosses: A Bengali curry made with onion, tomato and capsicum given added heat by the addition of green chillis
vetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vet
vetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vettings
Senses: examples: text: The Military Intelligence Service in 1997 carried out nearly 18,000 security vettings, which resulted in 43 applicants being turned down because of a criminal record.
ref: 2003, Jean-Paul Brodeur, Peter Gill, Dennis Töllborg, Democracy, Law, and Security:
glosses: A checking or investigation.
Derived terms: crowd vetting
mutter paneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani مَٹَر پَنِیر / मटर पनीर (maṭar panīr).
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish of peas and soft, immature cheese.
take to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes to
form: taking to
form: took to
form: taken to
Senses: examples: text: Although he had never skated before, he took to it quickly, and soon glided around the ice with ease.
text: She took to swimming like a fish.
text: This new batch was sent to Leicester shed, and the redoubtable enginemen who had made such a reputation for themselves with the ex-G.C.R. Atlantics took to the "B17s" immediately, although, of course, they required quite different driving methods; [...].
ref: 1941 September, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part V”, in Railway Magazine, page 396:
glosses: To adapt to; to learn, grasp or master.
examples: text: As the train rushed through, thousands of birds took to the air at once.
text: When I felt slepy I took to my bed.
text: Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night / And wouldn't you love to love her? / Takes to the sky like a bird in flight / And who will be her lover?
ref: 1975, “Rhiannon”, in Stevie Nicks (lyrics), Fleetwood Mac (music), Fleetwood Mac, performed by Fleetwood Mac:
text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: To enter; to go into or move towards.
examples: text: After the third one was rejected, she took to asking the department to check the form before she submitted it.
text: "In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, / And argued each case with my wife;[…]"
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Advice from a Caterpillar”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, [poem “You Are Old, Father William”], page 65:
text: I made a trip out on the line on Day 7 of public operation, and was delighted to see pretty steady use all along the line, even off-peak. It's clear that Londoners are quickly taking to their new railway.
ref: 2022 July 27, Sir Michael Holden, “In praise of Crossrail 1... and in search of Crossrail 2”, in RAIL, number 962, page 34:
glosses: To begin, as a new habit or practice.
examples: text: She met Ned when he was looking anyway. . . . And he took to her, he liked her crooked straightness from the start.
ref: 2002 December 22, Kerry Hardie, “First Chapter: A Winter Marriage”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jun 2015:
glosses: To be attracted to.
raw_tags: of persons
Derived terms: like a duck takes to water
Related terms: take something to
paneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈniːɹ/
Forms: form: paneers
form: panir
form: poneer
form: ponir
form: panner
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani پَنِیر / पनीर (panīr), from Classical Persian پَنِیر (panīr).
Senses: examples: text: The spinach was mixed with paneer to make a satisfying meal.
glosses: A soft, non-matured, Indian cheese.
Derived terms: mutter paneer
game bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game birds
form: gamebird
Senses: synonyms: gamefowl
glosses: A bird that is hunted for sport, especially one used for food.
papadom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papadoms
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of poppadom.
vealy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: vealier
form: vealiest
form: veally
Etymology: From veal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This meat had a vealy taste to it, didn't it?
glosses: Resembling veal.
examples: text: I hope you do not really / think I am so awful veally / as not to see how famously you've played your little part.
ref: 1881, Wilson Vance & John Philip Sousa, The Smugglers, Philadelphia: W. F. Shaw, pages 65–66:
glosses: Immature or naive.
right of way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rights of way
form: right of ways
form: right-of-way
form: ROW
Senses: examples: text: Even when you have the right of way, you must take action to avoid a collision if another boat fails to give way.
ref: 1994, Di Goodman, Ian Brodie, Learning to Sail, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: The right to proceed first in traffic, on land, on water or in the air. Also in metaphorical senses.
examples: 2000, "Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000) (c.37)" (UK), II.48(4),
“restricted byway” means a highway over which the public have restricted byway rights, with or without a right to drive animals of any description along the highway, but no other rights of way.
glosses: A legal right of passage over another's land or pathways.
examples: text: Meronym: permanent way
text: Phillips granted a right-of-way to the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1873.
ref: 1941, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration, Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and its Environs, page 307:
glosses: A strip of land or alignment where portions of a roadway, railway, power line, or other utilities and their associated structures and facilities is located or passes acquired through eminent domain or expropriation.
examples: text: New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans a rail line on an unused right of way of the Long Island Rail Road between JFK and Penn Station to whisk passengers to midtown Manhattan in twenty minutes.
ref: 1970, Diana L. Reische, Problems of Mass Transportation, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Land on which a right of way exists.
examples: text: For example, if a railroad is required to connect a mine and a smelter, it is necessary to construct a right of way, to lay tracks, etc.
ref: 1948, Howard Rothmann Bowen, Toward Social Economy, page 71:
text: Mayne, speaking at the 1999 meeting, ranked the trees along the right-of-way as "old growth" or "rare," although she never defined these terms.
ref: 2006, Jane Bloodworth Rowe, “Ferrell Parkway”, in Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, →ISBN, page 187:
synonyms: permanent way
glosses: The area modified for passage of a railway; often specifically the railbed and tracks.
examples: text: In foil the important thing is to be sure you have the right of way. You gain right of way by starting the attack first or beating the blade last.
ref: 2002, Elaine Cheris, Fencing: Steps to Success, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The priority granted to the first person to properly execute an attack.
qualifier: Wisconsin
glosses: The strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street.
customizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of customize
chapatti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapattis
form: chapata
form: chapathi
form: chapati
form: chappati
form: chowpatty
form: chupatty
Etymology: From Hindi चपाती (capātī).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chapati.
sieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of sieve
sieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Chappatis are made with sieved wholemeal flour.
glosses: Passed through a sieve.
Mr Big
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mr Bigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mr. Big.
Sile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Síle and Scottish Gaelic Sìle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sheila.
steam ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steam ships
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of steamship.
steam power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pistons are driven by steam power.
glosses: Power derived from water heated into steam, usually converted to motive power by a reciprocating engine (a steam engine) or turbine (a steam turbine).
examples: text: Before the diesel locomotive, steam power was king.
glosses: Means of transportation, or heavy equipment, based on such power, especially steamboats, steamships, or steam trains.
Coordinate terms: fluid power
solar power
water power
wind power
Derived terms: steam-powered
Related terms: steamer
steamboat
steam locomotive
steamship
steam shovel
steam train
tramp steamer
allonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈal.əˌnɪm/
ipa: /ˈæl.əˌnɪm/
Forms: form: allonyms
Etymology: From allo- (“other, different”) + -onym (“name”), probably via French allonyme. Compare German allonym, Allonym. First attested in 1725.
Senses: antonyms: autonym
;
orthonym
alethonym
glosses: A pseudonym, (particularly) another person's name used as a pseudonym by the author of a work.
antonyms: autonym
glosses: An allonymous work: a book published under the name of a person other than its true author.
Derived terms: allonymous
Related terms: apocrypha
apocryphal work
eisoptrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Apparently I do not suffer from eisoptrophobia. I say this because last year I looked in the mirror and realized I was the heaviest I'd been in a long time.
ref: 2010, Karen Linamen, A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Loving Your Body, Accepting Yourself:
text: Not because I hate my reflection or that I suffer from Eisoptrophobia. Mirrors see straight through my facade.
ref: 20213, Jessica Sorensen, The Temptation of Lila and Ethan:
text: She showed them through to the back of the shop where to his left Horton caught sight of a row of well-lit changing rooms with enough mirrors to terrorize anyone suffering from Eisoptrophobia.
ref: 2014, Pauline Rowson, Shroud of Evil: An missing persons police procedural:
glosses: Fear of seeing one’s reflection in a mirror.
Synonyms: catoptrophobia
anthroponym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthroponyms
Etymology: From anthrop- + -onym or anthropo- + -nym. First attested in 1955.
Senses: examples: text: If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for secondary use. […] Therefore, concepts in commemorative urbanonymy form a ‘bundle’ of associations, ideas, and memories (comp. Stepanov, 2004), that appear in speakers as a reaction to these names, but at the same time speakers react primarily to the anthroponyms that form the basis of urbanonym units, and the street names themselves act only as ‘carriers’ of specific meaning, […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Oksana Neher, Liudmyla Yursa, “THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY IN THE URBANONYMY OF UZHHOROD”, in ORBIS LINGUARUM, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, page 192:
glosses: The name of a person, especially a surname.
Related terms: anthroponymy
anthroponymous
anthropotoponym
anthroponymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănthrōpŏʹnĭmĭ
ipa: /ænθɹəʊˈpɒnɪmɪ/
Etymology: English anthrop- (“person, human”) + Ancient Greek ὠνυμία (ōnumía) (from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”)); By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onymy = anthropo- + -nymy.
Senses: hypernyms: onomastics
coordinate_terms: toponymy
glosses: The study of personal names.
Related terms: anthroponymous
anthroponym
all-seater stadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-seater stadiums
Senses: glosses: A sports stadium consisting solely of numbered seats, with no terraces for standing spectators
reciprocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See reciprocate § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reciprocate
reciprocating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See reciprocate § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: That moves back and forth or up and down.
glosses: That has one or more pistons that move back and forth or up and down.
raw_tags: of engine types
glosses: Whose mechanism relies on a back and forth or up and down motion.
raw_tags: of other machines
examples: text: reciprocating behavior
synonyms: reciprocal
reciprocatory
glosses: Responding in kind.
raw_tags: of persons or their actions
Coordinate terms: word: circling
word: orbital
english: not necessarily unilinear
translation: not necessarily unilinear
word: oscillating
word: revolving
word: rotary
word: rotating
word: spinning
english: not necessarily unilinear
translation: not necessarily unilinear
word: vibrating
Derived terms: reciprocating compressor
reciprocating engine
reciprocating flight conveyor
reciprocating motion
reciprocating plate
reciprocating saw
reciprocating screen
reciprocating screw
reciprocating sphere
statics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in static equilibrium
Derived terms: aerostatics
elastostatics
hydrostatics
Related terms: static
dynamics
wikilink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɪkɪˈlɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: wikilinks
Etymology: From wiki + link.
Senses: examples: text: Go through the article and create internal links (wikilinks) that point to other articles (this is part of what is called wikification).
ref: 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: the missing manual, page 75:
text: Adding too many wikilinks (overlinking) is usually caused by novice over-enthusiasm
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it, page 151:
text: Veterans avoid the excessive use of wiki-compounding as it is considered "unencyclopedic" and cliche. However, it is tolerated when it refers to technical terms (eg, wikilinks), when it is an existing subject
ref: 2009, Charley Rowe, Eva Lia Wyss, Language and new media: linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions, page 342:
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A hyperlink from one wiki entry to another.
radar dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radar domes
Senses: glosses: A weatherproof enclosure used to protect a radar antenna.
Synonyms: radome
palustrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palustrine
form: most palustrine
Senses: glosses: Synonym of palustral.
synonyms: word: palustral
truckie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: truckies
Etymology: From truck + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, “Marcus”, quoted in Rose McCrohan, Chapter 3: I Don′t Care If I Live or Die, Keith D. Gilbert (editor), Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk, Volume 6, page 45,
I met up with a truckie and stayed on the road with him for most of the two months. I learnt how to drive the truck, even though I didn't have a truck or even a car license. I got to know other truckies and they used to ask for me on the CB radio.
text: On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns.
ref: 2007, Ron Davidson, Fremantle Impressions, Fremantle Press, page 282:
text: Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse.
ref: 2002, Rob Van Driesum, Outback Australia: Kakadu, Uluru and Kangaroos, Lonely Planet, page 452:
glosses: A truck driver.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A firefighter who works from a fire truck.
Synonyms: sense: truck driver
word: trucker
PADI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Acronym of Professional Association of Diving Instructors.
Don Juan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdɒn ˈ(h)wɑːn/
/ˌdɒn ˈdʒʊən/
Forms: form: Don Juans
Etymology: After the legendary 14th-century Spanish nobleman Don Juan.
Senses: examples: text: James has three girlfriends; he's a real Don Juan.
synonyms: word: philanderer
word: Lothario
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
glosses: A man who obsessively seduces women.
Derived terms: Don Juanesque
Don Juanish
Don Juanism
Don Juanist
donjuanist
Don Juan syndrome
hylotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪ.loʊˈθi.ɪzəm/
Etymology: From hylo- + theism.
Senses: glosses: Theory equating matter with God or merging one into the other (see pantheism).
glosses: Doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe (see materialism).
Derived terms: hylotheist
hylotheistic
hylotheistical
hylotheistically
hylotheists
Related terms: materialism
pandeism
pantheism
theopanism
hit the rock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the rock
form: hitting the rock
form: hit the rock
form: hit the rock
Senses: glosses: To use crack cocaine.
glosses: To make a gesture to show celebration or friendship, or as part of a secret handshake, by one person raising their fist so the fist is pointing at the person and the other person lightly punches the fist.
Related terms: high five
hit the rocks
receded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recede
receding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recede
receding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: more receding
form: most receding
Senses: examples: text: a receding hairline
glosses: Going or moving back or further away from a previous position; gradually diminishing.
receding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: recedings
Senses: examples: text: the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
ref: 1829, Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler, page 205:
glosses: The action of something that recedes.
examples: text: The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]
ref: 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20:
glosses: A recessed part.
recedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recede
anepigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anepigraph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Without a legend or inscription (on artifacts, coins, etc.)
Related terms: anepigraphous
masterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstəli/
ipa: /ˈmæ-/
ipa: /ˈmæstɚli/
Forms: form: more masterly
form: most masterly
Etymology: From Middle English maisterli (“artistically; skilfully; in the manner of a conqueror or master; overconfidently”), from maister (see etymology 1) + -li (suffix forming adverbs); analysable as master + -ly (suffix forming adverbs).
Senses: examples: text: At length the sound of a flute broke upon mine ear; it was not played masterly, but the tones were very sweet; and what is more correct, perhaps, they harmonized with my feelings.
ref: 1818 January, “The Flute-player.—A Hint to the Discontented.”, in La Belle Assemblée; being Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine (New and Improved Series), volume XVII, number 106, London: […] John Bell, […], →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
synonyms: expertly
skilfully
glosses: In a masterful manner; competently, masterfully.
masterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more masterful
form: most masterful
form: masterfull
Etymology: From Middle English maysterful, maistrefull, equivalent to master + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The brushwork on the skin tones was masterful.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the manner of a master of an art, technique, profession, or craft; masterly.
examples: text: The masterful conducting ensured the orchestra gave of their best.
text: As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.
ref: 2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN:
text: But Newdow (who argued his own case despite having minimal legal training) did an unexpectedly masterful job at the lectern.
ref: 2023 December 12, Sambhav Sankar, “A justice stewarding a Constitution”, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: In the manner of a master; very skillful.
examples: text: ...do you not agree with me that I have a right to be a little masterful, abrupt; perhaps exacting, sometimes, on the grounds I stated...
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 14, in Jane Eyre, Rochester to Jane by the fire:
text: When John spoke in that masterful tone, Meg always obeyed, and never regretted her docility.
ref: 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 38, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: ...it was that he is so masterful. I found that he wouldn't let me go my own way.
ref: 1908, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, Chapter 18, Lucy to Mr. Beebe about Cecil
glosses: Having or showing the qualities of a master vis-a-vis a dependent or subordinate; authoritative; domineering.
Derived terms: masterfully
masterfulness
overmasterful
unmasterful
Related terms: masterly
intemperance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛmpɛɹəns/
Forms: form: intemperances
form: intemperaunce
form: intemperancy
Etymology: From Middle French intempérance, from Latin intemperantia.
Senses: examples: text: They deserved the enmity of the Pagans; and some of them might deserve the reproaches of avarice and intemperance; of avarice, which they gratified with holy plunder, and of intemperance, which they indulged at the expense of the people, who foolishly admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXVIII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
text: Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
glosses: Lack of moderation or temperance; excess.
examples: text: As I supported him towards his lodgings I could see that he was not only suffering from the effects of a recent debauch, but that a long course of intemperance had affected his nerves and his brain. […] He rambled in his speech, too, in a manner which suggested the delirium of disease rather than the talk of a drunkard.
ref: 1884, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Barrington Cowles:
text: How can we marvel that the constitution thus disposed to intemperance finds the stimulus of drink indispensable?
ref: 1890, William Booth, chapter 6, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
glosses: Drunkenness or gluttony.
Related terms: intemperate
expediency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspiː.dɪ.ən.si/
Forms: form: expediencies
Senses: examples: text: Imperfet governments […] may palliate crimes upon the plea of necessity or expediency; divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; […]
ref: 1810, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions and Affections of the Mind, page 137:
text: Much declamation may be heard in the present day against “expediency”, as if it were not the proper object of a Deliberative Assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
ref: 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric, part II, p. 214:
text: However, by that time the powerful tides of political unionism, metropolitan fashion and commercial expediency were flowing against the language, at least among the Scottish elites.
ref: 2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:
synonyms: expedience
glosses: The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
examples: text: Utterly neglectful of what he owes to the kingdom which he hopes to regain, Charles has learned but adversity's worst lesson—expediency.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 258:
text: Others warned the British government’s approach would be imitated, for political expediency, by authorities elsewhere.
ref: 2021 July 16, Ben Quinn, “England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: convenience
glosses: Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
synonyms: expedience
glosses: Haste; dispatch.
glosses: An expedient.
Related terms: expede
expedience
expedient
expedite
expedition
galvanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡælˈvænɪk/
Forms: form: more galvanic
form: most galvanic
Etymology: From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he was quivering like a galvanic battery with the suppressed force of some powerful emotion.
ref: 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 22, in Pink and White Tyranny:
glosses: Of or pertaining to galvanism; electric.
examples: text: Whether the town existed during Mr. Tapley's time I have not been able to learn. . . . At that moment a galvanic motion had been pumped into it by the war movements of General Halleck.
ref: 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in North America:
text: Then he clenched his fists, and, with an agility astonishing in a man of his years, indulged in a series of galvanic little hops in front of the astounded Peter Truefitt.
ref: 1908, W. W. Jacobs, chapter 19, in Salthaven:
text: But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis.
ref: 2014 April 4, Zachary Woolfe, “Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2014:
glosses: Energetic; vigorous.
examples: text: Physicians used galvanic currents, which required only a galvanic power source, and faradic treatments, which utilized an "alternating" induction coil.
ref: 2005, Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, chapter 3, in The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American:
glosses: Of a current that is not alternating, as opposed to faradic.
Synonyms: galvanical
Derived terms: electrogalvanic
galvanic action
galvanically
galvanic anode
galvanic cell
galvanic couple
galvanic series
hydrogalvanic
microgalvanic
optogalvanic
photogalvanic
psychogalvanic
Related terms: galvanize
galvanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡælvəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: galvanisms
form: Galvanism
Etymology: From French galvanisme, after physiologist Luigi Alyisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -isme. By surface analysis, galvano- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The chemical generation of electricity.
examples: text: Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.
ref: 1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, page x:
text: The sudden application of galvanism to bands of savages may fairly rank as a new sensation, and they, thinking the wire held this strange and mysterious power, wisely left it alone.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 101:
text: Erb and Remak in Germany, Beard and Rockwell and Althans in America, have used it with advantage, in the forms of galvanisms and faradisms, in the treatment of joint troubles.
ref: 1892, Journal of Electrotherapeutics: Volume 10:
glosses: The (therapeutic) use of electricity directly applied to the body.
Derived terms: psychogalvanism
Related terms: galvanic
galvanical
galvanically
disposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpəʊzəbl̩/
ipa: /dɪsˈpoʊzəbl̩/
Forms: form: more disposable
form: most disposable
Etymology: From dispos(e) + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be disposed of.
examples: text: Rather than purchase an expensive razor he bought a packet of cheap disposable ones.
text: A disposable cup sits in a museum gallery, fully intact even after being cast aside thousands of years ago.
ref: 2019 December 16, Amy Woodyatt, “3,600-year-old disposable cup shows even our ancestors hated doing dishes”, in CNN:
glosses: That is designed to be discarded rather than reused, refilled or repaired.
examples: text: disposable income
glosses: Available to be used; at one's disposal.
Synonyms: sense: being intended for a single use
word: single-use
sense: being intended for a single use
word: throwaway
Derived terms: daily disposable
disposability
disposable diaper
disposable income
disposable nappy
disposableness
disposable razor
disposably
reposable
sposie
disposable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpəʊzəbl̩/
ipa: /dɪsˈpoʊzəbl̩/
Forms: form: disposables
Etymology: From dispos(e) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion, page 88:
text: Durable goods can be cost-effective but make great disease vectors, and disposables like syringes and needles can be a problem in the poorest places, where there's desperate need of vaccines for diseases like polio. That's where the UCSD scientists come in.
ref: 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech:
glosses: Any object that is designed to be disposed of, rather than refilled or repaired.
glosses: Any object that is designed to be disposed of, rather than refilled or repaired.
A disposable vaporizer, as for nicotine or a concentrate of cannabis (THC).
refilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refill
restorative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
Forms: form: more restorative
form: most restorative
Etymology: From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
text: Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
ref: 2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN:
text: Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
ref: 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
glosses: Serving to restore.
Derived terms: restorative justice
restorative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
Forms: form: restoratives
Etymology: From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus, equivalent to restore + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 25:
text: For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 211:
glosses: Something with restoring properties.
examples: text: “Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
sensitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitivenesses
Etymology: From sensitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being sensitive.
glosses: The ability to perceive sensation.
examples: text: How wrong I was! wit, with him, was only the sparkle of the waters which hide precious things in the depths below. I can enter into the sensitiveness which is fain to keep that which it prizes most dearly, hidden from a cold and mocking world.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: The ability to be aware of (and, usually, react with regard to) the feelings of others.
Synonyms: sensitivity
divergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
ipa: /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəns/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns
Forms: form: divergences
Etymology: By surface analysis, diverge + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: An angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.
synonyms: divergency
antonyms: convergence
convergency
glosses: The state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: mul:div
mul:∇⋅
coordinate_terms: curl#Noun
gradient#Noun
compressible#Noun
solenoidal#Noun
glosses: The operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i).
examples: text: divergence of thought
ref: 1852, George Cornewall Lewis, Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics:
glosses: Disagreement; difference.
coordinate_terms: genetic drift
glosses: The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.
Derived terms: codivergence
divergenceless
divergence theorem
divergency
hyperdivergence
hypodivergence
neurodivergence
nondivergence
normodivergence
overdivergence
point of divergence
subdivergence
underdivergence
Related terms: diverge
divergent
individualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individualisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French individualisme. By surface analysis, individual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.
ref: 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:
glosses: The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought.
examples: text: [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
glosses: The moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook that promotes independence and self-reliance of individual people, while opposing the interference with each person's choices by society, the state, or any other group or institution.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that only individual things are real.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that nothing exists but the individual self.
Synonyms: topics: philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: solipsism
Derived terms: anarcho-individualism
hyperindividualism
overindividualism
rugged individualism
superindividualism
belief system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belief systems
Senses: examples: Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, epistemics, epistemic regime, philosophy; reality
related: word: science
word: research
glosses: A system of beliefs; a set of beliefs with interrelations.
mode of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modes of thought
Senses: glosses: The way in which a person tends to think based on experience, beliefs, learning and reason.
Synonyms: school of thought
hailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hail
hailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: hailings
Senses: examples: text: There is an unending series of hailings, both direct and indirect, to which the reader responds or does not respond. Thus, although certain texts attempt to address themselves to the reader, she may be critical of them […]
ref: 1995, Sara Mills, Feminist Stylistics Interface:
glosses: The act by which somebody is hailed.
sackcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackcloths
Etymology: From Middle English sakcloth, sekcloth, sekclath, sekklath. By surface analysis, sack + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
examples: text: After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.
text: Next you saw her alone, a kneeling penitent at the foot of the crucifix; her long fair hair is unbound, and the sackcloth robe is girded by a cord round her slender shape: her hands are clasped, and tears are flowing fast from the quenched radiance of those shadowy eyes;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 144:
text: No more ashes, no more sackcloth / And an armband made of black cloth / Will someday never more adorn a sleeve
ref: 1959, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”, in Tom Lehrer (music), An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, performed by Tom Lehrer:
synonyms: hairshirt
cilice
glosses: Garments worn as an act of penance.
raw_tags: with “and ashes”
Derived terms: wear sackcloth and ashes
halftone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halftones
form: half-tone
Etymology: From half- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: That animals utter musical notes is familiar to every one, as we may daily hear in the singing of birds. It is a more remarkable fact that an ape, one of the Gibbons, produces an exact octave of musical sounds, ascending and descending the scale by half-tones; so that this monkey “alone of brute mammals may be said to sing.”
ref: 1872, Charles Darwin, “Means of Expression in Animals”, in The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 87:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of semitone, half the interval between two notes on a scale.
synonyms: word: semitone
word: half the interval between two notes on a scale
examples: text: Before leaving New York a handsome booklet had been prepared and printed. The brochure contained the names of the commissioners, their public records, halftone portraits and a carefully prepared statement of the objects of the expedition.
ref: 1917, Joseph G. Butler Jr., A Journey Through France in War Time:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A picture made by using the process of half-toning.
examples: text: “No, I cannot enjoy it,” Cecilia said to Mrs. Devereux; “I don't mind the grey light; cloud and water, and half-tones of colour, are homely English and pleasant, and that opal where the sun should be has a suggestiveness richer than sunlight.[…]”
ref: 1876, George Meredith, Beauchamp’s Career […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 18:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.
halftone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: halftones
form: halftoning
form: halftoned
form: halftoned
form: half-tone
Etymology: From half- + tone.
Senses: glosses: To reproduce a photograph or other continuous tone image by the use of dots of various sizes.
simulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of simulate
halftoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halftone
halftoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halftone
halftones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halftone
high-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-spirited
form: most high-spirited
Senses: examples: text: The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements.
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Black Dwarf:
text: "She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish."
ref: 1918, Jack London, The Princess:
glosses: Possessing a bold nature.
examples: text: Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot.
ref: 1861, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 1, in Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen:
text: Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.
ref: 1920 May 27, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1920, →OCLC, part III, page 16:
text: Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.
ref: 1950 September 25, “Music: Out of the Corner”, in Time:
synonyms: exalted
glosses: Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.
Derived terms: high-spiritedness