cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
text link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: text links
Senses: glosses: An element of text on a web page, used to access other web pages.
Synonyms: hyperlink
scrooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: scrooges
Etymology: From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Senses: synonyms: word: carl
word: cheapass
word: cheapie
word: cheapskate
word: cheapo
word: churl
word: clutchfist
word: el cheapo
word: last of the big spenders
word: magpie
word: miser
word: moneygrubber
word: muckworm
word: nickel nurser
word: nig
word: niggard
word: nigon
word: nipcheese
word: nipfarthing
word: penny-father
word: penny pincher
word: pickpenny
word: piker
word: pinch-commons
word: pinch-gut
word: pincher
word: pinchfist
word: pinchpenny
word: scrimp
word: scrooge
word: snudge
word: squirrel
word: skinflint
word: tight-arse
word: tightwad
glosses: A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
glosses: A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
Derived terms: scrooge-like
scrooge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: scrooges
form: scrooging
form: scrooged
form: scrooged
Etymology: From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.
ref: 2010 January 22, Committee on Financial Services, COMPENSATION IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY:
text: He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
ref: 2010, Roy Howarth, Escape is a rare triumph:
text: […]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.
ref: 2012, Sarra Manning, Adorkable:
glosses: To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
Related terms: bah humbug
scrooge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: scrooges
form: scrooging
form: scrooged
form: scrooged
Etymology: Variant of scrouge.
Senses: examples: text: So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, then he scrooged again[.]
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published 1993, page 12:
glosses: To crush or press; to squeeze (past, into, together, etc.).
in vain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more in vain
form: most in vain
Senses: examples: text: […]that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain[…]
ref: 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 2:
text: 19th c., Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.
text: For some time Grannie tried in vain to comfort her.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 46:
text: All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the "Mania" years of 1845–46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11+¹⁄₂-mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak: Derby to Manchester. Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
text: Knock me down, it's all in vain
I get right back on my feet again
ref: 1980, Eddie Schwartz, “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”, in Crimes of Passion, performed by Pat Benatar:
glosses: Without success or a result; ending in failure.
examples: text: Thou ſhalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine:[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 20:7, column 2:
text: Methinks I see him even now in my mind's eye;— the firm and upright figure,— the step, quick and determined, — the eye, which shot so keen and so penetrating a glance,— the features on which care had already planted wrinkles, and hear his language, in which he never wasted word in vain, expressed in a voice which had sometimes an occasional harshness, far from the intention of the speaker.
ref: 1817, Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy, published 2015, page 4:
text: A fetishist regime attempts to annul the separation of image and spectator, to reinstall an immediate relation that promises (in vain) to provide satisfaction to desire itself.
ref: 2013, Mandy Merck, The Sexual Subject: Screen Reader in Sexuality:
text: This petition is the reverse side of the commandment against taking God's name in vain.
ref: 2015, Kent Gramm, The Prayer of Jesus: A Reading of the Lord’s Prayer, page 69:
text: McLaren's task, it seems, is to set Jesus in a more appropriate and biblical context so that we won't use his name “in vain.”
ref: 2015, Jimmy R. Watson, Big Jesus: A Pastor’s Struggle with Christology, page 119:
text: That's fine. I know you won't engage your word in vain.
ref: 2016, Alexandre Dumas, translated by Frank J. Morlock, The Count of Monte Cristo, Part IV (play), page 247:
glosses: In a disrespectful manner, without honoring the proper meaning; insincerely or without proper respect.
Synonyms: vainly
Derived terms: Richard of York gave battle in vain
take someone's name in vain
in vain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in vain
form: most in vain
Senses: examples: text: Their efforts were in vain and he succumbed to his injuries.
text: The problems concerning contrast induced hyperemia and the in vain efforts to search for a contrast agent not influencing flow […]
ref: 2012, N.H. Pijls, Maximal Myocardial Perfusion as a Measure of the Functional Significance of Coronary Artery Disease:
glosses: Unsuccessful, failed.
luthier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.ti.ə/
ipa: /ˈljuː.ti.ə/
ipa: /ˈluː.ti.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈluː.θi.ɚ/
Forms: form: luthiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French luthier, from luth (“lute”).
Senses: synonyms: violin maker
hypernyms: instrument maker
glosses: A person who, or a business which, makes or repairs stringed wooden musical instruments, such as lutes, violins, and guitars.
Derived terms: luthiery
Related terms: lute
lutherie
muppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌpɪt/
ipa: /ˈmʌpɛt/
ipa: /ˈmʌpət/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʌpɪt
Forms: form: muppets
Etymology: From Muppet, from the Muppets franchise
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muppet (“a puppet in the style of Jim Henson's Muppets”).
examples: text: Sally is such a muppet, the way she always misses the train.
text: Some muppet has parked a car at the bus stop.
text: You impudent muppet, diu lay! You may be able to hoodwink people over in the UK, but not those of us over here.
ref: 1996 April 18, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: 'Honestly, Ellie, I don't know why you bother.' 'Err, because I need to squeeze my size twelve self into a size eight wedding dress?' She rolls her eyes. 'You're such a muppet. Why didn't you just buy a bigger size? Dieting is pointless.'
ref: 2011, Ruth Saberton, Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: There was a silence while Miranda tried to form a sentence that wouldn't antagonise her friend. Or was she a friend? Would a proper friend have set her up with such a – such a muppet?
ref: 2011, Penny Smith, Summer Holiday, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:
text: The truth was I'd love to be in the school team but I wouldn't get picked anyway: most of the kids think I'm a real muppet, a gormo who's into bird-watching and if I tried to join in, they would just rib me, so I don't bother to show any interest.
ref: 2012, Diane Perry, Red Kite, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Scrappy set off to run out through the dog flap, but Katie caught hold of him (as he was such a muppet he'd be in danger – as usual – of ending up under the wheels of whoever's Chelsea tractor was scrunching its way up the gravel driveway).
ref: 2012, Jane Reynolds, Just Good Friends?, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
text: Anyway here was a message now, from 'Geordie', sent to Jack and cc-ed to the rest of his male colleagues. Subject line: 'You've been replaced with a real muppet.'
ref: 2020, Dan Brotzel, Hotel du Jack: And Other Stories, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN:
glosses: An incompetent or foolish person.
Derived terms: muppetry
improvise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɹəvaɪz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪm.pɾu.vajz/
Forms: form: improvises
form: improvising
form: improvised
form: improvised
Etymology: From French improviser; ultimately from Latin improvisus.
Senses: examples: text: He had no speech prepared, so he improvised.
text: They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying.
text: She improvised a lovely solo.
text: We have improvised the most charming party imaginable. The summer has come back by surprise. I own I wonder that June was not tired of us: still here is a day so sunny, that October does not know its own. The Duke of Wharton, Lord Hervey, and some two or three others, have designed a water-party in our honour.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 173:
text: As this terrible emotion took charge of him, he found himself improvising a whole series of lovers for her, imagining them to be waiting around every corner.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 334:
glosses: To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
Synonyms: fly by the seat of one's pants
play by ear
punt
think on one's feet
wing it
Derived terms: improvisable
improvisation
improvisational
improvisatory
improvision
improvisor
Related terms: extemporaneous
impromptu
off the cuff
so long as
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind if he stays there, so long as he cleans up after himself when he's done.
text: Hugh helped himself to bacon. "My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love."
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: Depending upon some condition or requirement; provided that; if, assuming; as long as.
Synonyms: as long as
as long as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: raw_tags: = three times longer than I did
text: It took three times as long as I expected (= three times longer than I did).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, long.
examples: text: I don't mind if he stays there, as long as he cleans up after himself when he's done.
text: I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me
ref: 1997, Max Martin, Backstreet Boys, As Long as You Love Me:
glosses: Provided that, if, assuming (depending upon some condition or requirement).
examples: text: As long as you're here, you may as well help me with the garden.
glosses: For the entire duration that; while; since.
Synonyms: sense: provided that
word: provided
sense: provided that
word: so long as
Derived terms: it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right
as long as
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: These meetings can last as long as three hours.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, long.
open content
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by David Wiley as OpenContent in 1998.
Senses: examples: text: Many websites are copyrighted and do not have any open content.
text: Wiktionary is a wiki-based open-content dictionary.
glosses: Creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.
wikipedia: David A. Wiley
skosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skoʊʃ/
ipa: /skɑʃ/
rhymes: -əʊʃ
rhymes: -ɒʃ
Forms: form: skoshes
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 少し (sukoshi, “a little bit”), originally US armed forces slang.
Senses: examples: text: He added just a skosh of vinegar, to give the recipe some zip.
text: “Fly just a skosh to your one o'clock,” Elroy said.
ref: 2002, Jan Hornung, Kiss the Sky: Helicopter Tales, →ISBN, page 62:
text: Just a skosh after the lunch break, Bivvy and Erin were singing a song together.
ref: 2003, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black, →ISBN, page 216:
text: I set the bit a skosh under the width of the mortise's shoulder; […]
ref: 2005, Bill Hylton, Bill Hylton's Power-Tool Joinery, →ISBN:
text: Wondrously weird and a skosh too long, “Good Manners” is a dark Brazilian fable of animalistic passions and social isolation.
ref: 2018 July 26, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Review: ‘Good Manners’ Is a Twisty Werewolf Tale From Brazil”, in New York Times:
related: word: skoosh#Etymology_2
word: scooch#Etymology_2
synonyms: word: tad
word: smidgen
word: jot
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
antonyms: scad
glosses: A tiny amount; a little bit.
NIST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.
ref: 2025 March 28, Andrea Fox, “Lab critical to medical device development 'DOGEd'”, in Healthcare IT News:
topics: government
glosses: Acronym of National Institute of Standards and Technology.
chamfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæm.fɚ/
ipa: /ˈʃæm.fə/
Forms: form: chamfers
Etymology: Back-formation from chamfering, from Middle French chanfrain, from Middle French, Old French chanfraindre, possibly a compound of chant (“corner”), from Latin canthus (of either Celtic or Latin origin) + fraindre (“to break”), from frangō (“I break”).
Senses: synonyms: round
bevel
antonyms: fillet
glosses: An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
Derived terms: chamfered
chamfer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæm.fɚ/
ipa: /ˈʃæm.fə/
Forms: form: chamfers
form: chamfering
form: chamfered
form: chamfered
Etymology: Back-formation from chamfering, from Middle French chanfrain, from Middle French, Old French chanfraindre, possibly a compound of chant (“corner”), from Latin canthus (of either Celtic or Latin origin) + fraindre (“to break”), from frangō (“I break”).
Senses: synonyms: bevel
glosses: To cut off the edge or corner of something.
synonyms: flute
glosses: To cut a groove in something.
Derived terms: chamferer
rechamfer
Afganistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Afghanistan
chamfered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The building, in a plain Tudor Gothic style, has a central door in chamfered ashlar surround.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 59:
glosses: Containing chamfers
Derived terms: unchamfered
chamfered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chamfer
def
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: deaf
Forms: form: defs
Senses: examples: text: In that case Wills, J., adopted a dictionary def of “Cowkeeper” as, “one whose business it is to keep cows,” and added, “the business of a Cowkeeper is a special business of its own.”
ref: 1903, F[rederick] Stroud, The Judicial Dictionary, […], 2nd edition, London: Sweet and Maxwell; Stevens and Sons, page 454:
text: The Black Books also reflect [Philip Babcock] Gove’s notoriously brusque manner, no doubt gained from an early career in the Navy. Memos begin, “Editorializing has no place in definitions,” or “Godlove’s psychophysical defs of color names and their references had better be regarded as sacrosanct.” Sir, yes, sir!
ref: 2017, Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 104:
synonyms: def.
glosses: Abbreviation of definition.
glosses: Abbreviation of deficit.
Derived terms: hi-def
high-def
low-def
def
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: deaf
Senses: examples: text: i can def sneak out tn. where should i meet u?
text: And focus on cleaning the park. But we should def get waffle fries after.
ref: 2022 Barbie: It Takes Two, episode 7 “Start Small“ at 15 minutes, Malibu to Brooklyn
text: Not to toot our own horn, but we def had Austin Powers on VHS. This fun pop culture costume for couples may require some planning in advance to come up with these unique costumes, but trust us—it’ll pay off!
ref: 2023 September 19, Chaise Sanders, “50 Best Halloween Costumes of All Time, From the Classics to the Truly Unique”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: While deets on her earnings aren't really public, we can def assume that Billie raked in a ton of dough from her Nike deal alone since each pair retails for a decent amount of $$$.
ref: 2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan:
related: word: deff
synonyms: deffo
glosses: Clipping of definitely.
def
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: deaf
Forms: form: deffer
form: deffest
Etymology: Clipping of definitive and definitely; alternatively an eye spelling of death referring to an absolute.
Senses: examples: text: You real def. I’m gonna put you on stage.
ref: 1985, Ralph Farquhar, Krush Groove, spoken by Run (Joseph Simmons):
text: See I do this thing, so come pursue this king / One minor rhyme is all you just bring / Cause I’m the best I’m def, ask the rest they left
ref: 1988, “Run’s House”, in Tougher Than Leather, performed by Run-DMC:
text: L.A.—The Second Deffest City of Hip-Hop [title]
ref: 1988 February 7, Carly Darling, “L.A.—The Second Deffest City of Hip-Hop”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: I’m a Flavor Unit MC / And that means I’m one of the roughest, def-est, toughest, best-est
ref: 1993, “Bring The Flavor”, in Black Reign, performed by Queen Latifah:
synonyms: word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Excellent; very good.
out of hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more out of hand
form: most out of hand
Senses: examples: text: The questions covered ranged from those that could be answered out of hand, through those requiring some thought and at least a second interview, to those which presented matters for further research in theoretical statistics.
ref: 1948, University of Michigan Official Publication., UM Libraries, page 175:
text: I still think that advice is sound, because, if justices do decide a case out of hand on the complainant's case, it is argued, as in the present appeal, that they have ruled, as a matter of law, that there was no case to answer.
ref: 1954, Justice of the peace and local government review reports.:
synonyms: offhand#Adverb
glosses: Without (further) thought or consideration.
examples: text: Near-synonym: offhand
text: He bad to open wyde his brazen gate, / Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond / Proclaymed ioy and peace through all his state [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
text: Now any Man finding in hot Blood, one who with a fore-thought Felony hath murthered his Daughter, may, without tying himself to the Formalities and Circumstances of a Legal Proceeding, kill him on a sudden, and out of hand, without incurring any hazard of being attainted and apprehended by the Officers of Justice for so doing.
ref: 1653, Francois Rabelais (tr. anon), The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, doctor in physick, volume 2, Navarre society, London:
glosses: Immediately, forthwith, or incontinently.
out of hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of hand
form: most out of hand
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: chaotic, messy, uncontrolled, uncontrollable
text: Clean things as you go so that the mess does not get out of hand.
text: Figueiredo's troops got out of hand and disgraced themselves by mutilating the Spanish dead and wounded on the field of battle.
ref: 1892, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, The life of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, London Chapman & Hall, published 1892:
text: Shepard: The Alliance sent me to bring you in, Major. Can't you see this has gotten out of hand? Don't you understand you're endangering your followers?
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Presrop:
antonyms: in hand#Prepositional phrase
glosses: Barely under control; not under control.
Related terms: eat out of someone's hand
out of one's hands
one thing led to another
goober peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goober pea
florentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɹəntaɪn/
ipa: /ˈflɒɹəntiːn/
Etymology: From French florentin.
Senses: examples: text: Eggs florentine is on the menu.
glosses: Cooked or served with spinach.
florentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɒɹəntaɪn/
ipa: /ˈflɒɹəntiːn/
Forms: form: florentines
Etymology: From French florentin.
Senses: examples: text: They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
synonyms: Florentine
glosses: A biscuit consisting mostly of nuts and preserved fruit, usually coated with chocolate on one side.
glosses: A kind of durable silk.
examples: text: Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: A kind of pudding or tart or meat pie.
agnomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agnomens
form: agnomina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin agnomen.
Senses: glosses: An additional cognomen given, as an honour, to a Roman citizen.
Synonyms: agname
credit default option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit default options
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A put option that makes a payoff in the event the issuer of a specified reference asset defaults.
Synonyms: default option
credit default swap
Related terms: credit derivative
dilutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilutants
Etymology: From dilute + -ant.
Senses: glosses: A diluting agent; a diluent, or thinner.
faerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faeries
form: færie
form: faërie
Etymology: A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.
Senses: examples: text: All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that.
ref: 1985 February 2, Tim Broadbent, “Kindred Spirits (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 10:
glosses: Archaic spelling of fairy.
glosses: Realm of the fays, fairyland.
Derived terms: faeriecore
faeriedom
faerie godmother
faeriekind
faerie tale
JHOVE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment: a format-specific digital object validation API written in Java.
majority owner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: majority owners
Senses: glosses: A person or group that controls or owns more than half interest of an organization's outstanding shares.
process oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: process oils
Senses: glosses: An oil used not for lubrication but as a component of another material, or as a carrier of other products.
Coordinate terms: extender oil
slack tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slack tubs
form: slack-tub
form: slacktub
Etymology: Believed to derive from the word slake, as in slaking the heat.
Senses: glosses: A large container full of water or oil or brine used by a blacksmith to quench hot metal.
every now and then
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of now and then.
synonyms: word: now and then
Related terms: every now and again
every once in a while
every so often
Evropa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin Europa, with u spelled as v as in Classical Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Save Evropa
text: Finally got accepted to a PhD program and will be retvrning to Evrope.
ref: 2025 October 1, @FaustAugustus, X (formerly Twitter) (post):
text: far right save evropa bot accounts when moldova has an election
ref: 2025 September 29, @OregonMapGuy, X (formerly Twitter) (post):
text: tiktok/instagram "SAVE EVROPA" and youtube "return to soviet" kids after getting drafted in WW3
ref: 2024 December 15, @hochulborea, X (formerly Twitter) (post):
related: word: Evrope
qualifier: white supremacy
glosses: Europe
wikipedia: Classical Latin
Coordinate terms: Eurabia
galoshe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galoshes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of galosh.
bureaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjʊ.ɹəʊz/
ipa: /ˈbjʊ.ɹoʊz/
ipa: /ˈbjɝ.oʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bureau
Hand of Fatima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I watched as Aisha bargained, unsuccessfully, for a charm against the Evil Eye, a pink-and-yellow plastic hand of Fatima decorated with sequins.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 276:
synonyms: hamsa
Hand of Miriam
Hand of Mary
glosses: An apotropaic symbol, in both Jewish and Islamic cultures, serving as a talisman against the "evil eye".
Hand of Miriam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hand of Fatima.
synonyms: word: Hand of Fatima
fruit salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit salads
Senses: glosses: A mixture of freshly cut fruit, sometimes with the addition of alcohol or yogurt, often served as a dessert.
glosses: A canned mixture of chopped fruit in a syrup.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Awards worn on a military uniform.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bowler's strategy of using a different delivery each time.
Derived terms: angry fruit salad
Related terms: fruit cocktail
fruit cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit cocktails
Senses: glosses: a mixture of chopped fruit served as an appetizer, often chilled; tends to be less sweet than a fruit salad
chopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɒpt/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑpt/
rhymes: -ɒpt
Forms: form: more chopped
form: most chopped
Senses: examples: text: Brown meat with chopped onions, chopped or ground garlic, chopped celery, and chopped bell pepper.
ref: 2003, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Sasquatch Books., →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: Cut or diced into small pieces.
glosses: Ground, having been processed by grinding.
raw_tags: of meat
examples: text: He later bought a '33 Ford coupe, chopped and channeled it and installed a Mercury engine.
ref: 1958, Charles Beaumont, William F. Nolan, Omnibus of Speed: An Introduction to the World of Motor Sport, Putnam, page 183:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
glosses: High on drugs.
glosses: Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
glosses: Ugly.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: chopped and screwed
chopped liver
chopped logic
chuzz
prechopped
unchopped
chopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɒpt/
ipa: /t͡ʃɑpt/
rhymes: -ɒpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chop
pessimistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more pessimistic
form: most pessimistic
Etymology: From pessimist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a pessimistic view of the future
glosses: Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
examples: text: a pessimistic estimate
text: However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
ref: 1996, George Thomas Kurian, Graham Thomas Tate Molitor, Encyclopedia of the future, volume 1, page 212:
glosses: Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
examples: text: pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.
Derived terms: cyberpessimistic
ecopessimistic
heteropessimistic
overpessimistic
pessimistically
pessimistic concurrency
pessimistic time
unpessimistic
Related terms: pessimal
pessimism
pessimist
snapping turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snapping turtles
form: snapping-turtle
Senses: glosses: Any of several large American freshwater turtles of the family Chelydridae, which have powerful hooked jaws that close with a snap.
Synonyms: snapper
Derived terms: taxonomic: Macrochelys temminckii
word: alligator snapping turtle
taxonomic: Elseya spp.
word: Australian snapping turtle
taxonomic: Chelydra serpentina
word: common snapping turtle
taxonomic: Chelydra acutirostris
word: South American snapping turtle
taxonomic: Chelydra rossignonii
word: Central American snapping turtle
Inuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inuks
form: Inuit
form: Inuq
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”).
Senses: examples: text: He could be an Inuk, yes, so I could quite see there would be lots of Inuks, lots of Inuks who have no grounds for — no part of Eskimo ancestry, culture or heritage.
ref: 1975, The Musk-ox, numbers 15-20, page 37:
glosses: A member of one of the several indigenous peoples from the Arctic who descended from the Thule.
Derived terms: Inuktitut
Related terms: inukshuk
postfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊst.fɪks/
ipa: /ˈpoʊst.fɪks/
Forms: form: postfixes
form: postfixing
form: postfixed
form: postfixed
Etymology: From post- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Verbs with י for the first radical, often drop it in the future, imperative, and infinitive of Kal, to which last they postfix ת (לקח to take, follows this form), and in Niph. and Hiph. they change י into ו.
ref: 1762, John Parkhurst, An Hebrew and English Lexicon: Without Points:
glosses: To suffix.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To subject a sample to postfixation
postfix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊst.fɪks/
ipa: /ˈpoʊst.fɪks/
Forms: form: postfixes
Etymology: From post- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: Two, or three at the very most, of the prefixes or postfixes are quite sufficient for one day's lesson.
ref: 1843, George Moody, The English journal of education, volume 1, page 69:
text: An example of a postfix operator is the ++ notation used in the C programming language to increment the value of a variable.
ref: 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §9.4
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A suffix.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the Czech language, a suffix that is placed after the ending.
Derived terms: postfixal
postfix notation
Related terms: reverse Polish notation
infix
postfix notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of reverse Polish notation.
synonyms: word: reverse Polish notation
man-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈmænmɑɹk/
Forms: form: man-marks
form: man-marking
form: man-marked
form: man-marked
Senses: examples: text: In the most extreme form of man-marking, each player has a pre-established opponent to be followed and to be man-marked, from a more or less short distance, wherever he goes. The main objective of the defender is to steal the ball from his opponent if he receives it, or to place him in a threatened condition, thus forcing him to immediately get rid of the ball.
ref: 2003, Floriano Marziali, Vincenzo Mora, “The Factors in a Soccer Player’s Performance”, in Bryan R. Beaver, editor, The Zone, Spring City, Pa.: Reedswain Publishing, →ISBN, page 34:
text: No, and I still hate him. This is for you. He's going to be man-marked. He won't be allowed anywhere near you. I'll rip him to pieces if he tries anything funny, […]
ref: 2010, Lars Husum, translated by Mette Petersen, My Friend Jesus Christ, London: Portobello Books, →ISBN:
text: Our manager Don Megson had given me the job of man-marking George Best, so we were both a little disappointed, shall we say, that he scored after only 71 seconds.
ref: 2012, Ivan Ponting, quoting Frankie Prince, George Best: The Extraordinary Story of a Footballing Genius, London: Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN:
text: It was my last round up against Noel O'Leary. He was rolled out to man-mark me again at the last minute. […] While the Cork manager might have felt he was negating my influence on the game by man-marking me with a secret last-minute selection, in reality we were always using the arrangement to our advantage.
ref: 2014, Paul Galvin, “The Start of Something”, in In My Own Words: The Autobiography, London: Transworld Ireland, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN; Transworld Ireland paperback edition, London: Transworld Ireland, Transworld Publishers, 2015, →ISBN, page 207:
text: When the team might have tired from that hard-running style they have had days to rest. When first Sam Allardyce and then José Mourinho exposed a certain weakness against a two-man attack, and also when the "supply" players, [Eden] Hazard and Pedro, were man-marked, [Antonio] Conte had a week to drill his team and patch this up.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2017:
text: If Rangers want to put someone on me, fine. If a team man-marks you that just pulls people out of position. I can go in and sit at centre-half which suits me. If my man-marker wants to play centre-forward, it's fine.
ref: 2018 April 29, Scott McDermott, “‘They told me I was finished’: Celtic skipper Scott Brown having the last laugh at his critics”, in Daily Record:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To mark an opposition player closely.
Derived terms: word: man-marker
word: man-marking
Related terms: man-on-man
linesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linesmen
Etymology: From line + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: A linesman replaced injured referee Rebecca Welch after 50 minutes and with no other official present, qualified referee Pattison, 60, ran the line.
ref: 2015 November 18, “Steven Pattison: Carlisle United director runs line in FA Youth Cup”, in BBC Sport:
text: As the linesman raised his flag, Neville played on, crossing for Piovaccari to net.
ref: 2015 November 13, “Western Sydney Wanderers romp to victory at hapless Melbourne City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: An assistant referee.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A male line judge.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An official whose primary task is to watch the blue line and determine when there has been an offside.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An official whose primary task is to determine whether there has been a line of scrimmage violation.
glosses: A person employed to work on electrical lines; a lineman.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A private in the line.
Derived terms: head linesman
Related terms: lineman
lino
reverse Polish notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Back in my day, we had reverse Polish notation calculators: You had to write "2 4 3 * +" instead of "2 + 4 * 3".
topics: arithmetic
glosses: An arithmetic notation in which numbers precede the operators to be applied to them.
Synonyms: postfix notation
lineman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linemen
Etymology: From line + -man.
Senses: examples: text: In the event of a failure, by the operation of a switch signalmen at the panel boxes can set up flashing white lights on certain signalling apparatus cases spaced at approximately half-mile intervals alongside the line, in order to call the lineman. The lineman can communicate with the signalman by plugging in a hand telephone at any one of these points.
ref: 1962 August, G. M. Kichenside, “Resignalling for the Kent Coast electrification—Phase II”, in Modern Railways, page 126:
text: […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A person who installs and repairs overhead cables (either power or telephone); a linesman.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who specializes in play at the line of scrimmage.
glosses: Someone who repairs railway tracks.
Derived terms: defensive lineman
lineman splice
Related terms: linesman
overhead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
enpr: ō'və-hĕdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
enpr: ōʹvər-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: more overhead
form: most overhead
Etymology: From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.
Senses: examples: text: Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.
text: The railway consists of some 18 miles of double track electrified on the overhead principle.
ref: 1957 June 24, F. K. Pearson, “The Manx Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 425:
text: In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Located above, especially over the head.
examples: text: It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.
ref: 2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Kicked over one's own head.
Derived terms: command processing overhead time
nonoverhead
overhead bin
overhead bridge restaurant
overhead cam
overhead crane
overhead engine
overhead fan
overhead kick
overhead line
overhead press
overhead restaurant
overhead squat
overhead transparency
overhead valve
overhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
enpr: ō'və-hĕdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
enpr: ōʹvər-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: overheads
Etymology: From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
glosses: Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
topics: business
glosses: Wasted money.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A smash.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
examples: text: There was no room left in the overheads for our luggage, our seats did not recline, and the washrooms were right behind us.
ref: 2013, Rana Florida, Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary:
glosses: A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
topics: transport
glosses: The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
examples: text: Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: An overhead throw.
topics: transport
glosses: A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
Derived terms: computational overhead| digital overhead
overhead
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
enpr: ō'və-hĕdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
enpr: ōʹvər-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: more overhead
form: most overhead
Etymology: From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.
Senses: examples: text: birds flying overhead
text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Above one's head; in the sky.
examples: text: […] the influence of the minister's week-day attentions, first in creating, and afterwards in keeping up among the people of his parish their habit of Sabbath attendance. So indispensable in towns is the connexion between these two things, that were seat-rents let down at this moment to two shillings overhead, or even annihilated, so as to throw open the whole of the church room at accessible prices to the lowest of the people, we shall greatly mistake the result if we look for a great and visible increase of attendance per saltum on the part of the parish families.
ref: 1838, Thomas Chalmers, On Church Extension, page 194:
glosses: Per head; for each individual.
overhead
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
enpr: ō'və-hĕdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
enpr: ōʹvər-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- + head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.
Senses: examples: text: Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.
ref: 1976 August 14, Matthew Wolfe, “Cruising a Tea Room or; Does Gertrude Stein Really Drink Coffee”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 15:
glosses: Above.
overhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ōʹvə-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
enpr: ō'və-hĕdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
enpr: ōʹvər-hĕd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: overheads
Etymology: (Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector.
: (Sense 2) Back-formation from overhead projector.
Senses: glosses: An overhead projector.
glosses: A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
assistant referee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assistant referees
Senses: examples: text: Maccabi's Yoan Ziv also saw red in the second half for kicking a boot at the assistant referee.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: One of the two officials at an association football match, previously known as linesmen, who assist the referee.