cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flash in the pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flashes in the pan
form: flash in the pans
Etymology: From the days of flintlock firearms, where the main charge was intended to be fired by a small charge of gunpowder in the priming pan. If the resultant fire did not pass through the touch hole and ignite the main charge, it produced noise and smoke, but no substantial effect, and was termed a flash in the pan. Sometimes called fluff in the pan, the term refers to any ineffectual, short, spasmodic effort that dies in the attempt, such as an explosion of priming in the lockpan of a gun while the gun itself does not go off.
Senses: examples: text: The concept turned out to be merely a flash in the pan and is no longer used.
text: The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan? [title]
ref: 2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:flash in the pan.
glosses: A transient occurrence with no long-term impact.
examples: text: He was named best new director of 1940, but his career was a flash in the pan.
glosses: A career notable for early success not followed by significant accomplishment.
Related terms: burst someone's bubble
bubble bursting
damp squib
go off half-cocked
lightning in a bottle
lock, stock and barrel
losing game
much ado about nothing
one-hit wonder
sleeveless errand
wild-goose chase
go off half-cocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes off half-cocked
form: going off half-cocked
form: went off half-cocked
form: gone off half-cocked
form: go off halfcocked
form: go off at halfcock
form: go off at half cock
Etymology: From the days of flintlock and caplock firearms, where the half-cock position of the hammer was both a rudimentary safety, and the proper position for priming the pan or inserting a percussion cap. The phrase was originally rendered, "to go off at half-cock."
Senses: examples: text: Make sure none of your men go off half-cocked and ruin this operation.
glosses: To take a premature or ill-considered action.
Related terms: flash in the pan
lock, stock and barrel
lackey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæ.ki/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: lackeys
form: lacquey
form: lacky
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek λακές (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Catalan alacay, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.
Senses: examples: text: My dearest father,—I say nothing of them,—but I dare to speak of myself,—I can never be a monk,—if that is your object—spurn me,—order your lacqueys to drag me from this carriage,—leave me a beggar in the streets to cry “fire and water,”—but do not make me a monk.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 198:
text: St. Martin [of Tours] looks round, first, deliberately;—becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey. St. Martin turns his back on the Empress, and hobnobs with him!
ref: 1884, John Ruskin, “By the Rivers of Waters”, in “Our Fathers Have Told Us.”: Sketches of the History of Christendom for Boys and Girls who have been Held at Its Fonts, part I (The Bible of Amiens), Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, pages 30–31:
glosses: A footman, a liveried male servant.
synonyms: word: lickspittle
word: acolyte
word: adjutant
word: aide
word: bootlicker
word: disciple
word: flunkey
word: footman
word: follower
word: henchman
word: hireling
word: inferior
word: lackey
word: lap dog
word: lickspittle
word: man Friday
word: minion
word: myrmidon
word: poodle
word: retainer
word: right-hand man
word: right-hand woman
word: servant
word: stooge
word: subordinate
word: sycophant
word: toady
word: underling
word: vassal
word: yes man
glosses: A fawning, servile follower.
Derived terms: lackey caterpillar
lackeydom
lackeyism
lackey moth
lackeyship
unlackeyed
lackey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæ.ki/
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: lackeys
form: lackeying
form: lackeyed
form: lackeyed
form: lacquey
form: lacky
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French laquais, which is probably (via Old Occitan lacai?) from Spanish lacayo, itself perhaps from Italian lacchè and Greek λακές (lakés), from Turkish ulak. Another possibility is through French, from Catalan alacay, from Arabic الْقَائِد (al-qāʔid). See French laquais.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
Comes deared by being lacked. This common body,
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
To rot itself with motion.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: So dear to Heav'n is Saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried Angels lacky her […]
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.
glosses: To toady, play the flunky.
garnison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnisons
form: garnyson
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English garnisoun, from Middle French garnison, from Old French garnison, from garnir, guarnir (“to protect, provision”).
Senses: examples: text: This towne was named Vacca / Metellus drewe hym and his army thyder / and ſet garnyſon into the ſame towne.
ref: c. 1525, Sallust, “Of the behauour of Iugurth agaynst Metellus […] ”, in Alexander Barclay, transl., Here begynneth the famous cronycle of the warre, which the romayns had agaynſt Iugurth vſurper of the kyngdome of Numidy […] , London: Richarde Pynſon, folio xxxviii, verso:
text: And the men of the garniſon [KJV gariſon] ſpake to Jonathas and to his eſquier: Come vp to vs, and we wil ſhew you a thing[…]
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, 1 Kinges 14:12, page 598:
text: Whoever ſhal have taken, or ſtolne any victuals, or other proviſions brought vp, towards the Campe, Garniſon, or any Towns, or places vnder the Juriſdiction of the States generall ſhal be hanged.
ref: 1643, Henry Hexham, transl., An Appendix of the Lavves, Articles, and Ordinances, eſtabliſhed for Marſhall^([sic]) Diſcipline in the ſervice of the Lords the States Generall the united Provinces, under the Commaund of his Highneſſe the Prince of Orange […] , The Hagh: Isaac Burchoorn, page 3:
glosses: garrison (military post or the troops stationed at it)
Related terms: garment
garnish
Gutenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡutn̩ˌbɝɡ/
ipa: /ˈɡuːtn̩ˌbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈɡʊtn̩-/
Etymology: From German Gutenberg.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from German.
glosses: A metonym for a person
glosses: A metonym for a person:
Johannes Gutenberg, a German printer who developed European movable type.
glosses: A placename:
A lunar crater.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in Germany:
A castle in Germany.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in Germany:
A village in Germany, renamed after the castle.
glosses: A placename:
A locale in Germany:
A municipality of Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, named after the castle and village.
glosses: Ellipsis of Gutenberg Bible, the first mass production printing project of the Gutenberg press.
glosses: Ellipsis of Project Gutenberg, a digital library founded in 1971.
seemed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːmd/
rhymes: -iːmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seem
looking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English lokynge, from earlier lokinde, lokende, from Old English lōciende, present participle of Old English lōcian (“to look”), equivalent to look + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of look
examples: text: dorky-looking
text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: Good-Looking, Funny Guy — (Not funny-looking, good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
ref: 1988 September 12, New York Magazine, page 226:
glosses: as the last part of compound adjectives: relating to or having the appearance of.
Derived terms: backward-looking
bad-looking
fine-looking
forward-looking
full-looking
funny-looking
good-looking
hardlooking
ill-looking
inward-looking
nice-looking
not as green as one is cabbage-looking
onlooking
plain-looking
unlooking
well-looking
Related terms: caught looking
here's looking at you
looking glass
not see for looking
on the outside, looking in
strike out looking
what are you looking at
looking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʊkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ
Forms: form: lookings
Etymology: From Middle English lokynge, lokinge, from Old English lōcung (attested in Old English þurhlōcung), equivalent to look + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: A complicated interplay of lookings and viewings is in play. The staging and performance of the photograph, then, is as much the subject of the photograph as the ostensible subjects […]
ref: 2005, Felix Driver, Luciana Martins, Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, page 162:
glosses: The act of one who looks; a glance.
Patricia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɹɪʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Etymology: From Latin patricia (“noble”); later also seen as the feminine form of the saint's name Patrick.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] Our house is not of the era of Queen Isabella, but of the Princess Patricia."
"That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always called me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
"Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield. "If you want to be called Patricia, you must get somebody else to do it. I dare say you could hire somebody for a small sum per week to call you Patricia for a given number of times every day."
"Now, you're making fun of me, papa; but I do want to grow up dignified, and not be a silly schoolgirl all my life."
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 56:
text: "Trix" was a derivation of Trish, our mother's girlhood name, or cognomen, as she called it; Trish was itself a derivation of Patricia. Trix disliked her original name because she thought it prissy and old-fashioned, but she didn't much like "Trix" either.
ref: 1991, Joyce Carol Oates, Heat And Other Stories, Dutton, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Patricia tree
Patricia trie
Related terms: Pat
Patsy
Patti
Patty
Tricia
Trish
Trisha
Trixie
Tish
seems
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːmz/
rhymes: -iːmz
homophone: seams
homophone: semes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seem
replied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: replyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reply
associated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsəʊsieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsoʊʃieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsoʊsieɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: closely associated
text: commonly associated
text: associated with risk
text: an associated member
text: the associated risks
text: The disease is associated with poor sanitation.
text: He worked with an associated group of researchers.
glosses: Connected with something or another person.
raw_tags: of a person or thing
glosses: Connected or amalgamated with another company.
raw_tags: of a company
Derived terms: adenoassociated
associatedness
associated prime
bioassociated
monoassociated
nonassociated
photoassociated
unassociated
associated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsəʊʃieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsəʊsieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsoʊʃieɪtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsoʊsieɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of associate
followed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑloʊd/
ipa: /ˈfɒləʊd/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑloʊd
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒləʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of follow
Derived terms: followed by
underfollowed
unfollowed
Edith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈidɪθ/
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Ēadġȳþ, from Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) + *gunþiz (“battle”). Name of a 10th century English saint.
Senses: examples: text: Edith's pretty, but it looks / Better in old English books.
ref: 1809, Charles and Mary Lamb, Poetry for Children: Choosing a Name:
text: But suppose she had had an elder sister with a beautiful name like Edith. My conviction was deep and immovable that had I been named something really pretty like that, I would have found it easy to sew neatly and know my lessons.
ref: 1903, Elizabeth Bisland, A Candle of Understanding, Harper&Brothers, page 11:
text: - - but they went and gave it to this woman named Edith, if you can believe that any woman with a name like Edith would have a clue about what's fashionable." "Edith Head?" I said. "The Oscar-winning costume designer?"
ref: 2009, Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst, Banrtam Books, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: A female given name from Old English.
Derived terms: Edithburgh
Edith Weston
Stoke Edith
Related terms: Baldith
Edwin
Rudolph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːdɒ(l)f/
Forms: form: Rudolf
Etymology: From German Rudolph, Rudolf (compare Proto-Germanic *Hrōþiwulfaz).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: Ellipsis of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
glosses: A given name for a caribou.
Derived terms: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Related terms: Rolf
Rudy
Ruud
Asgard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsˌɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈæzˌɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈɑsˌɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈɑzˌɡɑɹd/
homophone: ass guard
Forms: form: Asgarth
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse Ásgarðr.
Senses: examples: text: The gods built themselves castles in Asgard, and halls that shone with gold. It is recorded that there were twelve such heavenly palaces, but the poems differ from each other in describing them.
ref: 1884, M. W. Macdowall, Asgard and the gods, […] , page 48:
text: So, for instance, when the giant Hrungnir became tediously drunk and boastful, it was Freyja who, of all the Æsir in Asgard, was bold enough to keep serving him drink, but equally it was she whom he threatened to take away with him.
ref: 2007, Heather O'Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The realm of the Æsir gods.
glosses: A mountain on Baffin Island, Canada.
Synonyms: word: Ases' Garth
Coordinate terms: sense: The Nine Realms
word: Álfheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Jötunheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Midgard
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Múspellsheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Niðavellir
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Niflheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Svartálfaheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Vanaheimr
Derived terms: Asgardian
Álfheimr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The modern Swedish province of Bohuslän.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: home of the Ljósálfar (Light Elves) and one of the nine realms, also called Ljosalfheim.
Coordinate terms: sense: The Nine Realms
word: Asgard
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Jötunheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Midgard
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Múspellsheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Niðavellir
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Niflheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Svartálfaheimr
sense: The Nine Realms
word: Vanaheimr
Alfheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Álfheimr.
Senses: glosses: The home of the Ljósálfar (light elves, álfar, divine beings), located up in the sky.
glosses: Elfland.
glosses: Possibly heaven.
broadcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔdˌkæstɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑd-/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdˌkɑːstə/
ipa: /-ˌkæstə/
Forms: form: broadcasters
Etymology: From broadcast (“to transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A machine used to broadcast or spread seeds, fertilizer, etc.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
antonyms: driller
glosses: A person who sows seeds by scattering; also, one who promotes sowing seeds in this manner instead of by drilling (“making holes in the soil and placing seeds in them”).
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.
examples: text: Robert Lee was scheduled to cover a University of Virginia game in the city for the broadcaster on 2 September.
ref: 2017 August 23, “ESPN reassigns commentator Robert Lee over 'name coincidence'”, in BBC:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: An organization or station that engages in the activity of such broadcasting.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of equipment used to transmit data over a computer network.
Hyponyms: word: datacaster
word: pubcaster
word: radiobroadcaster
word: radiocaster
word: satcaster
word: sportscaster
word: telebroadcaster
word: telecaster
Derived terms: word: broadcastress
word: radiobroadcaster
word: Stratocaster
word: telebroadcaster
seabird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːbɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -iːbɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: seabirds
form: sea bird
Etymology: From sea + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
Synonyms: word: seafowl
word: seabird
Hypernyms: word: bird
Hyponyms: word: albatross
word: cormorant
word: gannet
word: guillemot
word: gull
word: pelican
word: petrel
word: seafowl
cried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cry
Derived terms: uncried
refund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭfŭnd'
ipa: /ɹɪˈfʌnd/
enpr: rē'fŭnd'
ipa: /ˈɹiːfʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Forms: form: refunds
form: refunding
form: refunded
form: refunded
Etymology: From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
Senses: examples: text: If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we’ll refund you the difference.
text: A Governor, that had Pillag'd the People, was […] sentenc'd to Refund what he had Wrongfully Taken.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
ref: 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Down the Oise: To Moy”, in An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
glosses: To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
examples: text: this game sucks, imma refund it.
glosses: To obtain a refund.
examples: text: to refund a railroad loan
glosses: To supply (someone) again with funds.
examples: text: Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
text: When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: To pour back (something).
refund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭfŭnd'
ipa: /ɹɪˈfʌnd/
enpr: rē'fŭnd'
ipa: /ˈɹiːfʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Forms: form: refunds
Etymology: From Middle English refunden, refounden, from Old French refondre, refonder, refunder (“to restore; pay back”), from Latin refundere; prefix re- (“re-”) + fundere (“to pour”): compare French refondre, refonder. See fuse (“to melt”), and compare refound (“to cast again”), and refuse.
Senses: examples: text: If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a full refund.
glosses: An amount of money returned.
choral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kôʹrəl
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹəl/
enpr: kôrʹəl
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From Late Latin choralis, from Latin chorus.
Senses: examples: text: Palestrina wrote choral music for the Catholic church.
glosses: Of, relating to, written for, or performed by a choir or a chorus.
Derived terms: choralist
choralize
chorally
choralography
choral scholar
nonchoral
polychoral
semichoral
unchoral
vicar choral
vicar-choral
choral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kôʹrəl
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹəl/
enpr: kôrʹəl
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
enpr: kŏ-rälʹ
ipa: /ˈkɒɹɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: kôʹrəl
ipa: /ˈkɔːɹəl/
enpr: kôrʹəl
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: chorals
Etymology: See chorale. Hence, cognate with etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chorale.
chorale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈrɑːl/
ipa: /kɔːˈɹɑːl/
ipa: /kəˈræl/
ipa: /kəˈrɑl/
rhymes: -æl
rhymes: -ɑːl
homophone: corral stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: chorales
Etymology: From German Choral.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A form of Lutheran or Protestant hymn tune.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
glosses: A chorus or choir.
Derived terms: choralelike
choralist
Related terms: choral
footnote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
ipa: /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
Forms: form: footnotes
form: f.n.
Etymology: From foot + note.
Senses: examples: text: consult the footnotes for more details
text: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
coordinate_terms: headnote
endnote
hatnote
marginal note
glosses: A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.
examples: text: a mere footnote in history
text: If we are another footnote to Plato, Plato was himself already a footnote to still earlier footnotes, in an endless chain of footnotes to footnotes
ref: 2012, Martin McQuillan, Political Archive of Paul de Man, page 72:
text: In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: asterisk
glosses: An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.
glosses: A qualification to the import of something.
Derived terms: footnoter
footnote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
ipa: /ˈfʊtˌnoʊt/
Forms: form: footnotes
form: footnoting
form: footnoted
form: footnoted
form: f.n.
Etymology: From foot + note.
Senses: examples: text: She does everything she does with a kind of terrifying thoroughness, footnoted and bibliographied, as it were, down to the smallest detail.
ref: 1979 April 14, Nancy Walker, “Kiss and Tell”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
synonyms: annotate
glosses: To add footnotes to a text.
Related terms: marginalia
reference mark
laughed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læft/
ipa: /lɑːft/
rhymes: -æft
rhymes: -ɑːft
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of laugh
getting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get
getting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: gettings
Senses: examples: text: With all thy getting, get understanding.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 4:7:
glosses: The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
examples: text: She was always considering how to increase her "gettings," but she never gave a thought as to how she might save them.
ref: 1882, Charlotte Riddell, “Old Mrs Jones”, in Weird Stories, page 135:
glosses: That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
hearth and home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Much as advertisers do today, some railways tried to sell the idea of returning to the hearth and home for a 'traditional' Christmas.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 34:
glosses: Traditional family values and home life.
hearths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearth
Fran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæn/
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Frances and Francine.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
distributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹɪbjutɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪstɹɪbjutɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distribute
knows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊz/
ipa: /nɑːz/
ipa: /noʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: noes
homophone: nose
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know
examples: text: I knows just what they knows.
glosses: All persons, singular and plural, present form of know.
knows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊz/
ipa: /nɑːz/
ipa: /noʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: noes
homophone: nose
Senses: glosses: plural of know
Vishnu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪʃnu/
Forms: form: Viṣṇu
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit विष्णु (viṣṇu).
Senses: glosses: One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most venerated god in Hinduism.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Synonyms: Narayana
looks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of look
looks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: examples: text: His charm and good looks accounted for much of his popularity in the polls.
glosses: One's appearance or attractiveness.
Derived terms: by the looks of things
good looks
lack-looks
looks can be deceiving
looksism
looksist
looksmatch
looksmaxx
lookswise
short on looks
looks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of look
tried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: more tried
form: most tried
form: tryed
Etymology: From Middle English tried, tryed, equivalent to try + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Tested, hence, proven to be firm or reliable.
topics: law
glosses: Put on trial, taken before a lawcourt.
Derived terms: time-tried
tried and trusted
tried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: tryed
Etymology: From Middle English tried, tryed, equivalent to try + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
glosses: simple past and past participle of try
Derived terms: tried and tested
tried and true
untried
well-tried
walked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wôkt
ipa: /wɔːkt/
ipa: /waːkt/
ipa: /wɔkt/
ipa: /wɑkt/
rhymes: -ɔːkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of walk
volunteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑlənˈtɪɹz/
ipa: /vɒlənˈtɪəz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of volunteer
trying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: more trying
form: most trying
Etymology: From try + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
ref: 1891 [September], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure III.—A Case of Identity.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II (July to December), number [9], London: […], page 249, column 2:
text: Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
text: Tryin’ times, what the world is talkin’ about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah
ref: 1969, Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, “Tryin’ Times”, in First Take, performed by Roberta Flack:
glosses: Difficult to endure; arduous.
glosses: Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
trying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From try + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of try
trying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: tryings
Etymology: From try + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
ref: 2006, Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility, page 145:
text: When I write with others, the pauses and manyfold attempts to get at an idea mirror the cadence of a conversation or the tryings of finding a word that evades the tongue. That searching is such a beautiful thing.
ref: 2021, William Guss, gilwus:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of tear (“liquid from the eyes”)
glosses: Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.
tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tear
tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
ipa: /tɛɹz/
ipa: /tɛəz/
ipa: /teːɹz/
ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of tear (“rip”)
tears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
ipa: /tɛɹz/
ipa: /tɛəz/
ipa: /teːɹz/
ipa: /tɪɹz/
text: -
ipa: /tɪəz/
ipa: /tiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tear
fellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛloʊz/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: plural of fellow
fellows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛloʊz/
ipa: /ˈfɛləʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fellow
Voltaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊlˈtɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /voʊlˈtɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Voltaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French Voltaire. The surname is mostly found in Haiti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
glosses: A city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Voltairean
Voltaireanism
Voltairian
Voltairianism
Voltairism
smiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smaɪld/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smile
Aristoteles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Via Latin Aristotelēs from Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).
Senses: glosses: A lunar impact crater.
glosses: Alternative form of Aristotle.
filename
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fīl′nām
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əl.neɪm/
Forms: form: filenames
form: file name
Etymology: file + name
Senses: examples: Holonyms: filespec, pathname
Meronyms: filename extension, extension
Near-synonym: basename
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: name
<
identifier
related: word: filepath
word: path
glosses: The name assigned to a file in a file system.
Related terms: file format
file size
file system
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remarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɑɹkt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɑːkt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remark
remarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmɑɹkt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmɑːkt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kt
Forms: form: more remarked
form: most remarked
Senses: glosses: conspicuous; marked
glosses: bearing a remark, as an etching
firebrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebricks
Etymology: From fire + brick.
Senses: examples: text: Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Brick Shop: Manufacture of firebricks.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:
glosses: a brick capable of withstanding high temperatures without deforming.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The X11 color name of RGB hexadecimal value #B22222.
Related terms: fire brick
exclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskleɪmd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exclaim
mutagenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more mutagenic
form: most mutagenic
Etymology: From muta- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?
ref: 2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:
synonyms: mutafacient
glosses: Capable of causing mutation.
examples: text: For the antimutagenicity evaluation, the same doses of CPN employed in the mutagenic evaluation were co-treated with their respective positive controls.
ref: 2015 September 4, “Genotoxic, Cytotoxic, Antigenotoxic, and Anticytotoxic Effects of Sulfonamide Chalcone Using the Ames Test and the Mouse Bone Marrow Micronucleus Test”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to mutagenesis.
Derived terms: antimutagenic
desmutagenic
epimutagenic
equimutagenic
hypermutagenic
mutagenically
mutagenicity
mutagenic potency
nonmutagenic
paramutagenic
premutagenic
promutagenic
supermutagenic
watched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑt͡ʃt/
ipa: /wɒtʃt/
rhymes: -ɒtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of watch
watched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑt͡ʃt/
ipa: /wɒtʃt/
rhymes: -ɒtʃt
Senses: examples: text: Passing the third checkpoint, the third smiling [sic] state policeman, a fellow by the name of R. C. Anderson, raises his big silver-watched wrist and touches the brim of his gray felt Stetson (yes, he does) as one faintly remembers Wendell Corey once doing from high on a Canadian Mountie snow peak overlooking something like a distressed Linda Darnell.
ref: 1969 September 1, Gail Sheehy, “The End of the Drinking Generation”, in New York, volume 2, number 35, page 63:
text: Conrad Scott then grabbed Senator Moss’s watched wrist and thrust it into the air, allowing the crowd to exercise their delirium one last time.
ref: 1998, Ev Ehrlich (Everett M. Ehrlich), Big Government, Warner Books:
text: Kara grimaced at the last but waved it away with flick of her Swatch watched wrist saying, “Angie you’re exaggerating. It can’t have been that bad. You seemed happy. You had your share.”
ref: 2007, L.M. Favier, A Sackful of Quarters, Xlibris, page 92:
text: Edward surfaced from his performance to see a man who appeared composed of only sharp angles standing in the foyer, where the light caught his gold-watched wrist.
ref: 2015, Kathleen Alcott, Infinite Home, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, page 90:
text: So too the human shield protecting the pathway beyond the gates, a young man in a security uniform who cheerfully declared upon espying me, ‘Only nine seconds exactly to go until we open!’ while waving his watched wrist in the air.
ref: 2016, Elizabeth Mackinlay, Teaching and Learning Like a Feminist: Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education, Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:
text: He wasn’t looking up but was instead staring straight ahead at the school principal, his legs crossed, a Rolex-watched wrist draped languidly over one knee in an almost feminine pose.
ref: 2016, Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty, Flatiron Books, →ISBN:
text: The hairy, gold-watched wrist of an airline captain changing gear in a sports car while enjoying a Rothmans cigarette stood for all he could never be, even as it opened out a little hollow of confused desire within him.
ref: 2018, Patrick Gale, Take Nothing With You, Tinder Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Wearing a watch.
examples: text: You would certainly think the watched quantum pot would also boil. It turns out, because of the vigilant observations, the transition never occurs; the watched quantum pot never boils.
ref: 1996, Fred Alan Wolf, The Spiritual Universe, page 257:
text: The upper bound only needs to be updated when one of the watched M variables is assigned to false.
ref: 2005, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, page 616:
text: To mimic the effect, students are asked to undertake an activity, with you, the instructor, monitoring ony half the class. Afterwards, you compare the work produced by the "watched" students with the work produced by the "unwatched."
ref: 2005, Steven Fein, Instructor's Resource Manual: Social Psychology, page 461:
glosses: Monitored.
Derived terms: watched folder
nearer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˈnɪɹɚ/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈnɪəɹə(ɹ)/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈniɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈniəɹə/
ipa: /ˈniɹəɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈnɛːɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: There are two pubs in the town; the nearer one is about a five-minute walk away.
glosses: Less distant; comparative form of near: more near.
nearer
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˈnɪɹɚ/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈnɪəɹə(ɹ)/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈniɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈniəɹə/
ipa: /ˈniɹəɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈnɛːɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to live nearer the office.
text: I’ll tell you nearer the time what to do.
text: I still seem to be no nearer a solution.
text: The star grew—it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.
ref: 1897, H. G. Wells, The Star:
glosses: Closer to.
Derived terms: mirror-nearer merger
sippy cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sippy cups
Etymology: Diminutive of sip with -y, and cup.
Senses: examples: text: I put the nipple of the sippy cup in her mouth, and she blocks it with her clenched teeth and whips her head to the side.
ref: 2017, Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing, Bloomsbury Circus, page 100:
coordinate_terms: beaker
glosses: A spill-proof cup for toddlers.
Divine Liturgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Divine Liturgies
Senses: glosses: The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic eucharistic service.
Related terms: Mass
Qurbana
traduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traduce
exclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈskleɪm/
ipa: /ɪkˈskleɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: exclaims
form: exclame
Etymology: From Middle French exclamer, from Latin exclāmō, exclāmāre (“call out”), from ex- + clāmō (“to call”).
Senses: examples: text: Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence, and trouble us not;
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,
Fill’d it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 2]:
text: Oh fortune, thou’rt not worth my least exclame [...].
ref: 1635, John Donne, His parting form her:
glosses: Exclamation; outcry, clamor.
distinguo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distinguos
Etymology: From Latin distinguo (“I distinguish”).
Senses: examples: text: We are told that the lady was silenced: yet it could be maintained that Jane Austen has not allowed Bingley to put forward the full strength of his position. He ought to have replied with a distinguo.
ref: 1948, CS Lewis, Notes on the Way:
glosses: A distinction.
distingue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtæŋɡeɪ/
/dɪstæŋˈɡeɪ/
Forms: form: more distingue
form: most distingue
form: distingué
form: distinguee
Etymology: From French distingué.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the blue dress was tried on, Madame Cie had, with the aid of a few pins, plaits, and a bow of blue ribbon, transformed the half-lace shawl into one of the smartest and distingué things imaginable; but when the bill came in at Christmas, for that five minutes' labor and distingué touch, she charged one pound eight.
ref: 1873, Charles Reade, chapter IX, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 57:
text: And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “In which Jim and I Take Different Ways”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 179:
text: It was very noble, very distingue, to ruin one's self without knowing how!
ref: 2001, Emile Gaboriau, Mystery of Oricval, page 158:
glosses: Fashionably distinguished or elegant; having an air of superiority.
Related terms: distinctive
Disney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪzni/
Etymology: English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
examples: text: Have you seen Disney's latest film?
glosses: The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney.
examples: text: We went to Disney with the kids this summer.
text: And they included children down the seashore, they included going to the mountains; our first Disney child was not until 1978, no, ’77. […] I mean, when you say to somebody, “I’m going to give you a trip to Disney,” or “I’m going to buy you a Cabbage Patch doll,” and we’re doing this for you for absolutely nothing, that’s a reward in itself.
ref: 1990, Bill Berkowitz with Bill Sample (interviewee), Local Heroes, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 261:
text: If they found any phone number from the U.S., anything, they’d deport us right away because we came here on excursion with a whole bunch of people that was going to visit Disney. That’s what everybody usually do: They say, We going to visit Disney, and we going to stay there for a week, and then we going to go back, but they end up staying.
ref: 2008, Doug Stumpf, Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Angela asked if we could treat ourselves to a few days at Disney. […] The week included a couple of days in Disney, Dad’s 70ᵗʰ birthday and then the long trip home.
ref: 2008, Flay Scott, The Inheritance, page 3:
text: I had decided to take them, my niece, and three nephews to Disney in Orlando, FL. I was going to try and make history. I was going to make an attempt at escorting more than four Dredd kids to Disney at once and live to tell about it.
ref: 2009, Cleo Stinyard III, Sex, Love, & Consequences, →ISBN, page 213:
glosses: Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
glosses: A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.
Derived terms: Dickney
Disney adult
Disneyan
Disneyana
Disneybound
Disneybounder
Disneybounding
Disneyesque
Disneyfication
Disneyfy
Disneyish
Disneyland
Disney parent
Disneyphile
Disneyphilia
Disneyphobe
Disneyphobia
Disney point
Disney rash
Disneyverse
Disneyworld
Disney World
fishmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishmeals
Etymology: From fish + meal.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer supplemented the grain with fishmeal to increase the protein content of the cattle's diet.
related: word: fish meal
glosses: Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.